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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Gary L. Swoboda, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Douglas E. Deao, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An emulation controller ( ) connected at a pin boundary of an integrated circuit ( ) can be provided with concurrent access to concurrent debug signal activity of first and second data processing cores (core , core ) embedded within the integrated circuit. A first signal path is provided from the first data processing core to a first pin ( ) of the integrated circuit, for carrying a selected debug signal of the first data processing core to the first pin. A second signal path is provided from the second data processing core to the first pin of the integrated circuit for carrying a selected debug signal of the second data processing core to the first pin. A third signal path is provided from the second data processing core to a second pin ( ) of the integrated circuit for carrying the selected debug signal of the second data processing core to the second pin.