Patents by Inventor Volker Grieve

Volker Grieve 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).

  • Scheduling of instructions
    Patent number: 8689202
    Abstract: A method of automatically extracting information from an architecture description. A memory resident directed acyclic graph data structure comprising nodes representing instructions and edges whose weights represent dependencies between pairs of instructions is constructed. A list of ready nodes are maintained in the directed acyclic graph. A list of nodes not scheduled is maintained. And, it is determined whether the next instruction to be scheduled is to be taken from the list of ready nodes or from the list of nodes not yet scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Gunnar Braun, Andreas Hoffmann, Volker Grieve, Manuel Hohenauer, Rainer Leupers