US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 23 for "Context-sensitive debug requests for memory access" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,215, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Context-sensitive debug requests for memory access" was invented by Jason Lynn Peck (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a device having a processor core that can operate in any of multiple operating modes, and a controller that issues a debug request to the processor core. The processor core includes a register configured to store current operating state information of the processor core. The debug request includes a first portion to specify a virtual machine qualifier with respect to servicing the debug request, a second portion to sp...