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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:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
T. Scott Cummins, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ; G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ; G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for detecting a bus deadlock in an electronic system. The apparatus includes a bus tracker circuit to monitor bus transactions to detect a condition that indicates the occurrence of a wait cycle or a retry cycle. The apparatus also includes a counter circuit to indicate that the bus tracker circuit has detected the condition a predetermined number of times.