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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110273234 | RECONFIGURABLE OUTPHASING CHIREIX AMPLIFIERS AND METHODS Various embodiments relate to a reconfigurable integrated digital Chireix out-phasing power amplifier for use in high power base stations is described and a related method of said design. The power amplifier may include a power transistor circuitry having plurality of p... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110177233 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MATERIAL ON A DEPOSITION SURFACE The invention relates to an apparatus (100) for providing a layer of a material from a precursor gas on a deposition surface (112) of a substrate (110). The apparatus includes a deposition chamber (102) and a trap surface (116) for tra... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110096880 | Lossless Transfer Of Events Across Clock Domains Transfer circuits (200, 400, 500) for monitoring in a monitor clock domain target events that occur in a target clock domain (170) are disclosed. Some embodiments (200) impose significant constraints on the domain clocks and include: an event detect... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110006370 | EFFECTING SELECTIVITY OF SILICON OR SILICON-GERMANIUM DEPOSITION ON A SILICON OR SILICON-GERMANIUM SUBSTRATE BY DOPING The invention relates to a method for selective deposition of Si or SiGe on a Si or SiGe surface. The method exploits differences in physico-chemical surface behaviour according to a difference in doping of first and second surface regions. By providing at least one fir... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100321128 | TRANSCEIVING CIRCUIT FOR CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION A transceiving circuit (1) for contactless communication comprises transmitter means (3) to generate an electromagnetic carrier signal, to modulate the carrier signal according to transmitting data and to drive an antenna (5) with the modulated carr... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321111 | POWER AMPLIFIER The invention refers to a power amplifier comprising a first transistor (MH) having a first main channel coupled between a positive power supply terminal (Vdd) and an output terminal (Vout), said first transistor having a control termina... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100295010 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING A CONVERTIBLE STRUCTURE An electronic device (100), comprises a first electrode (101), a second electrode (102) and a convertible structure (103) connected between the first electrode (101) and the second electrode (102), which convertible structure (<... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100289149 | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT AND ASSUMBLY WITH PROJECTING ELECTRODE A semiconductor component has a substrate and a projecting electrode on the substrate. The projecting electrode is configured suitably for electrically and mechanically connecting the semiconductor component to an external substrate. Furthermore, the projecting electrod... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100284451 | MAC AND PHY INTERFACE ARRANGEMENT According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is implemented for transmitting data between a Media Access Control Layer (MAC) (100) and a Physical Layer (PHY) (150) using an internal data bus for transmitting a set of internal symbo... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT IN THE PRESENCE OF BURSTY INTERFERENCE A method and system for operating a wireless access point is disclosed. In an embodiment, a wireless access point determines whether bursty interference is present within the operating range of the wireless access point and then adapts a transmission characteristic in r... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284380 | QUALITY OF SERVICE FOR WLAN AND BLUETOOTH COMBINATIONS A hybrid device (100) includes both a IEEE-802.11e type WLAN client station (QAP) (102) and a BLUETOOTH piconet unit (104) interconnected such that the BLUETOOTH transmissions are scheduled to occur according to a transmission opportunity (TX... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100258882 | FRONT END MICRO CAVITY The present invention relates to a method of forming a micro cavity having a micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) in a process, such as a CMOS process. MEMS resonators are being intensively studied in many research groups and some first products have recently been ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100246840 | METHOD OF DETERMINING THE HARMONIC AND ANHARMONIC PORTIONS OF A RESPONSE SIGNAL OF A DEVICE A method of determining the harmonic and anharmonic portions of a response signal (RS) of a device (2), e.g. an electro-acoustic or electric device, comprises the steps of supplying an input signal (IS) to the device (2) causing the device (2) to re... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246707 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM A method of operating a system (100, 200) for transmitting signals (si, S2, 202) from a transmitter (101, 206) to a receiver (104, 207), the method comprising the step of muting the transmitter (101, 206), adjusting a receiver transfer... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100237351 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A DOUBLE GATE TRANSISTOR A planar double-gate transistor is manufactured wherein crystallisation inhibitors are implanted into the channel region (16) of a semiconductor wafer (10), said wafer having a laminate structure comprising an initial crystalline semiconductor layer (14... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100231297 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SELF OSCILLATING CLASS D SYSTEM The present invention relates to an electronic device that includes an integrated power comparator circuit (1) for a self-oscillating class D system (100). The integrated power comparator circuit (1) has a modulation stage (10), wherein the m... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100231276 | DIGITAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF ALTERING CLOCK DELAYS IN A DIGITAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE A digital electronic device is provided with a first and second sequential logic unit (SS1, SS2), each for receiving an input signal (D) and for outputting a first and second output signal (Q, QF), respectively. The electronic device furthermore comprises ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100230808 | REDUCING STRESS BETWEEN A SUBSTRATE AND A PROJECTING ELECTRODE ON THE SUBSTRATE The present invention relates to a semiconductor component that has a substrate and a projecting electrode. The projecting electrode has a substrate face, which faces the substrate and which comprises a first substrate-face section separated from the substrate by a gap.... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100228904 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING In order to further develop a circuit arrangement (100) as well as a method of processing data to be protected against unauthorized access by means of encryption or decryption, by means of which method the data are stored in at least two memory modules (10, 12... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100220744 | INTELLIGENT START COUPLER FOR TIME TRIGGERED COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN NODES WITHIN A NETWORK USING A TIME TRIGGER PROTOCOL This invention relates to a star coupler connected to a plurality of nodes within a network using a time triggered protocol on a time slot basis. The invention further relates to a network including a cluster having at least one node. Further, the invention relates to a... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100219941 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PCB-BASED AUTOMATION TRACEABILITY A system, apparatus, and method are provided for using a PCB component as an antenna to allow for RFID communication in the UHF band. The present invention enables supply chain management of a PCB and products containing the PCB by enabling tracking of a PCB at the asse... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100205317 | TRANSMISSION, RECEPTION AND SYNCHRONISATION OF TWO DATA STREAMS In digital mobile broadcast systems, data streams audio and video are sent independently. As this means that both streams may arrive out of sync, they need to be synchronised for reproduction upon reception. For this, the relation between timestamps of both streams shou... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100194432 | DEVICE FOR TRANSFORMING INPUT IN OUTPUT SIGNALS WITH DIFFERENT VOLTAGE RANGES Arrangement for accepting an input signal in a first voltage range and producing an output signal in a second voltage range. A transition detection circuit (230) detects a transition from a high level to a low level of the input signal and a control circuit (2... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100190278 | TESTING FOR CORRECT UNDERCUTTING OF AN ELECTRODE DURING AN ETCHING STEP A probe electrode structure on a substrate is described, comprising a first probe electrode and a neighboring second probe electrode on a layer sequence that generally includes, in a direction from the substrate to the probe electrodes, an electrically conductive bottom... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100184372 | NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTENT FROM A FIRST NETWORK DEVICE TO A SECOND NETWORK DEVICE The invention relates to a method comprising the steps of: a first network device (DEVI) outputting content (CONT), the first network device (DEVI) retrieving an address (ADDR2) of a second network device (DEV2) from a third device (DEV3), and the f... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100182730 | FERROELECTRIC VARACTOR WITH IMPROVED TUNING RANGE The present invention relates to a ferroelectric varactor (400) that comprises a dielectric-layer stack (408) between electrodes (406, 410). The dielectric-layer stack comprises an alternating layer sequence of at least three dielectric layers. At c... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100181618 | EXTENDED DRAIN TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME An extended drain transistor (100) comprising a substrate (101), a gate (103) formed on the substrate (100), the gate (103) having a first side wall (104) and a second side wall (105) opposing the first side wall (104<... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100180245 | METHODS AND PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING AND VISUALIZIN IC BEHAVIOR A method (100) is disclosed for determining the behaviour of an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of resources and being configured to execute a plurality of operations that each require temporary allocation and deallocation of at least a subset of the pl... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100176454 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE A method is provided of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a first, n-type field effect transistor (1) and a second, p-type field effect transistor (2). The method comprises depositing a gate dielectric layer over a substrate; depositing a gat... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100174892 | MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A DEBUGGING PROCESS OF A MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM The invention relates to a method and a system for synchronizing a debugging process of a multiprocessor system (1) with a number of processors (2.1 to 2.3), comprising the following steps: —if for one of the processors (2.1 to 2.3) ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100172457 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR RECEIVING DATA The invention relates to a circuit and method for receiving a signal of which—at the receiver end—the frequency is basically unknown. By sampling the data and deriving the frequency of the signal (or actually: the data rate of the data carried by the signal) and set... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100167643 | DEVICE WITH AN EEPROM HAVING BOTH A NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION INTERFACE AND A SECOND INTERFACE A device and a method for programming the read/writeable memory of the RFID circuitry by communications between either RF antenna (12) or bus communications port controller interface (4) or both. In a peripheral device (1), an EEPROM (6), bus... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100166050 | TIME ERROR ESTIMATION FOR DATA SYMBOLS The invention relates to a method and a system for estimating a symbol time error in a broadband transmission system, comprising: determination a timing error signal of an input-signal of a discrete Fourier-transformation block (5) in a data symbol stream on the ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100165182 | COMBINATION DEVICE OF SPEAKER AND CAMERA OPTICAL SYSTEM In the device according to this invention, a vibrating diaphragm and a magnetic conduction plate are improved, so that the vibrating diaphragm of the speaker, under the action of magnetic force excited by different electrical signals, can convert an acoustoelectric sign... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100164475 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE FREQUENCY OF A SIGNAL CODED MODULATED CARRIER SIGNAL A device (10) for measuring a frequency of an input signal (IN) that is expected to comprise a carrier signal (CS) either being unmodulated (CSU) or being modulated (CSM) according to a predefined signal coding comprises: means (9) for generating a measure... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158046 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DATA PACKETS FOR TRANSMISSION IN AN OFDM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Method and apparatus for generating data packets for transmission in an orthogonal frequency division modulated communication system, in which preamble sequence for each packet is generated in the frequency domain or the time domain depending on at least two conditions ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156540 | AMPLIFIER ARCHITECTURE FOR POLAR MODULATION The present invention relates to an electronic device for power efficient linear amplification. The electronic device includes an amplifier (RF-PA) for amplifying a phase modulated signal (PM). The amplifier (RF-PA) is adapted to be controlled by a first modulating sign... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100141668 | ADDRESS CALCULATION UNIT The invention relates to a address calculation unit (15) for region based image processing tasks, where a processing unit (15) processes the data and exchanges the processed data between a global memory (11) and a local memory (12), wherein t... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100138839 | MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A multiprocessing system executes a plurality of processes concurrently. A process execution circuit (10) issues requests to access a shared resource (16) from the processes. A shared access circuit (14) sequences conflicting ones of the requests. A... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100138669 | ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION OF A DATASET IN AT LEAST TWO DIMENSIONS It is described a method for encrypting and a method for decrypting at least a portion (155) of a dataset being stored in a memory (150), wherein the dataset has at least two dimensions. The described multi-dimensional cryptographic methods comprise formin... | 06/03/2010 |
