Abstract:
A survival sequence register for a read channel employing a variable threshold peak qualification technique, has a first data shift register receiving a logic sum stream of two serial streams of coded digital data, corresponding to qualified peaks detected by a reading pick-up of positive and negative sign, respectively, and a pointer register. A control circuit generates an erase signal when an incoming pulse is recognized as corresponding to a detected peak of the same sign of the previously detected peak. The erase signal is input to logic gates which each drive a reset terminal of a flip-flop of the data shift register, with the exception of the first flip-flop of the register. The pointer register being reset when the control circuit receives a pulse corresponding to a peak of opposite polarity of the detected peak relative to the preceding pulse.
Abstract:
A three-terminal insulated-gate power electronic device includes a first, bipolar power transistor and a second, insulated-gate transistor forming a darlington pair. The bipolar power transistor has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a control electrode respectively connected to a first electrode of the insulated-gate transistor and to a first external terminal of the three-terminal device, to a second external terminal of the three-terminal device, and to one second electrode of the insulated-gate transistor. The three-terminal device further includes switching means connected between the control electrode and the second electrode of the bipolar power transistor, and control circuit means connected to another second electrode of the insulated-gate transistor and controlling the switching means to switch it from a highly-conducting condition for low values of a current flowing through the first and second external terminals to a non-conducting condition for high values of the current flowing between the first and second external terminals.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an integrated input/output interface for low and/or high voltage range signals of the digital and/or analog type. It comprises essentially a power amplification circuit block (2) having at least one low voltage range input terminal (A) and at least one high voltage range output terminal (B), and a second amplification circuit block (3) having a high voltage range input terminal connected to said high voltage range output terminal (B) and at least one low voltage range output terminal (D). A conventional circuit block (4) prevents a high voltage range signal being input to said high voltage range terminal (B) from propagating through the first power amplification circuit block (2), so that it only affects the second amplification circuit block (3). This interface is implemented in mixed high voltage bipolar/CMOS/DMOS technology.
Abstract:
A read circuit comprises at least one array branch connected to at least one bit line, and a reference branch connected to a reference line. The array and reference branches each comprise a precharge circuit and load interposed between the supply and the bit line and reference line respectively. The reference load is so formed as to generate a reference current which, during evaluation, is twice the current supplied to the bit line. The reference line is connected to an extra-current transistor which is only turned on during equalization so that, during equalization, the selected bit line is supplied with a high current approximating that supplied to the reference line. As such, if the cell to be read is written, the output voltage of the array branch is brought rapidly to its natural high value; whereas, if the cell to be read is erased, the output voltage may return to its low value when the extra-current transistor is turned off, thus permitting reading in advance.
Abstract:
A scheme for altering checking information in a message packet intended to be transmitted between computers is described. In this scheme, when an information portion of the packet is altered, checking bits contained in the packets are altered in dependence only on the set of checking bits in the message packet before modification of the information portion and on the modifications to the information portion. Thus, it is not necessary to generate new checking bits from a modified information portion.
Abstract:
A driver circuit, for an electronic switch which is to be operated from a clock signal, comprises an inverter driven by the clock signal, and a voltage doubler which is connected to supply the inverter and connected to be driven by the complementary clock signal.
Abstract:
A process for forming low threshold voltage P-channel MOS transistors in semiconductor integrated circuits for analog applications, said circuits including high resistivity resistors formed in a layer of polycrystalline silicon and N-channel MOS transistors having active areas which have been obtained by implantation in a P-type well, comprises the steps of,providing a first mask over both said resistors and the semiconductor regions where the low threshold voltage P-channel transistors are to be formed,doping the polycrystalline layer uncovered by said first mask,--providing a second mask for protecting the resistors and the semiconductor regions where said low threshold voltage P-channel transistors are to be formed, andN+ implanting the active areas of the N-channel transistors.
Abstract:
A programming voltage is supplied to a control gate of a non-volatile memory cell via a control gate line. A supply voltage is coupled to a first plate of a capacitor and a reference voltage is coupled to a second plate of the capacitor. The supply voltage is then uncoupled from the first plate and the reference voltage is uncoupled from the second plate. Next, the reference voltage is coupled to the first plate to generate the programming voltage on the second plate.
Abstract:
A substrate insulation device includes power supply terminals which are connected to a terminal of an active integrated element which has, with respect to a substrate on which it is defined, at least one reverse-biased junction.
Abstract:
A structure of an electronic device having a predetermined unidirectional conduction threshold is formed on a chip of an N-type semiconductor material and includes a plurality of isolated N-type regions. Each isolated N-type region is bounded laterally by an isolating region and at the bottom by buried P-type and N-type regions which form in combination a junction with a predetermined reverse conduction threshold and means of connecting the junctions of the various isolated regions serially together. The buried N-type region of the first junction in the series is connected to a common electrode, which also is one terminal of the device, over an internal path of the N-type material of the chip, and the buried P-type region of the last junction in the series contains an additional buried N-type region which is connected electrically to a second terminal of the device.