Abstract:
A transconductor including circuitry for automatically selecting a non-linear class A operation or a linear class AB operation based on an input signal to be processed to generate an output signal, and for automatically adjusting current from a power supply to a level needed for operation of the transconductor.
Abstract:
A differential biquad filter includes positive and negative single ended circuits connected between first and second power supply terminals. Each single ended circuit includes a single input terminal; a transistor having a control terminal, and first and second main terminals; a single output terminal corresponding to the control terminal of the transistor; first and second conductances connected between the single input terminal and the control terminal of the transistor; a first capacitance connected between the control terminal of the transistor and the second main terminal of the other single ended circuit; and a second capacitance connected between the node between the first and second conductances on one hand and the second main terminal of the transistor on the other hand. The differential biquad filter also includes a fifth capacitance connected between the second main terminals of each transistor of each single ended circuit.
Abstract:
A matrix H for encoding data words is defined for wide word ECC with uniform density and a reduced number of components. The H-matrix is incorporated in an encode unit operable to Hamming encode a data word with a 10×528 matrix generated in groups of four columns wherein; a first column is a complement of a second column; the value of the second column ranges from 9 to 271 in increments of two; a third column is a complement of a fourth column; and the value of the fourth column is the same as the value of the second column less one; and wherein a 528-bit bottom row is added to the 10×528 matrix comprising alternating zeroes and ones starting with a zero creating an 11×528 matrix.
Abstract:
A method for protecting at least one first datum to be stored in an integrated circuit, including, upon storage of the first datum, performing a combination with at least one second physical datum coming from at least one network of physical parameters, and only storing the result of this combination, and in read mode, extracting the stored result and using the second physical datum to restore the first datum.
Abstract:
A semiconductor package includes a flat metal leadframe including spaced apart portions, at least some of which constitute electrical connection leads. A filling material fills the spaces that separate the spaced apart portions of the leadframe to form a plate before fastening an integrated circuit chip to the front of the leadframe. Electrical connections are made between the chip and the electrical connection leads. The chip is then encapsulated on the front of the leadframe using a formed or attached encapsulant.
Abstract:
A radiofrequency amplifier device includes a transconductor stage having an input for receiving a radiofrequency signal, and a cascode stage connected to the output of the transconductor stage. The device also includes an auxiliary radiofrequency amplifier compensation stage connected as a negative-feedback loop between the output of the transconductor stage and the base or the gate of the cascode stage.
Abstract:
An amplifier including an input stage having two inputs, each input being connected to the control terminals of first and second transistors, a current output of the first transistor being connected to a first terminal of a resistor and to a reference supply rail via a variable current source having a value capable of automatically varying according to the voltage applied between said amplifier inputs up to a limiting value, and a current output of the second transistor being connected to the reference supply rail via a fixed current source and to the second terminal of the resistor.
Abstract:
A digital processing unit for executing program instructions stored in at least two memories and including at least one first register of temporary storage of the operator of a current instruction to be executed and at least a second register of temporary storage of at least one argument or operand of said current instruction, and a protection circuit for submitting, upstream of the register, the operator to a deciphering function if this operator originates from one of the memories or from an area of these memories, identified from the address provided by a program counter. The present invention also relates to a method for protecting a program for updating an electronic circuit and controlling its execution, including at least one step of ciphering or deciphering of program instruction operators.
Abstract:
Two processors are provided within a radio communication unit and linked together by a connection internal to the unit comprises. A process is effectuated for detecting transmission errors between the two processors. Codes transmitted between the processors are apportioned into frames which include indicators written by the processor sending the frames. On reception of the frames, the indicators are used by the receiving processor to validate the frames received. The codes transmitted may correspond to information contained in packets. The information of a packet that is intended to be transmitted via the internal connection may be placed in a single frame associated with the packet.
Abstract:
A method and a system for extracting a minutia mapping from a digital image, including dividing the image into regions; defining an orientation of each region based on the general direction of grooves in this region; and for each region: unidirectionally filtering the image portion along a direction perpendicular to the orientation of the region; locating the enters of gravity of the grooves based on the intensity of the filtering results, chaining up the barycenters along the general direction of the region grooves, and interpreting the results of the chaining to determine the presence of minutiae of end type or of branch type.