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US20130028014 REFERENCE VOLTAGE GENERATORS AND SENSING CIRCUITS  
Described examples include sensing circuits and reference voltage generators for providing a reference voltage to a sensing circuit. The sensing circuits may sense a state of a memory cell, which...
US20120206193 INTERNAL POWER SUPPLY VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT  
Provided is an internal power supply voltage generation circuit, with which a through current can be prevented from being excessive due to manufacturing fluctuations during the operation of a logic...
US20120161837 NON-OVERLAPPING CLOCK GENERATION  
Techniques for generating precise non-overlap time and clock phase delay time across a desired frequency range are provided. A non-overlapping clock generation circuit comprises a delay lock loop...
US20130002327 BIAS TEMPERATURE INSTABILITY-RESISTANT CIRCUITS  
Standard cells that include transistors subject to aging as a result of BTI-related operating conditions are identified and replaced with BTI-resistant standard cells, for example. The...
US20130009724 NON-FOSTER CIRCUIT STABILIZATION METHOD  
A method of and circuit for improving stabilization of a non-Foster circuit. The method comprises steps of and the circuit includes means for measuring a noise hump power at an antenna port or an...
US20120194239 DELAY LOCKED LOOP  
A DLL circuit includes a common delay line configured to generate a delay locked clock by selectively delaying a source clock by one or more unit delays in response to a first delay control code or...
US20110121892 MOTION TRIGGERED MAGNETIC READING AND COMPASS HEADING CALCULATIONS TO REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION  
A method for reducing power consumption of an electronic device is disclosed. In one embodiment, an indication that an electronic device is oriented in a first orientation is received. An...
US20120229203 CALIBRATING DEVICE PERFORMANCE WITHIN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT  
A multi-fingered device can be calibrated for performance. The multi-fingered device can include a first finger configured to remain active and a second finger that is initially deactivated...
US20110227639 Method and Apparatus for Suppressing Bitline Coupling Through Miller Capacitance to a Sense Amplifier Interstitial Node  
A sense amplifier circuit is implemented for suppressing Miller effect capacitive coupling. The amplifier circuit comprises a differential amplifier circuit having a first input, a first output...
US20130015895 TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION CIRCUIT  
A temperature compensation circuit is disclosed. A temperature compensation circuit may include a temperature coefficient generator configured to generate a first signal and a second signal,...
US20110089934 SELECTABLE DELTA OR WYE VOLTAGE CONFIGURATION FOR POWER MEASUREMENT  
Apparatus and methods for providing a voltage signal indicative of the voltage being supplied by each phase of a multiphase voltage being supplied to a load. For each phase, a phase to neutral...
US20120025896 POWER SUPPLY SELECTOR AND POWER SUPPLY SELECTION METHOD  
In the field of electronic technologies, a power supply selector and a power supply selection method are provided. The power supply selector includes: a first selection module, configured to select...
US20120206192 PROGRAMMABLE BANDGAP VOLTAGE REFERENCE  
A bandgap reference circuit includes an amplifier configured to provide an output voltage dependent upon voltages appearing at an inverting input and a non-inverting input. The bandgap reference...
US20110001525 DELAY LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT  
A delay locked loop circuit includes: a voltage level detector for detecting of an external power source voltage level; a phase comparator for comparing phases of reference clock and feedback...
US20120256664 POWER-ON-RESET CIRCUIT WITH LOW POWER CONSUMPTION  
Methods, devices and circuits are provided for power-on-reset circuits with low static power consumption. One such circuit includes a detector that draws current from a supply voltage. The detector...
US20130093500 PRESSURE DEPENDENT CAPACITIVE SENSING CIRCUIT SWITCH CONSTRUCTION  
A user interface which includes a capacitive measurement circuit with a sense plate covered by an electrically conductive cover member, and wherein said circuit may sense two types of events, said...
US20120049922 TOTAL ENERGY LIMITING AND CONTROLLING DEVICE, AND TOTAL ELECTRIC POWER LIMITING AND CONTROLLING DEVICE AND METHOD  
A total electric power limiting and controlling device has a total allocated electric power inputting portion receiving information for the total allocated electric power specifying the amount of...
US20120309531 SENSING FLOOR FOR LOCATING PEOPLE AND DEVICES  
A sensing floor to locate people and devices is described. In an embodiment, the sensing floor (or sensing surface), is formed from a flexible substrate on which a number of distributed sensing...
US20130130752 FLIP-CHIP LINEAR POWER AMPLIFIER WITH HIGH POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY  
Disclosed are devices and methods for improving power added efficiency and linearity of radio-frequency power amplifiers implemented in flip-chip configurations. In some embodiments, a harmonic...
US20120256658 COMPARATOR CIRCUIT  
A comparator circuit, includes a first power source terminal having a first potential, a second power source terminal having a second potential different from the first potential, a detection...
US20110089991 RF BUFFER CIRCUIT WITH DYNAMIC BIASING  
An RF buffer circuit for a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) includes dynamic biasing circuitry to selectively flip the phase of the output voltage waveform. In a CMOS implementation, a PMOS/NMOS...
US20110148468 THRESHOLD COMPARATOR WITH HYSTERESIS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING THRESHOLD COMPARISON WITH HYSTERESIS  
A threshold comparator with hysteresis includes a comparator circuit, having a first input, for receiving an input voltage, a second input, and an output, which supplies an output voltage having a...
US20120001588 BATTERY CHARGER, VOLTAGE MONITORING DEVICE AND SELF-DIAGNOSIS METHOD OF REFERENCE VOLTAGE CIRCUIT  
Disclosed is a battery charger including a battery cell, a reference voltage generating section, an A/D converting section including an A/D converter and a control section. The reference voltage...
US20110200212 TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED VOLTAGE PUMP  
The present invention relates to an integrated circuit voltage pump with temperature compensation circuitry providing improved DC output voltage accuracy over an operational temperature range. The...
US20090160541 Digital Photo Frame with Power Saving Function and Related Power Saving Method  
A digital photo frame having power saving functions includes a display panel, a power generation unit for switching a system power according to a power control signal, a user detection unit...
US20130027150 FAST START UP, ULTRA-LOW POWER BIAS GENERATOR FOR FAST WAKE UP OSCILLATORS  
Various embodiments relate to a bias generator including: a bias generator circuit; a master startup circuit that applies current to a first node in the bias generator circuit; a second startup...
US20120188000 POWER GATING FOR IN-RUSH CURRENT MITIGATION  
The invention discloses a power gating for in-rush current mitigation. Firstly the circuit uses small power switch cells at first stage, such that those power switch cells run in saturation region....
US20110063010 RECTIFYING AND LEVEL SHIFTING CIRCUIT  
A circuit includes a differential circuit having at least to two inputs, a first variable impedance circuit, and a second variable impedance circuit. The first variable impedance circuit is between...
US20110057716 Circuit of Reducing Power Loss of Switching Device  
A circuit is provided to reduce power loss on switching. A pair of auxiliary switching devices is switched on before a pair of switching devices. The switching devices are switched on after a...
US20110089997 POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT  
A power supply circuit in accordance with the invention includes a charge-pump circuit and a control circuit. The charge-pump circuit includes first and second capacitors. The control circuit...
US20110102064 Electronic Age Detection Circuit  
An aging detection circuit is disclosed. An aging detection circuit may include at least an inverter and a half-latch. During a power-up sequence, if an input voltage of the first inverter changes...
US20100301832 Curvature Compensated Bandgap Voltage Reference  
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for generating a curvature compensated bandgap voltage reference. In an embodiment, a curvature compensated bandgap reference...
US20130127520 TRACKING CIRCUIT  
A circuit includes a switching circuit, a node, and a tracking circuit. The switching circuit has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. The node has a node voltage. The...
US20120062281 Power Converter with Split Power Supply  
A power converter driver that is supplied with two different voltages.
US20110080202 ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE SCALERS (AVSs), SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS  
Adaptive voltage scalers (AVSs), systems, and related methods are disclosed. The AVSs are configured to adaptively adjust voltage levels powering a functional circuit(s) based on target operating...
US20110169539 DELAY LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF  
A delay locked loop circuit includes a delay replica model unit for reflecting a delay time of an actual output path to a source clock and outputting the reflected source clock as a delay replica...
US20110121862 CIRCUIT WITH STACKED STRUCTURE AND USE THEREOF  
An NAND circuit has a stacked structure having at least one symmetric NFET at a bottom of the stack. More particularly, the circuit has a stacked structure which includes an asymmetric FET and a...
US20100327919 DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT  
A differential amplifier main circuit amplifies, while first voltage is applied to drains of first and second transistors via a load circuit and second voltage is applied to source of third...
US20120194254 High Voltage Tolerant Receiver  
A high voltage tolerant single ended receiver circuit includes a voltage divider that is operative to divide in half single ended input signals that are greater than the threshold voltages of the...
US20130009693 PIPELINE POWER GATING FOR GATES WITH MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS  
A first and second plurality of gates are coupled respectively between first and second source storage elements and first and second destination storage elements. The first and second plurality of...
US20120133392 MULTIPLEX GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT  
A multiplex gate driving circuit includes plural driving modules. In comparison with the prior art, each driving stage of the driving module has less number of transistors. From the first to the...
US20090015318 CHARGE PUMP DRIVE CIRCUIT  
A charge pump drive circuit includes a first MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) and a second MOSFET. The first MOSFET and the second MOSFET are different in channel type and...
US20120187911 OUTPUT CIRCUIT, TEMPERATURE SWITCH IC, AND BATTERY PACK  
An output circuit has a smaller area and restrains outputs from becoming unstable even if a power supply voltage is lower than an operating voltage. A supply terminal of an inverter circuit is...
US20110156808 INTERNAL VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT  
An internal voltage generation circuit includes a first voltage generation unit configured to be operated in response to a first power enable signal to generate a first voltage, a level detection...
US20090206907 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...
US20120049896 SOURCE DRIVER HAVING AMPLIFIERS INTEGRATED THEREIN  
A source driver includes at least one source driving unit and a voltage source generation circuit. The voltage source generation circuit is used for generating a first voltage provided for the at...
US20100308882 FINE DELAY ADJUSTMENT  
A fine delay adjustment device is disclosed. The fine delay adjustment device in accordance with the present invention has at least one delay buffer having an output impedance; a capacitor...
US20110273220 OPTIMAL MOSFET DRIVER CIRCUIT FOR REDUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND NOISE  
A system and method of controlling the primary switching FET turn-on and turn-off profiles in a switching power converter suppresses voltage and current spikes, reduces power consumption, and...
US20130057332 SWITCHING DEVICE HAVING A JFET SERIES CIRCUIT  
A switching device for switching a current between a first connection and a second connection including a series circuit of at least two JFETs (J1-Jn), with further JFETs (J2-Jn), which are...
US20120293216 MEMS CAPACITIVE SENSOR BIASING CIRCUIT INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED INDUCTOR  
A MEMS capacitive sensor biasing circuit. The circuit includes a high-voltage (HV) NMOS switch, an inductor, a diode, and a capacitor. The HV NMOS switch has a source coupled to ground. The...