Inventor · Richardson, TX, US

Donald E. Steiss

41Patents
15h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 26, 1989 → Feb 9, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7360064B1 Thread interleaving in a multithreaded embedded processor Physics 128 Expired
US5850543A Microprocessor with speculative instruction pipelining storing a speculative register value within branch target buffer for use in speculatively executing instructions after a return Physics 91 Expired
US6266754A Secure computing device including operating system stored in non-relocatable page of memory Physics 87 Expired
US5913049A Multi-stream complex instruction set microprocessor Physics 85 Expired
US6539467B1 Microprocessor with non-aligned memory access Physics 58 Expired
US6009516A Pipelined microprocessor with efficient self-modifying code detection and handling Physics 38 Expired
US6148395A Shared floating-point unit in a single chip multiprocessor Physics 27 Expired
US7441101B1 Thread-aware instruction fetching in a multithreaded embedded processor Physics 26 Expired
US6571363B1 Single event upset tolerant microprocessor architecture Physics 22 Expired
US5961632A Microprocessor with circuits, systems, and methods for selecting alternative pipeline instruction paths based on instruction leading codes Physics 19 Expired
US6065113A Circuits, systems, and methods for uniquely identifying a microprocessor at the instruction set level employing one-time programmable register Physics 17 Expired
US7551617B2 Multi-threaded packet processing architecture with global packet memory, packet recirculation, and coprocessor Electricity 16 Expired
US7206922B1 Instruction memory hierarchy for an embedded processor Physics 16 Expired
US6405351B1 System for verifying leaf-cell circuit properties Physics 16 Expired
US5838908A Device for having processors each having interface for transferring delivery units specifying direction and distance and operable to emulate plurality of field programmable gate arrays Physics 16 Expired
US6442667B1 Selectively powering X Y organized memory banks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US5815420A Microprocessor arithmetic logic unit using multiple number representations Physics 14 Expired
US6385120B1 Power-off state storage apparatus and method Physics 11 Expired
US8156309B2 Translation look-aside buffer with variable page sizes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US6061811A Circuits, systems, and methods for external evaluation of microprocessor built-in self-test Physics 7 Expired
US6781411B2 Flip flop with reduced leakage current Electricity 7 Expired
US5047973A High speed numerical processor for performing a plurality of numeric functions Physics 6 Expired
US6766440B1 Microprocessor with conditional cross path stall to minimize CPU cycle time length Physics 6 Expired
US7739426B1 Descriptor transfer logic Electricity 5 Active
US6895493B2 System and method for processing data in an integrated circuit environment Physics 4 Expired

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