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| 8143934 | Analog switching system for low cross-talk A system includes a voltage pump to generate a first pump voltage from an analog voltage signal. The system further includes switching pad to receive an analog signal from an external source and route the analog signal to analog processing circuitry over one or more... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7679424 | Semiconductor device with pad switch A semiconductor device includes a pad, an internal power supply line, a pad switch including a MOS transistor to provide an electrically connectable coupling between the internal power supply line and the pad by use of a source-drain channel thereof, and a control c... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7415261 | Systems and method for a highly linear, low power mixer A mixer for use in a transceiver comprises an LO switching pair and a folded transconductor. The mixer can be used as an upconversion or down conversion mixer and provides increased headroom and linearity, while still reducing current consumption. The mixer can be c... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7378875 | Compensation circuits for unequal input/output common mode voltages A circuit apparatus having compensation circuits for unequal input/output common mode voltages is presented. The apparatus includes a circuit unit, a feedback path and a current source. The circuit unit has at least an input terminal for receiving an input signal an... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378898 | Voltage droop suppressing circuit The invention proposes noise suppression circuits that are assembled together with capacitors on a CPU package. Charge is conveyed from the capacitors dedicated to the active noise suppression function through electrical circuit pathways such as controlled electroni... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372301 | Bus switch circuit and interactive level shifter A bus switch circuit includes a switch element having two terminals whose electrical connection is controlled when a control signal is input into a control terminal. The bus switch circuit further includes a first pull-up resistor and first switch circuit, a second ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365579 | Gate driving circuit A gate driving circuit has a variable current carrying path that switches a current carrying path among a driving target device, a DC power source and a reactor to operate in plural operation modes including at least a hold mode, a preparation mode, and an execution... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7348855 | Bias circuitry for cascode transistor circuit An integrated circuit includes a composite transistor including at least a first transistor of a first technology type having a first group of intrinsic properties and a second transistor of a second technology type having a second group of the intrinsic properties,... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330017 | Driver for a power converter and a method of driving a switch thereof A driver for a power converter, method of driving a switch thereof, and a power converter employing the same. In one embodiment, the driver includes switching circuitry referenced to a voltage level and configured to provide a drive signal for a switch referenced to... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330046 | Circuits and methods for failure prediction of parallel MOSFETs Power conversion circuits often consist of several MOSFETs operating in parallel. Due to thermal cycling and mechanical operations. MOSFETs or the respective electric connections of the MOSFETs may fail. For certain implementations, a diagnosis circuit for a plurali... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7304526 | Switching circuit for handling signal voltages greater than the supply voltage Analog bidirectional switches (20) comprising a first (1) and a second (2) transistor function badly in case of the signal voltage at an input or an output of the switch (20) exceeding the supply voltage used for operating the switch (... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7271641 | Self-repairable semiconductor with analog switching circuit A self-repairable semiconductor comprises a first device and a replacement device. A switching device selectively swaps the replacement device for the first device when the first device is non-operable. The switching device includes an analog switching circuit that ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7236111 | Linearizing methods and structures for amplifiers Methods and structures are provided to enhance the linearity of amplifiers such as those which include a complementary common-collector amplifier stage. The methods and structures configure this stage so that each transistor of the stage drives an output port throug... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230470 | Power switch using a field-effect transistor (FET) pair A power switch, and a method, for use with a power switch having a field-effect transistor (FET) including source, drain and gate terminals. The power switch includes a first field-effect transistor (FET) having a first drain coupled to the drain terminal, a first s... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221193 | On-chip termination with calibrated driver strength Techniques are provided for controlling an on-chip termination resistance in an input or output (IO) buffer using calibration circuits. Each calibration circuit monitors the voltage between an external resistor and a group of on-chip transistors. When the effective ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218155 | Techniques for controlling on-chip termination resistance using voltage range detection Techniques are provided for controlling an on-chip termination resistance in an input or output (IO) buffer using a calibration circuit. The calibration circuit monitors the voltage between an external resistor and a group of on-chip transistors. When voltage betwee... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208993 | Input current leakage correction for multi-channel LVDS front multiplexed repeaters A high-speed front-multiplexed multi-channel LVDS-compatible repeater circuit that limits input leakage current levels in the event one or more input voltages of the circuit exceeds the supply voltage. The LVDS repeater includes a multiplexor having a plurality of d... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202711 | Technique for determining a load current An integrated driver with improved load current sense capability includes a first transistor, a first amplifier, a second transistor, a third transistor, a second amplifier and a fourth transistor. The integrated driver allows for significantly better fault handling... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187190 | Contact pad arrangement on a die An integrated device includes a redundant bond pad for accessing internal circuitry in the event that the main bond pad for that circuitry is difficult to access with testing equipment. Signals from the redundant bond pad are biased to ground during normal operation... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187206 | Power savings in serial link transmitters Aspects of saving power in a serial link transmitter are described. The aspects include providing a parallel arrangement of segments, each segment comprising prebuffer and output stage circuitry of the serial link transmitter and each segment enabled independently t... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7183834 | Method and apparatus for driving a power MOS device as a synchronous rectifier A synchronous rectifier comprising a MOSFET device, and a gate driver for driving the gate of the MOSFET device, the MOSFET device comprising first and second MOSFET transistors coupled with their drain-source paths in parallel to receive an alternating current wave... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7183816 | Circuit and method for switching an electrical load on after a delay A circuit (S1) for switching on an electrical load which can be connected downstream from the circuit comprises a first electronic switching means (T1) in a first path, and a second electronic switching means (T2) in a second path, which is in p... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173471 | High frequency switching circuit and semiconductor device Four switching circuit sections consisting of four FETs connected in series are provided between a plurality of input/output terminals which output and input a high frequency signal. Gate control voltages are individually applied to gate terminals of four FETs, resp... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173489 | Programmable gain voltage buffer A programmable gain voltage buffer circuit with a programmable gain may include transistors in parallel with resistors. The transistors may be used as variable resistors, with the resistors predominating the equivalent resistances at output points in different branc... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170726 | Uniform turn-on design on multiple-finger MOSFET for ESD protection application An electrostatic discharge protection circuit. The electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit utilizes inductors and resistors added to sources of multiple fingers of the NMOS transistor, which is triggered by some feedback circuit uniformly. When under an ESD zapping, a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7161372 | Input system for an operations circuit An integrated device includes a redundant bond pad for accessing internal circuitry in the event that the main bond pad for that circuitry is difficult to access with testing equipment. Signals from the redundant bond pad are biased to ground during normal operation... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157957 | High voltage switch circuit for semiconductor device Provided is concerned with a high voltage switch circuit for a semiconductor device, which rapidly discharges a gate voltage of a pass transistor through an additional discharge transistor during inactivation of itself in the circuit structure with a positive feedba... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7148737 | Semiconductor switching circuit The invention discloses a semiconductor switching circuit suitable for a Single Pole n Throw (SPnT) switching circuit having: a common terminal; first through third terminals, ground and control terminals, through FETS, shunt FETs, wherein when a first electric pote... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129766 | CMOS analog switch A CMOS analog switch is provided that can handle negative input polarity. The semiconductor substrate wherein the analog switch is formed has a substrate area of n-conductivity type. First and second p-channel transistors are formed in the n-conductivity substrate a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7119601 | Backgate pull-up for PMOS pass-gates The pass-gate circuit with backgate pull-up includes: a pass-gate transistor coupled between a first port and a second port; a backgate pull-up transistor coupled between a back gate of the pass-gate transistor and a gate of the pass-gate transistor; a first MOS tra... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7091753 | Gate driving circuit In a gate driving circuit, when a driving target device is turned on, an auxiliary driving element is turned on to form a closed circuit comprising a DC power source, a reactor, an auxiliary driving element and an OFF-driving element, and make reactor current flow i... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084697 | Charge pump circuit capable of completely cutting off parasitic transistors In a charge pump circuit including a first charging switching element connected between an input voltage receiving terminal (IVRT) and a first terminal of a step-up capacitor, a second charging switching element connected between a second terminal of the step-up cap... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084699 | Fast dynamic low-voltage current mirror with compensated error A current mirror comprising: a first current source; a first n-channel MOS transistor having a drain and a gate coupled to said current source and a source coupled to ground; a second n-channel MOS transistor having a drain, a gate coupled to said drain and said gat... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075354 | Dynamic multi-input priority multiplexer A dynamic priority multiplexer including a complementary pair of evaluation devices responsive to a clock signal defining evaluation periods, and multiple evaluation legs coupled in cascade between a top node and a bottom node and arranged in order of priority. The ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071763 | Transistor circuits for switching high voltages and currents without causing snapback or breakdown A switching circuit is disclosed for switching high voltages and high currents, if necessary, without causing snapback or breakdown. The disclosed high voltage, high current switching circuit comprises a first set of series-connected transistors that includes a plur... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064594 | Pass gate circuit with stable operation in transition phase of input signal, self-refresh circuit including the pass gate circuit, and method of controlling the pass gate circuit Provided is a pass gate circuit capable of operating stably in a transition phase of an input signal, a self-refresh circuit including the pass gate circuit, and a method of controlling the pass gate circuit. The pass gate circuit according to the present invention ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053695 | Current source circuit and amplifier using the same There is provided a current source circuit in which a outflow current of an output terminal is equal to an inflow current thereof. The current source circuit includes a first transistor group converting a reference current from a reference current source into a volt... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053676 | Circuit arrangement for generating a signal having a specific waveform with an adjustable voltage level A circuit arrangement for generating specific waveforms includes a controllable voltage transformer circuit for generating an output signal (VOUT) with a specific waveform, which increases the voltage of its output signal depending on a first control sign... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046039 | Class AB analog inverter A class AB analog inverter comprising cascoded n-channel (NMOS) and p-channel (PMOS) transistors. The inverter uses complementary devices, of which one or more may be a first transistor in cascode with a second transistor. The first and second transistors may have t... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046077 | Current source circuit and amplifier using the same There is provided a current source circuit in which a outflow current of an output terminal is equal to an inflow current thereof. The current source circuit includes a first transistor group converting a reference current from a reference current source into a volt... | 05/16/2006 |
