Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Michael D. Goddard

26Patents
17h-index
12Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 21, 1990 → Apr 4, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5632023A Superscalar microprocessor including flag operand renaming and forwarding apparatus Physics 101 Expired
US5689672A Pre-decoded instruction cache and method therefor particularly suitable for variable byte-length instructions Physics 87 Expired
US5574928A Mixed integer/floating point processor core for a superscalar microprocessor with a plurality of operand buses for transferring operand segments Physics 83 Expired
US5649225A Resynchronization of a superscalar processor Physics 74 Expired
US5696955A Floating point stack and exchange instruction Physics 71 Expired
US5748516A Floating point processing unit with forced arithmetic results Physics 69 Expired
US5796974A Microcode patching apparatus and method Physics 68 Expired
US5796973A Method and apparatus for decoding one or more complex instructions into concurrently dispatched simple instructions Physics 58 Expired
US5559975A Program counter update mechanism Physics 51 Expired
US5237700A Exception handling processor for handling first and second level exceptions with reduced exception latency Physics 27 Expired
US5764938A Resynchronization of a superscalar processor Physics 27 Expired
US5761105A Reservation station including addressable constant store for a floating point processing unit Physics 25 Expired
US5903772A Plural operand buses of intermediate widths coupling to narrower width integer and wider width floating point superscalar processing core Physics 22 Expired
US5857089A Floating point stack and exchange instruction Physics 22 Expired
US6351801B1 Program counter update mechanism Physics 21 Expired
US5630082A Apparatus and method for instruction queue scanning Physics 21 Expired
US5805853A Superscalar microprocessor including flag operand renaming and forwarding apparatus Physics 20 Expired
US5970235A Pre-decoded instruction cache and method therefor particularly suitable for variable byte-length instructions Physics 16 Expired
US5878266A Reservation station for a floating point processing unit Electricity 13 Expired
US5799162A Program counter update mechanism Physics 11 Expired
US5896518A Instruction queue scanning using opcode identification Physics 10 Expired
US6035386A Program counter update mechanism Physics 9 Expired
US6122721A Reservation station for a floating point processing unit Electricity 9 Expired
US6189087A Superscalar instruction decoder including an instruction queue Physics 7 Expired
US5502414A Circuit for delaying data latching from a precharged bus and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired

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