Patents by Inventor Steven J. Tu

Steven J. Tu 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).

  • Injection control mechanism for external events
    Patent number: 6412062
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus to inject an external event to a first pipeline stage in a pipeline chain. A target instruction address corresponding to an instruction is specified. The external event is asserted when there is a match between the target instruction address and a pipeline instruction pointer corresponding to a second pipeline stage. The second pipeline stage is earlier than the first pipeline stage in the pipeline chain. The external event is unmasked via a delivery path between a signal representing the asserted external event and the first pipeline stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yan Xu, Steven J. Tu