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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,035,407 |
Bist DDR memory interface circuit and method for testing the same An apparatus and method for self-testing a DDR memory interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a built-in-self-test (BIST) memory interface circuit includes a... |
| US-8,035,311 |
Light-emitting semiconductor device driver and method An electronic device includes circuitry for driving a light-emitting diode (LED) or other light-emitting semiconductor device. The circuitry includes a first... |
| US-8,034,660 |
PoP precursor with interposer for top package bond pad pitch compensation An electronic assembly adapted for forming package on package (PoP) devices includes a package substrate having a molded IC die thereon that defines a mold cap... |
| US-8,033,001 |
CVD showerhead alignment apparatus A method and apparatus for aligning a CVD showerhead, comprising engaging a showerhead stem clamp with a showerhead stem outside of a process chamber of the CVD... |
| US-8,032,891 |
Energy-aware scheduling of application execution A mobile device (10) manages tasks (18) using a scheduler (20) for scheduling tasks on multiple processors (12). To conserve energy, the set of tasks to be... |
| US-8,032,813 |
Concurrent production of CRC syndromes for different data blocks in an
input data sequence Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) processing is applied to a received sequence of data blocks that are defined by respective sequences of sets of parallel data. For... |
| US-8,032,764 |
Electronic devices, information products, processes of manufacture and
apparatus for enabling code decryption... An electronic device (1640) includes a non-volatile store (1620) holding a plurality of encrypted sub-applications (SubApp n), and application-specific... |
| US-8,032,762 |
Process, circuits, devices, and systems for encryption and decryption and
other purposes, and process making A wireless communications device (110) has a digital section (800) and a radio frequency section (840). The digital section (800) does setup and execution on a... |
| US-8,031,946 |
Reduced calculations in determining intra-prediction type method and
system The method, system, and apparatus of source statistics based intra prediction type is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes classifying a four-pixel... |
| US-8,031,745 |
Downlink synchronization channel and methods for cellular systems The present invention provides a method of operating a base station transmitter. The method includes providing a cellular downlink synchronization signal having... |
| US-8,031,403 |
System and method for reducing visible speckle in a projection visual
display system The invention provides an apparatus for reducing speckle in a projection visual display (PVD) system, a method of reducing visible speckle in a PVD system and a... |
| US-8,031,391 |
System and method for operating light processing electronic devices A system and method for operating an electronic device used in light processing. A method comprises altering a spatial relationship between a spatial light... |
| US-8,031,390 |
Illumination source and method therefor An illumination source and a method therefor. A light source includes a light circuit configured to process light and direct light, and a lighting element... |
| US-8,031,265 |
System and method for combining interlaced video frames System and method for combining interlaced video frames. A method embodiment for displaying a de-interlaced video sequence includes receiving a video stream,... |
| US-8,030,980 |
Simplified, extendable, edge-based watchdog for DLL A delay locked loop (DLL) is provided. Within this DLL is a watchdog circuit that determines whether harmonic lock is present. Based on this measurement, the... |
| US-8,030,959 |
Device-under-test power management One embodiment of the present invention includes a system for managing power to a plurality of devices-under-test (DUTs). The system comprises a DUT test system... |
| US-8,030,909 |
Method and apparatus for switching a synchronous DC/DC converter between a
PWM mode of operation and a... A synchronous buck converter operates in a PWM mode of operation and switches to light-load mode of operation under a light-load condition. When operating in... |
| US-8,030,155 |
Schottky diode with minimal vertical current flow A method of forming a rectifying diode. The method comprises providing a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and having a first dopant... |
| US-8,030,137 |
Flexible interposer for stacking semiconductor chips and connecting same
to substrate A semiconductor device with a first (101) and a second (111) semiconductor chip assembled on an insulating flexible interposer (120). The interposer, preferably... |
| US-8,028,709 |
Photoresist dispenser with nozzle arrangement for cone-shaped spray A cleaning system which can be integrated into a coater track system for use in the production of semiconductor devices and methods for its use are provided.... |
| US-8,028,212 |
Parallel scan paths with header data circuitry and header return circuitry Testing of integrated circuits is achieved by a test architecture utilizing a scan frame input shift register, a scan frame output shift register, a test... |
| US-8,027,657 |
Sampling mixer with asynchronous clock and signal domains A mixer 1100 with a plurality of signal paths typically requires separate clock generating hardware for each signal path. However, the redundancy of having... |
| US-8,027,108 |
System and method for projection systems using sequential color techniques A projection system using a sequential color filter is provided. The sequential color filter utilizes various colors, such as red, blue, and green, divided into... |
| US-8,026,680 |
Methods and apparatus to reduce the stopping time of spindle motors Methods and apparatus to reduce the stopping time of a spindle motor are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a dissipation current flowing in a... |
| US-8,026,507 |
Two terminal quantum device using MOS capacitor structure A gated quantum well device formed as an MOS capacitor is disclosed. The quantum well is an inversion region less than 20 nanometers wide under the MOS gate.... |
| US-8,026,177 |
Silicon dioxide cantilever support and method for silicon etched
structures A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer (2) having therein a cavity (4). A dielectric layer (3) is formed on the semiconductor layer. A plurality... |
| US-8,026,135 |
Formation of shallow junctions by diffusion from a dielectric doped by
cluster or molecular ion beams A process for forming diffused region less than 20 nanometers deep with an average doping dose above 10.sup.14 cm.sup.-2 in an IC substrate, particularly LDD... |
| US-8,024,716 |
Method and apparatus for code optimization A system comprising a compiler that compiles source-level code to generate an intermediate-level instruction comprising a predetermined component. The... |
| US-8,024,554 |
Modifying an instruction stream using one or more bits to replace an
instruction or to replace an instruction... A processor comprising fetch logic adapted to fetch instructions from memory and decode logic coupled to the fetch logic and adapted to decode the fetched... |
| US-8,024,182 |
Rate/diversity adaptation sending speech in first and second packets Packets of real-time information are sent with a source rate greater than zero kilobits per second, and a time or path or combined time/path diversity rate... |
| US-8,023,919 |
Receiver dynamically switching to pseudo differential mode for SOC spur
reduction A low noise amplifier in an integrated circuit, the circuit having a digital portion and an analog portion on a common substrate, the digital portion having at... |
| US-8,023,589 |
Wireless MIMO transmitter with antenna and tone precoding blocks Various wireless precoding systems and methods are presented. In some embodiments, a wireless transmitter comprises an antenna precoding block, a transform... |
| US-8,023,577 |
Systems and methods for efficient channel classification Embodiments provide a system and method for efficiently classifying different channel types in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system.... |
| US-8,023,359 |
System and method for converting scan data An ultrasound device generates polar-coordinate image data divided up into an (N.times.M) array of polar-coordinate image data blocks; a first external memory... |
| US-8,022,778 |
Low phase noise frequency synthesizer Various apparatuses and methods for a low phase noise frequency synthesizer are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments provide an oscillator that may... |
| US-8,022,686 |
Reference circuit with reduced current startup An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a reference circuit and a startup circuit. The reference circuit is adapted to provide a startup current,... |
| US-8,021,990 |
Gate structure and method A MOSFET structure including silicate gate dielectrics with nitridation treatments of the gate dielectric prior to gate material deposition. |
| US-8,020,126 |
Links and chains verification and validation methodology for digital
devices The links and chains (LNC) of this invention is an applications verification and validation (AVV) methodology. LNC is a hierarchical and systematic approach... |
| US-8,020,059 |
Tap and control with data I/O, TMS, TDI, and TDO An optimized JTAG interface is used to access JTAG Tap Domains within an integrated circuit. The interface requires fewer pins than the conventional JTAG... |
| US-8,020,057 |
Comparator circuitry connected to input and output of tristate buffer A test controller applies test stimulus signals to the input pads of plural die on a wafer in parallel. The test controller also applies encoded test response... |
| US-8,019,598 |
Phase locking method for frequency domain time scale modification based on
a bark-scale spectral partition This invention improves the perceived quality of frequency-domain time scale modification by selection of spectral bands used in phase locking based upon a Bark... |
| US-8,019,280 |
System and method for avoiding interference in a dual-signal device A dual-signal wireless transceiver is provided, comprising: a first wireless transceiver circuit configured to transmit and receive first signals using a first... |
| US-8,019,086 |
Stereo synthesizer using comb filters and intra-aural differences A method for creating a stereophonic sound image out of a monaural signal combines two sub-methods. Comb filters decorrelate the left and right channel signals.... |
| US-8,018,903 |
Closed-loop transmit diversity scheme in frequency selective multipath
channels Closed loop multiple-antenna wireless communications system with antenna weights determined by maximizing a composite channel signal-to-interference-plus-noise... |
| US-8,018,780 |
Temperature dependent back-bias for a memory array The present invention provides a thermostatic bias controller for use with a memory array. The thermostatic bias controller includes a temperature sensing... |
| US-8,018,740 |
LLC soft start by operation mode switching An embodiment of the invention provides a method of reducing surge current in an LLC converter. The LLC converter comprises a switching circuit having a first... |
| US-8,018,369 |
Error correction method and apparatus A switched current source is provided. The switched current source is generally comprised of transistors and resistors, and the source has a high output... |
| US-8,018,241 |
Logic applying different bit positions to respective scan paths An integrated circuit (70) having parallel scan paths (824-842, 924-942) includes a pair or pairs of scan distributor (800,900) and scan collector (844,944)... |
| US-8,018,238 |
Embedded sar based active gain capacitance measurement system and method A system for measuring a capacitor (C.sub.SENj) precharges a CDAC (23) in a SAR converter (17) to a reference voltage (V.sub.AZ) and also precharges a first... |
| US-8,018,235 |
Methods and apparatus to facilitate ground fault detection with a single
coil and an oscillator Methods and apparatus to facilitate ground fault detection with a single coil and an oscillator are disclosed. An example ground fault detection device includes... |
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