Patents

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be awarded a U.S. Patent.   AMD is fertile ground for patents, however, and four patents were eventually submitted with my name on them.  Three were approved.  The following links to pdf files explain what they were all about.

Patent No. 5768499 - Method and apparatus for dynamically displaying and causing the execution of software diagnostic/test programs for the silicon validation of microprocessors.

 Patent No. 6385740 - Method to dynamically change microprocessor test software to reflect different silicon revision levels.

 Patent No. 6430705 - Method for utilizing virtual hardware descriptions to allow for multi-processor debugging in environments using varying processor revision levels.