Dean Liu
54Patents
12h-index
22Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 20, 2001 → Jun 23, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7323916B1 | Methods and apparatus for generating multiple clocks using feedback interpolation | Electricity | 86 | Expired |
| US6650157B2 | Using a push/pull buffer to improve delay locked loop performance | Electricity | 63 | Expired |
| US7724815B1 | Method and apparatus for a programmably terminated receiver | Electricity | 61 | Active |
| US6686785B2 | Deskewing global clock skew using localized DLLs | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US7436229B2 | Methods and apparatus for minimizing jitter in a clock synthesis circuit that uses feedback interpolation | Electricity | 21 | Active |
| US6476663B1 | Method for reducing supply noise near an on-die thermal sensor | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US7432750B1 | Methods and apparatus for frequency synthesis with feedback interpolation | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US6882196B2 | Duty cycle corrector | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US6806698B2 | Quantifying a difference between nodal voltages | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US7913104B1 | Method and apparatus for receive channel data alignment with minimized latency variation | Electricity | 17 | Active |
| US7978802B1 | Method and apparatus for a mesochronous transmission system | Electricity | 16 | Active |
| US6815986B2 | Design-for-test technique for a delay locked loop | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US6687881B2 | Method for optimizing loop bandwidth in delay locked loops | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6614287B1 | Calibration technique for delay locked loop leakage current | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6493864B1 | Integrated circuit block model representation hierarchical handling of timing exceptions | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6662126B2 | Measuring skew using on-chip sampling | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7251305B2 | Method and apparatus to store delay locked loop biasing parameters | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6597218B1 | Programmable bias-generator for self-biasing a delay locked loop | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US6597219B1 | Delay locked loop design with switch for loop filter capacitance leakage current control | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6570420B1 | Programmable current source adjustment of leakage current for delay locked loop | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6704680B2 | Method for decoupling capacitor optimization for a temperature sensor design | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US6671863B2 | Optimization of loop bandwidth for a phase locked loop | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US6664831B2 | Circuit for post-silicon control of delay locked loop charge pump current | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US6819192B2 | Jitter estimation for a phase locked loop | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US7489982B2 | Method and software for conducting efficient lithography WPH / lost time analysis in semiconductor manufacturing | Physics | 6 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.