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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965109 | Level detector for a semiconductor memory apparatus A bulk voltage (VBB) level sensor for a semiconductor memory apparatus is disclosed. The VBB level detector includes a reference voltage generator for generating a first reference voltage of which level varies with temperature, a reference voltage comparator for rec... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7719322 | Semiconductor device having differential signal detection circuit for entry into mode other than normal operation A semiconductor device includes a differential circuit for receiving a differential signal at an input terminal and a detection circuit for outputting a detection signal when a predetermined signal is inputted to the input terminal. The detection circuit detects whe... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7417471 | Voltage comparator having hysteresis characteristics A voltage comparator having hysteresis includes a comparing section that compares an input voltage with a reference voltage so as to output a high-level or low-level signal; and a reference voltage changing section that changes the reference voltage when a low-level... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7358796 | Input circuit for receiving a variable voltage input signal and method An input voltage circuit comprises an input transistor having a control electrode for receiving a variable input voltage, a voltage detection transistor having a current electrode coupled to a current electrode of the input transistor forming a first node, and a cur... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355456 | Wide linear range peak detector A wide linear range peak detector including first and second peak detectors and a compensation circuit. The first peak detector receives an input signal and has an output providing a first peak signal approximation which approximates a peak level of the input signal... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348808 | Method and apparatus for detection of high-speed electrical signals A signal detector includes, in part, first and second peak detectors, a comparator and an amplifier. The first peak detector generates a first signal in response to receiving an incoming signal. The second peak detector generates a second signal in response to recei... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336107 | Comparator circuit and control method thereof This invention provides a comparator circuit which outputs a stable waveform without oscillation even if a gradient of a change of a comparison input signal is small and determines a magnitude of the comparison input signal within a predetermined threshold value reg... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330382 | Programmable DQS preamble A method and apparatus for programming a data strobe (DQS) preamble in a memory by loading a defined set of bits into one or more registers of the memory, where one or more bits are formatted specifically for enabling the data strobe preamble. At least one of the bi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327117 | PROCESS FOR MEASURING PHASE CURRENTS OF A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC MOTORS MADE WITH IMS TECHNOLOGY OR THE LIKE EMBEDDING, FOR SUCH MEASURE, RESISTANCE AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE FOR POWER TRANSISTORS The invention is applied to the field of industrial controls for electric motors and more precisely refers to a process for measuring phase currents of an inverter or a DC controller consisting in detecting the temperature of a copper path made with IMS (Insulated M... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327766 | Circuit configuration for receiving a data signal In a clock-synchronously operated semiconductor memory, particularly a DDR SDRAM, data are read in clock-synchronously with respect to a data strobe signal in the normal mode, according to standard. During the test mode, a DQ receiver is supplied with the operating ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315095 | Voltage regulating apparatus supplying a drive voltage to a plurality of loads In a soft start period after power-on, a voltage regulating apparatus checks LED by LED to determine whether the LED is mounted on a position to receive a drive voltage. After the soft start period, the voltage regulating apparatus monitors the driving status of eac... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312616 | Successive approximate capacitance measurement circuit A capacitance measurement circuit includes a current source, a switch, and a comparator. The current source is coupled to drive a current through a circuit node. The switch is coupled to the circuit node to switch the current into a device under test (“DUT”) cap... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307571 | Binary signal converters for distinguishing direct signals carried by nanowires Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a binary signal converter that facilitates distinguishing an original direct signal on a nanowire by superimposing an alternating signal on the original direct signal. The binary signal converter includes ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7280417 | System and method for capturing data signals using a data strobe signal A signal capture system and method is used to capture a data signal using a data strobe signal having a preamble of strobe signal transitions. The system includes a data latch circuit receiving the data signal. The data latch circuit is clocked by transitions of the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280415 | Flash memory device and method of repairing defects and trimming voltages A memory device includes a nonvolatile memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells with a portion of the memory cells to store fuse data, and a fuse register to store the fuse data from the memory cell array. An operation of the memory device is modified... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276940 | Buffer/voltage-mirror arrangements for sensitive node voltage connections The present invention is directed to buffer/voltage mirror arrangement for sensitive node voltage connections. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268573 | Apparatus for generating test stimulus signal having current regardless of internal impedance changes of device under test An apparatus for generating a current source test stimulus signal having a constant current regardless of an internal impedance value of a device under test includes a voltage source generation unit and a voltage to current (V/I) converter. The voltage source genera... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7248089 | Method of establishing a PWM-modulated output signal representation The invention relates to a method of establishing a PWM-modulated output signal representation (OS), providing a stream of parallelly determined intersection representations (PIR) on the basis of a stream of parallel reference signal representation (PRSR) and an inp... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7230456 | Low current consumption detector circuit and applications A low current consumption detector circuit, and its applications are described herein. ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224884 | Design method for a video signal processing integrated circuit and integrated circuit and video signal processing apparatus thereby A video signal processing apparatus and a design method therefor are provided, and more particularly, a design method for a video signal processing integrated circuit (IC), in which to solve the shortage of pin ports caused by designing a video signal processor in a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7193388 | Offset PWM signals for multiphase motor A multi phase motor includes a switching array for interconnecting a power source to each phase. A current sensor senses current supplied from the power source via the switching array to the winding and a controller generates offset PWM signals for controlling the s... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173476 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device The drain of a power transistor M1 is connected to the non-inverting input terminal of an operational amplifier A and the drain of a transistor M2 is connected to the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier A to make substantially equal t... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7161392 | Comparator feedback peak detector There is disclosed a circuit and a process for detecting peak-to-peak voltage. The circuit comprises a first comparator having an output coupled to a first capacitor, a non-inverting input for receiving a high frequency AC waveform, and an inverting input, a second ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161396 | CMOS power on reset circuit A power-on reset circuit for generating a reset signal for an associated IC device includes a pull-up resistor connected between a supply voltage and a tracking node, a pull-down transistor connected between the tracking node and ground potential, and a voltage divi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7148651 | Apparatus and method for controlling AC motor and module therefor A method and apparatus for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous motor by accurately detecting 3-phase motor currents from a DC input current in a full voltage range are provided. In the motor control apparatus for detecting the 3-phase motor currents on the ba... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145373 | Frequency-controlled DLL bias A system for controlling bias of a delay-locked loop includes a peak detector and a comparator in the form of a differential amplifier. The peak detector detects the amplitude of a signal output from the DLL, and the comparator compares the DLL output signal amplitu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7135891 | Current sense shunt resistor circuit Current through a wire is sensed with a shunt resistor and a sense resistor in a current divider circuit. The values of the shunt resistor and sense resistor are related to provide a specified gain ratio to increase a dynamic range of current measurement. The sense ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135893 | Comparator circuit A comparator circuit that operates over a wide range of input voltage from Vss to Vdd is offered. This comparator circuit includes a first comparator receiving a pair of differential input signals from input terminals, a second comparator to which a pair of differen... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135892 | Peak detector systems and methods with leakage compensation Systems, methodologies, media and other embodiments associated with peak detectors are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a voltage peak detector comprising a first detector logic configured to detect a peak voltage of an input signal. The first det... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7119549 | Output calibrator with dynamic precision An integrated circuit device having an output driver circuit and a control circuit. The output driver circuit outputs a first signal having a signal level according to a control value. The control circuit is coupled to receive the first signal from the output driver... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116255 | Multiplying digital to analog converter and multipath pipe line analog to digital converter using the same A multiplying digital to analog converter comprising a digital to analog converter having a plurality of capacitors coupled in parallel, applying first signals to the capacitors during a sampling period, and applying second signals to the capacitors during an amplif... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110899 | Phase measurement in measuring device Methods and apparatus for determining the phase of a signal in a measurement device having a digital signal processor are described. The signal is digitised and the digitised signal, or a signal derived therefrom, is numerically correlated with a numerically generat... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7098840 | Domino asynchronous successive approximation ADC The domino asynchronous successive approximation (ASA) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts an analog signal to an n-bits digital signal. The domino ASA ADC is made out of n-blocks, corresponding to the number of n-bits of the digital output. Each of these n-b... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7091750 | Sense amplifier and electronic apparatus using the same A sense amplifier according to the present invention for detecting a potential difference of signals input to a first input terminal and a second input terminal, includes a first means for applying voltages corresponding to threshold voltages of first and second tra... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7078944 | Power on reset circuit In one embodiment, a power on reset circuit includes a process dependent element. The process dependent element may be designed to compensate for process and temperature effects that may vary a trip point of the power on reset circuit. The process dependent element ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7061313 | Dual feedback linear amplifier A dual feedback topology imparts stability to a multistage linear amplifier, particularly by improving overall amplifier phase margin at higher signal frequencies. With dual feedback, an inner feedback loop is closed around the first amplifier stage, which stage is ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057452 | Method and circuit for correcting the offset of an amplification chain A circuit for correcting the offset of an amplification and filtering chain having a predetermined gain and cut-off frequency depending on the value of at least one capacitor, comprising: a correction means for subtracting from the chain input a correction signal de... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053669 | Method for determining the beginning of a second in the signal of a time-signal transmitter A method for detecting the beginning of the dips of the amplitudes in the output signal of a time signal receiver identifying the beginning of a second in the time signal. The output signal of the receiver for the time signals is sampled N-times per second. The samp... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7031197 | EEPROM writing and reading method An electrically erasable programmable read-only memory receives a single supply voltage and a ground voltage, and generates a first voltage higher than both the supply voltage and the ground voltage, and a second voltage lower than both the supply voltage and the gr... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027939 | Method and circuit for detecting a fault of semiconductor circuit elements and use thereof in electronic regulators of braking force and of dynamics movement of vehicles A circuit for detecting a defect of electronic components in an electronic control unit includes an output for driving a load (3). A redundant measurement of the current (IL) is executed at the contacts (G, S, D), in particular at the driven contac... | 04/11/2006 |
