US Patent Issued to RENESAS ELECTRONICS on July 1 for "Semiconductor chip, debug system, and synchronization method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,235, issued on July 1, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor chip, debug system, and synchronization method" was invented by Hiroyuki Sasaki (Tokyo) and Hirofumi Hatahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor chip includes a first common marker generating circuit and a second common marker generating circuit. The first common marker generating circuit is configured to send a first request signal to the second common marker generating circuit, the first request signal requesting a common marker to be sent to a second trace memory, and to send the common marker to a first trace memory, when a ...