Patents by Inventor Stefan Charles Creaser

Stefan Charles Creaser 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: 10210303
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to an apparatus having a receiver module that receives a floorplan of an integrated circuit having power gates, an obstruction, and a control pin for providing a sleep signal. The apparatus can include an identifier module that identifies where the obstruction interrupts a sequence of the power gates, organizes the sequence of the power gates into a column, and divides the column into segments in which a first segment lies below the obstruction, a second segment lies above the obstruction, and a third segment is offset from the first segment and the second segment. The apparatus can include a stitcher module that performs a sleep signal stitching for the integrated circuit by distributing the sleep signal from the control pin to the power gates that include each power gate in each of the first segment, the second segment, and the third segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Ravindra Narayana Rao, Marlin Wayne Frederick, Jr., Karen Lee Delk, Stefan Charles Creaser
  • Publication number: 20180218108
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to an apparatus having a receiver module that receives a floorplan of an integrated circuit having power gates, an obstruction, and a control pin for providing a sleep signal. The apparatus may include an identifier module that identifies where the obstruction interrupts a sequence of the power gates, organizes the sequence of the power gates into a column, and divides the column into segments in which a first segment lies below the obstruction, a second segment lies above the obstruction, and a third segment is offset from the first and second segments. The apparatus may include a stitcher module that performs sleep signal stitching for the integrated circuit by distributing a sleep signal from the control pin to the power gates that includes each power gate in each of the first, second, and third segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Ravindra Narayana Rao, Marlin Wayne Frederick, JR., Karen Lee Delk, Stefan Charles Creaser