Patents by Inventor Neil Common

Neil Common 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).

  • Token-based trace system
    Patent number: 7558987
    Abstract: A system comprising a target hardware comprising multiple processor cores and an application. The system also comprises a host computer coupled to the target hardware by way of a connection and adapted to debug the application by receiving trace information via the connection. In determining which trace information to send via the connection, the target hardware gives priority to trace information generated by a primary processor core associated with a token over trace information generated by a secondary processor core not associated with the token. The token is associated with one of the multiple processor cores at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Lewis Nardini, Manisha Agarwala, Neil Common
  • Token-Based Trace System
    Publication number: 20080126871
    Abstract: A system comprising a target hardware comprising multiple processor cores and an application. The system also comprises a host computer coupled to the target hardware by way of a connection and adapted to debug the application by receiving trace information via the connection. In determining which trace information to send via the connection, the target hardware gives priority to trace information generated by a primary processor core associated with a token over trace information generated by a secondary processor core not associated with the token. The token is associated with one of the multiple processor cores at a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Lewis Nardini, Manisha Agarwala, Neil Common