Inventor · Georgetown, TX, US

Daniel M. Dreps

181Patents
20h-index
165Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 20, 1990 → Aug 24, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6292903A Smart memory interface Physics 170 Expired
US7224595B2 276-Pin buffered memory module with enhanced fault tolerance Physics 163 Expired
US5604466A On-chip voltage controlled oscillator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 105 Expired
US7362697B2 Self-healing chip-to-chip interface Electricity 78 Expired
US6549971B1 Cascaded differential receiver circuit Electricity 64 Expired
US5821809A CMOS high-speed differential to single-ended converter circuit Electricity 53 Expired
US6654897B1 Dynamic wave-pipelined interface apparatus and methods therefor Electricity 52 Expired
US7948817B2 Advanced memory device having reduced power and improved performance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Active
US5757240A Low gain voltage-controlled oscillator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Expired
US7710144B2 Controlling for variable impedance and voltage in a memory system Physics 38 Active
US5942940A Low voltage CMOS differential amplifier Electricity 34 Expired
US5490282A Interface having serializer including oscillator operating at first frequency and deserializer including oscillator operating at second frequency equals half first frequency for minimizing frequency interference Electricity 31 Expired
US6421784B1 Programmable delay circuit having a fine delay element selectively receives input signal and output signal of coarse delay element Electricity 30 Expired
US6735543B2 Method and apparatus for testing, characterizing and tuning a chip interface Physics 28 Expired
US6703866B1 Selectable interface for interfacing integrated circuit modules Electricity 27 Expired
US6725304B2 Apparatus for connecting circuit modules Physics 27 Expired
US6334163A Elastic interface apparatus and method therefor Electricity 26 Expired
US6470458B1 Method and system for data processing system self-synchronization Physics 25 Expired
US6501313B2 Dynamic duty cycle adjuster Electricity 24 Expired
US7612621B2 System for providing open-loop quadrature clock generation Electricity 22 Active
US8307270B2 Advanced memory device having improved performance, reduced power and increased reliability Physics 20 Active
US7117126B2 Data processing system and method with dynamic idle for tunable interface calibration Electricity 20 Expired
US5668507A Noise generator for evaluating mixed signal integrated circuits Electricity 20 Expired
US6014047A Method and apparatus for phase rotation in a phase locked loop Electricity 20 Expired
US5949262A Method and apparatus for coupled phase locked loops Physics 19 Expired

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