Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Allen Ebert

Jeffrey Allen Ebert 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).

  • Method and apparatus for decomposing and verifying configurable hardware
    Patent number: 7299155
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for decomposing and verifying configurable hardware. In one embodiment, the method includes automatically decomposing a set of one or more units at a first level of a configurable hardware system design hierarchy into a set of two or more units of a lower level of the hardware system design hierarchy. The set of one or more units at a first level includes one or more units dynamically instantiated at design creation time as well as at least a first unit composed of a previously instantiated hardware system composed with two or more levels of units within the hardware system design hierarchy of the previously instantiated hardware system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Sonics, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Ebert, Ravi Venugopalan, Scott Carlton Evans
  • Method and apparatus for error handling in networks
    Patent number: 7243264
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for error handling in networks have been described. The method configures a plurality of cores, wherein each core is connected with and associated with each of one of a plurality of initiators. The method further connects one or more of the initiators to a network. Next, one or more of the initiators determine an error in one or more of the cores and communicate the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Chien-Chun Chou, Jeffrey Allen Ebert, Stephen W. Hamilton, Michael J. Meyer
  • Various methods and apparatuses for interfacing of a protocol monitor to protocol checkers and functional checkers
    Patent number: 7194658
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are described in which a software programming interface connects one or more functional checker components and one or more protocol checker components to an interconnect monitor component. A computer readable medium stores code for the one or more functional checker components for Intellectual Property (IP) cores, one or more protocol checker components, the interconnect monitor component, and the software programming interface. The monitor component has code to build data structures containing protocol data types requested by a checker component and code on where to deliver data based upon a particular type of data requested by the checker component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrence Anthony Staton, Herve Jacques Alexanian, Jeffrey Allen Ebert
  • Method and apparatus for decomposing and verifying configurable hardware
    Patent number: 6816814
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for decomposing and verifying configurable hardware. In one embodiment, the method includes automatically decomposing a hardware system into a set of one or more units, creating a test-bench for each of the set of units, and verifying each of the set of units before verifying the hardware system design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Ebert, Ravi Venugopalan, Scott Carlton Evans
  • Method and apparatus for decomposing and verifying configurable hardware
    Publication number: 20040093186
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for decomposing and verifying configurable hardware. In one embodiment, the method includes automatically decomposing a hardware system into a set of one or more units, creating a testbench for each of the set of units, and verifying each of the set of units before verifying the hardware system design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Ebert, Ravi Venugopalan, Scott Carlton Evans
  • Method and apparatus for error handling in networks
    Publication number: 20040088607
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for error handling in networks have been described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Chien-Chun Chou, Jeffrey Allen Ebert, Stephen W. Hamilton, Michael J. Meyer