公开(公告)号：DE602004031796D1

公开(公告)日：2011-04-28

申请号：DE602004031796

申请日：2004-01-20

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL ,  ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： LO PRIORE STEFANO ,  PALMIERI MICHELE ,  MASTROMATTEO UBALDO

IPC: H01M8/02 ,  H01M4/86 ,  H01M4/88 ,  H01M4/94 ,  H01M8/00 ,  H01M8/10 ,  H01M8/14 ,  H01M8/24

公开(公告)号：DE60044767D1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-16

申请号：DE60044767

申请日：2000-09-25

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： EDWARDS DAVID ALAN

IPC: G06F11/28 ,  G06F11/36 ,  G01R31/3185 ,  G06F11/26 ,  G06F15/78

公开(公告)号：DE602004027207D1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-01

申请号：DE602004027207

申请日：2004-12-14

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： PILKINGTON CHARLES E

IPC: G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06F9/48

公开(公告)号：DE602006011693D1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-04

申请号：DE602006011693

申请日：2006-10-10

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： KRIVOKAPIC IVAN ,  DIVEL THIERRY

IPC: H04B1/04 ,  H03B1/04 ,  H03B21/02 ,  H03H17/02 ,  H03L7/107 ,  H03L7/185

Abstract: A single sideband mixer circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator operable to provide a tunable frequency f1. The mixer circuit outputs a frequency signal at a frequency f1 ± f2. A tracking filter operates to filter the frequency signal and generate a first output signal at the frequency f1 ± f2. A resonance frequency fr of the tracking filter is tunable to substantially match the frequency f1 ± f2 of the frequency signal. The output signal of the tracking filter may be processed by a phase lock loop circuit to generate a control signal for controlling the setting of the tunable frequency f1 and resonance frequency fr. Alternatively, the output signal of the tracking filter may be divided and the divided signal processed by a phase lock loop circuit to generate the control signal for controlling setting of the tunable frequency f1 and resonance frequency fr.

公开(公告)号：DE69941866D1

公开(公告)日：2010-02-11

申请号：DE69941866

申请日：1999-02-17

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： THOMAS DANIELLE A ,  BRYANT FRANK RANDOLPH

IPC: H01L21/30 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/20

Abstract: A structure and method for creating an integrated circuit passivation (24) comprising, a circuit (16), a dielectric (18), and metal plates (20) over which an insulating layer (26) is disposed that electrically and hermetically isolates the circuit (16), and a discharge layer (32) that is deposited to form a passivation (24) that protects the circuit (16) from electrostatic discharges caused by, e.g., a finger, is disclosed.

公开(公告)号：DE602005017858D1

公开(公告)日：2010-01-07

申请号：DE602005017858

申请日：2005-09-26

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： CHIU ANTHONY M ,  SIEGEL HARRY MICHAEL

IPC: B81B7/00

公开(公告)号：DE602005015790D1

公开(公告)日：2009-09-17

申请号：DE602005015790

申请日：2005-06-29

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： FREY CHRISTOPHE

IPC: G11C11/56 ,  G11C11/16

Abstract: A magnetic random access memory element is made from a first magnetic tunnel junction and a second magnetic tunnel junction. These magnetic tunnel junctions are connected to each other in a series resistive circuit. The connected first and second magnetic tunnel junctions are connected to a bit line through an access transistor. A write bit line and a write data line are associated with each of the first and second magnetic tunnel junctions. By application of appropriate currents to these lines, the magnetic vector orientation with each of the first and second magnetic tunnel junctions can be controlled so as to store information within the element in any one of at least three logic states.

公开(公告)号：DE69840907D1

公开(公告)日：2009-07-30

申请号：DE69840907

申请日：1998-10-27

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： RAMBALDI ROBERTO ,  TARTAGNI MARCO ,  KRAMER ALAN H

IPC: H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/367 ,  H04N5/374

Abstract: Disclosed is a fault tolerant CMOS image sensor that includes circuitry for identifying defective pixels and masking them during image generation. Masking may involve, in one example, replacing the output of a given pixel with an average of the output of surrounding non-faulty pixels. Thus, while image sensors may be fabricated with some number of faulty pixels, the images produced by such sensors will not have undesirable bright or dark spots. The disclosed sensor includes (a) one or more pixels (active or passive) capable of providing outputs indicative of a quantity of radiation to which each of the one or more pixels has been exposed; and (b) one or more circuit elements electrically coupled to the one or more pixels and configured to identify and correct faulty pixels in the CMOS imager. The one more pixels each include a photodiode diffusion formed in a well and a tap to power or ground also formed in the well. The disclosed sensor also identifies pixels that were initially acceptable but later became defective. The newly defective pixels so identified may then be masked to thereby increase the CMOS detector lifetime.

公开(公告)号：DE602004020419D1

公开(公告)日：2009-05-20

申请号：DE602004020419

申请日：2004-04-30

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： LEAMING TAYLOR J

IPC: G06F13/14 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06K19/07 ,  H05K7/10

Abstract: An integrated circuit for a smart card may include a transceiver and a controller for cooperating with the transceiver to receive operating requests from a host device. The controller may perform smart card operations based upon respective operating requests. Moreover, the controller also may cooperate with the transceiver to receive at least one advance request from the host device to indicate that at least one operating request will follow. By way of example, the standby operation may include loading data in at least one buffer, which may be sent to the host device based upon receiving the at least one operating request. Other standby operations may include disabling data transmission to the host device, such as when the communications bus of the host device is preoccupied, and ceasing performing a current smart card operation to allow a higher priority smart card operation to be performed, for example.

公开(公告)号：DE60137188D1

公开(公告)日：2009-02-12

申请号：DE60137188

申请日：2001-12-19

Applicant: ST MICROELECTRONICS INC

Inventor： HOMEWOOD MARK OWEN ,  VONDRAN GARY L ,  BROWN GEOFFREY M ,  FARABOSCHI PAOLO

IPC: G06F9/32 ,  G06F9/38

Abstract: There is disclosed a data processor having a clustered architecture that comprises at least one branching cluster, at least one non-branching cluster and remote conditional branching control circuitry. Each of the clusters is capable of computing branch conditions, though only the branching cluster is operable to perform branch address computations. The remote conditional branching control circuitry, which is associated with each of the clusters, is operable in response to sensing a conditional branch instruction in a non-branching cluster to (i) cause the branching cluster to compute a branch address and a next program counter address, (ii) cause the non-branching cluster to compute a branch condition, and (iii) communicate the computed branch condition from the non-branching cluster to the branching cluster. The- data processor then uses the computed branch condition to select one of the branch address or the next program counter address.