US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on March 3 for "Supply current consumption acquisition synchronized with debug data trace" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,484, issued on March 3, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Supply current consumption acquisition synchronized with debug data trace" was invented by Sylvain Chavagnat (Saint Nicolas de Macherin, France) and Simon Valcin (Trets, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for synchronizing power consumption data with trace data in a microcontroller debugging system. The method involves periodically sending synchronization requests from a host device to a synchronization manager within a debug probe. The synchronization manager retrieves the current power acquisition cycle number from a power acquis...