US Patent Issued to SiFive on July 22 for "Debug trace circuitry configured to generate a record including an address pair and a counter value" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,047, issued on July 22, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Debug trace circuitry configured to generate a record including an address pair and a counter value" was invented by Bruce Ableidinger (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for debug path profiling. For example, a processor pipeline may execute instructions. A debug trace circuitry may, responsive to an indication of a non-sequential execution of an instruction by the processor pipeline, generate a record including an address pair and one or more counter values. The address pair may include a first address correspo...