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SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS

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US6731514B2May 4, 2004

Ball-grid-array integrated circuit package with solder-connected thermal conductor

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS283 citations99

US5608250AMar 4, 1997

Volatile memory cell with interface charge traps

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS190 citations99

US5130268AJul 14, 1992

Method for forming planarized shallow trench isolation in an integrated circuit and a structure formed thereby

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS138 citations99

US5128559AJul 7, 1992

Logic block for programmable logic devices

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS247 citations99

US4964079AOct 16, 1990

Electrically programmable memory with several information bits per cell

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS176 citations99

US7280140B2Oct 9, 2007

Image sensor reading during reset and reading on release from reset

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS93 citations98

US6356960B1Mar 12, 2002

Microprocessor having an on-chip CPU fetching a debugging routine from a memory in an external debugging device in response to a control signal received through a debugging port

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS118 citations98

US6281566B1Aug 28, 2001

Plastic package for electronic devices

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS187 citations98

US5977591ANov 2, 1999

High-voltage-resistant MOS transistor, and corresponding manufacturing process

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS125 citations98

US5801577ASep 1, 1998

High voltage generator

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS127 citations98

US5761222AJun 2, 1998

Memory device having error detection and correction function, and methods for reading, writing and erasing the memory device

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS141 citations98

US5717581AFeb 10, 1998

Charge pump circuit with feedback control

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS144 citations98

US5712814AJan 27, 1998

Nonvolatile memory cell and a method for forming the same

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS132 citations98

US5708451AJan 13, 1998

Method and device for uniforming luminosity and reducing phosphor degradation of a field emission flat display

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS98 citations98

US5633178AMay 27, 1997

Method of making volatile memory cell with interface charge traps

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS108 citations98

USRE35494EApr 22, 1997

Integrated active low-pass filter of the first order

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS102 citations98

US5619462AApr 8, 1997

Fault detection for entire wafer stress test

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS103 citations98

US5579052ANov 26, 1996

Picture processing system

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS111 citations98

US5530345AJun 25, 1996

An integrated hall•effect apparatus for detecting the position of a magnetic element

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS107 citations98

US5473267ADec 5, 1995

Programmable logic device with memory that can store routing data of logic data

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS184 citations98

US5428311AJun 27, 1995

Fuse circuitry to control the propagation delay of an IC

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS141 citations98

US5041395AAug 20, 1991

Method of encapsulating an integrated circuit using a punched metal grid attached to a perforated dielectric strip

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS132 citations98

US4932053AJun 5, 1990

Safety device against the unauthorized detection of protected data

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS156 citations98

US6601189B1Jul 29, 2003

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS130 citations97

US6591369B1Jul 8, 2003

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS121 citations97

US6567932B2May 20, 2003

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS93 citations97

US6564314B1May 13, 2003

Computer instruction compression

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS81 citations97

US5880015AMar 9, 1999

Method of producing stepped wall interconnects and gates

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS102 citations97

US5878279AMar 2, 1999

HDLC integrated circuit using internal arbitration to prioritize access to a shared internal bus amongst a plurality of devices

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS103 citations97

US5796276AAug 18, 1998

High-side-driver gate drive circuit

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS112 citations97

US5784314AJul 21, 1998

Method for setting the threshold voltage of a reference memory cell

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS94 citations97

US5729490AMar 17, 1998

Parallel-dichotomic serial sensing method for sensing multiple-level non-volatile memory cells, and sensing circuit for actuating such method

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS135 citations97

US5435888AJul 25, 1995

Enhanced planarization technique for an integrated circuit

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS88 citations97

US5422591AJun 6, 1995

Output driver circuit with body bias control for multiple power supply operation

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS128 citations97

US5257229AOct 26, 1993

Column redundancy architecture for a read/write memory

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS121 citations97

US6779145B1Aug 17, 2004

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS93 citations96

US6748577B2Jun 8, 2004

System for simplifying the programmable memory to logic interface in FPGA

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS58 citations96

US6557119B1Apr 29, 2003

Microcomputer debug architecture and method

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS53 citations96

US6415344B1Jul 2, 2002

System and method for on-chip communication

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS73 citations96

US6219263B1Apr 17, 2001

Electronic power supply device

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS75 citations96

US6125416ASep 26, 2000

Method and device for communicating across a chip boundary including a serial-parallel data packet converter having flow control logic

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS85 citations96

US6104751AAug 15, 2000

Apparatus and method for decompressing high definition pictures

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS85 citations96

US6074916AJun 13, 2000

FLASH-EPROM with embedded EEPROM

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS58 citations96

US6023295AFeb 8, 2000

ADPCM recompression and decompression of a data stream of a video image and differential variance estimator

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS60 citations96

US6017778AJan 25, 2000

Method for making power integrated circuit

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS60 citations96

US5983379ANov 9, 1999

Test access port controller and a method of effecting communication using the same

SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS86 citations96

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Stackable module

Integrated circuit with multiple processing cores

Linearly regulated voltage multiplier

Trench MOS-gated device with a minimum number of masks

Ball-grid-array integrated circuit package with solder-connected thermal conductor

Volatile memory cell with interface charge traps

Method for forming planarized shallow trench isolation in an integrated circuit and a structure formed thereby

Logic block for programmable logic devices

Electrically programmable memory with several information bits per cell

Image sensor reading during reset and reading on release from reset

Microprocessor having an on-chip CPU fetching a debugging routine from a memory in an external debugging device in response to a control signal received through a debugging port

Plastic package for electronic devices

High-voltage-resistant MOS transistor, and corresponding manufacturing process

High voltage generator

Memory device having error detection and correction function, and methods for reading, writing and erasing the memory device

Charge pump circuit with feedback control

Nonvolatile memory cell and a method for forming the same

Method and device for uniforming luminosity and reducing phosphor degradation of a field emission flat display

Method of making volatile memory cell with interface charge traps

Integrated active low-pass filter of the first order

Fault detection for entire wafer stress test

Picture processing system

An integrated hall•effect apparatus for detecting the position of a magnetic element

Programmable logic device with memory that can store routing data of logic data

Fuse circuitry to control the propagation delay of an IC

Method of encapsulating an integrated circuit using a punched metal grid attached to a perforated dielectric strip

Safety device against the unauthorized detection of protected data

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

Computer instruction compression

Method of producing stepped wall interconnects and gates

HDLC integrated circuit using internal arbitration to prioritize access to a shared internal bus amongst a plurality of devices

High-side-driver gate drive circuit

Method for setting the threshold voltage of a reference memory cell

Parallel-dichotomic serial sensing method for sensing multiple-level non-volatile memory cells, and sensing circuit for actuating such method

Enhanced planarization technique for an integrated circuit

Output driver circuit with body bias control for multiple power supply operation

Column redundancy architecture for a read/write memory

System and method for communicating with an integrated circuit

System for simplifying the programmable memory to logic interface in FPGA

Microcomputer debug architecture and method

System and method for on-chip communication

Electronic power supply device

Method and device for communicating across a chip boundary including a serial-parallel data packet converter having flow control logic

Apparatus and method for decompressing high definition pictures

FLASH-EPROM with embedded EEPROM

ADPCM recompression and decompression of a data stream of a video image and differential variance estimator

Method for making power integrated circuit

Test access port controller and a method of effecting communication using the same