Stephen P. Sample
43Patents
28h-index
28Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: May 20, 1977 → Jul 24, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5452239A | Method of removing gated clocks from the clock nets of a netlist for timing sensitive implementation of the netlist in a hardware emulation system | Physics | 312 | Expired |
| US5109353A | Apparatus for emulation of electronic hardware system | Physics | 199 | Expired |
| US6732068B2 | Memory circuit for use in hardware emulation system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 197 | Expired |
| US6184707A | Look-up table based logic element with complete permutability of the inputs to the secondary signals | Physics | 176 | Expired |
| US5329470A | Reconfigurable hardware emulation system | Physics | 143 | Expired |
| US5887158A | Switching midplane and interconnecting system for interconnecting large numbers of signals | Electricity | 126 | Expired |
| US5960191A | Emulation system with time-multiplexed interconnect | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 118 | Expired |
| US6567967B2 | Method for designing large standard-cell base integrated circuits | Physics | 117 | Expired |
| US5352123A | Switching midplane and interconnection system for interconnecting large numbers of signals | Electricity | 117 | Expired |
| US6020760A | I/O buffer circuit with pin multiplexing | Electricity | 117 | Expired |
| US6694464B1 | Method and apparatus for dynamically testing electrical interconnect | Physics | 100 | Expired |
| US6285211A | I/O buffer circuit with pin multiplexing | Electricity | 97 | Expired |
| US6377912B1 | Emulation system with time-multiplexed interconnect | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 90 | Expired |
| US5841967A | Method and apparatus for design verification using emulation and simulation | Physics | 87 | Expired |
| US5943490A | Distributed logic analyzer for use in a hardware logic emulation system | Physics | 85 | Expired |
| US5477475A | Method for emulating a circuit design using an electrically reconfigurable hardware emulation apparatus | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US9411524B2 | Accelerator system for use with secure data storage | Electricity | 58 | Active |
| US5870410A | Diagnostic interface system for programmable logic system development | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US6011744A | Programmable logic device with multi-port memory | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US6058492A | Method and apparatus for design verification using emulation and simulation | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US5821773A | Look-up table based logic element with complete permutability of the inputs to the secondary signals | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US4099236A | Slave microprocessor for operation with a master microprocessor and a direct memory access controller | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US6289494A | Optimized emulation and prototyping architecture | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US7856546B2 | Configurable processor module accelerator using a programmable logic device | Physics | 45 | Active |
| US5644515A | Hardware logic emulation system capable of probing internal nodes in a circuit design undergoing emulation | Physics | 41 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.