Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Parade Technologies, Ltd.

Cypress Semiconductor Coproration

Steve Kolokowsky

David Gordon Wright

Andriy Maharyta

Dana Jon Olson

Rajagopal Narayanasamy

Mahadevan Krishnamurthy Narayana Swamy

Oleksandr Karpin

Lane Thomas Hauck

Steven Philip Larky

Greg J Landry

Vasyl Mandziy

Scott Allen Swindle

Timothy J Harvey

Yuriy Boychuk

Mark D McCoy

Thomas P Mulligan

A method, apparatus, and system use logic circuitry arranged within an integrated circuit to: convert a self capacitance of a first sensor element arranged within the integrated circuit to a digital value, and apply a signal to an output pin of the integrated circuit based on the self capacitance.

Capacitive sensing button on chip

A method and apparatus include a plurality of sensor elements arranged within an integrated circuit package and a controller arranged within the integrated circuit package and coupled to the plurality of sensor elements. The controller is configured to apply a transmit signal to a first sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements and receive a receive signal from a second sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements. The receive signal represents a mutual capacitance of the first sensor element and the second sensor element.

A processing device configured to induce, during a listening scan of a sense array, an injected touch to produce similar data as would be present during a touch scan of the sense array with a conductive object at a known location on the sense array. The processing device is further configured to compute, using the data, an estimate of a noise metric based on the injected touch.

Injected touch noise analysis

A method and apparatus receive a plurality of signals that are used to calculate a position of a conductive object relative to a capacitive sensor element and determine an estimated position error through the plurality of signals, the estimated position error to offset a position error of the calculated position.

Methods and apparatus to determine position error of a calculated position

Embodiments described herein provide capacitive sensing devices and methods. A substrate having a plurality of pairs of conductive traces formed thereon is provided. The pairs of conductive traces include first and second conductive traces having first and second opposing ends. A capacitance variation of a plurality of the first conductive traces and a plurality of the second conductive traces is measured. The capacitance variation of at least some of the second conductive traces is measured before the capacitance variation for all of the plurality of first conductive traces is measured. A position coordinate in a two-dimensional coordinate system on the capacitive sensing device is determined based on the measuring a capacitance variation of a plurality of the first conductive traces and a plurality of the second conductive traces.

Single layer multi-touch capacitive sensor

An apparatus comprises a memory device to store a pre-generated Universal Serial Bus (USB) command before a USB peripheral device is coupled to a USB. The apparatus also includes a processing device to retrieve the pre-generated USB command from the memory device and transmit the pre-generated USB command to the USB peripheral device over the USB. A method comprises identifying a Universal Serial Bus (USB) peripheral device is coupled to a USB. The USB peripheral device is coupled to the universal serial bus after a pre-generated USB command is stored in a memory device. The method further includes transmitting the pre-generated USB command to the USB peripheral device over the USB in response to identifying the USB peripheral device is coupled to the USB.

Specialized universal serial bus controller

A system for wear-leveling of a non-volatile memory may include a controller configured to allocate memory blocks in the non-volatile memory, a logical-to-physical table populated with pointers to memory blocks in the nonvolatile memory, and a wear-leveling table configured to store two or more pointers to unallocated memory blocks in the non-volatile memory. The unallocated memory blocks are previously allocated to store data by the controller according to the pointers in the logical-to-physical table. The controller is further configured to identify two or more pointers in the wear-leveling table and to store data to the two or more memory blocks associated with the identified pointers.

Flash drive fast wear leveling

A universal serial bus controller pre-generates and stores a subset of USB commands in a memory, the pre-generated commands available for transmission to at least one USB peripheral device over universal serial bus, and transfers at least one command from the subset of pre-generated commands stored in the memory to the USB peripheral device over the universal serial bus. The universal serial bus controller may receive a response to the transferred command from the USB peripheral device over the universal serial bus, and send an acknowledgment packet to the USB peripheral device over the universal serial bus responsive to receiving the response from the USB peripheral device.

An improved flash memory device and method for improving the performance and reliability of a flash memory device is provided. According to one embodiment, a method for writing data to a memory device may include writing the data to a temporary storage location within the memory device before the data is copied to another location within the memory device, incrementing a count value to indicate that the data has been copied, and repeating the step of writing, if the count value is less than a threshold value. If the count value is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the method may write the data to an external memory controller, where the data is checked for errors and corrected if an error is found, before the data is copied to the other location within the memory device.

Flash memory device and method

A system and method comprising a non-volatile memory including one or more memory blocks to store data, a controller to allocate one or more of the memory blocks to store data, and a wear-leveling table populated with pointers to unallocated memory blocks in the non-volatile memory, the controller to identify one or more pointers in the wear-leveling table and to allocate the unallocated memory blocks associated with the identified pointers for the storage of data.

An apparatus, computer program, and method are disclosed for generating computer executable code. The code is compiled from a data set, and the data set is compiled by selecting a link within a comments portion of a text editor portion of a program. The data set can then be inserted into an applications program to form the computer executable code. The comments portion involves a line of text that is preceded by a comments designator and succeeded by at least one link word that is adapted for modification by an on-screen pointer. Any changes to the link word via a graphical user interface will correspondingly change fields within a data set, which preferably is also displayed within the same window as the comments portion. The fields of bits within the data set can be used to program a hardware device or system. One example of such a device is a programmable device, or general purpose interface circuit that is juxtaposed between, for example, a computer and a peripheral device.

Executable code derived from user-selectable links embedded within the comments portion of a program

An apparatus comprising one or more storage elements. The one or more storage elements may be configured to switch an input/output between a first domain and a second domain in response to one or more control signals.

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Steve Kolokowsky