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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:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary S Brooks, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711-3 ; 711118 ; 711154 ; 711167 ; 39518322 ; 395838 ;
Abstract
An integrated diagnostics system within a processing system for monitoring and identifying performance problems within the processing system. The processing system including at least one processor and at least one memory unit, wherein the processor is operable to read one or more addressable memory locations within the memory unit. The integrated diagnostics system including an integrated monitor for counting cache misses and idle time suffered by the processor waiting to read a first addressable memory location within the memory unit.