Patents by Inventor M. Kumar Rajith

M. Kumar Rajith 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).

  • Data pipeline interrupt scheme for preventing data disturbances
    Patent number: 6038177
    Abstract: A read mask circuit (300) is disclosed. A mask command is shifted through a series of mask latches (308 and 310) to generate the output-enable input (OE.sub.--) of an output driver (306). In synchronism with the mask command, data bits are shifted through a series of data latches (312 and 314) to the data input (DIN) of the output driver (306). To prevent a race condition between the mask command and the data bit that is to be masked (B3), the mask command, when latched in the second-to-last mask latch (308), is used to interrupt the last data latch (314). This prevents the to-be-masked data bit (B3) from being latched in the last data latch (314) and generating an undesirable output data transition by the output driver (306).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: M. Kumar Rajith, Kallol Mazumder, Scott E. Smith, Duy-Loan T. Le