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7598762 Semiconductor driver circuit with signal swing balance and enhanced testing  
A semiconductor driver circuit includes impedance units for generating impedances at data pads, independently of each-other. Thus, signal swing widths of data signals generated at the data pads may...
7598793 Capacitance multiplier circuit  
A capacitance multiplier circuit is configured to sense a current through a capacitor in an RC filter of the circuit and to multiply the current so as to achieve a capacitance multiplier effect...
7592855 Trimming circuit and semiconductor device  
A trimming circuit is disclosed. The trimming circuit includes a first trimming circuit having resistors and fuses, and a second trimming circuit having a resistor, an NMOS transistor, and a...
7583127 High Q linear controlled variable capacitor using translinear amplifier  
A voltage controlled variable capacitor, formed of a larger number of fixed capacitor segments and a corresponding number of switching elements, uses translinear amplifiers to control each...
7573315 Control device and method of operating the control device having controller chips and change-over unit  
A control device contains a plurality of controllers, a common signal output, and a change-over unit. The controllers are coupled on an output side to the common signal output through the...
7545197 Anti-logarithmic amplifier designs  
An anti-exponential amplifier produces an output signal that is an exponential/anti-logarithmic function of an input signal. The amplifier includes three function generators and a low-pass filter....
7406339 On-chip detection circuit off-chip mechanical switch's open and close actions  
An on-chip detection circuit automatically detects when an external switch has been activated. When the device is initialized, the detection circuit measures the operating current and coverts the...
7388410 Input circuits configured to operate using a range of supply voltages  
An input circuit includes an input signal transmission circuit configured to output a first transmission signal at a first output node in response to an input signal at an input node, and a Schmitt...
7352230 Internal voltage trimming circuit for use in semiconductor memory device and method thereof  
An internal power voltage trimming circuit and its method individually or simultaneously perform level trimming for a plurality of power voltages in a semiconductor memory device. The internal...
7233177 Precision tuning of a phase-change resistive element  
The present invention comprises a method and structure for programming an on-chip phase-change resistor to a target resistance. Using an off-chip precision resistor as a reference, a state-machine...
7190205 Variable resistance circuit  
Values of control signals 61, 62, 63, . . . , 6 n , each inputted to an input terminal for operation control 6 of each of transistor elements 4 constituting a variable resistance portion 2 ,...
7161851 Method and apparatus for generating multiple system memory drive strengths  
A system and method for generating multiple drive strengths for one or more output signals of a memory controller operable to control a memory subsystem. The system includes a state machine...
7154325 Using active circuits to compensate for resistance variations in embedded poly resistors  
Variations in the actual resistance of a target poly resistor in a semiconductor integrated circuit can be compensated for by using an active circuit that provides a negative resistance in parallel...
7123729 Dual use of an integrated circuit pin and the switching of signals at said pin  
In a signal processing system with an IC having an intrinsic signal provided at a pin of the IC, a first operational function (de-emphasis) for the signal is provided at the pin, and further along...
7107469 Power down processing islands  
A structure and associated method of processing data on a semi-conductor device comprising an input island, a processing island, and an output island formed on the semiconductor device. The input...
7106120 PCMO resistor trimmer  
Using programmable resistance material for a matching resistor, a resistor trimming circuit is designed to reversibly trim a matching resistor to match a reference resistor. The programmable...
7084691 Mono-polarity switchable PCMO resistor trimmer  
Using programmable resistance material for a matching resistor, a resistor trimming circuit is designed to reversibly trim a matching resistor to match a reference resistor. The programmable...
7084663 Impedance adjustment circuit, impedance adjustment method, and semiconductor device  
An impedance adjustment circuit has an external resistor, a comparator which compares the potential of one terminal of the external resistor with a predetermined voltage, a counter whose counted...
7073087 Transition signal control unit and DMA controller and transition signal control processor using transition signal control unit  
Transition signal control for creating asynchronous timing is provided using a transition signal control circuit, which includes Muller C elements each with an inverter. The control device is...
7049875 One-pin automatic tuning of MOSFET resistors  
Methods and apparatus for automatic tuning of MOSFET resistors providing accuracy and linearity throughout process and temperature variations. In accordance with the methods, the source and drain...
7002435 Variable capacitance circuit, variable capacitance thin film capacitor and radio frequency device  
There is disclosed a variable capacitance circuit which comprises: first to Nth variable capacitance elements C 1 -CN (N is an odd number) sequentially connected in series between an input terminal...
6963238 Level shift circuit  
A high-precision and high-performance level shift circuit, which is not adversely influenced by an offset error owned by an operational amplifier. Two sets of resistors ( 4 o ) and ( 4 p ) having...
6930540 Integrated circuit with voltage divider and buffered capacitor  
An integrated circuit has a voltage divider that is configured to save current. The circuit includes a capacitor that is inventively connected to a potential sink or potential source by way of a...
6822502 Variable impedance circuit  
A variable impedance circuit has an impedance block including a plurality of MOS transistors connected in parallel by switching and having impedances in accordance with powers of 2, the powers...
6815998 Adjustable-ratio global read-back voltage generator  
A voltage generation circuit for generating a read-back voltage in response to a supply voltage and a reference voltage. The voltage generation circuit includes a comparator configured to receive...
6803811 Active hybrid circuit  
A hybrid circuit has a transfer function having three zeros and four poles that are realized using only two fully-differential amplifiers in combination with a small plurality of resistors and...
6774703 Semiconductor device  
Even in the case where the reference voltage of a reference-voltage generating circuit is adjusted by fuses, a number of fuses are required to be disconnected, and the area of fuse circuits tends...
6754480 Baseband analog circuit with improved noise characteristics  
A baseband analog circuit includes a demodulator to demodulate a received signal and to output a baseband analog signal, a low-pass filter to filter the demodulated baseband analog signal, and an...
6686789 Dynamic low power reference circuit  
A dynamic low power reference circuit includes a reference source for generating a reference voltage and/or a reference current. The reference circuit further includes an activity detector...
6677801 Internal power voltage generating circuit of semiconductor device  
An internal power voltage generating circuit of a semiconductor device includes a voltage dividing circuit composed of a single field effect transistor and a plurality of resistances incorporated...
6674321 Circuit configuration for DC-biased capacitors  
A capacitive element includes two or more voltage-variable capacitors (varactors). The varactors are configured so that they are coupled in series with respect to an applied AC signal and are...
6633193 Method of forming a switching device and structure therefor  
A switching device ( 20 ) is formed to generate a ramp voltage by using a capacitor ( 48 ) formed on the semiconductor die ( 90 ) with the switching device ( 20 ). The switching device ( 20 )...
6614284 PNP multiplier  
A method and apparatus are directed to emulating an emitter follower with a small PNP transistor that is arranged in a PNP multiplier configuration. The PNP multiplier includes a PNP emitter...
6597230 Electronic device  
A circuit for measuring the power supplied by a voltage source supplying a sine-shaped voltage by averaging the multiplication of the instantaneous value of the current supplied by the voltage...
6518814 High-voltage capacitor voltage divider circuit having a high-voltage silicon-on-insulation (SOI) capacitor  
A high-voltage capacitive voltage divider circuit includes a high-voltage Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) capacitor connected between a high-voltage terminal and a low-voltage terminal, and a...
6507232 Semiconductor device which can be set to predetermined capacitance value without increase of delay time  
A semiconductor device includes an input and output section, an internal circuit section, and a capacitance section. A signal is inputted to or outputted from the input and output section. The...
6462609 Trimming circuit of semiconductor apparatus  
A relatively compact trimming circuit for hypothetically breaking a fuse includes a resistance bypass circuit connected to a node between a resistor and a fuse. The bypass circuit selectively...
6459320 Impedance matching circuit for semiconductor memory device  
An importance matching circuit for a semiconductor memory device includes an impedance detector for generating a voltage divided by a medium resistance value between a maximum resistance value and...
6437629 Semiconductor device with circuit for adjusting input/output terminal capacitance  
A semiconductor device of the invention comprises: an external terminal; an internal circuit connected to the external terminal; a MOS transistor whose gate terminal or common terminal of the drain...
6417702 Multi-mode current-to-voltage converter  
A method and circuit are provided to perform current-to-voltage conversions. The circuit is operational in one linear mode based on channel-length-modulation effects in the saturation region and...
6396328 Variable capacitance circuit  
A variable capacitance circuit enables electrostatic capacity to be adjusted as a trimmer capacitor, and that enables a temperature characteristic to be set variably. An input voltage is made to...
6347392 Method for the control of an electronic circuit and control unit for its implementation  
A method for the control of an electronic circuit of the type includes at least one access pin to receive and/or deliver control signals, includes the generation, in a control unit, of control...
6310567 Programmable configuration, level and output voltage range circuits and methods for signal processors  
A signal processor circuit which receives an input signal and two control words and is programmable to vary the level and the output voltage range of the output signal is provided. The signal...
6281740 Connecting arrangement for selectively presenting resistive properties using transistors  
A connecting arrangement includes a number of NMOS transistors that can be activated or deactivated by means of a control voltage, serving as a control signal, connected to the gate terminals of...
6275090 Adaptive resistor trimming circuit  
An integrated circuit includes a self-calibrating resistor circuit comprising a resistor string, a comparator, a state machine, a reference voltage source, and a reference current source. The...
6255868 Buffer circuit and hold circuit  
An object is to reduce the offset voltage between the input and output in a wide range of output current with a simple circuit configuration. Transistors (Q1), (Q2) and (Q3) have a size ratio of...
6157241 Fuse trim circuit that does not prestress fuses  
A fuse trim circuit includes: a fuse 40; and a logic gate 55 having a first input coupled to the fuse 40 and a second input coupled to a logic code such that the logic code bypasses the fuse 40 to...
6060934 Cell including a pseudo-capacitor, in particular for an artificial retina  
A cell incorporated in an integrated circuit and having an input node behaves as a capacitor vis-a-vis the relation between the current entering the input node and the pseudo-voltage at the input...
6058294 Adjustable frequency stabilizing internal chip capacitor system  
A transmitter system having an adjustable monolithic frequency stabilization and tuning internal capacitor circuit. The transmitter system has a transmitter for generating and transmitting a...
6040641 Method for manufacturing probabilistic switch using multiplicative noise  
A method for manufacturing a probabilistic switch using multiplicative noise, which can be used in a probabilistic computer is disclosed. The probabilistic switch, in which the probability varies...
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