摘要:
The invention relates to a multitask processing system including a data bus and a command bus. Each one of a plurality of operators is provided to perform a processing determined by an instruction and is likely to issue a command request in order to receive an instruction from the command bus and to issue a transfer request on response to an acknowledgment of the command request, in order to receive or provide data being processed, through the data bus. A memory controller arbitrates the transfer requests and manages the data transfers on the data bus between the operators and a memory. A sequencer arbitrates the command requests, determines instructions to provide the operators with, and manages the instruction transfer through the command bus.
摘要:
A modular arithmetic coprocessor designed to perform computations according to the Montgomery method includes a division circuit to perform integer divisions. The integer division circuit computes the division of a binary data element A encoded on n+n (bits by a binary data element B encoded on n bits, A, B, n, n' and n" being on-zero integers. For this function, the integer division circuit includes: a first n-bit register and a second n-bit register to contain the binary data element A and the result of the division, a third n-bit register to contain an intermediate result, a fourth n-bit register to contain the binary data element B, two subtraction circuits each having a first series input and a second series input and a series output, and a test circuit having an input and an output.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for fabricating an integrated circuit including MOS transistors and a bipolar transistor of NPN type, including the steps of: forming the MOS transistors, covering the entire structure with a protection layer, opening the protection layer at the base-emitter location of the bipolar transistor, forming a first P-type doped layer of polysilicon, a second layer of silicon nitride and a second oxide layer, opening these last three layers at the center of the emitter-base region of the bipolar transistor, and depositing a third silicon nitride layer, forming spacers, removing the apparent parts of the third layer of silicon nitride, and depositing a third N-type doped polysilicon layer.
摘要:
The disclosure relates to detectors of the level of supply voltage in an integrated circuit. The disclosed detector is designed to detect the crossing of low levels of supply voltage. It comprises a first arm to define a first reference voltage and a second arm to define a second reference voltage, these two reference voltages varying differently as a function of the supply voltage and their curves of variation intersecting for a value of the supply voltage located close to a desired threshold. A comparator receives the two reference voltages. The first arm has a resistive divider bridge, an intermediate connector of which constitutes the first reference voltage. The second arm comprises a resistor series-connected with a native P type MOS transistor, the point of junction of this resistor and this transistor constituting the second reference voltage. A non-linear element may be parallel-connected to the resistor which constitutes the first reference voltage.
摘要:
Disclosed are a self-catalytic bath and a method for the deposition of Ni-P alloy on a substrate. The bath comprises nickel sulfate, sodium hypophosphite as a reducing agent, acetic acid as a buffer and traces of lead as a stabilizer. It also includes a citrate used as a complexing agent associated with a gluconate used both as a catalyst and a stabilizer. The disclosed bath makes it possible to tolerate large quantities of hypophosphite and is relatively long-lived. Furthermore, it can be used to prepare large quantities of Ni-P alloy per liter of solution.
摘要:
A control device for a hands-free telephone set automatically controls microphone and amplifier gains so that a feedback loop has less than unity gain to avoid circuit instability and resultant self-oscillation. An emission channel includes a microphone, a signal compressor and a controllable attenuator. A reception channel includes a signal compressor, an adjustable attenuator and a loudspeaker. The combination of the emission and reception channels form an amplification loop whereby the output of the reception channel is acoustically coupled to the input of the emission channel while the output of the emission channel is coupled to the input of the reception channel through a common telephone line. To avoid circuit oscillation, a circuit initially sets the gain of the loop to a predetermined value slightly less than unity (0 db) and subsequently maintains the loop gain constant by maintaining the sum of the compressor and attenuator gains at a fixed value.
摘要:
An interconnect track connects, on several metallization levels, an insulated gate of a transistor to a discharge diode within an integrated circuit. The interconnect track comprises a first track element extending under the highest metallization level, having a first end connected to the gate and having a length greater than a predetermined critical length. This first track element includes an interrupted track portion at a site a first distance less than the critical length away from the first end. This point is compatible with the placement of the metallization level above, and extends between two insulating layers on the same metallization level. The two branches of the interrupted portion are mutually connected by a metallic filling contact which also extends in the insulating support layer of the metallization level immediately above that containing the interrupted track portion.
摘要:
In a static RAM, a complete erasure of the memory is achieved by sequentially propagating an erasure control signal from one group of memory cells to a next group of memory cells through delay circuits calibrated to correspond to a maximum time duration of erasure of the previous group of cells.
摘要:
A read/write head for a magnetic medium magnetic is modified by the addition to it of a parallel-connected resistor and by the measurement of the difference in voltage at the terminals of this unit, on the one hand when the read/write head and the resistor are perfectly connected and, on the other hand, when one of the connections is in an open circuit condition or even in short-circuit condition with respect to ground. Consequently, a measurement is taken, preferably, of the state of connection of the read/write head when it is in read mode and not when it is in write mode. It is shown that far greater reliability in the detection of this type of defect is obtained, in avoiding false alarms.
摘要:
A detection circuit for a microcontroller includes a decoding circuit to decode the addressing codes of the memory to detect an addressing of the cell. The detection circuit also includes a circuit for decoding the instruction codes to detect the instructions comprising an access to the cell, and a logic circuit to give an alarm signal when an addressing of the cell is done in the absence of an instruction including an access to the cell.