Patents by Inventor Kevin Dennis Woodling

Kevin Dennis Woodling 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).

  • Cross-chip communication mechanism in distributed node topology to access free-running scan registers in clock-controlled components
    Patent number: 7574581
    Abstract: A method of communicating between processing units on different integrated circuit chips in a multi-processor computer system by issuing a command from a source processing unit to a destination processing unit, receiving the command at the destination processing unit while the destination processing unit is processing program instructions, and accessing free-running, scan registers in clock-controlled components of the destination processing unit without interrupting processing of the program instructions by the destination processing unit. The access may be a read from status or mode registers of the destination processing unit, or write to control or mode registers. Many processing units can be interconnected in a ring topology, and the access command can be passed from the source processing unit through several other processing units before reaching the destination processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Floyd, Larry Scott Leitner, Kevin Franklin Reick, Kevin Dennis Woodling
  • Cross-chip communication mechanism in distributed node topology
    Publication number: 20040215929
    Abstract: A method of communicating between processing units on different integrated circuit chips in a multi-processor computer system by issuing a command from a source processing unit to a destination processing unit, receiving the command at the destination processing unit while the destination processing unit is processing program instructions, and accessing registers in clock-controlled components of the destination processing unit without interrupting processing of the program instructions by the destination processing unit. The access may be a read from status or mode registers of the destination processing unit, or write to control or mode registers. Many processing units can be interconnected in a ring topology, and the access command can be passed from the source processing unit through several other processing units before reaching the destination processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Floyd, Larry Scott Leitner, Kevin Franklin Reick, Kevin Dennis Woodling