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US-7,914,694 |
Semiconductor wafer handler A semiconductor wafer handler comprises a ring (70) attached to a hub (80) by a plurality of spokes (90). Vacuum is applied to the surface of the semiconductor... |
US-7,914,151 |
Multi-function light modulators for optical systems In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting one or more light beams by a first portion of a light modulator formed outwardly from a substrate. The one or... |
US-7,913,135 |
Interconnections for plural and hierarchical P1500 test wrappers A test architecture accesses IP core test wrappers within an IC using a Link Instruction Register (LIR). An IEEE P1500 standard is in development for providing... |
US-7,911,679 |
Hinge design for enhanced optical performance for a digital micro-mirror
device An apparatus for use with a digital micro-mirror 100 includes a hinge 116 disposed outwardly from a substrate 102. The hinge 116 is capable of at least partially... |
US-7,911,256 |
Dual integrator circuit for analog front end (AFE) A circuit includes a generating circuit that generates a current signal in response to an input signal, a first one of a plurality of integrators that generates... |
US-7,911,243 |
Driver with programmable power commensurate with data-rate One embodiment of the invention includes a driver circuit. The driver circuit comprises an output transistor that is biased to provide an output signal in... |
US-7,911,190 |
Regulator with automatic power output device detection A switching regulator (20) including an on-chip power output function (24) and also an interface (26) to which off-chip power output devices (42PU, 42PD) may be... |
US-7,910,936 |
N2 based plasma treatment for enhanced sidewall smoothing and pore sealing
of porous low-k dielectric films A method of forming a semiconductor device including forming a low-k dielectric material over a substrate, depositing a liner on a portion of the low-k... |
US-7,910,918 |
Gated resonant tunneling diode A gated resonant tunneling diode (GRTD) that operates without cryogenic cooling is provided. This GRTD employs conventional CMOS process technology, preferably... |
US-7,910,477 |
Etch residue reduction by ash methodology Methods for forming dual damascene interconnect structures are provided. The methods incorporate an ashing operation comprising a first ash operation and a... |
US-7,910,471 |
Bumpless wafer scale device and board assembly A semiconductor chip having a planar active surface including an integrated circuit; the circuit has metallization patterns including a plurality of contact... |
US-7,910,422 |
Reducing gate CD bias in CMOS processing A method of forming an integrated circuit having an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor is disclosed. The method includes performing pre-gate processing in a... |
US-7,910,417 |
Distributed high voltage JFET A Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) can be fabricated with a well region that include a channel region having an average dopant concentration substantially... |
US-7,910,289 |
Use of dual mask processing of different composition such as
inorganic/organic to enable a single poly etch... In accordance with the invention, there are methods of making an integrated circuit, an integrated circuit device, and a computer readable medium. A method can... |
US-7,908,537 |
Boundary scan path method and system with functional and non-functional
scan cell memories An integrated circuit or circuit board includes functional circuitry and a scan path. The scan path includes a test data input lead, a test data output lead, a... |
US-7,908,535 |
Scan testable register file Memory compiler engineers often focus on the efficient implementation of the largest possible memory configurations for each memory type. The overhead of test... |
US-7,907,456 |
Memory having circuitry controlling the voltage differential between the
word line and array supply voltage An integrated circuit (IC) includes at least one memory array having a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, the array also... |
US-7,907,429 |
Circuit and method for a fully integrated switched-capacitor step-down
power converter A circuit and method for providing a fully integrated DC-DC converter using on-chip switched capacitors is disclosed. A switched capacitor matrix is coupled as a... |
US-7,907,015 |
Circuit for compensation of leakage current-induced offset in a
single-ended op-amp An electronic device includes an operational amplifier, with the operational amplifier having an amplifier input stage coupled with a first output node to an... |
US-7,906,999 |
Self-protecting core system The present invention is applicable to an electronic device including a master, a slave, a bus coupling the master and the slave and a clock generator for... |
US-7,906,995 |
Clock buffer An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) differential pair having a first BJT and a second BJT, a second BJT... |
US-7,906,976 |
Switched capacitor measurement circuit for measuring the capacitance of an
input capacitor A switched capacitor measurement circuit is provided for measuring the capacitance of an input capacitor with a parallel parasitic resistor. The circuit... |
US-7,906,441 |
System and method for mitigating oxide growth in a gate dielectric Oxide growth of a gate dielectric layer that occurs between processes used in the fabrication of a gate dielectric structure can be reduced. The reduction in... |
US-7,906,405 |
Polysilicon structures resistant to laser anneal lightpipe waveguide
effects Laser scan annealing of integrated circuits offers advantages compared to rapid thermal annealing and furnace annealing, but can induce overheating in regions of... |
US-7,906,394 |
Implanted vertical source-line under straight stack for FLASH EPROM In FLASH EPROM cells, source diffusion continuity between horizontal and vertical source lines is provided by an arsenic implant under the stack in vertical... |
US-7,906,351 |
Method for metal gate quality characterization Measuring the amount of unreacted polysilicon gate material in a fully silicided (FUSI) nickel silicide gate process for metal oxide semiconductor (MOS)... |
US-7,906,271 |
System and method for making photomasks The present disclosure is directed a method for preparing a system of photomask patterns for implementing a drawn pattern on a substrate with a multi-patterning... |
US-7,906,253 |
System and method for making photomasks The present disclosure is directed to a method for preparing photomask patterns for a lithography process that employs a plurality of photomasks. The method... |
US-7,905,418 |
RFID tag An RFID tag is provided, which has a transponder part with an antenna coil arranged in the transponder part. A mounting part is also provided for fixing the tag... |
US-7,904,854 |
System and method for checking for sub-resolution assist features In accordance with the invention, there is provided a system and method for checking a mask layout including sub-resolution assist features (SRAFs). A checking... |
US-7,904,774 |
Wafer scale testing using a 2 signal JTAG interface Testing of die on wafer is achieved by; (1) providing a tester with the capability of externally communicating JTAG test signals using simultaneously... |
US-7,904,496 |
Method and system for selecting effective tap values for a digital filter Systems and methods are provided for determining effective tap values for a digital filter. A first plurality of vectors is generated, wherein each of the first... |
US-7,904,048 |
Multi-tap direct sub-sampling mixing system for wireless receivers A multi-tap direct sub-sampling mixing system for wireless receivers is provided with a dynamically configurable passive switched capacitor filter. A front end... |
US-7,903,870 |
Digital camera and method Redeye removal methods detect redeyes in a two-step procedure. In the first step it detects faces in the input image and in the second step it searches for... |
US-7,903,823 |
Apparatus and method for effecting sound stage expansion An apparatus for effecting sound stage expansion in an audio system presenting two sound channels includes: (a) A first signal source coupled for providing at... |
US-7,903,439 |
Methods and apparatus to control a digital power supply Methods and apparatus to control a digital power supply are disclosed. An example method includes calculating a duty cycle of a pulse width modulated signal to... |
US-7,903,433 |
Current balancing for multi-phase converters A converter for a multi-phase current network can include a plurality of current sensors, each of the plurality of current sensors being configured to detect... |
US-7,903,015 |
Cascaded DAC architecture with pulse width modulation An embodiment of the invention provides one or more cascade circuits that are cascaded together to form a cascaded circuit. The cascaded circuit reduces noise at... |
US-7,902,807 |
Multiple switch node power converter control scheme that avoids switching
sub-harmonics A method of and system for modulating buck and boost modulation ramps of a multiple switch node power converter without overlap. As the pulse width or duty cycle... |
US-7,902,805 |
Self-oscillating DC-DC buck converter with zero hysteresis A self-oscillating DC-DC buck converter with zero hysteresis is described. The converter comprises a comparator with a supply input, a non-inverting input to... |
US-7,902,778 |
Programmable constant voltage retract of disk drive actuator A disk drive system including retract logic for control of the voice coil motor in a retract operation, in which the voice coil motor positions the read/write... |
US-7,902,576 |
Phosphorus activated NMOS using SiC process A method (10) of forming a transistor (100) includes treating (12) at least some of a semiconductor substrate (102) with carbon and then forming (18) a gate... |
US-7,902,574 |
Solid state image pickup device and operating method thereof This invention provides a type of solid-state image pickup device characterized by the fact that for a solid-state image pickup device with a broad dynamic... |
US-7,902,055 |
Method of manufacturing a dual metal Schottky diode An embodiment of the invention is a Schottky diode 22 having a semiconductor substrate 3, a first metal 24, a barrier layer 26, and second metal 28. Another... |
US-7,902,033 |
Methods and devices for a high-k stacked capacitor An embodiment generally relates a method of forming capacitors. The method includes forming a plurality of holes within a protective overcoat or backend... |
US-7,902,032 |
Method for forming strained channel PMOS devices and integrated circuits
therefrom An integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of compressively strained PMOS transistors. The IC includes a substrate having a semiconductor surface. A gate... |
US-7,901,106 |
Solid-state illuminator for display applications The disclosure in one aspect provides an illuminator that includes a plurality of segmented diodes to generate a plurality of light beams. In another aspect, the... |
US-7,900,113 |
Debug circuit and a method of debugging A debug circuit for a multi-mode circuit driven by a clock signal, with an input for a clock signal, and a debug signal generator arranged to generate for each... |
US-7,900,110 |
Optimized JTAG interface 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-7,900,109 |
BDX data in stable states A method implemented in a test system comprises a test debug system and a target system, said target system comprising a test access port that functions... |