Abstract:
An active rectifier used in a power supply circuit comprises a diode (4) connected between in input terminal (9) and an output terminal (8). A transistor (2) is formed in a substrate (50) and has a control electrode (5) and two conductive electrodes (6,7) which are respectively connected to the input terminal (9) and the output terminal (8). A comparator (3) is supplied by the power supply circuit and has two inputs (+, -) connected to the input (9) and the output (8) terminals respectively, and an output connected to the transistor control electrode (5).
Abstract:
An electronic device including an electronic circuit (1, 8) for delivering an output signal (CKS) and a programmable non volatile memory (30) coupled to the electronic circuit to allow storage of a binary word (EED[7:0]) representative of at least one adjustable feature (C1, C2) of the electronic circuit (1, 8), this electronic device including at least first and second supply terminals (PAD_VDD, PAD_VSS), to which first and second supply voltages are applied (VDD, VSS) and at least one output terminal (PAD_OUT) at which the output signal from the electronic circuit is delivered. Circuits are provided for switching the output terminal into a so-called high impedance state so as to allow the introduction, in serial form, via this output terminal, of data bits intended, in particular, to be stored in the non volatile memory of the device. This device is applied, in particular, for adjusting the features of an oscillator circuit.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a conditioning circuit (10) for an external signal (IN) representative of a physiological quantity, arranged between an optical sensor (11) and a processing unit (12), the received external signal (IN) being broken down into a useful component and an ambient component, characterized in that the conditioning circuit includes a first stage (13) including a transimpedance amplifier with an incorporated high pass filter (15) using a feedback loop to subtract the ambient signal component from the received external signal, and to deliver at output an amplified useful signal (IN1), a second stage (16) including a blocker sampler circuit (17) for demodulating the amplified useful signal and delivering at output a demodulated useful signal (IN2), and a third stage (18) including a bandpass filter (19) for filtering the demodulated useful signal in the frequency band of the physiological quantity to be detected and for transmitting a conditioned signal (OUT) to the processing unit.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an oscillator including an input terminal, an output terminal, a resonator, and an oscillator circuit including: first and second power supply terminals, two capacitors connected between the first power supply terminal and the input terminal, and respectively the output terminal of the oscillator; first and second active transistors of complementary type, forming therewith an inverting amplifier, first and second means for respectively polarizing the first and the second active transistors, a first current source formed by a transistor of the same type as the second active transistor, between the second power supply terminal and the second active transistor, current control means for the second polarizing means, characterized in that in an steady operating conditions, said second polarizing means are arranged for providing a polarization voltage across the gate of the second active transistor corresponding to the transistor gate voltage of the first current source to within one voltage shift.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an oscillator including an input terminal, an output terminal, a resonator, and an oscillator circuit including: first and second power supply terminals, two capacitors connected between the first power supply terminal and the input terminal, and respectively the output terminal of the oscillator; first and second active transistors of complementary type, forming therewith an inverting amplifier, first and second means for respectively polarising the first and the second active transistors, a first current source formed by a transistor of the same type as the second active transistor, between the second power supply terminal and the second active transistor, current control means for the second polarising means, characterized in that in an steady operating conditions, said second polarising means are arranged for providing a polarisation voltage across the gate of the second active transistor corresponding to the transistor gate voltage of the first current source to within one voltage shift.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a procedure for accessing a non-volatile watch memory, the watch comprising two supply terminals accessible from the outside that define a potential difference corresponding to a standard supply voltage, and a control circuit of the non-volatile memory produced using a technology supporting a predefined maximum supply voltage, the access procedure consisting of transmitting the following to the control circuit of the non-volatile memory by means of a supply terminal of the watch: a) an opening key to authorize access to the non-volatile memory; b) an instruction for access to the non-volatile memory; the procedure being characterized in that the opening key is a predefined instruction transmitted by modulation of the standard supply voltage such that this does not exceed the predefined maximum supply voltage.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a procedure for accessing a non-volatile watch memory, the watch comprising two supply terminals accessible from the outside that define a potential difference corresponding to a standard supply voltage, and a control circuit of the non-volatile memory produced using a technology supporting a predefined maximum supply voltage, the access procedure consisting of transmitting the following to the control circuit of the non-volatile memory by means of a supply terminal of the watch: a) an opening key to authorise access to the non-volatile memory; b) an instruction for access to the non-volatile memory; the procedure being characterised in that the opening key is a predefined instruction transmitted by modulation of the standard supply voltage such that this does not exceed the predefined maximum supply voltage.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a conditioning circuit (10) for an external signal (IN) representative of a physiological quantity, arranged between an optical sensor (11) and a processing unit (12), the received external signal (IN) being broken down into a useful component and an ambient component, characterized in that the conditioning circuit includes a first stage (13) including a transimpedance amplifier with an incorporated high pass filter (15) using a feedback loop to subtract the ambient signal component from the received external signal, and to deliver at output an amplified useful signal (IN1), a second stage (16) including a blocker sampler circuit (17) for demodulating the amplified useful signal and delivering at output a demodulated useful signal (IN2), and a third stage (18) including a bandpass filter (19) for filtering the demodulated useful signal in the frequency band of the physiological quantity to be detected and for transmitting a conditioned signal (OUT) to the processing unit.
Abstract:
There is disclosed an inverter oscillator circuit delivering an alternating output signal and including a parallel arrangement, between an input terminal and output terminal, of an inverter amplifier means, a resonator, and a resistor, first and second load capacitors being respectively connected between said input and output terminals, on the one hand, and a supply potential, on the other hand. Control means for controlling the inverter amplifier means such that it has a so called start-up transconductance value during a start-up phase and a so-called reduced transconductance value, lower than said start-up transconductance value, in steady state at the end of said start-up phase. Means for smoothing an amplitude decrease in the output signal resulting from the passage of said start-up transconductance value to said reduced transconductance value is included.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a low frequency oscillator device including a quartz resonator (1) and an electronic maintenance circuit for maintaining the vibrations of said quartz resonator. According to the present invention, the quartz resonator is arranged to vibrate according to a torsional mode and therefore has a single cutting angle defined by a rotation at a determined angle (&thgr;) about the crystallographic axis X of the quartz crystal. This resonator includes in particular at least one undesired fundamental flexural vibrating mode at a first frequency and a desired fundamental torsional vibrating mode at a second frequency higher than said first frequency. Moreover, the electronic maintenance circuit is an inverter circuit (2) whose transconductance value (gm) is determined such that said device cannot oscillate according to the undesired fundamental flexural vibrating mode but according to the desired fundamental torsional vibrating mode of said resonator. The oscillator device according to the present invention thus has substantially improved thermal characteristics with respect to known oscillator devices using flexural vibrating resonators.