US Patent Issued to SiFive on July 14 for "Measuring performance associated with processing instructions based on counters for different events" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,730, issued on July 14, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Measuring performance associated with processing instructions based on counters for different events" was invented by David John Simpson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a processor having a pipeline, a plurality of counters, and trigger circuitry. The plurality of counters may mount events associated with processing instructions in the pipeline. Counters of the plurality of counters may count different events. The trigger circuitry may trigger a performance measurement for a first instruction after counters of the plurali...