Inventor

MERICAS ALEXANDER ERIK

US35 patents

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MERICAS ALEXANDER ERIK

IBM

Method and apparatus for instruction sampling for performance monitoring and debug

System and method for tracing

Method and system for providing temporal threshold support during performance monitoring of a pipelined processor

Method system and apparatus for instruction tracing with out of order processors

Method and apparatus for identifying instructions for performance monitoring in a microprocessor

Method and system for counting non-speculative events in a speculative processor

Performance monitoring based on instruction sampling in a microprocessor

Method and apparatus for monitoring the performance of internal queues in a microprocessor

Method and system for tracking the progress of an instruction in an out-of-order processor

Method and system for detecting a flush of an instruction without a flush indicator

Concurrently sharing a memory controller among a tracing process and non-tracing processes using a programmable variable number of shared memory write buffers

Method, apparatus, and computer program product in a processor for concurrently sharing a memory controller among a tracing process and non-tracing processes using a programmable variable number of shared memory write buffers

Method in a processor for performing in-memory tracing using existing communication paths

Method for measuring memory latency in a hierarchical memory system

Analyzing instruction completion delays in a processor

Counting latencies of an instruction table flush, refill and instruction execution using a plurality of assigned counters

Method and apparatus for a byte lane selectable performance monitor bus

Hierarchical selection of direct and indirect counting events in a performance monitor unit

Method and apparatus for using past history to avoid flush conditions in a microprocessor

Method, apparatus and computer program product for identifying sources of performance events

Method and apparatus for measuring pipeline stalls in a microprocessor

Method in a processor for dynamically during runtime allocating memory for in-memory hardware tracing

Speculative counting of performance events with rewind counter

Autonomic hotspot profiling using paired performance sampling

Apparatus, system and computer program product for seamlessly integrating thermal event information data with performance monitor data

Method of seamlessly integrating thermal event information data with performance monitor data

Method, system, and computer program product for dynamically allocating resources

Methods to randomly or pseudo-randomly, without bias, select instruction for performance analysis in a microprocessor

System and method for distributing signal with efficiency over microprocessor

INDUKURU VENKAT RAJEEV

Quantifying completion stalls using instruction sampling

Autonomic hotspot profiling using paired performance sampling

Processor core having a saturating event counter for making performance measurements

HALL RONALD P

Hardware assist thread for dynamic performance profiling

CHEN WEN-TZER THOMAS

Method and apparatus for instruction completion stall identification in an information handling system

DOING RICHARD WILLIAM

General purpose emit for use in value profiling