Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Handling trace data for jumps in program flow
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Application No.: US16925445Application Date: 2020-07-10
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Publication No.: US11989111B2Publication Date: 2024-05-21
- Inventor: Iain Robertson
- Applicant: SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: Siemens Industry Software Inc.
- Current Assignee: Siemens Industry Software Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC
- Priority: GB 09933 2019.07.10
- Main IPC: G06F11/34
- IPC: G06F11/34 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F11/30

Abstract:
A processor supervisory unit for monitoring the program flow executed by a processor, the supervisory unit being arranged to store a set of values representing locations to which the program flow is expected to return after jumps in the program flow, the unit being capable of: in a first mode, on detecting a jump in the program flow to store a location value representing a location to which the program flow is expected to return from that jump; and in a second mode, on detecting a jump in the program flow to increment a counter associated with a location value representing a location to which the program flow is expected to return from that jump.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210011833A1 Handling Trace Data for Jumps in Program Flow Public/Granted day:2021-01-14
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