Inventor · Milpitas, CA, US

Earl T. Cohen

157Patents
27h-index
109Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 22, 1987 → Jul 8, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6000006A Unified re-map and cache-index table with dual write-counters for wear-leveling of non-volatile flash RAM mass storage Physics 668 Expired
US5822251A Expandable flash-memory mass-storage using shared buddy lines and intermediate flash-bus between device-specific buffers and flash-intelligent DMA controllers Physics 188 Expired
US5956743A Transparent management at host interface of flash-memory overhead-bytes using flash-specific DMA having programmable processor-interrupt of high-level operations Physics 155 Expired
US7360064B1 Thread interleaving in a multithreaded embedded processor Physics 128 Expired
US5781457A Merge/mask, rotate/shift, and boolean operations from two instruction sets executed in a vectored mux on a dual-ALU Physics 125 Expired
US7304942B1 Methods and apparatus for maintaining statistic counters and updating a secondary counter storage via a queue for reducing or eliminating overflow of the counters Electricity 102 Expired
US5551001A Master-slave cache system for instruction and data cache memories Physics 93 Expired
US5692152A Master-slave cache system with de-coupled data and tag pipelines and loop-back Physics 76 Expired
US8949517B2 Self-journaling and hierarchical consistency for non-volatile storage Physics 74 Active
US9389805B2 I/O device and computing host interoperation Physics 74 Active
US5608886A Block-based branch prediction using a target finder array storing target sub-addresses Physics 71 Expired
US6292705A Method and apparatus for address transfers, system serialization, and centralized cache and transaction control, in a symetric multiprocessor system Physics 70 Expired
US5440710A Emulation of segment bounds checking using paging with sub-page validity Physics 69 Expired
US7975109B2 System including a fine-grained memory and a less-fine-grained memory Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Active
US7080365B2 Method and apparatus for simulation system compiler Physics 64 Expired
US5644752A Combined store queue for a master-slave cache system Physics 57 Expired
US6516442B1 Channel interface and protocols for cache coherency in a scalable symmetric multiprocessor system Physics 52 Expired
US5542109A Address tracking and branch resolution in a processor with multiple execution pipelines and instruction stream discontinuities Physics 52 Expired
US5784590A Slave cache having sub-line valid bits updated by a master cache Physics 49 Expired
US7036114B2 Method and apparatus for cycle-based computation Physics 41 Expired
US8930778B2 Read disturb effect determination Physics 38 Active
US5442577A Sign-extension of immediate constants in an alu Physics 36 Expired
US4833678A Hard-wired serial Galois field decoder Physics 32 Expired
US6466825B1 Method and apparatus for address transfers, system serialization, and centralized cache and transaction control, in a symetric multiprocessor system Physics 31 Expired
US5633819A Inexact leading-one/leading-zero prediction integrated with a floating-point adder Physics 30 Expired

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