Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Dean Mulla

47Patents
16h-index
93Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 4, 1994 → Sep 26, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6948094B2 Method of correcting a machine check error Physics 261 Expired
US6185660A Pending access queue for providing data to a target register during an intermediate pipeline phase after a computer cache miss Physics 77 Expired
US5652859A Method and apparatus for handling snoops in multiprocessor caches having internal buffer queues Physics 65 Expired
US5664148A Cache arrangement including coalescing buffer queue for non-cacheable data Physics 51 Expired
US5577227A Method for decreasing penalty resulting from a cache miss in multi-level cache system Physics 45 Expired
US6772383B1 Combined tag and data ECC for enhanced soft error recovery from cache tag errors Electricity 37 Expired
US6418521B1 Hierarchical fully-associative-translation lookaside buffer structure Physics 36 Expired
US6427188B1 Method and system for early tag accesses for lower-level caches in parallel with first-level cache Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US6539457B1 Cache address conflict mechanism without store buffers Physics 28 Expired
US6272597A Dual-ported, pipelined, two level cache system Physics 27 Expired
US5860095A Conflict cache having cache miscounters for a computer memory system Physics 25 Expired
US6105115A Method and apparatus for managing a memory array Physics 20 Expired
US6557078B1 Cache chain structure to implement high bandwidth low latency cache memory subsystem Physics 19 Expired
US6687262B1 Distributed MUX scheme for bi-endian rotator circuit Physics 18 Expired
US6226763A Method and apparatus for performing cache accesses Physics 18 Expired
US5870387A Method and apparatus for initializing a ring Physics 17 Expired
US6507892B1 L1 cache memory Physics 15 Expired
US5696939A Apparatus and method using a semaphore buffer for semaphore instructions Physics 14 Expired
US7159046B2 Method and apparatus for configuring communication between devices in a computer system Physics 13 Expired
US7376877B2 Combined tag and data ECC for enhanced soft error recovery from cache tag errors Electricity 12 Expired
US6427189B1 Multiple issue algorithm with over subscription avoidance feature to get high bandwidth through cache pipeline Physics 11 Expired
US6381678B2 Processing ordered data requests to a memory Physics 10 Expired
US6591393B1 Masking error detection/correction latency in multilevel cache transfers Physics 9 Expired
US6453427B2 Method and apparatus for handling data errors in a computer system Physics 8 Expired
US6427191B1 High performance fully dual-ported, pipelined cache design Physics 8 Expired

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