Inventor
WOLFORD BARRY JOE
US31 patents
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IBM
23 patentsUS6504790B1Jan 7, 2003
Configurable DDR write-channel phase advance and delay capability
IBM71 citations96
US6424198B1Jul 23, 2002
Memory clock generation with configurable phase advance and delay capability
IBM75 citations96
US6826656B2Nov 30, 2004
Reducing power in a snooping cache based multiprocessor environment
IBM35 citations92
US6823411B2Nov 23, 2004
N-way psuedo cross-bar having an arbitration feature using discrete processor local busses
IBM22 citations92
US6493285B1Dec 10, 2002
Method and apparatus for sampling double data rate memory read data
IBM31 citations92
US6452865B1Sep 17, 2002
Method and apparatus for supporting N-bit width DDR memory interface using a common symmetrical read data path with 2N-bit internal bus width
IBM23 citations92
US5664165ASep 2, 1997
Generation of a synthetic clock signal in synchronism with a high frequency clock signal and corresponding to a low frequency clock signal
IBM21 citations89
US7035958B2Apr 25, 2006
Re-ordering a first request within a FIFO request queue to a different queue position when the first request receives a retry response from the target
IBM15 citations84
US6834378B2Dec 21, 2004
System on a chip bus with automatic pipeline stage insertion for timing closure
IBM15 citations84
US7127562B2Oct 24, 2006
Ensuring orderly forward progress in granting snoop castout requests
IBM12 citations83
US6973520B2Dec 6, 2005
System and method for providing improved bus utilization via target directed completion
IBM8 citations73
US6907502B2Jun 14, 2005
Method for moving snoop pushes to the front of a request queue
IBM10 citations73
US7328312B2Feb 5, 2008
Method and bus prefetching mechanism for implementing enhanced buffer control
IBM2 citations63
US6807608B2Oct 19, 2004
Multiprocessor environment supporting variable-sized coherency transactions
IBM2 citations63
US7174410B2Feb 6, 2007
Method, apparatus and computer program product for write data transfer
IBM2 citations62
US6985972B2Jan 10, 2006
Dynamic cache coherency snooper presence with variable snoop latency
IBM3 citations62
US7526595B2Apr 28, 2009
Data path master/slave data processing device apparatus and method
IBM3 citations61
US6266741B1Jul 24, 2001
Method and apparatus to reduce system bus latency on a cache miss with address acknowledgments
IBM3 citations60
US7490201B2Feb 10, 2009
Method and bus prefetching mechanism for implementing enhanced buffer control
IBM0 citations52
US7296175B2Nov 13, 2007
System on a chip bus with automatic pipeline stage insertion for timing closure
IBM1 citations52
US7707347B2Apr 27, 2010
Data path master/slave data processing device apparatus
IBM0 citations51
US6134620AOct 17, 2000
Tri-state bus contention circuit preventing false switching caused by poor synchronization
IBM0 citations50
US6981166B2Dec 27, 2005
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for pacing clocked operations
IBM0 citations36
QUALCOMM INC
5 patentsUS7590021B2Sep 15, 2009
System and method to reduce dynamic RAM power consumption via the use of valid data indicators
QUALCOMM INC27 citations92
US7984202B2Jul 19, 2011
Device directed memory barriers
QUALCOMM INC25 citations90
US7620783B2Nov 17, 2009
Method and apparatus for obtaining memory status information cross-reference to related applications
QUALCOMM INC13 citations82
US7593279B2Sep 22, 2009
Concurrent status register read
QUALCOMM INC8 citations82
US7783817B2Aug 24, 2010
Method and apparatus for conditional broadcast of barrier operations
QUALCOMM INC6 citations61