ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,530, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Single signal debug port" was invented by Avneep Kumar Goyal (Greater Noida, India) and Thomas Szurmant (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a system is provided that includes a debugging tool and an application board. The debugging tool includes a serial wire debug (SWD) host coupled to a single signal debug port (SSDP) host. The application board includes an SWD target coupled to an SSDP target. The SWD target is configured to communicate SWD signals with the SWD host. The SSDP target is configured to encode the ...