Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems inventions 04/08

20080094107 - Signal magnitude comparison apparatus and methods: Signal magnitude comparison apparatus and methods are disclosed. A first input circuit receives a differential input signal and provides a first output signal based on a magnitude of the differential input signal. A second input circuit is operatively coupled to the first input circuit and is operable to receive a... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080094108 - Glitchless clock multiplexer controlled by an asynchronous select signal: A glitchless clock multiplexer controlled by an asynchronous select signal for use in GPS receivers is disclosed. A device in accordance with the present invention comprises a device for producing a clock signal, the clock signal being selected from a plurality of asynchronous frequency sources. A device in accordance with... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080094109 - Wide-range multi-phase clock generator: A wide-range multi-phase clock generator having a first clock generating circuit, a frequency divider circuit, and a plurality of multiplexers. The first clock generating circuit generates a plurality of first clock signals, each having a first frequency and a respective one of a plurality of different phase angles. The frequency... Agent: Shemwell Gregory & Courtney LLP

20080094110 - Transconductor circuits: The invention relates to transconductor circuits, particularly but not exclusively to a single-ended transconductor circuit (50), balanced transconductor circuits and a filter suitable for use in a wireless transceiver. The single-ended transconductor (50) comprises an inverter (51) having an input (54) and an output (55). A resistive element (58) is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094111 - Drive circuit for insulated gate device: A drive circuit for an insulated gate device includes a constant current source generating a constant current, and a switching circuit, wherein a gate of the insulated gate device is connected to a power supply potential side via the constant current source at the time of turn-on and to a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080094112 - Semiconductor integrated circuit controlling output impedance and slew rate: A semiconductor integrated circuit according to the invention has a plurality of output transistors connected to an output terminal through which output data is outputted, and an impedance control circuit and a slew rate control circuit. The impedance control circuit generates control signals specifying output transistors to be turned on... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080094113 - Fraction-n frequency divider and method thereof: A fraction-N frequency divider includes a multi-phase clock generator, a first phase selector, a second phase selector, a glitch-free multiplexer, a control circuit, and a counter. The multi-phase clock generator is used for generating a plurality of clock signals with different phases. The first phase selector selects one of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094114 - Controller including a sawtooth generator and method of operating the same: A sawtooth generator adapted to produce a sawtooth voltage, a method of operating the same, and a power converter employing the sawtooth generator and method. In one embodiment, the sawtooth generator includes a current source, coupled to a clock with a clock frequency, configured to produce a reference current proportional... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080094115 - Dll circuit: A DLL circuit has a rise delay adjustment circuit and a fall delay adjustment circuit. The fall delay adjustment circuit is supplied with a clock adjusted on a rise side in the rise delay adjustment circuit. Since the clock supplied to the fall delay adjustment circuit has already been adjusted... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080094116 - Clock generating circuit with multiple modes of operation: A clock generating circuit includes a phase comparison circuit that generates a delay control signal corresponding to the relative phases of an output clock signal and a reference clock signal. A voltage controlled delay circuit generates the delayed clock signal by inverting a signal applied to its input and delaying... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080094117 - Apparatus and method for generating a clock signal: A apparatus and method are disclosed for generating one or more clock signals. A clock signal is generated based on pattern signals and a reference clock signal. When the reference clock signal transitions high, the state of a first pattern signal is output, and when the reference clock signal transitions... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20080094118 - Output interfacing device compensated in load and corresponding electronic circuit: An output interfacing device is provided, which receives at its input an input signal and provides at its output, an output signal to an external load. The output interfacing device invertes the effect of the capacitance of the external load on the slew rate of the output signal.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080094119 - Filter circuit: The present invention provides a filter circuit which can eliminate single noise effectively and is relatively simple in circuit configuration. First and second absolute values of differences between one-clock-preceding output data and both of one-clock-preceding input data and two-clock-preceding input data are respectively calculated by subtracters. When the first absolute... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080094120 - Driving circuit for an emitter-switching configuration: An embodiment of the invention relates to a driving circuit for an emitter-switching configuration of transistors having at least one first and one second control terminal connected to the driving circuit to form a controlled emitter-switching device having in turn respective collector, source and gate terminals. Advantageously the driving circuit... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080094121 - Inverter driving circuit and inverter control circuit: A phase adjusting circuit is provided that is capable of adjusting a delay time at a rise or fall of a driving signal for driving an inverter. A phase adjusting circuit is provided upstream of a driver circuit, and an output from a hysteresis comparator is input to the driver... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080094122 - Multiplexer circuit with combined level shifting and delay control functions: A digitally controlled circuit is arranged to provide the combined functions of level shifting, multiplexing, and delay control functions. The circuit is compact, and uses lower power and lower overall noise susceptibility over other solutions. A programmable bias current is arranged to adjust the delay through the circuit. The bias... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080094123 - Bias-control for optical mach-zehnder modulators with voltage-induced optical absorption: A bias-control circuit that provides operating point control for a Mach-Zehnder modulator experiencing optical absorption at their interferometric arms. The bias control circuit generates compensation signals that are used to counter the thermally induced index shifts as a result of absorption. In addition, an operating point with desirable transmitter characteristics... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080094124 - Mosfet device and related method of operation: The present invention provides for a MOSFET device (10) having a body diode structure (22) and provided with biasing means arranged to provide a bias voltage selectively applied to the gate of the MOSFET (12) during reverse recovery of the body diode structure (22) so as to reduce reverse recovery... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080094125 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device and semiconductor device including plurality of semiconductor circuits: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first semiconductor circuit, a second semiconductor circuit, a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The first and second semiconductor circuits are formed on a semiconductor substrate and operate using a voltage provided by an external power supply circuit as a power... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080094126 - Buffer circuit: The present invention provides a buffer circuit meeting both of low power consumption requirement and an improvement in slew rate characteristics which are in a relation of trade off. Voltage difference detection circuits are provided for detecting a voltage difference between the input signal at rising and at trailing and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080094127 - Measuring and controlling current consumption and output current of charge pumps: Measuring and controlling current consumption and output current of a charge pump by measuring a first current coming into the charge pump; and measuring a second current coming into a driver for at least one of the one or more stages of the charge pump. A control loop may one... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080094129 - Voltage-booster power supply circuit: A voltage-booster power supply circuit comprises a semiconductor IC and an external circuitry. The semiconductor IC has: first and second charge pump circuits each of which boosts a voltage by using a capacitor in response to a control signal; and a selection circuit. In a first mode, the selection circuit... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080094128 - Charge pump circuit driver circuit having a plurality of oscillators: In a driver circuit for a charge pump circuit capable of switching a step-up ratio, first and second oscillators oscillating at different frequencies are provided. The charge pump circuit is controlled by a control unit. The first oscillator outputs a first periodic signal required for the control unit to control... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094130 - Supply-independent biasing circuit: A supply-independent biasing circuit applied to a bandgap reference circuit or a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current generating circuit. The bandgap reference circuit or the PTAT current generating circuit includes a mirroring circuit, an operation amplifier, and an input circuit. The mirroring circuit including a plurality of first type... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080094131 - Bias circuits: A bias circuit for use in bandgap voltage reference circuits and temperature sensors comprises a pair of transistors (Q, Q2), the first of which (Q1) is arranged to be biased at an emitter current lbias, and the second of which (Q2) is arranged to be biased at an emitter current... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080094132 - Semiconductor intergrated circuit: Between an analog circuit area 120 which includes circuits whose characteristics are degraded according to the level of noise contained in an input signal and a digital circuit area 130 which includes circuits that produce noise at such a level that the characteristics of the circuits in the analog circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080094133 - Poly-phase filter: Provided is a poly-phase filter capable of removing an image frequency of a terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) receiver in a low intermediate frequency (IF) structure applied to a mobile communication terminal and a receiver having the poly-phase filter. The poly-phase filter includes: a calibration control block for generating first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094134 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: A semiconductor integrated circuit device provided with an input terminal supplied with a reference frequency signal from outside of the device, a bandpass filter circuit coupled to the input terminal and outputting an internal reference frequency signal and a PLL circuit coupled to the bandpass filter circuit to receive the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080088346 - Method and apparatus for voltage to current conversion: A voltage to current converter that can provide multiple current sources at differing voltage levels using a single inductor, without the need to provide a current sense element, pass element, and wiring to provide feedback for load current regulation. A switching inductor current is regulated such that the average current... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080088347 - Amplitude compensation circuit with programmable buffers: According to one exemplary embodiment, an amplitude compensation circuit includes a first composite programmable buffer for receiving a first input signal with a first input amplitude. The amplitude compensation circuit further includes a second composite programmable buffer for receiving a second input signal with a second input amplitude. The amplitude... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080088348 - Capacitive load driving device: A capacitive load driving device applies a multi-level voltage to a capacitive load to drive the capacitive load. In the capacitive load driving device, a voltage control signal generator unit generates a voltage control signal. A voltage amplifier unit amplifies a voltage of the voltage control signal. A current amplifier... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080088349 - Delay locked loop circuit in semiconductor device and its control method: A delay locked loop (DLL) device includes a first and a second input buffers for receiving an external clock, a multiplexer for selectively outputting a first and a second internal clocks based on a most significant bit (MSB) signal, a delay means for delaying the first and the second internal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080088350 - Duty detector and duty detection/correction circuit including the same and method thereof: A duty detector may include a first amplifier and/or an integrator. The first amplifier may be configured to receive a first signal and a complementary first signal, differential-amplify the first signal and the complementary first signal, and/or output the differential-amplified first signal to an output terminal and the differential-amplified complementary... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080088351 - Phase shifting circuit: Disclosed is a phase shifting circuit that includes a PLL loop in which a reference frequency received is branched into first and second signals. The first signal becomes one input to a phase comparator and the second signal becomes another input to the phase comparator after being shifted in phase... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080088352 - Level shift circuit: A level shift circuit for conversion of a low-voltage input signal into a high-voltage output signal is provided. The level shift circuit includes: two pairs of transistors, a control unit, and a charge-sharing unit. The transistors in one of the pairs are both turned on in response to the input... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080088353 - Level shifter circuit with capacitive coupling: A level shifter circuit uses capacitive coupling to level shift a signal. The level shifter circuit has a capacitor, an input switch coupled to a first input and a first terminal of the capacitor, a second switch coupled to a second input and the first terminal of the capacitor, and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080088354 - Ac-coupled differential drive circuit for opto-electronic modulators: An AC-coupled differential drive circuit for an optical modulator is utilized, where a common “node” is defined between top (or bottom) plates of the modulator arms themselves (the “arms” of a modulator taking the form of MOS capacitors). A low pass filter is disposed between the differential driver output and... Agent: Wendy W. Koba

20080088355 - Integrated circuit including a semiconductor device: An integrated circuit including a semiconductor device is disclosed. One embodiment provides a load current component, having a multiplicity of trenches in a cell array. A sensor component is integrated into the cell array of the load current component and has a sensor cell array, the area of which is... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080088356 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: A semiconductor integrated circuit device 100A includes: an integrated circuit body 106A having a plurality of MOSFETs on a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of elements 102A to be measured placed on the same substrate as the plurality of MOSFETs; a monitor circuit 105A for selecting an element to be measured... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080088357 - 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 or a saturated region will be free from temperature dependence and process variation dependence, thereby enhancing the stable operation. The semiconductor... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080088358 - Systems and methods for minimizing static leakage of an integrated circuit: A leakage manager system for adequately minimizing static leakage of an integrated circuit is disclosed. The leakage manager system includes a generator configured to generate a control signal to be applied to a sleep transistor. A monitor is configured to determine whether to adjust the control signal to adequately minimize... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080088359 - Eased gate voltage restriction via body-bias voltage governor: An arrangement, to ease restriction upon gate voltage (Vgg) magnitudes for a dynamic threshold MOS (DTMOS) transistor, may include: an MOS transistor including a gate and a body; and a body-bias-voltage (Vbb) governor (Vbb-governor) circuit to provide a governed version of Vgg of the MOS transistor to the body of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080088360 - Power supply apparatus of semiconductor integrated circuit: A power supply apparatus of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a power control device that detects a level of power supplied from the outside and outputs a control signal as information on the detected level, and a power supply device that controls an internal resistance component in response to an... Agent: Venable LLP

20080088361 - Reference voltage generating circuit: Disclosed is a reference voltage generating circuit including first to third current-to-voltage converter circuits, a control circuit for exercising control so that the terminal voltage of the first current-to-voltage converter circuit is made equal to that of the second current-to-voltage converter circuit, and current mirror circuits for driving the first... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080088362 - Circuit for supplying a voltage in a memory device: A circuit for supplying an operation voltage in a memory device includes a voltage supplying section that supplies a constant voltage to an output section through a first path and constantly discharges a portion of the supplied voltage through a second path. A third path section provides the supplied voltage... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080088363 - Noise reduction circuits: A noise reduction circuit for AC power, AC power neutral lines, and DC power. In a first embodiment for use with AC power, the invention operates by subtracting the error voltage from an incoming AC signal boosted in voltage by a small boost transformer. In a second embodiment, the present... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20080088364 - Method for calibrating a filter, a calibrator and system including the same: An example embodiment provides a method for calibrating an active RC filter and RC time constant calibrator for an active RC filter. The RC time contact calibrator includes a RC timer and a calibration code generator. The RC timer outputs a holding signal based on a comparison of a first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080088365 - Semiconductor device and method for decreasing noise of output driver: In a semiconductor device and method for decreasing noise of an output driver block, the semiconductor device monitors differentially amplified voltages output from an output driver block and controls a voltage level at a cross-over point between the differentially amplified voltages so that noise that may be caused by reactance... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080084232 - Negative voltage detector: A negative voltage detector includes a first n-channel transistor having a coupled gate node and drain node, a second n-channel transistor having a gate coupled to the gate of the first n-channel transistor, a first current source coupled to a drain of the first n-channel transistor, a second current source... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080084233 - Frequency regulator having lock detector and frequency regulating method: A frequency regulator including a phase frequency detector and a lock detection unit. The phase frequency detector receives a reference signal and a feedback signal, compares a phase of the reference signal and a phase of the feedback signal, and outputs a first control signal and a second control signal... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080084234 - Method and apparatus for pulse width modulation: An apparatus and method of providing a pulse width modulated signal that is responsive to a current are disclosed. A circuit according to aspects of the present invention includes a capacitor to convert a first current to a first voltage on the capacitor during a first time duration and to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080084235 - Dynamic scannable latch and method of operation: A latch has a first mode in which the latch functions as a dynamic latch and a second mode in which the latch functions as a static latch. The latch has a feedback circuit that in turn has two parallel switchable loads. The first load is responsive to a data... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080084236 - Servo loop circuit for continuous time dc offset cancellation: A servo loop circuit suitable for DC offset cancellation in a direct conversion receiver. The servo loop in accordance with the present invention has a low pass filtering device with a smoothly and continuously changed corner frequency, so that the response time of the low pass filtering device can be... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080084238 - Latch-type level shift circuit: A latch-type level shift circuit comprises a first latch circuit and a second latch circuit. The first latch circuit is powered by an independent reference voltage and receives a differential pair of low voltage signals to generate a differential pair of intermediate signals. The second latch circuit is powered by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084237 - Method for implementing level shifter circuits and low power level shifter circuits for integrated circuits: A low power level shifter circuit includes an input inverter operating in a domain of a first voltage supply. The input inverter receives an input signal and provides a first inverted signal. An output inverter operating in a domain of a second voltage supply coupled to the input inverter and... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept 917

20080084239 - Regulated charge pump circuit: A charge pump voltage regulator for converting an input voltage to an output voltage. The regulator includes an input terminal, an output terminal and a common terminal, with the input voltage being received across the input terminal and the common terminal, and the output voltage being produced across the output... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080084240 - Apparatus and method for providing a temperature compensated reference current: An apparatus and method for providing a temperature compensated reference current in an electronic device is disclosed. The temperature compensated reference current is compensated for temperature and other circuit variations. The reference current is provided by an improved reference current generator and may be used in a memory device or... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080084241 - Load driving device and electrical device using the same: A load driving device according to the present invention includes: a first current generation section generating a first current in accordance with a driving current of a load; a second current generation section generating a predetermined second current; an integration section charging and discharging a capacitor in accordance with magnitude... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080084242 - Filter device: A filter device is disclosed that includes a switched capacitor circuit.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080084243 - Semiconductor device, step-down chopper regulator, and electronic equipment: A bootstrap circuit for a step-down chopper regulator IC includes an LDMOS transistor having a gate and a source connected to output terminals of a constant voltage circuit and a drain connected to a leader terminal of a boot voltage, and a bootstrap control circuit that performs control of turning... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079463 - System and method for monitoring clock signal in an integrated circuit: A clock monitor system for monitoring an input clock signal in an integrated circuit (IC) includes a clock failure detection circuit and a delay circuit. The clock failure detection circuit generates a control signal based on the input clock signal. The delay circuit is connected to the clock failure detection... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080079464 - Low power three-level detector: A three-level detector circuit may comprise an input node and a pair of diode-connected transistors having respective drain terminals coupled to the input node. The pair of diode-connected transistors may be configured to set a voltage if the input voltage at the input node corresponds to an open input. The... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080079465 - Clock signal generator for usb device: A clock signal generator for a USB device. The clock signal generator includes a control circuit and a clock generator that does not need to include a crystal oscillator. The control circuit counts the cycle of the clock signal during the period between two sync signals successively inputted, and generates... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079466 - Differential current driver and data transmission method: A differential current driver has a current source that supplies current selectively to two output terminals according to data to be transmitted. A comparison circuit compares the current output by the current source with a reference value and generates a control signal. Responding to the control signal, a current adjustment... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080079467 - Power-on reset circuits: Power-on reset circuits are disclosed. A first reset circuit includes a first comparator to output a system reset signal, and a second reset circuit outputs a first reset signal to control operations of the first comparator, such that the first reset circuit outputs the system reset signal when a first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080079468 - Layout method for semiconductor integrated circuit: A layout method for a semiconductor integrated circuit according to the present invention is a layout method for a semiconductor integrated circuit including plural delay adjustment cells each of which adjusts a delay amount of a signal line. The layout method includes: placing the plural delay adjustment cells; adjusting delay... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080079470 - Semiconductor memory apparatus: A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a delay line configured to delay a reference clock, a first delay block configured to delay a feedback clock, a first phase comparator configured to compare the reference clock with an output of the first delay block, a second delay block configured to delay the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080079469 - Semiconductor memory device including delay-locked-loop control circuit and control method for effective current consumption management: A delay-locked-loop control circuit and a method of controlling a delay-locked-loop. When the delay-locked-loop is in an off-operation mode, such as a power-down mode, a self-refresh emulation mode, a self-refresh mode, and the like, the delay-locked-loop is updated with a predetermined period, thereby preventing a malfunction of the delay-locked-loop. The... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080079471 - Plateline driver with ramp rate control: A memory circuit and method to reduce wordline coupling is disclosed. The circuit includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows (702, 704, and 706) and columns (750, 752). A first conductor (710, 850 ) is coupled to a plurality of the rows (702, 704, and 706) of memory... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080079472 - Over driver control signal generator in semiconductor memory device: An over-driver control signal generating apparatus includes a pulse generating unit for generating a pulse signal having a pulse width corresponding to a desired over-driving interval in response to an over-driving signal; a supply voltage level detecting unit for detecting a voltage level of a supply voltage to generate a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080079473 - Semiconductor device: A second-conductivity-type transistor includes a source and drain formed by a second-conductivity-type diffusion layer formed on a first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer; and a gate formed on the first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer sandwiched between the second-conductivity-type diffusion layer through an insulating film A first-conductivity-type transistor includes a source and drain formed by a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080079474 - Signal conditioning circuit, a comparator including such a conditioning circuit and a successive approximation converter including such a circuit: A signal conditioning circuit for a latching comparator comprising first and second transistors arranged in a long tail pair, the long tail pair having an active load and configured to act as an integrator.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080079475 - Buffer circuit and control method thereof: A buffer circuit permitting an input signal to pass and prohibiting the input signal from passing corresponding to an output control signal, including an output switching device, a control portion having a first switching circuit controlling the output switching device into conductive state and a second switching circuit controlling the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080079476 - Gate load impedance networks for field effect transistor attenuators and mixers: An electrical circuit having improved linearity across a desired attenuation range includes a shunt circuit having a first field effect transistor (FET) adapted to couple a first signal-carrying electrical node of the electrical circuit to a ground node... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080079477 - Attenuators with progressive biased field-effect transistors: An electrical circuit having improved linearity includes a resistive circuit having a plurality of field effect transistors (FETs) and one or more gate biasing circuits.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080079478 - Controller, information processing apparatus, and communication control method: According to one embodiment, a controller which issues an instruction to initialize a first channel circuit provided in a first semiconductor module and a second channel circuit provided in a second semiconductor module, for communicating with the first channel circuit to the first semiconductor module and the second semiconductor module,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080079479 - Reduced time constant charge pump and method for charging a capacitive load: A charge pump and method converts an input voltage to a boosted voltage having a magnitude or polarity that is different from that of the input voltage. The input voltage is adjusted so that it has a relatively large magnitude until the boosted voltage approaches a target voltage. Therefore, the... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080079480 - Electronic device including boosting circuit: Provided is an electronic device including a boosting circuit whose circuit scale-up is minimized and efficiency is high even in the case of a low power supply voltage. An NMOS transistor, whose drain and gate are connected with an input terminal and whose source is connected with a gate terminal... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080079481 - Semiconductor device with current mirror circuit having two transistors of identical characteristics: A semiconductor device includes a current-mirror circuit including a first ring-shape gate, a second ring-shape gate, a first diffusion layer formed around the first ring-shape gate and the second ring-shape gate, a second diffusion layer formed inside the first ring-shape gate, a third diffusion layer formed inside the second ring-shape... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080079482 - Circuit arrangement and method of operating a circuit arrangement: Implementations are presented herein that relate to a circuit arrangement and a method of operating a circuit arrangement.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20080079483 - Circuit and device for processing digital data: A digital comparator includes a plurality of bit comparators. Each bit comparator generates a matching signal when the values between a first 1 bit data and a second 1 bit data are equal, while a mismatch signal when the values between the first 1 bit data and the second 1... Agent: Shoich Ono

20080079484 - Cross-point adjustment circuit: An amplifier stage or circuit for providing cross-point adjustment. The circuit may include a first input node configured to receive a first data signal and a second input node configured to receive a second data signal that is complementary of the first data signal. The circuit also includes a programmable... Agent: Workman Nydegger