Method and apparatus to debug an integrated circuit chip via synchronous clock stop and scan
    3.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus to debug an integrated circuit chip via synchronous clock stop and scan 失效
    通过同步时钟停止和扫描来调试集成电路芯片的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08140925B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-03-20

    申请号:US11768791

    申请日:2007-06-26

    IPC分类号: G01R31/28 G06F1/12

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2236

    摘要: An apparatus and method for evaluating a state of an electronic or integrated circuit (IC), each IC including one or more processor elements for controlling operations of IC sub-units, and each the IC supporting multiple frequency clock domains. The method comprises: generating a synchronized set of enable signals in correspondence with one or more IC sub-units for starting operation of one or more IC sub-units according to a determined timing configuration; counting, in response to one signal of the synchronized set of enable signals, a number of main processor IC clock cycles; and, upon attaining a desired clock cycle number, generating a stop signal for each unique frequency clock domain to synchronously stop a functional clock for each respective frequency clock domain; and, upon synchronously stopping all on-chip functional clocks on all frequency clock domains in a deterministic fashion, scanning out data values at a desired IC chip state. The apparatus and methodology enables construction of a cycle-by-cycle view of any part of the state of a running IC chip, using a combination of on-chip circuitry and software.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于评估电子或集成电路(IC)的状态的装置和方法,每个IC包括用于控制IC子单元的操作的一个或多个处理器元件,以及每个支持多个时钟域的IC。 该方法包括:根据确定的定时配置,产生与一个或多个IC子单元相对应的用于开始一个或多个IC子单元的操作的同步的使能信号组; 计数,响应于同步的一组使能信号的一个信号,多个主处理器IC时钟周期; 并且在获得期望的时钟周期数时,产生用于每个唯一频率时钟域的停止信号以同步地停止每个相应频率时钟域的功能时钟; 并且在确定性地同时停止所有频率时钟域上的所有片上功能时钟时,以期望的IC芯片状态扫描数据值。 该装置和方法使得能够使用片上电路和软件的组合来构建运行中的IC芯片的状态的任何部分的逐周期视图。

    METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DEBUG AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP VIA SYNCHRONOUS CLOCK STOP AND SCAN
    4.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DEBUG AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP VIA SYNCHRONOUS CLOCK STOP AND SCAN 失效
    通过同步时钟停止和扫描来调试集成电路芯片的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US20090006894A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-01

    申请号:US11768791

    申请日:2007-06-26

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2236

    摘要: An apparatus and method for evaluating a state of an electronic or integrated circuit (IC), each IC including one or more processor elements for controlling operations of IC sub-units, and each the IC supporting multiple frequency clock domains. The method comprises: generating a synchronized set of enable signals in correspondence with one or more IC sub-units for starting operation of one or more IC sub-units according to a determined timing configuration; counting, in response to one signal of the synchronized set of enable signals, a number of main processor IC clock cycles; and, upon attaining a desired clock cycle number, generating a stop signal for each unique frequency clock domain to synchronously stop a functional clock for each respective frequency clock domain; and, upon synchronously stopping all on-chip functional clocks on all frequency clock domains in a deterministic fashion, scanning out data values at a desired IC chip state. The apparatus and methodology enables construction of a cycle-by-cycle view of any part of the state of a running IC chip, using a combination of on-chip circuitry and software.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于评估电子或集成电路(IC)的状态的装置和方法,每个IC包括用于控制IC子单元的操作的一个或多个处理器元件,以及每个支持多个时钟域的IC。 该方法包括:根据确定的定时配置,产生与一个或多个IC子单元相对应的用于开始一个或多个IC子单元的操作的同步的使能信号组; 计数,响应于同步的一组使能信号的一个信号,多个主处理器IC时钟周期; 并且在获得期望的时钟周期数时,产生用于每个唯一频率时钟域的停止信号以同步地停止每个相应频率时钟域的功能时钟; 并且在确定性地同时停止所有频率时钟域上的所有片上功能时钟时,以期望的IC芯片状态扫描数据值。 该装置和方法使得能够使用片上电路和软件的组合来构建运行中的IC芯片的状态的任何部分的逐周期视图。

    Low latency memory access and synchronization
    9.
    发明授权
    Low latency memory access and synchronization 失效
    低延迟内存访问和同步

    公开(公告)号:US07174434B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-02-06

    申请号:US10468994

    申请日:2002-02-25

    IPC分类号: G06F12/12

    CPC分类号: G06F9/52

    摘要: A low latency memory system access is provided in association with a weakly-ordered multiprocessor system. Each processor in the multiprocessor shares resources, and each shared resource has an associated lock within a locking device that provides support for synchronization between the multiple processors in the multiprocessor and the orderly sharing of the resources. A processor only has permission to access a resource when it owns the lock associated with that resource, and an attempt by a processor to own a lock requires only a single load operation, rather than a traditional atomic load followed by store, such that the processor only performs a read operation and the hardware locking device performs a subsequent write operation rather than the processor. A simple prefetching for non-contiguous data structures is also disclosed. A memory line is redefined so that in addition to the normal physical memory data, every line includes a pointer that is large enough to point to any other line in the memory, wherein the pointers to determine which memory line to prefetch rather than some other predictive algorithm. This enables hardware to effectively prefetch memory access patterns that are non-contiguous, but repetitive.

    摘要翻译: 与弱有序的多处理器系统相关联地提供低延迟存储器系统访问。 多处理器中的每个处理器共享资源,并且每个共享资源在锁定设备内具有关联的锁,其提供对多处理器中的多个处理器之间的同步的支持以及资源的有序共享。 当处理器拥有与该资源相关联的锁定时,处理器仅具有访问资源的权限,并且处理器拥有锁的尝试仅需要单个加载操作,而不是传统的原子负载后跟存储,使得处理器 只执行读取操作,并且硬件锁定装置执行后续的写入操作而不是处理器。 还公开了用于非连续数据结构的简单预取。 重新定义存储器线,使得除了正常的物理存储器数据之外,每行包括足够大的指针以指向存储器中的任何其他行,其中指针用于确定要预取的存储器行而不是一些其它预测 算法。 这使得硬件能够有效地预取不连续但重复的存储器访问模式。