Patents by Inventor Tomoyoshi Satou

Tomoyoshi Satou 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).

  • Control unit and data processing system
    Patent number: 6301650
    Abstract: The control unit of this invention has a microcode control system or systems for special purpose circuit suitable for specific data processing and a microcode control system for general purpose separately. In addition, the control unit has a fetch unit common for the above control systems. Therefore, in the data processing system having the control unit of this invention, the general purpose process and the process using the special purpose circuit, which is different from the general purpose process, are multiply executed, and synchronizing of this multiprocessing is solved in a instruction level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Pacific Design, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Satou