Patents by Inventor Steve P. Marshall

Steve P. Marshall 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).

  • Method and apparatus for accessing multiple memory devices
    Patent number: 5594914
    Abstract: A data processing device comprising a clock generator for producing pulses establishing instruction cycles, a memory accessible by assertion of addresses, an instruction decode and control unit, having an instruction register operative to hold a program instruction, operative to decode a program instruction providing control signals according to a pipeline organization to control the operations of the data processing device within each instruction cycle and to initiate a block sequence responsive to an instruction code representing a block instruction. A program sequencer circuit, having a program register to hold a program count corresponding to a program address, is operative to access the memory with the contents of the program register to obtain the program instruction corresponding to the program address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph A. Coomes, Steve P. Marshall, Laurence R. Simar
  • Block instruction
    Patent number: 5535348
    Abstract: A data processing device comprising a clock generator for producing pulses establishing instruction cycles, a memory accessible by assertion of addresses, an instruction decode and control unit, having an instruction register operative to hold a program instruction, operative to decode a program instruction providing control signals according to a pipeline organization to control the operations of the data processing device within each instruction cycle and to initiate a block sequence responsive to an instruction code representing a block instruction. A program sequencer circuit, having a program register to hold a program count corresponding to a program address, is operative to access the memory with the contents of the program register to obtain the program instruction corresponding to the program address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jerald G. Leach, Joseph A. Coomes, Steve P. Marshall, Laurence R. Simar