Switched-mode power supply having multiple operating phases

    公开(公告)号:US10862396B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-08

    申请号:US16599450

    申请日:2019-10-11

    Abstract: An electronic device includes a switched-mode power supply having a first operating phase during which the output node of the switched-mode power supply is coupled by an on switch to a source of a first reference voltage. The first operating phase is followed by a second operation phase during which the output node of the switched-mode power supply is in a high impedance state. While in the second operating phase, a capacitor connected to the output node of the switched-mode power supply at least partially discharges into a load.

    INTEGRATED DEVICE FOR PROTECTION FROM ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGES

    公开(公告)号:US20200373295A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16877935

    申请日:2020-05-19

    Abstract: A first power supply rail is provided as a power supply tree configured with couplings to distribute a supply voltage to active elements of the circuit. A second power supply rail is provided as an electrostatic discharge channel and is not configured with distribution tree couplings to active elements of the circuit. A first electrostatic discharge circuit is directly electrically connected between one end of the second power supply rail and a ground rail. A second electrostatic discharge circuit is directly electrically connected between an interconnect node and the ground rail. The interconnect node electrically interconnects another end of the second power supply rail to the first power supply rail at the second electrostatic discharge circuit.

    PROTECTION OF AN ITERATIVE CALCULATION
    455.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200313846A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16810434

    申请日:2020-03-05

    Abstract: Cryptographic circuitry, in operation, performs a calculation on a first number and a second number. The performing of the calculation is protected by breaking the second number into a plurality of third numbers, a sum of values of the third numbers being equal to a value of the second number. The calculation is performed bit by bit for each rank of the third numbers. Functional circuitry, coupled to the cryptographic circuitry, uses a result of the calculation.

    PROCESSOR AUTHENTICATION METHOD
    456.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200310805A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16833012

    申请日:2020-03-27

    Abstract: The disclosure includes a method of authenticating a processor that includes an arithmetic and logic unit. At least one decoded operand of at least a portion of a to-be-executed opcode is received on a first terminal of the arithmetic and logic unit. A signed instruction is received on a second terminal of the arithmetic and logic unit. The signed instruction combines a decoded instruction of the to-be-executed opcode and a previous calculation result of the arithmetic and logic unit.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A NEURAL NETWORK
    458.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200302266A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-24

    申请号:US16810582

    申请日:2020-03-05

    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes reducing a size of at least one initial parameter of each layer of an initial multilayer neural network to obtain for each layer a set of new parameters defining a new neural network, wherein each new parameter of the set of new parameters has its data represented in two portions comprising an integer portion and a fractional portion; implementing the new neural network using a test input data set applied only once to each layer; determining a distribution function or a density function resulting from the set of new parameters for each layer; and based on the determined distribution function or density function, adjusting a size of a memory area allocated to the fractional portion and a size of the memory area allocated to the integer portion of each new parameter associated with each layer.

    Memory access control and verification using address aliasing and markers

    公开(公告)号:US10783091B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US16130858

    申请日:2018-09-13

    Inventor: Fabrice Romain

    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a memory access control system comprising: a processing device capable of operating in a plurality of operating modes, and of accessing a memory using a plurality of address aliases; and a verification circuit configured: to receive, in relation with a first read operation of a first memory location in the memory, an indication of a first of said plurality of address aliases associated with the first read operation; to verify that a current operating mode of the processing device permits the processing device to access the memory using the first address alias; to receive, during the first read operation, a first marker stored at the first memory location; and to verify, based on the first marker and on the first address alias, that the processing device is permitted to access the first memory location.

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