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Bill Coates
Senior Staff Engineer
VLSI Research Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories


16 Network Circle
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Menlo Park, CA 94025


Bill Coates is a researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the VLSI Research project. His research interests include asynchronous circuits, computer-aided design tools, high-performance computing, and high-speed CMOS circuits.

Education:

* BS, MS, Computer Science, University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada

Latest Sun Patents

  • Method and apparatus for electronically aligning capacitively coupled mini-bars
    (Jun 10, 2008)
  • Optical communication between face-to-face semiconductor chips
    (May 6, 2008)
  • Method and apparatus for limiting the number of asynchronous events that occur during a clock cycle
    (Nov 13, 2007)
  • Speed-matching control method and circuit
    (Aug 14, 2007)
  • Switch fabric for asynchronously transferring data within a circuit
    (May 25, 2004)
    See all 13 patents »

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