Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Promos Technologies, Inc

National Taiwan University

Yu-Chi Chen

Chi-Wen Huang

Chih-Kung Lee

Jih-Wen Chou

Wen-Hsin Hsiao

Wen-Kuan Chen

Ying-Chih Yang

Chien-Min Chen

Chieh-Chien Huang

Han-Lung Chen

Hsu-Ching Liao

Min-Hong Chien

Wen-Hung Huang

Mu-Shan Lin

Chien-Chun Tsai

Wei-Yu Lai

Yuan-Ning Chen

Pien-Cheng Chiu

Yung-Chang Peng

Yung-Yu Lin

Shih-Ting Ou Yang

Yong-Lii Tseng

Frank Chen

Meng-Ting Tsai

Heng-Kai Hsu

Digital controlled delay lines are provided. A digital controlled delay line includes a plurality of delay cells coupled in a chain forming a propagation path to propagate an input signal and to delay the input signal by a delay time. The propagation path is formed when a single delay cell is operated in a feedback mode, the delay cells previous to the single delay cell in the chain are operated in a propagation mode, a subsequent delay cell following the single delay cell in the chain is operated in a standby mode, and the delay cells following the first subsequent delay cell in the chain are operated in an idle mode.

Digital controlled delay line

A method of manufacturing a substrate is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of pixel elements, wherein each of the pixel elements includes data members; and transferring the data members to a plurality of exposing devices that are configured to conditionally expose the substrate with an incident energy beam when coupled with the data members, wherein different data members of one pixel element are transferred at different system cycles.

Method and apparatus for transferring pixel data for electron beam lithography

Disclosed is an apparatus in a semiconductor lithography system. The apparatus comprises a multiplexer and a plurality of imaging elements. The plurality is configured into a shift chain and an output of the shift chain is coupled to a data input of the multiplexer.

Method and apparatus for electron beam lithography

A method of manufacturing a wafer with an integrated circuit (IC) layout includes receiving a first plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels corresponds to a portion of the IC layout and includes data members. The method further includes transforming the first plurality of pixels into a second plurality of control signals, wherein at least some of the control signals include both a data member of one of the pixels and another data member of another one of the pixels. The method further includes transferring the control signals to a third plurality of mirrors, wherein the mirrors conditionally reflect an energy beam incident thereupon when coupled with the control signals.

A system using an energy beam to expose patterns on a wafer includes first mirror elements, a multiplexer element, and second mirror elements. The first and second mirror elements are dynamically controlled to reflect the energy beam to the wafer. The first mirror elements are configured in a first chain having a first data input and a first data output. The multiplexer element includes a second data input, a third data input, a select input, and a second data output. The third data input is coupled to the first data output. The second mirror elements are configured in a second chain having a fourth data input.

An electret loudspeaker device including a diaphragm, a first perforated electrode and a first spacer is provided. The diaphragm includes a first electret, a second electret, a polymer layer and an electrode layer. At least one layer of the first electret or the second electret is formed by expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The second electret is stacked on one side of the first electret, while the electrode layer is stacked on the opposite side of the first electret. The polymer layer is made of a hydrophobic material and is disposed on the second electret. The first perforated electrode is stacked on a first spacer and close to the polymer layer. The first spacer disposed between the diaphragm and the first perforated electrode supports the first perforated electrode over the diaphragm and defines a first chamber. A fabrication method of the electret loudspeaker device is also provided.

Electret loudspeaker device

An electret loudspeaker device including a diaphragm, a first perforated electrode and a first spacer is provided. The diaphragm has an electret layer and an electrode layer. The first perforated electrode is stacked on a side of the diaphragm near the electret layer, and has multiple holes. The first spacer is stacked between the diaphragm and the first perforated electrode, and includes a first distribution area and plural second distribution areas. The first distribution area has first openings penetrating through the first spacer, and each first opening has a first opening space volume between the diaphragm and the first perforated electrode. Each second distribution area has second openings penetrating through the first spacer, and each second opening has a second opening space volume between the diaphragm and the first perforated electrode. A difference between the first and the second opening space volumes is greater than 10%.

A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes an edge detector, an edge selector, and a phase selector. The edge detector is arranged to detect edges of serial input data and to provide an edge detection result. The serial input data is oversampled utilizing multiple clock phases. The edge selector for selecting one of the multiple clock phases for a recovered clock is arranged to provide an edge selection result, to receive the last edge selection result as a first input, and to receive the edge detection result as a second input. The phase selector is arranged to provide the recovered clock and recovered data.

Glitch free oversampling clock and data recovery

A method for progressive JPEG image decoding and a method for controlling a decoder are disclosed. In the image decoding method, an amount of macroblocks that can be stored during the process of decoding is determined according to the size of the memory, and then, according to the amount of macroblocks, a scan layer is divided into a plurality of decoding areas. In each turn of decoding, data of the same decoding area in all the scan layers are decoded. In the next turn, a decoding area next to the previous one is selected for decoding. Therefore, the present invention can decode the image correctly with a limited memory resource, without affecting the display quality of the image. The image decoding method also can be applied to the control of a decoder, so as to reduce the occupied memory capacity.

Method for progressive JPEG image decoding and method for controlling decoder

A progressive JPEG image decoding method is provided. In the decoding method, a non-zero history table and a sign table of each variable length decoding (VLD) result are recorded and used as a reference for decoding the next scan layer. The decoded coefficients are no longer directly stored in a memory so as to save the memory space. Accordingly, an image can be decoded and displayed correctly even with limited memory space.

Method for progressive JPEG image decoding

An electronic apparatus for recording data using a non-volatile memory is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The non-volatile memory stores a plurality of sets of playing information of the electronic apparatus. The controller is coupled to the non-volatile memory for receiving an input data and transforming a data structure of the input data into a bitmapping data structure. The controller includes a bitmapping module that is capable of transforming the input data into data having at least one bit but less than one byte in a bitmapping manner.

Electronic apparatus of recording data using non-volatile memory

A method for handling multiple network packets is provided. The method is suitable for an embedded system connected to a network, wherein the embedded system includes a network device driver module and a simplified TCP/IP stack module. First, a plurality of network packets are received by the network device driver module. Then, each time when the network device driver module copies one of the network packets into a buffer of the simplified TCP/IP stack module, a packet length of the copied network packet is recorded in a packet information table. Thereafter, the network packets are obtained from the buffer one at a time according to the packet lengths recorded in the packet information table and analyzed by the simplified TCP/IP stack module. Thereby, multiple network packets can be handled correctly even in an environment wherein a simplified TCP/IP stack is used.

Method for handling multiple network packets

A method for recording data using a non-volatile memory and an electronic apparatus thereof are provided. In the present method, a set of input data is provided. Then, a data structure of the input data is transformed into a bitmapping data structure. Afterwards, the input data is written sequentially into the non-volatile memory using at least one bit as a basic unit of modification. A total number of bits being modified is then calculated, so as to obtain information needed by the system. Therefore, a minimal memory space is used to record most information, so as to reduce the times for erasing the non-volatile memory and increase the life time of the non-volatile memory.

Method for recording data using non-volatile memory

A digital audio-video information reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method thereof are provided, in which a predetermined time point or a keyword from users is used as a basic for controlling the reproduction of a file-based AV file. If the subtitle is in a bitmap format, the bitmap subtitle is transformed to text contents. If the subtitle is in a text format, the subtitle is directly interpreted. Then, the interpreted/transformed text content is compared with the keyword, so as to interpret a matched time point corresponding to the subtitle, and the matched time point is set as a start or end point for reproducing the AV file. Alternatively, the comparison result may be applied in analyzing a correlation between the AV file and the keyword.

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