Patent ID: 11875180
Assignee: DOVER MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method for stalling a host processor, the method comprising acts of:
causing the host processor to initiate one or more selected transactions, wherein:
the one or more selected transactions comprise a bus transaction;
the act of causing the host processor to initiate one or more selected transactions comprises inserting, into object code, one or more instructions that, when executed by the host processor, cause the host processor to initiate the one or more selected transactions; and
the one or more instructions are inserted into the object code at a frequency selected based on a capacity of a downstream component that consumes outputs of the host processor; and

preventing the host processor from completing the one or more selected transactions, to thereby stall the host processor.