US Patent Issued to SiFive on May 12 for "Processor crash analysis using register sampling" (Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,756, issued on May 12, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processor crash analysis using register sampling" was invented by Ernest L. Edgar (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Bruce Ableidinger (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for processor crash analysis using register sampling. For example, an integrated circuit may include a processor core configured to execute instructions, wherein the processor core includes a program counter register and an exception program counter register (e.g., a machine exception program counter register) that is configured to store a program coun...