Patents by Inventor Neal Meininger

Neal Meininger 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).

  • Virtualization of chip enables
    Patent number: 9594675
    Abstract: Virtual chip enable techniques perform memory access operations on virtual chip enables rather than physical chip enables. Each virtual chip enable is a construct that includes attributes that correspond to a unique physical or logical memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard Tsai, Dmitry Vyshetsky, Neal Meininger, Paul J. Gyugyi
  • Memory controller adaptable to multiple memory devices
    Patent number: 9465728
    Abstract: A memory controller, in one embodiment, includes a command translation data structure, a front end and a back end. The command translation data structure maps command operations to primitives, wherein the primitives are decomposed from command operations determined for one or more memory devices. The front end receives command operations from a processing unit and translates each command operation to a set of one or more corresponding primitives using the command translation data structure. The back end outputs the set of one or more corresponding primitives for each received command operation to a given memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard Tsai, Dmitry Vyshetsky, Neal Meininger
  • Variable-length coding data transfer interface
    Patent number: 8427494
    Abstract: A VLC data transfer interface is presented that allows digital data to be packed and assembled according to a format selectable from a number of formats while the data is being transferred to a desired destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Ram Prabhakar, Neal Meininger, Lefan Zhong, Cahide Kiris, Ed Ahn
  • Variable-length coding data transfer interface
    Patent number: 8339406
    Abstract: A VLC data transfer interface is presented that allows digital data to be packed and assembled according to a format selectable from a number of formats while the data is being transferred to a desired destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Ram Prabhakar, Neal Meininger, Lefan Zhong, Cahide Kiris, Ed Ahn
  • PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20120110242
    Abstract: A memory controller, in one embodiment, includes a command translation data structure, a front end and a back end. The command translation data structure maps command operations to primitives, wherein the primitives are decomposed from command operations determined for one or more memory devices. The front end receives command operations from a processing unit and translates each command operation to a set of one or more corresponding primitives using the command translation data structure. The back end outputs the set of one or more corresponding primitives for each received command operation to a given memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard Tsai, Dmitry Vyshetsky, Neal Meininger
  • VIRTUALIZATION OF CHIP ENABLES
    Publication number: 20110161561
    Abstract: Virtual chip enable techniques perform memory access operations on virtual chip enables rather than physical chip enables. Each virtual chip enable is a construct that includes attributes that correspond to a unique physical or logical memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard Tsai, Dmitry Vyshetsky, Neal Meininger, Paul J. Gyugyi
  • VARIABLE-LENGTH CODING DATA TRANSFER INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20100106918
    Abstract: A VLC data transfer interface is presented that allows digital data to be packed and assembled according to a format selectable from a number of formats while the data is being transferred to a desired destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ram Prabhakar, Neal Meininger, Lefan Zhong, Cahide Kiris, Ed Ahn
  • Variable-length coding data transfer interface
    Publication number: 20050168470
    Abstract: A VLC data transfer interface is presented that allows digital data to be packed and assembled according to a format selectable from a number of formats while the data is being transferred to a desired destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Ram Prabhakar, Neal Meininger, Lefan Zhong, Cahide Kiris, Ed Ahn