Patents by Inventor William Henry Carl Ebeling

William Henry Carl Ebeling 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).

  • Reconfigurable computing architecture for providing pipelined data paths
    Patent number: 6023742
    Abstract: A configurable computing architecture (10) has its functionality controlled by a combination of static and dynamic control, wherein the configuration is referred to as static control and instructions are referred to as dynamic control. A reconfigurable data path (12) has a plurality of elements including functional units (32, 36), registers (30), and memories (34) whose interconnection and functionality is determined by a combination of static and dynamic control. These elements are connected together, using the static configuration, into a pipelined data path that performs a computation of interest. The dynamic control signals (21) are suitably used to change the operation of a functional unit and the routing of signals between functional units. The static control signals (23) are provided each by a static memory cell (62) that is written by a host (13). The controller (14) generates control instructions (16) that are interpreted by a control path (18) that computes the dynamic control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: William Henry Carl Ebeling, Darren Charles Cronquist, Paul David Franklin