Patent ID: 6859897

Claim:
A method of monitoring for a memory access, comprising: selecting a portion of memory; from among a plurality of available memory relationships, selecting a memory relationship relative to the selected portion of memory, wherein the selected memory relationship includes a comparative relationship between a most significant part of a bus address associated with the accessed portion of memory and a corresponding most significant part of a reference address associated with the selected portion of memory and said comparative relationship includes at least one of a plurality of possible constituent comparative relationships, said plurality of possible constituent comparative relationships including the most significant part of the bus address greater than the corresponding most significant part of the reference address, the most significant part of the bus address less than the corresponding most significant part of the reference address, and the most significant part of the bus address equal to the corresponding most significant part of the reference address; and detecting whether a portion of memory that is being accessed bears the selected memory relationship relative to the selected portion of memory.