US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on June 10 for "Logic circuit and method for checking and updating program counter values in pipeline architecture by comparing PC values of consecutive cycles" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,119, issued on June 10, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Logic circuit and method for checking and updating program counter values in pipeline architecture by comparing PC values of consecutive cycles" was invented by Chen-Hsing Wang (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Yu-Ju Shih (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logic circuit and a method for checking and updating program counter (PC) values in a pipeline architecture are provided. The logic circuit includes a checking circuit and a PC value determination circuit. The checking circuit checks a continuity of a current PC value and multiple flags relat...