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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2010
Updating settings of a processor core concurrently to the operation of a multi core processor system
Christopher R. Conklin, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
Michael F. Fee, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Adolf Martens, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Walter Niklaus, Stuttgart, DE;
Scott B. Swaney, Germantown, NY (US);
Tobias Webel, Schwaebisch-Gmuend, DE;
Christopher R. Conklin, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
Michael F. Fee, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Adolf Martens, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Walter Niklaus, Stuttgart, DE;
Scott B. Swaney, Germantown, NY (US);
Tobias Webel, Schwaebisch-Gmuend, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides an improved method for updating the settings of a processor or a processor core, respectively, concurrently to the operation of the respective processor system in which the processor or processor core, respectively, is running. This enables the insertion of new scan chain data and thus enabling the modification of the hardware characteristics of the processor.