ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,478, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).
"Debug architecture" was invented by Hannu Talvitie (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated-circuit chip and method of operating said chip is provided. The integrated-circuit chip includes multiple processors, a system memory and a main system bus for carrying data between each of the processors and the system memory. The chip also has debug logic, a debug port for communicating with the debug logic from outside the chip and a debug connection that connects the debug logic to the main system bus. A power management system is al...