Clock generator circuit for near field communication device

    公开(公告)号:US12249991B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-11

    申请号:US18345726

    申请日:2023-06-30

    Abstract: A clock generator circuit includes an oscillator circuit coupled to a bias circuit. The bias circuit includes a current mirror, third and fourth transistors, and a cascode transistor. The current mirror includes a reference transistor and a set of copy transistors that are programmable. The third transistor has a source connected to a cold spot, a drain and a gate connected to this drain. The fourth transistor has a source connected to the drain of the third transistor, a drain, and a gate connected to that drain. The cascode transistor has a source connected to a drain of at least one of the copy transistors, a drain, and a gate connected to the gate of the fourth transistor. The gates of the fourth transistor and the cascode transistor are thicker than the gates of the reference transistor, each copy transistor, and the third transistor.

    MEMORY CELL
    13.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20240413228A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18809567

    申请日:2024-08-20

    Inventor: Philippe GALY

    Abstract: A cell includes a Z-PET-type structure that is formed with two front gates extending over an intermediate region between an anode region and a cathode region. The individual front gates of the two front gates are spaced apart by a distance that is shorter than 40% of a width of each individual front gate.

    Apparatus including a photographic sensor

    公开(公告)号:US12167142B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-10

    申请号:US17808667

    申请日:2022-06-24

    Abstract: In an embodiment an apparatus includes a scanning photographic sensor configured to acquire an image, according to an integration time of the sensor, of a scene illuminated with periodically emitted light pulses by a source, so that the image has a regular succession of bands with different luminosities when the integration time of the sensor is different from a period of the light pulses, a processor configured to generate a signature vector representative of the regular succession of bands with different luminosities being present in the image acquired by the photographic sensor, wherein the signature vector is independent of a reflectance of an objects of the scene and of a level of light in the scene, determine a frequency of the bands in the image on basis of the generated signature vector and determine the period of the pulses of the source on basis of the determined frequency of the bands in the image, and a controller configured to adjust the integration time of the photographic sensor so that the integration time is a multiple of the determined period of the light pulses of the source.

    METHOD, SYSTEM, AND CIRCUIT FOR GENERATING TOOLCHAINS AGNOSTIC LINKER SCRIPTS

    公开(公告)号:US20240385808A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-21

    申请号:US18744311

    申请日:2024-06-14

    Inventor: Tarek BOCHKATI

    Abstract: System, method, and circuitry for generating a linker model for use by a toolchain associated with a programmable computing device. One or more regions in the memory resources available to the programmable computing devices is defined for used by an application executing on the programmable computing device. One or more sections is defined for those regions for use by the application. Resource boundaries are generated for the application based on the defined regions and the defined sections. A user is enabled to modify the defined regions or the defined sections or the generated resource boundaries. A linker model is then generated based on the available memory resources, the defined regions, the defined sections, and the generated resource boundaries. This linker model is then utilized to generate a linker script for the programmable computing device based the linker syntax compatible with a toolchain linker for the programmable computing device.

    CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION METHOD BETWEEN AN OBJECT AND A READER USING ACTIVE LOAD MODULATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240232549A9

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18486373

    申请日:2023-10-13

    CPC classification number: G06K7/10297 H04L7/0331

    Abstract: In one embodiment, an object can communicate contactlessly with a reader using active load modulation. The method includes detecting a sensing magnetic field emitted by the reader, initializing a phase-locked loop of the object, detecting a stopping of the sensing magnetic field emitted by the reader before initializing the phase-locked loop of the object is complete, calibrating an oscillator of the phase-locked loop on the basis of an internal clock of the object, detecting a new sensing magnetic field of the reader after calibrating the oscillator, and implementing the phase-locked loop to adjust the phase of the oscillator after detecting a new sensing magnetic field.

    System on a chip and a power down process for IP access resilience

    公开(公告)号:US11907156B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17457553

    申请日:2021-12-03

    CPC classification number: G06F15/7807 G06F1/08 G06F1/14

    Abstract: According to one aspect, provision is made of a system-on-chip comprising a master device, a slave device, a clock configured to clock the operation of the slave device, a clock controller configured to activate or deactivate the clock and/or a power-on controller configured to power on/off the slave device, a control system configured to detect that the clock is deactivated and/or that the slave device is powered off when the master device emits an access request to the slave device, the master device being configured for activating the clock when the control system detects that this clock is deactivated and/or powering on the slave device when the control system detects that the slave device is powered off, then emitting a new access request to the slave device.

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