Patents by Inventor Rodney James Pesavento

Rodney James Pesavento 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: 5732226
    Abstract: A link system controller is interposed between a PCI bus and the data bus and memory data bus of a personal computer system to normally allow transfer of write information from the PCI bus to DRAM memories on the memory data bus. Whenever a request is made for the transfer of data to the CPU data bus, a CPU bus interface controller requests release of the system from the DRAM controller. The DRAM controller then grants permission or releases control to the CPU bus interface whenever the DRAM controller is not writing data out to the DRAM data bus. When this release is effected, the transfer of write data to the memory data bus is prevented and transfer of data to the CPU data bus is enabled. This prevents simultaneous switching of the devices on both the CPU data bus and the memory data bus, to reduce the generation of noise; so that the operation of the IC system device is not impaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: VLSI Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Wszolek, Rodney James Pesavento, Brian Neil Fall, James Crawford Steele