Inventor · Issaquah, WA, US

Monte Mar

55Patents
22h-index
25Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 10, 1995 → Mar 17, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6191660A Programmable oscillator scheme Electricity 134 Expired
US6724220B1 Programmable microcontroller architecture (mixed analog/digital) Electricity 120 Expired
US6981090B1 Multiple use of microcontroller pad Physics 110 Expired
US6941336B1 Programmable analog system architecture Electricity 98 Expired
US6294962A Circuit(s), architecture and method(s) for operating and/or tuning a ring oscillator Electricity 90 Expired
US6798299B1 Crystal-less oscillator circuit with trimmable analog current control for increased stability Electricity 80 Expired
US6515551B1 Programmable oscillator scheme Electricity 79 Expired
US5822387A Apparatus for fast phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency slewing during power on Electricity 75 Expired
US6608472B1 Band-gap reference circuit for providing an accurate reference voltage compensated for process state, process variations and temperature Electricity 75 Expired
US7149316B1 Microcontroller having an on-chip high gain amplifier Electricity 73 Expired
US6563391B1 Precision crystal oscillator circuit used in microcontroller Electricity 67 Expired
US7221187B1 Programmable microcontroller architecture (mixed analog/digital) Electricity 66 Expired
US6525593B1 Method and apparatus for local and global power management in a programmable analog circuit Electricity 65 Expired
US7092980B1 Programming architecture for a programmable analog system Physics 65 Expired
US6950954B1 Method and circuit for synchronizing a write operation between an on-chip microprocessor and an on-chip programmable analog device operating at different frequencies Physics 61 Expired
US6753739B1 Programmable oscillator scheme Electricity 60 Expired
US6910126B1 Programming methodology and architecture for a programmable analog system Electricity 60 Expired
US8487655B1 Combined analog architecture and functionality in a mixed-signal array Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Active
US5532636A Source-switched charge pump circuit Electricity 44 Expired
US5724007A Adjustable lock detector for a phase-locked loop circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US6114914A Fractional synthesis scheme for generating periodic signals Electricity 34 Expired
US8358150B1 Programmable microcontroller architecture(mixed analog/digital) Electricity 25 Active
US7825688B1 Programmable microcontroller architecture(mixed analog/digital) Electricity 22 Active
US5900752A Circuit and method for deskewing variable supply signal paths Physics 19 Expired
US8092083B2 Temperature sensor with digital bandgap Electricity 15 Active

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