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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Carl Alfred Bender, Highland, NY (US);
Peter Heiner Hochschild, New York, NY (US);
Ashutosh Misra, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Richard Swetz, Mahopac, NY (US);
Carl Alfred Bender, Highland, NY (US);
Peter Heiner Hochschild, New York, NY (US);
Ashutosh Misra, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Richard Swetz, Mahopac, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
There is broadly contemplated herein an arrangement whereby each event source feeds a small dedicated 'pre-counter' while an actual count is kept in a 64-bit wide RAM. Such an implementation preferably may involve a state machine that simply sweeps through the pre-counters, in a predetermined fixed order. Preferably, the state machine will access each pre-counter, add the value from the pre-counter to a corresponding RAM location, and then clear the pre-counter. Accordingly, the pre-counters merely have to be wide enough such that even at a maximal event rate, the pre-counter will not be able to wrap (i.e., reach capacity or overflow) before the 'sweeper' state machine accesses the pre-counter.