Patents by Inventor Derrick D. DaCosta

Derrick D. DaCosta has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5164916
    Abstract: A high-density memory module has thirty-two memory integrated circuit chips, sixteen decoupling capacitors, and two resistors mounted on a double-sided multi-layer printed wiring board having a series of edge terminals for connection to a motherboard. One side of the board has a first 2.times.8 rectangular matrix of the chips, and the other side of the board has a second 2.times.8 matrix of the chips. The chips are grouped into four "strings," each of which includes eight chips which receive the same row address strobe and column address strobe. Each string is selected by a unique row address strobe. All four strings share a common data bus. Two of the strings share a first column address strobe and a first address bus, and the other two strings share a second column address strobe and a second address bus, to facilitate four-way interleaved memory access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew L. Wu, Derrick D. DaCosta, Stephen R. Coe, Donald C. Pierce, E. William Bruce, II