Inventor
HUGHES WILLIAM ALEXANDER
US21 patents
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ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
19 patentsUS7707341B1Apr 27, 2010
Virtualizing an interrupt controller
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC75 citations98
US6718444B1Apr 6, 2004
Read-modify-write for partial writes in a memory controller
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC76 citations98
US6266744B1Jul 24, 2001
Store to load forwarding using a dependency link file
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC98 citations98
US7043679B1May 9, 2006
Piggybacking of ECC corrections behind loads
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC97 citations97
US6473837B1Oct 29, 2002
Snoop resynchronization mechanism to preserve read ordering
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC90 citations95
US6473832B1Oct 29, 2002
Load/store unit having pre-cache and post-cache queues for low latency load memory operations
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC66 citations94
US6393536B1May 21, 2002
Load/store unit employing last-in-buffer indication for rapid load-hit-store
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC119 citations93
US7221678B1May 22, 2007
Method and apparatus for routing packets
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC24 citations92
US6973543B1Dec 6, 2005
Partial directory cache for reducing probe traffic in multiprocessor systems
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC48 citations92
US6715055B1Mar 30, 2004
Apparatus and method for allocating buffer space
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC37 citations92
US6665788B1Dec 16, 2003
Reducing latency for a relocation cache lookup and address mapping in a distributed memory system
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC31 citations92
US6549990B2Apr 15, 2003
Store to load forwarding using a dependency link file
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC31 citations92
US7009618B1Mar 7, 2006
Integrated I/O Remapping mechanism
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC25 citations91
US6934903B1Aug 23, 2005
Using microcode to correct ECC errors in a processor
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC27 citations91
US7295563B2Nov 13, 2007
Method and apparatus for routing packets that have ordering requirements
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC16 citations84
US7274692B1Sep 25, 2007
Method and apparatus for routing packets that have multiple destinations
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC16 citations84
US6427193B1Jul 30, 2002
Deadlock avoidance using exponential backoff
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC16 citations84
US6415360B1Jul 2, 2002
Minimizing self-modifying code checks for uncacheable memory types
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC15 citations83
US7480784B2Jan 20, 2009
Ensuring deadlock free operation for peer to peer traffic in an input/output memory management unit (IOMMU)
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC7 citations73