Patents by Inventor Glenn Harland Hopkins

Glenn Harland Hopkins 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).

  • Digital signal processing unit with emulation circuitry and debug interrupt enable register indicating serviceable time-critical interrupts during real-time emulation mode
    Patent number: 6567910
    Abstract: An improved microprocessor is provided having a program control unit for storing and then decoding instructions, a program address generation unit for generating addresses used to obtain instructions, an address register arithmetic unit for generating addresses for data, an arithmetic logic unit for performing operations on data, a shifter unit for shifting data in response to a predetermined instruction, a multiplier unit for performing multiplication of two input values; and a plurality of registers of which at least a portion are individually selectively associated with one or more of said units as a function of an instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexander Tessarolo, Peter N. Ehlig, Glenn Harland Hopkins, Venkatesh Natarajan
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODE-ENHANCED PERFORMANCE IN A DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT
    Publication number: 20020112144
    Abstract: An improved microprocessor is provided having a program control unit for storing and then decoding instructions, a program address generation unit for generating addresses used to obtain instructions, an address register arithmetic unit for generating addresses for data, an arithmetic logic unit for performing operations on data, a shifter unit for shifting data in response to a predetermined instruction, a multiplier unit for performing multiplication of two input values; and a plurality of registers of which at least a portion are individually selectively associated with one or more of said units as a function of an instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 1999
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: ALEXANDER TESSAROLO, PETER N. EHLIG, GLENN HARLAND HOPKINS, VENKATESH NATARAJAN