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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7751447 | Synchronization of time base units Due to emerging cellular standards, such as UMTS, TDMA and WLAN, there is more and more need for so-called multi-mode mobile phones, i.e. phones which support not only one air interface but at least two. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention,... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7733991 | Apparatus for determining a frequency offset error and receiver based thereon The apparatus (20) for determining a frequency offset error comprises an input (24.1) for receiving a digitally coded frequency demodulated signal (demod Ip2). The frequency demodulated signal (demod Ip2) is processed by digital means ( | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729317 | Low-if pre-preamble antenna diversity receiver An antenna diversity receiver has a low-IF receiving mode and a diversity selection mode, and a switch arrangement for coupling one of the antennas to the IF channels when in the receiving mode, and coupling each of the channels to a different one of the antennas in... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7714622 | Integrated circuit input stage An input stage of an integrated circuit, includes a comparator for comparing the voltage of an input signal of the input stage with a reference voltage, and supplying a binary output signal the value of which depends on the result of the comparison of the input sign... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710392 | Pointing device for a computer system with automatic detection of the state of motion, and a relative control method A pointing device for a computer system includes a displacement transducer of the pointing device, provided with: an inertial sensor, supplying acceleration signals indicative of an acceleration according to two axes of detection; and a processing unit, which, on th... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7692906 | Device for protecting an integrated circuit against latch-up phenomena Device for protecting an integrated circuit, comprising a device for detecting a latch-up condition, and a supply voltage control device for controlling a supply voltage of the integrated circuit, to modify a parameter of the supply voltage of the integrated circuit... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7667181 | Method and circuit for obtaining a sample in an image sensor An image sensor and a method for acquiring images by sampling of the level of a voltage representative of the charge of a photodiode, in which a first sample is taken during a reset of the charge level of the photodiode; and a second sample is taken provided that th... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7657034 | Data encryption in a symmetric multiprocessor electronic apparatus For the encryption of data to be stored in a memory external to a circuit, provision is made to store in the external memory encrypted data words in association with an initialization vector and a key identifier associated with a secret key that has served to encryp... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7642891 | Planar inductance A planar inductance, such as for monolithic HF oscillators, has planar spiral windings, each with two loops, where each winding is in the form of an “eight” with cross-conductors carrying current in the same direction and running between two loops. ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7633851 | Generation of a guard interval in a DMT modulation transmission A circuit for generating a cyclic prefix of a symbol comprised of a sequence of time samples, the prefix being the reproduction of the last samples of the symbol at the beginning of the symbol, the symbol being obtained by inverse Fourier transform of complex coeffi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623837 | Receiver for an integrated heterodyne communication system including BAW-type resonators A heterodyne receiving circuit for a digital communication system including a first band pass filter receiving a signal from an antenna, an amplifying circuit and a second narrow band pass filter for selecting one particular channel within a band of frequencies. The... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7612547 | Series voltage regulator with low dropout voltage and limited gain transconductance amplifier A voltage regulation circuit intended to generate a regulated voltage for an electronic device, comprising: a transconductance amplifier based on a pair of MOS type differential amplifiers, said amplifier having a first input onto which a reference potential is appl... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7605637 | Voltage multiplier and relative operating method A voltage multiplier includes a control circuit that generates first and second signals in phase opposition and a charging section. The latter comprises a first capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the first signal and a second capacitor having a first termi... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599713 | Mobile terminal with reduced components The invention relates to a mobile terminal (20, 30) having a first processing unit (7), a first memory device (21) and SIM card chip (23) including a second memory device (22), the second memory device (22) is reprogrammable... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7583093 | Electrical test method of an integrated circuit A method for testing an integrated circuit is provided comprising steps of providing at least one first conductive path stretching along an element of the integrated circuit, applying a voltage at a point of the first conductive path, performing a first measurement ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7489780 | Security integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit for the processing of conditional access television signals comprises an input interface for receiving encrypted television signals and an output interface for output of decrypted television signals. Control signals broadcast with ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489004 | Micro-electro-mechanical variable capacitor for radio frequency applications with reduced influence of a surface roughness A micro-electro-mechanical variable capacitor has a first and a second electrode, and a dielectric region arranged on the first electrode. An intermediate electrode is arranged on the dielectric region. The first electrode is fixed and anchored to a substrate, and t... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7453732 | Method for programming memory cells including transconductance degradation detection The present invention relates to a method for programming a memory cell having a determined transconductance curve. The programming of the memory cell comprises a series of programming cycles each comprising a step of verifying the state of the memory cell. Accordin... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7448626 | Systems, methods and articles to facilitate playing card games A card receiver to receive playing cards includes a substantially circular base having an outer periphery and an inner portion radially spaced from the outer periphery. A plurality of partitions extend longitudinally from the base and opposed surfaces of each adjace... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7359227 | Shared address lines for crosspoint memory A crosspoint memory includes a shared address line. The shared address line may be coupled to cells above and below the address line in one embodiment. Voltage biasing may be utilized to select one cell, and to deselect another cell. In this way, each cell may be ma... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7251151 | Non-volatile memory comprising means for distorting the output of memory cells The present invention relates to a non-volatile memory comprising a memory array comprising functional memory cells and non-functional memory cells linked to at least one non-functional word line. A word line address decoder comprises a special decoding section link... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7242621 | Floating-gate MOS transistor with double control gate The present invention relates to a floating-gate MOS transistor, comprising drain and source regions implanted into a silicon substrate, a channel extending between the drain and source regions, a tunnel oxide, a floating gate, a gate oxide and a control gate extend... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7218553 | Method for programming memory cells including transconductance degradation detection The present invention relates to a method for programming a memory cell having a determined transconductance curve. The programming of the memory cell comprises a series of programming cycles each comprising a step of verifying the state of the memory cell. Accordin... | 05/15/2007 |
