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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul E Cohen, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Assignee:
NEC Electronics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395375 ; 3642382 ; 3642383 ; 3642389 ; 3642391 ; 364240 ; 364242 ; 364247 ; 3642477 ; 3642478 ; 3642514 ; 3642599 ; 3642618 ; 3642619 ; 3642624 ; 3642628 ; 3642633 ; 364267 ; 3642656 ; 3642675 ; 36426791 ; 364266 ; 3642704 ; 3642758 ; 364D / ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A means for precisely identifying the location of an error in a computer program executing in a microprocessor is provided by an instruction complete counter circuit that counts each of the program instructions completed by the microprocessor up to the time of an error in execution.