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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8446208 | Circuit arrangement with temperature compensation A circuit arrangement having at least one analog switch, which is operated by a supply voltage and which comprises a switching signal contact and a pair of switch contacts, whereby applied to the switching signal contact is an electrical switching signal depending o... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8432214 | Programmable temperature sensing circuit for an integrated circuit A programmable temperature sensing circuit includes a comparator, first and second CTAT sensing elements, first and second PTAT reference circuits, and a selection circuit. When a selection signal is a first logic state, an output terminal of the first PTAT referenc... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8395436 | Temperature compensation via power supply modification to produce a temperature-independent delay in an integrated circuit A method and circuitry for adjusting the delay of a variable delay line (VDL) in a delay locked loop (DLL) or other delay element or subcircuit on an integrated circuit is disclosed. Such delay circuitry will inherently have a delay which is a function of temperatur... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8390363 | Circuit, trim and layout for temperature compensation of metal resistors in semi-conductor chips A temperature compensation circuit for generating a temperature compensating reference voltage (VREF) may include a Bandgap reference circuit configured to generate a Bandgap reference voltage (VBGR) that is substantially temperature independen... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8378735 | Die temperature sensor circuit A die temperature sensor circuit (200) includes an amplifier (203) that has first and second stages of amplification and that has bipolar transistors (201 and 202) as an input differential pair. The bipolar transistors have different curr... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8368454 | Temperature detection circuit A temperature detection circuit includes, a first source follower circuit supplied with a first constant current, a second source follower circuit supplied with a second constant current, and a circuit obtaining a difference between an output voltage from the first ... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8354875 | Low voltage temperature sensor and use thereof for autonomous multiprobe measurement device A bandgap sensor which measures temperatures within an integrated circuit is presented. The sensor may include a first transistor having an emitter node coupled in series to a first resistor and a first current source, wherein a PTAT current flows through the first ... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8330526 | Low voltage detector A low voltage detector (100) includes a voltage and current reference circuit (102); a power supply voltage monitor circuit (104), coupled to the voltage and current reference circuit and to a power supply; and a voltage comparator (106),... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8294508 | Method and device for driving the frequency of a clock signal of an integrated circuit An electronic device may include a controlled generator configured to generate an adjustable frequency clock signal at at least one part of an integrated circuit coupled to the output of the controller generator and including at least one transistor having a gate of... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8222950 | Temperature sensor of a CPU and PWM controller thereof A power supply circuit includes a PWM controller, which is capable of providing pulse signals to the CPU, a temperature feedback circuit coupled to the PWM controller, and a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is coupled to the temperature feedback circuit, t... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8217706 | Method for regulating temperature A method and circuit for managing thermal performance of an integrated circuit. Temperature sensing circuits and a plurality of power FETs that are coupled together in parallel are manufactured from a semiconductor substrate. Each temperature sensing circuit monitor... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8183910 | Circuit and method for a digital process monitor A circuit and method for a digital process monitor is disclosed. Circuits for comparing a current or voltage to a current or voltage corresponding to a device having process dependent circuit characteristics are disclosed, having converters for converting current or... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8134402 | Apparatus and method for powering up with hysteresis inactive A temperature-sensor circuit is provided. The temperature-sensor circuit may be configured such that an output of the temperature-sensor circuit trips when a specified temperature is reached. The temperature-sensor circuit may also be configured to trigger hysteresi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130024 | Temperature compensation via power supply modification to produce a temperature-independent delay in an integrated circuit A method and circuitry for adjusting the delay of a variable delay line (VDL) in a delay locked loop (DLL) or other delay element or subcircuit on an integrated circuit is disclosed. Such delay circuitry will inherently have a delay which is a function of temperatur... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7994841 | Dual temperature control circuit A dual temperature control circuit detects a first temperature of a first location and a second temperature of a second location. The dual temperature control circuit transforms the first temperature to a first voltage signal, and transforms the second temperature t... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7977999 | Temperature detection circuit Provided is a temperature detection circuit capable of preventing malfunction, which may occur when power is turned on. A switch circuit for giving such a potential that a comparator detects a low temperature is provided at an output terminal of a temperature sensor... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969227 | Temperature detection circuit According to one embodiment, a temperature detection circuit is provided which requires only a small number of additional components, thus minimizing an increase in costs and which offers an insulating property and high responsiveness. A temperature detection circui... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965128 | Semiconductor device, and power source and processor provided with the same A semiconductor device includes: a transistor having a first electrode coupled to a first power source node to which a first power source voltage is supplied, and a second electrode, and supplying a reference current to a temperature detection element; a diffused re... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961033 | DLL-based temperature sensor A temperature sensor includes an open-loop delay line comprising plural delay cells and a multiplexer configured to select a first number of the plural delay cells; a delay-locked loop comprising plural delay cells and a multiplexer configured to select a second num... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956670 | Temperature sensing device and electric device including the same A temperature sensing device includes a current generator to generate a variable current that varies based on temperature, a charge circuit to accumulate charges based on the variable current, and a count logic circuit to generate a count value synchronized to a clo... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7944269 | Power transistor and method for controlling a power transistor Embodiments of the invention are related to a power transistor and a method for controlling a power transistor. In one embodiment a power transistor comprises a power semiconductor body with a plurality of power transistor cells each having a control electrode and a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940112 | Semiconductor device To include a first X decoder constituted by a transistor whose off-leakage current has a first temperature characteristic, a pre-decoder circuit and a peripheral circuit constituted by a transistor whose off-leakage current has a second temperature characteristic, a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936204 | Temperature sensing circuit A temperature sensing circuit includes a temperature-dependent voltage generating block configured to generate a plurality temperature-dependent voltages having voltage levels that are changed according to temperature; and a comparing block configured to compare eac... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936203 | Temperature compensation via power supply modification to produce a temperature-independent delay in an integrated circuit A method and circuitry for adjusting the delay of a variable delay line (VDL) in a delay locked loop (DLL) or other delay element or subcircuit on an integrated circuit is disclosed. Such delay circuitry will inherently have a delay which is a function of temperatur... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7915947 | PTAT sensor and temperature sensing method thereof A proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) sensor is capable of reducing a sensing error resulted from a mismatch between circuit components. The PTAT sensor includes a control unit, a sensing unit and a calculation unit. The control unit generates a control sign... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7898316 | Double sample active pixel sensor with double sampling temperature sensor A system which operates to determine temperature of an image sensor using the same signal chain that is used to detect the image sensor actual outputs. A correlated double sampling circuit is used to obtain the image outputs. That's same correlated double sampling c... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7880528 | Temperature detection circuit A temperature detection circuit has a first temperature sensor circuit that outputs a voltage having a negative temperature gradient and an absolute value and a second temperature sensor circuit that outputs a voltage having a positive temperature gradient and the s... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7839200 | Semiconductor device and data outputting method of the same Semiconductor device and data outputting method of the same includes an on die thermal sensor (ODTS) configured to output temperature information by detecting an internal temperature of the semiconductor device and an output driver configured to control a slew rate ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7821320 | Temperature detection circuit A temperature detection circuit includes a bandgap reference voltage generation circuit, a detection output circuit, and an output conversion circuit. The bandgap reference voltage generation circuit generates a first reference voltage and causes a bias current to f... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7777554 | Method and apparatus for detecting temperatures of a plurality of circuits and controlling operations based on the detected temperatures A temperature detector includes a plurality of temperature sensors each configured to generate a voltage signal in accordance with sensed temperature and output the voltage signal, a plurality of storage circuits corresponding to the respective temperature sensors a... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7772915 | Temperature sensing circuit and method using DLL A temperature sensing circuit using a delay locked loop and a temperature sensing method. The temperature sensing circuit includes a locked delay unit for receiving an external clock and generating a locked delay pulse keeping a constant delay amount regardless of t... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768338 | Thermaltronic analog device A method is provided for the electronic processing of analog signals in thermaltronic device. The method accepts an analog input signal, e.g., an AC signal, at a thermaltronic device input and generates a thermal electric (TE) temperature having a first transfer fun... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7755416 | Temperature-sensor circuit, and temperature compensated piezoelectric oscillator A temperature-sensor circuit includes: a transistor having an emitter that is grounded, a collector, and a base; a first resistor having a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled with the collector; and a second resistor having a third end and a four... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7710190 | Apparatus and method for compensating change in a temperature associated with a host device An apparatus for compensating temperature changes in a temperature associated with a compensated device includes: (a) An input circuit having a first input locus for receiving a temperature-indicating signal and a second input locus for receiving a sign-indicating s... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7671661 | Integrated circuit and method for automatically tuning process and temperature variations Provided are an IC and a method for automatically tuning process and temperature variations. The IC includes: a test circuit unit including test circuit elements having identical element values and variations to a tuning-targeted circuit element and at least one ref... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7592854 | Temperature sensing circuit A temperature-sensing circuit includes a first circuit block outputting an output voltage having negative or positive temperature coefficients and a second circuit block amplifying the output voltage of the first circuit block to a predetermined amplitude and output... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7579899 | Circuit and method for temperature detection A temperature detection circuit includes a temperature dependent voltage generation circuit for generating a temperature dependent voltage VR, a bandgap circuit for generating a temperature independent voltage VBG, and a comparator for comparing the temperature depe... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579898 | Temperature sensor device and methods thereof A device having a temperature sensor device is disclosed. The temperature sensor device includes a complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) module and a reference module. Both the temperature sensor and the reference voltage module provide signals, that vary in ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7532056 | On chip temperature detector, temperature detection method and refresh control method using the same A temperature sensor includes a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current generator configured to generate a first current proportional to temperature, a first complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) current generator configured to generate a second c... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7528644 | Temperature detecting circuit A temperature detecting circuit is provided. The temperature detecting circuit includes a reference and detection voltage generator for generating a reference voltage corresponding to a first and a second reference current, and changing first to M-th (M being a natu... | 05/05/2009 |
