Method and system for handling discarded and merged events when monitoring a system bus
US8943248B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 9, 2012 |
| Grant date | Jan 27, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 18, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/364
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A bus monitoring and debugging system operating independently without impacting the normal operation of the CPU and without adding any overhead to the application being monitored. The bus is monitored for discarded speculative read and for merged write transactions in order to determine the true bus throughputs. Bus statistics that are relevant to providing insight to system operation are automatically captured. Logging of relevant events may be enabled or disabled when a sliding time window expires, or alternatively by external trigger events.
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