Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems inventions 02/08

20080048726 - Signal integrity measurement systems and methods using a predominantly digital time-base generator: Signal-integrity measurement systems and methods utilizing unique time-base generation techniques for controlling the sampling of one or more signals under test. A time-base generator made in accordance with the present disclosure includes a phase filter and modulation circuitry that generates a rapidly varying phase signal as a function of the... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080048727 - Sense amplifier-based latch: A sense amplifier-based latch is provided. It comprises an input circuit, a sense amplifier, a latch circuit and an output circuit. By employing the latch circuit, the variation frequency of an output signal and a complementary output signal as well as lots of charge consumption is reduced. Accordingly, the invention... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080048728 - Stable sense amplifier: In an embodiment, a sense amplifier can perform a stable differential amplifying operation while having a high differential amplification gain. The sense amplifier comprises a current sense amplification unit, a voltage difference amplification unit, and an output stabilization unit. The current sense amplification unit receives differential input currents and generates... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080048730 - Single ended pseudo differential interconnection circuit and single ended pseudo differential signaling method: A single ended pseudo differential signaling method may add a 1-bit signal to n-bit data if transmitting the n-bit data. Neighboring two signals among the 1-bit signal and data signals are compared to each other to generate detection signals.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080048731 - Comparator and method for operating thereof: A comparator including an amplifier unit, a latch unit, and a switch unit is provided. The amplifier unit receives and gains an input signal pair respectively and then outputs an output signal pair. The latch unit is coupled to the amplifier unit. During a tracking period, the latch unit is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080048732 - Abnormality detection circuit: An abnormality detection circuit monitors a power supply voltage and, when the power supply voltage drops, outputs an abnormality detection signal of a predetermined level. The source of a detection transistor as a P-channel MOSFET is connected to a power supply line to which a power supply voltage to be... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080048729 - Comparator circuit and method for operating a comparator circuit: A comparator circuit for comparing a first voltage signal to a second voltage signal is described. The comparator circuit includes a first comparator and a second comparator and a selection unit for selecting one of the comparators depending on a selection condition. The invention also provides a method for operating... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080048733 - Decimal frequency synthesizer: A frequency synthesizer and method for synthesizing decimal frequencies. The synthesizer includes a seed generator, a clock synthesizer and an output synthesizer. The clock synthesizer includes a binary accumulator in a feedback signal path using a base reference frequency and a clock seed word for synthesizing a clock frequency and... Agent: David R. Gildea Menlo Patent Agency LLC

20080048734 - Methods and apparatus for minimizing jitter in a clock synthesis circuit that uses feedback interpolation: A frequency synthesis circuit includes a phase locked loop and an interpolator circuit. The phase locked loop circuit receives a reference clock and a feedback clock and generates an output clock with a frequency based on the reference clock and the feedback clock. An interpolator circuit is coupled in the... Agent: Stattler-suh PC

20080048736 - Differential circuit and output buffer circuit including the same: An output buffer circuit in a multi-power system operating at a high power supply voltage and a low power supply voltage includes a pre-driver, and a main driver. The pre-driver performs a differential switching operation on first and second differential input signals to output first and second differential output signals.... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080048735 - Controlled impedance cmos output buffer: A CMOS Output Buffer providing controlled output impedance includes three internal sections each of which provides a impedance control for a corresponding region of the output V-I characteristics of deep linear, deep saturation and transition regions. Each internal section includes controlled current sinks/current sources enabled to provide a precise control... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080048737 - Voltage generating circuit, constant current circuit and light emitting diode driving circuit: A voltage generating circuit includes a voltage generating unit which generates plural constant voltages, plural switches, a control signal generating unit and a decoding circuit. The switches select any one of the plural constant voltages generated from the voltage generating unit and outputs it from a voltage output terminal. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080048738 - Voltage/current converter circuit and method for providing a ramp current: A voltage/current converter circuit includes a bridge configuration having a first current path with a first resistor, a first transistor, and an input node to receive a ramp voltage to be converted, and a second current path with a second resistor and a second transistor. A current passes through the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080048739 - Phase synchronous circuit: An external clock round-trips a round-trip delay block configured by a selector and a short delay array, and is made capable of corresponding to a wide frequency by generating a long delay time required for synchronization at the time of a low frequency operation. Further, when a plurality of phase... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080048740 - Method and apparatus for generating clock signal: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method thereof for generating a clock signal. The apparatus includes a clock generating module and at least one delay stage. The clock generating module receives a reference signal through a first signal path, receives a feedback signal through a second signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080048741 - Adaptive bandwidth phase locked loops with current boosting circuits: An adaptive bandwidth phase locked loop (PLL) includes a phase frequency detector configured to generate a comparison pulse having a pulse-width and sign corresponding to a difference between a reference frequency and a first frequency. A pulse-voltage converter is configured to generate a control voltage corresponding to the comparison pulse.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080048742 - Phase comparison signal processing circuit: The present invention provides a phase comparison signal processing circuit which processes an output rectangular wave signal of a digital phase comparator of a PLL, expands a pullable-in frequency width of the PLL and shortens a synchronization time. The phase comparison signal processing circuit includes a first signal path which... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20080048743 - Power on reset circuit for a digital device including an on-chip voltage down converter: A power on reset circuit initializes at power on a digital integrated circuit, and includes a first power on reset signal generator powered by an external power supply voltage and generates a first power on reset signal. A reference voltage generator is powered by the external power supply voltage, and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080048745 - Design structure for radiation hardened programmable phase frequency divider circuit: A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium includes information for designing, manufacturing and/or testing a programmable phase frequency divider circuit implemented in CMOS technology for space applications. The programmable phase frequency divider consists of three radiation hardened D-type flip flops and combinational logic circuits to provide the feedback... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080048744 - Latch circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit having the same: A latch circuit includes first, second, and third inverter circuits, a switching element, and a capacitor element. The first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit are cross-connected to each other. The third inverter circuit logically inverts an output from the first inverter circuit. The switching element is connected between... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080048746 - Hysteresis comparator with programmable hysteresis width: A digitally programmable hysteresis comparator a includes digitally programmable variable resistor. One or more control bits are operable to modify the resistance of the variable resistor, and such modification is operable to modify the hysteresis width of the comparator.... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080048748 - High resolution delay adjustor: A delay adjustor for adjusting the delay time of a signal, the adjustor comprising: a first capacitance unit and a variable capacitance unit serially coupled to the first capacitor wherein the capacitance of the variable capacitance unit is adjusted according to a first control signal and the variable capacitance unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080048747 - Interface circuit: An interface circuit includes a variable delay circuit and a delay adjustment circuit to automatically detect a data valid window of a DQ signal and adjust an optimum delay amount of a DQS signal, and a fixed delay circuit to delay the DQ signal by a delay amount tFIXDLY satisfying... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080048749 - Delay circuit and semiconductor device: A delay circuit comprises: N-stage circuits having a first circuit to an N-th circuit connected in cascade, the input signal being input to the first circuit and a transmission signal delayed by a (k−1)-stage (where 2≦k≦N) circuit is input to a k-th circuit for sequential transmission; a common delay circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080048750 - Delay circuit, test apparatus, storage medium semiconductor chip, initializing circuit and initializing method: There is provided a delay circuit including a first delay element, a second delay element, and an initializing section that measures a delay amount generated by the first delay element with respect to each delay setting value and initializes the first delay element. The initializing section includes: a first loop... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080048751 - Process and temperature-independent voltage controlled attenuator and method: A circuit includes a first variable resistor having a resistance which is variable in response to a resistance control signal. A resistance control circuit includes a first current source circuit for supplying a first current through a reference resistor. A second current source circuit supplies a second current through the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080048752 - Multi-level voltage supply circuit: In all electronic products, the voltage supply circuit is an essential component for providing a stable supply voltage into the application device. The present invention provides a multi-level voltage supply circuit for solving some problems existing in the application device, in which the multi-level voltage supply circuit includes a first... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080048753 - Differential reshaping circuit: An amplifier circuit for regenerating complementary digital signals which comprises a differential pair of transistors (T5, T6). This circuit also comprises a pair of push-pull amplifiers (12a, 12b) which consists of a first and a second push-pull amplifier having a first and a second low input (L, Lb) which are... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20080048754 - Level shifter including boosting circuit: A level shifter includes a level shifting circuit shifting a level of a boosted signal input through an input terminal connected to the level shifter and outputting the boosted signal at a new level, and a boosting circuit receiving an input signal, boosting a voltage of the input signal to... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080048755 - Input/output device with fixed value during sleep mode or at a time of supplying initial voltage to system: An input/output device includes: a level shifter configured to convert an input signal of a first voltage into an output signal of a second voltage; and an output driver configured to operate in response to the output signal. The level shifter is configured to generate the output signal with a... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080048756 - Semiconductor integrated circuit externally outputting oscillation signal and electronic device including the same: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an oscillation circuit outputting an oscillation signal, and a switch circuit switching whether the oscillation signal received from the oscillation circuit is to be output to the outside or not.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080048757 - Method and circuit for matching semiconductor device behavior: A selection circuit and method. The selection circuit comprises a logic circuit, an array of sub-circuits and a switching circuit electrically coupled to each other. The selection circuit is subjected to a first operating condition. The switching circuit selects a group of sub-circuits from the array. The selection circuit generates... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080048758 - Output control circuit: To provide an output control circuit having a small circuit scale that still operates stably at high speed, an output control circuit includes a first inverter and a second inverter, connected in series for outputting signals at an inverted voltage level of an input signal, a first output unit, for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080048760 - Monolithically integratable circuit arrangement: A monolithically integratable circuit arrangement is provided, which has at least one inductor, formed as a conductor loop, and at least one capacitor, connected to the conductor loop. According to the invention, the circuit arrangement comprises (a) at least one first conductor loop placed in at least one first metallization... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080048759 - Trimming of operative parameters in electronic devices based on corrections mappings: An embodiment of an electronic device having a plurality of operative parameters is provided. The electronic device includes means for applying a plurality of trimming actions to each parameter for causing a corresponding correction of the parameter, for at least one reference parameter, means for measuring the reference parameter responsive... Agent: Bryan A. Santarelli Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20080048761 - Methods and apparatus for characterizing electronic fuses used to personalize an integrated circuit: An integrated circuit device having at least one fuse capable of being blown in order to provide measurements of fuse current-voltage characteristics is provided. The integrated circuit device also provides at least one pulse generation circuit associated with the fuse and capable of generating a pulse to blow the fuse... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080048762 - Superconducting switching amplifier: A superconducting switching amplifier embodying the invention includes superconductive devices responsive to input/control signals for clamping the output of the amplifier to a first voltage or to a second voltage. The amplifier includes a first set of superconducting devices serially connected between a first voltage line and an output terminal... Agent: Henry I. Schanzer, Esq

20080048764 - Electronic circuit device: An electronic circuit device includes a negative resistance generating circuit, a second transistor and a path. The negative resistance generating circuit has a first transistor having a control terminal coupled to a resonator. The second transistor has a control terminal coupled to an output terminal of the first transistor and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080048763 - Semiconductor device: Disclosed is a bolometer infrared imaging device including a plural number of readout circuits, each comprising a bias circuit that includes a bias transistor that supplies a constant voltage to a bolometer device, a bias cancellation circuit that includes a canceller transistor that removes offset current component of the bolometer... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080048765 - Power supply circuit and electronic device equipped with same: A power supply circuit is provided which is capable of preventing a drop in an output voltage of the power supply circuit used as a DC/DC converter made up of single and conductive type (n-type or p-type) MOS transistors and of improving efficiency. Since a control voltage having an amplitude... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080048766 - Automatic current trimming method & circuits: Techniques pertaining to a circuit architecture capable of controlling a current source to a predefined precision are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, an automatic trimming circuit is proposed to automatically trim a current generated from a current generator or circuit in accordance with a reference current.... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20080048769 - Balance compensation circuit for multi-power-output voltage: A balance compensation circuit for multi-power-output voltage is provided. The voltage balance compensation circuit comprises a ground terminal; a first output terminal providing a first output voltage; a first capacitor electrically connected between the first output terminal and the ground terminal and filtering the first output voltage; a second output... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080048767 - Semiconductor device with surge protection circuit: A semiconductor device includes a memory cell to and from which data is written and read in accordance with voltage supplied, a power supply circuit generating the voltage supplied to the memory cell, a microcomputer, an external terminal, a surge protection circuit clamping at a predetermined voltage value a voltage... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080048768 - Circuit: A circuit that can avoid drops in power supply and heat generation and save on manufacturing costs with no need of external controls are configured such that: a switching transformer has a terminal that produces an output of 22V at power-on and an output of 8V during standby and a... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080048771 - Constant current circuit: A constant current circuit includes a first current mirror composed of a first transistor formed on a first current path and a second transistor formed on a second current path, a second current mirror composed of a third transistor formed on the first current path and a fourth transistor formed... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080048770 - Master bias current generating circuit with decreased sensitivity to silicon process variation: A master bias current generating circuit includes a current source, a first reference leg, and a second reference leg. The first reference leg includes a first transistor having a first size parameter coupled to the current source and a first diode having a second size parameter coupled to the first... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080048772 - Sensor circuit, semiconductor device, and electronic apparatus: A sensor circuit has: a sensor portion that obtains, as an electrical signal, information on an object to be measured or detected; and a control circuit that controls the operation of the sensor portion. The control circuit receives a start input signal inputted thereto from outside for making the sensor... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080042690 - Data receiving apparatus using semi-dual reference voltage: A semi-dual reference voltage data receiving apparatus includes a first input buffer, a second input buffer, and a phase detector wherein the first input buffer includes a first input receiving unit, a first sense amplifier, and a first current offset controlling unit. The first sense amplifier senses and amplifies the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080042691 - high speed and power efficient sense amplifier with leakage testing and read debug capability: Disclosed is a high speed and power efficient dual mode sense amplifier circuit, which comprises a configuration selector further comprising a read amplifier, a debug circuit and a backup read circuit. The dual mode sense amplifier circuit also comprises a controllable input node further comprising an enabling circuit, the controllable... Agent: Michael T. Moore Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

20080042692 - Voltage comparator apparatus and method having improved kickback and jitter characteristics: A comparator apparatus for comparing a first and a second voltage input includes a pair of cross-coupled inverter devices, including a pull up device and a pull down device, with output nodes defined between the pull up and pull down devices. A first switching device is coupled to the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080042694 - Integrated cmos circuit with differential open drain output driver: An integrated CMOS circuit with a differential open drain output driver comprises a plurality of differential output stages each having differential inputs and differential outputs, the differential outputs of the differential output stages being interconnected to provide a pair of differential open drain driver outputs, and the differential inputs of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080042695 - High accuracy sample and hold circuit: A high accuracy sample and hold circuit including a first switch, a second switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor and an amplifier is disclosed. The first capacitor receives and saves a sampling voltage from the first switch during a first period, while the second capacitor receives and saves another... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080042693 - Design structures comprising receiver circuits for generating digital clock signals: A design structure comprising a digital clock generation circuit (and a method for operating the same). The digital clock generation circuit includes a first, a second, a third differential comparator circuits. The first differential comparator circuit receives the positive differential clock signal and a reference voltage, and generates a first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080042696 - Driver circuit with emi immunity: A driver circuit suitable for outputting a signal onto an output line affected by conducted EMI, has a slope control circuit and an output circuit, (op-amp, Mo, M13 to M21). It can be used for driving a LIN network. The slope control circuit outputs a slope controlled version of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080042697 - Multi-modulus divider retiming circuit: A multi-modulus divider (MMD) receives an MMD input signal and outputs an MMD output signal SOUT. The MMD includes a chain of modulus divider stages (MDSs). Each MDS receives an input signal, divides it by either two or three, and outputs the result as an output signal. Each MDS responds... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080042698 - Clock multiplier and method of multiplying a clock: A clock multiplier for multiplying an input clock by N includes a phase/frequency detector, a clock selector, and a voltage-controlled delay line. The phase/frequency detector generates a first control signal and a second control signal according to a frequency/phase difference between the input clock and a count signal indicating a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080042699 - Low-power modulus divider stage: A modulus divider stage (MDS) includes first and second stages. The MDS receives a modulus divisor control signal S that determines whether the MDS stage operates in a divide-by-two mode or a divide-by-three mode. The MDS stage also receives a feedback modulus control signal from another MDS. When in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080042700 - Pixel clock generation device causing state transition of pixel clock according to detected state transition and phase data indicating phase shift amount: A transition detection circuit detects a transition of a state of a pixel clock, and outputs a detection signal according to a timing of the detected state transition. A control signal generation circuit generates a control signal according to the detection signal and phase data indicating a transition timing of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080042701 - Resistor/capacitor based identification detection: A resistor/capacitor identification detection (RCID) circuit may provide system level identification of hardware (e.g. circuit board ID) through a single pin interface, by identifying up to a specified number of more than two quantized RC time constant states by measuring the discharge and charge times of an external RC circuit... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080042702 - Method and apparatus for reducing oscillation in synchronous circuits: Control signal oscillation filtering circuits, delay-locked loops, clock synchronization methods and devices and system incorporating control signal oscillation filtering circuits is described. An oscillation filtering circuit includes a first oscillation filter configured to filter oscillations and a majority filter configured to average filter an output of a phase detector and... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20080042706 - Delay lock loop and phase angle generator: The provided delay lock loop delaying an input signal includes a quadrature generator, a voltage controller and a delay cell. The input signal is inputted into the quadrature generator and the delay cell. A phase-changing signal from the quadrature generator and a delay signal respectively from the delay cell are... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080042704 - Delayed locked loop (dll): A delayed locked loop (DLL) circuit is provided which includes a delay line for including a plurality of delay elements, and delaying an internal clock signal generated by buffering external clock signals by a first delay period, an internal delay for delaying an output signal of the delay line by... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080042705 - Duty cycle correction (dcc) circuit and delayed locked loop (dll) circuit using the same: A duty cycle correction (DCC) circuit and a delayed locked loop (DLL) circuit using the same are disclosed. The DCC circuit is operated by an enable signal which is enabled when the DLL is locked. The duty cycle correction (DCC) circuit includes a clock input unit and a duty cycle... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080042703 - False lock protection in a delay-locked loop (dll): A delay-locked loop (DLL) to produce a plurality of delayed clock signals comprising combinational logic for false lock detection is provided. The combinational logic uses only a subset of the plurality of delayed clock signals to provide a forward indicator indicating a delay period (Δt) is longer than a desired... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Bryan H. Wyman

20080042707 - Method and apparatus for digital phase generation for high frequency clock applications: An apparatus and method for generating phase-related clocks are disclosed. A clock input is delayed by an alignment magnitude to generate a first phase signal. The first phase signal is delayed by the phase alignment magnitude to generate a first phase delay signal. The clock input is delayed by a... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20080042708 - Pll oscillation circuit: A digitally controlled PLL oscillation circuit has a VCO, a frequency divider, a reference oscillation circuit, an A/D converter, a phase comparator, a digital filter, a D/A converter, and an analog filter. A reference signal supplied from the reference oscillation circuit is output through a narrow-band crystal filter (MCF) to... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080042709 - Method and apparatus for improving light load efficiency in switching power supplies: A circuit for transitioning between a discontinuous and a fixed frequency continuous conduction mode (DCM) and (CCM) of a power converter having a driver receiving PWM signals and controlling a switching stage comprises a control switch and a sync switch connected at a common switching node for driving a load.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080042710 - Self-oscillating driver with soft start circuit: A method for providing a soft start operation for a transistor driver circuit, comprising providing a saw tooth waveform from an oscillator at a given frequency; comparing the saw tooth waveform to a reference value; and modifying the saw tooth waveform as a result of the comparison to produce pulses... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080042711 - Power production during a reduced activity state: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a method comprises providing a signal to a transformer for supplying power during a reduced activity state. The signal comprises a series of pulses that comprises a positive pulse and a negative pulse. The signal is a segmented version of another signal provided to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080042712 - Latch and clock structures for enabling race-reduced mux scan and lssd co-compatibility: An edge triggered system is provided having a data and scan input includes a latch device having a clock input and an AND gate, coupled to the latch device, structured and arranged to receive a first clock signal and an inverted clock signal to generate a clock to the clock... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080042714 - Integrated circuit: An integrated circuit includes a first latch of a data transmitting source and a second latch of a data receiving destination. The second latch includes: a delay element that delays an input signal transmitted from the first latch; and a path switching circuit that changes over a signal input path... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080042713 - Sense amplifier based flip-flop: A circuit includes an input stage, an output stage, and a delay stage. The input stage is operative to receive a clock signal and a first and second input signal. The output stage is operative to receive the clock signal. The output stage is also operative to generate a first... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080042715 - Delay circuit: A delay circuit comprises a first inverter, a resistor, a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first inverter comprises an input end and a first node and an input signal is received by the input end. The resistor is coupled between the first node and a second node. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042716 - Delay apparatus of synchronizing circuit having improved jitter characteristic and method of controlling the same: A delay apparatus of a synchronizing circuit and a method of controlling the same are provided. In order to improve jitter characteristics, the delay apparatus includes delay units delaying input signal by variable delaying devices according to, a predetermined voltage, and a current amount control unit that changes a unit... Agent: Venable LLP

20080042717 - Charge pump clock generating circuit and method thereof: A charge pump clock generating circuit and a method thereof are disclosed. The circuit includes a sync counter, a comparator, and a clock generating circuit. The sync counter receives a dot clock and a reset signal for accumulating a counting value according to the dot clock and resetting the counting... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080042719 - Clock signal control method in the common clock and integrated circuit device: The clock signal control method in the common clock system according to the present invention is used for controlling an output clock signal output externally from the integrated circuit device via the common clock system. According to the control method, a shift circuit for shifting the voltage level of the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080042718 - Internal read signal generator and semiconductor memory device having the same: The internal read signal generator according to the present invention includes: a first delay unit for delaying a clock signal in order to obtain a margin of a setup/hold time of an input signal; a signal transfer unit for transferring the input signal in synchronization with the delayed clock signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080042720 - Method for dynamically tuning the clock frequency of an oscillator and corresponding oscillating system: An oscillator system may include an oscillator block having a plurality of inputs and outputting a clock signal, a frequency divider block receiving the clock signal and outputting a divided clock signal, a tuning block receiving the divided clock signal and outputting a comparison signal, and a control block coupled... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080042721 - Pull-up devices: A pull-up device coupled between an input/output (I/O) pad and a core circuit and has a static pull-up circuit, an adjustment unit, and a control circuit. The static pull-up circuit is coupled to the core circuit and receives a supply voltage. The adjustment unit is coupled to the I/O pad... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080042722 - High speed level shifter circuit and circuit using same: A level shifter (320) includes a first capacitor (510/612/712), a first resistor (524/626/734), a first switch (526/630/728), and a first current source (528/632/730). The first capacitor has a first terminal for receiving an input signal, and a second terminal coupled to a first output terminal. The first resistor has a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080042723 - Junction field effect transistor input buffer level shifting circuit: A level shifting circuit can include a first input junction field effect transistor (JFET) having a gate coupled to receive an input signal having a first voltage swing that provides a controllable impedance path between a first supply node and a first terminal of a first bias stack including at... Agent: Walker & Sako, LLP Suite 235

20080042725 - Level converter and semiconductor device: A level converter includes a first to fourth transistors formed of a semiconductor having a same conductivity type. The first transistor is connected between a first power supply and a second output terminal, the second transistor is connected between a second power supply and a first output terminal, the third... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080042724 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device is capable of stably maintaining a voltage level of a shield line, even when a voltage level of an adjacent line is varied. The semiconductor device includes normal lines arranged for transfer of signals, a shield line arranged adjacently to the normal lines, a level shifting circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080042726 - Mixer amplifier and radiofrequency front-end circuit: The mixer amplifier includes an amplification stage having a current source circuit and a plug filter adapted to modify the current circulating in the current source circuit. The amplification stage and a mixer stage amplify an incoming signal and transpose the frequency of the signal to a predetermined frequency. Resistors... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080042727 - Device for limiting the capacitance charging current, charge pump arrangement, method for limiting a charging current at a charge pump and method for limiting the charging current at a capacitor: A device limits a capacitance charging current. The device has a differentiating device that is coupled in parallel with a capacitance that is to be charged at a charging node. A switching device is connected to an output of the differentiating device. The switching device prevents a charging current—which is... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20080042730 - Internal voltage generating circuit and method for generating internal voltage using the same: An internal voltage generating circuit includes: a voltage supplying unit configured to selectively supply an external power supply voltage or a pumping voltage having a voltage level higher than the external power supply voltage, and an internal voltage generating unit configured to use the voltage supplied from the voltage supplying... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080042729 - Mode transition control method and circuit for a charge pump: A mode transition control method and circuit switch a charge pump to an operating mode with lower conversion ratio at a regular interval when the input voltage of the charge pump is detected close to a mode transition point, so as to prevent from misjudgment on the mode transition of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080042728 - Step-up voltage generator for semiconductor memory and method for controlling the same: A step-up voltage generator for a semiconductor memory is provided which includes a level detection unit, a bank-active command generator, and an oscillation signal generator. The level detection unit compares a reference voltage with a division voltage of a pumping voltage, detects a level of the pumping voltage according to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080042731 - High efficiency bi-directional charge pump circuit: A charge pump circuit having a first voltage node acting as an input when the charge pump circuit boosts negative voltages, and acting as an output when the charge pump circuit boosts positive voltages and a second voltage node acting as an input when the charge pump circuit boosts positive... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080042732 - Constant ratio current source: A constant ratio current source comprises a first current branch which includes a first transistor that conducts a current I1 from a first current input to a first node and a resistor R1 connected between the first node and a circuit common point, and a second current branch which includes... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080042733 - High-voltage pump switching circuit including ramp and discharge: A regulator for regulating the output from a high-voltage pump, Vpump, to provide a regulated load voltage, Vpp, to a load in MOSFET integrated circuits. The regulator includes a MOSFET switch which when enabled in a first state connects Vpp to the integrated circuit voltage level, Vcc, and which when... Agent: David E. Lovejoy, Reg. No. 22,748

20080042735 - Signal-level detecting apparatus, optical receiver, and signal-level detecting method: An amplifying unit performs a differential amplification with a highest level or a lowest level of an input signal and a previous input signal. A semiconductor element transfers a signal level output from the amplifying unit from a second terminal to a third terminal by using a current conducted from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080042734 - Voltage-controlled current source and frequency scanner using the same: A voltage-controlled current source and a frequency scanner using the same are provided. The voltage-controlled current source includes an impedance circuit, an amplifier, a transistor, and a current mirror. A first terminal of the impedance circuit is coupled to a common voltage. A first terminal of the amplifier is coupled... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080042737 - Band-gap reference voltage generator: A band-gap reference voltage generator includes a first reference current generator, a second reference current generator, and a reference voltage generator. The first reference current generator includes: a driver generating a first reference current in response to a first voltage signal generated by comparison of the unique voltage and the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080042736 - Temperature dependent internal voltage generator: A band-gap reference voltage generation device includes: a voltage generation unit for generating a first voltage and a second voltage, wherein the first voltage has a constant voltage level regardless of temperature variation, the second voltage has a positive (+) characteristic or a negative (+) characteristic according to temperature variation;... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080042738 - Internal voltage generator for use in semiconductor device: An internal voltage generator is used in a semiconductor device. The generator includes a core voltage end, a first reference voltage generator for generating a first reference voltage, a second reference voltage generator having a test/option processor for generating a second reference voltage having a voltage level higher than that... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080042739 - Bias generator with feedback control: A bias generator for initializing a voltage controlled delay line by providing the voltage controlled delay line with a control signal having an initial voltage and monitoring the variable delay line for an output clock signal. The voltage of the control signal is varied from the initial voltage until an... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080042741 - Light emitting device and current mirror thereof: The current mirror of the invention comprises a first and a second transistor. Current through the first and second transistors are an input current and an output current, respectively. The ratio of the output current to the input current is constant. The first and second transistors have the same voltage... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042740 - Linear-in-decibel current generators: Linear-in-dB current generators having a maximum gain with least gain error. A first transistor is coupled between a first node and a first power voltage, and a first resistor is coupled between the first transistor and a second node. A second transistor is coupled between the second node and a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080042742 - Distortion nulling for single-ended high dynamic range rf amplifier: A wideband low noise amplifier (LNA) includes a correction circuit added to compensate for third order intermodulations. A version of the third order nonlinearities created in the main LNA is created in an auxiliary, low power scaled version of the LNA, phased appropriately using a current mirror, and subtracted from... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Office Of Joel Voelzke

20080036504 - Constant phase angle control for frequency agile power switching systems: Power switching systems often benefit from controlling the instant at which the power devices change state so as to minimize dissipation in these devices. Such systems often require fairly tight tolerances on reactive components and a relatively narrow frequency operating range to be certain these switching times occur as intended.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080036505 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: A semiconductor integrated circuit device reduces resources of an external memory and an amount of data of test patterns. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises: a terminal BSIN to input serial data from a boundary scan register circuit of the former stage, a terminal BSOUT to output the serial data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080036506 - Frequency switching method: A frequency switching method is used to make switching among a plurality of frequency signal sources each providing a specific frequency range covering multiple bands. The method includes steps of providing a target frequency data; selecting one of the frequency signal sources to output a first clock signal; generating a... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080036507 - Differential signal transmission and reception circuit capable of reducing power consumption: For dormant periods in which in data is not transmitted to a differential signal reception circuit, an amount of a constant current provided to output buffers of a differential signal transmission circuit is reduced. Consequently, power consumption in the differential signal transmission circuit and the differential signal reception circuit is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080036508 - Switching element, switching element drive method and fabrication method, reconfigurable logic integrated circuit, and memory element: The switching element of the present invention includes: an ion conduction layer (4) in which metal ions can move freely; a first electrode (1) that contacts the ion conduction layer (4); and a second electrode (2) that contacts the ion conduction layer (4), that is formed such that the ion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080036509 - Methods of reducing skew between multiphase signals and related phase correction circuits: Phase correction circuits and methods for reducing phase skew between multiphase clock signals and a semiconductor device including the circuit are provided. The semiconductor device includes a phase correction circuit and an output buffer. The phase correction circuit corrects phase skew between multiphase clock signals and generates skew-corrected clock signals.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080036510 - Signal generating apparatus capable of measuring trip point of power-up signal and method of measuring trip point of power-up signal using the same: A signal generating apparatus that is capable of accurately measuring a trip point of a power-up signal without installing a separate measuring instrument is described. An apparatus for generating a signal includes a power-up signal generating unit that generates a power-up signal using an external voltage and a measuring unit... Agent: Venable LLP

20080036511 - Line frequency synchronization: This invention relates to line frequency synchronisation for use in diagnostics for alternating current electrical circuits. The invention provides a method of synchronising measurement system frequency with an alternating current line frequency comprising the steps of: adjusting the frequency of the measurement system frequency using a frequency locked loop until... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20080036512 - Signal delay circuit and driver circuit, signal transmission module, and signal transmission system using signal delay circuit: A signal delay circuit includes: a first inverter circuit; a second inverter circuit connected to an output terminal of the first inverter; and a feedback circuit extending from an output terminal of the second inverter to its input terminal. A delay time of the first inverter circuit is adjusted by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080036513 - Pll circuit: To a frequency divider having a reset function, a second clock of a frequency N×Y times higher than that of a first clock is inputted. Upon receipt of a signal indicating that the stop of the input clock is detected by a start/stop detection circuit, the frequency divider having a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080036515 - Delay adjusting circuit and control method of the same: A delay adjusting circuit including a delay part in which delay elements of n+1 (n≧2) stages are connected to each other in series, a first phase comparator for detecting whether a first edge that is a transition edge of a signal of an n−1-th stage of the delay part from... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080036514 - Mutual-interpolating delay-locked loop for high-frequency multiphase clock generation: A delay-locked loop (DLL) circuit with mutual-interpolating architecture that provides multiple-phase clock generation is presented. Each delay-cell in the DLL circuit delay chain is effectively an interpolator that combines two input clock signals: one input clock signal is received from the output clock of previous stage in the delay chain,... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20080036516 - Apparatus and method for charge pump slew rate control: An apparatus and method for improving memory cell reliability is disclosed. The slew rate is reduced in an applied voltage signal used to program a memory cell when Fowler-Nordheim (FN) tunneling injection is detected. The applied programming signal is provided by a charge pump that is preferably a regulated charge... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080036517 - Duty cycle correction circuit: A duty cycle correction circuit comprises a tuned circuit, a delay circuit and a phase-locked loop; wherein the tuned circuit receives an input clock, generates a periodic pulse according to the input clock, tunes the periodic pulse depending on a reference voltage, and outputs an output clock; a delay circuit... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080036518 - Apparatus and method of generating reference clock for dll circuit: An apparatus for generating a reference clock for a DLL circuit includes a buffering unit configured to buffer an external clock so as to generate a first reference clock and a second reference clock, and to invert the second reference clock so as to generate a negative second reference clock.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080036519 - 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 reference voltage supplied by the reference voltage generator, and supplies the bulk bias voltage to the reference voltage generator to control... Agent: Venable LLP

20080036521 - Interface circuit: An interface circuit is provided for use in a semiconductor device which transmits and receives a signal to and from the outside. The interface circuit includes a signal input/output terminal for receiving a signal from the outside in a signal input mode and a signal from the semiconductor device in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080036522 - Level-shifting circuits and methods of level shifting: A level-shifting circuit includes a level shifter and a middle voltage generating unit. The level shifter generates a middle voltage signal by level-shifting a first signal. The middle voltage signal swings between a level of a ground voltage and a level of a middle voltage, and the first signal swings... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080036520 - Power circuit, display device and mobile terminal: A power circuit includes: a frequency dividing circuit dividing frequency of a first signal to which level shift processing has been applied; a boosting circuit boosting voltage according to an output signal from the frequency dividing circuit or a second signal having lower frequency than that of the first signal... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080036523 - Current mode multiplier based on square root voltage-current relationship of mos transistor: A current mode multiplier circuit is provided based on the square root; voltage-current relationship of an MOS transistor. The circuit includes first, second and third MOS transistors with a common aspect ratio, and first and second current sources that respectively provide first and second input currents that represent first and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080036524 - Apparatus and method for compensating change in a temperature associated with a host device: An apparatus for compensating temperature changes in a temperature associated with a compensated device includes: (a) An input circuit having a first input locus for receiving a temperature-indicating signal and a second input locus for receiving a sign-indicating signal. The temperature-indicating signal indicates magnitude of the temperature. The sign-indicating signal... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080036525 - Temperature detecting circuit: A temperature detecting circuit includes a temperature detecting unit that generates a first temperature detecting signal according to a temperature. A temperature information control unit generates a control signal by the first temperature detecting signal, supplies the control signal to the temperature detecting unit, and generates a second temperature detecting... Agent: Venable LLP

20080036526 - Control circuit for multi-phase converter: A control circuit for use in controlling a phase of a multi-phase voltage converter in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a driver operable to provide a first control signal to a high side switch of a half-bridge of the phase and a second control signal to... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080036527 - Electrical fuse device: The invention provides an electrical fuse device comprising: a plurality of fuse cores, each having an electrical fuse element and a switching element serially connected to the electrical fuse element; a program control circuit generating a program shift signal by sequentially shifting a program control transmission signal in synchronization with... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080036528 - Charge pump circuit: A charge pump circuit including a plurality of controlled charge pumps (CPs), a plurality of uncontrolled CPs, a plurality of control units, and an output unit is provided. Each controlled CP determines whether to provide charges to a node by a control signal, and each uncontrolled CP constantly provides charges... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080036529 - Power supply circuit, display driver, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A power supply circuit which boosts a given voltage to generate one or more power supply voltages includes a charge-pump control circuit including switching elements for generating a boost voltage by a charge-pump operation using charge stored in a flying capacitor, a soft-start circuit which prevents a rush current toward... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036530 - Low power reference voltage circuit: A circuit for providing a reference voltage includes a bandgap reference circuit, the bandgap reference circuit providing a first reference voltage and a data storage. The data storage stores a digital value corresponding to the first reference voltage. A digital to analog converter is coupled to the data storage for... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080036531 - Regulated charge pump circuit and application in power stages employing normally on power switching devices: A charge pump circuit employs an oscillator powered by a variable positive supply voltage, storage and switching circuitry controlled by an oscillator signal from the oscillator, and a regulator that maintains a negative supply voltage generated by the storage and switching circuitry at a target value through control of the... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080030237 - Signal-processing circuit, in particular operating as a rectifier and peak detector, with active elements and differential inputs: A signal-processing circuit has a first and a second input, which receive a first and a second differential signal, a third input, which receives a common-mode signal, the first and second differential signals having an equal and substantially opposite trend with respect to the common-mode signal, and a first output... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080030238 - Sense amplifier-based flip-flop and method thereof: A sense amplifier based flip flop and method thereof are provided. The example sense amplifier-based flip-flop may include a first current passing unit receiving a first clock signal with a first delay, the first current passing unit configured to pass current from a first node to a ground terminal if... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080030235 - Clock-generator architecture for a programmable-logic-based system on a chip: A programmable system-on-a-chip integrated circuit device comprises at least one of a crystal oscillator circuit, an RC oscillator circuit, and an external oscillator input. A clock conditioning circuit is selectively coupleable to one of the programmable logic block, the crystal oscillator circuit, the RC oscillator circuit, and the external oscillator... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20080030236 - Multitask circuit comprising resonant element for supplying address and data: Multitask circuit (R) comprising resonant element for supplying address and data for address and value registering inputs of digital and analogue devices from a frequency specific source in which a resonator block (1) comprising at least one resonant element, a rectifier block (2), a capacitor block (3), an amplifier (F),... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20080030239 - Self-adjusting hold-off trigger: A self-adjusting hold-off trigger circuit and method detects a threshold crossing between consecutive samples of a digitized input signal as edge events, identifies the crossing as a qualified trigger event if the crossing is in a desired direction based upon trigger criteria, and provides a trigger output when the qualified... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080030241 - Differential driver and method capable of controlling slew rate: A differential driver includes first and second pull-up resistors respectively connected to first and second output terminals, a plurality of differential-input transistor pairs connected each to the first and second output terminals, current sources connected each to the differential-input transistor pairs, and a slew rate controller adapted to generate differential... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080030240 - Low systematic offset, temperature independent voltage buffering: A voltage buffer circuit is comprised of a differential input stage, a bias current generator, a first current mirror, and a second current mirror. The differential input stage has a non-inverting input coupled with an input voltage, and the input voltage is buffered to an output of the input stage... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080030242 - Differential signaling system and method of controlling skew between signal lines thereof: The present invention provides a differential signaling system comprising: a driver circuit that transmits a differential signal; a receiver circuit that receives the differential signal; and two or more signal lines used for the differential signal to be transmitted by the driver circuit and received by the receiver circuit, wherein... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080030243 - Frequency generator apparatus and control circuit thereof: A frequency generator apparatus and a control circuit thereof are provided. The frequency generator apparatus comprises the control circuit and a frequency generator, wherein the control circuit contains an electric fuse (efuse). The control circuit outputs an enabling signal according to the state of the efuse. The frequency generator is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080030244 - Quadrature frequency doubler with adjustable phase offset: The present invention provides an improved frequency doubling circuit, with adjustable phase offset. Briefly, rather than using the traditional equations cos (2ωt)=cos 2(ωt)−sin 2(ωt) and sin(2ωt)=2 sin(ωt)cos(ωt), the quadrature output signals are generated utilizing mixers, each having two input signals, separated in phase by the same offset. This minimizes the... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20080030245 - System-wide reset of multiple electronic devices: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for implementing a system-wide reset of multiple devices. The techniques ensure that when any one of the devices of the system is reset, all the devices are reset. For example, a system includes a master reset device and a plurality of slave reset devices... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080030246 - Circuits for locally generating non-integral divided clocks with centralized state machines: Circuitry for locally generating a ratio clock on a chip. The circuitry includes circuitry for generating a global clock signal having a global clock cycle. A state machine includes a counter going through a complete cycle in response to a non-integer number of global clock cycles, the state machine generating... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080030247 - Delay locked loop circuit and method: A delay locked loop includes initialization circuitry that ensures that a DLL is initialized to an operating point that is not to close to either end of a delay vs. control voltage characteristic. The initialization circuitry forces the DLL to initially search for a lock point starting from an initial... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080030248 - Delay locked loop having small jitter and jitter reducing method thereof: A delay locked loop includes an auxiliary phase shifter for controlling a phase blending point after the delay locked loop is initially locked, thereby reducing jitter. A control circuit directs a phase blender to detect the point where two delayed signals are phase-blended, and directs the auxiliary phase shifter to... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080030249 - Measure control delay and method having latching circuit integral with delay circuit: A measure control delay includes a measuring delay line and a signal generating delay line, each of which include a plurality of series-connected delay units. A digital signal is applied to an initial delay unit in the measuring delay line and it sequentially propagates through the delay units until a... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080030250 - Flip-flop circuit: A pair of transistors receive the input of signals of input data and the inverted input data. An activation circuit, which is provided between the pair of transistors and fixed potential, activates the pair of transistors in a conduction state. A clock control circuit receives a clock signal and sets... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080030251 - Methods and apparatus for improved phase switching and linearity in an analog phase interpolator: Methods and apparatus are provided for improving phase switching and linearity in an analog phase interpolator. A phase interpolator in accordance with the present invention comprises (i) a plurality of tail current sources that are activated for substantially all times when the phase interpolator is operational; (ii) at least two... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080030252 - High speed clock distribution transmission line network: The invention is directed to a method for clock distribution and VLSI circuits include a clock distribution network. In a method of the invention, a transmission lines are patterned as to connect a clock tree and a periodic waveform clock, preferably a sine waveform, is used to control clock skew,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080030253 - Level shifter circuit: A level shifter circuit includes: K level shifter units for receiving K input signals having a first voltage level range and outputting K output signals having a second voltage level range, wherein the second voltage level range is greater than the first voltage level range. Each level shifter unit is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080030254 - Design structure to eliminate step response power supply perturbation: A design structure for eliminating step response power supply perturbation during voltage island power-up/power-down on an integrated circuit is disclosed. An IC chip communicates with a primary power supply and includes at least one voltage island. A primary header on the voltage island of the chip communicates with the primary... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080030255 - Switch circuit and switch device: A switch circuit comprising a plural of switch elements and a control circuit operative to simultaneously shut off all of the switch elements. When forming a switch device by the combination of plural switch circuits, no other additional switches connected in series in the subsequent stage is required for shutting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080030257 - Driver circuit for a semiconductor power switching element: An apparatus and method for driving a semiconductor switching element. The apparatus is configured to monitor at least one state variable of the semiconductor switching element, to switch off the semiconductor switching element in at least two stages, and to receive both a first parameter and a second parameter, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client 007052

20080030256 - Switching apparatus and method for detecting an operating state: A switching apparatus and method for detecting an operating state is disclosed. One embodiment has a MOS transistor, a replica of the MOS transistor and an evaluation arrangement and detects the start of switching of the MOS transistor by comparing the gate-source voltages of the transistors.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080030258 - Semiconductor integrated circuit outputting detection signal based on detection result of a detecting device and electronic device including the same: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first external terminal for receiving a voltage converted by a resistance portion from a current varying in response to an extrinsic factor, a second external terminal for externally outputting the voltage received at the first external terminal as a detection signal, a control circuit... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080030259 - Dual mode single temperature trimming: In a system for performing a dual mode single temperature trim upon an electronic device to remove combined mismatch and process variation errors, a dynamic element matching control is configured for enabling dynamic element matching of components of the electronic device. A process trim module is configured for performing a... Agent: Murabito,hao & Barnes, LLP

20080030260 - Design structure for improving sensing margin of electrically programmable fuses: A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process includes an apparatus for sensing the state of a programmable resistive memory element device, the apparatus further including a latch device coupled to a fuse node and a reference node, the fuse node included within a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080030261 - Charge pump circuit: A charge pump circuit (1) includes first and second rectifier elements (10 and 11) connected in series between input and output terminals (7 and 9), provides a predetermined voltage from the output terminal (9) by passing charges successively through the rectifier elements (10 and 11) and accumulating the charges in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080030262 - Circuit arrangement and method for generating a square wave signal: A circuit for generating a square wave signal (UN2) comprising a DC voltage source (UG), a driver stage (TS), which alternately connects a control node (SK) to ground (GND) or the DC voltage (UG), a diode (D1) and a first capacitor (C1), which are coupled in series between a first... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080030263 - Controller for oring field effect transistor: An ORing element for use in a power supply and/or power system. The ORing element may include a field effect transistor (FET), a first bi-polar transistor and a second bi-polar transistor. The FET may be electrically connected between an input and an output. The first bipolar transistor may have an... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP