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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1989
Mitsuhiro Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An in-circuit emulator comprising an emulation microprocessor for directly outputting at least an address and an execution level information, a latch circuit for latching at least the execution level information outputted from the emulation microprocessor, a register holding a execution level information to be traced, a comparator receiving respective contents of the latch circuit and the register for generating an enable signal when the execution level information latched in the latch circuit is consistent with the execution level information to be traced of the register, and a trace memory coupled to receive the address outputted from the emulation microprocessor and responding to the enable signal so as to store the address outputted from the emulation microprocessor, whereby only the result of execution belonging to a selected execution level is traced in the trace memory.