Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems inventions 09/09

20090237116 - Receiving device: A receiving device for receiving a parallel-data including a clock and a plurality of data signals, the receiving device includes a plurality of data capturing circuits for receiving the data signal and the clock, respectively, the data capturing circuit capturing the data signal of the parallel-data on the bases of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090237115 - Single-phase 3-wire power line connection determination apparatus and connection determination method: In a method for determining whether multiple power outlets in a 3-wire power line connection are connected to a same outer wire (P1 or P2), the hot terminal of a first power outlet is identified and a first zero cross time of the hot terminal to which AC voltage is... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090237117 - Electrical physical layer activity detector: A low-current differential signal activity detector circuit may be configured to reject large common mode signals on differential input lines, while still detecting smaller differential signals applied to the same set of differential input lines. The detector circuit may comprise a translinear buffer that is driven at the buffer input... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090237118 - Zero input current-drain comparator with high accuracy trip point above supply voltage: A comparator circuit (300) has a first field effect transistor (FET) (307) with a supply voltage (301) connection and a diode connected FET (303) connected in series to form the first circuit leg of the comparator (300). A second diode connected FET (309) and a second FET (305) in series... Agent: Vedder Price P.C. Joseph T. Cygan

20090237119 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit has a sampling circuit which samples a potential of an input terminal, a dynamic comparator having a standby and a comparison mode which compares the potential of the input terminal and a reference potential, a switch for input signals connected between the input terminal and the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090237120 - Sample-and-hold circuit and ccd image sensor: Noise is more effectively reduced in one circuit. When sampling and holding is performed, switching of an ON resistance of MOS transistors (MSH1 and MSH2) that are for sampling is made in two or more stages according to speed of sampling. Here, a level adjustment circuit (20) is provided that... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090237121 - Correlated double sampling technique: A sampling circuit according to correlated double sampling to generate a difference of two voltages at a sampling node, with the second voltage representing the sum of an input signal and an offset, and the first voltage representing the offset alone. In an embodiment, a first capacitor is charged to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090237124 - Input circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit including the same: An input circuit, includes a first buffer circuit having an output signal terminal connected to an output; a capacitor having one end connected to an input signal terminal, and the other end connected to an input of the first buffer circuit; a first differential amplification circuit receiving a voltage of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090237122 - Line driver method and apparatus: According to one embodiment, a line driver circuit comprises a plurality of output stages each operable to produce an output signal and one or more pre-output stages operable to perform one or more common functions. The line driver circuit also comprises circuitry operable to selectively couple one or more of... Agent: Coats & Bennett/infineon Technologies

20090237125 - Power efficient push-pull buffer circuit, system, and method for high frequency signals: A buffer circuit includes a biasing circuit operable to generate first and second biasing signals. A capacitive network includes an input adapted to receive an input signal and the capacitive network is operable responsive to the input signal to generate first and second bootstrapped signals. A push-pull stage includes first... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090237123 - Semiconductor device, display panel and electronic equipment: The present invention provides a semiconductor device having a buffer circuit formed on an insulating substrate using single-channel type thin film transistors, wherein the buffer circuit has an output stage which including first and second thin film transistors connected in series between first and second power sources, and the output... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090237126 - Gate driver for switching power mosfet: A gate driver for switching power MOSFET including a MOS pair, a first conduction path, and a second conduction path is disclosed. The MOS pair electrically coupling gate of the power MOSFET, for controlling turning on or turning off the power MOSFET. The first conduction path electrically couples to gate... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090237127 - Optical-switch drive circuit and method thereof: An optical-switch drive circuit including a driver unit that generates, in response to a control signal, an on/off signal for driving a semiconductor optical amplifier gate switch, and a buffer unit having a high input impedance and connected between an output terminal outputting the on/off signal and the semiconductor optical... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090237128 - High frequency fractional-n divider: A divider can include a phase selection circuit that switches between a plurality of phase-separated clock signals in response to a fractional control signal to form a selected clock signal, the selected clock signal being utilized to generate a second clock signal; and a counter that receives the second clock... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090237129 - Semiconductor device and data processor: Synchronization between command and address signals commonly coupled to a plurality of memory devices to be operated in parallel and a clock signal coupled to the memory devices is achieved, while suppressing an increase in the clock wiring length. A semiconductor device has a data processing device mounted on a... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090237130 - Dual power-up signal generator: A dual power-up signal generator includes a power-up signal generator which generates a first power-up signal by using a first voltage signal obtained by detecting a level of a power supply voltage, and generates a second power-up signal by using a second voltage signal obtained by detecting the level of... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090237131 - Phase locked loop: A disclosed exemplary embodiment is a phase locked loop comprising a main charge pump driven by a phase error signal, and providing a first input to a loop filter. An auxiliary charge pump driven by the phase error signal feeds a second input of the loop filter. The loop filter... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090237132 - Phase-locked loop: A method of calibrating a PLL that includes forcing a control voltage input to a voltage controlled oscillator to be a reference voltage and setting a calibration divider coupled to receive an output clock signal from the voltage controlled oscillator such that the calibration divider utilizes one of a plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090237133 - Switching control circuit for multi-channels and multi-phases power converter operated at continuous current mode: A switching control circuit for multi-channels and multi-phases power converter according to the present invention comprises a master control circuit and a slave control circuit. The master control circuit generates a multiplier signal in response to an input voltage and an output voltage of the power converter, and generates a... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090237134 - Minimizing clock uncertainty on clock distribution networks using a multi-level de-skewing technique: Disclosed is a method of minimizing clock uncertainty using a multi-level de-skewing technique. The method includes the steps of obtaining a chip wherein at least a portion of the chip has a regular array of buffers on multiple levels, the buffers being driven by first drivers and the first drivers... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090237135 - Schmitt trigger having variable hysteresis and method therefor: A Schmitt trigger has a first inverter, a second inverter, a bias means, and a transistor. The inverter has an input and an output. The second inverter has an input coupled to the output of the first inverter and has an output. The bias means provides a first bias voltage... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090237136 - Pulse-based flip-flop having scan input signal: A flip-flop for transmitting a scan input and data for scan-testing a semiconductor circuit is provided. The flip-flop includes a first pulse signal generator which generates a first pulse signal in response to a scan enable signal and an inversed scan input signal. A second pulse signal generator generates a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090237137 - Flip-flop capable of operating at high-speed: A flip-flop is provided for minimizing an input-output (D-Q) delay. The flip-flop includes a pull-up unit that receives a signal from a first node, is connected between a power voltage source and a second node, and pulls-up a voltage of the second node. A pull-down unit receives the signal from... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090237138 - Pattern-dependent phase detector for clock recovery: A phase detector apparatus and method used for clock recovery from a data signal is provided. The phase detector provides phase correction signals to a clock signal generator, where the phase correction signals are only generated if a predetermined data sample pattern is observed. In particular, the predetermined data sample... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090237139 - Level shifter with reduced current consumption: A level shifter includes a level shifting unit for level-shifting an input signal at a first voltage level into a signal at a second voltage level, and an output controller for controlling the level shifting unit to maintain output at a predetermined logic level in response to a deep power... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090237140 - Voltage adder using current source: A voltage adder includes a first amplifier, a feedback resistor, and a control current source. The first amplifier includes a first input terminal to which a first voltage is input, a second input terminal connected to a feedback node, and an output terminal connected to an output node. The feedback... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090237141 - Timing control apparatus: The present invention discloses a timing control apparatus to control the on/off timing of the voltage sources. The timing control apparatus includes a plurality of delay circuits coupling with the voltage sources, a plurality of discharging circuits coupling with the delay circuits and a plurality of switches coupling with the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090237142 - Charge control circuit and charge controlling semiconductor integrated circuit: A charge control circuit equipped with a function of controlling a charging current to be supplied to a secondary battery, comprises: a detecting unit for monitoring a temperature; and a charge control unit for controlling so as to break the charging current when the monitored temperature rises to a temperature... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090237143 - Capacitance multiplier circuit: A capacitance multiplier circuit is configured to sense a current through a capacitor in an RC filter of the circuit and to multiply the current so as to achieve a capacitance multiplier effect without adding additional circuitry or requiring additional power. The circuit includes an RC filter, a first signal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090237144 - Chip for non-contact reader/writer having power-supply managment function: A semiconductor integrated-circuit device rectifies a received carrier wave, generates a first power-supply voltage based on the rectified output, and selects, as a power-supply voltage required for operation, one of the first power-supply voltage and a supplied second power-supply voltage. The first power-supply voltage is selected as the power-supply voltage... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090237145 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes an interface circuit that varies drive ability according to a control signal, and a control circuit that generates the control signal according to a range of an output voltage of the interface circuit. The interface circuit and the control circuit are provided on one chip.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090237148 - Charge pump circuit: There is provided a charge pump circuit which can prevent EMI noise of a frequency component independent of an operation clock frequency from occurring at the time of a change from a disable state to an enable state. The charge pump circuit includes a detection signal synchronization circuit which outputs... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090237146 - Dynamic voltage pump circuit and method of dynamically generating an output supply voltage thereof: A dynamic voltage pump circuit includes a first stage voltage pump, a second stage voltage pump, a limiter, and a comparator. The first stage voltage pump generates an intermediate supply voltage according to an input supply voltage and a pump signal. The second stage voltage pump generates an output supply... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090237149 - Voltage generating circuit: A charge pump provides high boosting efficiency with low power loss even with a heavy load. Plural charge transfer switches are connected in series forming two lines of charge transfer circuits operated by out-of-phase clock signals. Capacitors are connected to each of nodes in the charge transfer circuits. The charge... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090237147 - Vpp pumping circuit and vpp pumping method using the same: Disclosed are a high voltage pumping circuit and a VPP pumping method using the same. The high voltage pumping circuit includes an initializing unit for initializing a high voltage in response to a first enable signal, a first pump for pumping the high voltage in response to the first enable... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090237150 - Bandgap reference circuit with low operating voltage: A bandgap reference circuit comprising a current mirror, an operational amplifier, first and second BJT transistors is disclosed. The current mirror comprises a first input terminal, a second input terminal and at least one output terminal. The operational amplifier is coupled to the current mirror, wherein a first transistor and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090237151 - Temperature compensation circuit: A temperature compensation circuit performing temperature compensation of an analog reference voltage, includes: a first reference voltage generating circuit generating a first voltage of which a voltage level varies depending on a temperature; a second reference voltage generating circuit generating a second voltage of which a voltage level is independent... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090237152 - Internal voltage generator: An internal voltage generator includes a pull-up driver to pull-up drive a supply terminal of an internal voltage, a pull-down driver to pull-down drive the supply terminal of the internal voltage, a pull-up driving control unit to turn on the pull-up driver when a first feedback voltage corresponding to the... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20090237153 - High order continuous time filter: There is described a continuous time filter of at least a second (or higher) order, comprising one or more first order filter stages of a first type, the or each first order filter stage of the first type comprising a reactive component and an impedance dependent on the difference between... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing - Intellectual Property

20090237154 - Semiconductor device, liquid crystal display device and electronic equipment: The semiconductor device of the present invention has a circuit block in which m (m is an integer of not smaller than two) sets of first through m-th transistor columns where two or more transistors are connected in series, one terminal of the first through m-th transistor columns is connected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090230997 - Buffer circuit of semiconductor integrated apparatus: A buffer circuit of a semiconductor integrated apparatus includes a control block configured to output a result of comparing an input voltage level and an output voltage level as a control signal, and a buffering block configured to generate an output voltage having the substantially same level as an input... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090230996 - Driving strength control circuit and data output circuit in semiconductor device: A driving strength control circuit and a data output circuit for controlling driving strength of a data driver based on a user's demand are provided to make it possible to control the driving strength through a fuse cutting. The driving strength control circuit includes a fuse signal generating unit for... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090230998 - Driver circuit: A driver is provided. The driver generally comprises a current source, a current mirror, an amplifier and a presetting circuit. The current source is generally adapted to provide a reference current to the current mirror. The transistor is coupled to the current mirror. The amplifier has the first input that... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090230999 - Clock divider: There is provided a true single phase logic clock divider that is configured to selectively divide a clock signal by increments of two, three, four, or six. Because the true single phase logic clock divider is based on true single phase logic instead of static logic, the true single phase... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (micron Technology, Inc.)

20090231000 - Motherboard power on circuit: A motherboard power on circuit includes a switch connector, an impedance circuit, and a super I/O chip. The impedance circuit includes a first resistor, a second resistor, and a capacitor. A terminal of the first resistor is connected to the power on terminal of the switch connector. The other terminal... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090231001 - Signal recovery circuit: A signal recovery circuit capable of expanding the receive margin is provided. The signal recovery circuit comprises for example a clock generator unit CLK_GEN for generating the clock signals CLKa, CLKb, and CLKc, a window width control unit WW_CTL, and a clock data discriminator unit CD_JGE for generating a phase... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090231002 - Power supply noise rejection in pll or dll circuits: A phase controller can be part of a phase-locked loop (PLL) or a delay-locked loop (DLL). The phase controller includes first and second regulators. The first regulator provides power supply noise rejection while the second regulator provides phase and frequency lock.... Agent: Rambus Lerner, David, Et Al.

20090231003 - Voltage controlled oscillator and pll and filter using the same: A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) generating an output voltage. The VCO has a transconductance amplifier, a capacitor, a comparator, and a switch. The transconductance amplifier receives an input voltage and outputs an output current and has a control terminal receiving a control voltage. The capacitor is coupled between the output... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090231004 - Digital cycle controlled oscillator and method for controlling the same: An oscillator is disclosed. The oscillator comprises a cycle controller and a re-cycle delay line module. The cycle controller generates a cycle control signal. The re-cycle delay line module produces a periodic signal. The re-cycling delay line module performs a re-cycling operation. The number of re-cycling in the re-cycling operation... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090231005 - Phase controllable multichannel signal generator: A signal generator can control phase relationship between output signals of the channels without stopping clocks provided to the channels to enable the circuit operation fast. First and second channels 20 and 22 have signal generation blocks 10 and 12 that have clock phase shift circuits 26 and 28, memories,... Agent: William K. Bucher Tektronix, Inc.

20090231006 - Duty cycle correction circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus including the same: A duty cycle correction circuit includes a phase splitter configured to control a phase of a DLL clock signal to generate a rising clock signal and a falling clock signal, a clock delay unit configured to delay the rising clock signal and the falling clock signal in response to control... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090231007 - Semiconductor integrated circuit capable of overcoming clock signal jitter: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a voltage supplying unit that supplies a first regulated voltage and a second regulated voltage by using a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, respectively, and a clock buffer unit that supplies an output clock clocking within a range of the first regulated... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090231008 - Flip-flop circuit that latches inputted data: A flip-flop circuit operates by a first clock signal whose amplitude is smaller than that of input data D. A pair of transistors receive the input data D and the reversed input data *D, respectively, to latch the input data D. An activation circuit activates the pair of transistors in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090231009 - High-resolution low-interconnect phase rotator: High-resolution low-interconnect phase rotator. A signal may be generated having any desired phase (as determined by the step size employed). First and second control signals select a sector (e.g., the range from 0° to 360° is divided into a number of sectors) and a particular phase within that sector. Generally,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090231010 - Input latch circuit having fuses for adjusting a setup and hold time: An input latch circuit of a semiconductor device includes a setup time adjusting unit configured to selectively delay a clock signal and a hold time adjusting unit configured to selectively delay an input signal. The input latch circuit also includes a latch unit configured to latch an output signal of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090231011 - Circuit assembly for distributing an input signal: The intensity of the distortion is determined by the amplification of the circuit itself, and a simple amplifier stage arranged upstream of the control voltage. An increase in the supplied signal by the upstream amplifier results in a higher distortion. By means of an optional adjustable amplifier which can be... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090231015 - Driver circuit: An object is to provide a driver circuit as well as a level converting circuit, capable of reducing current consumption and accelerating an operation, and in the driver circuit that changes a voltage level of an output signal in correspondence with a change in voltage level of an input signal,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090231012 - External voltage level down circuit: An external voltage level down circuit includes a first level down unit which receives a first control signal enabled in a power down mode and down-converts a level of a first external voltage, a control signal generating unit which generates a second control signal in response to the down-converted level... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090231016 - Gate oxide protected i/o circuit: An integrated circuit comprises a first input node and a second input node, an output node; a first output transistor of a first type and a second output transistor of a second type, and a first clamping transistor of the second type and a second clamping transistor of a second... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090231013 - Level shifter and level shifting method: For automatic initialization of a level shifter, an input signal in respect of a first voltage source is converted into a substantially zero voltage signal in response to an initial voltage derived from voltages of a first voltage source and a second voltage source when the second voltage source is... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090231014 - Level shifter circuit: A level shifter circuit which amplifies the amplitude of an input signal, includes a CMOS inverter which is composed of a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor, a first and a second capacitor one electrode of each of which is connected to the gate of the p-type transistor and that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090231017 - Counter circuit: Reduction in power consumption of a counter circuit for continuous operation is demanded. Therefore, provided is a counter circuit including: a first counter of m bits for counting and storing a value of a predetermined bit width according to an input clock; a clock transmission control circuit for controlling whether... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090231018 - Circuit arrangement and a method for galvanically separate triggering of a semiconductor switch: A circuit arrangement (100) and a method for the DC-isolated driving of a semiconductor switch (400) are presented, wherein the circuit arrangement has a control circuit (101), a driver circuit (102), a transformer (200) for the DC-isolated transfer of a drive signal from the control circuit (101) as switching signal... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090231019 - Input device for complex control signal: An input device for a multiplex control signal is applied to provide one or more input position(s) for a user, where each input position generates a plurality of control signals corresponding to a plurality of input states, and an output control unit determines the output of the control signals from... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20090231020 - Electrical fuse, semiconductor device and method of disconnecting electrical fuse: An electrical fuse including a polysilicon layer; a silicide layer formed over the polysilicon layer; and a first metal contact and a second metal contact arranged over the silicide layer, while being spaced from each other, the electrical fuse being configured so that the silicide layer, after disconnection, is excluded... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090231021 - Semiconductor device: An element is protected without hampering an actual operation in the case where overvoltage that might damage the element is applied. A semiconductor device includes a first potential supply terminal 100; a second potential supply terminal 101; a protection circuit 107 which includes a voltage divider 102 electrically connected to... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20090231023 - Integrated circuits with programmable well biasing: An integrated circuit includes a substrate, a storage device formed in the substrate to hold bias settings, and operational blocks formed in the substrate, each operational block including an operational circuit and a charge pump to provide well bias voltages to the operational circuit in response to one or more... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090231022 - Pumping voltage generating circuit: A pumping voltage generating circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus, the pumping voltage generating circuit includes a detecting unit configured to compare a level of a pumping voltage with a level of a reference voltage to generate a detection signal, an oscillating signal generator configured to sequentially generate a first... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090231024 - Low drop out voltage regulator circuit assembly: An integrated circuit assembly includes a voltage level generator, a level shifter, a bandgap reference generator and a voltage regulator. The voltage level generator generates output voltage level signals in response to a supply voltage. The level shifter receives the output voltage level signals from the voltage level generator and... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha LLC

20090231025 - Method and apparatus for extending the lifetime of a semiconductor chip: A circuit and a method for extending the lifetime of a semiconductor chip. The circuit including a voltage reference generator, a voltage switch, a threshold voltage regulator device and a threshold voltage monitor device tunes an automatic internal power supply. The voltage reference generator provides one or more reference voltage... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090231026 - Magneto-electric-induction conversion system of wireless input device: A magneto-electric-induction conversion system of a wireless input device includes an emitter and a receiver. A plurality of serially-connected resonant circuits, arranged side by side, makes resonance, so transmission energy is enhanced. An electromagnetic wave is transmitted via an inductive antenna, then received and converted by predetermined parallel-connected resonant circuits... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090231027 - Digital tuning circuit of gm-c filter: Provided is a tuning circuit of a Gm (transconductance)-C (capacitance) filter. The tuning circuit tunes a transconductance using direct current incorporating variations of a capacitance, instead of a clock signal, in a Gm tuning mode, while using the clock signal in a capacitance tuning mode. As such, it is possible... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090224804 - Detecting circuit and electronic apparatus using detecting circuit: A detecting circuit is disclosed. In the detecting circuit, when an input detection voltage Vsns which is obtained by dividing an input voltage Vin by resistors is equal to a reference voltage Vref or more and a temperature detection voltage Tsns is equal to the reference voltage Vref or more... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090224805 - Electronic circuit with compensation of intrinsic offset of differential pairs: The invention relates to analog integrated electronic circuits using differential pairs. The proposal is for a method of automatic correction of offset voltage. The inputs (V1, V2) of the differential circuit are short circuited during a calibration phase distinct from the normal usage phase. A capacitor is charged through the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090224806 - Analog baud rate clock and data recovery: An analog baud rate clock and data recovery apparatus includes a first track and hold circuit that delays a received signal by one unit interval to create an odd signal; a second track and hold circuit that delays the received signal by one unit interval to create an even signal;... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090224807 - Jitter reduction circuit and frequency synthesizer: The jitter reduction circuit to reduce phase noise in a pulse train, comprises: —a resettable integrator (70) to integrate the pulse train, —a comparator (72) to compare the integrated pulse train with a reference level and to generate a modified pulse train with reduced phase noise, —a crossing time interval... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090224808 - Driver arrangement and signal generation method: A driver arrangement comprises a charge pump based oscillator (OSC) having a first charging element (CE1) with a first capacitance (C1) for generating an oscillator signal depending on a first capacitance (C1) and on a first charging current (I1). A controllable current source (CCS) is configured to generated a first... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090224809 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device and method for evaluating an eye-opening margin: An eye-opening margin measurement method for a high-speed serial data reception circuit which uses a circuit for eye-opening margin measurement involving operation of a clock data recovery circuit without fixing the clock phase. In this method, an error acceleration test can also be made on received data by giving an... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090224810 - Audio device using ac power clock reference: A clock generating apparatus for use in an electronic device, such as a radio or other audio device, which generates a clock signal based on an AC input signal received, for example, from a wall outlet. The clock generating apparatus detects and monitors the frequency of the AC input signal... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090224812 - Clock distribution circuit: A clock distribution circuit includes a monitoring circuit that delays a signal based on a clock signal from a clock tree by using multiple inverter circuits and predicts a timing violation on the basis of the amount of delay produced by the multiple inverter circuits. The clock distribution circuit further... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090224811 - Conditioning input buffer for clock interpolation: A conditioning buffer is provided for a clock interpolator that controls the duration of the clock edges to achieve high-linearity interpolation. The conditioning buffer includes a first buffer and a second buffer, with a fixed or variable strength, that receive their respective inputs from a set of mutually delayed clock... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090224813 - High voltage nanosecond pulse generator using fast recovery diodes for cell electro-manipulation: A pulse generator circuit may include a diode configured to operate as an opening switch, a tank circuit in series with the diode having an admittance that is switchable from a first value to a second value that is different from the first value, and a switching system configured to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090224814 - Electronic device and related power control device for enhancing power stability for power on and power off processes: A power control device for an electronic device for enhancing power stability when the electronic device is powered on including a high-pass filtering unit for performing a filtering process on an input signal for generating an output signal, and a control unit coupled to the high-pass filtering unit and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090224815 - Circuit adjustable after packaging having a voltage limiter and method of adjusting same: A circuit adjustable after packaging includes a functional circuit supplied with a power potential and a reference potential and has at least one parameter adjustable by programming at least one programmable element and a circuit to program the programmable element of the functional circuit. The adjustable circuit also includes a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090224816 - Circuit and method for signal voltage transmission within a driver of a power semiconductor switch: A circuit for signal voltage transmission within a driver contains, on its primary side, a signal input for a first signal voltage, a current source for a current correlated with the first signal voltage, a connecting line for the current, the connecting line leading from the current source to the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090224818 - Semiconductor device for controlling supply of driving signals: A driving signal supply control semiconductor device includes a load driving device that includes: (i) a bridge circuit including a high-side first transistor and a low-side second transistor, the transistors being electrically connected to a load as an object to be driven and being turned on or off to energize... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090224817 - Semiconductor integrated device: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor integrated device including: a level-shifting circuit including: a first and a second input nodes; and a first and a second output nodes; a first current mirror circuit connected with the first output node; a second current mirror... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090224819 - Constant current circuit, and inverter and oscillation circuit using such constant current circuit: A bias current source generates a constant current Iref by applying to a current-generating resistor a voltage proportional to a thermal voltage Vt. A first bipolar transistor and a second bipolar transistor are disposed in series on the path of the constant current which is generated by the bias current... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090224820 - Molecular controlled semiconductor device: A semiconductor sensing device for sensing presence, absence or level of species-of-interest in the environment is disclosed. The semiconductor sensing device comprises at least one layer of molecules deposited thereon. The molecules are electrically-responsive to the species-of-interest in a manner such that when the molecules interact with the species-of-interest, a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090224821 - Sub-micron high input voltage tolerant input output (i/o) circuit: A method of providing bias voltages for input output connections on low voltage integrated circuits. As integrated circuit voltages drop generally so does the external voltages that those circuits can handle. By placing input and output devices, in series, external voltages can be divided between the devices thereby reducing junction... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090224822 - Structure and method for coupling signals to and/or from stacked semiconductor dies: Signals are coupled to and from stacked semiconductor dies through first and second sets of external terminals. The external terminals in the second set are connected to respective conductive paths extending through each of the dies. Signals are coupled to and from the first die through the first set of... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20090224823 - Internal voltage generating circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit device: A voltage for reference at a voltage level higher than a target value is produced from a constant current provided from a constant current generating circuit, and is subjected to resistance division by a resistance division circuit to produce a reference voltage at the target level, and then a final... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090219055 - Signal comparison circuit and power conversion device: The voltage deviation is converted into the time quantity with the first integration circuit for the voltage detection and the second integration circuit for the voltage detection. The current setting value and the current measurements are converted into the time quantity with the second integration circuit for the current control... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090219056 - Signal detection circuit with deglitch and method thereof: A signal detection circuit is used for detecting signal squelch of a differential input signal to generate a corresponding digital output signal. The signal detection circuit includes: a reference voltage generator for generating a reference voltage of which the common mode voltage tracks the common mode voltage of the input... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090219058 - Correlated double sampling circuit and sample hold circuit: A correlated double sampling circuit has a sampling capacitor equally divided into a plurality of portions. In the correlated double sampling circuit, an input signal is sampled at a plurality of sampling points and an averaging switch is closed to obtain an average value of a plurality of sampling values... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090219060 - Method and apparatus of sfdr enhancement: A track-and-hold or sample-and-hold (S/H) circuit for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided. A difference between the disclosed S/H circuit and conventional S/H circuits is the use of a peaking circuit. This peaking circuit generally provides increased current to switching transistor when transitioning between track and hold which can increase... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090219057 - Systems and methods for determining an out of band signal: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and circuits that provide for out of band detection. As one example, an out of band detection circuit is disclosed that includes an input signal, a clock generation circuit, and a sampling circuit. The clock generation circuit receives the input signal and... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)

20090219059 - Track-and-hold circuit with low distortion: A track-and-hold circuit is provided. This track-and-hold circuit is adapted to track an analog input signal and hold a sampled voltage of the analog input signal at a sampling instant for processing by other circuitry, in response to a track signal that alternates with a hold signal. Preferably, the track-and-hold... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090219061 - Pulse generator circuit and communication apparatus: A pulse generator circuit that outputs pulses having a predetermined shape from an output terminal based on a start signal includes a timing generator circuit that generates (n+1) signals (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2), the phases of which sequentially change at predetermined time intervals from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090219062 - Buffer circuit and photoreceiving circuit using the same: A buffer circuit includes a first transistor having a base connected to a first power supply, an emitter as a current signal input node, and a collector as a current signal output node, a second transistor having a base connected to the first power supply, a first constant current circuit... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090219063 - Methods and articles of manufacture for operating electronic devices on a plurality of clock signals: Embodiments of the invention relate to an integrated circuit comprising at least one functional unit configured to operate at a first clock frequency. The integrated circuit also comprises at least one first interconnect originating from a contact pad and leading to at least one frequency divider configured to receive a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20090219064 - Pulse generator circuit and communication apparatus: A pulse generator circuit that outputs pulses having a predetermined shape from an output terminal based on a start signal includes a timing generator circuit that generates (n) signals (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2), the phases of which sequentially change at predetermined time intervals from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090219066 - Power-on reset circuit: A power-on reset circuit produces a reset signal output configured by an upper trip-point in an input hysteresis characteristic of the circuit. The upper trip-point is configured by resistances of a first pair of resistors coupled in series at an internal voltage reference node. A temperature coefficient of the upper... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090219065 - Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus: A read-start-timing set circuit is connected to a timing terminal (CT1) of a semiconductor device. By comparing an internal signal of this semiconductor device with an external signal on a bus line, the read timing immediately after power is turned on is modified. Since data transmission onto the bus line... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C. Citigroup Center

20090219067 - Locked loop circuit with clock hold function: A locked loop circuit having a clock hold function. The locked loop circuit includes a select circuit, phase mixing circuit, hold signal generator and latch circuit. The select circuit selects one of a plurality of phase values in response to a select signal, and the phase mixing circuit generates a... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20090219068 - Phase detector, phase comparator, and clock synchronizing device: A flip-flop circuit includes: a first latch circuit that receives input of a data signal and a rise delay clock signal, raises a signal of a first node according to the fall of the rise delay clock signal, and lowers the signal of the first node according to the rise... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090219069 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: Circuit elements and wirings constituting a circuit, and first electrodes electrically connected to such a circuit are provided on one main surface of a semiconductor substrate. An organic insulating film is formed on the circuit except for openings on the surfaces of the first electrodes. First and second external connecting... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090219070 - Control device for use in a resonant direct current/direct current converter: A control device for controlling a switch unit of a resonant direct current/direct current converter includes a frequency modulation controller and a pulse selector. The frequency modulation controller is adapted to be coupled electrically to the converter for receiving a correcting threshold value and output information of the converter, and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090219071 - Transmission line based high voltage pulse generator: A high voltage, fast pulse rise/fall time, and high repetition rate pulse generator solves the high pulse repetition rate limitations associated with RF power amplifiers and gap switch type pulse generators. The pulse generator employs a transmission line architecture and structural techniques that allow for continued high voltage, fast rise/fall... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090219072 - Apparatus, circuit and method of transmitting signal: An apparatus includes a transmission circuit which transmits a data by a differential signal, and a control circuit which halts a portion of the differential signal under a predetermined condition.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090219073 - High resolution time-to-digital converter: A time-to-digital converter (TDC) can have a resolution that is finer than the propagation delay of an inverter. In one example, a fractional-delay element circuit receives a TDC input signal and generates therefrom a second signal that is a time-shifted facsimile of a first signal. The first signal is supplied... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090219074 - Capacitive coupling type level shift circuit of low power consumption and small size: Provided is a level shift circuit. The level shift circuit includes an inverter including a first transistor having a first polarity to which an input signal from an input port is applied through a gate and a second transistor having a second polarity which is an opposite polarity to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090219075 - Full bridge arrangement: A full bridge that produces an alternating output signal can be driven by operating switching elements of the full bridge in each period in a switching sequence that determines the order of the activation and deactivation of the switching elements. The switching elements are switched in at least two different... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090219076 - Apparatus, system, and method for grounding integrated circuit outputs: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for grounding IC outputs. A first switching module turns on when an IC power supply voltage exceeds a base voltage. The first switching module is in communication with IC outputs and a common ground. The IC outputs are configured to be pulled up... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090219079 - Charge pump circuit for rfid integrated circuits: An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a charge pump stage (100) that comprises a first input node (101), a second input node (107), a decoupling capacity (109) having a first terminal (108) and a second terminal (110). Further, the charge pump stage (100) comprises a pump control circuit having... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090219078 - Charge pump down circuit and method for the same: The present invention discloses a charge pump down circuit which comprises three capacitors operating in three time phases. In the first time phase, the total of the voltages across the three capacitors is equal to an input voltage; in the second time phase, the voltage across the second capacitor is... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090219080 - Internal voltage generation circuit: Internal voltage generation circuit including a reference oscillation signal generator for generating a reference oscillation signal according to a comparison result of a pumping voltage with a reference voltage, an oscillation signal generator for generating a plurality of oscillation signals with a predetermined phase difference and a pumping voltage generator... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20090219081 - Internal voltage generator of semiconductor memory device: An internal voltage generation circuit of semiconductor memory device includes a reference voltage generation unit configured to generate a reference voltage, and a pumping control unit configured to be enabled at every active mode, compare the reference voltage with a fed-back voltage of a pumping voltage terminal, and output a... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20090219082 - Semiconductor device whose internal power supply voltage is generated by voltage step-up circuit: A semiconductor device includes a voltage step-up circuit and a control circuit. The voltage step-up circuit includes at least a first capacitor and a second capacitor which generate an internal power supply voltage. The control circuit controls the voltage step-up circuit. The control circuit connects the first and second capacitors... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090219077 - Voltage multiplier with improved efficiency: A multi-stage voltage multiplication circuit and methodology are provided which use a multi-stage charge pump boosting circuit (210) and two-stage pass gate circuit (220) having complementary power switches (M6, M9, M7, M10) to efficiently develop an output voltage (VOUT) that is higher than the input supply voltage (VDD). By using... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Freescale

20090219083 - Electric circuit device: An electric circuit device includes: a power supply line; a load circuit; a current supply controller which compares a voltage of the power supply line with a certain voltage; and a current supply circuit which supplies a electric current from the power supply line to the load circuit and changes... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090219084 - Device for optimising the energy consumption of an electric circuit component: An apparatus for optimizing power consumption of an electrical circuit component in an operating- and evaluating-circuit of a two-conductor field device, wherein a control unit is provided, which switches the electrical circuit component with a clock signal. An energy supply unit is provided for supplying the circuit component with energy,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090219085 - Differential to single-ended conversion circuit and comparator using the circuit: An electrical circuit for conversion from differential to single-ended includes a differential amplifier stage and first and second buffer circuits. The differential amplifier stage includes a first and a second input; and a first and a different second charging circuit that can be operatively coupled, respectively, with an output of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC