Patents by Inventor Craig L. Overhage

Craig L. Overhage 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: 5526286
    Abstract: A logic analyzer acquires all data and clock signal inputs asynchronously at high speed using a digital FISO (10) to produce a plurality of parallel high-speed data samples within each cycle of an internal system clock (95). The plurality of parallel high-speed data samples describe the sequential behavior of one of the input signals during one period of the internal system clock. One of the plurality of parallel high-speed data samples is then selected to be the single data sample that is stored in the acquisition memory (80) for that clock cycle. The selection process includes a skew adjustment (20), clock edge detection and selection (50), aligning the sample associated with the detected and selected clock edge to a reference location (60), and selecting (70) as the single sample to be stored a sample having a relationship to the reference location that is determined by setup and hold adjustment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim E. Sauerwein, Craig L. Overhage, Donald C. Kirkpatrick