Intel
®
81341 and 81342—PMON Unit
Intel
®
81341 and 81342 I/O Processors
Developer’s Manual
December 2007
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Order Number: 315037-002US
18.4
Data Collection
The following sections provide some insight into the intended use of the
PMON
counters at a very low level. The examples and accompanying explanation should prove
especially valuable in the creation of test cases for both hardware and software.
The hardware face to the
PMON
counters is not intended to be any wider than 32 bits.
This means that all registers are accessed one at a time.
All of the following examples assume starting with an idle system (all counters stopped
and all registers set to default values). The waveforms in the examples do not explicitly
always show when each
PMON
command was executed, but the reader should be able
to deduce when each command would have or could have executed. For the purposes
of these examples, the waveforms treat the counters as being level sensitive to the
appropriate events.
18.4.1
Time Based Sampling
Figure 158. Flowchart of Example Commands Sequence
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