- Patent Title: Hardware monitor with context switching and selection based on a data memory access and for raising an interrupt when a memory access address is outside of an address range of the selected context
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Application No.: US13705315Application Date: 2012-12-05
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Publication No.: US09753870B2Publication Date: 2017-09-05
- Inventor: Mark Trimmer , Paul Elliott
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics R&D Ltd
- Applicant Address: GB Marlow, Buckinghamshire
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Marlow, Buckinghamshire
- Agency: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Priority: GB1121680.1 20111216
- Main IPC: G06F12/14
- IPC: G06F12/14 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F12/02
Abstract:
A monitor includes a register configured to store at least two contexts and a context change value. A context selector is configured to select at least one of the two contexts for context monitoring. The selection is made dependent on whether the context change value matches a first part of a memory access address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130159661A1 HARDWARE MONITOR Public/Granted day:2013-06-20
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