Patents by Inventor Kevin W. Ko

Kevin W. Ko 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).

  • Parallelism and crosstalk check on a printed circuit board (PCB)
    Patent number: 6584602
    Abstract: A method is provided, the method comprising associating each net of traces in a list of nets of the traces on a routed PCB with a parallelism index value and sorting the list of the nets of the traces on the routed PCB based on the parallelism index values. The method also comprises providing a list of victim nets of traces on the routed PCB based on the parallelism index values, each of the victim nets on the list of the victim nets associated with at least one offending net of traces on the routed PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin W. Ko
  • Parallelism and crosstalk check on a printed circuit board (PCB)
    Publication number: 20020140436
    Abstract: A method is provided, the method comprising associating each net of traces in a list of nets of the traces on a routed PCB with a parallelism index value and sorting the list of the nets of the traces on the routed PCB based on the parallelism index values. The method also comprises providing a list of victim nets of traces on the routed PCB based on the parallelism index values, each of the victim nets on the list of the victim nets associated with at least one offending net of traces on the routed PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Kevin W. Ko