Inventor
MCFARLAND HAROLD L
US15 patents
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ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
7 patentsUS6499123B1Dec 24, 2002
Method and apparatus for debugging an integrated circuit
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC221 citations98
US5781753AJul 14, 1998
Semi-autonomous RISC pipelines for overlapped execution of RISC-like instructions within the multiple superscalar execution units of a processor having distributed pipeline control for speculative and out-of-order execution of complex instructions
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC134 citations98
US5768575AJun 16, 1998
Semi-Autonomous RISC pipelines for overlapped execution of RISC-like instructions within the multiple superscalar execution units of a processor having distributed pipeline control for sepculative and out-of-order execution of complex instructions
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC166 citations98
US5627976AMay 6, 1997
Crossing transfers for maximizing the effective bandwidth in a dual-bus architecture
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC138 citations97
US6212629B1Apr 3, 2001
Method and apparatus for executing string instructions
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC56 citations96
US5881265AMar 9, 1999
Computer processor with distributed pipeline control that allows functional units to complete operations out of order while maintaining precise interrupts
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC47 citations96
US5682492AOct 28, 1997
Computer processor with distributed pipeline control that allows functional units to complete operations out of order while maintaining precise interrupts
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC21 citations92
NEXGEN MICROSYSTEMS
4 patentsUS5226126AJul 6, 1993
Processor having plurality of functional units for orderly retiring outstanding operations based upon its associated tags
NEXGEN MICROSYSTEMS449 citations98
US5125093AJun 23, 1992
Interrupt control for multiprocessor computer system
NEXGEN MICROSYSTEMS71 citations96
US5369748ANov 29, 1994
Bus arbitration in a dual-bus architecture where one bus has relatively high latency
NEXGEN MICROSYSTEMS67 citations95
US5388227AFeb 7, 1995
Transparent data bus sizing
NEXGEN MICROSYSTEMS29 citations92
NEXGEN INC
3 patentsUS5442757AAug 15, 1995
Computer processor with distributed pipeline control that allows functional units to complete operations out of order while maintaining precise interrupts
NEXGEN INC147 citations98
US5572159ANov 5, 1996
Voltage-controlled delay element with programmable delay
NEXGEN INC81 citations96
US5414820AMay 9, 1995
Crossing transfers for maximizing the effective bandwidth in a dual-bus architecture
NEXGEN INC94 citations95