US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 8 for "Deterministic cycle accurate execution of software" (Australian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,656, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Deterministic cycle accurate execution of software" was invented by Alexander Tessarolo (Lindfield, Australia) and Venkatesh Natarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods to provide deterministic execution times for computer processors. In one example, a hardware module may include hardware logic, which is configured to track a value stored in a counter. The hardware module may detect a read or write access request from a processor, determine whether the value stored in the counter has reached a speci...