Patents by Inventor Gottfried A. Goldrian
Gottfried A. Goldrian 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).
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Patent number: 9245820Abstract: A liquid cooling device comprises a heat spreader disposed along a plurality of memory modules on a dual in-line memory module (DIMM), a cold rail block extending along the heat spreader and a compressible thermal adapter interleaved between the cold rail block and the memory modules. The thermal adapter is compressible in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the DIMM board, thus allowing the components of the cooling device to be moved and adjusted relative to each other in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the DIMM. In a preferred embodiment, matching smooth surfaces of adjacent components within the cooling device are collated with a lubricant, thus permitting a low-friction gliding of these components relative to each other and allowing the DIMM to be easily removed from the cooling device and to be replaced without effort and without tooling.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried Goldrian, Erika Goldrian, Manfred Ries
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Patent number: 8644327Abstract: A switching device is able to route the arriving data packets according to data packet destination information to dedicated output ports. The switching arrangement has, for each set of input ports in the switching device, a set of output buffers with an output buffer for storing the payload of each data packet at an address in the output buffer which pertains to the same set of output buffers and belongs to the dedicated output ports. At least one of the output buffers has a set of output queues with an output queue for each output port for storing the address of each payload stored in the corresponding output buffer. An arbiter controls a readout order of the stored addresses. For the output buffers which pertain to the same set of output ports a multiplexer multiplexes according to the readout order the payloads from the output buffers to the output ports.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2010Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alan Benner, Antonius Engberson, Gottfried Goldrian, Ronald Luijten
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Patent number: 8111516Abstract: A system for cooling processor assembly is disclosed which comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) with a plurality of heat emitting electronic components and a housing for each PCB with a heat collector. The heat collector is constructed in one-piece material covering the plurality of heat emitting electronic components through heat collecting areas with different heights adapted to the different heights of the electronic components as regard to the PCB surface wherein the heat collecting areas being in thermal contact with the electronic components.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried A. Goldrian, Manfred Ries
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Publication number: 20110149729Abstract: A switching device is able to route the arriving data packets according to data packet destination information to dedicated output ports. The switching arrangement has, for each set of input ports in the switching device, a set of output buffers with an output buffer for storing the payload of each data packet at an address in the output buffer which pertains to the same set of output buffers and belongs to the dedicated output ports. At least one of the output buffers has a set of output queues with an output queue for each output port for storing the address of each payload stored in the corresponding output buffer. An arbiter controls a readout order of the stored addresses. For the output buffers which pertain to the same set of output ports a multiplexer multiplexes according to the readout order the payloads from the output buffers to the output ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alan Benner, Antonius Engberson, Gottfried Goldrian, Ronald Luijten
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Patent number: 7961465Abstract: A system for cooling processor assembly is disclosed which comprises printed circuit boards (PCB) with a plurality of heat emitting electronic components, and a housing for each PCB with a heat sink covering at least partly the heat emitting electronic components. The housing comprises a base portion to which are transferred heat emitted by the electronic components. Furthermore, the system for cooling processor comprises a cooling plate on which are fixed in series the different PCBs by directly positioning the base portion of the housings onto the cooling plate. The housings for each PCB system include at their base portions clamps to be inserted into corresponding guiding holes of the cooling plate when a PCB together with its housing is positioned onto the cooling plate at a specific therefor dedicated place defined by the guiding holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried A. Goldrian, Manfred Ries
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Publication number: 20110013359Abstract: A system for cooling processor assembly is disclosed which comprises printed circuit boards (PCB) with a plurality of heat emitting electronic components, and a housing for each PCB with a heat sink covering at least partly the heat emitting electronic components. The housing comprises a base portion to which are transferred heat emitted by the electronic components. Furthermore, the system for cooling processor comprises a cooling plate on which are fixed in series the different PCBs by directly positioning the base portion of the housings onto the cooling plate. The housings for each PCB system include at their base portions clamps to be inserted into corresponding guiding holes of the cooling plate when a PCB together with its housing is positioned onto the cooling plate at a specific therefor dedicated place defined by the guiding holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gottfried A. Goldrian, Manfred Ries
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Publication number: 20110013363Abstract: A system for cooling processor assembly is disclosed which comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) with a plurality of heat emitting electronic components and a housing for each PCB with a heat collector. The heat collector is constructed in one-piece material covering the plurality of heat emitting electronic components through heat collecting areas with different heights adapted to the different heights of the electronic components as regard to the PCB surface wherein the heat collecting areas being in thermal contact with the electronic components.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gottfried A. Goldrian, Manfred Ries
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Patent number: 7848341Abstract: Discloses a switching arrangement for packets of data, with several input ports and several output ports and which is determined for the transportation of incoming packets to one or more designated of the output ports and from there to a subsequent device. More particularly it relates to a switching arrangement and method wherein for each input port a set of output buffers is arranged, each set comprising an output buffer for each output port.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alan Benner, Antonius Engbersen, Gottfried Goldrian, Ronald Luijten
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Patent number: 7650554Abstract: A method for performing a test of a high-speed integrated circuit with at least one functional unit and built-in self-test features by a low-speed test system. The method comprises the steps of transforming an external clock signal from the test system into a faster internal clock signal within the integrated circuit, generating a test pattern according to a predetermined scheme, and applying the test pattern to the functional unit, comparing a response from the functional unit with an expected test pattern. If the response differs from the expected test pattern, then an internal failure signal is generated and the internal failure signal is extended to a length, which may be recognized by the test system. Further the present invention relates to a high-speed integrated circuit with at least one functional unit and built-in self-test features.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried Goldrian, Otto Andreas Torreiter, Dieter Wendel
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Publication number: 20080089352Abstract: The present invention relates to a buffered crossbar switch which provides a step of changing the size and/or number of queuing buffer entries to ensure optimum buffer memory usage independent of the size of data packets processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gottfried Goldrian, Bernd Leppia, Norbert Schumacher
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Publication number: 20070124637Abstract: A method for performing a test of a high-speed integrated circuit with at least one functional unit and built-in self-test features by a low-speed test system. The method comprises the steps of transforming an external clock signal from the test system into a faster internal clock signal within the integrated circuit, generating a test pattern according to a predetermined scheme, and applying the test pattern to the functional unit, comparing a response from the functional unit with an expected test pattern. If the response differs from the expected test pattern, then an internal failure signal is generated and the internal failure signal is extended to a length, which may be recognized by the test system. Further the present invention relates to a high-speed integrated circuit with at least one functional unit and built-in self-test features.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventors: Gottfried Goldrian, Otto Torreiter, Dieter Wendel
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Patent number: 7197540Abstract: The present invention relates to switching technology in computer networks and in particular to a method and system for switching information packets through a m input, n output device. According to the invention it is proposed to temporarily buffer said packets according to a new, self-explanatory, preferred a linear addressing scheme in which a respective buffer location of consecutive stream packets results from a respective self-explanatory, or linear, respectively, incrementation of a buffer pointer. Preferably, a matrix of FIFO storage elements (10,11,12,13) having an input and an output crossbar can be used for implementing input/output paralleling modes (ILP,OLP) and multiple lanes and achieving address input/output scaling up to a single cycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried A. Goldrian, Bernd Leppla, Norbert Schumacher, Francois Abel, Ronald P. Luijten
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Publication number: 20050099945Abstract: A method and system for switching data packets through a multiple (m) input, multiple (n) output switching device providing a switching method having a fast one-cycle throughput. A respective switching device behaves like an output queued switch from a set of distributed output queues reading the incoming input control information from the plurality of input ports (IP) and compresses the information in a form which allows an easy association with a respective output port (OP) to which an individual input port is temporarily mapped.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2003Publication date: May 12, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Francois Abel, Gottfried Goldrian, Ingemar Holm, Helmut Kohler, Norbert Schumacher
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Publication number: 20020152263Abstract: The present invention relates to switching technology in computer networks and in particular to a method and system for switching information packets through a m input, n output device. According to the invention it is proposed to temporarily buffer said packets according to a new, self-explanatory, preferred a linear addressing scheme in which a respective buffer location of consecutive stream packets results from a respective self-explanatory, or linear, respectively, incrementation of a buffer pointer. Preferably, a matrix of FIFO storage elements (10,11,12,13) having an input and an output crossbar can be used for implementing input/output paralleling modes (ILP,OLP) and multiple lanes and achieving address input/output scaling up to a single cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried A. Goldrian, Bernd Leppla, Norbert Schumacher, Francois Abel, Ronald P. Luijten
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Patent number: 6026448Abstract: A method and means for exchanging messages between a multitude of computer systems is provided, whereby the sender system's memory is used as a buffer for the message to be transferred. The method comprises a first step of writing data into a portion of the sender system's memory, a second step of setting an indication signal in the receiver system, and a third step of performing a remote read access to the data in the sender system's memory. Thus, the message buffers of prior art solutions have been replaced by portions of the sender system's memory. The remote read access is performed by a direct memory adapter (DMA) in the receiver system, whereby said indication signal is mapped to the start address of said portion of the sender system's memory. Because any write access to a remote system's memory is forbidden, data integrity is preserved.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried Goldrian, Jurgen Margner
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Patent number: 5793227Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling and rectifying possible metastability situations having a first circuit with a first clock signal (CLOCK1) at a first clock rate and a second circuit with a second clock signal (CLOCK2) at a second clock rate, the second circuit having an input circuit coupled to the first circuit and receiving signals therefrom. A control circuit for controlling possible metastability situations arising in communication between the first circuit and the second circuit is also provided. The control circuit receives as input the first clock signal and the second clock signal and provides a shifting of at least one of the two clock signals, in such a way that a possible metastable state of the input circuit is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1996Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Gottfried Goldrian
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Patent number: 5574945Abstract: A computer system with a coupling facility is provided with a plurality of processors and a plurality of intersystem channels coupled to the processors via a memory bus. The coupling facility includes a memory bus interface for the memory bus and a plurality of channels for coupling said channels to said processors. The memory bus interface includes an adapter with at least two hardware vectors provided for command detection, command isolation, and parallel testing of the error states of the intersystem channels, one which detects a command vector arrival, and a second which contains error state vector indicators. A LOCATE CHANNEL BUFFER (LCB) instruction is employed which performs a sense and reset operation on the command vector to identify and isolate a new command, and subsequently reads a vector of said error states vector indicator to determine the presence or absence of link errors.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David A. Elko, Gottfried A. Goldrian, Steven N. Goss, Thomas A. Gregg, Audrey A. Helffrich, Ambrose A. Verdibello, Jr.
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Patent number: 5467452Abstract: The invention concerns the transfer of data information in a multiprocessor computer system. If data information has to be transferred between two processor units then the associated control information is made available on a connection bus and the data information is transferred afterwards via a switch unit from the first to the second processor unit. If however data information is to be transferred from a sending processor unit to all other processor units (broadcast transfer) then not only is control information transferred via the connection bus but subsequent data information too; a transfer of data information via the switch unit does not occur in this case. In this manner it is possible to reduce the outlay for the switch unit in terms of circuitry and programming.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1993Date of Patent: November 14, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arnold Blum, Gottfried Goldrian, Wolfgang Kumpf
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Patent number: 4744683Abstract: A type band for a printer comprises a track of marks to be scanned (timing marks) at least one of which is obliquely positioned relative to its adjoining marks. The centers of all marks are equidistantly spaced. When the horizontally moving type band is vertically displaced, the time spacing of the scanning signal of the obliquely positioned timing mark is changed over the scanning signal of its adjacent timing mark. The magnitude of the vertical displacement of the type band is derived from the change in this time spacing. The displacement data thus obtained permit compensating for the vertical displacement of the type band (using, for instance, a stepper motor).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1987Date of Patent: May 17, 1988Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ludwig Fischer, Gottfried Goldrian, Volker Zimmermann
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Patent number: 4575740Abstract: To obtain a good print quality in metal paper printers, the print current, after ignition of the arc, must be rapidly reduced to a fraction of the value necessary for ignition. For this purpose, two transistor power stages (T3, T4) are connected to the print electrode (2). Their partial currents form the print current, whose rapid reduction after ignition of the arc is obtained by the two transistor power stages being operated at voltages (U2, U3) of different magnitude. The second transistor stage (T4) is operated at a voltage (U3), whose magnitude corresponds to the drop in potential occurring upon ignition between the grounded metal layer (3) of the record carrier (4) and the print electrode. As a result, the second transistor stage is switched off when a diode (D) connected to it becomes non-conductive.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1983Date of Patent: March 11, 1986Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gottfried Goldrian, Volker Rudolph