Inventor
ASAL MICHAEL D
US36 patents
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
33 patentsUS5329617AJul 12, 1994
Graphics processor nonconfined address calculation system
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC120 citations98
US4752893AJun 21, 1988
Graphics data processing apparatus having image operations with transparent color having a selectable number of bits
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC159 citations98
US5696924ADec 9, 1997
Memory access circuit with address translation performing auto increment of translated address on writes and return to translated address on reads
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC37 citations95
US5546553AAug 13, 1996
Multifunctional access devices, systems and methods
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC37 citations95
US5696923ADec 9, 1997
Graphics processor writing to shadow register at predetermined address simultaneously with writing to control register
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC20 citations92
US5341470AAug 23, 1994
Computer graphics systems, palette devices and methods for shift clock pulse insertion during blanking
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC27 citations92
US5309551AMay 3, 1994
Devices, systems and methods for palette pass-through mode
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC21 citations92
US5249266ASep 28, 1993
Data processing apparatus with self-emulation capability
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC28 citations92
US5095301AMar 10, 1992
Graphics processing apparatus having color expand operation for drawing color graphics from monochrome data
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC40 citations92
US4933878AJun 12, 1990
Graphics data processing apparatus having non-linear saturating operations on multibit color data
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC37 citations92
US5269021ADec 7, 1993
Multiprocessor software interface for a graphics processor subsystem employing partially linked dynamic load modules which are downloaded and fully linked at run time
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC56 citations90
US5077678ADec 31, 1991
Graphics data processor with window checking for determining whether a point is within a window
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC22 citations88
US6189077B1Feb 13, 2001
Two computer access circuit using address translation into common register file
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC15 citations83
US5375198ADec 20, 1994
Process for performing a windowing operation in an array move, a graphics computer system, a display system, a graphic processor and a graphics display system
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC7 citations74
US5283863AFeb 1, 1994
Process for effecting an array move instruction, a graphics computer system, a display system, a graphics processor and graphics display system
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC12 citations74
US5231694AJul 27, 1993
Graphics data processing apparatus having non-linear saturating operations on multibit color data
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC13 citations74
US6154824ANov 28, 2000
Multifunctional access devices, systems and methods
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC10 citations73
US5923340AJul 13, 1999
Process of processing graphics data
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC9 citations73
US5636335AJun 3, 1997
Graphics computer system having a second palette shadowing data in a first palette
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC8 citations73
US5437011AJul 25, 1995
Graphics computer system, a graphics system arrangement, a display system, a graphics processor and a method of processing graphic data
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC5 citations73
USRE34881EMar 21, 1995
Graphics data processing apparatus having image operations with transparent color having selectable number of bits
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC8 citations73
US5333261AJul 26, 1994
Graphics processing apparatus having instruction which operates separately on X and Y coordinates of pixel location registers
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC17 citations73
US5317333AMay 31, 1994
Graphics data processing apparatus with draw and advance operation
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC9 citations73
US5294918AMar 15, 1994
Graphics processing apparatus having color expand operation for drawing color graphics from monochrome data
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC14 citations73
US5287100AFeb 15, 1994
Graphics systems, palettes and methods with combined video and shift clock control
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC18 citations73
US5162784ANov 10, 1992
Graphics data processing apparatus with draw and advance operation
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC10 citations73
US5142621AAug 25, 1992
Graphics processing apparatus having instruction which operates separately on X and Y coordinates of pixel location registers
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC18 citations73
US4849920AJul 18, 1989
Apparatus for locating and representing the position of an end "1" bit of a number in a multi-bit number format
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC4 citations63
US7673119B2Mar 2, 2010
VLIW optional fetch packet header extends instruction set space
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC3 citations62
US7581082B2Aug 25, 2009
Software source transfer selects instruction word sizes
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC5 citations62
US7917753B2Mar 29, 2011
Transferring control between programs of different security levels
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC5 citations61
US7698544B2Apr 13, 2010
Automatic halting of a processor in debug mode due to reset
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC4 citations61
US5627568AMay 6, 1997
Display buffer using minimum number of VRAMs
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC1 citations51
BROOKTREE CORP
3 patentsUS5940610AAug 17, 1999
Using prioritized interrupt callback routines to process different types of multimedia information
BROOKTREE CORP51 citations92
US5717904AFeb 10, 1998
Apparatus and methods for automatically controlling block writes
BROOKTREE CORP24 citations88
US5715437AFeb 3, 1998
System for, and method of, processing in hardware commands received from software without polling of the hardware by the software
BROOKTREE CORP18 citations84