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7622983 Method and device for adapting the voltage of a MOS transistor bulk  
A circuit for biasing the bulk of a MOS transistor, including a capacitive element connecting the bulk of the MOS transistor to a source of an voltage.
7616048 Body biasing control circuit using lookup table and body biasing control method using same  
A body biasing control circuit capable of being shared by a plurality of macro blocks and can independently control body voltages of a plurality of macro blocks. The body biasing control circuit...
7612604 Semiconductor integrated circuit device  
A body bias control system allows for independent design of a functional module, thereby reducing the burden of designing the module. The body bias control system provides a switch circuit having...
7605639 Internal voltage generator of semiconductor memory device  
An internal voltage generator is capable of supplying a stable internal voltage regardless of an unstable external voltage. The internal voltage includes a first level detecting unit configured to...
7605636 Power gating structure, semiconductor including the same and method of controlling a power gating  
A power gating structure controls a connection between a power supply terminal and a virtual power supply node so as to operate a logic circuit in a plurality of operation modes. The power gating...
7605601 Semiconductor integrated circuit device  
A semiconductor integrated circuit device, has a semiconductor substrate; and a first transistor of a first conductivity type and a second transistor of the first conductivity type, the transistors...
7602230 Control integrated circuit for a charge pump  
An integrated control circuit for a charge pump includes a first device for regulating the output voltage of the charge pump and a second device for increasing the output voltage from the charge...
7598794 Well bias architecture for integrated circuit device  
Disclosed is a high voltage switch circuit that can include a first well bias switch configured to track the greater of an input voltage and a supply voltage, a voltage comparator configurable to...
7586365 Apparatus for controlling voltage  
An apparatus for controlling a voltage includes a reference voltage generator that generates reference voltage, and a bulk bias voltage generator that generates a bulk bias voltage using the...
7586363 Diode connected regulation of charge pumps  
A circuit including a charge pump and regulation circuitry is described. The output of the charge pump is connected to provide a first output signal that is connectable to drive a load. A diode is...
7586155 Apparatus and method for improving drive-strength and leakage of deep submicron MOS transistors  
An apparatus and method for manufacturing metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors that are operable at voltages below 1.5V, which MOS transistors are area efficient, and where the drive...
7583131 Charge pump circuit  
In a charge pump circuit provided with a positive electric potential generating charge pump circuit that generates a positive electric potential and a negative electric potential generating charge...
7583034 LED controller and method therefor  
In one embodiment, a vertical N-channel transistor is coupled in a high side configuration to control a current through an LED. A control circuit operates the vertical N-channel transistor to...
7579903 Power-source potential control circuit and method of trimming power-source potential  
A power-source potential control circuit has: an output terminal outputting a control signal to a power-source generating device which generates a power-source potential in accordance with the...
7576590 Swing width control circuit and high voltage pumping circuit using the same  
A swing width control circuit and a high voltage pumping circuit using the same are disclosed. The swing width control circuit includes a swing width controller for receiving a first pumping signal...
7573317 Apparatus and methods for adjusting performance of integrated circuits  
A programmable logic device (PLD) includes a delay circuit and a body-bias generator. The delay circuit has a delay configured to represent a delay of user circuit implement in the PLD. The...
7570089 Output stage interface circuit for outputting digital data onto a data bus, and a method for operating an output stage interface circuit  
An output stage interface circuit for interfacing with a data bus, comprising first and second rails for receiving respectively a high voltage and a low voltage from a power supply; a data output...
7564296 Semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus and electronic apparatus  
Semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus and electronic apparatus having a leakage current detection circuit where arbitrarily set leakage current detection ratio does not depend on power supply...
7562233 Adaptive control of operating and body bias voltages  
Adaptive control of operating and body bias voltages. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, a desirable operating frequency for the microprocessor is determined....
7560976 Method of operating a semiconductor device and the semiconductor device  
In one example embodiment, a speed circuit path includes inverter chains that are controllable to operate in a slower, low sub-threshold leakage current mode or a faster, higher sub-threshold...
7560975 Semiconductor device  
The well voltage of a CMOS circuit having low-threshold-voltage MOSFETs is controlled when the power supply is turned on, during normal operation, and when the supply voltage is cut off. The CMOS...
7560974 Generation of back-bias voltage with high temperature sensitivity  
A level detector within a back-bias voltage generator includes a toggling unit and a temperature detector. The toggling unit causes an enable signal to be activated when an absolute value of a...
7557642 Low supply voltage bandgap system  
A system and a method is disclosed for allowing bandgap circuitry to function on a low supply voltage integrated circuit, and for using the reference voltage (Vbg) generated by the bandgap...
7557639 Semiconductor device employing standby current reduction  
A semiconductor device of the invention comprises a logic circuit to which a power supply voltage, a sub-power supply voltage lower than the power supply voltage, a ground voltage and a sub-ground...
7551153 Combined exponential/linear RGB LED I-sink digital-to-analog converter  
Methods and systems to achieve linear and exponential control over a current to drive color LEDs have been achieved. Current digital-to-analog converters (IDAC) comprising each an exponential...
7545685 High voltage switch circuit having boosting circuit and flash memory device including the same  
A high-voltage switch circuit includes an enable control circuit, a feedback circuit, a boosting circuit, and a high voltage switch. The enable control circuit precharges an output node to a set...
7545201 System and method for switching between high voltage and low voltage  
A system and method for providing a voltage. The system includes a first transistor including a first gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The first terminal is configured to receive a...
7538599 Integrated circuit with standby mode minimizing current consumption  
The invention relates to electronic integrated circuits capable of operating either in active mode or in standby mode and to have, in standby mode, a very low current consumption. According to the...
7538585 Transconductor  
Disclosed is a transconductor including: first and second transistors each having first and second gates, the first and second gates being independently controlled, differential voltage input being...
7538569 Integrated circuits with programmable well biasing  
An integrated circuit includes a substrate, a storage device formed in the substrate to hold bias settings, and operational blocks formed in the substrate, each operational block including an...
7535307 Internal voltage generator and semiconductor memory device having the same, and method of generating internal voltage  
An internal voltage generator includes an oscillator, a cycle control unit and a voltage generator. The oscillator periodically generates a pulse-shaped oscillation signal. The cycle control unit...
7532059 Semiconductor integrated circuit device and substrate bias controlling method  
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes: a first bias generating circuit, a second bias generating circuit and a control circuit. The first bias generating circuit generates a first...
7518431 Semiconductor integrated circuit for processing audio and video signals  
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a charge pump circuit that repeats charge and discharge of a capacitor based on a clock signal when an ON/OFF control voltage is ON; a first delay...
7514983 Over-voltage tolerant pass-gate  
A pass-gate having a single or parallel opposite polarity FETs is disclosed. The wells of the primary transistor switches are driven from circuitry that reduces over-voltage leakage and other...
7514953 Adjustable transistor body bias generation circuitry with latch-up prevention  
An integrated circuit is provided with body bias generation circuitry. The body bias generation circuitry generates a body bias signal that is provided to transistors on a body bias path. The body...
7511558 Semiconductor devices utilizing double gated fully depleted silicon on insulator MOS transistors  
A CMOS circuit in low-voltage implementation, low power-consumption implementation, high-speed implementation, or small-size implementation. In a circuit which uses a FD-SOI MOST where a back gate...
7511533 Output device having parasitic transistor for increased current drive  
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for output devices having parasitic transistors for a higher output current drive. One such MOS output device includes a parasitic bipolar transistor that assists...
7508251 Semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus  
Providing semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus capable of controlling the substrate voltage of a MOSFET so that the drain current for an arbitrary gate voltage value in a subthreshold region...
7504877 Charge pump and voltage regulator for body bias voltage  
An integrated circuit including a voltage generator for generating a body bias voltage is described. The voltage generator includes a charge source and a voltage regulator coupled to the charge...
7501880 Body-biased enhanced precision current mirror  
A body-biased enhanced current mirror circuit is disclosed wherein the body voltage of a current mirror device is adjusted to compensate for the effect of changes in the output voltage on the...
7501849 Latch-up prevention circuitry for integrated circuits with transistor body biasing  
An integrated circuit such as a programmable logic device integrated circuit is provided that contains body-biased metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors and latch-up prevention circuitry to prevent...
7498867 Current drive circuit  
In the current drive section, a wiring for setting a substrate potential is separately provided from a wiring of a power potential VDD so that substrate potentials of P-channel MOS transistors...
7498865 Semiconductor integrated circuit with reduced speed variations  
In a semiconductor integrated circuit of the present invention, the main circuit 2 includes MOS transistors in which the source and the substrate are separated from each other. The substrate...
7498863 Compensation for electric drifts of MOS transistors  
An integrated circuit comprising at least one MOS-type transistor, further comprising a system for detecting the variations of the electrical quantities of the at least one transistor, and a...
7495506 Headroom compensated low input voltage high output current LDO  
A low-dropout regulator is provided. The low-dropout regulator includes a p-type depletion transistor as a pass device. The low-dropout regulator further includes switch circuitry and a charge pump...
7492232 Oscillator circuit, semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device provided with the oscillator circuit, and control method of the oscillator circuit  
There is provided an oscillator circuit capable of obtaining stable frequency by avoiding output having unstable frequency that is likely to occur to an operation/stop-control-feasible type...
7492215 Power managing apparatus  
A power managing apparatus is utilized to control a first supply voltage, a second supply voltage, and a substrate voltage of a digital circuit. The power managing apparatus includes a voltage...
7489161 Method for extending lifetime reliability of digital logic devices through removal of aging mechanisms  
A method for extending lifetime reliability of CMOS circuitry includes coupling a first switching device between a logic high supply rail/logic low supply rail, and coupling a virtual supply rail...
7486127 Transistor switch with integral body connection to prevent latchup  
A circuit device having a transistor-based switch topology that substantially eliminates the possibility of latchup of the device. A series-connected low voltage threshold (LVT) N-channel...
7480164 Semiconductor integrated circuit with voltage generation circuit, liquid crystal display controller and mobile electric equipment  
There is to be provided a liquid crystal drive controller with a built-in power supply circuit wherein latch-up is made difficult to arise even if one amplitude level of the segment line drive...
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