US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 2 for "Debugging communication among units on processor simulator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,567, issued on June 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Debugging communication among units on processor simulator" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for identifying a data transfer mismatch between a sender and a receiver from among units of a software simulator of a hardware processor. The simulator runs the plurality of the units which communicate with each other via First-In First-Outs (FIFOs). The method counts amounts of data the sender writes to the FIFOs and the receiver reads from the FIFOs for a given data transfer. The method avoids...