Checkpointing user design states in a configurable IC

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7512850
APP PUB NO 20080222465A1
SERIAL NO

11375370

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Some embodiments provide a configurable integrated circuit (IC) that has several configurable circuits and several user design state (UDS) circuits. The UDS circuits store user-design state values. The configurable IC also includes a debug network communicatively coupled to the UDS circuits. The debug network is for retrieving the user-design state values of several UDS circuits at various stoppages of the operation of the IC without retrieving configuration data that is used to configure the configurable circuits of the IC. The retrieved user-design state values at each stoppage are used as the checkpointed state of the IC while debugging the IC. In some embodiments, the debug network allows the checkpointing of only certain portions of the configurable IC.

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TAHOE RESEARCH LTDDUBLIN

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hutchings, Brad Fremont, US 55 1676
Kronmiller, Tom Chapel Hill, US 10 467
Redgrave, Jason Mountain View, US 115 2953
Schmit, Herman Palo Alto, US 123 3954
Teig, Steven Menlo Park , US 333 6577

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