Patents by Inventor Anthony Goodacre

Anthony Goodacre 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).

  • Coherent multi-processing system
    Publication number: 20050010728
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising a plurality of processor cores operable to perform respective data processing operations, at least one of said processor cores being configurable to operate either in a coherent multi-processing mode having access to a coherent region within a memory shared with at least one other processor core or in a non-coherent mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Applicant: ARM LIMITED
    Inventors: Fredric Piry, Anthony Goodacre
  • Power control within a coherent multi-processing system
    Publication number: 20050005073
    Abstract: Within a multi-processing system including a plurality of processor cores 4, 6 operating in accordance with coherent multi-processing, each of the cores includes a cache memory 10, 12 storing local copies of data values from a coherent memory region. The respective processor cores may be placed into a power saving mode in which they are non-operative whilst the cache memory remains responsive to coherency management requests such that the system as a whole can continue to operate and manage coherency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Applicant: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Julie-Anne Pruvost, Frederic Piry, Norbert Lataille, Gilles Grandou, Anthony Goodacre