Patent ID: 11907105
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A device, comprising:
a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU);
a Central Processing Unit (CPU) Core;
an operating system (OS) configured to run on at least a subset of the one or more processors including the CPU core, wherein the device is configured to selectively run in a normal mode or a timing testing mode with the CPU core, wherein in the timing testing mode the device is configured to disrupt timing of processing that takes place on the GPU while running an application with the GPU and testing the application for errors in device hardware component synchronization and/or software component synchronization while the device is running in the timing testing mode, wherein disrupting the timing of processing that takes place on the GPU while running an application with the GPU includes the OS replacing firmware of the GPU.