Patents by Inventor Thomas Wayne O'Connell

Thomas Wayne O'Connell 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: 7356633
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for composing on-chip interconnects with configurable interfaces. A configurable interface includes a configurable agent and interface port. The configurable agent has a first input and a first output with the first input receiving a first communication. An input of a core receives the configurable agent's first output. The agent is configured for important inter-network characteristics such as topology, flooding control, clocking/reset, and performance enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Chien-Chun Chou, Nabil N. Masri, Michael Jude Meyer, Thomas Wayne O'Connell, Kamil Synek, Jay Scott Tomlinson, Drew Eric Wingard
  • Patent number: 7254603
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for on-chip inter-network performance optimization using configurable performance parameters have been described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Chien-Chun Chou, Nabil N. Masri, Michael Jude Meyer, Thomas Wayne O'Connell, Kamil Synek, Jay Scott Tomlinson, Drew Eric Wingard
  • Patent number: 7194566
    Abstract: A communication system and method with configurable posting points have been described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew Eric Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Nabil N. Masri, Thomas Wayne O'Connell, Jay Scott Tomlinson, Wolf-Dietrich Weber
  • Patent number: 6006340
    Abstract: A system for creating a communication interface between a first finite state machine, operating in accordance with a write side clock in a write side clock domain, the first finite state machine operating to generate a Request signal for a transaction and for requesting the transfer of information associated with the Request signal, and a second finite state machine, operating in accordance with a read side clock in a read side clock domain at a different frequency than the write side clock, comprising: a register file; a first interface to the first finite state machine; a second interface to the second finite state machine; and logic for loading in accordance with the write side clock, a communication queue of the information into the register file in accordance with the Request signals from the first finite state machine, for reading by the second finite state machine via the second interface in accordance with the read side clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Wayne O'Connell