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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:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Linda L. Hurd, Sugarland, TX (US);
Vaishali Kulkarni, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 ; G06F 1/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 ; G06F 1/32 ;
Abstract
A method of providing a programmer with a visualization of power usage. The method is especially suitable for integration within a debugging process (FIG. ). A windows-type display ( ) displays sections of computer code ( ), as well as numerical values representing power usage ( ). Next to each section of code, some sort of visual representation of power usage is displayed, such as a bar of a bar graph ( ). Alternatively, the code can be highlighted if power usage exceeds a given threshold, or comments can be provided next to the code for optimizing power usage.