摘要:
A median filter device is provided with a reordered circuit, a comparison circuit and a data refresh circuit on the basis of the conventional data buffer circuit and data register circuit. The reorder circuit re-sorts the signal data stored in the data buffer circuit in a preceding clock cycle according to their numerical values. The comparison circuit compares the new signal datum entered in the current clock cycle with the signal data already stored to generate a median. The data refresh circuit updates the signal codes stored in the data register circuit with the signal codes corresponding to the new signal data, for calculation of the median in a following clock cycle. The length of the data buffer circuit and data register circuit can be reduced from N signal data to N-1 signal data, which achieves less data storage capacity, smaller circuit area, easier data processing and higher operation efficiency.
摘要:
A MEMS microphone structure, comprising a semiconductor substrate having a cavity, a first dielectric layer having a through-hole communicating with the cavity, a lower diaphragm electrode formed above the through-hole and at least partially attached to the upper surface of the first dielectric layer, and an upper electrode structure with an insulating layer. The upper electrode structure comprises an annular supporter, a back plate having multiple holes, and an upper electrode connection. At least a part of the annular supporter extends downwardly to the lower diaphragm electrode while the rest of the annular supporter extends downwardly to the substrate. The back plate is suspended above the lower diaphragm electrode by the annular supporter, forming an air gap therebetween. An upper electrode is embedded in the insulating layer at the back plate and is lead out by the upper electrode connection.
摘要:
A method for processing an electroplated copper film in copper interconnect process is disclosed by the present invention. Firstly, in the copper back-end-of-line interconnect process, the first annealing process for the electroplated copper film is performed at or below 180° C.; then, after the copper back-end-of-line interconnect process, another annealing process with higher temperature (equal or above 240° C.) to the electroplated copper film is performed to make the copper recrystallize, so as to decrease the resistivity of the electroplated copper film and form an interface state having lower resistivity at the interface of the vias bottom, which decrease the contact resistance between the vias and the underlying copper interconnects and further reduce the RC time delay in the vias. The present invention can be applied in the Cu/Low-k back-end-of-line interconnect process and compatible with the standard Cu/Low-k back-end-of-line process integration.
摘要:
A method is provided for manufacturing a semiconductor device with a metal film resistor structure. The method includes providing an insulation layer on the semiconductor device. A lower copper interconnect is formed in the insulation layer. The method also includes forming a cap layer on the insulation layer and the lower copper interconnect and etching the cap layer based on a single photolithography mask to form a window exposing portion of the lower copper interconnect and portion of the insulation layer. Further, the method includes forming a metal film layer on the cap layer and inside the window such that exposed portion of the lower copper interconnect is connected with part of the metal film layer within the window. The method also includes performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process to form a metal film resistor based on the metal film layer. The metal film resistor is connected with the portion of the lower copper interconnect.
摘要:
The present invention provides an IR-UWB data transmission encoding/decoding method and module. The encoding method comprises: in each unit time period lasting T seconds, receiving an N-bit of binary data of an M-bit binary data stream and generating UWB impulse radio signal having a specific frequency fi, determining and generating an amplitude value Ax of the UWB impulse radio signal having the specific frequency fi according to the remaining M-N bits binary data, and finally transmitting the UWB impulse radio signal having the specific frequency fi and the amplitude value. The decoding method corresponds to the encoding method. According to the present invention, the data transmission rate can be increased by four times compared with the conventional data transmission rate without increasing the circuit complexity, which is useful and attractive to the IR-UWB system.
摘要:
A method is disclosed for manufacturing a semiconductor device with a copper interconnect structure. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a first interconnect dielectric layer on the substrate, and forming a second interconnect dielectric layer on a surface of the first interconnect dielectric layer. The method also includes forming a plurality of conduits extending through the first interconnect dielectric layer and the second interconnect dielectric layer, and depositing copper in the plurality of conduits to form a copper interconnect layer of the copper interconnect structure. Further, the first interconnect dielectric layer, between neighboring conduits, contains cavities such that dielectric constant of the first interconnect dielectric layer is reduced. The second interconnect dielectric layer seals the top of the cavities, the substrate is the bottom of the cavities, and a width of the top of the cavities is less than a width of the bottom of the cavities.