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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,088,486 |
Yokeless hidden hinge micromirror device with double binge layer A micromirror array 110 fabricated on a semiconductor substrate 11. The array 110 is comprised of four operating layers 12, 13, 14, 15. An addressing layer 12 is... |
| US-7,088,274 |
Difference amplifier for digital-to-analog converter An improved circuit is provided that buffers the output of a DAC while improving the bandwidth and linearity of the circuit. A DAC comprises an output signal of... |
| US-7,088,273 |
Reducing noise in switched capacitor amplifier circuit A switched capacitor environment in which a feedback capacitor of a stage is flipped to be used as a sampling capacitor of the next stage. Due to such use of the... |
| US-7,088,182 |
Class AB output stage circuit with stable quiescent current A class-AB output stage circuit is configured with controllable reference voltages for providing stable quiescent current. An exemplary output stage circuit... |
| US-7,088,177 |
Amplifier apparatus An amplifier apparatus includes: (a) an integrator having an input for receiving an input signal, and integrating the input signal to present an integrated... |
| US-7,088,171 |
Charge pump with constant output current An improved charge pump circuit that is capable of producing a constant output current. The charge pump circuit includes a controllable current source, at least... |
| US-7,088,149 |
Enhancing SNR and throughput performance of integrated circuits Low voltage transistors are used in high voltage environment. The low voltage transistors may be used in the path of processing of a signal to increase the... |
| US-7,088,123 |
System and method for extraction of C-V characteristics of ultra-thin
oxides In one embodiment, a method for extracting C-V characteristics of ultra-thin oxides includes coupling a device under test to a testing structure, in which the... |
| US-7,088,070 |
Resonant scanning mirror driver circuit A resonant scanning mirror driver configured to drive a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror to a desired deflection utilizes a PWM pattern selected... |
| US-7,087,518 |
Method of passivating and/or removing contaminants on a low-k
dielectric/copper surface One aspect of the invention relates to a method of removing contaminants from a low-k film. The method involves forming a sacrificial layer over the contaminated... |
| US-7,087,493 |
Memory with 6T small aspect ratio cells having metal.sub.--1 elements
physically connected to metal.sub.--0... A method of forming a memory circuit comprising six transistor memory cells. The memory cells comprise first and second inverters. The inverters comprise... |
| US-7,087,479 |
Method of forming integrated circuit contacts Contacts are formed to integrated circuit devices by first forming a conductive layer (80) on a semiconductor device. An optional dielectric layer (130) is... |
| US-7,087,440 |
Monitoring of nitrided oxide gate dielectrics by determination of a wet
etch The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a method method of monitoring a process for forming a nitridated oxide gate dielectric. A nitrided oxide... |
| US-7,085,977 |
Method and system for detecting an outlying resistance in a plurality of
resistive elements In one aspect of the invention, a semiconductor die includes a plurality of resistive elements operable to receive a voltage differential between at least two of... |
| US-7,085,957 |
Upgrading of firmware with tolerance to failures The firmware may contain multiple application modules, which can operate independent of each other such that upgrade of one application module does not affect... |
| US-7,085,699 |
Wire bonding simulation Embodiments of the present invention may provide ways and uses for correlating actual wire bonding machine adjustment parameters to inputs needed for FEA... |
| US-7,085,325 |
Serial interface unit with transmit monitor In a serial interface unit (10) for the transmission and reception of data under the control of clock signals, the data are output from a data source to a data... |
| US-7,085,150 |
Methods for enhancing performance of ferroelectic memory with polarization
treatment The present invention facilitates data retention lifetimes for ferroelectric devices by improving switched polarization of ferroelectric memory cells. A... |
| US-7,085,088 |
Method of controlling reader amplifier gain variations of a HDD
preamplifier, or the like An amplifier (70) has a differential input stage (84,86). An output transistor (102) is connected to receive a single ended output developed by transistor 86.... |
| US-7,084,864 |
Computer display with switched capacitor power supply A computer (80) includes a display assembly 10 which uses a backlight power supply 40 to power a fluorescent tube 18 for backlighting purposes. The power supply... |
| US-7,084,701 |
Preventing power-on audio output noise in a wireless telephone handset A wireless telephone (10) including audio amplifier circuitry (20) that produces reduced "pop" noise in speakers such as in handsfree headsets (HS) is disclosed.... |
| US-7,084,611 |
DC/DC converter The invention relates to a DC/DC converter including an input to which an input voltage Vin is applied, a inductance L whose one terminal is connected to the... |
| US-7,084,500 |
Semiconductor circuit with multiple contact sizes A semiconductor circuit comprising a semiconductor die and a package substrate. In one embodiment, a first plurality of conductive bumps serves as a portion of a... |
| US-7,084,494 |
Semiconductor package having integrated metal parts for thermal
enhancement A semiconductor device comprising a metallic leadframe (103) with a first surface (103a) and a second surface (103b). The leadframe includes a chip pad (104) and... |
| US-7,084,011 |
Forming a chip package having a no-flow underfill A method of forming an underfilled chip package is provided. No-flow underfill material is deposited over a surface of a package substrate to form an underfill... |
| US-7,083,328 |
Remote diode temperature sense method with parasitic resistance
cancellation The temperature of an internally or remotely sensed diode is determined using sequential currents applied to the diode, while compensating for parasitic... |
| US-7,082,558 |
Increasing possible test patterns which can be used with sequential
scanning techniques to perform speed analysis A non-robust test pattern, which causes a transition on a path of interest as well as off-paths, may be selected as being suitable for performing delay analysis... |
| US-7,082,170 |
Spectral power management for constrained transmissions using
constellation shaping In frequency channel communications, constraints on transmit power characteristics can be complied with by implementing constellation shaping (15, 71) in the... |
| US-7,081,791 |
Automatically adjusting low noise amplifier A low noise amplifier circuit (10) includes an attenuator (12) for receiving a calibration signal and generating an attenuated calibration signal. A low noise... |
| US-7,081,635 |
High activity, spatially distributed radiation source for accurately
simulating semiconductor device radiation... The present invention pertains to radiation sources that mimic radiation environment(s) encountered by packaged semiconductor devices. The sources are suitable... |
| US-7,080,386 |
Architecture with digital signal processor plug-ins for general purpose
processor media frameworks A plug-and-play architecture including an extension of a general purpose processor media framework for adjoining DSP processing power. |
| US-7,080,337 |
Non-uniform decoupling capacitor distribution for providing more uniform
noise reduction across chip An embodiment of the present invention includes a method of providing a non-uniform distribution of decoupling capacitors to provide a more uniform noise level... |
| US-7,080,267 |
Methodology for managing power consumption in an application Methods and systems are provided for dynamically managing power consumption in a digital system. These methods and systems broadly provide for permitting clients... |
| US-7,080,005 |
Compact text-to-phone pronunciation dictionary A typical English pronunciation dictionary takes up to 1,826,302 bytes in ASCII to store. A five times compression while maintaining computability is achieved by... |
| US-7,079,826 |
Digitally controlled analog RF filtering in subsampling communication
receiver architecture A first periodic voltage waveform (20) is downconverted into a second periodic voltage waveform (35, 36). A plurality of temporally distinct samples (SA1, SA2, .... |
| US-7,079,697 |
Image compression with transform coefficient analysis A method of image/video compression with intra-coding blocks analyzed for sum of absolute magnitudes of AC coefficients of DCT of block to determine whether to... |
| US-7,079,646 |
ADSL receiver high pass filter architecture An ADSL receiver HPF architecture 300 that reduces the number of Op Amps below that required for known ADSL receiver HPFs. The ADSL receiver HPF 300 is... |
| US-7,079,612 |
Fast bit-error-rate (BER) test A bit-error-rate (BER) test is a crucial test for wireless devices to pass, since a device with a high BER does not perform at its best. BER tests are both... |
| US-7,079,549 |
Method and apparatus for coordinating multi-point to point communications
in a multi-tone data transmission system A variety of bi-directional data transmission systems that facilitate communications between a plurality of remote units (15) and a central unit (10) using a... |
| US-7,079,408 |
Circuit and method for reducing fatigue in ferroelectric memories A memory circuit and method for reducing gate oxide stress is disclosed. A first data word is stored at a first address in a nonvolatile memory circuit 604. The... |
| US-7,079,285 |
Efficient rasterizing sub-system for printers Image content may be generated in high resolution by performing raster operations, and half-toning is then performed on the image content. Due to such a... |
| US-7,079,149 |
System, method, and device for accelerated graphics port linking The invention provides systems, devices, and methods for using more than one Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) to process graphics for a single computer monitor... |
| US-7,079,095 |
Analog pulse width modulation of video data A micromirror capable of analog pulse width modulation, and method thereof. A capacitor (406) in each micromirror element stores a charge representative of one... |
| US-7,078,973 |
Bipolar rail-to-rail output stage A bipolar rail-to-rail class-AB output stage that provides improved AC performance in low voltage applications. The bipolar output stage includes an input buffer... |
| US-7,078,970 |
CMOS class AB operational amplifier A CMOS operational amplifier with a Class AB output stage has an output terminal and an input stage driving the output stage. The Class AB output stage includes... |
| US-7,078,964 |
Detection of DC output levels from a class D amplifier A class AD audio amplifier system (10) with DC output detection logic (26) is disclosed. The amplifier system (10) includes multiple audio channels (20), each of... |
| US-7,078,962 |
Dynamic current generator with asymmetric common-mode input range A dynamic current generator 30 is disclosed in which a common-mode input range is provided which is asymmetric toward the bottom rail VEE. An embodiment of the... |
| US-7,078,931 |
GTL output structure having a slew rate control restore circuit A GTL output structure having an active charging and discharging stage that actively restores internal nodes for slew rate control without the need to wait for a... |
| US-7,078,885 |
DC-DC CMOS converter A DC--DC CMOS converter including when the supply voltage is low, the current limit is automatically reduced to the maximum possible value that maintains the... |
| US-7,078,821 |
Ball film for integrated circuit fabrication and testing According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of fabricating ball grid array packages includes providing a substrate, providing a ball film that... |
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