Inventor · Cedar Park, TX, US

Michael D. Snyder

50Patents
14h-index
66Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 7, 1978 → Oct 11, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6073215A Data processing system having a data prefetch mechanism and method therefor Physics 122 Expired
US6202130A Data processing system for processing vector data and method therefor Physics 111 Expired
US6119203A Mechanism for sharing data cache resources between data prefetch operations and normal load/store operations in a data processing system Physics 85 Expired
US6269427A Multiple load miss handling in a cache memory system Physics 60 Expired
US5630095A Method for use with a data coherency protocol allowing multiple snoop queries to a single snoop transaction and system therefor Physics 56 Expired
US6499116B1 Performance of data stream touch events Physics 42 Expired
US6163835A Method and apparatus for transferring data over a processor interface bus Physics 24 Expired
US6785772B2 Data prefetching apparatus in a data processing system and method therefor Physics 24 Expired
US4193064A Multiple pulse timer Physics 22 Expired
US8615644B2 Processor with hardware thread control logic indicating disable status when instructions accessing shared resources are completed for safe shared resource condition Physics 19 Active
US6240479A Method and apparatus for transferring data on a split bus in a data processing system Physics 18 Expired
US6581140B1 Method and apparatus for improving access time in set-associative cache systems Physics 17 Expired
US8261047B2 Qualification of conditional debug instructions based on address Physics 17 Active
US5422914A System and method for synchronizing data communications between two devices operating at different clock frequencies Physics 15 Expired
US6321303A Dynamically modifying queued transactions in a cache memory system Physics 12 Expired
US8117618B2 Forward progress mechanism for a multithreaded processor Physics 12 Active
US7681021B2 Dynamic branch prediction using a wake value to enable low power mode for a predicted number of instruction fetches between a branch and a subsequent branch Physics 11 Active
US7852692B2 Memory operation testing Physics 10 Active
US9047079B2 Indicating disabled thread to other threads when contending instructions complete execution to ensure safe shared resource condition Physics 10 Active
US8156357B2 Voltage-based memory size scaling in a data processing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US7506105B2 Prefetching using hashed program counter Physics 9 Expired
US7849247B2 Interrupt controller for accelerated interrupt handling in a data processing system and method thereof Physics 8 Active
US7069384B2 System and method for cache external writing and write shadowing Physics 7 Expired
US8041901B2 Performance monitoring device and method thereof Physics 6 Active
US8539485B2 Polling using reservation mechanism Physics 6 Active

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