Patents Represented by Attorney Suiter West PC LLO
  • Patent number: 6640333
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to platform architecture. A system for providing distributed dynamic functionality in an electronic environment may include a plurality of platforms. The platforms are suitable for providing a logic function, and include embedded programmable logic, memory and a reconfigurable core. The logic, memory and reconfigurable core are communicatively coupled via a fabric interconnect. A map is also included which expresses logic functions of the plurality of platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher L. Hamlin
  • Patent number: 6633832
    Abstract: An improved PCI-X verification method and apparatus provides iterative testing of all desired conditions or protocol combinations in a PCI-X system. One or more commands may be tested in combination with one or more functional behavior parameters throughout a desired range of variable parameter values. In one aspect, an apparatus and method for testing a PCI-X device for compliance under the PCI-X Addendum to the PCI Local Bus Specification in completer operation are provided. In another aspect, an apparatus and method for testing a PCI-X-device for compliance under the PCI-X addendum to the PCI Local Bus Specification in requester operation are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventor: Adam Browen
  • Patent number: 6630812
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a standard high volume battery charger that is capable of applying a seasoning cycle to batteries disposed within it as well as display battery measurements on a monitor through a user interface serial port. This battery charger comprises an enclosure including a power supply, a user interface connector and disposed with at least one sub-module comprising a mode control board and battery cavity. The mode control board has a user interface front panel, which is comprised of a battery section, battery status panel and a system status panel. The system status panel has disposed upon it two switches, that control the operation of the sub-module, which enable a user to select the application of a seasoning cycle to the batteries in the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventor: Laurel B. Davis
  • Patent number: 6623348
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for processing non-homogeneous bodies. In exemplary embodiments, the present invention may be employed for aseptically slaughtering and processing animals for food, food products, chemicals, or hides. The methods and apparatus of the present invention require little or no human interaction with the animal carcass during slaughter and processing thereby reducing the possibility of injury to workers and contamination of the carcass through human contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Inventor: Richard V. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 6622154
    Abstract: In hardware multipliers, the generation of partial products is a necessary step in the process known to the art for efficient production of a final product. A way to increase the speed of hardware multipliers is through the use of the Booth algorithm. The alternate Booth partial product generation for hardware multipliers of the present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for eliminating the encoding of the bits of the multiplier prior to entering the partial product generating cell of the present invention which may result in less hardware and increased speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Hayashi, Vijayanand Angarai
  • Patent number: 6614093
    Abstract: An integrated inductor is formed on an integrated circuit or other substrate. The inductor is formed of a stack of almost totally enclosed rings of conductive material in which each ring has a single gap. Vias connect adjacent rings on opposite sides of their gaps so as to form a coil shaped structure. The inductor has applications in filtering, in an oscillator, in an antenna, combined with an active detection circuit, combined with an electron source, in a microelectromechanial systems or MEMS, or the like. The inductor may be formed in a vertical orientation or in a horizontal orientation. Chemical mechanical polishing may be used for planarizing layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: George Ott, Richard Cole, Matthew Von Thun
  • Patent number: 6612349
    Abstract: A plate joiner including a fence support, a drive, and a fence system. The fence support includes a cutter and a contact surface, which defines a cutter slot. The cutter is arranged and configured to protrude from fence support through cutter slot to make a plunge cut into a surface of a workpiece when the contact surface is pressed against the surface and the cutter is plunged into the workpiece by pushing on a rearward handle portion of the tool. The drive is arranged and configured to rotatably drive the cutter through a motor. As shown in the drawings a preferred fence system includes an angle adjustment system arranged and configured to position the fence at a wide range of fence angles and, at any selected distance from a top face of the workpiece to the fence, the distance from the top face of the workpiece to the cutter remains constant as the front fence angle is adjusted. A preferred fence system includes a trunnion which pivotally couples the front fence to the fence system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Porter-Cable Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Smith, Earl R. Clowers
  • Patent number: 6600177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the fabrication of a boron carbide/boron semiconductor devices. The results suggest that with respect to the approximately 2 eV band gap pure boron material, 0.9 eV band gap boron carbide (B5C) acts as a p-type material. Both boron and boron carbide (B5C) thin films were fabricated from single source borane cage molecules using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). Epitaxial growth does not appear to be a requirement. We have doped boron carbide grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The source gas closo-1,2-dicarbadecaborane (orthocarborane) was used to grow the boron carbide while nickelocene (Ni(C5H5)2) was used to introduce nickel into the growing film. The doping of nickel transformed a B5C material p-type relative to lightly doped n-type silicon to an n-type material. Both p-n heterojunction diodes and n-p heterojunction diodes with n- and p-type Si [1,1,1] respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Board of Regents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Inventor: Peter A. Dowben
  • Patent number: 6587813
    Abstract: An improved PCI verification method and apparatus provides iterative testing of all desired conditions or protocol combinations in a PCI system. One or more commands may be tested in combination with one or more functional behavior parameters throughout a desired range of variable parameter values. In one aspect, an apparatus and method for testing a PCI device for compliance under the PCI specification in target operation is provided. In another aspect, an apparatus and method for testing a PCI device for compliance under the PCI specification in master operation is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Whitt, David So, Stuart Nuffer, Erik Paulsen, John Grabarek, Andrew Hadley, William Schmitz, Adam Browen
  • Patent number: 6584585
    Abstract: A standalone virtual device driver that is not a mouse driver replacement or a mouse minidriver examines mouse data packets received from the mouse hardware for data packets that are obviously or likely to be faulty. When such a data packet is detected, the virtual device driver also removes the suspected faulty data by returning a null mouse packet to the mouse driver in its place. The virtual device driver may also initiate resynchronization procedures or reset the mouse hardware if necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Gateway, Inc.
    Inventor: John L. Patterson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6580623
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a flexible converter suitable for providing a routing function. A flexible converter of the present invention may provide a desired output utilizing a variety of methods, systems and apparatus without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. A routing apparatus may include a converter, at least one comparator and a controller. The converter is capable of providing an output supply from an input supply coupled to the converter, the output supply capable of routing between a first output and a second output. At least one comparator is coupled to the output supply of the converter, the comparator capable of measuring at least one power characteristic of the first output and the second output to a first electrical device and to a second electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Williams, Steven P. Larky, David G. Wright
  • Patent number: D479248
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventors: Leslie Daily Gist, John W. Hardin