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Alvar A. Dean
Also filed as: DEAN ALVAR · DEAN ALVAR A · DEAN ALVAR ANTONIO
35 granted patents·2 pending applications·1,388 citations·filing 1988–2010
98Inventor score
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37 records- 0191US6604174B1Performance based system and method for dynamic allocation of a unified multiport cacheIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 5, 2003·82 cites·16 claims
- 0290US6477654B1Managing VT for reduced power using power setting commands in the instruction streamIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 5, 2002·160 cites·32 claims
- 0389US6792582B1Concurrent logical and physical construction of voltage islands for mixed supply voltage designsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 14, 2004·65 cites·61 claims
- 0488US6609228B1Latch clustering for power optimizationIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 19, 2003·59 cites·21 claims
- 0588US6345362B1Managing Vt for reduced power using a status tableIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 5, 2002·139 cites·19 claims
- 0687US6687883B2System and method for inserting leakage reduction control in logic circuitsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 3, 2004·46 cites·46 claims
- 0785US6097243ADevice and method to reduce power consumption in integrated semiconductor devices using a low power groggy modeIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 1, 2000·46 cites·34 claims
- 0884US6711719B2Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in VLSI circuit designsIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 23, 2004·41 cites·19 claims
- 0984US6535016B2Method and circuit for providing copy protection in an application-specific integrated circuitIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 18, 2003·37 cites·4 claims
- 1084US6397170B1Simulation based power optimizationIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 28, 2002·110 cites·2 claims
- 1182US6487701B1System and method for AC performance tuning by thereshold voltage shifting in tubbed semiconductor technologyIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 26, 2002·27 cites·39 claims
- 1282US6479974B2Stacked voltage rails for low-voltage DC distributionIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 12, 2002·33 cites·12 claims
- 1378US6434704B1Methods for improving the efficiency of clock gating within low power clock treesIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 13, 2002·78 cites·28 claims
- 1476US6425109B1High level automatic core configurationIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 23, 2002·73 cites·17 claims
- 1572US6636995B1Method of automatic latch insertion for testing application specific integrated circuitsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 21, 2003·17 cites·18 claims
- 1672US6532520B1Method and apparatus for allocating data and instructions within a shared cacheIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 11, 2003·62 cites·25 claims
- 1769US7071757B2Clock signal distribution utilizing differential sinusoidal signal pairIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 4, 2006·12 cites·2 claims
- 1868US6317840B1Control of multiple equivalent functional units for power reductionIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 13, 2001·50 cites·16 claims
- 1968US6097241AASIC low power activity detector to change threshold voltageIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 1, 2000·50 cites·16 claims
- 2067US7350108B1Test system for integrated circuitsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 25, 2008·23 cites·16 claims
- 2166US7782898B2Wideband cable systemCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 24, 2010·11 cites·36 claims
- 2265US7478280B2Test system for integrated circuitsIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 13, 2009·3 cites·7 claims
- 2365US6246254B1Method and circuit for providing copy protection in an application-specific integrated circuitIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 12, 2001·38 cites·18 claims
- 2460US6802033B1Low-power critical error rate communications controllerIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 5, 2004·42 cites·17 claims
- 2558US6237132B1Toggle based application specific core methodologyIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 22, 2001·33 cites·19 claims
- 2652US7469395B2Wiring optimizations for powerIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 23, 2008·0 cites·24 claims
- 2752US6985004B2Wiring optimizations for powerIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 10, 2006·2 cites·20 claims
- 2849US7135907B2Clock signal distribution utilizing differential sinusoidal signal pairIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 14, 2006·0 cites·14 claims
- 2949US6011383ALow powering apparatus for automatic reduction of power in active and standby modesIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 4, 2000·19 cites·28 claims
- 3048US8457156B2Wideband cable systemCHAPMAN JOHN T·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 4, 2013·0 cites·20 claims
- 3148US7346875B2Wiring optimizations for powerIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 18, 2008·0 cites·11 claims
- 3248US2010316104A1Wideband cable systemCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 3344US6433618B1Variable power device with selective threshold controlIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 13, 2002·8 cites·17 claims
- 3438US6269468B1Split I/O circuit for performance optimization of digital circuitsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 31, 2001·10 cites·16 claims
- 3536US2002152361A1Directed least recently used cache replacement methodIBM·Filed 2001·Application pending·0 cites
- 3635US6275968B1Apparatus and method to reduce node toggling in semiconductor devicesIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 14, 2001·6 cites·10 claims
- 3731US4945509ADual look ahead mask generatorIBM·Filed 1988·Granted Jul 31, 1990·6 cites·10 claims
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