US Patent Issued to Intel on March 18 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for autonomous functional testing of a processor" (Israeli, Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,925, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods for autonomous functional testing of a processor" was invented by Michael Mishaeli (Haifa, Israel), Edward Brazil (Leixlip, Ireland), Bryan J. Gran (Boylston, Mass.) and Ohad Itzhaki (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for autonomous functional testing of a processor are described. In one example, a processor includes a plurality of processor cores that are each coupled to a respective power management agent circuit; a cache shared by the plurality of processor cores; and a contro...