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公开(公告)号:US20230168300A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-01
申请号:US18053688
申请日:2022-11-08
Inventor: Mauro GIACOMINI , Fabio Enrico Carlo DISEGNI , Rajesh NARWAL , Pravesh Kumar SAINI , Mayankkumar HARESHBHAI NIRANJANI
IPC: G01R31/315 , H01L21/66
CPC classification number: G01R31/315 , H01L22/12
Abstract: An assembly for detecting a structural defect in a semiconductor die is provided. The assembly includes a defect-detection sensor and a microcontroller. The defect-detection sensor includes a plurality of resistive paths of electrical-conductive material in the semiconductor die, each of which has a first end and a second end and extends proximate a perimeter of the semiconductor die. The defect-detection sensor includes a plurality of signal-generation structures, each coupled to a respective resistive path and configured to supply a test signal to the resistive path. The microcontroller is configured to control the signal-generation structures to generate the test signals, acquire the test signals in each resistive paths, test an electrical feature of the resistive paths by performing an analysis of the test signals acquired and detect the presence of the structural defect in the semiconductor die based on a result of the analysis of the test signals acquired.
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公开(公告)号:US20230163769A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17969251
申请日:2022-10-19
Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
Inventor: Anand KUMAR , Prashutosh GUPTA
CPC classification number: H03L7/1974 , H03L7/093 , H03L7/0893 , H03L7/0995 , H03L2207/06
Abstract: A phase lock loop (PLL) circuit includes a phase-frequency detector (PFD) circuit that determines a difference between a reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal to generate up/down control signals responsive to that difference. Charge pump and loop filter circuitry generates an integral signal component control signal and a proportional signal component control signal in response to the up/down control signals. The integral signal component control signal and proportional signal component control signal are separate control signals. A voltage controlled oscillator generates an oscillating output signal having a frequency controlled by the integral signal component control signal and the proportional signal component control signal. A divider circuit performs a frequency division on the oscillating output signal to generate the feedback clock signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20230155369A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-18
申请号:US18157737
申请日:2023-01-20
Inventor: Manoj KUMAR , Ravinder KUMAR , Nicolas DEMANGE
CPC classification number: H02H3/20 , H02H1/0007
Abstract: An integrated circuit includes an overvoltage protection circuit. The overvoltage protection circuit detects overvoltage events at a pad of the integrated circuit. The overvoltage protection circuit generates a max voltage signal that is the greater of the voltage at the pad and a supply voltage of the integrated circuit. The overvoltage protection circuit disables a PMOS transistor coupled to the pad by supplying the max voltage signal to the gate of the PMOS transistor when an overvoltage event is present at the pad.
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公开(公告)号:US20230135708A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-04
申请号:US17965243
申请日:2022-10-13
Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
Inventor: Praveen Kumar VERMA
IPC: G06F3/06
Abstract: A memory circuit includes an array of memory cells arranged with first word lines connected to a first sub-array storing less significant bits of data and second word lines connected to a second sub-array storing more significant bits of data. A first word line signal is applied to a selected one of the first word lines to read less significant bits from the first sub-array, and a mathematical operation is performed on the read less significant bits to produce modified less significant bits that are written back to the first sub-array. If the read less significant bits are saturated, a second word line signal is applied to a selected one of the second word lines to read more significant bits from the second sub-array, and a mathematical operation is performed on the read more significant bits to produce modified more significant bits that are written back to the second sub-array.
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公开(公告)号:US20230133912A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-04
申请号:US17515212
申请日:2021-10-29
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS APPLICATION GMBH , STMicroelectronics S.r.l. , STMicroelectronics International N.V.
Inventor: Avneep Kumar Goyal , Thomas Szurmant , Misaele Marletti , Alessandro Daolio
IPC: G01R31/317 , G01R31/319 , G01R31/28
Abstract: A trace-data preparation circuit including a filtering circuit to receive traced memory-write data and a First In First Out buffer coupled with the filtering circuit to receive selected memory-write data filtered by the filtering circuit. The trace-data preparation circuit further including a data compression circuit to provide packaging data to a packaging circuit that groups the selected memory-write data.
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公开(公告)号:US20230128466A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-27
申请号:US17510602
申请日:2021-10-26
Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
Inventor: Venkata Narayanan SRINIVASAN , Manish SHARMA , Tripti GUPTA
IPC: G01R31/3177 , G06F1/28 , G01R31/317
Abstract: Described herein are integrated circuit chips having test circuitry designed such that independently selectable testing of different power domains using a same scan chain compressor-decompressor circuit may be performed. Also disclosed herein are integrated circuit chips having test circuitry designed such that independently selectable testing of different power domains using multiple different scan chain compressor-decompressor circuits may be performed.
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公开(公告)号:US11610612B2
公开(公告)日:2023-03-21
申请号:US17375149
申请日:2021-07-14
Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
Inventor: Ashish Kumar , Dipti Arya
Abstract: A row decoder includes decoder logic generating an initial word line signal, and two inverters. The first inverter is formed by a first p-channel transistor having a source coupled to a supply voltage and a gate receiving the initial word line signal. The second inverter is formed by a first n-channel transistor having a drain coupled to a drain of the first p-channel transistor, a source coupled to a shared ground line, and a gate receiving the initial word line signal. An inverse word line signal is generated at the drain of the first n-channel transistor. A second inverter inverts the inverse word line signal to produce a word line signal. Negative bias generation circuitry generates a negative bias voltage on the shared ground line when the initial word line signal is logic high, and otherwise couples the shared ground line to ground.
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公开(公告)号:US20230065623A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-02
申请号:US17815807
申请日:2022-07-28
Inventor: Vivek Mohan Sharma , Roberto Colombo
Abstract: A processing system includes an error detection circuit configured to receive data bits and ECC bits, calculate further ECC bits as a function of the data bits, and generate a syndrome by comparing the calculated ECC bits with the received ECC bits. When the syndrome corresponds to one of N+K single bit-flip reference syndromes, the error detection circuit asserts a first error signal, and asserts one bit of a bit-flip signature corresponding to a single bit-flip error indicated by the respective single bit-flip reference syndrome.
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公开(公告)号:US20230054364A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-23
申请号:US17982242
申请日:2022-11-07
Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
Inventor: Ankur BAL , Sharad GUPTA
Abstract: An estimate of unit current element mismatch error in a digital to analog converter circuit is obtained through a correlation process. Unit current elements of the digital to analog converter circuit are actuated by bits of a thermometer coded signal generated in response to a quantization output signal. A correlation circuit generates the estimates of the unit current element mismatch error from a correlation of a first signal derived from the thermometer coded signal and a second signal derived from the quantization output signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11586907B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-21
申请号:US16280960
申请日:2019-02-20
Inventor: Surinder Pal Singh , Giuseppe Desoli , Thomas Boesch
Abstract: Embodiments of a device include an integrated circuit, a reconfigurable stream switch formed in the integrated circuit, and an arithmetic unit coupled to the reconfigurable stream switch. The arithmetic unit has a plurality of inputs and at least one output, and the arithmetic unit is solely dedicated to performance of a plurality of parallel operations. Each one of the plurality of parallel operations carries out a portion of the formula: output=AX+BY+C.
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