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US-7,886,342 Distributed environment controlled access facility
A computer implemented web based access control facility for a distributed environment, which allows users to request for access, take the request through...
US-7,886,253 Design structure for performing iterative synthesis of an integrated circuit design to attain power closure
A design structure that performs iterative synthesis of an integrated circuit design to attain power closure is described. In one embodiment, the design...
US-7,886,246 Methods for identifying failing timing requirements in a digital design
Methods for identifying failing timing requirements in a digital design. The method includes identifying at least one timing test in the digital design that has...
US-7,886,240 Modifying layout of IC based on function of interconnect and related circuit and design structure
Modifying a layout of an integrated circuit (IC) based on a function of an interconnect therein and a related circuit and design structure are disclosed. In one...
US-7,886,237 Method of generating a functional design structure
A method in a computer-aided design system for generating a functional design model of a circuit that compensates for changes in resistance of a buried resistor...
US-7,886,210 Apparatus for pipelined cyclic redundancy check circuit with multiple intermediate outputs
A CRC redundancy calculation circuit is presented which is pipelined to run at high frequencies and configured to operate on an arbitrary multiple of the base...
US-7,885,958 Method, apparatus and computer program product for organizing hierarchical information
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for organizing hierarchical information according to a defined objective.
US-7,885,533 External photographic wireless communication device
An external photographic wireless communication device for connection to a camera body having a hot shoe connector for connecting to the camera body and a hot...
US-7,885,498 Optical fiber microscopy launch system and method
A sample slide, launch system, and method for microscopy having two optical fibers positioned proximate a sample slide with optical fiber mounting elements to...
US-7,884,599 HDL design structure for integrating test structures into an integrated circuit design
A hardware description language (HDL) design structure for performing device-specific testing and acquiring parametric data on integrated circuits, such that...
US-7,884,475 Conductor structure including manganese oxide capping layer
A microelectronic structure includes a dielectric layer located over a substrate. The dielectric layer is separated from a copper containing conductor layer by...
US-7,883,990 High resistivity SOI base wafer using thermally annealed substrate
A method of forming a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate using a thermal annealing process to provide a semiconductor base wafer having a thin high...
US-7,883,962 Trench DRAM cell with vertical device and buried word lines
A DRAM array having trench capacitor cells of potentially 4F.sup.2 surface area (F being the photolithographic minimum feature width), and a process for...
US-7,883,916 Optical sensor including stacked photosensitive diodes
A complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor comprises a first photosensitive diode comprising a first semiconductor material is formed in a...
US-7,882,469 Automatic verification of adequate conductive return-current paths
After finding the shortest conductive signal return-current path for each signal, the invention assesses whether each conductive return-current path is adequate....
US-7,882,463 Integrated circuit selective scaling
The invention includes a solution for selectively scaling an integrated circuit (IC) design by: layer, region or cell, or a combination of these. The selective...
US-7,882,460 Method of circuit power tuning through post-process flattening
A method is provided for optimizing a hierarchical circuit design containing at least one reused cell. A first optimization is performed on the circuit design to...
US-7,882,455 Circuit and method using distributed phase change elements for across-chip temperature profiling
Disclosed is an across-chip temperature sensing circuit and an associated method that can be used to profile the across-chip temperature gradient. The...
US-7,882,410 Launch-on-shift support for on-chip-clocking
A method to perform launch-on-shift scanning for integrated circuits having multiple clock domains is presented. An integrated circuit includes both capture...
US-7,882,334 Processor pipeline architecture logic state retention systems and methods
A system, method and program product for retaining a logic state of a processor pipeline architecture are disclosed. A comparator is positioned between two...
US-7,882,324 Method and apparatus for synchronizing memory enabled systems with master-slave architecture
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a system, method and memory device for accessing memory. One embodiment includes synchronization circuitry...
US-7,882,302 Method and system for implementing prioritized refresh of DRAM based cache
A method for implementing prioritized refresh of a multiple way, set associative DRAM based cache includes identifying, for each of a plurality of sets of the...
US-7,881,135 Method for Q.sub.CRIT measurement in bulk CMOS using a switched capacitor circuit
A test setup for estimating the critical charge of a circuit under test (CUT) uses a charge injection circuit having a switched capacitor that is selectively...
US-7,881,028 E-fuse used to disable a triggering network
A device and/or circuit having an e-fuse is provided to disable a triggering network, and more specifically, an e-fuse is used to disable an electrostatic...
US-7,880,761 Wireless photographic communication system and method
An external wireless communication module for enabling a camera to communicate with a remote device. The wireless communication module includes one or more...
US-7,880,370 Piezoelectric composite with tapered beam
An energy harvesting system includes a composite structure that includes a base spring and a first piezoelectric element. The first piezoelectric element is...
US-7,880,160 Memory using tunneling field effect transistors
A memory includes a first tunneling field effect transistor including a first drain and a first source, the first drain coupled to a first resistive memory...
US-7,880,158 Phase-change TaN resistor based triple-state/multi-state read only memory
The present invention relates to a nonvolatile memory such as, for example a ROM or an EPROM, in which the information density of the memory is increased...
US-7,879,716 Metal seed layer deposition
A method and structure for reducing the corrosion of the copper seed layer during the fabrication process of a semiconductor structure. Before the structure (or...
US-7,879,678 Methods of enhancing performance of field-effect transistors and field-effect transistors made thereby
Methods of enhancing the performance of a field-effect transistor (FET) by providing a percolating network of metallic islands to the inversion layer of the FET...
US-7,879,660 Semiconductor structures integrating damascene-body FinFET's and planar devices on a common substrate and...
Methods of forming a semiconductor structure having FinFET's and planar devices, such as MOSFET's, on a common substrate by a damascene approach, and...
US-7,879,650 Method of providing protection against charging damage in hybrid orientation transistors
In a method of fabricating a CMOS structure, a bulk device can be formed in a first region in conductive communication with an underlying bulk region of the...
US-7,878,769 Automatic transmission pump-priming device
A pump-priming device configured to fit within the pump inlet circuit formed in the valve body of an automatic transmission is disclosed. The present pump...
US-7,878,434 Wood chipper
A wood chipper includes a housing having an inlet opening and a discharge outlet with a chipper disk rotatably mounted in the housing and having a chipper knife...
US-7,878,191 Solar collector stabilized by cables and a compression element
A solar collector system including solar elements connected to form an array for intercepting the sun's radiation, a compression element that is positioned...
US-7,877,714 System and method to optimize semiconductor power by integration of physical design timing and product...
A system and method is provided for optimizing semiconductor power by integration of physical design timing and product performance measurements. The method...
US-7,877,712 System for and method of verifying IC authenticity
A verification system disclosed herein uses the unique signatures of an IC to perform authentication of the IC after the IC is shipped to a customer. The...
US-7,877,222 Structure for a phase locked loop with adjustable voltage based on temperature
A design structure for an apparatus for utilizing a single set of one or more thermal sensors, e.g., thermal diodes, provided on the integrated circuit device,...
US-7,877,170 Remanent voltage generator tachometer and control for induction machine
In a power generating system the remanent voltage of an induction machine is measured. The frequency of the remanent voltage is compared to a predetermined...
US-7,876,952 Removal of relatively unimportant shapes from a set of shapes
A method for reducing a number of shapes, and a computer readable program code adapted to perform said method. The method forms first and second shape patterns....
US-7,876,612 Method for reducing leakage current of a memory and related device
A method for reducing leakage current of a memory device includes supplying a first voltage to a main wordline driver, supplying a second voltage greater than...
US-7,876,547 Vertical parallel plate capacitor structures
Vertical parallel plate (VPP) capacitor structures that utilize different spacings between conductive plates in different levels of the capacitor stack. The...
US-7,875,960 Hybrid oriented substrates and crystal imprinting methods for forming such hybrid oriented substrates
A semiconductor structure with an insulating layer on a silicon substrate, a plurality of electrically-isolated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) regions separated from...
US-7,875,908 Selective links in silicon hetero-junction bipolar transistors using carbon doping and method of forming same
Bipolar transistors and methods of forming the bipolar transistors. The method including forming a P-type collector in a silicon substrate; forming an intrinsic...
US-7,875,854 Design structure for alpha particle sensor in SOI technology and structure thereof
The invention relates to a design structure, and more particularly, to a design structure for an alpha particle sensor in SOI technology and a circuit thereof....
US-7,875,529 Semiconductor devices
Methods, devices, modules, and systems providing semiconductor devices in a stacked wafer system are described herein. One embodiment includes a first wafer for...
US-7,875,502 Semiconductor chips with crack stop regions for reducing crack propagation from chip edges/corners
A chip fabrication method. A provided structure includes: a transistor on a semiconductor substrate, N interconnect layers on the semiconductor substrate and the...
US-7,875,444 Lignin blockers and uses thereof
Disclosed is a method for converting cellulose in a lignocellulosic biomass. The method provides for a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein treatment of...
US-7,875,011 Cooling, heating, bladder relief, gas, hydration and nutrition chem-bio suit connectivity system
This invention is a Cooling, Heating, Bladder Relief, Gas, Hydration and Nutrition Chem-Bio Suit Connectivity System used connecting various life function...
US-7,874,573 Convertible toe strap
A convertible toe strap for securing a toe area of a snowboarding boot is selectively and repeatedly convertible between different restraining configurations....
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