Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

William C. Plants

112Patents
25h-index
52Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: May 9, 1989 → Oct 13, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7358601B1 Architecture for face-to-face bonding between substrate and multiple daughter chips Electricity 259 Expired
US6150837A Enhanced field programmable gate array Electricity 169 Expired
US5744980A Flexible, high-performance static RAM architecture for field-programmable gate arrays Electricity 156 Expired
US5451887A Programmable logic module and architecture for field programmable gate array device Electricity 111 Expired
US7170315B2 Programmable system on a chip Electricity 104 Expired
US6496887B1 SRAM bus architecture and interconnect to an FPGA Electricity 83 Expired
US6038627A SRAM bus architecture and interconnect to an FPGA Electricity 79 Expired
US6049487A Embedded static random access memory for field programmable gate array Physics 75 Expired
US5952847A Multiple logic family compatible output driver Electricity 74 Expired
US6751723B1 Field programmable gate array and microcontroller system-on-a-chip Physics 67 Expired
US9812185B2 DRAM adjacent row disturb mitigation Physics 66 Active
US6237124A Methods for errors checking the configuration SRAM and user assignable SRAM data in a field programmable gate array Physics 59 Expired
US6430088B1 Embedded static random access memory for field programmable gate array Physics 45 Expired
US5625301A Flexible FPGA input/output architecture Electricity 44 Expired
US5570041A Programmable logic module and architecture for field programmable gate array device Electricity 40 Expired
US5391942A Clock distribution scheme for user-programmable logic array architecture Electricity 38 Expired
US5325338A Dual port memory, such as used in color lookup tables for video systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Expired
US6560743B2 Cyclic redundancy checking of a field programmable gate array having a SRAM memory architecture Physics 36 Expired
US5477165A Programmable logic module and architecture for field programmable gate array device Electricity 36 Expired
US5606267A Programmable logic module and architecture for field programmable gate array device Electricity 32 Expired
US7613943B2 Programmable system on a chip Electricity 31 Active
US6838899B2 Apparatus and method of error detection and correction in a radiation-hardened static random access memory field-programmable gate array Electricity 31 Expired
US5698992A Programmable logic module and architecture for field programmable gate array device Electricity 30 Expired
US5254886A Clock distribution scheme for user-programmable logic array architecture Electricity 27 Expired
US6718477B1 Delay locked loop for an FPGA architecture Physics 26 Expired

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