Intel Corporation

Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

Gennady Goltman

Songnan Yang

Yongping Fan

Kuan-Yueh Shen

Alex Nayshtut

Oleg Pogorelik

Sergey Sofer

Avishay Sharaga

Shahar Porat

Avi Priev

Miguel Ballesteros

Eli Wildenberg

Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for offloading process or application from a near field communication (NFC) master device for proxy delegation to a proxy NFC device.

Near field communications (NFC)-based offload of NFC operation

Described is a phase-locked loop with lower power charge pump. The phase-locked loop comprises: a phase frequency detector to compare a reference clock and a feedback clock and generate a pulse based on the comparison, a charge pump to provide a charge signal corresponding to the pulse, a bias generator to provide biasing for the charge pump, wherein the bias generator is operable to receive a bias enable signal from the phase frequency detector and the bias generator is disabled when the bias enable signal is not asserted, a loop filter coupled to the output of the charge pump to provide a control signal responsive to the charge signal, and a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), wherein the oscillating frequency of the VCO is controlled by the control signal.

Phase-locked loop with lower power charge pump

Described is an apparatus to lower power of a charge pump. The apparatus comprises: a first delay unit to receive a reference clock, the first delay unit to provide a delayed reference clock to a first sequential unit; a second delay unit to receive a feedback clock, the second delay unit to provide a delayed feedback clock to a second sequential unit; a first logic unit to receive the reference and feedback clocks, the logic unit to perform a logical OR operation on the received reference and feedback clocks, and to generate a trigger signal for a third sequential unit; and a second logic unit to receive outputs of first and second sequential units, and to generate an output coupled to the third sequential unit.

Apparatus to reduce power of a charge pump

In some embodiments, disclosed is an AC amplitude detector to compare the magnitude of an AC signal against a detector threshold level and to provide an indication as to whether the AC magnitude is larger or smaller than the detector threshold level.

Clock amplitude detection

A non-volatile memory system having an array of 2-bit cells is provided, wherein each cell stores an odd bit and an even bit. An ERASE pulse is applied to either the odd bits or the even bits in response to an ODD_EVEN control signal, which toggles in response to an ERASE pulse. A first ERASE pulse is applied to the odd bits. An erase verify operation is then performed until failing. The erase verify operation will likely fail on an even bit, which has not yet received an ERASE pulse. After the erase verify operation fails, a second ERASE pulse is applied to the even bits in response to the toggled ODD_EVEN control signal. The erase verify operation then resumes until this operation fails, or is successfully completed. This process continues until the erase verify operation is successful. A similar method enables a plurality of NVM blocks to be erased.

Method and apparatus for controlling erase operations of a non-volatile memory system

A circuit and method for producing defect tolerant high density memory cells at a low cost is disclosed. Rather than using redundant memory cells to salvage a memory circuit having non-functional memory cells, an address mapping circuit is used to remap addresses for non-functional memory cells into addresses for functional memory cells. Specifically, if the memory array of a memory circuit includes non-functional memory cells, an address mapping scheme is selected to reduce the effective size of the memory circuit so only functional memory cells are addressed. Because redundant memory cells are not included in the memory circuit, the semiconductor area and the cost of the memory circuit is reduced.

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Haifa, Israel

Gennady Goltman