Abstract:
A microcontroller may include a programmable interface circuit to operate one or more sensors. The interface circuit may include a first set of storage to store a first set of values. The first set of values may specify a period and a set of transitions for a first signal. The interface circuit may include one or more second sets of storage to store one or more second sets of values respectively. The second sets of values may each specify a period and a set of transitions for a respective one of one or more second signals. The interface circuit may include a signal generator operatively coupled to the first and second sets of storage to generate the first and second signals based on the first and second sets of values.
Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine memory access integrity based on feedback from memory. An example apparatus includes an access reconstruction controller including an output, a first input configured to be coupled to memory, and a second input configured to be coupled to a memory signal generator; a comparator including a first input coupled to the output of the access reconstruction controller, a second input configured to be coupled to an arbiter, and an output configured to be coupled to the arbiter; and a data integrity monitor including an input coupled to the second input of the comparator and configured to be coupled to the arbiter and an output coupled to the output of the comparator and configured to be coupled to the arbiter.
Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine memory access integrity based on feedback from memory. An example apparatus includes an access reconstruction controller including an output, a first input configured to be coupled to memory, and a second input configured to be coupled to a memory signal generator; a comparator including a first input coupled to the output of the access reconstruction controller, a second input configured to be coupled to an arbiter, and an output configured to be coupled to the arbiter; and a data integrity monitor including an input coupled to the second input of the comparator and configured to be coupled to the arbiter and an output coupled to the output of the comparator and configured to be coupled to the arbiter.
Abstract:
A processor is provided and includes a core that is configured to perform a decode operation on a multi-instruction packet comprising multiple instructions. The decode operation includes receiving the multi-instruction packet that includes first and second instructions. The first instruction includes a primary portion at a fixed first location and a secondary portion. The second instruction includes a primary portion at a fixed second location between the primary portion of the first instruction and the secondary portion of the first instruction. An operational code portion of the primary portion of each of the first and second instructions is accessed and decoded. An instruction packet including the primary and secondary portions of the first instruction is created, and a second instruction packet including the primary portion of the second instruction is created. The first and second instructions packets are dispatched to respective first and second functional units.
Abstract:
A glitch free clock switching circuit includes a first enable synchronization logic that generates a first clock enable in response to a first enable from a first enable generation logic. The clock switching circuit includes a second enable synchronization logic that generates a second clock enable in response to a second enable from a second enable generation logic. A logic gate is coupled to an output of the second enable synchronization logic that selects the second clock signal as a logic gate output if the second enable is logic high. A priority multiplexer receives a first clock signal, the first enable and the logic gate output. The multiplexer configured to select the first clock signal as the clock output if the first enable is logic high, irrespective of the logic gate output.
Abstract:
In described examples, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute a discontinuity instruction, which specifies a memory address, to transition from executing according to a first stack pointer to executing according to a second stack pointer. The first stack pointer is copied from an active stack register to an inactive first stack pointer register. The processor determines whether the specified memory address stores a stack entry instruction that corresponds to the discontinuity instruction. If it does, the second stack pointer is copied from the inactive second stack pointer register to the active stack register, and the processor executes the stack entry instruction and begins execution according to the second stack pointer.
Abstract:
A circuit and method for verifying the operation of error checking circuitry. In one example, a circuit includes a memory, a first error checking circuit, a second error checking circuit, and a comparison circuit. The memory includes a data output. The first error checking circuit includes an input and an output. The input of the first error checking circuit is coupled to the data output of the memory. The second error checking circuit includes an input and an output. The input of the second error checking circuit is coupled to the data output of the memory. The comparison circuit includes a first input and a second input. The first input is coupled to the output of the first error checking circuit. The second input is coupled to the output of the second error checking circuit.
Abstract:
A multi master system on chip (SoC) includes a plurality of masters comprising a first master and a second master, each configured to generate a request. A next state generator in the multi master SoC is configured to generate a next state of a round robin pointer in response to the request and a current state of the round robin pointer. The round robin pointer is configured to generate an enable signal to enable a priority encoder for the first master in response to the current state of the round robin pointer. Further, the next state of the round robin pointer is generated such that a priority is maintained for the first master until there is a request from the second master.
Abstract:
An example apparatus includes: address generation circuitry configured to generate a first address associated with a first packet, a second address associated with a second packet, and a third address associated with a third packet, wherein: the first packet includes a branch instruction; the branch instruction includes a first field that specifies a branch target, and a second field that is different from the first field; and the third packet includes the branch target of the branch instruction; buffer circuitry configured to receive the first packet, the second packet, and the third packet; decoder circuitry coupled to the buffer circuitry, the decoder circuitry configured to decode the first packet, the second packet, and the third packet; discontinuity controller circuitry coupled to the buffer circuitry and the decoder circuitry and configured to determine whether to cause the address generation circuitry to generate the second address.
Abstract:
Lockstep comparators and related methods are described. An example apparatus includes self-test logic circuitry having first outputs, and comparator logic including selection logic having first inputs and second outputs, ones of the first inputs coupled to the first outputs, first detection logic having second inputs and third outputs, the second inputs coupled to the second outputs, second detection logic having third inputs and fourth outputs, the third inputs coupled to the third outputs, latch logic having fifth inputs and fifth outputs, the third output and the fourth output coupled to the fifth inputs, and error detection logic having sixth inputs coupled to the fifth inputs.