Inventor · South Burlington, VT, US

Robert J. Devins

25Patents
10h-index
20Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 25, 1995 → Aug 14, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6571373B1 Simulator-independent system-on-chip verification methodology Physics 95 Expired
US6658633B2 Automated system-on-chip integrated circuit design verification system Physics 85 Expired
US6615167B1 Processor-independent system-on-chip verification for embedded processor systems Physics 75 Expired
US6539522B1 Method of developing re-usable software for efficient verification of system-on-chip integrated circuit designs Physics 47 Expired
US5784595A DMA emulation for non-DMA capable interface cards Physics 47 Expired
US6427224B1 Method for efficient verification of system-on-chip integrated circuit designs including an embedded processor Physics 34 Expired
US6952215B1 Method and system for graphics rendering using captured graphics hardware instructions Physics 25 Expired
US6487699B1 Method of controlling external models in system-on-chip verification Physics 17 Expired
US6762761B2 Method and system for graphics rendering using hardware-event-triggered execution of captured graphics hardware instructions Physics 14 Expired
US5668957A Method and apparatus for providing virtual DMA capability on an adapter connected to a computer system bus with no DMA support Physics 12 Expired
US7849362B2 Method and system of coherent design verification of inter-cluster interactions Physics 10 Active
US6525738B1 Display list processor for decoupling graphics subsystem operations from a host processor Physics 10 Expired
US6865502B2 Method and system for logic verification using mirror interface Physics 9 Expired
US6868545B1 Method for re-using system-on-chip verification software in an operating system Physics 6 Expired
US7353131B2 Method and system for logic verification using mirror interface Physics 4 Expired
US7451070B2 Optimal bus operation performance in a logic simulation environment Physics 4 Active
US8234624B2 System and method for developing embedded software in-situ Physics 3 Active
US5768631A Audio adapter card and method for trapping audio command and producing sound corresponding to the trapped command Physics 3 Expired
US7729877B2 Method and system for logic verification using mirror interface Physics 2 Active
US7711534B2 Method and system of design verification Physics 2 Active
US7353156B2 Method of switching external models in an automated system-on-chip integrated circuit design verification system Physics 2 Expired
US7917348B2 Method of switching external models in an automated system-on-chip integrated circuit design verification system Physics 1 Active
US9367493B2 Method and system of communicating between peer processors in SoC environment Physics 1 Active
US7176927B2 Method and system for graphics rendering using hardware-event-triggered execution of captured graphics hardware instructions Physics 0 Expired
US8140314B2 Optimal bus operation performance in a logic simulation environment Physics 0 Active

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