Patent ID: 11914500
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method of operating an accelerator circuit, comprising:
storing a program that includes a plurality of instruction packets in an instruction memory of the accelerator circuit;
reading a subset of the plurality of instruction packets from the instruction memory by a vector circuit of the accelerator circuit coupled to the instruction memory;
receiving, at the vector circuit, a portion of input data from a data memory of the accelerator circuit, the portion of the input data corresponding to the subset of the plurality of instruction packets;
executing, by the vector circuit, a set of vector operations in accordance with two or more of the plurality of instruction packets from the subset using data from the received portion of the input data identified in the two or more of the plurality of instruction packets to generate output data; and
triggering, by a program counter control circuit of the accelerator circuit coupled to the instruction memory, a breakpoint in the program causing the accelerator circuit to stop executing remaining instruction packets in the program following the two or more of the plurality of instruction packets responsive to a number of instruction packets executed in the program from a time instant of an event reaching a predetermined number.