Patents by Inventor Gregory Allen Marlan

Gregory Allen Marlan 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: 5829012
    Abstract: A control store apparatus having flexibility for reprogramming of microcode. A ROM with predetermined microcode is embedded in a microprocessor. A RAM, into which predetermined microcode may be scanned, is also embedded in the microprocessor. An Address RAM stores addresses of the ROM and RAM which are entry points into the microcode. Selection bits are respectively associated with the addresses stored in the Address RAM for selecting between microcode in the ROM and microcode in the RAM. A remapping circuit provides further flexibility. The remapping circuit includes a storage array into which predetermined ROM addresses and respectively associated RAM address may be scanned. The remapping logic circuit is directly coupled to address generation circuitry in the microprocessor for receiving a first part of the ROM address, and is directly coupled to the storage array. The remapping logic circuit is thereby capable of remapping a ROM address to a RAM address efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Marlan, Ronald Gene Arnold, Gerald Gregory Fagerness