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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2018
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Amitava Majumdar, San Jose, CA (US);
Georgios Tzimpragos, Goleta, CA (US);
Jason Villarreal, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Kumar Deepak, San Jose, CA (US);
Jayashree Rangarajan, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An execution circuit inputs a plurality of data units, performs unit operations on the data units, and registers results of the unit operations in response to oscillations of a clock signal. A control circuit controls activation of the unit operations, and outputs a start signal to the execution circuit to activate each unit operation and/or a completion signal to indicate completion of each unit operation. A debug circuit stores breakpoint flags associated with the unit operations. Each breakpoint flag has a state that specifies whether to stop oscillations of the clock signal. The debug circuit further receives the start and/or completion signal and evaluates, while the clock signal oscillates to the execution circuit, a state of the start and/or completion signal and a state of the breakpoint flag associated with the unit operation. Oscillations of the clock signal are stopped in response to the evaluation of the signals.