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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5845239 | Modular audio data processing architecture An audio data processing system having a control processor coupled to an execution controller through a bus is provided. The control processor serves as a master processor to control the operation of the execution controller which in turn controls the exe... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5835793 | Device and method for extracting a bit field from a stream of data A data processing device uses a portion of a random access memory as an input buffer 114 for holding a portion of a stream of data which is being processed by a processing unit within the processing device. A Get Bit-Field instruction is provided which di... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5829054 | Devices and systems with parallel logic unit operable on data memory locations A data processing device includes a first memory for storing data, a second memory for storing instructions and circuitry connected to the first memory for electronically performing computation operations. Registers temporarily hold digital signals repres... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5804861 | Electrostatic discharge protection in integrated circuits, systems and methods An integrated circuit has a semiconductor die with a substrate and at least first and second bond pads. An internal circuit is fabricated on the semiconductor die and connected to the first bond pad. An electrostatic discharge protection circuit including... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5798649 | Method for detecting defects in semiconductor insulators The reliability of thin film insulators is determined with noise measurements which find the barrier height mean and standard deviation. A constant voltage source is applied across the thin film insulator. A low noise amplifier is connected across a resis... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5794181 | Method for processing a subband encoded audio data stream A data processing system (10) is disclosed which comprises a microprocessor host (12) coupled to a decoding system (14). A host interface block (18) receives a bit stream and passes bit stream on to a system decoder block (20). The system decoder block (2... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5790609 | Apparatus for cleanly switching between various clock sources in a data processing system A clock acquisition subsystem for a data processing system has an interlocked clock multiplexer 100 for acquiring a clock source which is provided as clock signal 102 to the data processing system. Multiplexer 100 has at least two inputs 104 and 106 for c... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5767551 | Intergrated circuit combining high frequency bipolar and high power CMOS transistors A process flow which can be used to fabricate a high frequency bipolar transistor 147, a power transistor 146, and non-power MOS devices on a single substrate while maintaining superior performance. The process flow forms an initial high-voltage tank 170 ... | 06/16/1998 |
