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公开(公告)号:US11031504B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-08
申请号:US16878287
申请日:2020-05-19
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: John H. Zhang
IPC: H01L29/786 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/66 , H01J21/10
Abstract: A vacuum channel transistor having a vertical gate-all-around (GAA) architecture provides high performance for high-frequency applications, and features a small footprint compared with existing planar devices. The GAA vacuum channel transistor features stacked, tapered source and drain regions that are formed by notching a doped silicon pillar using a lateral oxidation process. A temporary support structure is provided for the pillar during formation of the vacuum channel. Performance of the GAA vacuum channel transistor can be tuned by replacing air in the channel with other gases such as helium, neon, or argon. A threshold voltage of the GAA vacuum channel transistor can be adjusted by altering dopant concentrations of the silicon pillar from which the source and drain regions are formed.
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公开(公告)号:US11030289B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-08
申请号:US16050628
申请日:2018-07-31
Applicant: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
Inventor: Xiaoyong Yang , Sankalp Dayal
Abstract: A method includes sensing through time-of-flight measurements a distance of an object from an electronic device, sensing motion of the electronic device, sensing acoustic signals received by the electronic device, and detecting the presence of a human proximate the electronic device based on the sensed distance, motion and acoustic signals. Access to the electronic device is controlled based on whether a human is detected as being present.
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公开(公告)号:US20210154820A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-27
申请号:US16696772
申请日:2019-11-26
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. , STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Marco BIANCO , Lorenzo BRACCO , Mahesh CHOWDHARY , Roberto MURA , Stefano Paolo RIVOLTA , Federico RIZZARDINI
Abstract: A device for generating a control signal based on the linear movement of a linear member is provided. The device includes a linear member, a rotatable member, a first inertial measurement unit (IMU) coupled to the rotatable member and a second IMU having a fixed position. The device also includes a processing circuit which uses sensing signals from the IMUS to determine an attitude of the first IMU referenced to the second IMU and generate a control signal based on the attitude.
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公开(公告)号:US20210151071A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-20
申请号:US17158817
申请日:2021-01-26
Inventor: Mahesh Chowdhary , Arun Kumar , Ghanapriya Singh , Rajendar Bahl
Abstract: A method and apparatus for classifying a spatial environment as open or enclosed are provided. In the method and apparatus, one or more microphones detect ambient sound in a spatial environment and output an audio signal representative of the ambient sound. A processor determines a spatial environment impulse response (SEIR) for the audio signal and extracts one or more features of the SEIR. The processor classifies the spatial environment as open or enclosed based on the one or more features of the SEIR.
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公开(公告)号:US20210118818A1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-22
申请号:US17137262
申请日:2020-12-29
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Aaron Cadag , Lester Joseph Belalo , Ela Mia Cadag
Abstract: A semiconductor package formed utilizing multiple etching steps includes a lead frame, a die, and a molding compound. The lead frame includes leads and a die pad. The leads and the die pad are formed from a first conductive material by the multiple etching steps. More specifically, the leads and the die pad of the lead frame are formed by at least three etching steps. The at least three etching steps including a first etching step, a second undercut etching step, and a third backside etching step. The second undercut etching step forming interlocking portions at an end of each lead. The end of the lead is encased in the molding compound. This encasement of the end of the lead with the interlocking portion allows the interlocking portion to mechanically interlock with the molding compound to avoid lead pull out. In addition, by utilizing at least three etching steps the leads can be formed to have a height that is greater than the die pad of the lead frame. This differential in height reduces the span of wires used to form electrical connections within the semiconductor package. These reductions in the span of the wires reduces the chances of wire to wire and wire to die short circuiting because the wire sweep of the wires is reduced when the molding compound is placed.
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公开(公告)号:US10979805B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-13
申请号:US16235947
申请日:2018-12-28
Inventor: Mahesh Chowdhary , Prasanth Logaraman , Arun Kumar , Rajendar Bahl
IPC: G10L21/0208 , H04R3/00 , H04R1/40 , H04R3/04 , G10L25/78 , G10L21/0216 , B81B7/00 , G01S3/80
Abstract: A method and apparatus for auto-directive adaptive beamforming for a microphone array using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor orientation information are provided. The microphone array captures audio and the MEMS sensor detects an orientation of the microphone array. A direction of arrival of a source signal is estimated based on the data representative of the audio. A change in an orientation of the microphone array is detected based on the orientation and the direction of arrival is compensates based on the change in the orientation of the microphone array. The apparatus pre-steers a beam of a beam pattern of the microphone array based on the compensated direction of arrival to retain the source signal in a broadside of the microphone array and performs adaptive wideband beamforming to null one or more interfering sources in the beam pattern while retaining the source signal in the broadside of the microphone array.
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公开(公告)号:US10976337B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-13
申请号:US16257694
申请日:2019-01-25
Inventor: Mahesh Chowdhary , Arun Kumar , Ghanapriya Singh , Rajendar Bahl
IPC: G01P15/00 , G06F1/16 , G01P15/18 , H04W4/029 , G06N20/10 , G10L21/10 , G06K9/62 , H04W4/50 , G06F3/0346 , G10L25/51 , G06F3/01 , H04M1/725 , G10L25/78 , H04W4/38 , H04L29/08
Abstract: A distributed computing system for artificial intelligence in autonomously appreciating a circumstance context of a smart device. Raw context data is detected by sensors associated with the smart device. The raw context data is pre-processed by the smart device and then provided to a cloud based server for further processing. At the cloud based server, various sets of feature data are obtained from the pre-processed context data. The various sets of feature data are compared with corresponding classification parameters to determine a classification of a continuous event and/or a classification of transient event, if any, which occur in the context. The determined classification of the continuous event and the transient event will be used to autonomously configure the smart device or another related smart device to fit the context.
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公开(公告)号:US10943602B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-09
申请号:US16696948
申请日:2019-11-26
Inventor: Mahesh Chowdhary , Arun Kumar , Ghanapriya Singh , Rajendar Bahl
Abstract: A method and apparatus for classifying a spatial environment as open or enclosed are provided. In the method and apparatus, one or more microphones detect ambient sound in a spatial environment and output an audio signal representative of the ambient sound. A processor determines a spatial environment impulse response (SEIR) for the audio signal and extracts one or more features of the SEIR. The processor classifies the spatial environment as open or enclosed based on the one or more features of the SEIR.
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公开(公告)号:US10917087B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-09
申请号:US16719053
申请日:2019-12-18
Inventor: Vanni Poletto , David F. Swanson , Giovanni Luca Torrisi , Laurent Chevalier
IPC: H03K17/687 , G01R19/165 , G05B11/42 , G05F1/618 , G05F1/56 , H02J7/34
Abstract: A circuit for controlling a first plurality of transistors connected in parallel and a second plurality of transistors connected in parallel, includes: a first plurality of stages, a respective one of the first plurality of stages being configured to supply a first control signal to a respective one of the first plurality of transistors; and a second plurality of stages, a respective one of the second plurality of stages being configured to supply a second control signal to a respective one of the second plurality of transistors. An output current of the respective one of the first plurality of stages is regulated based on a difference between a first value representative of a sum of output currents of each stage of the first plurality of stages and a second value representative of a sum of set points assigned to the first plurality of stages.
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公开(公告)号:US10892344B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-12
申请号:US15981659
申请日:2018-05-16
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: John H. Zhang
IPC: H01L21/8238 , H01L29/51 , H01L21/02 , H01L21/28 , H01L29/45 , H01L29/49 , H01L21/8234 , H01L21/285 , H01L21/768 , C23C14/04 , C23C14/22 , H01L29/66
Abstract: Energy bands of a thin film containing molecular clusters are tuned by controlling the size and the charge of the clusters during thin film deposition. Using atomic layer deposition, an ionic cluster film is formed in the gate region of a nanometer-scale transistor to adjust the threshold voltage, and a neutral cluster film is formed in the source and drain regions to adjust contact resistance. A work function semiconductor material such as a silver bromide or a lanthanum oxide is deposited so as to include clusters of different sizes such as dimers, trimers, and tetramers, formed from isolated monomers. A type of Atomic Layer Deposition system is used to deposit on semiconductor wafers molecular clusters to form thin film junctions having selected energy gaps. A beam of ions contains different ionic clusters which are then selected for deposition by passing the beam through a filter in which different apertures select clusters based on size and orientation.
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