A circuit having a corresponding method comprises one or more circuits each to produce one or more status signals, wherein each of the status signals represents a status of a respective one of the one or more circuits; a memory; a memory controller to store a plurality of samples of the one or more status signals in the memory; a plurality of input/output terminals; an interface in communication with one or more of the input/output terminals; and a debug circuit to transfer the one or more samples of the status signals from the memory to the interface.