Abstract:
A low-cost vehicle control system and a car using the system controls radiation of an actuator driver and thereby reduces the radiation component cost and allows downsizing of an electronic control unit to improve the versatility. The vehicle control system has an electronic control unit, a plurality of actuators and actuator drivers for driving the actuators at the actuator side. The actuator drivers, respectively, have an independent self-diagnosis section, a self-protection section, and a communication control section and are dispersed correspondingly to the actuators.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device, responsive to an input signal having a low amplitude and short transition time, operates with low power consumption and prevents the flow of breakthrough current. In an example circuit thereof, the input signal is transmitted through an NMOS pass transistor to the gate of a first NMOS transistor and is applied, through a second NMOS transistor, to the gate of a first PMOS transistor, the first PMOS transistor performing complementary operation with the first NMOS transistor through the second NMOS transistor; the gate of the first PMOS transistor is connected to the power supply potential through the second PMOS transistor; the gate of the second NMOS transistor is connected to the power supply potential; and the gate of the second PMOS transistor is controlled by the signal at a common drain connection of the first NMOS and first PMOS transistors.
Abstract:
In a switching power source comprising a triangular wave generating circuit and an error amplifier and a PWM comparator, in normal time PWM pulses being obtained by comparing an output amplitude of triangular wave of the triangular wave generating circuit with an output voltage of the error amplifier as a reference voltage using the PWM comparator, the soft-start circuit of the switching power source comprises a soft-start reference value setting part composed of a group of resistance networks and a group of switches using the same structure as an upper-and-lower limit setting part, composed of networks and switches, for setting an upper and a lower limits of the amplitude of triangular wave of the triangular generating circuit; and a counting circuit for counting cycles of the triangular wave of the triangular wave generating circuit to obtain a plurality of arbitrary soft-start timings in order to switch the group of switches.
Abstract:
A floating-point arithmetic processing apparatus has a circuit for generating a limit value for normalization shift by subtracting an exponent of the minimum value of a normalized number from a value of an exponent of an intermediate result, and a circuit for generating, as a normalization shift number, smaller one of a shift number necessary for making the mantissa of the intermediate result a normalized number and the limit value for normalization shift. The floating-point arithmetic processing apparatus further has a circuit having a circuit for detecting a condition for overflow before the rounding process and a circuit for generating a value in the case of overflow, so that a predetermined value is delivered as a final result only when the overflow condition is detected before the rounding process but in the other case, a result obtained by performing the normalization process and the rounding process is delivered. When no overflow takes place before the rounding process but overflow occurs after the rounding process, the result obtained by performing the normalization process and the rounding process is delivered as a final result.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided which includes at least one first functional circuit block which receives an input signal and executes a logical operation to output an output signal as a result. At least one second functional circuit block is connected in parallel with the first functional circuit block. The second functional circuit block also responds to an input signal to execute a logical operation and output an output signal as a result. The first and second functional circuit blocks are connected to one another such that the second functional circuit block will operate synchronously with the first functional circuit block. More specifically, the first functional circuit block is arranged to control an output timing of the second functional circuit block.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device with a built-in memory circuit group is disclosed, wherein wiring is started from a data terminal position near a data exchange portion of a memory circuit group to reduce the length of a wiring. Accordingly, an operation speed can be improved by the reduction of wiring capacitance and a ratio of unwired wirings can be reduced by reduction of an occupying ratio of wiring channels.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device capable of achieving downsizing without reducing the power supply efficiency and capable of reducing switching noises and a memory card using the same are disclosed. The device comprises a plurality of stages of voltage booster circuits for potentially raising a power supply voltage up to a final output voltage, a voltage control unit for controlling an output voltage at a nearby location of the final stage, and one or more internal elements to which the final output voltage is supplied. A primary voltage booster circuit at the first stage includes an inductance element, a switching element, a diode and a driver circuit. At a metal core part of the inductance element, a metal wiring line is used, which was formed by use of a fabrication process of semiconductor integrated circuits, while employing for its core part an inter-wiring layer dielectric film that was formed using the fabrication process. In addition, the switching element and the diode are arranged so that portions thereof are disposed beneath the inductance element.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device including a driver circuit, a first long-distance wiring connected to the driver circuit, and a plurality of gate circuits connected over the entire length of the first long-distance wiring, so that an output signal of the driver circuit is received by the plurality of gate circuits via the first long-distance wiring, wherein a node arranged in the vicinity of an input terminal of the gate circuit connected to an input terminal of the driver circuit and an end of the first long-distance wiring is connected by a second long-distance wiring and a speed-increasing circuit.
Abstract:
A low-cost vehicle control system and a car using the system controls radiation of an actuator driver and thereby reduces the radiation component cost and allows downsizing of an electronic control unit to improve the versatility. The vehicle control system has an electronic control unit, a plurality of actuators and actuator drivers for driving the actuators at the actuator side. The actuator drivers, respectively, have an independent self-diagnosis section, a self-protection section, and a communication control section and are dispersed correspondingly to the actuators.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a circuit apparatus which is highly tolerant to noises and operates at a higher speed than a conventional completely complementary static CMOS circuit. To achieve this, the circuit apparatus features a plurality of CMOS static logic circuits which are series-connected and potential setting circuitry which is connected to the output parts of these logic circuits and sets the outputs of the output parts to a low level in synchronization with a clock signal, thus propagating signals by operation of the NMOS circuit. In other words, a signal propagation delay occurs only when the N-type logic block conducts. Therefore, circuit operation is speeded up and &agr; particle noise and noises due to charge redistribution effect or leakage current can be prevented. There is also disclosed a parallel data processing apparatus which features such logic circuitry, the data processing apparatus having both a plurality of data processing units, each having a processor and a memory, and a plurality of hard disks.