Debugging a Graphics Application Executing on a Target Device

Patent №

US 8,935,671

Granted

2015-01-13

Filed 2011

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13306452

Debugging a graphics application executing on a target device. The graphics application may execute CPU instructions to generate graphics commands to graphics hardware for generation of graphics on a display. A breakpoint for the graphics application may be detected at a first time. In response to detecting the breakpoint, one or more graphics commands which were executed by the graphics hardware proximate to the first time may be displayed. Additionally, source code corresponding to CPU instructions which generated the one or more graphics commands may be displayed.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Natural language0.03
Vision0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 272950245

Assignors

SOWERBY, ANDREW M., LIPCHAK, BENJAMIN N., DRUKMAN, MAXWELL O., FIRLIK, DONALD MATTHEW, FRIESEN, CHRISTOPHER

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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