Patents by Inventor Austen John Hypher

Austen John Hypher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7269681
    Abstract: An integrated device (e.g., an integrated PCI bridge device) buffers received PCI bus strobe signals and distributes strobe signals for PCI receive data relative to the PCI data lines, enabling all PCI receive data to be latched using locally-generated PCI strobe signals generated based on the same PCI bus strobe signals. In addition, data line latch modules having primary and secondary flip-flops enable the PCI receive data to be held for an entire clock cycle, optimizing conversion between a PCI clock domain and a local clock domain of the PCI bridge device. A transmission circuit also can be configured to transmit data according to either double data rate (DDR) mode or quad data rate (QDR) mode in an efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Austen John Hypher, Richard W. Reeves, Gerald Robert Talbot
  • Patent number: 7257654
    Abstract: An integrated device (e.g., an integrated PCI bridge device), having configuration registers for storing configuration values, device logic for generating internal state values based on the configuration values, and a JTAG interface configured for receiving a serial input stream and outputting a serial output stream, further includes write logic and debug read logic. The write logic is configured for writing selected portions of the serial input stream into respective selected ones of the configuration registers, based on a detected input indicating a JTAG-based override. The debug read logic is configured, in response to a detected debug mode, for outputting selected internal state values for the serial output stream, based on selection values from the serial input stream and having been stored in a prescribed at least one of the selected configuration registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Reeves, Austen John Hypher
  • Patent number: 7135884
    Abstract: An integrated device includes a voltage mode transmit driver for matching an output impedance to an output transmission line based on a binary code, an input termination module configured for matching an input impedance to an input transmission line based on an input impedance calibration value using thermometer-based decoding. The voltage mode transmit driver includes, for each differential output signal, a resistor network circuit having pull-up circuits and pull-down circuits for changing the voltage on the differential output signal, and having binary weighted resistance values relative to each other. The input termination module includes pull-up circuits and pull-down circuits having inverse hyperbolic resistance values relative to each other, and using thermometer-based decoding to ensure a linear change in input impedance during transitions in the input impedance calibration value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Robert Talbot, Matthew Scheffer, Austen John Hypher
  • Patent number: 7103703
    Abstract: Duplicate PCI bridge devices are configured for synchronous initializations based on shared initialization signals. A first of the PCI bridge devices is configured to rely on bus arbitration performed by the second PCI bridge device. The first PCI bridge device also is configured for modifying an address of a data transaction received via a PCI bus, and forwarding the data transaction with the modified address to the second PCI bridge device via a link distinct from the PCI bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Reeves, Austen John Hypher, David John Workman