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Patent Inventor Names
Ken Gary Pomaranski0
Andrew Harvey Barr0
Dale John Shidla0
Date of Patent
April 17, 2007
Patent Application Number
10690727
Date Filed
October 22, 2003
Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of executing program code on a target microprocessor with multiple CPU cores thereon. One of the CPU cores is selected for testing, and inter-core context switching is performed. Parallel execution occurs of diagnostic code on the selected CPU core and the program code on remaining CPU cores. Another embodiment disclosed relates to a microprocessor having a plurality of CPU cores integrated on the microprocessor chip. Inter-core communications circuitry is coupled to each of the CPU cores and configured to perform context switching between the CPU cores.
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