Patents by Inventor E. F. Berkley Shands

E. F. Berkley Shands 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).

  • Firmware socket module for FPGA-based pipeline processing
    Patent number: 7954114
    Abstract: A firmware socket module is deployed on a reconfigurable logic device, wherein the firmware socket module is configured to provide both commands and target data to an entry point in a data processing pipeline, wherein each command defines a data processing operation that is to be performed by the data processing pipeline, and wherein the target data corresponds to the data upon which the data processing pipeline performs its commanded data processing operation. Also, the firmware socket module may be configured to (1) access an external input descriptor pool buffer that defines an order in which commands and target data are to be provided to the data processing pipeline, and (2) transfer the commands and target data from an external memory to the data processing pipeline in accordance with the defined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignees: Exegy Incorporated, Washington University
    Inventors: Roger D. Chamberlain, E. F. Berkley Shands, Benjamin C. Brodie, Michael Henrichs, Jason R. White