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US-6,492,874 Active bias circuit
An active bias circuit 30 connected to a power amplifier PA maintains a power amplifier DC quiescent current at a fixed value over a wide temperature range. The...
US-6,492,873 Method of distributed amplifier design utilizing filter synthesis techniques
The present invention describes the method and system of applying filter synthesis technique to distributed amplifier design. The method for synthesizing a...
US-6,492,872 High frequency power amplifying module and wireless communication apparatus
A high frequency power amplifier module is provided for improving output controllability. A wireless communication apparatus incorporates a high frequency power...
US-6,492,871 Current feedback operational amplifier
The present invention discloses a current feedback operational amplifier, whose input ends are connected to a first amplifier which transmits an output to the...
US-6,492,870 Class AB, high speed, input stage with base current compensation for fast settling time
The improved Class AB input stage monitors the needs of base current in the slewing transistors 22-25 and supplies that base current with extremely fast and...
US-6,492,869 Linear amplifier and radio communication apparatus using the same
A linear amplifier comprises a first current-mirror circuit including a first transistor whose base and collector are short-circuited for diode connection and...
US-6,492,868 Dynamic range enhancement technique
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for adding minimum pulse widths to the coarse resolution output of a multi-reference switching amplifier. This acts to null...
US-6,492,867 Method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of power amplifiers, operating under a large peak-to-average...
Method and apparatus for improving the efficiency and the dynamic range of a power amplifier operated with signals having a large peak-to-average ratio. A...
US-6,492,866 Electronic circuit with bulk biasing for providing accurate electronically controlled resistance
A circuit arrangement for generating an electronically controlled electrical resistance by apparatus of at least one MOS transistor. A source-drain junction of...
US-6,492,865 Band pass filter from two filters
A band pass filter includes a pair of filters having different center frequencies and a difference amplifier coupled to the outputs of the filters. The filters...
US-6,492,864 Circuit configuration for low-power reference voltage generation
A circuit configuration for low-power reference voltage generation, is described. The circuit has a programmable voltage source which generates an output voltage...
US-6,492,863 Internal high voltage generation circuit capable of stably generating internal high voltage and circuit element...
In order to stably generate a high voltage of a prescribed level, a Vpp detection circuit which is activated in response to an activation signal for comparing...
US-6,492,862 Charge pump type voltage conversion circuit having small ripple voltage components
A charge pump type voltage conversion circuit comprises a voltage detector which detects whether a boosted output voltage is larger or smaller than a ...
US-6,492,861 Electronic charge pump device
The charge pump device includes, in a cascade arrangement, a plurality of stages (1 to N) for transferring a potential charge from one stage to the next in...
US-6,492,860 Low voltage CMOS analog switch
A low voltage analog switch having low leakage off-current and including a first transmission gate having a first N-channel transistor and a first P-channel...
US-6,492,859 Adjustable electrostatic discharge protection clamp
In an ESD protection circuit for an analog bipolar circuit, the avalanche breakdown voltage of a reverse-coupled NPN BJT acting as an avalanche diode is adjusted...
US-6,492,858 Semiconductor integrated circuit and method for generating a control signal therefor
A semiconductor integrated circuit having a selector 1, which selects either an inverted signal 2B or a non-inverted signal 2A, based on the condition of a read...
US-6,492,857 Method and apparatus for reducing the vulnerability of latches to single event upsets
A delay circuit includes a first network having an input and an output node, a second network having an input and an output, the input of the second network...
US-6,492,856 Edge triggered latch with symmetrical paths from clock to data outputs
A new D-type latch structure is disclosed which has an input data sampling circuit and a symmetrical cross coupled latching circuit. The clock is delayed a...
US-6,492,855 Flip flop which has complementary, symmetric, minimal timing skew outputs
The complementary outputs of a master slave flip flop are made symmetric, with substantially zero timing skew over all process, voltage and temperature...
US-6,492,854 Power efficient and high performance flip-flop
A power efficient flip-flop includes a power switch regulating power supplied to a high speed latch in the flip-flop. When the power switch is activated, causing...
US-6,492,853 Master/slave method for a ZQ-circuitry in multiple die devices
An apparatus including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate one or more first control signals in response to a...
US-6,492,852 Pre-divider architecture for low power in a digital delay locked loop
A delay locked loop circuit for conserving power on a semiconductor chip is provided. The circuit includes a delay chain circuit responsive to a clock input...
US-6,492,851 Digital phase control circuit
The digital phase control circuit of the present invention is provided with: voltage-controlled delay line VCDL1 in which differential buffers (G1-G10) having a...
US-6,492,850 Semiconductor integrated circuit and method for generating internal supply voltage in semiconductor integrated...
The invention aims at securely generating an internal supply voltage when turning on the power supply of internal circuits in a semiconductor integrated circuit...
US-6,492,849 Supply voltage detection circuit
A monitor circuit for supplying a detection voltage reflecting a supply voltage, a reference voltage generation circuit for generating a high-precision reference...
US-6,492,848 Power-on reset circuit generating reset signal for different power-on signals
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device; and, more particularly, to a power-on reset circuit to produce a stable reset signal irrespective of...
US-6,492,847 Digital driver circuit
A digital driver circuit with one or more CMOS inverters intended as input stages, whereby for the MOS FETs of the inverters the channel width/length (W/L) ratio...
US-6,492,846 Semiconductor integrated circuit with input/output interface adapted for small-amplitude operation
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a switch unit for controlling the supply of a power source voltage to a signal amplification circuit for receiving an...
US-6,492,845 Low voltage current sense amplifier circuit
A current sense amplifier including a transconductance amplifier to measure a current passing through a sense resistor and generate a reference current...
US-6,492,844 Single-ended sense amplifier with sample-and-hold reference
A sense amplifier having a sampling circuit to sample the amplifier input signal; a reference node storing a reference signal corresponding to the input signal;...
US-6,492,843 Random frequency clock generator
What is disclosed is a system and method of generating a random frequency. First a fundamental noise signal from a fundamental noise source is detected. Then the...
US-6,492,842 Logic circuit
The invention provides a logic circuit which has a sufficient load driving capacity even in its operation with a low power supply voltage and can operate at a...
US-6,492,841 Integrated NAND and flip-flop circuit
A combination NAND and flip-flop circuit includes a pre-NAND scan circuit operable to receive a plurality of input signals and produce first and second output...
US-6,492,840 Current mode logic gates for low-voltage high-speed applications
A new family of current mode logic (CML) gates (14) which, in one embodiment includes OR/NOR and AND/NAND gates, as well as more complex logic functions. The...
US-6,492,839 Low power dynamic logic circuit
A low power dynamic logic circuit. By shifting a discharge NMOS transistor of a conventional dynamic logic circuit between an output terminal and a logic block,...
US-6,492,838 System and method for improving performance of dynamic circuits
In one embodiment, a circuit is provided that includes a precharge device, a DNG FET transistor, and at least one pull-down FET transistor with a floating body....
US-6,492,837 Domino logic with output predischarge
A domino logic circuit is provided. The circuit includes an n-channel clock transistor coupled between a dynamic output node and a high voltage connection, the...
US-6,492,836 Receiver immune to slope-reversal noise
A receiver circuit provides a first stage having an input for receiving input signals and an output node. The first stage includes an amplifier. A second stage...
US-6,492,835 Power saving methods for programmable logic arrays
The present invention provides novel power saving methods for programmable logic array (PLA) circuits. One method is to store the results of a previous PLA...
US-6,492,834 Programmable logic device with highly routable interconnect
A programmable logic device architecture with a highly routable programmable interconnect structure. The arrangement of the logic array blocks (LABs),...
US-6,492,833 Configurable memory design for masked programmable logic
A mask programmable integrated circuit includes a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), and a controller. The controller couples to the ROM and...
US-6,492,832 Methods for testing a group of semiconductor devices simultaneously, and devices amenable to such methods of...
Methods are provided for testing many semiconductor devices simultaneously. The devices are connected in a group, and checked for DC-type defects. Those...
US-6,492,831 Current measuring method and current measuring apparatus
A current measuring method, which measures a device current flowing through a terminal of a semiconductor device including charging the capacitor which is...
US-6,492,830 Method and circuit for measuring charge dump of an individual transistor in an SOI device
According to the invention, a method and circuit for measuring a transient of a MOFSET device under measurement of an SOI is provided. The device under...
US-6,492,829 Contactor for inspection
An inspection contactor is provided for inspecting electrical continuity of an inspected wafer by pushing probes against a predetermined location of the...
US-6,492,828 System and method for detecting bonding status of bonding wire of semiconductor package
The present invention provides schemes which are associated with wire bonding process or wire bonding machine to detect the bonding status of a bonding wire of a...
US-6,492,827 Non-invasive electrical measurement of semiconductor wafers
A semiconductor wafer probe assembly (10) includes a chuck assembly (18, 20) configured to receive a back surface (30) of a semiconductor wafer (14) and an...
US-6,492,826 Conductive bump array contactors having an ejector and methods of testing using same
The present invention is directed toward conductive bump array contactors having an ejector and methods for testing bumped devices using such apparatus. In one...
US-6,492,825 Socket and printed circuit board for semiconductor device, and method of testing semiconductor device
A socket and a printed circuit board for testing a semiconductor device packaged by a chip scaled package (CSP) method, and a semiconductor device testing method...
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