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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7332769 | Non-volatile memory arrangement having nanocrystals The amount of current flowing in the bitline during reading of a memory cell which is in the conductive state, hereinafter called the memory cell current, can be amplified manifold by changing the above mentioned select transistors to a novel device which is describ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7304910 | Semiconductor memory device with sub-amplifiers having a variable current source A column circuit that amplifies signals read from a sense amplifier array SAA to local input/output lines LIO in sub-amplifiers SAMP to transfer the amplified signals to main input/output lines MIO is provided. A current control circuit IC that can set one of two ki... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7245058 | Vibration wave driving apparatus, and method of setting shape of support member supporting elastic member forming vibration member of vibration wave driving apparatus A vibration wave driving apparatus includes a vibration member in which an electro-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed to an elastic member, and a contact member pressed against a sliding part provided in the vibration member, so as to be kept in contact t... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7215189 | Bootstrap diode emulator with dynamic back-gate biasing A bootstrap diode emulator circuit for use in a half-bridge switching circuit employing transistors connected to one another in a totem pole configuration, a driver circuit for driving the transistors, and a bootstrap capacitor for providing power to the high-side d... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7205751 | Enable and disable of diode emulation in a DC/DC converter A method of enabling and disabling diode emulation for a DC/DC converter which generates an output voltage including detecting a diode emulation request signal indicative of enabling or disabling diode emulation and delaying enabling or disabling diode emulation unt... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202696 | Circuit for temperature and beta compensation A compensation circuit is disclosed. The compensation circuit includes a driver stage having an output, a differential output device including a base coupled to the output of the driver stage, and a feedback block coupled to a first emitter of the differential outpu... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196548 | Single ended current-sensed bus with novel static power free receiver circuit A single ended current sensed bus with novel static power free receiver circuit is described herein. In one embodiment, a receiver circuit example includes a latch circuit to latch values for a first output and a second output during an evaluation phase in response ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190756 | Hybrid counter with an asynchronous front end Integrated circuit counting apparatuses are described. More particularly, a hybrid counter (203) including an asynchronous counter (310) front end and a synchronous counter (311) back end is described. The asynchronous counter (310) inclu... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180338 | High performance low power multiple-level-switching output drivers Long existing performance, noise, and power consumption problems of prior art output drivers are solved by using n-channel transistors as pull up transistors and p-channel transistors as pull down transistors for high performance output drivers. Output drivers of th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7145366 | Electronic circuit with a differential pair of transistors and logic gate comprising such a circuit An electronic circuit includes at least one differential pair of transistors, a control transistor switch, a first current source and a second current source. The second current source is connected to a common emitter node of the pair of transistors in order to acce... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7126382 | Lower power high speed design in BiCMOS processes A low power high-speed design for integrated circuits using BiCMOS processes is disclosed. The design uses a first stage including bipolar transistor pairs configured as inputs and drivers for an output. A second CMOS stage is coupled to the first stage in a series-... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7109961 | Electric circuit, latch circuit, display apparatus and electronic equipment In order to perform operations securely, a high potential power supply is connected to a gate electrode of a P-type TFT to which data signals are input. Similarly, a low potential power supply is connected to a gate electrode of an N-type TFT. Thus, a TFT to which d... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7098882 | Bidirectional shift register shifting pulse in both forward and backward directions In forward direction pulse shift, by turning off a sixteenth transistor, a through-current is prevented from flowing between the fifth transistor and the seventh transistor. In backward direction pulse shift, by turning off the fifteenth transistor, a through-curren... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7047138 | Zero dead time architecture and method for flow cytometer A method and apparatus for providing a zero dead time for flow analyzers, flow cytometers, and other measurement devices. A circular buffer is used to store data from a flow analyzer in a plurality of data storage areas, until it is convenient to implement more time... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6975157 | Starter device for normally off JFETs A semiconductor switching device or amplifier combined in parallel with one or more active devices defined as starter devices. A starter device is used to reduce the terminal voltage of a switching device or amplifier to a dc level below about 0.4 volts which will t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6970019 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device having power reduction mechanism A semiconductor integrated circuit device is composed of logic gates each provided with MOS transistors. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a current control device. The circuit can be used in devices that cycle in operation between high and low po... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6762465 | BiCMOS inverter A semiconductor device 1000 may include first and second switch elements 1000A and 1000B formed in first and second element forming regions 16a and 16b of a SOI layer 10a, respectively. The first and sec... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6518789 | Circuit configuration for converting logic levels The circuit configuration for converting logic levels has a bipolar input stage and a CMOS output stage. The bipolar input stage is equipped to process ECL and CML logic levels. The CMOS-logic output stage is equipped to supply trailing CMOS gates having ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6388473 | Logic product circuit A logic product circuit having a plurality of transistors arranged in a matrix; a plurality of input terminals; and a single output terminal. The transistors in each column are connected in a line, forming a transistor array, the transistor arrays are con... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6288660 | BiCMOS circuit for controlling a bipolar current source There is described a BiCMOS switch circuit which allows a low voltage CMOS signal to control a bipolar current source or sink circuit. The circuit includes a current mirror circuit, drawing a constant current through a first bipolar transistor. The collec... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6100712 | Output driver circuit with jump start for current sink on demand An output driver circuit for coupling a logic circuit to load includes an input node, an output node for coupling to the load and a pull down switch which discharges the output node in response to a signal received at the input node. A current sink circui... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6084435 | Logic circuit A logic circuit contains a first transistor with a logic signal supplied to the base and having its collector connected to an output node. A second transistor has a collector connected to the emitter of the first transistor and an emitter connected to a r... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6040710 | CML-CMOS conversion circuit A CML-CMOS conversion circuit according to this invention includes: a differential circuit in which resistance is connected as load; a first current mirror circuit made up from an n-channel MOS transistor connected to one output of the differential circui... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6037802 | Tristate buffer having a bipolar transistor A tristate buffer comprises an output block having a pair of NPN bipolar transistor and nMOS transistor between the source line and ground line and connected to each other at the output terminal of the tristate buffer. The tristate buffer has a base poten... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5917342 | BiMOS integrated circuit A BiMOS integrated circuit includes a bipolar transistor for output pull-up; a BiMOS hybrid gate buffer section which comprises a MOS transistor for output pull-down which is longitudinally connected to the bipolar transistor, and a MOS transistor for bas... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5894231 | High speed bi-MOS logic circuit operative under low power voltage First and second inverting stages and first and second decoding stages form in combination a decoder circuit, each of NAND gates of the first and second decoding stages and each of inverters of the first and second inverting stages are implemented by bi-M... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5886542 | Quasi-complementary BiCMOS circuit with enhanced pull down transistor clamp A quasi-complementary BICMOS circuit (46) having a clamp circuit that automatically discharges the base-collector of a pull down bipolar transistor (16) when the transistor's (16) collector voltage equalizes its base voltage. The action is immediate and d... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5822235 | Rectifying transfer gate circuit A rectifying transfer gate circuit includes first and second field effect transistors and one diode. The source of the first field effect transistor is coupled to a first input node and the gate thereof is coupled to a second input node. Meanwhile, the so... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5818259 | Low voltage logic circuit A BiCMOS logic circuit having greater drive and speed at low voltage is provided. The logic circuit includes a switching device which allows the pull-down device of the logic circuit to be driven directly by an input signal without first having to switch ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5754061 | Bi-CMOS circuits with enhanced power supply noise suppression and enhanced speed A Bi-CMOS circuit includes a first bipolar, a second bipolar transistor and a CMOS control unit for performing switching controls of the first and second bipolar transistors on the basis of an input signal applied to an input terminal and for controlling ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5739703 | BiCMOS logic gate In order to provide a high speed, stable and low voltage swing logic gate highly applicable to a low-cost BiCMOS process, a BiCMOS logic circuit of the disclosed invention has a pair of MOS transistors, the gates of which are supplied with complementary l... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5734272 | Differential stage logic circuit An ECL stage has its current consumption adapted to its operation speed. For this purpose, the load resistor and the bias current source are adjustable so that the product of the current value of the source by the resistor value is substantially constant.... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5696715 | Semiconductor memory device having bipolar and field effect transistors and an improved coupling arrangement for logic units or logic blocks A semiconductor integrated circuit memory device has at least two logic blocks, each logic block including at least two logic units and each logic unit having a number of metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOS FET's) integrated therein. B... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5689197 | BIMOS-type current switch apparatus A current switch apparatus includes a bipolar transistor controlled by a reference voltage, a MOS transistor controlled by a logic signal, and a constant current source connected to the bipolar transistor and the MOS transistor.... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5666072 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device having bipolar transistor and field effect transistor A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a plurality of logic circuits integrated on a semiconductor substrate is provided which can operate with a power source potential difference substantially less than 5 V. The logic circuit includes a bipolar... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5627483 | Emitter coupled logic circuit with MOS differential stage A logic circuit has at least one first differential stage made of bipolar transistors operating in linear mode. The first differential stage is connected in a branch of a second differential stage biased by a current source. The second stage and the curre... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5614848 | High-speed semiconductor integrated circuit device composed of CMOS and bipolar transistors The semiconductor IC device has a circuit arrangement in which one or more of the circuits, such as on a single substrate, include a totem-pole series connection of bipolar transistors which are driven by arrangements of complementary MOS circuits in a ma... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5614844 | High speed programmable logic architecture Architecture for a programmable logic device is described which can operate at substantially faster clock rates than present programmable logic devices. The PLD uses BiCMOS circuit elements to make use of the speed advantages of bipolar technology while a... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5604417 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device The device has, on a single substrate, plural internal circuits, plural input circuits for receiving external input signals and outputting the same to the internal circuit, and plural output circuits for receiving signals outputted from the internal circu... | 02/18/1997 |
