Nxp B.v.

Datang Nxp Semiconductors Co., Ltd.

Ghiath Al-Kadi

Jan Hoogerbrugge

Ajay Kapoor

Ludovic Oddoart

Massimo Ciacci

Remco Cornelis Herman Van De Beek

Andrei Sergeevich Terechko

Abraham Karel Riemens

Rinze Ida Mechtildis Peter Meijer

Ewout Brandsma

Klaas Brink

Piotr Polak

Remco Van De Beek

Hamed Fatemi

Aly Aamer Syed

Matheus Johannus Gerardus Lammers

Jurgen Geerlings

Surendra Guntur

Jan-Willem Vogel

Jingfeng Ding

Hendrik Ahlendorf

Peter Raggam

Brima Babatunde Ibrahim

Ulrich Neffe

Derek Park

Christian Eisendle

Thomas Baier

Jan Dutz

Jos Verlinden

Wolfgang KÜCHLER

Ulrich Andreas Muehlmann

Erich Merlin

Pablo Corbalán Pelegrín

Michael Schober

The invention proposes a smart card which comprises a digital signal processing receiver that can automatically identify the type of a smart card reader based on the error vector magnitude of signals received from the reader. The digital signal processing receiver is able to reconfigure itself at runtime in order to optimally minimize its power consumption in dependence on the type of reader it is communicating with. Furthermore, the invention proposes a new preamble structure that comprises a basic part and an optional additional part.

Smart card

This invention provides a clock control circuit, which can be added to any pipeline-processor to solve timing problems arising from variations due to process outcome and environmental conditions. Critical instructions are detected (instructions that exercise critical paths) in conjunction with environmental sensing (such as process, temperature and voltage). This information is used to control cycle stealing.

Cycle stealing when a process or environmental variation is detected and a processing instruction is using a critical path

An energy storage cell for a multi-cell energy storage device is disclosed. The energy storage cell comprises a cell information storage device adapted to store cell information regarding the energy storage cell.

Energy storage cell for a multi-cell energy storage device

Smart card with reconfigurable receiver

Embodiments of a method for processing a baseband signal in a Direct Current (DC)-suppressed system, a system for processing a baseband signal in a DC-suppressed system, and a smart card are described. In one embodiment, a method for processing a baseband signal in a DC-suppressed system involves processing the baseband signal in the analog domain with a first high pass filter (HPF), converting the processed baseband signal to a digital signal, and processing the digital signal in the digital domain with a second HPF to provide a discrete-time differentiation of the baseband signal. Other embodiments are also described.

Receiver filter for DC-wander removal in a contactless smartcard

Infrared control signals are communicated between an infrared remote control unit () and an infrared controlled device () via network gateways (). A sub-network of a backbone network () is automatically set up prior to transmission of messages. The sub-network comprises a selection of devices coupled to a backbone network (). The setting up of the sub-network comprises automatically sending out a request from the first one of the network gateways () to detect network gateways () that indicate ability to transmit infrared control messages prior to transmission of the message and storing information defining the sub-network in the first one of the network gateways dependent to a response to the request. Subsequently, when a first infra red control signal is received from the infrared remote control unit () at a first one of the network gateways (), a message is transmitted dependent on information derived from the first infrared control signal from the first one of the network gateways () over the backbone network () to the subnetwork of the selected devices. The message from the backbone network () is received at a second one of the network gateways (). The second one of the network gateways () transmits a second infrared control signal from to the infrared controlled device () dependent on information derived from the message. The information in the network message may comprise sample values of the demodulated infrared control signal.

System of devices of which some include an infared remote control interface

Tasks are executed in a multiprocessing system with a master processor core () and a plurality of slave processor cores (). The master processor core (), executes a program that defines a matrix of tasks at respective positions in the matrix and a task dependency pattern applicable to a plurality of the tasks and defined relative to the positions. Each dependency pattern defines relative dependencies for a plurality of positions in the matrix, rather than using individual dependencies for individual positions. In response to the program the master processor core () dynamically stores definitions of current task dependency patterns in a dependency pattern memory. A hardware task scheduler computes the positions of the tasks that are ready for execution at run time from information from information about positions for which tasks have been completed and the task dependency pattern applied relative to those tasks. The tasks that have been computed to be ready for execution are assigned to the slave processor cores ().

Multiprocessor circuit using run-time task scheduling

A presence detection system for detecting objects which move through an entrance of a space. The system is based on the idea to create a signature of a moving object which can be used to determine whether the object is a human being.

Presence detection system and method

Various embodiments relate to an anti-tampering circuit for a secure device including: a signal delay detector; a clock delay detector; a clock duty cycle detector; and a protection unit that receives an error indication from the signal delay detector, clock delay detector, and the clock duty cycle detector, wherein the protection unit indicates tampering to a secure device upon receiving the error indication.

Secure device anti-tampering circuit

Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related motion estimation unit for performing motion estimation on video data comprising a plurality of frames. The method may begin by reading a current frame of the plurality of frames from a memory of a motion estimation unit. The method may then select a motion vector for each respective block of pixels in a current row of the current frame. The step of selecting the motion vector may include, for each respective block, selecting, by the motion estimation unit, a candidate vector for at least one block directly surrounding the respective block based on a determination of whether the directly surrounding block has been processed for the current frame, calculating, for each candidate vector, a difference value, and selecting, as the motion vector, the candidate vector with the lowest difference value.

Parallel three-dimensional recursive search (3DRS) meandering algorithm

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