Patents by Inventor Erica M. Lau

Erica M. Lau 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).

  • Automatic generation of streaming data interface circuit
    Patent number: 7603492
    Abstract: A streaming data interface device (700) of a streaming processing system (200) is automatically generated by selecting a set of circuit parameters (610) consistent with a set of circuit constraints and generating (612, 614) a representation of a candidate memory interface device based upon a set of stream descriptors. The candidate streaming data interface device is evaluated (616) with respect to one or more quality metrics and the representation of the candidate streaming processor circuit is output (622) if the candidate memory interface device satisfies a set of processing system constraints and is better in at least one of the one or more quality metrics than other candidate memory interface devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Sek M. Chai, Nikos Bellas, Malcolm R. Dwyer, Erica M. Lau, Zhiyuan Li, Daniel A. Linzmeier
  • Automatic generation of a streaming processor circuit
    Patent number: 7305649
    Abstract: A streaming processor circuit of a processing system is automatically generated by selecting a set of circuit parameters consistent with a set of circuit constraints and generating a representation of a candidate streaming processor circuit based upon the set of circuit parameters to execute one or more iterations of a computation specified by a streaming data flow graph. The candidate streaming processor circuit is evaluated with respect to one or more quality metrics and the representation of the candidate streaming processor circuit is output if the candidate streaming processor circuit satisfies a set of processing system constraints and is better in at least one of the one or more quality metrics than other candidate streaming processor circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikos Bellas, Sek M. Chai, Erica M. Lau, Zhiyuan Li, Daniel A. Linzmeier