Inventor · Tempe, AZ, US

David Puffer

72Patents
6h-index
114Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 29, 1996 → Jan 17, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6734862B1 Memory controller hub Physics 19 Expired
US10380039B2 Apparatus and method for memory management in a graphics processing environment Physics 17 Active
US7120765B2 Memory transaction ordering Physics 17 Expired
US6125425A Memory controller performing a mid transaction refresh and handling a suspend signal Electricity 13 Expired
US5901298A Method for utilizing a single multiplex address bus between DRAM, SRAM and ROM Physics 11 Expired
US6871119B2 Filter based throttling Physics 7 Expired
US10423415B2 Hierarchical general register file (GRF) for execution block Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US7178045B2 Optimizing exit latency from an active power management state Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US7631118B2 Lane to lane deskewing via non-data symbol processing for a serial point to point link Electricity 5 Active
US7913001B2 Lane to lane deskewing via non-data symbol processing for a serial point to point link Electricity 4 Active
US10649956B2 Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage Physics 4 Active
US8924756B2 Processor core with higher performance burst operation with lower power dissipation sustained workload mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7339995B2 Receiver symbol alignment for a serial point to point link Electricity 4 Expired
US9542336B2 Isochronous agent data pinning in a multi-level memory system Physics 2 Active
US10373285B2 Coarse grain coherency Physics 2 Active
US10282812B2 Page faulting and selective preemption Physics 2 Active
US7979608B2 Lane to lane deskewing via non-data symbol processing for a serial point to point link Electricity 2 Active
US11157431B2 System, apparatus and method for multi-die distributed memory mapped input/output support Physics 2 Active
US10719447B2 Cache and compression interoperability in a graphics processor pipeline Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US11210265B2 Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage Physics 2 Active
US8346992B2 Peripheral interface alert message for downstream device Electricity 1 Active
US11360914B2 Apparatus and method for memory management in a graphics processing environment Physics 1 Active
US10783084B2 Sector cache for compression Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US11748302B2 Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage Physics 1 Active
US11263141B2 Sector cache for compression Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active

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