Patents by Inventor Norman Liu
Norman Liu 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).
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Publication number: 20240111688Abstract: A technique for servicing a memory request is disclosed. The technique includes obtaining permissions associated with a source and a destination specified by the memory request, obtaining a first set of address translations for the memory request, and executing operations for a first request, using the first set of address translations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicants: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Omar Fakhri Ahmed, Norman Vernon Douglas Stewart, Mihir Shaileshbhai Doctor, Jason Todd Arbaugh, Milind Baburao Kamble, Philip Ng, Xiaojian Liu
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Publication number: 20240095381Abstract: A system comprises a IoT resource and a computing device of a user. The computing device comprises a processor that executes a personal privacy app that receives data about the IoT resource and communicates a preference setting for the user with respect to the IoT device. The preference setting is based on the data received about the IoT resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Norman SADEH, Bin LIU, Anupam DAS, Martin DEGELING, Florian SCHAUB
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Patent number: 10082819Abstract: A method includes providing a first voltage to a first output node during a first time interval, providing a second voltage to the first output node during a second time interval, and averaging the first and second voltages to provide a reference voltage to a second output node. The first voltage includes a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) component, a complementary-to-absolute-temperature (CTAT) component, and a first residual offset component. The second voltage includes the PTAT component, the CTAT component, and a second residual offset component. An apparatus includes a discrete-time circuit to provide the first voltage to the first output node during the first time interval and to provide the second voltage to the first output node during the second time interval, and a filter to average the first and second voltages to provide the reference voltage to the second output node.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Weiwei Xu, Prasanna Upadhyaya, Norman Liu, Xiaoyue Wang
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Publication number: 20170115684Abstract: A method includes providing a first voltage to a first output node during a first time interval, providing a second voltage to the first output node during a second time interval, and averaging the first and second voltages to provide a reference voltage to a second output node. The first voltage includes a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) component, a complementary-to-absolute-temperature (CTAT) component, and a first residual offset component. The second voltage includes the PTAT component, the CTAT component, and a second residual offset component. An apparatus includes a discrete-time circuit to provide the first voltage to the first output node during the first time interval and to provide the second voltage to the first output node during the second time interval, and a filter to average the first and second voltages to provide the reference voltage to the second output node.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Weiwei XU, Prasanna UPADHYAYA, Norman LIU, Xiaoyue WANG
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Patent number: 9369122Abstract: In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Arvind Anumula Paramanandam, Norman Liu, Prasanna Upadhyaya, Xiaoyue Wang
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Publication number: 20160072497Abstract: In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Arvind Anumula Paramanandam, Norman Liu, Prasanna Upadhyaya, Xiaoyue Wang
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Patent number: 8212569Abstract: An ambient electric field detector comprising: a collection mechanism disposed to generate a current signal in response to the ambient electric field; an input current mirror operatively coupled to the collection mechanism and disposed to amplify and duplicate the current signal to generate a duplicate signal; and an odd number (i) of at least three nonlinear, over-damped, bi-stable elements coupled uni-directionally in a ring such that the ring of elements oscillates, wherein at least one of the elements has a different initial state than the other elements and each element is disposed to receive the duplicate signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Visarath In, Norman Liu, Patrick Longhini, Yong (Andy) Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Adi R. Bulsara, Antonio Palacios
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Patent number: 8207763Abstract: A semiconductor non-linear channelizer device comprises an array of N first order, bi-stable semiconductor circuit cells. The circuit cells are uni-directionally coupled from a first circuit cell to another circuit cell, where N is an integer greater than 1. A signal input trace is coupled to each of the circuit cells and a signal output trace is coupled from each of the circuit cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Visarath In, Patrick Anton Longhini, Yong (Andy) An Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Norman Liu
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Patent number: 8174325Abstract: The present invention provides an array of tunable, injection-locking oscillators which are scalable to higher frequencies and measure the entire relevant frequency space simultaneously. The scalable, highly-parallelized, adaptive receiver architecture uses arrays of tunable, injection-locking nonlinear oscillator rings for broad spectrum RF analysis. Three separate and different microelectronic circuit configurations, each having a different type of readout, are described. The embodiments are designed to be incorporated as a subsystem in any type of powered system in which a fast image of the broader spectrum is valuable, when no information about the location of signals in the frequency space is predictable or forthcoming.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Daniel Leung, Joseph Neff, Norman Liu, Visarath In
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Patent number: 8165557Abstract: A system includes at least a first array connected to a second array. The first array includes an odd number, greater than one, of unidirectionally-coupled non-linear first array elements. The second array includes an odd number, greater than one, of unidirectionally-coupled non-linear second array elements. The second array elements are unidirectionally-coupled in a direction opposite the coupling direction of the second array elements. The first array is configured to receive an input signal and down-convert the input signal. The second array is configured to receive the down-converted input signal, further down-convert the down-converted input signal, and output a down-converted output signal. The down-converted output signal is down-converted to a multiple of the frequency of the input signal proportional to the number of arrays of the system. The system may operate at frequencies greater than 1 GHz and may be contained in a microchip or on a printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Visarath In, Patrick Longhini, Yong (Andy) An Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Suketu Naik, Norman Liu
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Patent number: 8049570Abstract: An electrical/magnetic current sensing system includes a first collection mechanism configured to convert an electric field into surface charge, a second collection mechanism comprising a magnetic reactive material, and a sensor coupled to the first and second collection mechanisms. The sensor comprises an odd number, greater than or equal to three, of unidirectionally-coupled non-linear over-damped bi-stable elements. Each element comprises a resistive load, an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with a bipolar junction transistor differential pair, a cross-coupled OTA, and a non-linear OTA. Each element may comprise fully differential inputs and outputs. The sensor may be contained in a microchip or on a printed circuit board. A resident time difference readout device may be connected to the sensor, and may be configured to perform a power spectral density calculation. The sensor may include a resistance to voltage circuit connected between the second collection mechanism and the elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Visarath In, Patrick Longhini, Yong (Andy) An Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Antonio Palacios, Norman Liu
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Patent number: 7902931Abstract: A device includes a plurality of channel-capture circuits. Each circuit may include an array of N non-linear oscillators, wherein N?3, circularly connected to each other in series such that unidirectional signal flow occurs between the oscillators. Each circuit may be configured to capture a respective channel signal from a wideband signal containing a plurality of channel signals and convert its captured channel signal to a lower frequency. Each oscillator may include an oscillator input configured to receive an output signal from another oscillator, an oscillator output configured to provide an output for an input of another oscillator, a frequency capture input configured to receive at least a portion of the wideband signal, at least two amplifiers, and a control capacitor coupled to the output of the amplifiers. An analog-to-digital converter may be coupled to the output of each channel-capture circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: The United States of America as represened by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Visarath In, Patrick Longhini, Yong (Andy) An Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Adi R. Bulsara, Frank E. Gordon, Norman Liu, Suketu Naik