Patents Represented by Attorney Michael J. Mallie
  • Patent number: 5617327
    Abstract: A system and method for entering a circuit design into a computer using a schematic capture package. The schematic capture package is modified to include a library of state flow components represented by symbols which can be connected to produce a desired representation of the circuit design. The system allows a circuit design to be displayed on a video terminal using both state flow diagram and the schematic diagram symbols, with terminals of the state flow symbols connecting to terminals of the schematic symbols. The state flow diagram using state flow symbols is combined with a schematic diagram including schematic symbols to generate a netlist representing the combined circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert G. Duncan
  • Patent number: 5447409
    Abstract: A robot assembly, including a central hub, has two arms arranged for independent rotation about the hub. Two carriers, oriented 180.degree. apart from each other, are coupled to an end of each of the arms. A drive is provided for rotating the arms in opposite directions to extend one or the other of said carriers radially from said central hub, and for rotating the arms in the same direction to effect rotation of the carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Grunes, Avi Tepman, Robert Lowrance