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7532044 Photodetector  
An I/F converter 10 contained in a photodetector is provided with a first comparing portion 11 1 , a second comparing portion 11 2 , a current mirror circuit 14 , an SR type flip-flop circuit ...
7479824 Dual mode voltage supply circuit  
A dual mode voltage supply circuit ( 50 ) includes an active mode voltage supply circuit ( 58 ) and a passive mode voltage supply circuit ( 60 ). The active mode voltage supply circuit ( 58 ) is...
7394296 Apparatus and method for automatically offsetting linear deviation of V/F converter  
An apparatus and method for automatically offsetting the linear deviation of a V/F converter, the offset adjust pin of which is connected to a fixed resistance, and the frequency output pin of...
7332944 Frequency-controllable oscillator  
A frequency-controllable oscillator, having an oscillation device in which the oscillation frequency is controlled on the basis of a feedback current or voltage; a constant current source circuit;...
7279941 Voltage-frequency conversion apparatus and method of changing reference voltage thereof  
A voltage-frequency conversion apparatus which comprises a variable current source for charging a capacitor; a current amount adjustment circuit which has a first resistor for applying a first...
7263344 Method for reducing IM2 noise in a down conversion circuit  
The present invention relates generally to communications, and more specifically to a method and apparatus for minimizing DC offset and second-order modulation products (IM2 noise) while...
7262640 Voltage-frequency conversion apparatus  
A voltage-frequency conversion apparatus which has a variable current source for charging a capacitor; a current amount adjustment unit that adjusts a current amount of the variable current source...
7256623 Frequency programmable feed-forward oscillator and triangle wave generator  
A frequency programmable feed forward oscillator and triangular wave generator is disclosed having a first input for receiving an input voltage and a second input for receiving an input current....
7209015 Oscillator circuit having a temperature dependence  
An oscillator circuit includes a current source for generating a current depending on the ambient temperature, a plurality of oscillators for oscillating at respective periods depending on the...
7202712 Multiphase resonant pulse generators  
A multiphase resonant pulse generator ( 74 ) has N groups of N−1 switches ( 44,46,48 ) which, when activated, form N paths from a power supply (Vdc) to ground or a reference voltage. Here N is a...
7106109 Biasing circuit and voltage control oscillator thereof  
A biasing circuit and a voltage control oscillator thereof are provided. The biasing circuit comprises a compensation circuit, a delay circuit and a comparison circuit. In the biasing circuit, the...
7078940 Current comb generator  
The current comb generator periodically applies current spikes to a power supply signal in the time domain to produce a series of current spikes at different frequencies in the frequency domain.
7075345 Frequency converter having low supply voltage  
A frequency converter converts a first current signal having a first frequency into a second current signal having a second frequency different fro the first frequency. The frequency converter...
7069117 Electrical power distribution control systems and processes  
In one aspect, the present invention includes a power adjustment apparatus. The apparatus includes a local controller and one or more sensors distributed within a power grid. The sensors are...
7061296 Circuit arrangement for generating a digital clock signal  
A circuit arrangement for generating a digital clock signal which manages without a crystal oscillator and has a low current consumption. The circuit arrangement includes: a transistor circuit...
7057423 Current-voltage transforming circuit employing limiter circuit  
A current-voltage transforming circuit used with a photo detector integrated circuit includes a photo detector to detect a photo signal (laser beam signal) to generate a photo current, an amplifier...
7050478 Apparatus and method for synchronizing clock modulation with power supply modulation in a spread spectrum clock system  
A spread spectrum clock system ( 11 ) modulates the supply voltage for a circuit ( 10 ) in concert with the circuit clock frequency (C). The system increases the supply voltage for the circuit ( 10...
6995618 VCO feedback loop to reduce phase noise  
A phase adjustment module in a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) samples a VCO oscillation to detect changes in the oscillation frequency and produces a corresponding correction voltage that is...
6954088 Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with amplitude control  
A structure and associated method for controlling an amplitude of oscillation in a voltage controlled oscillator. The voltage controlled oscillator circuit comprises a drive circuit, an...
6949962 Device for reducing the lag and the dark current in a particle detector, in particular a photon detector  
The assembly formed by the amplifier 34 , the transistor 36 and the capacitor 28 fulfills the function of the amplifier 8 and the impedance 10 of the device shown in FIG. 4.
6915442 Precision-controlled duty cycle clock circuit  
A clock signal duty cycle control circuit is provided that receives an incoming signal from a clock signal input source and generates an improved output clock signal having an accurately controlled...
6812757 Phase lock loop apparatus  
A phase lock loop circuit including a voltage controlled oscillator and a phase detector having a sampling circuit and a linear voltage-to-current converter to create a control voltage for the...
6809557 Increasing power supply noise rejection using linear voltage regulators in an on-chip temperature sensor  
An apparatus that uses a linear voltage regulator to reject power supply noise in a temperature sensor is provided. Further, a method for using a linear voltage regulator to reject power supply...
6762629 VCC adaptive dynamically variable frequency clock system for high performance low power microprocessors  
A method and an apparatus for dynamically varying a clock frequency in a processor to adapt to VCC voltage changes. The method of one embodiment includes sampling a supply voltage at a plurality of...
6696868 Frequency to frequency de-randomizer circuit  
A frequency to frequency de-randomizer circuit having means for smoothing a current which comprises a diode filter configured so as to have a time constant which changes in response to changes in...
6653872 Multi-channel precision synchronous voltage-to-frequency converter  
A multi-channel synchronous voltage-to-frequency converter (SVFC) realized in an integrated semiconductor circuit. The multi-channel SVFC having an operational amplifier adapted to receive an...
6636085 Phase shifter with an RC polyphase filter  
There is disclosed a phase shifter using a polyphase filter, which achieves a broad band, suppresses errors in both amplitude and phase, and achieves low power consumption. A driving section...
6578154 Clock duty cycle correction circuit which corrects an input clock by directly comparing the input clock with a reference clock generated by the output clock  
A clock signal duty cycle control circuit is provided that receives an incoming signal from a clock signal input source and generates an improved output clock signal having an accurately controlled...
6552579 Fuel gauge power switch with current sense  
A new current sense circuit is achieved. The circuit comprises, first, an output transistor having gate, source, and drain. The drain is coupled to a load, the source is coupled to a power rail,...
6507227 Device and method for monitoring current delivered to a load  
The device and method monitor the current delivered to a load through a power transistor including a sense transistor. The circuit includes a disturbances attenuating circuit that has a...
6452427 Dual output capacitance interface circuit  
A dual output capacitance interface circuit ( 100 ) based on switched capacitor circuits and charge subtraction technique provides both voltage output ( 104 ) and frequency output ( 106 ). The...
6441671 Digital trim capacitor programming  
A programming method ( 250 ) for digitally programming the adjustment of an electronic trim capacitor ( 212, 314, 414 ). In an initial step ( 252 ), programming is initiated by setting an enable...
6414522 Bias generating circuit for use with an oscillating circuit in an integrated circuit charge pump  
In an improved charge pump bias generating circuit for a charge pump for a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the pump has a bias generator which has an input for receiving a pump enable...
6392399 Device for measurement of the electrical consumption of a portable data- or signal-processing terminal  
The device for measurement of current exchanged between a battery ( 1 ) and electrical circuits ( 19 ) of a portable telephone includes a current sensor ( 21 ), connecting the battery ( 1 ) to the...
6388597 &Dgr -&Sgr modulator and &Dgr -&Sgr A/D converter  
A Δ-Σ converter comprises a Δ-Σ modulator and a digital filter. The Δ-Σ modulator has a comparator having two resonant tunnel diodes connected to each other in series between two terminals...
6388248 Control voltage isolation system for electrical rotating apparatus utilizing fiber optics and associated method  
An isolation system is provided for generating a control voltage in a low voltage control system that is representative of the input voltage in a high voltage power system of an excitation system,...
6369620 Cross coupled transmitter output stage  
A cross coupled output stage for a transmitter. It is desirable to have high impedance for a differential cascode output stage of an externally terminated transmitter in order to improve return...
6295413 Digitizing circuit of light amount receiving from strobe and control circuit of light amount emitted from strobe  
A circuit that digitizes a quantity of light received from a strobe according to the present invention, includes: a photoelectric conversion device that receives light from the strobe and generates...
6262609 Closed-loop voltage-to-frequency converter  
A closed-loop voltage-to-frequency (V/F) converter includes a voltage-controlled-oscillator (VCO) placed in a feedback voltage-locked loop (VLL). This converter achieves both wide bandwidth (for...
6222466 Apparatus and a method for keyboard encoding  
The invention is related to a method and a device for use in an apparatus, preferably a portable radiotelephone, equipped with a number of keys. Upon activation of a key, the device detects which...
6188252 Horizontal oscillation circuit capable of changing frequency  
A frequency detection circuit detects the frequency of a horizontal sync signal, and generates a mode switching signal corresponding to the detected frequency. A voltage-controlled oscillator...
6181190 Electronic circuit and manufacturing method for electronic circuit  
The conductance may be adjusted of an electronic circuit including a first electronic component having a nominal conductance with a given inaccuracy. The circuit includes at least one additional...
6169428 Single supply voltage to frequency converter optimized for low voltage sensing above and below ground  
A voltage to frequency converter using a charge pump to restore the output voltage of the input integrator. The charge pump implementation allows the voltage to frequency converter's input to sense...
6137346 Temperature tracking voltage to current converter  
A programmable and precise voltage-to-current converter (a.k.a. current source) that tracks temperature variations is presented. The voltage-to-current converter is implemented by placing a voltage...
6107845 Frequency control circuit for oscillator and method therefor  
A frequency control circuit for an oscillator and a method therefor are disclosed and which frequency control circuit includes a flash cell having a cell transistor, a switching unit for outputting...
6078209 System and method for controlled performance degradation in electronic circuits  
A system and method for altering the effective operating frequency of an electronic system (e.g., an IC) in response to changes in temperature or current provides controlled and deliberate...
6041372 Method and apparatus for providing a processor module for a computer system  
A method and apparatus for converting a signal from a first voltage level to a second voltage level before providing the signal to a processor. A circuit board includes an interface for coupling...
6011426 Substrate voltage generation circuit for semiconductor device  
A substrate voltage generation circuit for a semiconductor device which is capable of decreasing the amount of current consumed by a charge pump. The circuit includes a burn-in detection unit for...
6008748 Microwave phase logic implementations of an analog-to-digital converter  
An N-bit analog to biphase-encoded analog-to digital converter, which comprises (1) a biphase amplitude modulator responsive to an analog signal and a microwave pump carrier frequency f c for...
5973519 Voltage controlled oscillator circuit capable of switching between oscillation frequency bands  
A voltage controlled oscillator circuit having a negative resistance section for supplying electric power to the voltage controlled oscillator circuit and a parallel resonance circuit includes a...
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