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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179715 | 8T SRAM cell with four load transistors An integrated circuit containing SRAM cells with auxiliary load transistors on each data node. The integrated circuit also contains circuitry so that auxiliary load transistors in addressed SRAM cells may be biased independently of half-addressed cells. A process of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8150199 | Methods and apparatus for image enhancement A method and apparatus of enhancing an image, the method comprising applying at least one multi-scale filter bank to at least a portion of an image to detect at least one edge at different scales, and combining the detected edges with said image to yield an enhanced... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148228 | Surface patterned topography feature suitable for planarization A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that comprises implanting a first dopant type in a well region of a substrate to form implanted sub-regions that are separated by non-implanted areas of the well region. The method also comprises forming an oxide lay... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144321 | Encoding optical spectra using a DMD array According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for encoding an optical spectrum includes a dispersive element, a digital micromirror device (DMD) array, a detector, and a controller. The dispersive element receives light from a source and disperses t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143812 | Clamp to enable low voltage switching for high voltage terminal applications An output stage for an LED driver is provided. In particular, a low voltage clamp, which uses several cascode circuits, is provided to protect low voltage switching transistors in the range of two times higher voltage application under both normal and fault conditio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139284 | Digital micromirror device having wavelength-dependent modulation structure and method of manufacturing the same A digital micromirror device (DMD), a method of manufacturing the DMD and an optical processor incorporating a DMD. In one embodiment, the DMD includes: (1) a first group of micromirrors having a first modulation structure based on a first wavelength of light and a ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138521 | Thyristor semiconductor device and switching method thereof The objective of this invention is to provide a semiconductor device having a thyristor that can shorten the turn-off time. A first electroconductive type first semiconductor region 20 is formed on a substrate, and a second electroconductive type second semic... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8115523 | Circuit to spread the spectrum of a PWM signal An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a first current source and a second current source that charge and discharge a capacitor. Coupled between the capacitor and the second current source is a switch that can be actuated and deactuated by a controller. P... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111324 | Apparatus and method for film source reconstruction A method for film reconstruction includes identifying motion tear artifacts within a plurality of video fields of a stream of video fields. The motion tear artifacts identified by analyzing the video fields using fuzzy logic. The method also includes comparing the a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110997 | LED drive circuit A LED drive circuit equipped with oscillator 18, up/down counter 20, and DAC 22 in order to drive multiple LEDs 10(1)-10(m) in a block. Up/down counter 20 carries out count-up/down operations in sync with clock... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8093115 | Tuning of SOI substrate doping A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising: taking an SOI substrate comprising a bulk substrate, a buried insulating layer and an active layer, and implanting the bulk substrate from the side of and through the insulating layer and the a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7999293 | Photodiode semiconductor device and manufacturing method The invention provides a semiconductor device manufactured with a plurality of photodiodes so that it does not short circuit, and includes an opening without leakage. A second semiconductor layer (12, 16) of second conductivity type is formed on a main surfac... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995144 | Optimized phase alignment in analog-to-digital conversion of video signals A digital video system (2) is disclosed, in which an analog input video signal is sampled at an optimum sample phase (Pnc), and converted to a digital datastream for display. A phase-locked loop (12) generates a plurality of sample clock pha... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990471 | Interlaced-to-progressive video Interlaced-to-progressive conversion with (1) 3-2 pulldown detection, (2) pre-filtering for field motion detection, (3) field motion detection with feedback, (4) field edge detection including direction angle detection by comparison of pixel differences with sets of... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986010 | High-voltage variable breakdown voltage (BV) diode for electrostatic discharge (ESD) applications Formation of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device having a desired breakdown voltage (BV) is disclosed. The breakdown voltage (BV) of the device can be set, at least in part, by varying the degree to which a surface junction between two doped areas is ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982471 | Capacitance measurement system and method A capacitance measurement system precharges first terminals (21-0 . . . 21-k . . . 21-n) of a plurality of capacitors (25-0 . . . 25-k . . . 25), respectively, of a CDAC (capacitor digital-to-analog conv... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965100 | Transmitter with internal compensation for variance in differential data line impedance In at least some embodiments, an electronic device includes a first data endpoint and differential data transceiver coupled to the first data endpoint. The differential transceiver provides a communication interface between the first data endpoint and a second data ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965067 | Dynamic compensation for a pre-regulated charge pump An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an error amplifier that amplifies the difference between a reference voltage and a feedback voltage, a first variable impedance circuit coupled to the error amplifier that receives a control voltage from the error am... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7955956 | Method for recycling/reclaiming a monitor wafer The invention provides a method for recycling/reclaiming a monitor or test wafer and a method for testing an integrated circuit manufacturing process. After a monitor wafer has been used for testing one or more semiconductor wafer processing steps to determine adequ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952378 | Tunable stress technique for reliability degradation measurement Apparatus and methods are disclosed for examining how reliability in an RF power amplifier circuit changes as a function of variation of the input to output voltage swings. Two output transistors that varying greatly in the size of their respective channel widths ar... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944287 | Low-noise, wide offset range, programmable input offset amplifier front end and method A programmable offset amplifier includes first (M1) and second (M2) input transistors having differentially connected sources and gates coupled to first (Vin+) and second (Vin−) input voltages. A tail current (Itail1)... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7932843 | Parallel CABAC decoding for video decompression A method of video decoding is provided that includes receiving a data stream comprising a sequence of syntax elements that were compressed using context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC), such that the encoding of each bin of a bin string representative of a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932139 | Methodology of improving the manufacturability of laser anneal A method of laser annealing a workpiece for reduction of warpage, slip defects and breakage, the method comprising (a) moving a workpiece through a laser beam in a x-axis first direction, (b) moving the workpiece in a y-axis second direction, (c) moving the workpiec... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7921465 | Nanotip repair and characterization using field ion microscopy A system (100) for characterizing surfaces can include a nanotip microscope (104) in a first pressure envelope (102) at a first pressure with an electrically conductive nanotip (110) mounted thereon for characterizing a sample surface. Th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920404 | Ferroelectric memory devices with partitioned platelines One embodiment relates to a ferroelectric memory device. The ferroelectric memory device includes a segment of contiguous ferroelectric memory cells arranged in rows and columns. A row of ferroelectric memory cells includes a common wordline that allows access to th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916051 | Bandwidth mismatch estimation for time interleaved ADCs With high speed, high resolution time-interleaved (TI) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), bandwidth mismatches between the various ADC branches can pose a significant problem. Previously, though, no adequate solution has been found. Here, a method and apparatus ar... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916050 | Time-interleaved-dual channel ADC with mismatch compensation Previously, when designing receivers for radio frequency (RF) or wireless communications, designers chose between time-interleaved (TI) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for intermediate frequency architectures and dual channel ADCs for direct conversion architect... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7906405 | Polysilicon structures resistant to laser anneal lightpipe waveguide effects Laser scan annealing of integrated circuits offers advantages compared to rapid thermal annealing and furnace annealing, but can induce overheating in regions of components with polysilicon layers. Segmented polysilicon elements to reduce overheating is disclosed, a... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7855432 | Integrated thermal characterization and trim of polysilicon resistive elements Devices, systems, and methods for providing an on-chip, temperature-stable resistance network for generating a precision current or precision resistance are disclosed. The resistance network includes a first resistance material having a linear, negative temperature ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7843261 | Resistor network for programmable transconductance stage A voltage-to-current converter is provided. The voltage-to-current converter comprises an amplifier, a resistor network, an R-2R network, and switches. The amplifier has a first input node (which is an input signal), a second input node, and an output node. The resi... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7773024 | SAR analog-to-digital converter with large input range A method for analog-to-digital conversion is provided using successive approximation and a plurality of capacitors including a first set of capacitors and a second set of capacitors, a first side of each of the plurality of capacitors being coupled to a common node.... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7772094 | Implant damage of layer for easy removal and reduced silicon recess A method for semiconductor processing is provided, wherein a removal of one or more layers is aided by structurally weakening the one or more layers via ion implantation. A semiconductor substrate is provided having one or more primary layers formed thereon, and a s... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7737015 | Formation of fully silicided gate with oxide barrier on the source/drain silicide regions A simple and cost effective method of forming a fully silicided (FUSI) gate of a MOS transistor is disclosed. In one example, the method comprises forming a nitride hardmask overlying a polysilicon gate, forming an S/D silicide in source/drain regions of the transis... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7724093 | Phase locked loop with two-step control A phase locked loop has a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) for generating a DCO output signal (fOSC), a clock divider coupled to the DCO and receiving the DCO output signal and outputting a feedback clock signal (fN), and a phase frequency... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7692529 | Passive entry and immobilizer at different frequencies using same antenna coil A passive entry and immobilizer key for vehicles comprises an integrated front-end circuit (12b) with three battery-supplied receiver channels (14, 16, 18), each connected to an associated external antenna circuit with an inductor-capacitor comb... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7676048 | Graphic equalizers Graphic equalizer as a cascade of equalization filters with the gain of each individual filter compensated for the gain leakage from other filters. A linear approximation allows individual filter gains to be set to give desired frequency responses. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7606999 | Merging branch information with sync points A method for merging branch information with sync points is disclosed herein. The method comprises determining whether a sync point is to be generated concurrent with a branch instruction and generating said sync point to include a program counter value and to indic... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7602019 | Drive circuit and drain extended transistor for use therein A transistor comprises a source region of a first conductivity type and electrically communicating with a first semiconductor region. The transistor also comprises a drain region of the first conductivity type and electrically communicating with a second semiconduct... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7601639 | Method for conditioning a microelectronics device deposition chamber The present invention provides, in one aspect, the present invention provides, in one embodiment, a method of conditioning a deposition chamber 100. This method comprises placing an undercoat on the walls of a deposition chamber 100 and depositing a pr... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7592794 | Integrated low power received signal strength indicator (RSSI) with linear characteristic An RSS indicator with a linear characteristic that is of a simple configuration, low current consumption and small die area requirements, comprises a pair of input transistors with coupled emitters and base electrodes to which an input signal is differentially appli... | 09/22/2009 |
