Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090024777 | ARBITER AND ARBITRATION METHOD OF MULTIPLE DATA ACCESSES - There is provided a technique which reduces an average processing time of low-priority accesses with suppressing an average delay increase of a high-priority access processing even in a case where high-priority access request and a low-request access request are simultaneously generated to a shared access processing unit and high-priority accesses are continuously generated. And, there is provided an access arbitration equipment comprising: an issued access request retention unit; a first interval determination circuit; and a second interval determination circuit. In a case where the first interval determination circuit determines that an interval is generated between an issued access processing and a most prior access processing and a second interval determination circuit determines that no interval is generated between the issued access processing and a second-prior access request, the priority order of the most prior access request and the second-prior access request is changed. | 01-22-2009 |
20100327979 | Current Detection Apparatus and Control System Using the Same - A highly accurate current detection apparatus is realized in a one-chip LSI. An end of a current detector is connected to an analog power supply (VACC) or a virtual analog ground potential (VAG) of a voltage amplifier and an A/D converter, and a predetermined voltage is supplied between the voltage amplifier and the virtual ground potential (VAG) by a power supply. | 12-30-2010 |
20110049988 | Control System and Semiconductor Device Used Therein - The present invention aims to provide a control system which is capable of building high-precision current detecting means in a single-chip LSI and can be realized at a lower cost, and a semiconductor device used in the control system. Drive circuits are provided inside the same semiconductor chip. The drive circuits are equipped with: current detecting shunt resistors each of which is provided in each of the drive circuits and detects a current flowing through a load, the current detecting shunt resistors being provided within a semiconductor chip by the same process; a dummy resistor provided within the semiconductor chip by the same process as the current detecting shunt resistors; and a calibration reference externally attached to the semiconductor chip and connected to the dummy resistor. A correcting means corrects the values of currents that flow through the current detecting shunt resistors, using the dummy resistor and the calibration reference. | 03-03-2011 |
20110101959 | CURRENT-CONTROLLED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND CONTROL UNIT USING THE SAME - The present invention aims to provide a current-controlled semiconductor device which corrects fluctuations of both gain and offset of a current detection circuit to thereby enable high-accuracy current detection within a single-chip IC, and a control unit using the same. | 05-05-2011 |
20120173850 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A high-performance information processing technique permitting updating of an instruction buffer ready for effective prefetching to branch instructions and returning to the subroutine with a small volume of hardware is to be provided at low cost. It is an information processing apparatus equipped with a CPU, a memory, prefetch means and the like, wherein a prefetch address generator unit in the prefetch means decodes a branching series of instructions including at least one branched address calculating instruction and branching instruction to a branched address out of a current instruction buffer storing the series of instructions currently accessed by the CPU, and thereby looks ahead to the branching destination address. The information processing apparatus further comprises a RTS instruction buffer for storing a series of instructions of the return destinations of RTS instructions, and series of instructions stored in the current instruction buffer are saved into the RTS instruction buffer. | 07-05-2012 |
20130057245 | Current Regulator - A current regulator has a current regulating semiconductor device and a microcontroller which outputs a PWM pulse for driving a load to the current regulating semiconductor device and receives outputs of a high-side current detection circuit and a low-side current detection circuit from the current regulating semiconductor device. An output mixer of the current regulating semiconductor device switches, in synchronization with the PWM pulse, between the output of the high-side current detection circuit and the output of the low-side current detection circuit on one signal line to output the output to the microcontroller. | 03-07-2013 |
20130105913 | Current Control Semiconductor Element and Control Device Using the Same | 05-02-2013 |
20130147453 | Current Control Semiconductor Element and Control Device Using the Same - This invention provides a current control semiconductor element that can detect a current with high accuracy in a single IC chip by dynamically correcting changes in a gain a and an offset b, and a control device that uses the current control semiconductor element. | 06-13-2013 |
20130320948 | Current Control Device - A current control device capable of performing widely applicable failure detection without a motor rotation speed sensor is provided. A current control semiconductor element includes, on a same semiconductor chip, a transistor that drives load, a current detection circuit that detects current of the load, a compensator that calculates an on-duty of the transistor from a current command value and a current value output from the current detection circuit, and a PWM timer that generates a pulse turning on the transistor on the basis of the on-duty. A microcontroller sends the current command value to the current control semiconductor element, receives the current value output from the current detection circuit and the on-duty output from the compensator from the current control semiconductor element, and detects failure of the current control semiconductor element on the basis of the received current value and on-duty. | 12-05-2013 |