Patents by Inventor Steven L. Heinrich

Steven L. Heinrich 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).

  • Sharing Data Crossbar for Reads and Writes in a Data Cache
    Publication number: 20110082961
    Abstract: The invention sets forth an L1 cache architecture that includes a crossbar unit configured to transmit data associated with both read data requests and write data requests. Data associated with read data requests is retrieved from a cache memory and transmitted to the client subsystems. Similarly, data associated with write data requests is transmitted from the client subsystems to the cache memory. To allow for the transmission of both read and write data on the crossbar unit, an arbiter is configured to schedule the crossbar unit transmissions as well and arbitrate between data requests received from the client subsystems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Alexander L. Minkin, Steven L. Heinrich, Rajeshwaran Selvanesan, Stewart Glenn Carlton, John R. Nickolls