ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,503, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Rivos Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Processor performance profiling using trace actions" was invented by Beeman Connally Strong (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, a processor can include an instruction processing unit configured to execute a software program that includes a plurality of machine-readable instructions, and a hardware performance monitoring unit. The hardware performance monitoring unit can include a plurality of counters configured to count respective processing events associated with execution of the software program, and a counter overflow monito...