Inventor
JOYCE THOMAS F
US43 patents
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HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS
21 patentsUS4695943ASep 22, 1987
Multiprocessor shared pipeline cache memory with split cycle and concurrent utilization
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS113 citations96
US4161024AJul 10, 1979
Private cache-to-CPU interface in a bus oriented data processing system
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS59 citations96
US4195342AMar 25, 1980
Multi-configurable cache store system
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS42 citations93
US4195340AMar 25, 1980
First in first out activity queue for a cache store
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS43 citations93
US4157587AJun 5, 1979
High speed buffer memory system with word prefetch
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS35 citations93
US4323967AApr 6, 1982
Local bus interface for controlling information transfers between units in a central subsystem
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS45 citations92
US4167782ASep 11, 1979
Continuous updating of cache store
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS43 citations92
US4118773AOct 3, 1978
Microprogram memory bank addressing system
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS45 citations91
US4190885AFeb 26, 1980
Out of store indicator for a cache store in test mode
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS34 citations90
US4641305AFeb 3, 1987
Control store memory read error resiliency method and apparatus
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS23 citations82
US4295203AOct 13, 1981
Automatic rounding of floating point operands
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS22 citations82
US4195343AMar 25, 1980
Round robin replacement for a cache store
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS26 citations82
US4124893ANov 7, 1978
Microword address branching bit arrangement
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS24 citations81
US4195341AMar 25, 1980
Initialization of cache store to assure valid data
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS22 citations80
US4670835AJun 2, 1987
Distributed control store word architecture
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS11 citations74
US4308589ADec 29, 1981
Apparatus for performing the scientific add instruction
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS9 citations74
US4105978AAug 8, 1978
Stretch and stall clock
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS12 citations74
US4214303AJul 22, 1980
Word oriented high speed buffer memory system connected to a system bus
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS20 citations72
US4087857AMay 2, 1978
ROM-initializing apparatus
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS14 citations72
US4305134ADec 8, 1981
Automatic operand length control of the result of a scientific arithmetic operation
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS5 citations63
US4107774AAug 15, 1978
Microprogram splatter return apparatus
HONEYWELL INF SYSTEMS4 citations61
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST
11 patentsUS5193181AMar 9, 1993
Recovery method and apparatus for a pipelined processing unit of a multiprocessor system
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST102 citations96
US5430862AJul 4, 1995
Emulation of CISC instructions by RISC instructions using two pipelined stages for overlapped CISC decoding and RISC execution
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST68 citations94
US5283870AFeb 1, 1994
Method and apparatus for avoiding processor deadly embrace in a multiprocessor system
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST40 citations93
US5148533ASep 15, 1992
Apparatus and method for data group coherency in a tightly coupled data processing system with plural execution and data cache units
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST73 citations93
US5053951AOct 1, 1991
Segment descriptor unit for performing static and dynamic address translation operations
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST45 citations90
US5341495AAug 23, 1994
Bus controller having state machine for translating commands and controlling accesses from system bus to synchronous bus having different bus protocols
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST25 citations89
US5341508AAug 23, 1994
Processing unit having multiple synchronous bus for sharing access and regulating system bus access to synchronous bus
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST7 citations74
US5123097AJun 16, 1992
Apparatus and method for simultaneous execution of a write instruction and a succeeding read instruction in a data processing system with a store through cache strategy
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST18 citations74
US5287522AFeb 15, 1994
External procedure invocation apparatus utilizing internal branch vector interrupts and vector address generation, in a RISC chip
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST16 citations73
US5051894ASep 24, 1991
Apparatus and method for address translation of non-aligned double word virtual addresses
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST12 citations73
US5148530ASep 15, 1992
Method for reexecuting instruction by altering high bits of instruction address based upon result of a subtraction operation with stored low bits
BULL HN INFORMATION SYST6 citations63
HONEYWELL BULL
4 patentsUS4785398ANov 15, 1988
Virtual cache system using page level number generating CAM to access other memories for processing requests relating to a page
HONEYWELL BULL98 citations95
US4813002AMar 14, 1989
High speed high density dynamic address translator
HONEYWELL BULL77 citations94
US4783735ANov 8, 1988
Least recently used replacement level generating apparatus
HONEYWELL BULL24 citations81
US4942547AJul 17, 1990
Multiprocessors on a single semiconductor chip
HONEYWELL BULL12 citations73
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP
2 patentsUS5517648AMay 14, 1996
Symmetric multiprocessing system with unified environment and distributed system functions
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP119 citations97
US5522069AMay 28, 1996
Symmetric multiprocessing system with unified environment and distributed system functions
ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS CORP7 citations72
PACKARD BELL NEC
2 patentsNEC CORP
2 patentsUS6311286B1Oct 30, 2001
Symmetric multiprocessing system with unified environment and distributed system functions
NEC CORP20 citations91
US6125436ASep 26, 2000
Symmetric multiprocessing system with unified environment and distributed system functions wherein bus operations related storage spaces are mapped into a single system address space
NEC CORP3 citations72