Magnachip Semiconductor, Inc.

Haechitech Corporation

Yong Sup Lee

Dae Ho Lim

Dong Ho Kim

Gil Sung Roh

Jun Soo Kwack

A memory repair device for detecting a fault cell in a memory and replacing it with a redundancy cell using a serial interface method is provided. The memory repair device include a repair information control block and at least one memory block including at least one memory. The repair information control block is configured to perform a built-in self-test (BIST) for each memory block, and when a fault cell is detected according to the BIST, receive and store repair information about the fault cell information. The memory block replaced the fault cell with a redundancy cell according to repair information loaded by the repair information control block at the time of operation of the memory. Data is transmitted and received between the repair information control block and the memory block using a serial interface.

Memory repair device

An auto trimming device includes an oscillator configured to generate an oscillator clock signal, a subtractor configured to receive an expected value for a target frequency and the oscillator clock signal, configured to output a difference value between the expected value and the oscillator clock signal, an index value selector configured to calculate a unit index value using the difference value and configured to detect and output a target index value from the unit index value, an index value register configured to output an oscillator trimming code corresponding to the target index value to the oscillator, and an embedded memory configured to store the oscillator trimming code as a target oscillator trimming code for the target frequency.

Auto trimming device for oscillator and method of auto trimming device for oscillator

A circuit for preventing forgery of semiconductor chip includes a driving signal protection unit and a control unit. The driving signal protection unit configured to include at least one protection wire protecting a driving wire having driving signals flow therethrough. The control unit configured to generate a first security code and a second security code. The control unit is further configured to compare the first security code that passes through the driving signal protection unit and the second security code that bypasses the driving signal protection unit to detect tampering at the at least one protection wire, and to control operation of the semiconductor chip.

Circuit and method for detecting tampering or preventing forgery of semiconductor chip

An apparatus and method to recognize a moving direction of gesture are provided. A final moving direction of gesture is determined using the number of intersecting points based on output values from one or more sensors disposed in up, down, left, right directions and a code of an accumulated sum. Thus, a moving direction of target (hand) that moves on the sensors is recognized more accurately. The apparatus to recognize a moving direction of a gesture includes first to fourth sensor disposed at a position that is north, south, west, and east from a center; and a controller configured to identify a number of intersecting points based on output values of the first sensor, the second sensor, the third sensor and the fourth sensor and to estimate a moving direction of the gesture according to the number of the intersecting points.

Apparatus and method for recognizing a moving direction of gesture based on differences between sensor output values

A magnetic detection apparatus includes a Hall device configured to include terminals and to generate an electromotive force based on a magnetic field, a Hall output controller configured to control an output of the Hall device such that an output phase alteration order of a first section of the output is symmetrical to an output phase alteration order of a second section of the output on the basis of half cycle of a control cycle of the Hall device, an amplifier configured to be connected to output terminals of the Hall device to amplify the output of the Hall device, and an amplifier output controller configured to control an output polarity of the amplifier based on the output of the Hall device.

Method for controlling of hall device and magnetic detection apparatus using the same

Provided is an integrating analog-digital converter. According to the present examples, the resistance against external noise is improved by incorporating a differential amplifier into an integrating analog-digital converter. Some examples also include a section where an input voltage and a reference voltage are simultaneously blocked such that switching noise may be minimized and a reference voltage may also be stably supplied. Further, examples are designed to manage a residue, which may be generated when an integral operation to an analog input value is finished, to be processed not in an additional converter but in control logic itself, thereby reducing a size of a circuit device.

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Cheongju-si, South Korea

Yong Sup Lee