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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2019
Applicant:
Stmicroelectronics (Beijing) R&d Co. Ltd, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Xiao Kang Jiao, Monza, IT;
PengFei Zhu, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
STMICROELECTRONICS (BEIJING) R&D CO. LTD, Beijing, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3624 (2013.01); G06F 11/2236 (2013.01); G06F 11/36 (2013.01); G06F 11/3636 (2013.01); G06F 11/3648 (2013.01); G06F 11/3664 (2013.01);
Abstract
A debug-enabled processing device includes a processor, a communication transceiver circuit, and a debug support unit. The debug support unit has a plurality of dedicated debug registers to facilitate debugging a software program under execution by the processor. One of the plurality of debug registers is a control register having at least four bits, which are used to enable/disable a plurality of debugging operations. Others of the debug registers include a set of index registers that may be configured to pass data to and from the processor.