US Patent Issued to Rohm on May 12 for "Tracing circuit, semiconductor device, tracer, and tracing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,790, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Tracing circuit, semiconductor device, tracer, and tracing system" was invented by Takahiro Nishiyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracing circuit is integrated in a semiconductor device along with a microprocessor including an m-bit program counter, and externally outputs a tracing clock along with an n-bit tracing data (where 2less than equal tonless than equal tom). The tracing circuit, when the program counter remains unchanged, synchronously with the tracing clock sets the tracing data to a first output value; when the program counter is incre...