Assignee: NEC Electronics America, Inc.

Location: Santa Clara, CA
No. of patents: 21

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7610469	Vector transfer system for packing dis-contiguous vector elements together into a single bus transfer A vector transfer unit for handling transfers of vector data between a memory and a data processor in a computer system. Vector data transfer instructions are posted to an instruction queue in the vector transfer unit. Program instructions for performing a burst tra...	10/27/2009
7507664	Tungsten plug corrosion prevention method using ionized air Disclosed herein is a method of making integrated circuits. In one embodiment the method includes forming tungsten plugs in the integrated circuit and forming electrically conductive interconnect lines in the integrated circuit after formation of the tungsten plugs....	03/24/2009
7454719	System and method for calculating effective capacitance for timing analysis A method involves: accessing data representing an interconnect model, where the interconnect model includes a driving point node and is not a lumped capacitance model; calculating a value of an effective capacitance of the interconnect model to be inversely proporti...	11/18/2008
7344989	CMP wafer contamination reduced by insitu clean Reducing CMP wafer contamination by in-situ clean is disclosed herein. The invention can be employed in a method in which a conductive layer is formed on a surface of a semiconductor wafer. After a portion of the conductive layer is removed, an acidic solution is di...	03/18/2008
7322225	Adhesion promotion vacuum monitoring system for photo resist coaters An apparatus and method for monitoring pressure within an adhesion promotion unit is provided. The apparatus in one embodiment includes a chamber configured to receive and heat a semiconductor wafer. A vacuum device is in fluid communication with a processing space ...	01/29/2008
7313643	PCI-express to PCI/PCI X translator An apparatus for converting a PCI/PCI X device into a PCI-Express device. The apparatus may include a first circuit configured to receive first data, wherein the first circuit is configured to translate the first data into PCI formatted data. The apparatus may also ...	12/25/2007
7253092	Tungsten plug corrosion prevention method using water Disclosed herein is a method of making integrated circuits. In one embodiment the method includes forming tungsten plugs in the integrated circuit and forming electrically conductive interconnect lines in the integrated circuit after formation of the tungsten plugs....	08/07/2007
7190194	Active hybrid transformer circuit having a replica driver In an active hybrid transformer circuit connected to both transmit and receive sides, a current driver is connected to a transmission path circuit through a common connection point of a load resistor and a replica resistor while a replica driver is connected to the ...	03/13/2007
7149991	Calibrating a wire load model for an integrated circuit A method is taught for determining a calibrated wire load model. The calibrated wire load model can be used to reach timing closure for an integrated circuit. The method includes; determining a reference timing description; determining a wire load model based on syn...	12/12/2006
7069373	USB endpoint controller flexible memory management Disclosed is an apparatus and method for flexible controlling endpoint memory within an USB device. In one embodiment, the method includes a USB device receiving a first token packet from a USB host, wherein the first token packet includes a first endpoint number. T...	06/27/2006
7069528	System and method for reducing timing violations due to crosstalk in an integrated circuit design A method involves: detecting a timing violation in a timing path included in an integrated circuit design; removing a wire, which couples two nodes in the integrated circuit design and is included in the timing path; and routing a new wire between the two nodes. The...	06/27/2006
7052992	Tungsten plug corrosion prevention method using ionized air Disclosed herein is a method of making integrated circuits. In one embodiment the method includes forming tungsten plugs in the integrated circuit and forming electrically conductive interconnect lines in the integrated circuit after formation of the tungsten plugs....	05/30/2006
6992725	Video data de-interlacing using perceptually-tuned interpolation scheme A de-interlacing architecture is taught. The de-interlacing architecture adopts a perceptual model to measure membership probabilities for a collection of image samples of an interlaced video source with respect to extracted static, motion, and texture image compone...	01/31/2006
6985843	Cell modeling in the design of an integrated circuit The invention relates to a method for modeling an input/output cell located on the perimeter of an integrated circuit. A method is taught to model an the integrated circuit when sufficient area is not available on the perimeter of the integrated circuit. The input/o...	01/10/2006
6977215	Tungsten plug corrosion prevention method using gas sparged water Disclosed herein is a method of making integrated circuits. In one embodiment the method includes forming tungsten plugs in a integrated circuit and forming electrically conductive interconnect lines after formation of the tungsten plugs, wherein at least one tungst...	12/20/2005
6925623	System and method for calculating effective capacitance for timing analysis A method involves: accessing data representing an interconnect model, where the interconnect model includes a driving point node and is not a lumped capacitance model; calculating a value of an effective capacitance of the interconnect model to be inversely proporti...	08/02/2005
6900401	Toxic gas fitting interlock A method and apparatus relating to the safe handling of toxic gases are presented, including a gas fitting interlock apparatus comprising a pedestal portion; a fitting support portion disposed on the pedestal portion; an interlock nut clamp configured to be fastened...	05/31/2005
6868521	Apparatus and method for implementing a decoder for convolutionally encoded symbols An apparatus and method for implementing a decoder for convolutionally encoded symbols (e.g., a viterbi decoder) is described. In one embodiment, a file of all the initial states (or their equivalents) and the nth surviving states associated with the initial states ...	03/15/2005
6859508	Four dimensional equalizer and far-end cross talk canceler in Gigabit Ethernet signals A multidimensional equalizer and cross talk canceller for a communication network that simultaneously removes far end cross talk NEXT) and intersymbol interference (ISI) from a received signal. A multidimensional-pair channel is treated as a single multidimensional ...	02/22/2005
6813701	Method and apparatus for transferring vector data between memory and a register file A compiler and vector data transfer instructions for use in a vector transfer unit for handling transfers of vector data between a memory and a data processor in a computer system. The compiler identifies the use of vector data in an application program and implemen...	11/02/2004
6708254	Parallel access virtual channel memory system A memory system having a main memory which is coupled to a plurality of parallel virtual access channels. Each of the virtual access channels provides a set of memory access resources for controlling the main memory. These memory access resources include cache resou...	03/16/2004

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Assignee: NEC Electronics America, Inc.