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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

May. 14, 2007
Applicants:

William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);

Michael D. Snyder, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);

Michael D. Snyder, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0831 (2013.01); G06F 11/3656 (2013.01);
Abstract

A plurality of new snoop transaction types are described. Some include address information in the requests, and others include cache entry information in the requests. Some responses include tag address information, and some do not. Some provide tag address content on the data bus lines during the data portion of the transaction. These new snoop transaction types are very helpful during debug of a data processing system.


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