Patents by Inventor Cheryl S. Shepherd

Cheryl S. Shepherd 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: 6982976
    Abstract: The datapipe routing bridge is composed of three building blocks, transmitter, bridge and receiver. The bridge component provides high levels of connectivity between multiple digital signal processors without paying the penalties usually associated with inter-processor connections. The individual digital signal processors are connected with unidirectional point-to-point links from a bridge terminal on one digital signal processor to a bridge terminal on another digital signal processor. A real-time comparison of the packet header information with direction identification codes (IDs) stored inside the bridge routes individual data transfer packets arriving at the bridge into the local processor, repeated out to the next processor or simultaneously absorbed and repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Galicki, Cheryl S. Shepherd, Jonathan H. Thorn
  • Patent number: 6967950
    Abstract: In a network of digital signal processor nodes connected in a peer-to-peer relationship, a data packet sent to a node causes a return transmission from that node. The requester digital signal processor sends a data packet to a target digital signal processor. Upon arrival at the target digital signal processor, its receiver drives the arriving request packet into an I/O memory and triggers a transmitter interrupt. Next, the pull interrupt causes the transmitter to execute on a next packet boundary the pull request packet. Finally, the execution of the pull request causes the transmitter to pull a portion of the local I/O memory and send it back to the requester digital signal processor. The same physical portion of the I/O memory is overlaid with two logical uses, a receiver channel and a transmitter code block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Galicki, Cheryl S. Shepherd, Jonathan H. Thorn
  • Publication number: 20020027912
    Abstract: In a network of digital signal processor nodes connected in a peer-to-peer relationship, a data packet sent to a node causes a return transmission from that node. The requester digital signal processor sends a data packet to a target digital signal processor. Upon arrival at the target digital signal processor, its receiver drives the arriving request packet into an I/O memory and triggers a transmitter interrupt. Next, the pull interrupt causes the transmitter to execute on a next packet boundary the pull request packet. Finally, the execution of the pull request causes the transmitter to pull a portion of the local I/O memory and send it back to the requester digital signal processor. The same physical portion of the I/O memory is overlaid with two logical uses, a receiver channel and a transmitter code block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Peter Galicki, Cheryl S. Shepherd, Jonathan H. Thorn
  • Publication number: 20020018470
    Abstract: The datapipe routing bridge is composed of three building blocks, transmitter, bridge and receiver. The bridge component provides high levels of connectivity between multiple digital signal processors without paying the penalties usually associated with inter-processor connections. The individual digital signal processors are connected with unidirectional point-to-point links from a bridge terminal on one digital signal processor to a bridge terminal on another digital signal processor. A real-time comparison of the packet header information with direction identification codes (IDs) stored inside the bridge routes individual data transfer packets arriving at the bridge into the local processor, repeated out to the next processor or simultaneously absorbed and repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: Peter Galicki, Cheryl S. Shepherd, Jonathan H. Thorn