Patents by Inventor Martyn Shirlen

Martyn Shirlen 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).

  • Power aware arbitration for bus access
    Patent number: 10216671
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a bus interface unit include queues for receiving and storing one or more words from one or more agents for transmission on to a data bus. From at least a subset of the one or more words, a next word which will cause the least switching power among the subset of the one or more words when transmitted on to the data bus is determined and the next word is selected for transmission on to the data bus, to reduce dynamic power consumption of the data bus. The next word may be selected as a word among the subset of the one or more words with a least Hamming distance from a current word scheduled for transmission on to the data bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Martyn Shirlen
  • POWER AWARE ARBITRATION FOR BUS ACCESS
    Publication number: 20180246829
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a bus interface unit include queues for receiving and storing one or more words from one or more agents for transmission on to a data bus. From at least a subset of the one or more words, a next word which will cause the least switching power among the subset of the one or more words when transmitted on to the data bus is determined and the next word is selected for transmission on to the data bus, to reduce dynamic power consumption of the data bus. The next word may be selected as a word among the subset of the one or more words with a least Hamming distance from a current word scheduled for transmission on to the data bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventor: Martyn Shirlen