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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Spyros Lyberis, Cambridge, GB;

Richard William Earnshaw, Fulbourn, GB;

Assignee:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 11/32 (2006.01); H03M 13/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/366 (2013.01); G06F 9/30101 (2013.01); G06F 9/544 (2013.01); G06F 11/323 (2013.01); G06F 11/3636 (2013.01); G06F 11/3672 (2013.01); H03M 13/096 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus has processing circuitry to perform data processing in response to instructions; at least one control storage element to store internal state for controlling operation of the processing circuitry; and checksum generating circuitry to generate a checksum based on at least one item of internal state stored in the at least one control storage element. The checksum is stored in a diagnostic storage location from which information is accessible to a diagnostic control agent (e.g. software executing on the processing circuitry and/or an external device). This makes design of software test libraries for detecting hardware faults much more efficient.


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