Patents by Inventor Natarajan Venkatesh

Natarajan Venkatesh 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: 6167365
    Abstract: A method of initializing a CPU (14) to run emulation code from a debugger (11). Emulation logic (13) associated with the CPU (14) has a finite state machine (13b) with three modes: a reset mode in which no requests from said debugger or said CPU are serviced, a normal mode in which requests from said debugger are given priority, and a start-up mode in which only requests from said debugger are serviced. For initialization, the finite state machine (13b) is placed in reset mode and held in reset while the start-up mode is requested. When the reset mode is released the start-up mode is immediately serviced. This permits an initialization state to be cleanly applied to the CPU (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Madathil R. Karthikeyan, Natarajan Venkatesh