Inventor · Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Edwin R. Jones

42Patents
30h-index
16Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 16, 1981 → Nov 22, 1999

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5777360A Hexagonal field programmable gate array architecture Electricity 251 Expired
US5822214A CAD for hexagonal architecture Electricity 224 Expired
US5980093A Integrated circuit layout routing using multiprocessing Physics 195 Expired
US6407434B1 Hexagonal architecture Electricity 171 Expired
US5811863A Transistors having dynamically adjustable characteristics Electricity 155 Expired
US5636125A Computer implemented method for producing optimized cell placement for integrated circiut chip Physics 154 Expired
US5495419A Integrated circuit physical design automation system utilizing optimization process decomposition and parallel processing Physics 152 Expired
US5650653A "Microelectronic integrated circuit including triangular CMOS ""nand"" gate device" Electricity 132 Expired
US6155725A Cell placement representation and transposition for integrated circuit physical design automation system Physics 131 Expired
US5973376A Architecture having diamond shaped or parallelogram shaped cells Electricity 123 Expired
US5742086A Hexagonal DRAM array Electricity 117 Expired
US6067409A Advanced modular cell placement system Physics 114 Expired
US5889329A Tri-directional interconnect architecture for SRAM Electricity 114 Expired
US4807024A Three-dimensional display methods and apparatus Electricity 111 Expired
US6292929A Advanced modular cell placement system Physics 100 Expired
US5557533A Cell placement alteration apparatus for integrated circuit chip physical design automation system Physics 91 Expired
US5872380A Hexagonal sense cell architecture Electricity 87 Expired
US5682322A Optimization processing for integrated circuit physical design automation system using chaotic fitness improvement method Physics 63 Expired
US6493658B1 Optimization processing for integrated circuit physical design automation system using optimally switched fitness improvement algorithms Physics 56 Expired
US5875117A Simultaneous placement and routing (SPAR) method for integrated circuit physical design automation system Physics 55 Expired
US5745363A Optimization processing for integrated circuit physical design automation system using optimally switched cost function computations Physics 52 Expired
US5742510A Simultaneous placement and routing (SPAR) method for integrated circuit physical design automation system Physics 48 Expired
US5808330A Polydirectional non-orthoginal three layer interconnect architecture Electricity 47 Expired
US5903461A Method of cell placement for an integrated circuit chip comprising chaotic placement and moving windows Physics 45 Expired
US4924853A Stereoscopic medical viewing device Human Necessities 45 Expired

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