US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Feb. 10 for "Checker and checking method for processor circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,729, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Checker and checking method for processor circuit" was invented by Yean-Ru Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih Cheng Ting (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Ting Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-I Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A checking method for a processor circuit includes: determining whether a data cache send a data refill request under a branch prediction executing status for obtaining a first result; determining whether data requested by the data refill request is written into a register and calculated under the branch prediction execut...