Inventor
LITTLE WENDELL L
US42 patents
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DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR
34 patentsUS5249298ASep 28, 1993
Battery-initiated touch-sensitive power-up
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR163 citations99
US5237699AAug 17, 1993
Nonvolatile microprocessor with predetermined state on power-down
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR155 citations99
US5175845ADec 29, 1992
Integrated circuit with watchdog timer and sleep control logic which places IC and watchdog timer into sleep mode
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR189 citations99
US5182810AJan 26, 1993
Isolation gates to permit selective power-downs within a closely-coupled multi-chip system
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR140 citations98
US6272637B1Aug 7, 2001
Systems and methods for protecting access to encrypted information
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR196 citations96
US5998858ADec 7, 1999
Microcircuit with memory that is protected by both hardware and software
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR145 citations96
US5903767AMay 11, 1999
Integrated circuit for providing supervisory functions to a microprocessor
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR50 citations96
US5850450ADec 15, 1998
Method and apparatus for encryption key creation
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR137 citations96
US4952817AAug 28, 1990
Self-starting test station
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR107 citations96
US4908790AMar 13, 1990
Backup battery switching circuitry for a microcomputer or a microprocessor
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR91 citations96
US6330668B1Dec 11, 2001
Integrated circuit having hardware circuitry to prevent electrical or thermal stressing of the silicon circuitry
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR82 citations95
US5203000AApr 13, 1993
Power-up reset conditioned on direction of voltage change
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR65 citations94
US5812004ASep 22, 1998
Current compensated clock for a microcircuit
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR19 citations93
US5590343ADec 31, 1996
Touch-sensitive switching circuitry for power-up
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR51 citations93
US5327564AJul 5, 1994
Timed access system for protecting data in a central processing unit
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR22 citations93
US5303390AApr 12, 1994
Microprocessor auxiliary with combined pin for reset output and pushbutton input
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR33 citations93
US4947477AAug 7, 1990
Partitionable embedded program and data memory for a central processing unit
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR29 citations93
US5381540AJan 10, 1995
Interface: interrupt masking with logical sum and product options
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR25 citations92
US5978927ANov 2, 1999
Method and system for measuring a maximum and minimum response time of a plurality of devices on a data bus and adapting the timing of read and write time slots
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR28 citations91
US5862354AJan 19, 1999
Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) slave device containing an identifier for communication on a one-wire bus
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR47 citations91
US6691219B2Feb 10, 2004
Method and apparatus for 24-bit memory addressing in microcontrollers
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR25 citations90
US6038655AMar 14, 2000
Microcontroller having register direct and register indirect addressing
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR24 citations89
US5189598AFeb 23, 1993
Dual function microboard with a row of connectors on two edges
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR34 citations89
US5473271ADec 5, 1995
Microprocessor output driver
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR16 citations82
US6058467AMay 2, 2000
Standard cell, 4-cycle, 8-bit microcontroller
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR18 citations75
US5754462AMay 19, 1998
Microprocessor auxiliary with ability to be queried re power history
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR9 citations74
US4890263ADec 26, 1989
RAM with capability for rapid clearing of data from memory by simultaneously selecting all row lines
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR18 citations74
US4885716ADec 5, 1989
High speed carry chain
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR19 citations74
US5212774AMay 18, 1993
Two processor communications system with processor controlled modem
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR19 citations72
US5758060AMay 26, 1998
Hardware for verifying that software has not skipped a predetermined amount of code
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR9 citations71
US5218707AJun 8, 1993
Integrated circuit with remappable interrupt pins
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR16 citations70
US6014051AJan 11, 2000
Current compensated clock for a microcircuit
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR3 citations63
US4857767AAug 15, 1989
High-density low-power circuit for sustaining a precharge level
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR5 citations63
US6868505B2Mar 15, 2005
Memory exchange
DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR1 citations58
MOTOROLA INC
5 patentsUS4893271AJan 9, 1990
Synthesized clock microcomputer with power saving
MOTOROLA INC235 citations99
US4771249ASep 13, 1988
Phase locked loop having a filter with controlled variable bandwidth
MOTOROLA INC29 citations93
US4669059AMay 26, 1987
Method and apparatus in a data processor for selectively disabling a power-down instruction
MOTOROLA INC35 citations93
US4749991AJun 7, 1988
Turn off protection circuit
MOTOROLA INC21 citations82
US4506167AMar 19, 1985
High speed logic flip-flop latching arrangements including input and feedback pairs of transmission gates
MOTOROLA INC25 citations82