Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

Peter D. MacWilliams

61Patents
26h-index
61Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 26, 1988 → Aug 17, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6587912B2 Method and apparatus for implementing multiple memory buses on a memory module Physics 322 Expired
US6477614B1 Method for implementing multiple memory buses on a memory module Physics 244 Expired
US5355467A Second level cache controller unit and system Physics 177 Expired
US6075730A High performance cost optimized memory with delayed memory writes Physics 151 Expired
US5905876A Queue ordering for memory and I/O transactions in a multiple concurrent transaction computer system Physics 117 Expired
US5228134A Cache memory integrated circuit for use with a synchronous central processor bus and an asynchronous memory bus Physics 96 Expired
US5822767A Method and apparartus for sharing a signal line between agents Physics 84 Expired
US5293603A Cache subsystem for microprocessor based computer system with synchronous and asynchronous data path Physics 72 Expired
US4785396A Push-pull serial bus coupled to a plurality of devices each having collision detection circuit and arbitration circuit Electricity 69 Expired
US5796977A Highly pipelined bus architecture Physics 69 Expired
US6112016A Method and apparatus for sharing a signal line between agents Physics 69 Expired
US6202125A Processor-cache protocol using simple commands to implement a range of cache configurations Physics 60 Expired
US5615343A Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions Physics 51 Expired
US6226757A Apparatus and method for bus timing compensation Physics 50 Expired
US5906001A Method and apparatus for performing TLB shutdown operations in a multiprocessor system without invoking interrup handler routines Physics 44 Expired
US5572703A Method and apparatus for snoop stretching using signals that convey snoop results Physics 42 Expired
US5625779A Arbitration signaling mechanism to prevent deadlock guarantee access latency, and guarantee acquisition latency for an expansion bridge Physics 41 Expired
US6633947B1 Memory expansion channel for propagation of control and request packets Physics 40 Expired
US5651137A Scalable cache attributes for an input/output bus Physics 37 Expired
US5919254A Method and apparatus for switching between source-synchronous and common clock data transfer modes in a multiple processing system Physics 32 Expired
US5903916A Computer memory subsystem and method for performing opportunistic write data transfers during an access latency period within a read or refresh operation Physics 30 Expired
US6012118A Method and apparatus for performing bus operations in a computer system using deferred replies returned without using the address bus Physics 29 Expired
USRE38388E1 Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions General 29 Expired
US6247136A Method and apparatus for capturing data from a non-source synchronous component in a source synchronous environment Physics 27 Expired
US5513331A Method and apparatus for automatically configuring system memory address space of a computer system having a memory subsystem with indeterministic number of memory units of indeterministic sizes during system reset Physics 27 Expired

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