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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:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2003
Applicants:
Richard W. Adkisson, Dallas, TX (US);
Tyler Johnson, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Richard W. Adkisson, Dallas, TX (US);
Tyler Johnson, Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a match circuit for implementation in a general purpose performance counter ('GPPC') connected to a bus carrying debug data. The match circuit comprises logic for activating a match signal when a selected N-bit portion of the debug data matches an N-bit threshold for all bits selected by an N-bit match mask ('mmask').