Patents by Inventor Marc Riou

Marc Riou 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).

  • Patent number: 5649146
    Abstract: A circuit is provided for incrementing a current address of a circular buffer in an electronic memory by an increment to produce a next address including: an adder circuit for adding the current address to the increment and producing a first provisional next address; a circuit which causes the next address to be a base address plus an overshoot when the first provisional next address passes a limit address by a number equal to the overshoot, wherein for the calculation of the next address, there is provided an adder circuit including three adders receiving the current address, the increment and the limit address and producing a first and a second provisional next address and the difference between the first provisional next address and the limit address; and a selection circuit for selecting as the next address one of the two provisional next addresses, the selection being made upon the polarity of the difference between the first provisional next address and the limit address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: SGS - Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Marc Riou