Altera Patent Applications

ON-BOARD ANTENNA, RADIO DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

Granted: July 27, 2023
Application Number: 20230238706
An onboard antenna, a radio equipment and an electronic device. The onboard antenna includes a dielectric substrate, an antenna and a metal block, wherein the antenna is located on the dielectric substrate, a projection of the metal block on a plane where the dielectric substrate is located is not overlapped with a projection of the antenna on the plane where the dielectric substrate is located, the metal block is located on the dielectric substrate in a polarization direction of the…

ATTENUATION APPARATUS AND TEST SYSTEM

Granted: June 29, 2023
Application Number: 20230208000
An attenuation apparatus and a test system. The attenuation apparatus includes a signal transmission channel and at least one radiation loss structure, wherein the signal transmission channel is configured to perform transmission attenuation on the energy of a transmitted signal; the radiation loss structure is arranged in the signal transmission channel; the radiation loss structure has a first operating state and a second operating state; when the radiation loss structure is in the…

MICROSTRIP ANTENNA, ANTENNA ARRAY, RADAR, AND VEHICLE

Granted: June 22, 2023
Application Number: 20230198134
A microstrip antenna, an antenna array, a radar, and a vehicle are provided. The microstrip antenna includes: a dielectric layer, and a metal layer and a ground plane layer disposed at two sides of the dielectric layer, wherein the metal layer includes a first radiation patch and a feeding portion; a length of a long side edge of the first radiation patch is determined based on an operating wavelength of the microstrip antenna, and a length of a short side edge of the first radiation…

MULTI-ACCESS MEMORY SYSTEM AND A METHOD TO MANUFACTURE THE SYSTEM

Granted: April 8, 2021
Application Number: 20210104486
A multiple memory access system is disclosed. The system includes a first die disposed on a package substrate. A second die is stacked above the first die. The first die, the second die and the package substrate form a first package. An IC is placed within a close proximity of the first package where the first die communicates with the second die at a first data rate while the first die communicates with the IC at a second data rate. The first data rate is higher than the second data…

Apparatus For Flexible Electronic Interfaces And Associated Methods

Granted: January 21, 2021
Application Number: 20210021268
A semiconductor die includes at least one flexible interface block. The flexible interface block includes at least one interconnect, and at least one buffer coupled to the at least one interconnect. The flexible interface block further includes a routing interface coupled to circuitry integrated in the semiconductor die, and a controller coupled to provide communication between the routing interface and the at least one buffer.

TEMPER EVIDENT INJECTOR LOCK AND A LOCKING METHOD

Granted: August 20, 2020
Application Number: 20200261663
A two-stage temper evident injector lock with a security indicator on the two-stage temper evident injector lock and a method of locking the two-stage temper evident injector lock, which has been developed for guaranteeing a security for that a dosage of a fluid contained in the medical injectors (syringes) that are filled with the medications prepared at medication preparation areas, and mostly with specific fluids is not altered before being applied to a subject.

COAXIAL BREATHING CIRCUIT SYSTEMS HAVING A LUNG PRESSURE MEASUREMENT PORT AND CLOSED SYSTEM WATER TRAP WHICH CAN BE DRAINED WITH AN ENJECTOR

Granted: June 25, 2020
Application Number: 20200197648
The invention relates to providing novel functions to the coaxial breathing circuits which at present do not comprise water traps, by adding a closed system water trap designed to have an inkwell shape and a lung pressure measurement port to said circuits wherein the fluid collected in the bottle section can be discharged without having to open the bottle by means of a drainage luer port located at the base of the bottle and a needleless apparatus that has been inserted into the port,…

SCALABLE 2.5D INTERFACE CIRCUITRY

Granted: March 5, 2020
Application Number: 20200073851
A multichip package having a main die coupled to one or more daughter dies is provided. The main die may include embedded universal interface blocks (UIB) each of which can be used to interface with a corresponding daughter die to support high bandwidth parallel or serial communications. Each UIB may include an integrated processor subsystem and associated pattern sequencing logic to perform interface initialization and margining operations. Each UIB may perform simultaneous accesses to…

Techniques For Signal Skew Compensation

Granted: September 5, 2019
Application Number: 20190273504
An integrated circuit includes a signal network and a phase detector circuit. The signal network includes an adjustable delay circuit. The adjustable delay circuit is coupled at an intersection in the signal network between branches of the signal network. The signal network generates a first signal at a first leaf node of the signal network in response to a second signal. The signal network generates a third signal at a second leaf node of the signal network in response to the second…

DENORMALIZATION IN MULTI-PRECISION FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC CIRCUITRY

Granted: August 15, 2019
Application Number: 20190250886
The present embodiments relate to integrated circuits with floating-point arithmetic circuitry that handles normalized and denormalized floating-point numbers. The floating-point arithmetic circuitry may include a normalization circuit and a rounding circuit, and the floating-point arithmetic circuitry may generate a first result in form of a normalized, unrounded floating-point number and a second result in form of a normalized, rounded floating-point number. If desired, the…

METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A LOAD IN A MULTI RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK

Granted: March 7, 2019
Application Number: 20190075570
A method for distributing the traffic load in a multi radio access technology heterogeneous network, the network including macrocells operating in a first sub-6 GHz band, and minicells that can operate in the sub-6 GHz band and in a millimeter band. The distribution of the traffic is carried out with an association strategy that calls upon, on the first hand, a first bias (QT) in order to favour the association with the base stations of the minicells/macrocells and a second bias (QR) in…

Techniques For Protecting Security Features of Integrated Circuits

Granted: January 24, 2019
Application Number: 20190026497
An integrated circuit includes a control circuit and a one-time programmable circuit. The control circuit determines if the one-time programmable circuit is programmed in response to an attempt to access a mode of the integrated circuit after the integrated circuit powers up. The control circuit generates a signal to indicate to a user of the integrated circuit that the mode of the integrated circuit has been previously accessed if the control circuit determines that the one-time…

PROGRAMMABLE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WITH IN-OPERATION RECONFIGURATION CAPABILITY

Granted: January 17, 2019
Application Number: 20190018063
Integrated circuits may include partial reconfiguration (PR) circuitry for reconfiguring only a portion of a memory array. In some applications, partial reconfiguration may be performed during user mode. During partial reconfiguration, write assist techniques such as varying the power supply voltage may be applied to help increase write margin, but doing so can potentially affect the performance of in-operation pass gates that are being controlled by the memory array during user mode. In…

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PRODUCT SERIES OPERATIONS IN MULTIPLIER ACCUMULATOR BLOCKS

Granted: November 29, 2018
Application Number: 20180341461
A specialized processing block on an integrated circuit includes a first and second arithmetic operator stage, an output coupled to another specialized processing block, and configurable interconnect circuitry which may be configured to route signals throughout the specialized processing block, including in and out of the first and second arithmetic operator stages. The configurable interconnect circuitry may further include multiplexer circuitry to route selected signals. The output of…

Apparatus For Flexible Electronic Interfaces And Associated Methods

Granted: November 22, 2018
Application Number: 20180337681
A semiconductor die includes at least one flexible interface block. The flexible interface block includes at least one interconnect, and at least one buffer coupled to the at least one interconnect. The flexible interface block further includes a routing interface coupled to circuitry integrated in the semiconductor die, and a controller coupled to provide communication between the routing interface and the at least one buffer.

SCALABLE 2.5D INTERFACE CIRCUITRY

Granted: August 23, 2018
Application Number: 20180239738
A multichip package having a main die coupled to one or more daughter dies is provided. The main die may include embedded universal interface blocks (UIB) each of which can be used to interface with a corresponding daughter die to support high bandwidth parallel or serial communications. Each UIB may include an integrated processor subsystem and associated pattern sequencing logic to perform interface initialization and margining operations. Each UIB may perform simultaneous accesses to…

COAXIAL AND DOUBLE LUMEN BREATHING CIRCUIT SYSTEMS HAVING A LUNG PRESSURE MEASUREMENT PORT AND CLOSED SYSTEM WATER TRAP WHICH CAN BE DRAINED WITH AN ENJECTOR

Granted: August 9, 2018
Application Number: 20180221615
The invention relates to providing novel functions to the double lumen breathing circuits and coaxial breathing circuits which at present do not comprise water traps, by adding a closed system water trap designed to have an inkwell shape and a lung pressure measurement port to said circuits wherein the fluid collected in the bottle section can be discharged without having to open the bottle by means of a drainage luer port located at the base of the bottle and a needleless apparatus that…

DENORMALIZATION IN MULTI-PRECISION FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC CIRCUITRY

Granted: May 3, 2018
Application Number: 20180121168
The present embodiments relate to integrated circuits with floating-point arithmetic circuitry that handles normalized and denormalized floating-point numbers. The floating-point arithmetic circuitry may include a normalization circuit and a rounding circuit, and the floating-point arithmetic circuitry may generate a first result in form of a normalized, unrounded floating-point number and a second result in form of a normalized, rounded floating-point number. If desired, the…

Techniques For Handling High Voltage Circuitry In An Integrated Circuit

Granted: April 19, 2018
Application Number: 20180109262
An integrated circuit formed using a semiconductor substrate may include a logic circuit and a switch circuit, whereby the logic circuit operates at a first power supply voltage and the switch circuit operates at a second power supply voltage that is greater than the first power supply voltage. The logic circuit may be formed within a first triple well structure within the semiconductor substrate and is supplied with a first bias voltage. The switch circuit may be formed within a second…

Fluid Routing Devices And Methods For Cooling Integrated Circuit Packages

Granted: March 29, 2018
Application Number: 20180090417
A fluid routing device includes a fluid inlet, first vertical channels, a horizontal channel, a second vertical channel, and a fluid outlet. The first vertical channels are open to the fluid inlet. The horizontal channel is open to each of the first vertical channels. The first vertical channels are oriented to provide fluid coolant from the fluid inlet vertically down to the horizontal channel. The horizontal channel is open on one side such that fluid coolant in the horizontal channel…