Michael S Mitchener

Title: Michael S. Mitchener: FPGA Control and Communications Inventions.

Introduction

Michael S. Mitchener is an inventor associated with Worcester, Massachusetts, and Raytheon Company. His patent work addresses FPGA control over Ethernet and time acquisition in frequency-hopped communications links. His listed portfolio includes 2 patents.

Latest Patents

Mitchener’s listed patents include “System and Method for Address-Mapped Control of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) via Ethernet.” The invention describes receiving Ethernet packets containing FPGA control or status information, extracting their payloads and UDP metadata, and converting them into read or write messages for FPGA registers. The FPGA then performs the requested register operations.

His other listed patent, “Fast Time Acquisition in a Frequency-Hopped Communications Link,” concerns systems and methods for accelerating time acquisition. It uses a modem receive path whose instantaneous bandwidth can span multiple frequencies in the link, allowing time hypotheses associated with likely frequency locations to be searched simultaneously.

Career Highlights

The two inventions reflect work in digital hardware control and communications signal processing. One focuses on translating network packets into FPGA register operations, while the other addresses efficient synchronization in frequency-hopped links. Both are associated with Mitchener’s work at Raytheon Company.

Collaborations

Brian D. Sirois and Bradley D. Staal are identified as Mitchener’s coworkers. The available information does not specify their roles in the listed patents.

Conclusion

Michael S. Mitchener’s listed patent work spans FPGA control through Ethernet and faster time acquisition for frequency-hopped communications, highlighting two distinct engineering challenges in electronic systems.