Processing devices for reducing scan traffic, method and computer program
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMin Liu, Jaemon Franko, Xia Jin, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Liu, Krishna Surya
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Abstract
A processing device (30, 710) for reducing scan traffic is provided. The processing device (30, 710) comprises one or more interfaces (32, 718) configured to transmit information to at least one register access interface (759, 761) and processing circuitry (34) configured to control the one or more interfaces. Further, the processing circuitry (34) is configured to obtain register parameters of at least one functional unit (760, 762) of a processing unit (750) and to generate an improved bulk register comprising the register parameters of the at least one functional unit.
Claims20
A processing device for reducing scan traffic, comprising:
- one or more interfaces configured to transmit information to at least one register access interface;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to control the one or more interfaces and to:
- obtain register parameters of a plurality of registers of at least one functional unit of a processing unit, wherein the register parameters include information needed to request an access to the plurality of registers in the at least one functional unit of the processing unit;
- and
- generate a bulk register access based on the register parameters to access the plurality of registers of the at least one functional unit.
A processing device for reducing scan traffic, comprising;
- one or more interfaces configured to transmit information to at least one register access interface and to receive information from another processing device;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to control the one or more interfaces and to:
- receive a bulk register processing file comprising information for a bulk register access including register parameters for accessing a plurality of registers of at least one functional unit of a processing unit;
- and
- use the bulk register processing file for scanning the at least one functional unit.
A method for reducing scan traffic, comprising:
- obtaining register parameters of a plurality of registers of at least one functional unit of a processing unit, wherein the register parameters include information needed to request an access to the plurality of registers in the at least one functional unit of the processing unit;
- and
- generating a bulk register access comprising the register parameters to access the plurality of registers of the at least one functional unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.