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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2010
Tsvika Kurts, Haifa, IL;
Daniel Skaba, Tel Aviv, IL;
Michael Israeli, Tel Aviv, IL;
Itai Samoelov, Mazor, IL;
Julius Mandelblat, Haifa, IL;
Tsvika Kurts, Haifa, IL;
Daniel Skaba, Tel Aviv, IL;
Michael Israeli, Tel Aviv, IL;
Itai Samoelov, Mazor, IL;
Julius Mandelblat, Haifa, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for debugging internal signals of integrated circuits is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a number of vector registers associated with states of a state machine. A group of registers, associated with a state of the state machine, comprises a mask register an arm register. A comparator compares debug data with contents of the mask register and the arm register to determine a comparison result to be stored in one or more bit positions of the vector register. The apparatus further comprises a triggering logic unit to determine whether or not to trigger a fire event based on the vector registers.