Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

Brian A. Childers

13Patents
10h-index
5Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 28, 1986 → Oct 5, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5043981A Method of and system for transferring multiple priority queues into multiple logical FIFOs using a single physical FIFO Electricity 96 Expired
US5828856A Dual bus concurrent multi-channel direct memory access controller and method Physics 64 Expired
US5805927A Direct memory access channel architecture and method for reception of network information Physics 62 Expired
US5655151A DMA controller having a plurality of DMA channels each having multiple register sets storing different information controlling respective data transfer Physics 61 Expired
US5689656A Dynamic hierarchical arbitration of computer resource access requests Physics 50 Expired
US5793996A Bridge for interconnecting a computer system bus, an expansion bus and a video frame buffer Physics 41 Expired
US5625778A Method and apparatus for presenting an access request from a computer system bus to a system resource with reduced latency Physics 24 Expired
US5640545A Frame buffer interface logic for conversion of pixel data in response to data format and bus endian-ness Physics 18 Expired
US5949981A Deadlock avoidance in a bridge between a split transaction bus and a single envelope bus Physics 17 Expired
US5634013A Bus bridge address translator Physics 12 Expired
US5838955A Controller for providing access to a video frame buffer in split-bus transaction environment Physics 5 Expired
US4771264A INFO 1 detection Electricity 1 Expired
US7358884B1 Methods and systems for implementing a Digital-to-Analog Converter Electricity 1 Active

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