Abstract:
A substrate (21) is thinned by forming a trench pattern (33) in its top surface (31), the trench depth being the intended thickness of the dice. A polishing resistant material (35) is then formed in the trench and planarized down to a topside passivating layer (27), which is patterned (41) to expose surface test regions (43). After wafer-probe testing, the wafer (21) is affixed face-down on a support handle (53) by means of an adhesion material (55) such as wax. The substrate (21) is backside-lapped down to the stop material (35) in the trench (33), leaving a thin wafer layer. After the trench material (35) is removed. Individual dice (61) are separated from the support handle (53) by melting the wax (55). In a further embodiment, a thin wafer layer is formed on a buried oxide layer (89). After trench patterning (93) and face-down wax-mounting (95), the support substrate (91) is polished down to the buried insulator layer (89). The buried oxide layer (89) is then etched off. The dice are removed by heating the wax (95).
Abstract:
A wideband communication system and method for wideband communication that provide plural signals to a single transmitting antenna (28). Each signal is independently modulated (16) and amplified (40), and then combined (42) with other signals for transmission on the antenna. The independent amplification, that is, amplification without prior combination with other signals, reduces the number of intermodulation products (IP), thereby reducing the need for complicated IP cancellation techniques. A distribution circuit (22) provides that when the number of signals exceeds the number of amplifiers, two signals may be combined before amplification. The amplified signals may be combined before amplification. The amplified signals may be combined before transmission in combiners that include transformers that reduce IP caused by RF interference. The transformers are formed by enclosing the transmission line within a cavity in a block of ferrite material.
Abstract:
A D channel monitor is provided which is capable of providing a plurality of operating modes for monitoring D channel operation. As such, the D channel monitor can include first (S1) and second (S2) interface elements which can be operated to appear as either an NT interface (for a TE) or as a TE interface (for an NT). A controller (10) is provided which can control the first and second interface elements to appear as predetermined ones of the NT interface or the TE interface for respectively coupling to either a TE or an NT of the ISDN user terminal. A monitoring arrangement is also included for monitoring the D channel signals at the terminal (14) which are received through either of the first and second interface elements. This monitoring arrangement includes means for indicating the status of the D channel signals to a user.
Abstract:
A load device for an MOS transistor, such as that of a memory cell, includes a differentially doped vertical JFET structure that contains two separate and distinct opposite conductivity type regions. The interior region has the same conductivity as the well in which the JFET is formed, and is surrounded by the JFET channel region which has an annular shape. The pinch-off voltage of the annular vertical JFET channel is established by its cross-sectional thickness and doping profile. This reduced thickness, annular-shaped, vertical JFET channel provides a limited current flow path that can be precisely tailored to restrict current flow to what is essentially a leakage current path, and provide a high load impedance.
Abstract:
Information loss and DC offset problems associated with AC-coupling the signal processing path of an RF modem are obviated by means of a low frequency reconstruction and DC offset cancellation signal processing arrangement which reconstructs low frequency information that has been removed by high pass-filtering of a baseband signal prior to data decision processing, and cancels slowly varying DC impairments to the baseband signal. The difference between the quantized data output of the baseband comparator and the baseband signal is integrated to derive a correction signal representative of the accumulated variation of errors. This accumulate variation is subtracted from the baseband signal, to remove slowly varying DC offset errors, so that the amplitude values of the signal constellation input to the quantization circuitry of the data recovery processor are not distorted by a DC offset level upon which the baseband modulation is riding. Low pass-filtering the output of the comparator allows an exact representation of the low frequency signal component of the baseband signal that had been removed by the AC-coupling of the baseband signal prior to its application to the signal processing comparator to be recovered, so that it can be reinjected into the baseband signal path prior to its application to the comparator.
Abstract:
This invention relates to techniques to guarantee isochronous operation of a wireless system. Synchronization and frequency stability is tracked and maintained for more than one frequency references of different stratums or better in a wireless telecommunication system.
Abstract:
A sheet feeder includes a feed roller (12) for compelling a sheet from a stack of sheets into a sheet path and a pair of separation rollers (18, 20) rotating in the same direction for urging sheets along the sheet path. The separation rollers are selectively and separately disengaged from their power source with a motor for the feed roller to provide multiple checks for sheet multifeeds. At each check, extra sheets are returned to the stack of sheets. The separation rollers may each include plural annular spaced-apart sheet contact surfaces that are interleaved with the contact surfaces of the other roller.
Abstract:
A container (10) and a method of using the container for storing sheets of material, such as photosensitive materials, enables individual sheets to be transported from the container to an imaging unit by a feed mechanism of the imaging unit. The container fits within the imaging unit to provide a light-tight environment for the photosensitive material. The container includes a clamping component (52) to allow for the removal of a light-tight bag (34) which encloses the photosensitive materials.
Abstract:
A container (10) and a method of using the container for storing sheets of material, such as a photosensitive materials, enables individual sheets to be transported from the container (10) to an imaging unit (12) by a feed mechanism of the imaging unit. The container (10) fits within the imaging unit to provide a light-tight environment for the photosensitive material. The container includes a front ramp (20B) to guide sheets into the imaging unit and a back ramp (26B) to separate blocked sheets. The container also includes a clamping component to allow for the removal of a light-tight bag which encloses the photosensitive materials.
Abstract:
A remote test unit (11) for testing and conditioning one or more telephone lines (13) includes multiple electronically erasable flash memory banks (46, 47), which contain respective versions of the operating remote site (12) allows the functionality of the remote test unit (11) to be selectively modified by electronically installing an upgraded or downgraded version of the operating system, or by electronically selectively activating or deactivating one or more operational features of the currently active operating system.