Did You Know...
...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185771 | Clock generation for memory access without a local oscillator A method of accessing electronic memory is provided in electronic circuits where it is desired to lower power consumption and hence there is no active oscillator at the time when access to data within the electronic memory is required. The invention provides a metho... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185082 | FM radio receiver A diversity FM radio receiver comprises two tuners for simultaneously tuning to the same FM channel. To avoid disturbances between the local oscillator signals of the tuners and to be able to use standard IF filters, one of the tuners operate with high-side LO injec... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185050 | Coexistance device communication between a Bluetooth device and a wireless local area network device The present invention provides a system and a method for transferring data between a Bluetooth device (BTD) and a wireless local area network (WLAN) device which uses packet traffic arbitration (PTA). The method of the present invention includes encoding data using ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184746 | Simplified de-rotation in digital FM demodulator architectures The present invention relates to a digital receiver for FM signals, in particular to a new demodulator structure and demodulating method, by which according to a first aspect of the invention the usual complex de-rotation process is reduced to a simple addition/subt... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184582 | 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 (TXOP)... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184415 | ESD-protection device, a semiconductor device and integrated system in a package comprising such a device The invention relates to an ESD protection device comprising: a first contact (10) and a second contact (20), and an electrical node (12); a bipolar transistor (6) having a base, an emitter, and a collector, the base and emitter forming a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184045 | Processing of satellite positioning system signals The invention provides a method of processing signals from a satellite positioning system in which a user inputs an approximate indication of current position, and this is used when processing satellite samples to reduce the processing required or increase the relia... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183955 | Circuit comprising transmission lines In a circuit (1) comprising first and second transmission lines (11,12) with first and second line widths, the transmission lines (11,12) are coupled to each other via a coupling (13,14) with first and second coupling widths at its ends, ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183946 | Charge biased MEM resonator A resonator has a vibrating element (10) and at least a first (20) and a second (30) electrode, at least one of the electrodes storing an electric charge to make the device charge biased. A charge adjuster (C) can add to or reduce the stored cha... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183894 | Device for and a method of generating signals A device (100) for generating an output signal (So) having substantially same or increased output frequency compared to an input frequency of an input signal (Si), the device (100) comprising: a bipolar transistor (102) having a base (B), a coll... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183682 | Methods of packaging a semiconductor die and package formed by the methods A method of packaging a semiconductor die. The method comprises mounting a semiconductor die to a die attach pad on a carrier and electrically coupling an electrode of the semiconductor die and a contact pad on the carrier with a clip carried by a sacrificial substr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183574 | Thermal isolation of electronic devices in submount used for LEDs lighting applications The present invention relates to an electronic device for providing improved heat transporting capability for protecting heat sensitive electronics and a method for producing the same. The present invention also relates to uses of the electronic device for various a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183116 | 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 ( | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181054 | Arrangement and method for controlling power modes of hardware resources A circuit arrangement and method of executing program code which utilize power control instructions capable of dynamically controlling power dissipation of multiple hardware resources during execution of a program by a processor. The processor configured to process ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180306 | VSWR compensation circuits for RF transmit chain The present invention provides a method and apparatus for compensating the output of a transmitter stage (50) of a communications system. A communications apparatus has a transmitter stage (50) providing a variable control voltage which varies the powe... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180298 | Method and apparatus to minimize interference among co-located multiple wireless devices Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing transmit requests among a plurality of co-located transmitting devices each associated with a wireless transmitting protocol. The method comprises the steps of determining the cost associated with each of the transmit... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179201 | Resonator A resonator having an effective spring constant (kz) and comprising a beam having a beam spring constant (kB) adapted to resonate in an oscillation direction, and extending at a non-zero angle (θ) to the oscillation direction, wherein the reso... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179192 | Signal processor comprising a reference voltage circuit A signal processor comprises a reference voltage circuit (RVC) for imposing a reference voltage (VR) onto a capacitance (Cr). The reference voltage circuit (RVC) comprises a negative slope module (NSM) for providing a negative slope signal (SN), which has a magnitud... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178404 | Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure and methods of fabricating same A Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitor structure and method of fabricating the same in an integrated circuit improve capacitance density in a MIM capacitor structure by utilizing a sidewall spacer extending along a channel defined between a pair of legs that define... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176302 | Data processing arrangement comprising a reset facility A data processing arrangement (MPS) comprises a plurality of data processors (SPR, PM1, . . . , PM4) that can be reset individually. A reset module (RSM) handles various reset request signals (HRG, SRG, SRP1, . . . , SRP4) in accordance w... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176281 | Controlling access to an embedded memory of a microcontroller A microcontroller (30) includes a processor (32), an embedded memory (46) operatively coupled to the processor (32), and a microcontroller test interface (34) operatively connected to the processor (32) and the memory (36... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176106 | On-chip estimation of key-extraction parameters for physical tokens The present invention relates to a method and a device (11) using a physical token (14), which provides measurable parameters, to derive at least one data set. A plurality of values of one or more of the parameters are measured. From these measured val... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174877 | Electric device comprising phase change material and heating element An electric device has a resistor including a phase change material changeable between a first phase and a second phase within a switching zone. The resistor has a first resistance when the phase change material is in the first phase and a different second resistanc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174416 | Automatic common-mode rejection calibration The present invention relates to a circuit and a method for automatic common-mode rejection calibration in a differential conversion system and unbalance compensation for balancing the operation point of a circuit in the signal path and for enhancing the common-mode... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174333 | Power-efficient spectrum shaping for a magnetic link Various embodiments relate to a transmission circuit and related method of shaping the transmission spectrum of a carrier signal. The transmission circuit may comprise a plurality of switching amplifier stages that are controlled by a modulation sequence produced by... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174327 | Method and system for configuration of a phase-locked loop circuit Example embodiments are directed toward configuration of a phase lock loop (PLL) circuits for low power operation. In particular embodiments, a fraction related to a desired gain of a PLL circuit is determined. A set of possible frequency-divider values and a set of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174311 | Switching amplifier A switching amplifier (200; 300; 400; 500) comprising: a switch (202; 302) configured to electrically connect and disconnect a first pin (202a; 302a) of the switch (202; 302) to a second pin (202b; 30... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174041 | Lighting unit with temperature compensation A lighting unit comprises a packaging substrate (10) formed from a semiconductor, a channel (12) formed in the substrate and a discrete light emitting diode arrangement (34) in the channel. A surface region of the channel comprises doped semicon... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173511 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and semiconductor device obtained with such a method The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device (10) with a substrate (11) and a semiconductor body (12) which is provided with at least one bipolar transistor having an emitter region (1), a base region (2 | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173448 | Wafer with scribe lanes comprising external pads and/or active circuits for die testing A wafer comprises i) at least one independent die having internal integrated components, a multiplicity of internal pads connected to some of the internal integrated components, ii) scribe lanes defined between and around each independent die, and in part of which a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172150 | Integrated circuit card The invention relates to an integrated circuit card (1) comprising: an input/output block (4) for receiving external command data from an interface device (2); a central processing unit (CPU) (3) in signal communication with the input/out... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170137 | Method and system for transmitting data from a medium access control device via a physical layer to an antenna The invention relates to a method and a system for transmitting data from a medium access control device (2) via a digital interface (IF1) to a physical layer (4) and to an antenna (5), wherein the physical layer (4) comprises a ba... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169811 | Non-volatile re-programmable memory device A memory device including a non-volatile re-programmable memory cell is provided. In connection with various example embodiments, the memory cell is a single resistor located between a first and second node. The resistor stores different resistance states correspond... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169758 | Path sharing high-voltage ESD protection using distributed low-voltage clamps Integrated circuit (20) comprising several different voltage rails (V5 to V1) and an on-chip ESD protection circuit. The ESD protection circuit comprises at least one group (21, 22, 23) of ESD clamp devices (C1-C4). ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169225 | System and method for on-chip jitter injection High Speed I/O interfaces such as DVI, S-ATA or PCI-Express require expensive test equipment. Loop-back tests are widely used as one alternative, but lack coverage of timing-related defects. A system and method for on-chip jitter injection using a variable delay wit... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169203 | Low dropout regulator A low-drop out (LDO) regulator circuit is provided having a gate of a pass transistor coupled to an output of an operational transconductance amplifier, the LDO regulator exhibiting a non-dominant pole at an output of the LDO. A dynamic zero-compensation circuit is ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169084 | Bond pad structure and method for producing same It is described a bond pad structure and a method for producing the same, the bond pad structure (1), comprising: a substrate (3) having a surface (17) to be electrically contacted; a first isolator layer (5) contacting the surface (17... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168537 | 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 elec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168524 | Non-volatile memory with erase gate on isolation zones The present invention provides a non-volatile memory device and a method for manufacturing such a device. The device comprises a floating gate (16), a control gate (19) and a separate erase gate (10). The erase gate (10) is provided in or... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160644 | Processing device for the contactless communication with a data carrier which is detachably connected to the processing device A processing device (1; 14) having a housing (4) includes first communication means (2, 6) for receiving and/or transmitting an information signal (AS) and processing means (7) for processing the information signal (AS) received and/or to... | 04/17/2012 |
