Abstract:
An integrated circuit device (11) has an address and data path (15) interconnecting a CPU (12) with modules (14) the modules having event logic (8) to generate an event request packet having a destination address and the CPU decoding the packet to selectively respond to the request of the packet depending on the priority of the event.
Abstract:
An oscillator comprises an odd number of single ended stages (S1, S2, S3), each stage comprising two transistors (T1, T2) connected as a current mirror. The stage provides for low-voltage performance and improved process tolerance characteristics.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method and circuit for allowing access to a shared memory by at least two controllers having different bus widths. Such method and circuit provides particular advantages in its application to controlling access to a shared memory in a digital set-top-box of a digital television receiver. An arbiter is provided to access between memory accesses by first and second memory access circuitry. The first memory access circuitry accesses a block of data in the shared memory, and the second memory access circuitry accesses two blocks of data in each memory access. Each second memory write access comprises reading blocks of data from first and second memory locations and then writing blocks of data to first and second memory locations.
Abstract:
A cyclic redundancy check value is computed by iterating a loop in which the contents of an operand (50) having a first CRC value (51) and a data value (52) are shifted 1 bit to the end at which the CRC value is located, and a generator value (55) is exclusive-ORed into corresponding respective bits of the operand only if the bit shifted out of the operand by the shift was set, and this is repeated until a data byte has been displaced entirely and a modified cyclic redundancy check value (51) occupies the most significant bytes but now incorporates the original data byte in modified form.
Abstract:
A device for synthesising a reverse model of a system comprises a first store storing bits representative of transition functions of the system, a second store storing bits representative of an estimate of transition functions of the reverse model, and processing means. The processing means comprises a logical device for transforming the transition functions of the system into constraints on the reverse model, and a parameterisation processor for applying a parameterisation of the constraints to the estimate of transition functions of reverse system to form transition functions of the reverse model.
Abstract:
An image sensor has a per-column ADC arrangement including first and second capacitors for correlated double sampling, and a comparator circuit. The capacitors are continuously connected to, respectively, the analog pixel signal and a ramp signal without use of a hold operation. The comparator circuit comprises a differential amplifier having one input connected to the junction of the two capacitors and another input connected to a reference signal. The reference signal is preferably sampled and held from a reference voltage. The use of a differential amplifier as first stage of the comparator addresses problems arising from ground voltage bounce when a large pixel array images a scene with low contrast.