Assignee
S3 INC
US·98 granted patents·4,574 citations·filing 1992–2000
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98 records- 0197US5392239ABurst-mode DRAMS3 INC·Filed 1993·Granted Feb 21, 1995·194 cites·10 claims
- 0294US5948083ASystem and method for self-adjusting data strobeS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 7, 1999·118 cites·7 claims
- 0393US5956431ASystem and method for fixed-rate block-based image compression with inferred pixel valuesS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 21, 1999·179 cites·22 claims
- 0491US5848264ADebug and video queue for multi-processor chipS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 8, 1998·204 cites·20 claims
- 0588US6041419AProgrammable delay timing calibrator for high speed data interfaceS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 21, 2000·74 cites·19 claims
- 0688US5862390AMixed voltage, multi-rail, high drive, low noise, adjustable slew rate input/output bufferS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Jan 19, 1999·69 cites·5 claims
- 0787US6144365ASystem and method for performing blending using an over sampling bufferS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 7, 2000·101 cites·21 claims
- 0887US5945997ABlock- and band-oriented traversal in three-dimensional triangle renderingS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 31, 1999·105 cites·21 claims
- 0987US5828383AController for processing different pixel data types stored in the same display memory by use of tag bitsS3 INC·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 27, 1998·108 cites·18 claims
- 1086US6034733ATiming and control for deinterlacing and enhancement of non-deterministically arriving interlaced video dataS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 7, 2000·92 cites·40 claims
- 1185US6128026ADouble buffered graphics and video accelerator having a write blocking memory interface and method of doing the sameS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 3, 2000·70 cites·17 claims
- 1285US5889499ASystem and method for the mixing of graphics and video signalsS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 30, 1999·83 cites·54 claims
- 1384US6005546AHardware assist for YUV data format conversion to software MPEG decoderS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 21, 1999·81 cites·16 claims
- 1484US5517626AOpen high speed bus for microcomputer systemS3 INC·Filed 1993·Granted May 14, 1996·146 cites·44 claims
- 1583US6093029AVertically stackable integrated circuitS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 25, 2000·88 cites·14 claims
- 1683US5828578AMicroprocessor with a large cache shared by redundant CPUs for increasing manufacturing yieldS3 INC·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 27, 1998·109 cites·13 claims
- 1782US6389566B1Edge-triggered scan flip-flop and one-pass scan synthesis methodologyS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted May 14, 2002·57 cites·27 claims
- 1882US6040737AOutput buffer circuit and method that compensate for operating conditions and manufacturing processesS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 21, 2000·43 cites·16 claims
- 1982US5977960AApparatus, systems and methods for controlling data overlay in multimedia data processing and display systems using mask techniquesS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 2, 1999·61 cites·15 claims
- 2081US6169418B1Efficient routing from multiple sources to embedded DRAM and other large circuit blocksS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 2, 2001·40 cites·33 claims
- 2181US5748126ASigma-delta digital-to-analog conversion system and process through reconstruction and resamplingS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted May 5, 1998·79 cites·33 claims
- 2280US6265899B1Single rail domino logic for four-phase clocking schemeS3 INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 24, 2001·42 cites·11 claims
- 2380US6052133AMulti-function controller and method for a computer graphics display systemS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 18, 2000·58 cites·8 claims
- 2480US6008794AFlat-panel display controller with improved dithering and frame rate controlS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 28, 1999·48 cites·12 claims
- 2580US5875235ATransformerless data access arrangementS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 23, 1999·101 cites·16 claims
- 2678US6519688B1Read data valid loop-back for high speed synchronized DRAM controllerS3 INC·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 11, 2003·38 cites·13 claims
- 2777US5977933ADual image computer display controllerS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 2, 1999·110 cites·30 claims
- 2876US6044448AProcessor having multiple datapath instancesS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 28, 2000·81 cites·23 claims
- 2976US5793386ARegister set reordering for a graphics processor based upon the type of primitive to be renderedS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 11, 1998·48 cites·19 claims
- 3075US6208167B1Voltage tolerant bufferS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 27, 2001·33 cites·12 claims
- 3175US6076155AShared register architecture for a dual-instruction-set CPU to facilitate data exchange between the instruction setsS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 13, 2000·73 cites·26 claims
- 3275US5778096ADecompression of MPEG compressed data in a computer systemS3 INC·Filed 1995·Granted Jul 7, 1998·53 cites·15 claims
- 3374US5426756AMemory controller and method determining empty/full status of a FIFO memory using gray code countersS3 INC·Filed 1992·Granted Jun 20, 1995·102 cites·11 claims
- 3473US6366355B1Real-time in situ multiple gas species sensing methodS3 INC·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 2, 2002·14 cites·15 claims
- 3573US5822602APipelined processor for executing repeated string instructions by halting dispatch after comparision to pipeline capacityS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 13, 1998·69 cites·13 claims
- 3672US5774676AMethod and apparatus for decompression of MPEG compressed data in a computer systemS3 INC·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 30, 1998·50 cites·26 claims
- 3771US6005412AAGP/DDR interfaces for full swing and reduced swing (SSTL) signals on an integrated circuit chipS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 21, 1999·62 cites·15 claims
- 3871US5757670AFrame reconstruction for video data compressionS3 INC·Filed 1995·Granted May 26, 1998·49 cites·13 claims
- 3970US6005432AVoltage level shift system and methodS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 21, 1999·24 cites·25 claims
- 4069US6158033AMultiple input signature testing & diagnosis for embedded blocks in integrated circuitsS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 5, 2000·32 cites·14 claims
- 4169US5990912AVirtual address access to tiled surfacesS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 23, 1999·55 cites·16 claims
- 4269US5914719AIndex and storage system for data provided in the vertical blanking intervalS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 22, 1999·33 cites·28 claims
- 4368US5852451APixel reordering for improved texture mappingS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 22, 1998·50 cites·14 claims
- 4468US5826074AExtenstion of 32-bit architecture for 64-bit addressing with shared super-page registerS3 INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 20, 1998·54 cites·20 claims
- 4567US6212490B1Hybrid circuit model simulator for accurate timing and noise analysisS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Apr 3, 2001·50 cites·17 claims
- 4666US6011565ANon-stalled requesting texture cacheS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 4, 2000·53 cites·20 claims
- 4766US5973511AVoltage tolerant input/output bufferS3 INC·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 26, 1999·20 cites·14 claims
- 4866US5818967AVideo decoder engineS3 INC·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 6, 1998·42 cites·35 claims
- 4965US6154195ASystem and method for performing dithering with a graphics unit having an oversampling bufferS3 INC·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 28, 2000·34 cites·20 claims
- 5065US5977983AMethod and apparatus for adjusting graphics processing procedures based on a selectable speed/quality gaugeS3 INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 2, 1999·39 cites·21 claims
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