Inventor · West Columbia, SC, US

David L. Simpson

19Patents
11h-index
18Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 3, 1989 → Nov 8, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5423050A Intermodule test across system bus utilizing serial test bus Physics 99 Expired
US5325368A JTAG component description via nonvolatile memory Physics 69 Expired
US5343478A Computer system configuration via test bus Physics 57 Expired
US5377198A JTAG instruction error detection Physics 42 Expired
US5260950A Boundary-scan input circuit for a reset pin Physics 27 Expired
US5260948A Bidirectional boundary-scan circuit Physics 24 Expired
US5267191A FIFO memory system Physics 19 Expired
US5432854A Stereo FM receiver, noise control circuit therefor Electricity 18 Expired
US5313470A Boundary-scan input cell for a clock pin Physics 13 Expired
US7468754B2 High-definition de-interlacing and frame doubling circuit and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US5319646A Boundary-scan output cell with non-critical enable path Physics 12 Expired
US6741436B2 Microprocessor-controlled DC to DC converter with fault protection Electricity 10 Expired
US5347520A Boundary-scan enable cell with non-critical enable path Physics 9 Expired
US6894726B2 High-definition de-interlacing and frame doubling circuit and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US5546592A System and method for incrementing memory addresses in a computer system Physics 2 Expired
USRE41496E1 Boundary-scan input circuit for a reset pin General 1 Active
US6839779B2 Counting a number of occurrences of a first RTS (ready to send) and a first RTR (ready to receive) signals for limiting a data transfer bandwidth through handshake suppression Electricity 1 Expired
US4933894A Circuit and method for adding binary numbers with a difference of one or less Physics 0 Expired
US7031206B2 Digital line delay using a single port memory Electricity 0 Expired

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