Infineon Technologies Ag

Infineon Technologies Austria Ag

Nxp B.v.

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.

Sp3d Chip Design Gmbh

Wolfgang Furtner

Xiaowu Gong

Cecilia Carbonelli

Renato Bessegato

Eung San Cho

Gottfried Beer

Friedel Gerfers

Stephan Kronseder

Debin Li

Jason Sen Qian

A method and apparatus for multidimensional ion shuttling, the apparatus including a first shuttling lane having first lane elements, a second shuttling lane having second lane elements with the second shuttling lane intersecting the first shuttling lane, first electrode elements along the first movement lane, second electrode elements along the second movement lane, an electrode control circuit connected to each of the first and second electrode elements, and a voltage control circuit connected to each electrode element of the first electrode elements and the second electrode elements. The voltage control circuit selectively provides at least one voltage to one or more electrode elements of the first electrode elements and of the second electrode elements according to signaling from the electrode control circuit, and the at least one voltage controls movement of an ion along at least one of the first shuttling lane or the second shuttling lane.

Multi dimensional electrode controller for quantum computing

A method for a slave device for calibrating an output timing for transmitting data to a master device is provided. The master and slave devices are communicatively coupled via an interface. The method includes: receiving, from the master device, one or more consecutive first signal edges indicating a synchronization event; recovering a reference clock of the master device based on the one or more consecutive first signal edges; transmitting one or more predetermined second signal edges to the master device and generated using the recovered reference clock; receiving, from the master device, data indicating one or more sampled values of the master device for the one or more predetermined second signal edges; and adjusting the output timing based on a comparison of the one or more predetermined second signal edges and the one or more sampled values of the master device for the one or more predetermined second signal edges.

Method for a slave device for calibrating its output timing, method for a master device for enabling a slave device to calibrate its output timing, master device and slave device

In accordance with an embodiment, a method of measuring a gas concentration includes modulating an infrared light source according to a frequency-hopped sequence or according to a pulse sequence, receiving a microphone signal from an output of a microphone acoustically coupled to a gas exposed to infrared light produced by the infrared light source; bandpass filtering the microphone signal using a bandpass filter; and estimating the gas concentration from the filtered microphone signal.

System and method for estimating a gas concentration

The electronic device for sensing a current comprises a semiconductor chip comprising a main face, an electronic circuit integrated in the semiconductor chip, a redistribution metallization layer disposed above the main face of the semiconductor chip, a current path formed in the redistribution metallization layer, the current path forming a resistor that is connected at two resistance defining end points to the electronic circuit for sensing a current flowing through the current path, and external contact elements connected with the redistribution metallization layer for feeding a current to be sensed into the current path.

Current sensor device having a sense resistor in a re-distribution layer

The disclosure is directed to a circuit on a substrate, such as a leadframe package, that includes shunt to measure current. The shunt is an arched conductor positioned to bridge over a die mounted on the package with voltage measurement terminals of the die electrically connected to the shunt. The techniques of this disclosure determine the shunt material, shunt size and shape to accurately control the value of the resistance of the shunt. The arrangement of the die and the shunt may include advantages of maintaining a small package size and allow accurate temperature compensation. The shunt may be long enough to have a measurable resistance that may be used to determine the current through the shunt. In some examples, the arrangement of the die and the shunt may provide additional structural support to the circuit.

Integrated shunt in circuit package

In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a charging port having a power connection and a first data connection includes determining whether a compatible device is coupled to the charging port and receiving a serial data stream from the compatible device via the first data connection. The serial data stream includes a plurality of symbols representing a request for a power supply voltage and/or current, and the method further includes applying the requested power supply voltage and/or current to the power connection.

System and method for a serial bus interface

Disclosed is an electronic circuit with a first terminal for connecting an accessory thereto, and with a functionality for detecting the presence of an accessory connected to the first terminal.

Accessory presence detection

A flyback converter is described that in some examples includes an integrated circuit that includes a delta-sigma converter and a cascaded integrator-comb filter configured to determine: a proportional factor, an integral factor, and a derivative factor associated with a secondary-side voltage across a secondary-side winding of the converter. The integrated circuit uses each factor to control a secondary switching element to perform synchronous rectification. In some examples, the flyback converter includes an auxiliary winding at the primary side of the transformer and a knee point voltage detection unit. The knee point voltage detection unit is configured to determine, based on an analog input indicative of a voltage at the auxiliary winding, an integral of value and detect, based on the integral value, a knee point voltage associated with the voltage at the auxiliary winding. A controller may use the detected knee point to control a primary side switch.

Controlling components of power converters using delta-sigma modulation on analog inputs

In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a method of operating a switch-mode power supply includes: receiving a dropout detection signal from a dropout detection circuit coupled to an input of the switch-mode power supply; and discharging an input capacitor coupled to the input of the switch-mode power supply via a switching transistor having a first load path coupled to the input capacitor through an inductive element.

X-cap. discharge method for flyback converter

According to an embodiment, a method of operating a measurement circuit includes biasing a sense transistor to conduct current through a first conduction channel in a first direction during a first mode, injecting a measurement current into a body diode of the sense transistor during a second mode, measuring a first voltage across the sense transistor when the measurement current is injected, and determining a temperature of the sense transistor based on the first voltage. When the measurement current is injected, it is injected in a second direction opposite the first direction. The sense transistor is integrated in a semiconductor body with a load transistor having a second conduction channel, and the first conduction channel and the second conduction channel are coupled to an input node.

System and method for temperature sensing

A circuit arrangement is provided, the circuit arrangement including a processor; a memory circuit connected to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to access the memory circuit; a blocking circuit configured to generate one or more random wait state signals which prevent the processor from accessing the memory circuit; and an integrity checking circuit configured to check the memory circuit during a wait state period of the one or more random wait state signals.

Circuit arrangement, a method for forming a circuit arrangement, and method for integrity checking

In accordance with an embodiment, a bi-directional charging circuit has a battery coupling node output configured to be coupled to a battery cell, an input coupled to a common node of the battery management system, and a controller coupled to the bi-directional charging circuit. The controller is configured to operate the bi-directional charging circuit in a charging mode to transfer charge from the common node to the battery coupling node, and operate the bi-directional charging circuit in a discharge mode to transfer change from the battery coupling node to the common node.

System and method for battery management

In order to provide an interface circuit (') as well as a method for receiving and/or for decoding, in particular for recovering, data signals (D; R, G, B), in particular high speed data signals, for example high speed sequential digital data signals, wherein at least one sampling clock signal (SC), in particular at least one multi-phase sampling clock signal (PC[n-]) with n different phases, and/or the data signals (D; R, G, B) are delayed, and wherein it is possible to optimize the components, in particular the analog components, for a fixed operating frequency, it is proposed that the sampling clock signal (SC), in particular the multi-phase sampling clock signal (PC[n-]), is asynchronous&#x2014;to at least one interface clock signal (IC), by which the interface circuit (&#x2032;), in particular the input of the interface circuit (&#x2032;), can be provided with, and/or to the data signals (D; R, G, B).

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Wolfgang Furtner