Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Frederick Curtis Furtek

50Patents
16h-index
32Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 2, 1985 → Dec 31, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5144166A Programmable logic cell and array Electricity 376 Expired
US4918440A Programmable logic cell and array Electricity 178 Expired
US5894565A Field programmable gate array with distributed RAM and increased cell utilization Electricity 165 Expired
US4700187A Programmable, asynchronous logic cell and array Electricity 160 Expired
US6014509A Field programmable gate array having access to orthogonal and diagonal adjacent neighboring cells Electricity 153 Expired
US5296759A Diagonal wiring between abutting logic cells in a configurable logic array Electricity 150 Expired
US5245227A Versatile programmable logic cell for use in configurable logic arrays Electricity 148 Expired
US5218240A Programmable logic cell and array with bus repeaters Electricity 99 Expired
US5298805A Versatile and efficient cell-to-local bus interface in a configurable logic array Electricity 84 Expired
US5019736A Programmable logic cell and array Electricity 83 Expired
US4845633A System for programming graphically a programmable, asynchronous logic cell and array Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 79 Expired
US5652529A Programmable array clock/reset resource Electricity 76 Expired
US6167559A FPGA structure having main, column and sector clock lines Electricity 73 Expired
US5155389A Programmable logic cell and array Electricity 57 Expired
US5089973A Programmable logic cell and array Electricity 42 Expired
US6292021A FPGA structure having main, column and sector reset lines Electricity 27 Expired
US6026227A FPGA logic cell internal structure including pair of look-up tables Electricity 15 Expired
US7451280B2 External memory controller node Electricity 14 Active
US5504931A Method and apparatus for comparing data sets Electricity 12 Expired
US5430886A Method and apparatus for motion estimation Electricity 12 Expired
US5703498A Programmable array clock/reset resource Electricity 9 Expired
US9319066B2 Parallel processing of data having data dependencies for accelerating the launch and performance of operating systems and other computing applications Electricity 7 Active
US9647686B2 Parallel processing of data having data dependencies for accelerating the launch and performance of operating systems and other computing applications Electricity 6 Active
US11669526B2 Parallel processing of data having data dependencies for accelerating the launch and performance of operating systems and other computing applications Electricity 5 Active
US7225301B2 External memory controller node Electricity 4 Expired

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