Patents by Inventor Nathan L. Goldshlag

Nathan L. Goldshlag 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: 6766411
    Abstract: A circuit for generating one or more serial bit streams includes a memory coupled to a reformatter, which is in turn coupled to a serializer for converting parallel data to serial data. The memory includes a plurality of words having a known bit width (e.g., 32 bits) for storing one or more serial bit streams. The length of each serial bit stream is generally not an integer multiple of the memory's bit width, causing the last word storing each serial bit stream to contain a gap. The reformatter eliminates each such gap by combining bits from the last word of a bit stream with bits from the first word to provide a completely filled word to the serializer. As operation proceeds, the reformatter continues to combine bits from successive words to ensure that completely filled words are produced. Gaps that formerly appeared when producing serial bit streams are thereby eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan L. Goldshlag
  • Publication number: 20030233517
    Abstract: A circuit for generating one or more serial bit streams includes a memory coupled to a reformatter, which is in turn coupled to a serializer for converting parallel data to serial data. The memory includes a plurality of words having a known bit width (e.g., 32 bits) for storing one or more serial bit streams. The length of each serial bit stream is generally not an integer multiple of the memory's bit width, causing the last word storing each serial bit stream to contain a gap. The reformatter eliminates each such gap by combining bits from the last word of a bit stream with bits from the first word to provide a completely filled word to the serializer. As operation proceeds, the reformatter continues to combine bits from successive words to ensure that completely filled words are produced. Gaps that formerly appeared when producing serial bit streams are thereby eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventor: Nathan L. Goldshlag
  • Patent number: 5136695
    Abstract: Apparatus and a method are disclosed for reducing the transmission power required when a host computer displays video information on a remote video display. A video memory is located in close proximity to the display so that the display can be periodically refreshed in the normal manner from the local memory. Consequently, the host computer need only transmit information regarding the portions of the local memory that have changed since the last data transmission. Since the information for the entire local memory is not transmitted each time the memory must be updated and in particular, each time the display must be refreshed, the required data transmission rate between the host and the display is greatly reduced from the rate normally required with prior art apparatus and, consequently, the power consumption is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: Reflection Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan L. Goldshlag, Benjamin A. Wells