Patents by Inventor Trinh T. Phung

Trinh T. Phung 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).

  • Method and apparatus for controlling data transfer between EEPROM and a physical layer device
    Patent number: 8856391
    Abstract: An IEEE 802.3 compliant physical layer device provides efficient loading of configuration information of the physical layer device. The configuration information is written into a volatile memory in the physical layer device, and then uploaded to at least one EEPROM. The configuration information is downloaded to the volatile memory during startup of the physical layer device. The system controller can also directly access the EEPROMs, bypassing the volatile memory. By providing a bridge between the system controller and the EEPROMs and providing additional bits in the volatile memory of the physical layer device, the system controller can read and write the EEPROMs one byte at a time. During reset time, the content of the EEPROMs is written to registers in the physical layer device to configure the physical layer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Trinh T. Phung, William Lo