Ati Technologies Inc.

Ati International Srl

Peter L Rosefield

Vladimir F Giemborek

Hugh Chow

Tieying Duan

Harvest W C Chung

Oleg Drapkin

Grigori Temkine

Gordon Caruk

Aris Balatsos

Kuldip Sahdra

Roche Thambimuthu

An input output ring for a semiconductor device is disclosed that uses power buffers having widths that vary from the widths of the input and output buffers. In one embodiment, the pitches between bond pads are the same, in another embodiment the pitches between the bond pads can vary. In another embodiment, the number of bond pads is greater than the number of associated active buffer areas. By connecting two power bond pads to a common buffer the inductance associated with the buffer is reduced, thereby reducing the number of active buffers needed to be dedicated to providing power to the semiconductor device.

Method for reduced input output area

Apparatus having reduced input output area and method thereof

An impedance compensation circuit and method for an input/output buffer provides dynamic impedance compensation by using programmable impedance arrays and a dynamically adjustable on-chip load. Accordingly, among other advantages, only a single off-chip or external calibrated impedance resistor is used and only a single test pad is necessary.

Dynamic impedance compensation circuit and method

A sample rate conversion system and method uses a digital signal processor (DSP) and a separate sample rate conversion circuit (SRC) to perform multiple stream conversion and mixing of different rate input audio streams. The sample rate conversion system converts data, such as multiple streams of digital audio data sampled at different rates, and performs interpolation, decimation, FIR filtering, and mixing of multiple streams of data using the separate SRC. The SRC uses two bidirectional I/O memories for alternately storing input and output data as part of a sample rate converter. When the sample rate converter writes output to one of the bidirectional memories, it has the option of summing the data with the data already stored in the same I/O memory. Therefore a separate digital signal processor can use the sample rate converter circuit to perform some of the mixing for the multiple streams.

Multi-stream audio sampling rate conversion circuit and method

Multi-stream audio sampling rate conversion system and method using

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Peter L Rosefield