William C. Plants
112Patents
25h-index
52Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: May 9, 1989 → Oct 13, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.