Inventor · Austin, TX, US

James B. Eifert

23Patents
11h-index
38Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 23, 1989 → Sep 30, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5448744A Integrated circuit microprocessor with programmable chip select logic Physics 48 Expired
US5617559A Modular chip select control circuit and method for performing pipelined memory accesses Physics 42 Expired
US5649159A Data processor with a multi-level protection mechanism, multi-level protection circuit, and method therefor Physics 35 Expired
US5276824A Data processor having a multi-stage instruction pipe and selection logic responsive to an instruction decoder for selecting one stage of the instruction pipe Physics 26 Expired
US5511182A Programmable pin configuration logic circuit for providing a chip select signal and related method Physics 25 Expired
US5699516A Method and apparatus for implementing a in-order termination bus protocol within a data processing system Physics 25 Expired
US5072365A Direct memory access controller using prioritized interrupts for varying bus mastership Physics 21 Expired
US5651138A Data processor with controlled burst memory accesses and method therefor Physics 19 Expired
US8386747B2 Processor and method for dynamic and selective alteration of address translation Physics 17 Active
US5727172A Method and apparatus for performing atomic accesses in a data processing system Physics 16 Expired
US5241637A Data processor microsequencer having multiple microaddress sources and next microaddress source selection Physics 14 Expired
US6079015A Data processing system having selectable exception table relocation and method therefor Physics 10 Expired
US5675749A Method and apparatus for controlling show cycles in a data processing system Physics 10 Expired
US6240493A Method and apparatus for performing access censorship in a data processing system Physics 9 Expired
US5329621A Microprocessor which optimizes bus utilization based upon bus speed Physics 8 Expired
US6499092B1 Method and apparatus for performing access censorship in a data processing system Physics 8 Expired
US6052746A Integrated circuit having programmable pull device configured to enable/disable first function in favor of second function according to predetermined scheme before/after reset Physics 7 Expired
US8717829B2 System and method for soft error detection in memory devices Physics 6 Active
US5737566A Data processing system having a memory with both a high speed operating mode and a low power operating mode and method therefor Physics 5 Expired
US5717931A Method and apparatus for communicating between master and slave electronic devices where the slave device may be hazardous Physics 4 Expired
US7809980B2 Error detector in a cache memory using configurable way redundancy Physics 3 Active
US8380918B2 Non-volatile storage alteration tracking Physics 2 Active
US9891277B2 Secure low voltage testing Physics 0 Active

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