Inventor
NORMOYLE KEVIN B
US24 patents
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC
14 patentsUS5692197ANov 25, 1997
Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a computer network without sacrificing performance
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC126 citations98
US5892957AApr 6, 1999
Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in packet-switched microprocessor-based computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC81 citations96
US5689713ANov 18, 1997
Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in a packet-switched computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC59 citations96
US5884100AMar 16, 1999
Low-latency, high-throughput, integrated cache coherent I/O system for a single-chip processor
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC108 citations95
US5852608ADec 22, 1998
Structure and method for bi-directional data transfer between asynchronous clock domains
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC75 citations95
US6477622B1Nov 5, 2002
Simplified writeback handling
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC22 citations92
US5987081ANov 16, 1999
Method and apparatus for a testable high frequency synchronizer
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC49 citations92
US5907485AMay 25, 1999
Method and apparatus for flow control in packet-switched computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC36 citations92
US5710891AJan 20, 1998
Pipelined distributed bus arbitration system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC35 citations92
US6553435B1Apr 22, 2003
DMA transfer method for a system including a single-chip processor with a processing core and a device interface in different clock domains
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC23 citations89
US6496917B1Dec 17, 2002
Method to reduce memory latencies by performing two levels of speculation
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC26 citations89
US5862356AJan 19, 1999
Pipelined distributed bus arbitration system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC14 citations74
US6100732AAug 8, 2000
Phase enable and clock generation circuit
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC13 citations69
US6900674B2May 31, 2005
Method and circuitry for phase align detection in multi-clock domain
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC7 citations67
AZUL SYSTEMS INC
6 patentsUS7437597B1Oct 14, 2008
Write-back cache with different ECC codings for clean and dirty lines with refetching of uncorrectable clean lines
AZUL SYSTEMS INC71 citations98
US7203890B1Apr 10, 2007
Address error detection by merging a polynomial-based CRC code of address bits with two nibbles of data or data ECC bits
AZUL SYSTEMS INC116 citations98
US7332929B1Feb 19, 2008
Wide-scan on-chip logic analyzer with global trigger and interleaved SRAM capture buffers
AZUL SYSTEMS INC61 citations97
US7398449B1Jul 8, 2008
Encoding 64-bit data nibble error correct and cyclic-redundancy code (CRC) address error detect for use on a 76-bit memory module
AZUL SYSTEMS INC49 citations95
US7337339B1Feb 26, 2008
Multi-level power monitoring, filtering and throttling at local blocks and globally
AZUL SYSTEMS INC126 citations95
US7366847B2Apr 29, 2008
Distributed cache coherence at scalable requestor filter pipes that accumulate invalidation acknowledgements from other requestor filter pipes using ordering messages from central snoop tag
AZUL SYSTEMS INC31 citations92