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| 8163619 | Fabrication of semiconductor structure having asymmetric field-effect transistor with tailored pocket portion along source/drain zone An asymmetric insulated-gate field effect transistor (100U or 102U) is provided along an upper surface of a semiconductor body so as to have first and second source/drain zones (240 and 242 or 280 and 282) laterally separate... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159877 | Method of directly reading output voltage to determine data stored in a non-volatile memory cell An NVM cell design enables direct reading of cell output voltage to determine data stored in the cell, while providing low current consumption and a simple program sequence that utilizes reverse Fowler-Nordheim tunneling. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159304 | Apparatus and method for feed-forwarding in a current-feedback amplifier A current-feedback amplifier with at least one feed-forward capacitor at the input stage of the current-feedback amplifier is provided. In one embodiment, the current-feedback amplifier and feed-forward capacitor(s) are arranged as follows. The input stage includes ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151125 | System and method for providing multi-point calibration of an adaptive voltage scaling system A system and method is disclosed for providing multi-point calibration of an adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) system. A plurality of Reference Calibration Codes (RCCs) within a multi-point calibration table is provided. Each code is associated with one of the clock fr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148799 | Self-aligned bipolar transistor structure A bipolar transistor structure comprises a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, a collector region having a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type formed in a substrate active device region defined by isolation die... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148777 | Structure and fabrication of insulated-gate field-effect transistor with hypoabrupt change in body dopant concentration below source/drain zone An insulated-gate field-effect transistor (100, 100V, 140, 150, 150V, 160, 170, 170V, 180, 180V, 190, 210, 210W, 500, 510, or 530; or 220, 220W, or 540) is provided with a hypoabrupt vertical dopant profile below one (104; or 264 or 564) of its source/drain zones fo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139791 | Ground referenced audio headphone amplifier with low standby current A ground-referenced headphone amplifier includes left and right channel audio amplifiers, each including a standby mode trigger control input. A sense comparator circuit samples each audio input signal and, upon the detection of audio signals below a threshold volta... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139382 | System and method for integrating local maximum power point tracking into an energy generating system having centralized maximum power point tracking A system for integrating local maximum power point tracking (MPPT) into an energy generating system having centralized MPPT is provided. The system includes a system control loop and a plurality of local control loops. The system control loop comprises a system oper... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138826 | Apparatus and method for complete elimination of input coupling capacitors in signal amplification A circuit and method for signal amplification is provided. The circuit includes an amplifier including an input amplifier that is arranged to receive an input analog signal, and to provide an input amplifier output signal by amplifying the input analog signal. The a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135103 | Mixed domain spread spectrum clocking for use in imaging systems for maximum imaging quality and optimized EMI performance A method of operating a line imaging device including receiving a first clock signal indicative of a system timing signal in the line imaging device, generating a second clock signal based on the first clock signal and being unmodulated where the second clock signal... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134402 | Apparatus and method for powering up with hysteresis inactive A temperature-sensor circuit is provided. The temperature-sensor circuit may be configured such that an output of the temperature-sensor circuit trips when a specified temperature is reached. The temperature-sensor circuit may also be configured to trigger hysteresi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129262 | Fabrication of field-effect transistor with vertical body-material dopant profile tailored to alleviate punchthrough and reduce current leakage Fabrication of an insulated-gate field-effect transistor (110) entails separately introducing three body-material dopants, typically through an opening in a mask, into body material (50) of a semiconductor body so as to reach respective maximum dopant ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121313 | Microphone made from a polymer waveguide An apparatus and method for making a microphone that is not susceptible to RF noise and that can be fabricated to be very thin. The microphone includes a light transmitter configured to generate light, a waveguide having optically aligned transmit, vibrating and rec... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115871 | Video top-of-frame signal generator for multiple video formats A signal generator for use in producing a video top-of-frame signal based upon an input video signal with an input video frame including one or more input video fields and having an input video frame rate for an output video signal with an output video frame having ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115196 | High performance SiGe:C HBT with phosphorous atomic layer doping A base structure for high performance Silicon Germanium:Carbon (SiGe:C) based heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with phosphorus atomic layer doping (ALD) is disclosed. The ALD process subjects the base substrate to nitrogen gas (in ambient temperature approx... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114738 | System and method for providing low cost high endurance low voltage electrically erasable programmable read only memory A system and method are disclosed for increasing the reliability of a channel erase procedure in an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) memory cell. A memory cell of the present invention comprises a program gate, a control gate, and a float... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111100 | Differential amplifier with improved zero-point calibration The present invention covers novel approaches to the differential amplification of an input signal. Embodiments of the present invention have precise gain, swing to within micro-volts (μV) of ground, and have high CMRR without the need for precision resistors or tu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106987 | Correlated double sampling ping-pong architecture A method and apparatus can be arranged with a correlated double sampler circuit (CDS) for processing an output signal from an imaging device such as a charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor. The correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit is described that includes a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106639 | Feed forward control of switching regulator The invention relates to a switching regulator with an error amplifier circuit and a feed-forward circuit. The error amplifier circuit provides an error signal by amplifying the difference between a feedback signal and a reference signal. The feed-forward circuit le... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105063 | Three piece mold cavity design for packaging integrated circuits One aspect of the present invention relates to a molding system for use in packaging integrated circuits. The molding system includes a top cavity bar, a middle cavity bar, a bottom cavity bar, a tape and an injection unit. When an electronic substrate is positioned... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102196 | Programmable dual phase-locked loop clock signal generator and conditioner A clock signal generator and conditioner in which dual integrated phase-locked loop (PLL) circuits use an off-chip frequency-pullable crystal resonator or voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) module and an on-chip VCO with intra-PLL frequency doubling to provide a cl... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102168 | PSRR regulator with UVLO The invention relates to a regulator with an under-voltage lock-out (UVLO) circuit and a reference generator circuit (e.g., a band-gap reference). The UVLO circuit includes an internal band-gap reference circuit and a comparison circuit. The UVLO circuit compares an... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101479 | Fabrication of asymmetric field-effect transistors using L-shaped spacers A gate electrode (302) of a field-effect transistor (102) is defined above, and vertically separated by a gate dielectric layer (300) from, a channel-zone portion (284) of body material of a semiconductor body. Semiconductor dopant is int... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101470 | Foil based semiconductor package The present inventions relate to methods and arrangements for using a thin foil to form electrical interconnects in an integrated circuit package. One embodiment of the present invention involves attaching multiple dice to a foil carrier structure. The foil carrier ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099130 | Wireless sensor network for monitoring one or more selected environmental characteristics A wireless sensor network for monitoring one or more selected environmental characteristics. Multiple wireless signal transceivers, disposed in respective portions of a selected environment, respond to one or more wireless beacon signals by selectively collecting, p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098093 | Efficient envelope tracking power supply for radio frequency or other power amplifiers An apparatus includes an envelope tracking power supply configured to control a power amplifier. The power supply includes a first amplifier configured to receive an input voltage and generate a supply voltage for the power amplifier. The power supply also includes ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097934 | Delamination resistant device package having low moisture sensitivity A lead frame and package construction configured to attain a thin profile and low moisture sensitivity. Lead frames of this invention may include a die attach pad having a die attachment site and an elongate ground lead that extends from the die attach pad. The lead... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097923 | Method for fabricating higher quality thicker gate oxide in a non-volatile memory cell and associated circuits A non-volatile memory cell includes a program transistor and a control capacitor. A portion of a substrate associated with the program transistor is exposed to multiple implantations (such as DNW, HiNWell, HiPWell, and P-well implantations). Similarly, a portion of ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093874 | Method and system for adding boost functionality to a buck switcher with minimal cost A buck (with boost) switcher is provided that adds boost functionality to a buck switcher without compromising the buck's performance with extra series-coupled switches nor requiring a second inductor. The switcher has an integrated circuit that is capable of receiv... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093826 | Current mode switcher having novel switch mode control topology and related method A system includes a first transistor configured to control a current through one or more LEDs and an inductor coupled in series with the one or more LEDs. The system also includes a current mode switcher configured to control the first transistor so that the inducto... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093707 | Leadframe packages having enhanced ground-bond reliability Various semiconductor package arrangements and methods that improve the reliability of wire bonding a die to ground or other outside contacts are described. In one aspect, selected ground pads on the die are wire bonded to a bonding region located on the tie bar por... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085088 | Quadrature signal demodulator circuitry suitable for doppler ultrasound Quadrature signal demodulator circuitry for demodulating multiple related input signals into respective pairs of quadrature signals for selective combining to provide a composite pair of quadrature signals with a maximized signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084827 | Structure and fabrication of like-polarity field-effect transistors having different configurations of source/drain extensions, halo pockets, and gate dielectric thicknesses A group of high-performance like-polarity insulated-gate field-effect transistors (100, 108, 112, 116, 120, and 124 or 102, 110, 114, 118, 122, and 126) have selectably different configurations of lateral source/drain extensions, halo poc... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081494 | Fully integrated multi-phase grid-tie inverter In a grid-tie inverter, the DC input is phase and pulse-width modulated to define multiple phase shifted voltage pulses with the width of each pulse being modulated according to the grid AC amplitude for the corresponding portion of the AC phase. ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077625 | Apparatus and method for using a communication resource for performing a timing operation A method for using a non-timer dedicated resource, such as a communication resource, for performing timing operations is provided. The method is advantageous for use with embedded applications in dedicated devices having limited timing resources, particularly in cas... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076995 | Integrated digitally controlled linear-in-decibels attenuator An integrated digitally controlled linear-in-decibels attenuator circuit in which one or more sets of selection switches establish a desired attenuation by selectively connecting the input signal electrode to one or more corresponding resistive ladder networks conne... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072394 | Video display driver with data enable learning Data enable learning is provided for a video display driver in which a data enable signal and pixel clock exclusive of their associated horizontal and vertical synchronization signals for a digital video signal are used to facilitate generating of signals correspond... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072266 | Class G amplifier with improved supply rail transition control An apparatus and method are provided for a Class G amplifier that includes an output stage, where an output stage supply voltage is selected based upon an input signal voltage of the output stage. The amplifier may also include an input stage coupled to the output s... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072196 | System and method for providing a dynamically configured low drop out regulator with zero quiescent current and fast transient response A system and a method are disclosed for providing a dynamically configured low drop out regulator that has zero quiescent current and a fast transient response. A power supply control circuit is provided that comprises a switcher circuit and a low drop out regulator... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8066470 | Waffle pack An arrangement is described that includes a compartmentalized structure having a multiplicity of compartments defined by associated links and each having a bottom surface. The arrangement also includes a multiplicity of fiducials. The fiducials are positioned at top... | 11/29/2011 |
