Arthur W Miller

US Patent:

7098826, Aug 29, 2006

Filed:

Nov 25, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/904748

Inventors:

Subhash Madireddy - Bangalore, IN
Sudheer Prasad - Bangalore, IN
Baireddy Vijayavardhan - Medak, IN
Arthur Miller - Austin TX, US
Krishnan Ramabhadran - Karnataka, IN

Assignee:

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

International Classification:

H03M 1/00

US Classification:

341141, 327589

Abstract:

An aspect of the present invention provides multiple switches in a transceiver, which enable pins provided for transmission and reception to be connected to either a transmit port or a receive port, as desired during operation. As a result, the transceiver can be auto-configured to connect the specific pin, on which signals are being received, to the receive port. Similarly, the transceiver can be auto-configured to connect the specific pin, on which the signals need to be transmitted, to the transmit port. Various design considerations in providing such switches are also described.

US Patent:

8359462, Jan 22, 2013

Filed:

Nov 21, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/275981

Inventors:

Moinul H. Khan - Austin TX, US
Mark N. Fullerton - Austin TX, US
Arthur R. Miller - Austin TX, US
Anitha Kona - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

Marvell International Ltd. - Hamilton

International Classification:

G06F 9/00
G06F 9/30

US Classification:

712241, 712 34, 712215

Abstract:

In one embodiment the present invention includes a method and apparatus for enabling a main core and one or more co-processors to operate in a de-coupled mode, thereby facilitating the execution of two or more instruction threads in parallel. A co-processor, according to an embodiment of the invention, has a coupling manager including a loop buffer for storing instructions which can be independently fetched and executed by the co-processor when operating in de-coupled mode. In addition, the coupling manager includes a loop descriptor and a counter/condition descriptor. The loop descriptor and condition descriptor work in conjunction with one another to determine what, if any, action should be taken when a co-processor is in a particular processing state, for example, as indicated by a counter keeping track of loop processing.

US Patent:

20080174606, Jul 24, 2008

Filed:

Jan 22, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/017777

Inventors:

Srikanth Rengarajan - Austin TX, US
Mark N. Fullerton - Austin TX, US
Arthur R. Miller - Austin TX, US
Joseph K. Fox - Austin TX, US

International Classification:

G09G 5/39
G09G 5/36

US Classification:

345531, 345556

Abstract:

A method and system for rendering a frame to be displayed on a screen includes a memory-sink mechanism configured to store a copy of a screen image in memory, a snoop mechanism configured to monitor a system parameter, a controller configured to switch between first and second operation modes in response to the snoop mechanism detecting a change to the system parameter, and a rendering mechanism to retrieve the copy of the screen image when the system operates in the second mode of operation.