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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
May. 02, 1997
Stephen (Hsiao Yi) Li, Garland, TX (US);
Jonathan Rowlands, Dallas, TX (US);
Frank L. Laczko, Sr., Allen, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A data processing device uses a portion of a random access memory as an input buffer for holding a portion of a stream of data which is being processed by a processing unit within the processing device. Various break-point source tasks,determine discontinuities in the portion of data stored in the input buffer and a sorted list of the addresses of the discontinuities is maintained in breakpoint queue,. Since the buffer is managed in a FIFO manner, a single breakpoint register,is sufficient to monitor addresses as they are provided by an address register,for accessing the random access memory. When a breakpoint is detected, the breakpoint queue and the breakpoint register is updated by an update task