Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Christopher E. Phillips

27Patents
16h-index
18Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 21, 1991 → May 8, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5970254A Integrated processor and programmable data path chip for reconfigurable computing Physics 292 Expired
US6282627A Integrated processor and programmable data path chip for reconfigurable computing Physics 279 Expired
US5966534A Method for compiling high level programming languages into an integrated processor with reconfigurable logic Physics 216 Expired
US6298472A Behavioral silicon construct architecture and mapping Physics 136 Expired
US6349346B1 Control fabric unit including associated configuration memory and PSOP state machine adapted to provide configuration address to reconfigurable functional unit Physics 109 Expired
US6389579B1 Reconfigurable logic for table lookup Physics 106 Expired
US5221865A Programmable input/output buffer circuit with test capability Electricity 103 Expired
US6288566A Configuration state memory for functional blocks on a reconfigurable chip Electricity 102 Expired
US5347519A Preprogramming testing in a field programmable gate array Physics 102 Expired
US6311200A Reconfigurable program sum of products generator Electricity 98 Expired
US6708325B2 Method for compiling high level programming languages into embedded microprocessor with multiple reconfigurable logic Physics 93 Expired
US5534798A Multiplexer with level shift capabilities Electricity 60 Expired
US6237074A Tagged prefetch and instruction decoder for variable length instruction set and method of operation Physics 55 Expired
US5623501A Preprogramming testing in a field programmable gate array Physics 21 Expired
US5671234A Programmable input/output buffer circuit with test capability Electricity 20 Expired
US5699506A Method and apparatus for fault testing a pipelined processor Physics 18 Expired
US5887002A Preprogramming testing in a field programmable gate array Physics 10 Expired
US5546353A Partitioned decode circuit for low power operation Physics 7 Expired
US5617543A Non-arithmetical circular buffer cell availability status indicator circuit Physics 7 Expired
US5598112A Circuit for generating a demand-based gated clock Electricity 7 Expired
US5652527A Input-output circuit for increasing immunity to voltage spikes Electricity 5 Expired
US7705624B2 Fault tolerant integrated circuit architecture Electricity 3 Active
US7880497B2 Fault tolerant integrated circuit architecture Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US7812629B2 Resilient integrated circuit architecture Electricity 2 Active
US7502920B2 Hierarchical storage architecture for reconfigurable logic configurations Physics 0 Expired

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