Patents by Inventor Robert E. Nertney

Robert E. Nertney 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: 10169616
    Abstract: A disclosed circuit arrangement includes an interconnect circuit, a processor, a first memory circuit, a proxy memory circuit, and a decryption circuit. The interconnect circuit receives a first transaction from one of the one or more processors and transmits the first transaction to the proxy memory circuit in response to a first address in a first transaction. The proxy memory circuit translates the first address into a second address of the first memory circuit, generates a second transaction including the second address, transmits the second transaction to the interconnect circuit, and receives encrypted data from the first memory circuit in a response to the second transaction. The decryption circuit decrypts the encrypted data into decrypted data, and the proxy memory circuit transmits the decrypted data to the one processor in a response to the first transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventor: Robert E. Nertney
  • Patent number: 9356602
    Abstract: An approach for management of memory in a programmable integrated circuit (IC) includes configuring a memory map of the programmable IC with an association of a first subset of addresses of memory address space of the programmable IC and physical memory of the programmable IC. The memory map is further configured with an association of a second subset of addresses of the memory address space and a virtual memory block. At least a portion of a cache memory of the programmable IC is locked to the second subset of addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Luis E. Bielich, Robert E. Nertney