Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Tim Tuan

49Patents
14h-index
49Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 22, 2003 → Nov 14, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7973556B1 System and method for using reconfiguration ports for power management in integrated circuits Electricity 75 Active
US7098689B1 Disabling unused/inactive resources in programmable logic devices for static power reduction Electricity 51 Expired
US7581124B1 Method and mechanism for controlling power consumption of an integrated circuit Physics 34 Active
US7498835B1 Implementation of low power standby modes for integrated circuits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US6950998B1 Place-and-route with power analysis Physics 31 Expired
US7620926B1 Methods and structures for flexible power management in integrated circuits Electricity 27 Active
US7764081B1 Programmable logic device (PLD) with memory refresh based on single event upset (SEU) occurrence to maintain soft error immunity Electricity 26 Active
US7498836B1 Programmable low power modes for embedded memory blocks Electricity 23 Expired
US7504854B1 Regulating unused/inactive resources in programmable logic devices for static power reduction Electricity 18 Active
US7477073B1 Structures and methods for heterogeneous low power programmable logic device Electricity 17 Active
US10866753B2 Data processing engine arrangement in a device Physics 15 Active
US7490302B1 Power gating various number of resources based on utilization levels Physics 15 Active
US7549139B1 Tuning programmable logic devices for low-power design implementation Electricity 14 Expired
US8159263B1 Programmable integrated circuit with voltage domains Electricity 14 Active
US7992020B1 Power management with packaged multi-die integrated circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US11336287B1 Data processing engine array architecture with memory tiles Electricity 12 Active
US7810058B1 Early power estimator for integrated circuits Physics 11 Expired
US7243312B1 Method and apparatus for power optimization during an integrated circuit design process Physics 11 Expired
US7417454B1 Low-swing interconnections for field programmable gate arrays Electricity 9 Expired
US7545177B1 Method and apparatus for leakage current reduction Electricity 9 Active
US7562332B1 Disabling unused/inactive resources in programmable logic devices for static power reduction Electricity 9 Active
US10635622B2 System-on-chip interface architecture Physics 6 Active
US11520717B1 Memory tiles in data processing engine array Physics 6 Active
US9348959B1 Optimizing supply voltage and threshold voltage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US7253661B1 Method and apparatus for a configurable latch Electricity 5 Expired

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