Inventor · New Brighton, MN, US

Joseph P. Kerzman

19Patents
14h-index
29Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 9, 1994 → Aug 7, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6684376B1 Method and apparatus for selecting components within a circuit design database Physics 185 Expired
US6889370B1 Method and apparatus for selecting and aligning cells using a placement tool Physics 113 Expired
US6029205A System architecture for improved message passing and process synchronization between concurrently executing processes Physics 75 Expired
US5696693A Method for placing logic functions and cells in a logic design using floor planning by analogy Physics 59 Expired
US6516456B1 Method and apparatus for selectively viewing nets within a database editor tool Physics 43 Expired
US5724250A Method and apparatus for performing drive strength adjust optimization in a circuit design Physics 42 Expired
US5555396A Hierarchical queuing in a system architecture for improved message passing and process synchronization Physics 37 Expired
US5726903A Method and apparatus for resolving conflicts between cell substitution recommendations provided by a drive strength adjust tool Physics 37 Expired
US5719783A Method and apparatus for performing timing analysis on a circuit design Physics 34 Expired
US6701289B1 Method and apparatus for using a placement tool to manipulate cell substitution lists Physics 33 Expired
US5912820A Method and apparatus for distributing a clock tree within a hierarchical circuit design Physics 29 Expired
US6910200B1 Method and apparatus for associating selected circuit instances and for performing a group operation thereon Physics 29 Expired
US5577259A Instruction processor control system using separate hardware and microcode control signals to control the pipelined execution of multiple classes of machine instructions Physics 26 Expired
US6546532B1 Method and apparatus for traversing and placing cells using a placement tool Physics 23 Expired
US7076410B1 Method and apparatus for efficiently viewing a number of selected components using a database editor tool Physics 14 Expired
US5611065A Address prediction for relative-to-absolute addressing Physics 13 Expired
US10153775B1 Phase interpolator Physics 5 Active
US10425090B2 Phase interpolator Physics 1 Active
US10840924B2 Phase interpolator Physics 1 Active

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