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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Satheesh Babu, Trivandrum, IN;
Santosh Savekar, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Satheesh Babu, Trivandrum, IN;
Santosh Savekar, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed herein are debugging tool(s) for profiling the frequency of execution of certain instructions in a host operation. The debugging tool causes interrupts to occur at random time intervals and records the address of the program counter at each interrupt. A profile is developed that indicates the frequency of execution of certain instructions after a statistically significant number of interrupts.