Patent 7096385 was granted and assigned to Advanced Micro Devices on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for testing a microprocessor. The method includes executing debug application software on an external device, downloading diagnostic program instructions from the external device to a cache memory within the microprocessor via a serial test interface. Once the diagnostic program instructions are loaded into the cache memory, the method includes executing the diagnostic program instructions from within the cache memory.