Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Dean Liu

54Patents
12h-index
22Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 20, 2001 → Jun 23, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.