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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
James S. Chapple, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06M 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06M 1/100 ;
Abstract
An integrated circuit chip includes counters. Each one of the counters counts data events, There are a plurality of registers associated with the counters. At lease one of the registers controls the stopping, starting and counting of an associated counter. A command trigger issues a command to the register upon the detection of a hardware event. The command initiates the starting, stopping or counting of the counter associated with the register.