Patents by Inventor Michel Pignol

Michel Pignol 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: 8238508
    Abstract: A device for extracting a clock signal from a baseband serial signal, includes an injection-locked oscillator (19), a phase-locked loop (25) including a digital phase detector (26). The oscillator (19) includes a digital input for controlling the value of its natural frequency, and the phase-locked loop (25) includes a counting circuit (30, 35) aggregating the relative values of the digital signal supplied by the digital phase detector (26) and supplying a control signal in digital form for the oscillator (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (C.N.E.S.)
    Inventors: Michel Pignol, Claude Neveu, Yann Deval, Jean-Baptiste Begueret, Olivier Mazouffre
  • Publication number: 20100134158
    Abstract: A device for extracting a clock signal from a baseband serial signal, includes an injection-locked oscillator (19), a phase-locked loop (25) including a digital phase detector (26). The oscillator (19) includes a digital input for controlling the value of its natural frequency, and the phase-locked loop (25) includes a counting circuit (30, 35) aggregating the relative values of the digital signal supplied by the digital phase detector (26) and supplying a control signal in digital form for the oscillator (19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES (C.N.E.S.)
    Inventors: Michel Pignol, Claude Neveu, Yann Deval, Jean-Baptiste Begueret, Olivier Mazouffre
  • Patent number: 7024594
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a software system that tolerates transient errors made up by a processing unit, including: at least two processing units (50, 51) with each one including: a microprocessor (54, 57), a memory (53, 56) protected by a device generating and controlling a code for the detection and correction of errors, a device (55, 58) for monitoring memory accesses, A centralized control device (52) for the processing units and for inputs/outputs, including: macro-synchronization means, data comparison/vote means, correction demand means, decision-making means, means allowing the inputs/outputs to be made. Some links (60, 61) respectively linking each processing unit to the device (52) for controlling the processing units and the inputs/outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
    Inventor: Michel Pignol
  • Patent number: 6839868
    Abstract: This invention relates to a processing procedure for an electronic system subject to transient error constraints, in which two virtual sequences installed on a single physical sequence are multiplexed in time in one given real time cycle (the data resulting from each execution of a virtual sequence being stored so that they can be voted before use), and in which if an error is detected, the real time cycle in progress is inhibited and a healthy context is reloaded to make a restart that consists of a nominal execution of the next cycle starting from the reloaded context. This invention also relates to a memory access monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
    Inventor: Michel Pignol
  • Publication number: 20030135790
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a software system that tolerates transient errors made up by a processing unit, including:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventor: Michel Pignol