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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7352018 | Non-volatile memory cells and methods for fabricating non-volatile memory cells The invention relates to a method for fabricating stacked non-volatile memory cells. Further, the invention relates to stacked non-volatile memory cells. The invention particularly relates to the field of non-volatile NAND memories having non-volatile stacked memory... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7332738 | Quantum phase-charge coupled device A method for reading out the state of a mesoscopic phase device. In the method the mesoscopic phase device is coherently coupled to a mesoscopic charge device using a phase shift device and the quantum state of the mesoscopic charge device is measured. A method for ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7208350 | Method and device for producing layout patterns of a semiconductor device having an even wafer surface Primitive cells, which are circuit patterns of the constituent elements of a semiconductor device, are arranged in the element formation area of a semiconductor device, and at least one fill cell with a diffusion layer and no wiring, is arranged in the vacant areas ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7133037 | Signal transmission system A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver I... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7093084 | Memory implementations of shift registers A random access memory array is used as a shift register. Data is written into different locations in a first column of the memory and then gradually transferred successively to any other number of columns in the memory. Such column-to-column data transfer is the re... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6990388 | Mass-production transfer support system and semiconductor manufacturing system A mass-production transfer support system has a mass-production transfer source managing computer for managing information generated in a trial-production process of a semiconductor device and a mass-production transfer destination managing computer for managing a m... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6915566 | Method of fabricating flexible circuits for integrated circuit interconnections A method for the fabrication of a double-sided electrical interconnection flexible circuit (200) particularly useful as a substrate for an area array integrated circuit package. A copper matrix with studs (203) is pressed through a dielectric film (... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6650317 | Variable function programmed calculator A variable function calculator utilizes a fixed program memory array such as a programmed read only memory in which a number of programs are stored depending upon the desired functions of the calculator. The calculator also includes a program counter, an ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6567017 | Configurable code generator system for spread spectrum applications A configurable code generator system (CGS) for spread spectrum applications is disclosed herein. The CGS includes a composite code generator unit (CGU), a global code generator, and an interface that is coupled to the composite code generator and the glob... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6295320 | Inverse discrete cosine transforming system for digital television receiver An inverse discrete cosine transforming (IDCT) system for a digital television receiver performing a variable length decoding and an inverse quantization of an applied bit stream and an IDCT with respect to inversely quantized DCT coefficients, including ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6229461 | Encoder and decoder To encode data Y after separating the data Y into a scale factor SF, a word length, and a data value X. For this purpose, X=Y.multidot.{2.sup.(WL-1) -1}/SF is calculated. Here, a value of {2.sup.(WL-1) -1}/SFV with respect to a number of SFV and a number ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6192085 | Circuit arrangement with a data sequence generator A circuit arrangement with a data sequence generator for the generation of an oscillator signal as a sequence of digital data, and having the following circuit parts: a first multiplication unit driven by a first auxiliary signal and a first control signa... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6012833 | Large-scale-integration circuit device and method of manufacturing same A method of manufacturing an integration circuit device that includes generating logic library data with respect to a macro that includes a predetermined macro core and boundary cells positioned near input and output terminals of the macro. The logic libr... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5990703 | Apparatus and method for a low power latchable adder A high speed, low power 3-2 adder (300, 500) with latchable outputs comprises a most significant bit (MSB) adder circuit (100) and a least significant bit (LSB) adder circuit (200). MSB adder circuit (100) includes three differential data inputs (A1, B1, ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5956434 | Semiconductor operational circuit The present invention has as an object thereof to provide a semiconductor operational circuit which is capable of instantaneously processing in parallel a large quantity of information. The semiconductor operational circuit of the present invention which ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5935197 | Data processing circuit and method of operation performing arithmetic processing on data signals The present invention provides a data processing circuit and method for performing arithmetic processing on data signals input to the circuit, comprising: a plurality of input terminals for receiving a plurality of data signals to be processed; a pluralit... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5862049 | Coordinate input apparatus and control method therefor Continuity of coordinates between areas of a coordinate input surface which is divided into a plurality of areas is maintained. In inputting "A, B, C" on a coordinate input plate, when an input operation is started from an initial point, area is determine... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5644602 | Direct digital frequency synthesizer for use in a subscriber unit of a wireless digital communication system A digital frequency synthesizer for use in a subscriber unit of a wireless digital communication system includes a processor, for providing an output phase signal corresponding to a selected output digital frequency a storage device having predefined stor... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5414789 | Optical logic gates with high extinction ratio using inverse scattering technique and method using same Optical logic gates are designed using inverse-scattering theory, resulting in devices which are intrinsic and passive, having high extinction ratios and large fan out. The Boolean operation is modeled by a pair of reflection coefficients, corresponding t... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5210861 | Method for verifying a serializing function in a system including processors and a test system including processors for verifying the serializing function A method for verifying a serializing function in a system including a plurality of processors and a test system including processors for verifying the serializing function. Each processor executes a verifying processing including the steps of: synchronizi... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5091980 | Optical quantum interference device/optical computer and method of modulating light using same A device structure is provided for optical modulation using a quantum interference effect in an excited state of electron-systems. The optical modulation is performed by causing the effect of modulation on the excited state of electron-systems represented... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5038251 | Electronic apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same A thin electronic calculator having a circuit board unit in which an IC pellet is directly mounted on a film board and allowing easy mass-production is provided. Metal foil leads each having one end and the other end radially extending from the one end an... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5024499 | Optical and gate for use in a cross-bar arithmetic/logic unit An optical AND gate for use in a cross-bar arithmetic/logic unit including first and second optical substrates which are configured adjacent to one another with each of the optical substrates having a respective plurality of optical paths formed thereon. ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4809029 | Gate array large scale integrated circuit device A gate array LSI includes a basic cell array region on which internal cell arrays are arranged, and a peripheral circuit region, arranged on the periphery of the basic cell array region. The peripheral circuit region includes input/output cell regions, fo... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4758953 | Method for generating logic circuit data In automatic development of the higher hierarchic logic into the lower hierarchic logic in a hierarchic logic designing, identification codes are beforehand assigned to logic components of the higher hierarchic logic, and the identification codes are also... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4749875 | Compact electronic equipment In compact card-like equipment having an IC chip and a power source cell, an equipment case has a multilayered structure of a pair of upper and lower sheets and a pair of upper and lower panels laminated on a frame, respectively. A flexible substrate and ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4680698 | High density ROM in separate isolation well on single with chip A programmable, high speed, single chip microcomputer includes 4K of RAM, ROM, registers and an ALU. Program can be stored in the on-chip RAM. The first local variable of each process to be executed is a workspace pointer (WPTR), and each process has a re... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4670664 | Compact electronic equipment In compact card-like equipment having an IC chip and a power source cell, an equipment case has a multilayered structure of a pair of upper and lower sheets and a pair of upper and lower panels laminated on a frame, respectively. A flexible substrate and ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4670846 | Distributed bit integrated circuit design in a non-symmetrical data processing circuit The present invention relates to construction of nonsymmetrical N bit parallel data processing circuits using a plurality of identical integrated circuits chips. In such nonsymmetrical structures it is often impossible to provide a design employing identi... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4418383 | Data flow component for processor and microprocessor systems A Large Scale Integration (LSI) data flow component is described for use as a building block, the component being capable of use singly or in combination to provide data flow paths and functions of different data widths for a processor or microprocessor. ... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4387294 | Shift register-latch circuit driven by clocks with half cycle phase deviation and usable with a serial alu In a multiple stage data transfer circuit, suitable for transferring a plurality of bits to or from a bit processor or 1-bit arithmetic logic unit, each bit stage includes a shift register portion and a latch portion. Each shift register(S/R) portion is c... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4263659 | Electronic instrument with a flexible keyboard An electronic instrument has a power switch provided on the upper surface of a keyboard. The keyboard comprises a substrate having transmitting electrodes and receiving electrodes and a flexible sheet having transparent electrodes in opposition to the tra... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4263651 | Method for determining the characteristics of a logic block graph diagram to provide an indication of path delays between the blocks A method is provided which is applied to a logic block diagram, referred to as a block graph, which consists of a plurality of logic blocks interconnected by nets which carry logic signals between the logic blocks. The method is used to determine the char... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4261042 | Key signal entering device for thin electronic apparatus A key signal entering device for thin electronic apparatus comprises paired electrodes provided on an insulating substrate, an anisotropically electroconductive sheet disposed on said electrodes and a layer of an electroconductive material disposed thereo... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4244028 | Digital microprocessor having a time-shared adder The disclosed microprocessor time-shares an adder with a data memory, an accumulator, an I/O register, and an edge detector. This time-sharing is synchronized by a timing generator that produces interleaved first and second clocked pulses. Instructions ar... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4242675 | Display and keyboard scanning for electronic calculation or the like A variable function calculator utilizes a fixed program memory array such as a programmed read only memory in which a number of programs are stored depending upon the desired functions of the calculator. The calculator also incudes a program counter, an i... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4231098 | Casing of electronic calculators Wiring patterns and key contact patterns are directly formed on an inner surface of a casing of an electronic calculator. A printed board or a substrate can be eliminated by mounting electrode elements on the inner surface of the casing to establish elect... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4224676 | Arithmetic logic unit bit-slice with internal distributed iterative control An arithmetic logic unit bit-slice implemented as an integrated circuit is able to perform iterative algorithms such as multiply and divide, using control logic which is also part of the integrated circuit to cause the selected algorithm to be performed. ... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4197586 | Electronic calculator assembly An electronic calculator assembly is disclosed having a flexible printed circuit board bonded to a layer of resilient material mounted on a rigid backing plate. An integrated circuit package containing electronic calculator circuitry is held tightly again... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4177519 | Electronic control assembly mounted on a flexible carrier and manufacture thereof A semiconductor chip including, for example, a computation circuit and a display driver, an electronic circuit chip including a peripheral electronic circuitry, and a power supply circuit element are integrally mounted on a single frame of flexible carrie... | 12/04/1979 |
