Patents by Inventor Francis Larochelle

Francis Larochelle 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: 5424983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an output buffer for driving an output driver of a random access memory (RAM) circuit to either of opposite binary data values from a data source and a clock wherein the relative timing of data and clock signals is variable or uncertain, comprised of a source of data signals having pulses one of which has a rising edge either being earlier than a leading edge of a data pulse, being later than the leading edge of the data pul se, or being in a race condition with the data pulse, a source of data signals, a latency counter for receiving the clock signals and for outputting a latent control, apparatus for summing the latent clock signal and the data pulse, and apparatus for providing a signal to an output driver from the summing apparatus which is in sync with the latent clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated
    Inventors: Tomasz Wojcicki, Francis Larochelle
  • Patent number: 5416743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of writing or reading a semiconductor random access memory (DRAM or SRAM) having plural sense amplifiers connected to lines and having data bus read and write amplifiers, comprised of providing a pair of data buses for access by each sense amplifier and each read and write amplifier, reading or writing one data bus while precharging the other data bus during a first read or write cycle, and reading or writing the other data bus while precharging the first data bus in a second read or write cycle following the first read or write cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated
    Inventors: Graham Allan, Francis LaRochelle
  • Patent number: 5402388
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of writing or reading a semiconductor random access memory (DRAM or SRAM) having plural sense amplifiers connected to bit lines and having data bus read and write amplifiers, formed of providing a pair of data buses for access by each sense amplifier and each read and write amplifier, reading or writing one data bus while precharging the other data bus during a first read or write cycle, and reading or writing the other data bus while precharging the first data bus in a second read or write cycle following the first read or write cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated
    Inventors: Tomasz Wojcicki, Graham Allan, Francis Larochelle