Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Drew E. Wingard

44Patents
14h-index
38Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 5, 1997 → Aug 8, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6182183A Communications system and method with multilevel connection identification Electricity 100 Expired
US5948089A Fully-pipelined fixed-latency communications system with a real time dynamic bandwidth allocation Physics 99 Expired
US6725313B1 Communications system and method with multilevel connection identification Electricity 88 Expired
US6330225A Communication system and method for different quality of service guarantees for different data flows Electricity 67 Expired
US7120712B2 Communications system and method with multilevel connection identification Electricity 40 Expired
US7793345B2 Method and apparatus for a configurable protection architecture for on-chip systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Active
US7155554B2 Methods and apparatuses for generating a single request for block transactions over a communication fabric Physics 29 Expired
US7325221B1 Logic system with configurable interface Physics 29 Expired
US6785753B2 Method and apparatus for response modes in pipelined environment Physics 26 Expired
US7165094B2 Communications system and method with non-blocking shared interface Physics 24 Expired
US8190804B1 Various methods and apparatus for a memory scheduler with an arbiter Physics 21 Active
US8108648B2 Various methods and apparatus for address tiling Physics 19 Active
US9405700B2 Methods and apparatus for virtualization in an integrated circuit Physics 16 Active
US7647441B2 Communications system and method with multilevel connection identification Electricity 15 Active
US7277975B2 Methods and apparatuses for decoupling a request from one or more solicited responses Physics 13 Expired
US7254603B2 On-chip inter-network performance optimization using configurable performance parameters Electricity 13 Expired
US8032676B2 Methods and apparatuses to manage bandwidth mismatches between a sending device and a receiving device Electricity 12 Active
US7356633B2 Composing on-chip interconnects with configurable interfaces Physics 11 Expired
US8032329B2 Method and system to monitor, debug, and analyze performance of an electronic design Physics 10 Active
US7194566B2 Communication system and method with configurable posting points Electricity 9 Expired
US7296105B2 Method and apparatus for configuring an interconnect to implement arbitration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US7266786B2 Method and apparatus for configurable address mapping and protection architecture and hardware for on-chip systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US8438320B2 Various methods and apparatus for address tiling and channel interleaving throughout the integrated system Physics 8 Active
US8868941B2 Apparatus and methods for an interconnect power manager Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US8972995B2 Apparatus and methods to concurrently perform per-thread as well as per-tag memory access scheduling within a thread and across two or more threads Physics 8 Active

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