Patents by Inventor John Barrett Andrews

John Barrett Andrews 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 for multiple processor system-on-a-chip hardware and software cogeneration
    Patent number: 8639487
    Abstract: An automated system-on-chip (SOC) hardware and software cogeneration design flow allows an SOC designer, using a single source description for any platform-independent combination of reused or new IP blocks, to produce a configured hardware description language (HDL) description of the circuitry necessary to implement the SOC, while at the same time producing the development tools (e.g., compilers, assemblers, debuggers, simulator, software support libraries, reset sequences, etc.) used to generate the SOC software and the diagnostics environment used to verify the SOC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gulbin Ayse Ezer, Pavlos Konas, John Barrett Andrews, Stephen Wei Chou, Eileen Margaret Peters Long, Marc Alan Evans