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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2000
Applicants:
Kelly Gene Johnson, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mark Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kelly Gene Johnson, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mark Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for debugging an executing service on a pipelined CPU architecture are described. In one embodiment, a breakpoint within an executing service is set and a minimum state of the executing service is saved. In addition, a program counter of the executing service is altered. The program counter is restored and the state of the executing service is restored.