Texas Instruments Corporation

Jason Marc Cole

Sreenivasan Kalyani Koduri

Steven Alfred Kummerl

Ubol Udompanyavit

Gerald William Steele

David W Rekieta

Bradley A Little

An integrated circuit package that comprises a lead frame, an integrated circuit located on the lead frame and a shunt resistor coupled to the lead frame and to the integrated circuit. The shunt resistor has a lower temperature coefficient of resistance than the lead frame, and the lead frame has a lower resistivity than the shunt resistor. The shunt resistor has a low-resistance coupling to external leads of the lead frame, or, the shunt resistor has its own integrated external leads.

Manufacturing method for integrating a shunt resistor into a semiconductor package

According to one embodiment of the invention, a network system for carrying control data between a controller and a device to be controlled is provided. The network system comprises a bus system operable to carry data between the controller and the device according to an IEEE 1394 standard. The IEEE 1394 standard defines a start up operation that includes one or more sequences. The bus system is also operable to perform a modified start up operation that excludes at least one of the sequences of the start up operation defined by the IEEE 1394 standard.

Method and system for rapidly starting up an IEEE 1394 network

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Sahuarita, AZ, United States of America

Jason Marc Cole