Inventor · Orefield, PA, US

Barry Britton

39Patents
15h-index
52Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 4, 1992 → Oct 7, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6020755A Hybrid programmable gate arrays Electricity 134 Expired
US5394031A Apparatus and method to improve programming speed of field programmable gate arrays Electricity 71 Expired
US5396126A FPGA with distributed switch matrix Electricity 66 Expired
US5386156A Programmable function unit with programmable fast ripple logic Electricity 58 Expired
US6483342B2 Multi-master multi-slave system bus in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) Electricity 55 Expired
US5381058A FPGA having PFU with programmable output driver inputs Electricity 51 Expired
US6472904B2 Double data rate input and output in a programmable logic device Electricity 49 Expired
US7385417B1 Dual slice architectures for programmable logic devices Electricity 43 Active
US6043677A Programmable clock manager for a programmable logic device that can implement delay-locked loop functions Electricity 42 Expired
US5311080A Field programmable gate array with direct input/output connection Electricity 39 Expired
US6064225A Global signal distribution with reduced routing tracks in an FPGA Electricity 25 Expired
US6873187B1 Method and apparatus for controlling signal distribution in an electronic circuit Electricity 24 Expired
US5384497A Low-skew signal routing in a programmable array Electricity 24 Expired
US6216191A Field programmable gate array having a dedicated processor interface Physics 24 Expired
US6028463A Programmable clock manager for a programmable logic device that can generate at least two different output clocks Electricity 16 Expired
US7650545B1 Programmable interconnect for reconfigurable system-on-chip Physics 10 Active
US7034596B2 Adaptive input logic for phase adjustments Electricity 9 Expired
US5623217A Field programmable gate array with write-port enabled memory Electricity 9 Expired
US5528170A Low-skew signal routing in a programmable array Electricity 8 Expired
US6060902A Programmable clock manager for a programmable logic device that can be programmed without reconfiguring the device Electricity 7 Expired
US7554357B2 Efficient configuration of daisy-chained programmable logic devices Physics 7 Active
US6049224A Programmable logic device with logic cells having a flexible input structure Electricity 4 Expired
US7592834B1 Logic block control architectures for programmable logic devices Electricity 4 Active
US7863931B1 Flexible delay cell architecture Electricity 4 Active
US7599457B2 Clock-and-data-recovery system having a multi-phase clock generator for one or more channel circuits Electricity 4 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.