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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 8140778 | Apparatus and method for data capture using a read preamble A data capturing device is provided. The data capturing device includes a data capturing device controller and data capturing components. The data capturing device is arranged to send a burst read command. Each of the data capturing components includes a DLL compone... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 8122181 | Systems and methods for enhancing a data store for handling semantic information Systems (100) and methods (300) for enhancing a data store (DS) addressable at a block level and interfaced with a host device (HD) via a memory controller (MC), which may comprise a VMCC (110, 210). The methods involve receiving an access opera... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8114756 | Method and manufacture for high voltage gate oxide formation after shallow trench isolation formation A method and manufacture for fabrication of flash memory is provided. In fabricating the periphery region of the flash memory, the low voltage gate oxides and high voltage gate oxides are grown to the same height as each other prior to STI etching. After STI etching... | 02/14/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 8094509 | Apparatus and method for placement of boosting cell with adaptive booster scheme A memory includes memory arrays and boost converter circuitry. The boost converter circuitry provides at least one boosted voltage to each of the memory arrays when the memory array is being accessed. The boosted voltages may include a word line voltage, and/or a pa... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085588 | Semiconductor device and control method thereof Systems and methods for programming data to a memory device (MD). The methods involve receiving the data at MD (100) from an external data source. MD includes a memory cell array (MCA) for storing the data including numbers in data blocks (DB) or memory cell ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8076199 | Method and device employing polysilicon scaling A memory and method of manufacture employing word line scaling. A layered stack, including a charge trapping component and a core polysilicon layer, is formed on a core section and a peripheral section of a substrate. A portion of the layered stack, including the co... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072802 | Memory employing redundant cell array of multi-bit cells A memory that employs a redundant cell array for recovery of one or more failed core cell arrays of multi-bit memory cells is described. The memory includes a plurality of core cell arrays, at least one redundant cell array, and a memory controller. The memory contr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046678 | Employing partial evaluation to provide a page A web page is generated by applying a partial evaluation technique. In one embodiment, at design time, a page designer enables a dynamic version of a page specification program to be generated, such as by way of a page customization interface. This dynamic version c... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031142 | DC offset correction for an electroluminescent panel A circuit for EL panel DC offset correction is provided. The circuit includes components such as an EL panel driver, an error circuit, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a low-pass filter. The low-pass filter performs low-pass filtering on the voltage across the ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030996 | Apparatus and method for automatic level control A circuit and method for automatic level control is provided. The circuit includes an amplifier including a variable resistance circuit that is connected between a first node and a second node. The circuit also includes a first resistance circuit that is connected b... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022746 | Bootstrap circuit for H-bridge structure utilizing N-channel high-side fets The invention relates to an apparatus and method for driving high-side switching devices in an H-Bridge circuit. The apparatus includes first and second N-Channel high-side switching devices. Each of the high-side switching devices is associated with, and is selecti... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018215 | Apparatus and method for monitoring the inductance value of a switching regulator A circuit for monitoring the inductance value of a switching regulator is provided. The circuit includes an inductance sensor circuit that is coupled to a switch node of a switching regulator. The inductor sensor circuit includes a switch, a ramp circuit, and a comp... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004971 | Method and system for scaling network traffic managers using connection keys A method and system is directed to distributing a flow of packets over a network to multiple traffic management devices. An apparatus receives each packet from a network and may act as a layer 2 switch, or router, to distribute the packet to one of a group of traffi... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7969816 | Memory device Systems and methods for reading data from or writing data to a memory device. The methods involve receiving a first pulse signal having a first pulse frequency at the memory device. The methods also involve generating, at the memory device, a second pulse signal usi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961519 | Memory employing independent dynamic reference areas A memory that employs separate Dref areas that are independently accessed to provide a threshold voltage reference signal. The memory includes the separate Dref areas, a data area positioned between the Dref areas, one or more sense amplifiers, and a switch componen... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7941557 | Dynamical routing for text messaging Routing text messages. A mobile message (MM) is received from an application program or other message source, and includes a destination identifier, such as a phone number. Based on the destination identifier, a routing server determines whether the MM is to be loca... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941416 | Harvesting of media objects from searched sites without a user having to enter the sites A method and apparatus for enabling a user to access media objects, such as images, from a website without requiring the user to enter the website. In one embodiment, a search engine searches for websites that match a submitted search term. A selected URL to one of ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940570 | Memory employing separate dynamic reference areas A memory that employs separate Dynamic reference (Dref) areas to provide a threshold voltage reference signal. The memory includes the separate Dref areas, a data area positioned between the Dref areas, a reference array, and one or more sense amplifiers. The data a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936160 | Apparatus and method for valley emulated current mode control A valley current mode switching regulator is provided. When the main switch of the switching regulator is closed, the current through the main switch is sensed and sampled. The sensed main switch current is held while the main switch is off. While the main switch is... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7928671 | Illumination intensity control A method for controlling average current. The method enables control of average current independent of instantaneous current. The average current is controlled by changing the number of unit pulses provided during a time interval. The unit pulses are used to switch ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7919954 | LDO with output noise filter A low-drop out (LDO) regulator is provided. In one embodiment, the LDO regulator includes an error amplifier, a pass transistor, a reference voltage circuit, an output noise filter, and a voltage divider. The voltage divider provides a feedback voltage based on the ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917448 | Apparatus and method for online dating service providing threaded messages with a notes and diary function A notes function and a diary function for an online dating service is provided. Each subscriber to the online dating service has access to a message center for communicating messages between candidates. The messages in the message center are organized as threads. Ad... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7848167 | Apparatus and method for generating wide-range regulated supply voltages for a flash memory A voltage regulator is provided. The voltage regulator provides an output voltage that is proportional to a digital multi-bit select signal. The voltage regulator includes a coarse voltage regulator and a fine voltage regulator. The coarse voltage regulator provides... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7868595 | Apparatus and method for soft-start mode transition in a switching regulator A regulator is provided. The regulator is a PWM-based switching regulator with soft-start. The regulator starts up with non-synchronously-rectified regulation. A soft-start done signal is asserted after soft-start is finished. In one embodiment, the soft-start done ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7863869 | Multiple level current regulator A circuit for selectively regulating a current at one value from multiple defined values. The circuit includes a sense selector to select a current sense signal from multiple current sense signals and a current path selector to select a current pathway from multiple... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859233 | Apparatus and method for start-up for a synchronous switching regulator A synchronous switching voltage regulator circuit is provided. After the first PWM pulse or at the end of a soft-start, a gradual transition is made from asynchronous rectification to fully synchronous rectification. The gradual transition to synchronous rectificati... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7843422 | Apparatus and method for ambient light compensation for backlight control in small format displays An ambient light compensation circuit for controlling a backlight brightness is provided. The circuit automatically adjusts the LCD backlight brightness based on a reading of the ambient light. The circuit includes a non-linear ADC and a backlight control circuit. T... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7826191 | Dynamic current limiting for switching regulators A circuit for dynamically controlling current limit protection in switching regulators. The circuit selectively disables the switching circuit of the regulator in response to the detection of an over-current condition. During the over-current condition, the voltage ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822400 | Apparatus and method for suppresion of TDMA noise in a stereo headphone A circuit for TDMA noise reduction is provided, which may be used in a mobile phone. The circuit includes a first audio amplifier, a second audio amplifier, and a switch. The circuit is attachable to a stereo headphone with two speakers, each speaker having two inpu... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7821244 | Apparatus and method for charge storage and recovery for variable output voltage regulators A circuit for voltage regulation is provided. The circuit includes a variable output voltage regulator and an output capacitor circuit. The output capacitor circuit includes at least two output capacitors and at least one switch. The variable output voltage regulato... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7804284 | PSRR regulator with output powered reference The invention relates to a regulator with a reference generator circuit (e.g., a band-gap reference) and a reference generator power selector. The reference generator power selector selectively powers the reference generator circuit from an input power signal during... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7800869 | Apparatus and method for power supply overvoltage disconnect protection A circuit for voltage transient protection is provided. The circuit includes an input monitor circuit, an input transistor, and a voltage regulator. The input transistor is connected between the input voltage and the input voltage terminal of the voltage regulator. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796370 | Apparatus and method for lightning sensor and controller A lightning protection device is provided. The device includes a lower field coupler, an upper field coupler, a lightning sensor, and a controller. The lightning sensor includes a differential voltage window comparator. The lower field coupler is capacitively couple... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782036 | Adaptive on-time control for switching regulators The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for maintaining a substantially constant switching frequency in a relatively fast transient response switching regulator. The apparatus includes a comparison circuit, a one-shot circuit, and a pulse duration control... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7714651 | Apparatus and method for low power rail-to-rail operational amplifier A rail-to-rail amplifier is provided. The rail-to-rail amplifier includes a p-type differential pair, an n-type differential pair, switches, and an output stage. The switches are arranged to selectively couple either the p-type differential pair or the n-type differ... | 05/11/2010 |
