Patents by Inventor Brendon Slade

Brendon Slade 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).

  • Patent number: 6574590
    Abstract: A procedure and processor are disclosed for avoiding lengthy delays in debug procedures during access by a memory mapped peripheral device. The processor includes in-circuit emulation means comprising one or more scan chains or serially connected registers for access by an external host computer system. The procedure comprises: a) the host computer system carrying out a debug procedure via said scan chains, and selectively interrupting such debug procedure for access to a peripheral memory mapped device; b) the host computer system writing into an area or memory of the processor a program for reading and/or writing data at a specified memory location; and c) the host computer system causing said processor to run said program, and then to return to said debug procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Martin Kershaw, Graham Kirsch, Brendon Slade