Retaining operating system crash information in volatile memory across a power cycle

Microprocessor-based devices may experience crashes due to failures in software, hardware, or a combination thereof. Details about a crash may provide valuable information for determining cause of the crash. Devices may save crash information in volatile memory, place the volatile memory into a self...

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Main Authors BERBESSOU DAVID, LACHWANI MANISH
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 05.03.2013
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Microprocessor-based devices may experience crashes due to failures in software, hardware, or a combination thereof. Details about a crash may provide valuable information for determining cause of the crash. Devices may save crash information in volatile memory, place the volatile memory into a self-refresh mode, power cycle the remainder of the device, reboot, and retrieve the crash information. Other information to be persisted across a power cycle may also be saved to volatile memory in this fashion as well.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20090648504