Inventor · Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Earl A. Killian

34Patents
23h-index
36Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 27, 1983 → Jun 8, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6477683B1 Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same Physics 281 Expired
US5933650A Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing Physics 204 Expired
US7020854B2 Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same Physics 117 Expired
US5864703A Method for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations Physics 116 Expired
US6266758A Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing Physics 100 Expired
US7219212B1 Load/store operation of memory misaligned vector data using alignment register storing realigned data portion for combining with remaining portion Physics 84 Expired
US6760888B2 Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same Physics 81 Expired
US7036106B1 Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same Physics 69 Expired
US5398328A System for obtaining correct byte addresses by XOR-ING 2 LSB bits of byte address with binary 3 to facilitate compatibility between computer architecture having different memory orders Physics 57 Expired
US6282633A High data density RISC processor Physics 56 Expired
US6477697B1 ADDING COMPLEX INSTRUCTION EXTENSIONS DEFINED IN A STANDARDIZED LANGUAGE TO A MICROPROCESSOR DESIGN TO PRODUCE A CONFIGURABLE DEFINITION OF A TARGET INSTRUCTION SET, AND HDL DESCRIPTION OF CIRCUITRY NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE INSTRUCTION SET, AND DEVELOPMENT AND VERIFICATION TOOLS FOR THE INSTRUCTION SET Physics 55 Expired
US5027270A Processor controlled interface with instruction streaming Physics 53 Expired
US6854046B1 Configurable memory management unit Physics 51 Expired
US8006204B2 Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same Physics 50 Expired
US5420992A Backward-compatible computer architecture with extended word size and address space Physics 48 Expired
US7376812B1 Vector co-processor for configurable and extensible processor architecture Physics 44 Expired
US5568630A Backward-compatible computer architecture with extended word size and address space Physics 42 Expired
US5574877A TLB with two physical pages per virtual tag Physics 36 Expired
US5696958A Method and apparatus for reducing delays following the execution of a branch instruction in an instruction pipeline Physics 34 Expired
US6092187A Instruction prediction based on filtering Physics 34 Expired
US7197625B1 Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing Physics 33 Expired
US5572713A System and method for obtaining correct byte addresses by using logical operations on 2 least significant bits of byte address to facilitate compatibility between computer architectures having different memory orders Physics 29 Expired
US5479630A Hybrid cache having physical-cache and virtual-cache characteristics and method for accessing same Physics 26 Expired
US8074058B2 Providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations Physics 22 Active
US8161432B2 Automated processor generation system and method for designing a configurable processor Physics 12 Active

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