Minimizing the amount of time stamp information reported with instrumentation data
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorGary L. Swoboda
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
This invention is time stamping subsystem of an electronic apparatus. A time stamp generator generates a multibit time stamp value including a predetermined number of least significant bits overlapping a predetermined number of most significant bits. Each client receives the least significant bits. Each client associates captured data with a corresponding set of the least significant bits in a message. A central scheduling unit associates most significant bits of the time stamp value with the least significant bits of the message. This associating compares overlap bits of the most significant bits and least significant bits. The most significant bits are decremented until the overlap bits are equal.
Claims4
An integrated circuit comprising:
- (a) a time stamp value register having inputs for time stamp bits n to zero, the inputs being grouped in to a first group of time stamp bits n to m, a second group of time stamp bits m−1 to p, and a third group of time stamp bits p−1 to zero, and having a load input;
- and
- (b) comparator circuitry having a first group of inputs coupled to the second group of time stamp bits m−1 to p, and a second group of inputs coupled to a forth group of time stamp bits m−1 to p, the comparator circuitry having a load output coupled to the load input of the time stamp value register.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.