with Tony for more than a decade – first at Apple and more recently as an advisor to Nest,” said Lutton. “What he and the Nest team have built is incredibly inspiring – the company has been disruptive from day one and has no plans to slow down. I’m excited to help Nest drive and defend its innovative products and business culture.”

Lutton is the former chief intellectual property officer of Apple Inc. In his ten years in the role, he was involved in all aspects of Apple’s patent development, acquisition, licensing, enforcement and dispute resolution. He has testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission, and is a recognized expert in the legal field. Prior to Apple, he served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Randallthe read operation under the control of the system clock. When the outputs of the DRAM are clocked six cycles (60 ns) later, the desired data is in the output latches.
A synchronous DRAM architecture also makes it possible to speed up the average access time of the DRAM by pipelining the addresses. In this case, it is possible to use the input latch to store the next address which the processor while the DRAM is operating on the previous address. Normally, the addresses to be accessed are known several cycles in advance by the processor. Therefore, the processor can send the second address to the input address latch of the DRAM to be available as soon as the first address has moved on to the next stage of