Patent ID: 6279123
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for monitoring, from a host computer, the real-time operation of a target device having a scan chain, comprising the steps of:identifying devices connected to said scan chain;downloading, from said host computer to said target device, a set of target programs associated with said identified devices;synchronously running all of said target program set;transmitting results data, compiled as a result of running said target program set, in real-time to said host computer without interrupting the operation of said target deviceembedding breakpoints in said target program set;transmitting said results data to said host computer when said target program set reaches said breakpoints;transmitting calibration data from said host computer to said target device; andrunning said target device using the calibration data as input data, so that the results data can be analyzed in view of the calibration data input to the target device.