Patents by Inventor Kenneth D. Sills

Kenneth D. Sills 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).

  • Method and apparatus for providing high speed parallel transfer of bursts of data
    Patent number: 5029124
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for high speed parallel transfer of bursts of data between a device and an external interface bus. A burst mode asynchronous protocol is utilized, in which synchronous bursts of data using DATA VALID signals are followed by an asynchronous handshake using an ACKNOWLEDGE signal. The apparatus includes a burst register for storing and transmitting the data words in a burst, and control logic responsive to DATA VALID and ACKNOWLEDGE signals and providing control signals to operate the burst register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: James N. Leahy, Kenneth D. Sills