Abstract:
An image sensor including photosensitive cells including photodiodes and at least one additional circuit with a significant heat dissipation including transistors. The image sensor is made in monolithic form and includes a layer of a semiconductor material having first and second opposite surfaces and including, on the first surface side, first regions corresponding to the power terminals of the transistors, the lighting of the image sensor being intended to be performed on the second surface side; a stack of insulating layers covering the first surface; a thermally conductive reinforcement covering the stack on the side opposite to the layer; and thermally conductive vias connecting the layer to the reinforcement.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an asymmetric diac comprising a highly-doped substrate (21) of a first type of conductivity, a lightly-doped epitaxial layer (22) of the second type of conductivity on the upper surface of the substrate (21), a highly-doped region (24) of the first type of conductivity on the side of the upper surface of the epitaxial layer, a region (23) of the second type of conductivity more doped than the epitaxial layer beneath the region (24) of the first type of conductivity and not overlapping relative thereto, a channel retaining ring (25) of the second type of conductivity more doped than the epitaxial layer, outside the first region, and a wall (26) of the first type of conductivity outside said ring, joining the substrate.
Abstract:
A method and a circuit for marking with a binary code a video sequence compressed by motion calculation, from one picture to another, of macroblocks dividing each picture, the digital pictures being distributed in at least two categories according to whether they are coded integrally or by the motion vectors of the macroblocks with respect to the previous picture or to the previous and next pictures, which includes, at least for the pictures coded by motion vectors, only marking the macroblocks for which the motion vectors are greater than a predetermined threshold.
Abstract:
A method and a system for comparing a set of minutiae of a current image with a set of minutiae of a reference image, according to which the minutiae are sorted by their Cartesian coordinates in the image plane from a predetermined point of origin, a common path of similar minutiae is searched in the reference set and in the current set, and it is considered that there is an identity between the two images if the common path is comprised of a number of segments greater than a first threshold.
Abstract:
An electronic system comprises an initiator module and a target module addressable by the initiator module, and an interface and control module for interfacing between respective communication protocols of the initiator module and of the target module. The interface and control module is constructed to set a composite instruction detection signal in response to the detection of a composite instruction executed by the initiator module, which composite instruction detection signal is used for the interfacing. The interface and control module is constructed to detect a composite instruction executed by the initiator module when, at a determined clock cycle of the initiator module, a change of the elementary operation executed by the initiator module is detected with respect to the previous clock cycle of the initiator module, while, at the same time, a signal for selecting the target module which was active is kept active.
Abstract:
Data stored in a first memory are processed by a processing device comprising a processor, a second memory, and an interface device interfacing the processing device with the first memory. In the interface device, in order to facilitate transfer of data from the first memory where data are stored in a first data format to the second memory where data are stored in a second data format, a first group of data is received from the first memory, with said group ordered into a sequence corresponding to the first data format. Then at least one second group of data is obtained by ordering said data in the first group into a new sequence which is a function of the first and second data formats. The second group of data is stored in the second memory.
Abstract:
A directional coupler having a first structure with distributed lines having a first conductive line intended to convey a main signal between two end terminals and having a second conductive line, coupled to the first one, intended to convey a secondary signal proportional to the main signal; and a second structure with local elements including, between a first terminal of the coupler intended to extract the secondary signal and a first end of the second line, two attenuators in series between which is interposed a low-pass filter and, between a second terminal of the coupler and the second end of the second line, at least one attenuator.
Abstract:
A buffer circuit for transmission of logical signals includes a first buffer and second buffer. The first buffer supplies logical signals to the output buffer which is connected in series with the first buffer to produce output logical signals. A slope of the logical signals produced at the output of the output buffer is controlled in order to adapt the signal transmission speed. The first buffer and output buffer preferably are logic gates (such as inverters) made using the CML technology. The slope of the output signal is controlled using a slope control module which applies a logical signal which programs a resistance value of a pair of variable output resistances of the CML logic gate which forms the first buffer.
Abstract:
A method for forming a MIM-type capacitor by filling of trenches by conformal depositions of insulating materials and of conductive materials, two successive electrodes of the capacitor including on either side of a thin vertical insulating layer at least one conductive layer of same nature, including the step of lowering the level of the conductive layers with respect to the level of the insulating layer separating them.
Abstract:
A generator capable of supplying one or more output signals with a modulated cyclic ratio includes one or more formatting circuits each processing one input signal and one or more class D amplifiers powered with a power supply voltage and being driven by a corresponding one of the formatting circuits. Each formatting circuit has a counter-reaction loop and uses a reference voltage for which the average value is equal to half the power supply voltage. The corresponding output signal is thus corrected for any variations in the power supply voltage.