Abstract:
A contactless electronic IC card (10), includes a communication device (14) for communicating with a contactless electronic IC card reader (12) in accordance with the ISO 14443-4 standard, a contact type electronic IC card operating system (16) communicating by APDU command and APDU response in accordance with the ISO 7816-4 standard, and a protocol conversion interface (18) between the communication device (14) and the operating system (16).
Abstract:
A transconducting device includes at least one transistor having a control electrode for receiving an input signal whose frequency spectrum contains two different frequencies, an output electrode for delivering an output signal, and a third electrode. The transconducting device further includes a voltage source for delivering a DC reference voltage, and a feedback controller for feedback-controlling the voltage on the third electrode to the DC reference voltage using a negative feedback loop. The negative feedback loop includes resistive damping, connects the third electrode and the control electrode, and has an open-loop gain greater than unity at a frequency equal to the frequency separation between the two different frequencies.
Abstract:
A process for producing an integrated electronic circuit. The process begins with the production of a first electronic component and a second electronic component that are superposed on top of a substrate. A volume of temporary material is formed on the substrate at the position of the second electronic component. The first electronic component is then produced above the volume of temporary material relative to the substrate, and then the second electronic component is produced using at least one shaft for access to the temporary material. The first electronic component may be an active component and the second electronic component may be a passive component.
Abstract:
A method for providing security to a chaining of useful operations of the same type, performed by an electronic circuit executing an algorithm, randomly introduces one or more dummy operations in the chaining of operations. This prevents any fraudulent access to protected data through a statistical analysis of electrical currents.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, MOS transistors in the substrate, and a dielectric layer on the MOS transistors. Contact holes are formed through the dielectric layer to provide electrical connection to the MOS transistors. An etch-stop layer is between the MOS transistors and the dielectric layer. The etch-stop layer includes a first layer of material having a first residual stress level and covers some of the MOS transistors, and a second layer of material having a second residual stress level and covers all of the MOS transistors. The respective thickness of the first and second layers of material, and the first and second residual stress levels associated therewith are selected to obtain variations in operating parameters of the MOS transistors.
Abstract:
A method processes parallel electrical signals, using parallel processing circuits that process successive cycles of electrical signals according to a rule for allocating electrical signals to the processing circuits. The method comprises, between the processing cycles, a step of modifying the rule for allocating electrical signals to the processing circuits, so that a processing circuit processes electrical signals of different ranks during different processing cycles. The method can be applied particularly to secure a memory during read phases of the memory and of an integrated circuit with a microprocessor using such a memory.
Abstract:
A phase locked loop circuit comprising a phase detector having a first input for receiving a first frequency signal and an output, a first filter adapted to filter the output electric signal of the phase detector, a voltage controlled oscillator adapted to generate a second frequency signal in response to the output filtered signal of the phase detector. The phase detector has a second input for receiving the second frequency signal and is adapted to compare it with the first frequency signal. The circuit comprises means adapted to amplify the difference between an electric signal coupled with the output of the phase detector and a reference electric signal and a second filter adapted to receive the output electric signal of the amplification means and to send an output electric signal to the voltage controlled oscillator. The circuit comprises further means adapted to modify the value of the electric signal in input to the second filter to decrease the response time of the second filter.
Abstract:
A method for interlacing digital data to reduce transmission errors includes dividing a stream of digital data into consecutive blocks of bits, and interlacing each block of bits by writing to an interlacing table. The interlacing table is arranged in the form of rows and columns of memory addresses, with a number of the rows and columns corresponding to predetermined interlacing parameters. The access sequences to the memory addresses for interlacing the blocks of bits are different from each other. The method further includes reading a block of bits in the interlacing table according to a memory addresses access sequence, and also writing bits to a consecutive block of bits according to the memory addresses access sequence during the reading.
Abstract:
A process of correction of the spectral inversion for a receiver in a digital communication system: the process allows the reception in the receiver of a training sequence presumably known according to a modulation of type π/2 BPSK or MDP2. The process includes the following steps: Demodulating of the training sequence; Calculating of the differential correlation on a set of N received samples (Rn) and presumably sent (Sn) to generate a result; Using the result to detect the beginning of the frame and to order a spectral inversion in the chain of reception of the aforementioned receiver before launching the detection of the beginning of the frame. A receiver to process automatically the spectral inversion is also described.
Abstract translation:校正数字通信系统中的接收机的频谱反演的过程:该过程允许在接收机中接收根据类型pi / 2 BPSK或MDP2的调制推测的训练序列。 该过程包括以下步骤:解调训练序列; 计算一组N个接收样本(R SUB n N)上的差分相关性,并推测发送(S N n N)以产生结果; 使用该结果来检测帧的开始,并且在开始检测帧的开始之前,在上述接收机的接收链中订购频谱反演。 还描述了自动处理频谱反演的接收机。
Abstract:
In a calibration phase for a tuner of the DZIF type, N calibration frequency signals are generated at an input of a filter. The N calibration frequency signals have N calibration frequencies corresponding respectively after transposition to N analysis frequencies at an input of a Fourier transform. An amplitude and a phase of a corresponding point at an output of the Fourier transform are calculated for each analysis frequency. In a reception phase, each of the outputs of the Fourier transform is corrected with an inverse of the corresponding amplitude and opposite the corresponding phase calculated in the calibration phase.