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Sierra Semiconductor

27Patents
0Active
27Granted
34Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jan 3, 1986 → Sep 30, 1997

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5377260A Telephone circuit to control off-hook status during receipt of caller-ID signal Electricity 96 Expired
US5479590A Anti-aliasing method for polynomial curves using integer arithmetics Physics 85 Expired
US5917352A Three-state phase-detector/charge pump with no dead-band offering tunable phase in phase-locked loop circuits Electricity 81 Expired
US5423009A Dynamic sizing bus controller that allows unrestricted byte enable patterns Physics 51 Expired
US5808630A Split video architecture for personal computers Physics 42 Expired
US5204854A Adaptive hybrid Electricity 29 Expired
US5546031A Feed-back circuit for CMOS high voltage generator to program (E) eprom-memory cells Physics 28 Expired
US5006817A Rail-to-rail CMOS operational amplifier Electricity 23 Expired
US5332935A ECL and TTL to CMOS logic converter Electricity 20 Expired
US5525936A Temperature-compensated oscillator circuit Electricity 19 Expired
US5489902A Dynamic power saving video DAC Electricity 16 Expired
US5506526A Offset-compensated sample and hold arrangement and method for its operation Electricity 14 Expired
US4780750A Electrically alterable non-volatile memory device Electricity 14 Expired
US5221890A Reference generator Electricity 11 Expired
US5586309A Universal programming interface for clock generators operable in a parallel programming mode and a serial programming mode Physics 11 Expired
US5436597A Pro-capture circuit for phase locked loop circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US5442319A Active biasing control for class-AB CMOS operational amplifiers Electricity 8 Expired
US5825166A Power supply self-adjusted circuit for dual or multiple voltage integrated circuits Physics 6 Expired
US5550495A All MOS voltage to current converter Electricity 6 Expired
US5157349A Differential operational amplifier Electricity 4 Expired
US4975701A Exponential gain control for nonlinear analog-to-digital converter Electricity 4 Expired
US5473600A Efficient data storage arrangement for far-end echo canceller Electricity 3 Expired
US5188972A Method for making bipolar transistor by self-aligning the emitter to the base contact diffusion Electricity 3 Expired
US5675294A Single pin crystal oscillator circuit Electricity 2 Expired
US5598552A Error free data transfers Electricity 2 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.