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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173332 | Reflection-type exposure mask and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A reflection-type exposure mask includes a multilayer reflective film in a main surface and serving as a high reflective region to an exposure light, and an absorber pattern on the multilayer reflective film and serving as a low reflective region to the exposure lig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7969256 | Signal transmission circuit and signal transmission system with reduced reflection A signal transmission circuit includes a transmitting circuit for outputting a transmitting signal to a transmission line, a parallel circuit including a capacitor and a first resistance connected between an output terminal of the transmitting circuit and the transm... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965563 | Data line disturbance free memory block divided flash memory and microcomputer having flash memory therein A semiconductor device having an electrically erasable and programmable nonvolatile memory, for example, a rewritable nonvolatile memory including memory cells arranged in rows and columns and disposed to facilitate both flash erasure as well as selective erasure of... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7960076 | Reflective-type mask A reflective-type mask having a main surface including a pattern region in the main surface, the pattern region including a multilayer reflective film which reflects the exposure light and a first absorber pattern on the multilayer reflective film, the first absorbe... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7911855 | Semiconductor device with voltage interconnections A semiconductor device capable of reducing power consumption is provided. When a power to an internal circuit is interrupted, e.g., in a standby mode, a switch is turned off, and a pseudo-ground line is charged with a leak current of the internal circuit to raise a ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906840 | Semiconductor integrated circuit package, printed circuit board, semiconductor apparatus, and power supply wiring structure A semiconductor integrated circuit package, a printed circuit board, a semiconductor apparatus, and a power supply wiring structure that allow attainment of stable power source and ground wiring without causing resonance even in a high-frequency bandwidth are provid... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7902539 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same Any of a plurality of contact plugs which reaches a diffusion layer serving as a drain layer of an MOS transistor has an end provided in contact with a lower surface of a thin insulating film provided selectively on an interlayer insulating film. A phase change film... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7885626 | Mobile communication apparatus A transceiver suitable for larger scale of integration employs direct conversion reception for reducing the number of filters. Also, the number of VCOs is reduced by utilizing dividers to supply a receiver and a transmitter with locally oscillated signals at an RF b... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7876654 | Optical disk drive control circuit An IC provided in an optical disk device having an objective lens and a pickup for a disk. The IC has a circuit for holding a signal which drives the objective lens in a focus or tracking direction and for detecting the moving direction of the objective lens, and a ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853776 | Handover between software and hardware accelerator A bytecode accelerator which translates stack-based intermediate language (bytecodes) into register-based CPU instructions transfers plural pieces of internal information from a register file of a CPU to the bytecode accelerator by means of an internal transfer bus ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7821829 | Nonvolatile memory device including circuit formed of thin film transistors A transistor is arranged for electrically isolating a sense amplifier formed of a thin film transistor from a data line electrically coupled to the sense amplifier. When a write driver drives the data line, a control signal is applied to isolate the data line from t... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818469 | USB device and peripheral device changing functional module to activate in accordance with descriptor In a USB device comprising a plurality of functional modules that includes a control circuit for switching a functional module to be activated from among the functional modules included in the USB device according to a potential level of a power applied from a host ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816757 | Semiconductor device including a digital semiconductor element and an analog semiconductor element in a common semiconductor device High density mounting and power source sharing are achieved by a digital semiconductor element and an analog semiconductor element provided in a common semiconductor device. A power layer for analog operation is connected to one end of an EBG (Electromagnetic Band G... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816207 | Semiconductor device having electrode and manufacturing method thereof A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes a first electrode formation step of forming a control gate electrode above a surface of a semiconductor substrate with a control gate insulating film interposed between the control gate electrode and the semi... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816204 | Semiconductor device comprising capacitor and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device, having a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region, includes an insulating film, having an upper surface, formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate to extend from the memory cell region to the peripheral circuit region. ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814343 | Semiconductor integrated circuit for reducing power consumption and enhancing processing speed A semiconductor integrated circuit device which consumes less power and enables real-time processing. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes thermal sensors which detect temperature and determine whether the detection result exceeds reference values an... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813710 | Receiving circuit The present invention is a receiving circuit used for a cellular phone that is reduced in size and can realize low power consumption. In a signal reception circuit that is used in a cellular phone that perform transmission and reception of a plurality of band wirele... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813616 | Semiconductor device with dummy electrode A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode having a straight portion, a dummy electrode located at a point on the extension of the straight portion, a stopper insulating film, a sidewall insulating film, an interlayer insulating film, and a linear contact port... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813156 | Semiconductor device The present invention provides a sense circuit for DRAM memory cell to cover the events that a sense time becomes remarkably longer when a power source voltage is lowered, a sense time under the low voltage condition becomes shorter when temperature rises and a sens... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812389 | Programmable nonvolatile memory and semiconductor integrated circuit device Distance λm between a floating gate and a drain contact of a floating gate transistor forming a memory cell is set to be greater than a distance λ determined based on a minimum design dimension between a control gate and a contact of a peripheral transistor. Data ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808076 | Semiconductor device The semiconductor device which has an electric straight line-like fuse with a small occupying area is offered. A plurality of projecting portions 10f are formed in the position shifted from the middle position of electric fuse part 10a... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808031 | Method of fabricating a semiconductor device with a trench isolation structure and resulting semiconductor device The present fabrication method includes the steps of: providing a nitride film in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate; providing an upper trench, with the nitride film used as a mask; filling the upper trench with an oxide film introduced therein; removing t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805562 | Microcomputer with configurable communication interfacing A microcomputer capable of on-board programming of dedicated user communication protocols without requiring a serial interface on the mounted board, and that will not destroy the dedicated user communication protocol code even if the system runs out of control. A us... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805555 | Multiprocessor system The present invention provides a technique capable of processing a plurality of interrupt causes sharing one interrupt request in different processors. An interrupt controller outputs an interrupt request when the interrupt request shared by a plurality of interrupt... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805123 | RF transceiver using hopping frequency synthesizer A technique of frequency hopping communication capable of high-speed switching of a plurality of signals having ultra-wide band 528 MHz bandwidth at high-speed and setting and switching a band center frequency and the number of bands arbitrary is provided. A radio t... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804573 | Liquid crystal display device, method for fabricating the same, and portable telephone using the same A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel and a semiconductor integrated circuit for driving and controlling the liquid crystal display panel. The number of input/output wires connected to I/O terminals (bonding pads) of the semiconduc... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804368 | Oscillator and charge pump circuit using the same The present invention provides a current-limited oscillator capable of performing stable operation even when it is driven with a low power-supply voltage, and a charge pump circuit using the oscillator. A current-limited oscillator has a delay section that includes ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804132 | Semiconductor device A gate electrode is provided such that both ends thereof in a gate width direction are projected from an active region in plane view. Partial trench isolation insulation films are provided in a surface of an SOI substrate corresponding to lower parts of the both end... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804118 | Semiconductor device having plural DRAM memory cells and a logic circuit and method for manufacturing the same A memory cell capacitor (C3) of a DRAM is formed by use of a MIM capacitor which uses as its electrode a metal wiring line of the same layer (M3) as metal wiring lines within a logic circuit (LOGIC), thereby enabling reduction of process costs. Higher ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7800942 | Method and system for providing a magnetic element and magnetic memory being unidirectional writing enabled A method and system for providing a magnetic element and memory utilizing the magnetic element are described. The magnetic element includes a reference layer, a nonferromagnetic spacer layer, and a free layer. The reference layer has a resettable magnetization that ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800354 | Switching power supply A switching power supply capable of correcting a power factor without using a shunt resistor is provided. The switching power supply includes a rectifier for rectifying an AC power supply, boosting means including a power MOSFET for boosting an output of the rectifi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796426 | Semiconductor device A technique capable of improving speed of a set operation, which controls writing rate in a semiconductor device including a memory cell using a phase-change material. The technique uses means for setting a set-pulse voltage to be applied to the phase-change materia... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7795741 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device which stores a plurality of semiconductor chips, having planar sizes which differ, in the same sealing body in a state in which they are accumulated via an insulating film which has an adhesive property. In the semiconductor device, the thickn... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7791962 | Semiconductor device and semiconductor signal processing apparatus A memory cell mat is divided into a plurality of entries, and an arithmetic logic unit is arranged corresponding to each entry. Between the entries and the corresponding arithmetic logic units, arithmetic/logic operation is executed in bit-serial and entry-parallel ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791943 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device In a nonvolatile memory cell, a selection transistor is connected to a memory cell transistor in series. The selection transistor is formed into a double layer gate structure, and has a voltage of each gate driven individually and separately. Using capacitive coupli... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791204 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same Even when a stiffener is omitted, the semiconductor device which can prevent the generation of twist and distortion of a wiring substrate is obtained. As for a semiconductor device which has a wiring substrate, a semiconductor chip by which the flip chip bond... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791163 | Semiconductor device and its manufacturing method In the process of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first layer is formed on a substrate, and the first layer and the substrate are etched to form a trench. The inner wall of the trench is thermally oxidized. On the substrate, including inside the trench, is d... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791122 | Semiconductor memory device In a full CMOS SRAM having a lateral type cell (memory cell having three partitioned wells arranged side by side in a word line extending direction and longer in the word line direction than in the bit line direction) including first and second driver MOS transistor... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7790554 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit device with high and low breakdown-voltage MISFETs Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a plurality of first MISFETs in a first region and a plurality of second MISFETs in a second region, which comprises forming a first insulating film between two adjacent regions o... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7790478 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor integrated circuit device In remote plasma cleaning, it is difficult to locally excite a plasma because the condition is not suitable for plasma excitation different from that at the time of film formation and a method using light has a problem of fogginess of a detection window that cannot ... | 09/07/2010 |