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| 8120416 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit can include a first voltage pad, a second voltage pad, and a voltage stabilizing unit that is connected between the first voltage pad and the second voltage pad. The first voltage pad can be connected to a first internal circuit, a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115537 | Method and apparatus for suppressing noise caused by parasitic capacitance and/or resistance in an electronic circuit or system Reducing, suppressing or canceling parallel parasitic capacitance and/or resistive effects that affect the frequency response of components, elements and/or circuits in an electronic circuit or system that exhibit inductance is disclosed. Noise generated by parallel... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8089310 | Charge domain filter circuit A charge domain filter circuit includes a first signal output portion, a second signal output portion, and an adder portion. The first signal output portion outputs a first signal that is sampled at a specified time interval. The second signal output portion outputs... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8058925 | Adaptive temporal filtering of single event effects Technologies are described herein for mitigating the effects of single event effects or upsets on digital semiconductor device data paths and clocks utilizing an adaptive temporal filter. The adaptive temporal filter includes a master delay line and a slave delay li... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7965134 | Spur attenuation devices, systems, and methods Exemplary embodiments of the invention disclose signal filtering. In an exemplary embodiment, a filter device may comprise a subtractor operably coupled between an input and an output and configured to receive an input signal comprising a desired component and at le... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7932773 | Charge domain filter circuit A charge domain filter circuit includes a first signal output portion, at least one second signal output, portion, a third signal output portion, and an adder portion. The first signal output portion outputs a first signal that is sampled at a specified time interva... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7859327 | Device for filtering a signal and corresponding method A device for filtering a signal delivered as output from a sensor installed in a motor vehicle includes a comparator (A) offering as output a first logic signal (SA) representative of the positive and negative transitions of the output signal (SM | 12/28/2010 |
| 7825721 | Systems and methods for filtering signals corresponding to sensed parameters Systems and methods for filtering analog signals corresponding to sensed parameters are provided. In this regard, a representative method includes: sampling the analog signal to acquire a sequential series of data points; determining a first cumulative change in val... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7812664 | Method of and circuit for suppressing noise in a circuit A method of suppressing noise in a circuit is disclosed. The method comprises providing a supply voltage to a first terminal of the circuit; providing a ground voltage to a second terminal of the circuit; providing a clock signal to the circuit; and actively decoupl... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7782126 | Detection and accommodation of hot-plug conditions A mechanism is provided for a one card to filter false signals due to a another card being hot-plugged. A discriminator circuit in the card receives a low-state signal via an input and, responsive to receiving the low-state signal, the discriminator circuit compares... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7772921 | Filter and filtering method A filter and a filtering method are provided. The filter includes a first compare voltage generation unit, a second compare voltage generation unit, a comparator and a first inverter. The first compare voltage generation unit generates a first compare voltage accord... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7733164 | Semiconductor device with decoupling capacitance controlled and control method for the same In a semiconductor device, a monitoring circuit monitors and detects a quantity of noise in the semiconductor device. A control circuit has capacitances and controls connections to the capacitances such a decoupling capacitance value provided between a first power s... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7671669 | Device and method for reducing input noise A device and a method for reducing input noise providing at least a microcontroller. The microcontroller comprises: at least a noise reduction device, at least an analog switch and at least a signal output unit. The noise reduction device connected to the ground or ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7639069 | Tunable balanced loss compensation in an electronic filter The invention provides a system for providing tunable balanced loss compensation in an electronic filter. Tunable balanced loss compensation is provided by using cross-connected balanced transconductors and self-connected balanced transconductors. The cross-connecte... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7609108 | Phase-locked loop and compound MOS capacitor thereof Compound MOS capacitors and phase-locked loop with the compound MOS capacitors are disclosed. In the phase-locked loop, the compound MOS capacitors of the loop filter are HV (high voltage) devices, and the voltage control oscillator is a LV (low voltage) device. The... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7595687 | Apparatus and method for reducing EMI generated by a power conversion device An apparatus and method for reducing EMI generated by a power conversion device, as well as a power conversion device employing such apparatus or method (and/or devices employing such a power conversion device) are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the appara... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7589585 | Noise reduction circuit A noise reduction circuit outputs a signal corresponding to a voltage difference between two different signals. The noise reduction circuit includes: an amplifier circuit for amplifying the two different signals at different timings; and a voltage difference detecti... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7583136 | Active filter for reduction of common mode current An active filter for reducing the common mode current in a pulse width modulated drive circuit driving a load, said drive circuit comprising an a-c source, a rectifier connected to said a-c source and producing a rectified output voltage connected to a positive d-c ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7557643 | De-glitch circuit A digital logic circuit and method for de-glitching an input signal. The circuit removes distortion that occurs during a “de-glitching” time period that follows each transition of the input signal from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0. The circuit can remove such distortio... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7498871 | Spectrum spreaders including tunable filters and related devices and methods A spectrum spreader may include a signal conductor and a tunable filter. The signal conductor may be configured to receive a clock signal having a clock signal frequency. The tunable filter may be coupled to the signal conductor wherein the tunable filter is configu... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7471140 | Circuit device for filtering or impedance matching A circuit device has a passive network (101) with an input (109) and an output, the output of the passive network (101) forming an output terminal (103) of the circuit device and a feedback path coupling the output terminal (103) o... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7463083 | Noise reduction in digital systems when the noise is caused by simultaneously clocking data registers A digital system. The digital system includes (a) a first logic circuit and a second logic circuit, (b) a first register, (c) a second register, (d) a third register, (e) a clock generator circuit, and (f) a controller circuit. The first logic circuit is capable of ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459962 | Transient signal detection algorithm using order statistic filters applied to the power spectral estimate A non-linear, order-statistic filter that is able to detect transients within an ambient signal environment without the transients affecting the setting of the transient detection threshold. The filter obtains a power spectral estimate (PSE) signal for each one of a... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7436249 | Circuit and method for filtering a radio frequency signal A circuit for filtering a radio frequency signal at a given frequency comprises an input terminal, a filter device, and an active AC shunt circuit having first and second input terminals and an output terminal, where the first input terminal of the active AC shunt c... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436236 | Analog DC compensation Arrangement for analog compensation of a DC component in an AC signal having an estimator for producing an estimate corresponding to the DC component, a compensator for producing a present compensating signal according to the estimate, an adder for adding the presen... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428279 | Reduced complexity sliding window based equalizer A sliding window based data estimation is performed. An error is introduced in the data estimation due to the communication model modeling the relationship between the transmitted and received signals. To compensate for an error in the estimated data, the data that ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7412208 | Transmission system for transmitting RF signals, power and control signals via RF coaxial cables A transmission system for RF signals, power and control signals over RF coaxial cables is disclosed. A coaxial cable line interconnects two devices, such as an instrument and a remote coupler. A control signal (e.g., data bit) and RF signals are multiplexed onto the... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408426 | Method and device for transmission without crosstalk The invention relates to a method and a device for transmission without crosstalk in interconnections used for sending a plurality of signals, such as the interconnections made with flat multiconductor cables, or with the tracks of a printed circuit board, or inside... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7388424 | Apparatus for providing a high frequency loop back with a DC path for a parametric test A high fidelity “loop-back” or interconnection of terminal pads of an IC on a wafer being tested in production is provided, while simultaneously a DC or low frequency path is provided back to a test system. Two or more IC pads are connected by probes forming the... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385438 | Active filter for reduction of common mode current An active filter for reducing the common mode current in a pulse width modulated drive circuit driving a load said drive circuit comprising an a-c source, a rectifier connected to said a-c source and producing a rectified output voltage connected to a positive d-c b... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382164 | Glitch suppressing apparatus A glitch suppressing apparatus is provided. The glitch suppressing apparatus comprises four N-type transistors, four P-type transistors, a first delay circuit, a second delay circuit, a first logic circuit, a second logic circuit and two inverters. The glitch suppre... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378900 | EMI filter EMI filter 20 includes input terminal Vin, output terminal Vout, resistor component R1 and diodes D1 and D2. Resistor component R1 is composed of polycrystalline resistor component Rp and ring resistor components R11 and R | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372323 | Resonance limiter circuits for an integrated circuit In one embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises resonance limiter circuits coupled to a power supply connection of the integrated circuit. The resonance limiter circuits are configured to detect oscillation on the power supply connection at a resonant frequency, ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372382 | Voltage regulation using digital voltage control For one disclosed embodiment, error is sensed in a voltage at an output node. One or more analog signals are generated based on the sensed error. One or more generated analog signals are converted into one or more digital signals. The voltage at the output node is c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369148 | Frequency modulation apparatus and frequency modulation method A frequency modulation apparatus capable of reducing a peak level of a radiation noise of a characteristic frequency band due to an image clock. This frequency modulation apparatus is used in an image formation apparatus having an image bearing body to be scanned by... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366251 | Transmitter for transmitting a combined clock signal and a digital data signal modulated on a carrier wave A transmitter circuit for transmitting a sine wave modulated with digital data, where the sine wave includes a clock signal, and a receiver circuit for demodulating the transmitted sine wave, where the receiver circuit extracts the clock signal and the digital data ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365597 | Switched capacitor amplifier with higher gain and improved closed-loop gain accuracy A switched capacitor CMOS amplifier uses a first stage non-inverting CMOS amplifier driving a second stage inverting CMOS amplifier. The first stage amplifier is provided with positive feedback to substantially increase the gain of the first stage amplifier. In the ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366244 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362828 | Method of and system for optimizing the capacity of a digital communication system in presence of both internal and external noise A method of optimizing a communication system for receiving and processing an input communication signal includes selecting a first noise margin m to be applied against an external noise present on the input communication signal. The method further includes selectin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360006 | Apparatus and method for managing voltage buses The present technique relates to a method and apparatus for managing voltage buses. In a memory device, such as SRAM or DRAM, a periphery voltage bus may supply voltage to periphery circuitry and an array voltage bus may supply voltage to array circuitry. A bridge c... | 04/15/2008 |
