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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:
Aug. 12, 1997
Filed:
May. 15, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert S Dreyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Donald B Alpert, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36455101 ; 364737 ; 395500 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for measuring and monitoring various parameters that contribute to the performance of a processor includes a pair of programmable event counters for counting any two independent events selected from a predetermined list of processor events. A specialized register controls the operation of the event counters and also selects the events to be counted. The contents of the event counters can be accessed either by a supervisor mode program which reads an instruction or through a special access port.