Patents by Inventor Franck Gilbert

Franck Gilbert 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: 7386691
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a source memory device partitioned into N elementary source memories for storing a sequence of input data sets, and a processor clocked by a clock signal and having N outputs for producing, per cycle of the clock signal, N output data sets respectively associated with the N input data sets stored in the N elementary source memories at respective source addresses. The electronic device may also include N single port target memories, N interleaving tables including, for each relative source address, the number of a target memory and the respective target address thereof, N cells connected in a ring structure. Further, each cell may also be connected between an output of the processor, an interleaving table, and a target memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics N.V., STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Friedbert Berens, Michael J. Thul, Franck Gilbert, Norbert Wehn
  • Publication number: 20050204262
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment using a distributed architecture, the electronic device comprises a source memory means partitioned in N elementary source memories for storing a sequence of input data, processing means clocked by a clock signal and having N outputs for producing per cycle of the clock signal N data respectively associated to N input data respectively stored in the N elementary source memories at relative source addresses, N single port target memories, N interleaving tables containing for each relative source address the number of one target memory and the corresponding relative target address therein, N cells connected in a ring structure, each cell being further connected between one output of the processing means, one interleaving table, and the port of one target memory, each cell being adapted to receive data from said output of the processing means and from its two neighbouring cells or to write at least some of these received data sequentially in the associated target memory, in accordance
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics N.V., STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Friedbert Berens, Michael Thul, Franck Gilbert, Norbert Wehn
  • Patent number: 6901492
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a source memory device partitioned into N elementary source memories for storing a sequence of input data sets, and a processor clocked by a clock signal and having N outputs for producing, per cycle of the clock signal, N output data sets respectively associated with the N input data sets stored in the N elementary source memories at respective source addresses. The electronic device may also include N single port target memories, N interleaving tables including, for each relative source address, the number of a target memory and the respective target address thereof, N cells connected in a ring structure. Further, each cell may also be connected between an output of the processor, an interleaving table, and a target memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics N.V., STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Friedbert Berens, Michael J. Thul, Franck Gilbert, Norbert Wehn
  • Publication number: 20040052144
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment using a distributed architecture, the electronic device comprises a source memory means partitioned in N elementary source memories for storing a sequence of input data, processing means clocked by a clock signal and having N outputs for producing per cycle of the clock signal N data respectively associated to N input data respectively stored in the N elementary source memories at relative source addresses, N single port target memories, N interleaving tables containing for each relative source address the number of one target memory and the corresponding relative target address therein, N cells connected in a ring structure, each cell being further connected between one output of the processing means, one interleaving table, and the port of one target memory, each cell being adapted to receive data from said output of the processing means and from its two neighbouring cells or to write at least some of these received data sequentially in the associated target memory, in accordance
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics N.V., STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Freidbert Berens, Michael J. Thul, Franck Gilbert, Norbert Wehn