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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7433166 | Constant current generator A constant current generator connected between first and second terminals includes a gate turn-off thyristor in series with a resistor; a current limiting component connected between the anode gate and the cathode gate of the thyristor; and a voltage reference conne... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426276 | Method for the secured transfer of data A method is provided for secured transfer of an N-byte data element from a first memory containing the data element to a second memory through a data bus that is connected between the first memory and the second memory. According to the method, a transfer rule is de... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7369614 | MPEG decoder of images from multiple sequences A circuit for controlling an MPEG decoder rated by a signal of given period likely to decode several coded images, receiving at each period beginning an order to decode several images of a first or of a second type, the images of the second type being decodable at a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7281119 | Selective vertical and horizontal dependency resolution via split-bit propagation in a mixed-architecture system having superscalar and VLIW modes A computer system supplies instructions simultaneously to a plurality of parallel execution pipelines in either superscalar mode or very long instruction word mode with checks for vertical and horizontal dependency between instructions, the horizontal dependency che... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7240185 | Computer system with two debug watch modes for controlling execution of guarded instructions upon breakpoint detection A computer system is provided with precise and non-precise watch modes. The computer system is a pipelined system in which the fate of an instruction is determined at the decode stage. Once instructions have been decoded, it is not possible for them to be “killedâ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7143247 | Method and apparatus for parallel execution pipeline data storage in a computer memory A computer system having a plurality of parallel execution pipelines which may generate data for storing in a memory, data from the pipelines may be stored in a queue prior to accessing the memory and the system includes circuitry for reordering data from the differ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7116783 | Non-deterministic method for secured data transfer A method is provided for secured transfer of data from a first memory containing the data element to a second memory through a data bus that is connected between the first memory and the second memory. According to the method, a secret N-byte data element is transfe... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111152 | Computer system that operates in VLIW and superscalar modes and has selectable dependency control Instructions in a computer system are executed in a plurality of parallel execution pipelines, a horizontal dependency check is carried out between instructions supplied to the parallel pipelines and in response to detecting horizontal dependency a control signal of... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111033 | Carry save adders A carry save adder circuit for reducing the number of inputs to a lower number of outputs, the carry save adder circuit including four carry save adders, the four carry save adders being arranged in two layers with the first and second carry save adders being arrang... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103015 | DSL transmission system with means for ensuring local echo orthogonality A digital subscriber line transmission system comprising an IFFT circuit generating successive outgoing time domain symbols on a subscriber line from respective groups of digital frequency domain coefficients; an FFT circuit generating groups of digital frequency do... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096246 | Arithmetic unit for multiplying a first quantity X by a second quantity Y An arithmetic unit for multiplying a first quantity x by a second quantity y, the arithmetic unit including a Booth coder having a plurality of inputs for receiving a plurality bits of the second quantity and a plurality of outputs for providing Booth coded outputs;... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7058980 | Device and method for protecting memory data against illicit access An electronic device for storing protected data is disclosed. The electronic device includes memory protection logic operable to interface with memory, such as non-volatile ROM for storing protected data therein. The protected data in one embodiment is program code.... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058357 | Sizing of an electromagnetic transponder system for an operation in extreme proximity A system of contactless electromagnetic transmission between a terminal including a series oscillating circuit for generating an electromagnetic field and a transponder including a parallel oscillating circuit, these oscillating circuits being sized so that the coup... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7049935 | Sizing of an electromagnetic transponder system for a dedicated distant coupling operation A system of contactless electromagnetic transmission between a terminal including a series oscillating circuit for generating an electromagnetic field and a transponder including a parallel oscillating circuit, these oscillating circuits being sized so that the coup... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7023908 | DSL transmission system with far-end crosstalk compensation The invention relates to a far-end crosstalk canceling circuit for a digital subscriber line transmission system, the transmission system including a plurality of line termination modems transmitting discrete multitone symbols Si to corresponding network termination... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019338 | Subscriber interface protection circuit The present invention relates to a monolithic component of protection of a line against overvoltages than a determined positive threshold or smaller than a determined negative threshold, including in antiparallel a cathode-gate thyristor (Th1) and an anode-ga... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6993068 | Method for estimating and synchronizing frame boundaries of mis-aligned cross-talk signals in a DMT system In a telecommunications transmission system using a DTM system as a multicarrier system and having at least two VDSL systems, each including a pair of modems, the at least two VDSL systems belonging to a single binder group common to both VDSL systems, a method in t... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6989694 | Voltage ramp generator and current ramp generator including such a generator A voltage ramp generator includes a capacitance and a charging circuit that permits generation of a charging current for the capacitance. The charging circuit for the capacitance includes a current generator having a resistance Rg2. The charging circuit for t... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6987800 | DSL transmission system with far-end crosstalk cancellation The invention relates to a far-end crosstalk canceling circuit for a digital subscriber line transmission system, the transmission system including a plurality of line termination modems receiving discrete multitone symbols from corresponding network termination mod... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6983300 | Arithmetic unit An arithmetic unit for adding a plurality of values to define a result, the arithmetic unit including circuitry for receiving the plurality of values; circuitry for adding the plurality of values to define a result, the result being within a first range; circuitry f... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6971020 | Circuit and method for the securing of a coprocessor dedicated to cryptography A circuit and a method are provided for securing a coprocessor dedicated to cryptography. The disclosed circuit includes a scrambling register and an accessory input register to convey scrambling information in the form of electrical signals that disturb the visibil... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970207 | Anti-flicker filtering process and system A process of filtering digital images to reduce image flicker. An anti-flicker filtering is performed after a step of calculating the image and before a step of displaying the image so that the flicker is filtered as soon as the image is created. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6960985 | Adaptation of the transmission power of an electromagnetic transponder reader A terminal for generating an electromagnetic field adapted to cooperating with at least one transponder when the latter enters its field and including an oscillating circuit adapted to receiving a high-frequency A.C. excitation voltage, circuitry for regulating the ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6960799 | Image sensor with a photodiode array An array of photodiodes includes regions of a second conductivity type formed in a semiconductive region of a first conductivity type, divided into three interleaved sub-arrays. All the photodiodes of a same sub-array are coated with a same interference filter inclu... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959379 | Multiple execution of instruction loops within a processor without accessing program memory A method of executing loops in a computer system is described. The computer system has a sequence of instructions held in program memory and a prefetch buffer which holds instructions fetched from the memory ready for supply to a decoder of the computer system. If t... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955963 | Damascene architecture electronic storage and method for making same An electronic memory having a source (118) and a drain (120) comprising on a substrate (100) a floating gate (260) and a control gate (264). According to the invention, the floating gate (260) has a substantially U-sh... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6934893 | Method of monitoring the activation of programmed sequences of a programmed system and computer program and apparatus for implementing same The activation of programmed sequences to be executed iteratively is monitored by the sequences themselves. Each monitoring program sequence includes the additional function of monitoring at least one other sequence. The sequences can be in the form of routines, e.g... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928158 | Transmission of a clock by a capacitive isolating barrier A method and a circuit for regenerating a clock signal based on a flip-flop and on two complementary signals at the clock rate, the flip-flop being assembled as a divider by two of a combination of shaping signals each translating a direction, respectively rising or... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6903435 | Vertical power component A vertical power component on a silicon wafer, including a lightly-doped epitaxial layer of a second conductivity type on the upper surface of a heavily-doped substrate of a first conductivity type, the epitaxial layer having a thickness adapted to withstanding the ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6889313 | Selection of decoder output from two different length instruction decoders A decode unit comprises first and second decoders respectively connected to receive bit sequences of first and second predetermined lengths. The first and second decoders operate in parallel to generate respective outputs. A switch selects one of the outputs in depe... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6864898 | Error distribution for the approximation of the pixel color of a digital image A method of approximation of the respective colors of pixels of a digital image by selecting, from a look-up table and successively for each pixel of the image, a color, the code of which comes close with the smallest error to the sum of the code of the current pixe... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6852373 | Method for depositing a silicon-containing dielectric material on copper A method for depositing a dielectric material on copper apparent on the surface of a structure, by placing the structure in a depositing chamber of CVD type (Chemical Vapor Deposition), adding to the chamber a first gas forming a precursor for the formation of the d... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6848049 | Method and apparatus for the authentication of integrated circuits A method for the authentication of an integrated circuit in an application system comprises, for the integrated circuit: detecting an activation scenario, and then modifying at least one of its responses. The application system implements an application program whic... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6842525 | Signal amplification circuit and process for neutralizing noise from a power supply voltage An amplification circuit is provided for the signal output from a microphone in which the signal is amplified by a differential structure amplifier. The circuit includes the pull-up voltage, which initializes the operating state of the microphone, being coupled to a... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6839285 | Page by page programmable flash memory An integrated circuit memory includes a FLASH memory including a circuit for recording a word presented on its input without the possibility of recording simultaneously several words in parallel. The integrated circuit memory may include a buffer memory with a suffi... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6832334 | Computer register watch A computer system includes instruction fetch circuitry, decode circuitry to decode instructions and identify any registers to be used and dispatch circuitry to dispatch instructions to one or more execution units, said system including emulator circuitry for debug o... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6831338 | Power component bearing interconnections A power component formed in an N-type silicon substrate delimited by a P-type wall, having a lower surface including a first P-type region connected to the wall, and an upper surface including a second P-type region, a conductive layer extending above the substrate ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6816559 | FSK modulation transceiver An FSK transceiver circuit, including a controlled oscillator used, in a transmission mode, to modulate a carrier by frequency shifts according to a binary transmission signal present on an input pin of the circuit, the shift amplitude being determined by an adjusti... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6807626 | Execution of a computer program A computer system has a memory which holds a computer program consisting of a sequence of program instructions. The format of the program instructions depends on an instruction mode of the computer system. A decoder is arranged to receive and decode program instruct... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6791808 | Clipping device with a negative resistance A clipping device intended for absorbing current peaks from 1 to 10 amperes, formed of a vertical NPN transistor, having an unconnected base, an emitter connected to a terminal on which positive voltage peaks are likely to appear, and a grounded collector, the trans... | 09/14/2004 |
