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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,119,999 |
Pre-regulator with reverse current blocking An apparatus includes a blocking N-channel MOS (LDMOS) transistor that prevents current flow when the supply connection is reversed. When connected properly, the... |
| US-7,119,940 |
Capacitively coupled micromirror A capacitively coupled microelectromechanical device and method of operation. The micromechanical device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a member operable... |
| US-7,119,847 |
Method for identifying format of a received video signal A method for identifying format of a video signal including a raster-synchronizing signal having a timing signal spanning a synch interval and a synch-follower... |
| US-7,119,845 |
Image resizing system and method Image resizing through resampling by poly-phase filtering with a phase generation from input parameters but with lower resolution of the phase for filter... |
| US-7,119,723 |
Decoding variable length codes while using optimal resources In one aspect, code-words of variable lengths are decoded using a multi-stage decoding approach, with different stages being of different sizes (and thus... |
| US-7,119,601 |
Backgate pull-up for PMOS pass-gates The pass-gate circuit with backgate pull-up includes: a pass-gate transistor coupled between a first port and a second port; a backgate pull-up transistor... |
| US-7,119,498 |
Current control device for driving LED devices A current control device for driving LED devices uses a switched-mode current control loop inside of an output intensity low-frequency pulse width modulation... |
| US-7,119,444 |
Versatile system for charge dissipation in the formation of semiconductor
device structures The present invention provides a system for dissipating any aberrant charge that may accumulate during the fabrication of a semiconductor device segment (200),... |
| US-7,119,386 |
Versatile system for triple-gated transistors with engineered corners The present invention provides a system for producing a triple-gate transistor segment (300), utilizing a standard semiconductor substrate (302). The substrate... |
| US-7,119,006 |
Via formation for damascene metal conductors in an integrated circuit A method of fabricating an integrated circuit, having copper metallization formed by a dual damascene process, is disclosed. A layered insulator structure is... |
| US-7,118,981 |
Method of fabricating an integrated silicon-germanium heterobipolar
transistor and an integrated... In a method of fabricating an integrated silicon-germanium heterobipolar transistor a silicon dioxide layer arranged between a silicon-germanium base layer and a... |
| US-7,118,980 |
Solid phase epitaxy recrystallization by laser annealing Methods (70) are described for fabricating shallow and abrupt gradient drain extensions for MOS type transistors, in which a solid phase epitaxial... |
| US-7,118,979 |
Method of manufacturing transistor having germanium implant region on the
sidewalls of the polysilicon gate... The present invention provides a transistor 100 having a germanium implant region 170 located therein, a method of manufacture therefor, and an integrated... |
| US-7,118,977 |
System and method for improved dopant profiles in CMOS transistors According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a gate stack on an outer surface of a... |
| US-7,118,959 |
Integrated circuit capacitor having antireflective dielectric A capacitor (100) is disclosed that is formed as part of an integrated circuit (IC) fabrication process. The capacitor (100) has conductive top and bottom... |
| US-7,118,958 |
Method of manufacturing a metal-insulator-metal capacitor using an
etchback process The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor, a method for manufacturing an integrated circuit having a... |
| US-7,118,925 |
Fabrication of a ferromagnetic inductor core and capacitor electrode in a
single photo mask step A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit on a semiconductor wafer. The method comprising forming a bottom plate of a capacitor 50a and a bottom portion of... |
| US-7,118,226 |
Sequential color recapture for image display systems A method for transmitting light in an image display system includes generating a beam of light from a light source. The beam of light is directed at a first... |
| US-7,118,225 |
Illumination system The addition of DMD illumination modulator(s) 702 in series with projection SLM(s) 706/709 to produce high-performance projection displays with improved optical... |
| US-7,117,800 |
Overhead material handling system and track block A material handling system (100) and method (200) for isolating a carrier mechanism (110) from the system. The system (100) comprises a track (103) having a... |
| US-7,117,799 |
Overhead material handling system and track block The present invention is directed to a material handling system (100) and method (200) for isolating a carrier mechanism (110) from the system. The system (100)... |
| US-7,117,476 |
Determining feasibility of IC edits A computer method of analyzing an integrated circuit ("IC") masked design data, comprising grouping into a cluster areas of layers preceding a target metal layer... |
| US-7,117,427 |
Reduced complexity decoding for trellis coded modulation The present application describes a method of implementing a Viterbi algorithm (VA) for trellis coded modulation (TCM) decoding in communication equipment.... |
| US-7,117,398 |
Program counter range comparator with equality, greater than, less than
and non-equal detection modes An program counter address comparator includes two comparators comparing an input program counter address with respective reference addresses. The comparators... |
| US-7,116,699 |
Frequency re-mapping for structure adaptive frequency hopping The invention generally provides a method of intelligent frequency hopping such as in Bluetooth and Home RF networks. The method (400) includes the acts of... |
| US-7,116,459 |
Field diode detection of excess light conditions for spatial light
modulator An improved SLM that is capable of detecting when light incident on the SLM exceeds a predetermined threshold. A diode is fabricated around, or within the pixel... |
| US-7,116,261 |
Method and apparatus for accurate inverse-linear voltage/current generator To make use of its full input voltage operating range, an analog-to-digital converter is configured with a switched-capacitor circuit to produce a digital output... |
| US-7,116,239 |
Current sense components failure detection in a multi-phase power system An evaluator (210) having an input (207) for receiving a signal indicative of a channel current sensed via a sensor in a mutlichannel current sharing system, and... |
| US-7,116,172 |
High-swing folded cascode having a novel gain-boost amplifier A circuit topology for gain boosted high-swing folded cascode has been improved to maximize the available dynamic range in applications having low supply voltage... |
| US-7,116,169 |
Driver apparatus and method of operation thereof A driver apparatus comprising a signal switching circuit coupled for receiving an actuation signal and generating a first and a second control signal in response... |
| US-7,116,158 |
Bandgap reference circuit for ultra-low current applications A bandgap reference circuit as may be used in ultra-low current applications is provided. An exemplary bandgap circuit can be configured to generate a positive... |
| US-7,116,139 |
Apparatus and method for controlling operation of a processor device
during startup An apparatus for controlling operation of a processor device during startup of the processor device includes: (a) a signal treating circuit receiving a voltage... |
| US-7,116,113 |
Systems and methods for sense FET calibration Systems, methods and circuits for sense circuit calibration. In one particular case, a system is provided that includes a sense circuit, a calibration circuit,... |
| US-7,116,085 |
DC-DC converter The objective of this invention is to reduce the current flowing through the inductance element in a step-up/step-down DC--DC converter and to control the ripple... |
| US-7,115,530 |
Top surface roughness reduction of high-k dielectric materials using
plasma based processes A system and method for manufacturing semiconductor devices with dielectric layers having a dielectric constant greater than silicon dioxide includes depositing... |
| US-7,115,467 |
Metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitor fabrication with sidewall barrier
removal aspect A method (10) of forming a MIM (metal insulator metal) capacitor is disclosed whereby adverse affects associated with copper diffusion are mitigated even as the... |
| US-7,115,461 |
High permittivity silicate gate dielectric A field effect semiconductor device comprising a high permittivity silicate gate dielectric and a method of forming the same are disclosed herein. The device... |
| US-7,114,053 |
Virtual-to-physical address conversion in a secure system In some embodiments, a storage medium comprises application software that performs one or more operations and that directly facilitates the conversion of a... |
| US-7,113,902 |
Data processing condition detector with table lookup In support of data processing emulation, a data processing condition indicated by a predetermined number of digital data processing signals can be detected by... |
| US-7,113,759 |
Controller area network transceiver having capacitive balancing circuit
for improved receiver common-mode rejection A controller area network transceiver and a transmission method for a controller area network provides improved symmetry between its differential output signal... |
| US-7,113,556 |
Reliable decision directed adaptation in a communication system employing
forward error control The present invention provides a method and apparatus for selectively updating an adaptive element in a communications receiver based on a determination that the... |
| US-7,113,543 |
Video encoding Motion compensation as for video compression with motion estimation with either frame mode or field mode by initial prediction of motion mode and when prediction... |
| US-7,113,516 |
Transmit buffer with dynamic size queues A method and apparatus for providing multiple queues that share a single memory buffer. A memory buffer is divided into a plurality of fixed length memory... |
| US-7,113,499 |
Wireless communication A wireless communication transmission channel estimation by initial data exchange to determine calibration factors to apply to tracked channel estimations from... |
| US-7,113,361 |
Retract method to reduce head friction with the disk for a hard disk drive An apparatus, method and system for retracting a read/write head (13) to a landing position of a disk (11) in a disk drive system (10) which includes an actuator... |
| US-7,113,359 |
Impedance-controlled write driver for low power preamp Disclosed are methods and circuits for impedance-controlled write drivers using matched impedance control circuits coupled in parallel with a magnetic write head. |
| US-7,113,302 |
Printer with unified display list and banded display lists A method is provided for generating an image having a plurality of bands. A page description representative of elements of the image is received from an external... |
| US-7,113,226 |
Method for generating a representation of a particular signal among a
plurality of signals representing lines... A method for generating a representation of a particular signal among video signals representing a display, the signals including a first component having a... |
| US-7,113,117 |
Reducing the effect of noise present along with an input signal when
sampling the input signal An aspect of the present invention reduces the effect of any noise present along with an input signal when sampling the input signal by charging each of several... |
| US-7,113,044 |
Precision current mirror and method for voltage to current conversion in
low voltage applications A voltage-to-current conversion circuit includes an error amplifier (12A) which amplifies a voltage difference between the drains of the first (6) and second (7)... |
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