Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and methods for logic analysis to detect trigger conditions relating to data handling transactions in systems using transaction identifiers
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Application No.: US14684558Application Date: 2015-04-13
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Publication No.: US10061671B2Publication Date: 2018-08-28
- Inventor: Mark Gerald LaVine
- Applicant: ARM Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F11/27
- IPC: G06F11/27 ; G06F11/25 ; G06F11/273 ; G06F11/34 ; G01R31/3177 ; G06F11/30

Abstract:
Apparatus comprising logic analyzer circuitry comprises a succession of two or more successive trigger condition detectors each configured to detect a match between a respective trigger condition and data handling activity relating to data handling transactions each having a respective transaction identifier; the succession of trigger condition detectors being configured so that a detection by a trigger condition detector of a match with its respective trigger condition enables a next trigger condition detector in the succession to initiate detection of a match with the respective trigger condition of that next trigger condition detector; and a transaction identifier detector associated with a first trigger condition detector in the succession, configured to detect the transaction identifier relating to a data handling transaction for which a match is detected by the first trigger condition detector, and to supply the detected transaction identifier to a subsequent trigger condition detector in the succession of trigger condition detectors; in which the subsequent trigger condition detector is configured to apply the detected transaction identifier as at least a part of its respective trigger condition so as to detect a match only in respect of a data handling transaction having that transaction identifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160299825A1 LOGIC ANALYSIS Public/Granted day:2016-10-13
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