Inventor
NICOL MARK D
US28 patents
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PACKARD BELL NEC
16 patentsUS6009495ADec 28, 1999
Protected address range in an electrically erasable programmable read only memory
PACKARD BELL NEC64 citations95
US5872967AFeb 16, 1999
Method for warm boot from reset
PACKARD BELL NEC46 citations92
US5867655AFeb 2, 1999
Method to store privileged data within the primary CPU memory space
PACKARD BELL NEC25 citations92
US5748982AMay 5, 1998
Apparatus for selecting a user programmable address for an I/O device
PACKARD BELL NEC23 citations89
US5687379ANov 11, 1997
Method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to peripheral devices
PACKARD BELL NEC25 citations89
US5752063AMay 12, 1998
Write inhibited registers
PACKARD BELL NEC17 citations83
US5764995AJun 9, 1998
Write once read only registers
PACKARD BELL NEC16 citations82
US5822601AOct 13, 1998
Apparatus to allow a CPU to control the relocation of code blocks for other CPUs
PACKARD BELL NEC10 citations73
US5809290ASep 15, 1998
Programmable hardware counter
PACKARD BELL NEC8 citations73
US5802376ASep 1, 1998
Write once read only registers
PACKARD BELL NEC15 citations73
US5742841AApr 21, 1998
Alternate I/O port access to standard register set
PACKARD BELL NEC9 citations73
US6023735AFeb 8, 2000
Expansion module including programmable chip selects
PACKARD BELL NEC5 citations71
US5999991ADec 7, 1999
Programmably selectable addresses for expansion cards for a motherboard
PACKARD BELL NEC9 citations71
US5784642AJul 21, 1998
System for establishing a transfer mode between system controller and peripheral device
PACKARD BELL NEC12 citations71
US5987618ANov 16, 1999
Programmable hardware timer including two programmable hardware downcounters wherein the second downcounter counts in multiples of the first downcounter
PACKARD BELL NEC3 citations62
US5748922AMay 5, 1998
Method and apparatus for reading data from a write only port
PACKARD BELL NEC5 citations61
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP
6 patentsUS5596713AJan 21, 1997
Method to prevent data loss in an electrically erasable read only memory
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP24 citations92
US5072450ADec 10, 1991
Method and apparatus for error detection and localization
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP34 citations91
US5129069AJul 7, 1992
Method and apparatus for automatic memory configuration by a computer
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP49 citations90
US5574866ANov 12, 1996
Method and apparatus for providing a data write signal with a programmable duration
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP19 citations80
US5291588AMar 1, 1994
Control system and method for multiple rate disk drive data transfer with a single oscillator
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP7 citations74
US5303352AApr 12, 1994
Dual connector port for bus master card
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP6 citations62
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
4 patentsUS7359994B1Apr 15, 2008
Split-transaction bus decoder
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC24 citations91
US7254115B1Aug 7, 2007
Split-transaction bus intelligent logic analysis tool
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC27 citations91
US6865652B1Mar 8, 2005
FIFO with undo-push capability
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC13 citations80
US6581111B1Jun 17, 2003
Out-of-order probing in an in-order system
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC13 citations80