Patents by Inventor Steven De Cuyper

Steven De Cuyper 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).

  • Data interface and method of seeking synchronization
    Patent number: 8284881
    Abstract: The present invention provides for method of seeking synchronization at a data interface between a transmitting element and a receiving element, and to related transmitting and receiving elements of the interface, in which the clock frequency of both elements is the same but which exhibit a phase difference, also known as mesochronous clock domains, the method including the steps of, prior to data transfer at the interface, delivering a strobe signal generated at the transmitting element to the receiving element, generating a strobe signal at the receiving element and synchronizing the same to the strobe signal received from the transmitting element, and maintaining the synchronized strobe signal generated at the receiving element for the sampling of data appearing at the interface from the transmitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Davy Witters, Jo Frisson, Steven De Cuyper, James Joseph McCormack
  • DATA INTERFACE AND METHOD OF SEEKING SYNCHRONIZATION
    Publication number: 20090220036
    Abstract: The present invention provides for method of seeking synchronization at a data interface between a transmitting element and a receiving element, and to related transmitting and receiving elements of the interface, in which the clock frequency of both elements is the same but which exhibit a phase difference, also known as mesochronous clock domains, the method including the steps of, prior to data transfer at the interface, delivering a strobe signal generated at the transmitting element to the receiving element, generating a strobe signal at the receiving element and synchronizing the same to the strobe signal received from the transmitting element, and maintaining the synchronized strobe signal generated at the receiving element for the sampling of data appearing at the interface from the transmitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Davy Witters, Jo Frisson, Steven De Cuyper, James Joseph McCormack