Patents by Inventor Mark E. Wilkening

Mark E. Wilkening 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).

  • Determining the vulnerability of multi-threaded program code to soft errors
    Patent number: 9292418
    Abstract: The described embodiments include a program code testing system that determines the vulnerability of multi-threaded program code to soft errors. For multi-threaded program code, two to more threads from the program code may access shared architectural structures while the program code is being executed. The program code testing system determines accesses of architectural structures made by the two or more threads of the multi-threaded program code and uses the determined accesses to determine a time for which the program code is exposed to soft errors. From this time, the program code testing system determines a vulnerability of the program code to soft errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Vilas Sridharan, Mark E. Wilkening, Sudhanva Gurumurthi
  • Determining the Vulnerability of Multi-Threaded Program Code to Soft Errors
    Publication number: 20140331207
    Abstract: The described embodiments include a program code testing system that determines the vulnerability of multi-threaded program code to soft errors. For multi-threaded program code, two to more threads from the program code may access shared architectural structures while the program code is being executed. The program code testing system determines accesses of architectural structures made by the two or more threads of the multi-threaded program code and uses the determined accesses to determine a time for which the program code is exposed to soft errors. From this time, the program code testing system determines a vulnerability of the program code to soft errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Vilas Sridharan, Mark E. Wilkening, Sudhanva Gurumurthi