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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1997
Mitchell Anthony Bauman, Circle Pines, MN (US);
Michael Allen Fahland, Oakdale, MN (US);
Donald William Mackenthun, Fridley, MN (US);
Nguyen Thai Tran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring and collecting performance characteristics of a target system and providing the results by way of time-division multiplexing is provided. The performance monitor includes a mechanism for latching a plurality of performance attribute signals. An output circuit, coupled to the latching mechanism, is used to output the latched performance attribute signals in groups, wherein each of the groups is a subset of all of the performance attribute signals. The performance monitor further includes a time division circuit coupled to the output circuit, to allow the output circuit to output each of the groups of performance attribute signals at different times. Each group of performance attribute signals can therefore be transmitted via common output access points, although at different times as the groups are transmitted in succession.