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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2010
Atchyuth K. Gorti, Austin, TX (US);
Salih Hamid, Austin, TX (US);
Amit Pandey, Austin, TX (US);
William Yang, Austin, TX (US);
Atchyuth K. Gorti, Austin, TX (US);
Salih Hamid, Austin, TX (US);
Amit Pandey, Austin, TX (US);
William Yang, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to improve the efficiency of debugging a processor is provided. Also provided is a computer readable storage device encoded with data for adapting a manufacturing facility to create an apparatus. The method includes receiving a first test data, which identifies a state of a state machine, wherein the state machine performs reset and initialization operations for a processor. The method also includes halting the state machine in the state identified by the first test data upon reaching the state.