US 11,755,243 B2
Apparatus and method for triggering action
Simon John Craske, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to Arm Limited, Cambridge (GB)
Appl. No. 17/56,944
Filed by Arm Limited, Cambridge (GB)
PCT Filed May 2, 2019, PCT No. PCT/GB2019/051219
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 19, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/229412, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1808888 (GB), filed on May 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0216244 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0659 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
memory access circuitry to retrieve a data value from a memory location of a memory; and
action triggering circuitry to:
determine whether the data value is to be interpreted according to a first interpretation or a second interpretation based on a control value associated with the memory location, wherein the first interpretation is that the data value is data and the second interpretation is that the data value is non-data; and
when it is determined that the data value is to be interpreted according to the second interpretation:
determine whether the data value defines an action to be performed; and
when it is determined that the data value defines an action to be performed, trigger performance of the action.