Patents Assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
  • Patent number: 11984178
    Abstract: A flexible RAM loader including a shift register that includes a first data section coupled with a serial data input, and a second data section selectively coupled with a first parallel data input. The shift register is configured to load data serially from the serial data input to the first data section and the second data section when the second data section is uncoupled from the first parallel data input, and, when the second data section is coupled with the first parallel data input, configured to load data in parallel from the serial data input into the first data section and from the first parallel data input into the second data section. The flexible RAM loader also including a test register comprising a selection bit to couple the second data section with the first parallel data input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: Gabriele Solcia
  • Patent number: 11982928
    Abstract: A scanning laser projector includes an optical module with a housing defined by a top surface, a bottom surface, and sidewalls extending between the top surface and bottom surface to define an interior compartment within the housing. A given one of the sidewalls has an exit window defined therein. A first light detector is positioned at an interior surface of the given one of the sidewalls about a periphery of the exit window. A second light detector positioned at the interior surface of the given one of the sidewalls about the periphery of the exit window and on a different side thereof than the first light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics LTD, STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alex Domnits, Elan Roth, Davide Terzi, Luca Molinari, Marco Boschi
  • Patent number: 11981558
    Abstract: The MEMS actuator is formed by a body, which surrounds a cavity and by a deformable structure, which is suspended on the cavity and is formed by a movable portion and by a plurality of deformable elements. The deformable elements are arranged consecutively to each other, connect the movable portion to the body and are each subject to a deformation. The MEMS actuator further comprises at least one plurality of actuation structures, which are supported by the deformable elements and are configured to cause a translation of the movable portion greater than the deformation of each deformable element. The actuation structures each have a respective first piezoelectric region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Domenico Giusti, Marco Ferrera, Carlo Luigi Prelini
  • Patent number: 11984860
    Abstract: A circuit includes an amplifier, a bias voltage node, and a first set of switches configured, based on a first reset signal having a first value, to couple first and second input nodes to the bias voltage node and to couple first and second output nodes of the amplifier. First and second feedback branches each include a respective RC network including a plurality of capacitances. The first and second feedback branches further include a second set of switches intermediate input nodes and the capacitances, and a third set of switches intermediate input nodes and the plurality of capacitances. These switches selectively couple the capacitances to the input nodes and output nodes, based on a second reset signal having a first value. The second reset signal keeps the first value for a determined time interval exceeding a time interval in which the first reset signal has the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Roberto Modaffari, Paolo Pesenti, Mario Maiore, Tiziano Chiarillo
  • Publication number: 20240154515
    Abstract: A converter system includes a reference buffer buffering a reference input to produce a DAC reference, operating from a reference feedback voltage generated by a reference divider. A tail buffer generates a tail voltage from an input voltage generated from the DAC reference by a tail divider. An R-2R type DAC utilizes an R-2R ladder to generate a DAC output from a code. This ladder has a tail resistor coupled to the tail voltage. A feedback buffer buffers the DAC output to produce a converter reference. A DC-DC converter generates a DC output from a DC input, based upon a converter feedback voltage. A feedback divider coupled between the DC output and the converter reference generates the converter feedback voltage. Control circuitry selectively taps the reference divider to produce the reference feedback voltage (performing gain trimming) and selectively taps the tail divider to produce the input voltage (performing offset trimming).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco ATTANASIO, Stefano RAMORINI
  • Publication number: 20240154599
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical resonator device has: a main body, with a first surface and a second surface, opposite to one another along a vertical axis, and made of a first layer and a second layer, arranged on the first layer; a cap, having a respective first surface and a respective second surface, opposite to one another along the vertical axis, and coupled to the main body by bonding elements; and a piezoelectric resonator structure formed by: a mobile element, constituted by a resonator portion of the first layer, suspended in cantilever fashion with respect to an internal cavity provided in the second layer and moreover, on the opposite side, with respect to a housing cavity provided in the cap; a region of piezoelectric material, arranged on the mobile element on the first surface of the main body; and a top electrode, arranged on the region of piezoelectric material, the mobile element constituting a bottom electrode of the piezoelectric resonator structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Federico VERCESI, Lorenzo CORSO, Giorgio ALLEGATO, Gabriele GATTERE
  • Publication number: 20240151844
    Abstract: A flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) receives an input control signal and performs coarse tuning of a frequency of an output signal, produced between first and second nodes having an inductance coupled therebetween. The flash ADC quantizes an operating frequency range for the output signal produced between the first and second nodes as M·?f, where M is an integer from 0 to N?1, where N is a number of intervals into which a frequency range for the output signal is divided, and where ?f is a resulting frequency step produced by the quantizing. The value of M is generated based upon the input control signal and a word controlling switches of a plurality of switched capacitance circuits associated with the first and second nodes to close ones of those switches associated with the control word to coarsely tune the frequency of the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alessandro PARISI, Andrea CAVARRA, Alessandro FINOCCHIARO, Giuseppe PAPOTTO, Giuseppe PALMISANO
  • Publication number: 20240151741
    Abstract: The MEMS device is formed by a substrate and a movable structure suspended on the substrate. The movable structure has a first mass, a second mass and a first elastic group mechanically coupled between the first and the second masses. The first elastic group is compliant along a first direction. The first mass is configured to move with respect to the substrate along the first direction. The MEMS device also has a second elastic group mechanically coupled between the substrate and the movable structure and compliant along the first direction; and an anchoring control structure fixed to the substrate, capacitively coupled to the second mass and configured to exert an electrostatic force on the second mass along the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Manuel RIANI, Gabriele GATTERE, Francesco RIZZINI
  • Patent number: 11977190
    Abstract: A device such as a dosimeter for detecting ionizing radiation, for example, X-ray radiation, in hospitals or the like. The device includes scintillator material configured to produce light as a result of radiation interacting with the scintillator material, and photoelectric conversion circuitry optically coupled to the scintillator material and configured to produce electrical signals via photoelectric conversion of light produced by the scintillator material. The device includes a plurality of photoelectric converters optically coupled with the scintillator material at spatially separated locations. The plurality of photoelectric converters thus produce respective electrical signals by photoelectric conversion of light produced by the scintillator material as a result of radiation interacting with the scintillator material. Improved energy linearity is thus facilitated while providing more efficient detection over the whole energy spectrum of radiation detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Sara Loi, Paolo Crema, Alessandro Freguglia
  • Patent number: 11977424
    Abstract: A processing system includes a reset circuit, a memory storing configuration data, and a hardware configuration circuit transmitting the configuration data to configuration data clients. The system executes a reset phase, configuration phase, and software runtime phase. First and second reset terminals are associated with first and second circuitries which are respectively associated with configuration data clients. The configuration data includes first and second mode configuration data for the first and second terminals. During the reset and configuration phase, the first circuitry activates a strong pull-down, and the second circuitry activates a weak pull-down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics Application GmbH, STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Roberto Colombo, Nicolas Bernard Grossier
  • Patent number: 11977971
    Abstract: A device include on-board memory, an applications processor, a digital signal processor (DSP) cluster, a configurable accelerator framework (CAF), and a communication bus architecture. The communication bus communicatively couples the applications processor, the DSP cluster, and the CAF to the on-board memory. The CAF includes a reconfigurable stream switch and data volume sculpting circuitry, which has an input and an output coupled to the reconfigurable stream switch. The data volume sculpting circuitry receives a series of frames, each frame formed as a two dimensional (2D) data structure, and determines a first dimension and a second dimension of each frame of the series of frames. Based on the first and second dimensions, the data volume sculpting circuitry determines for each frame a position and a size of a region-of-interest to be extracted from the respective frame, and extracts from each frame, data in the frame that is within the region-of-interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V., STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l
    Inventors: Surinder Pal Singh, Thomas Boesch, Giuseppe Desoli
  • Patent number: 11978411
    Abstract: A non-emissive display includes a backlight controller sending a pulse during each sub-frame of a plurality of frames to row and column drivers that drive backlight zones. The row drivers count each pulse to keep a pulse count total, and reset the pulse count total when it is equal to a first number indicating how many row drivers are present. Each row driver activates its channels and waits for a next pulse if the pulse count total is not equal to the first number and if the pulse count total is equal to a second number indicating in which sub-frame that first driver is to be activated. Each row driver waits for a next pulse if the pulse count total is not equal to the first number and the second number. Each column driver activates its channel in response to receipt of each pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Gaetano L'Episcopo, Giovanni Conti, Carmelo Occhipinti, Mario Antonio Aleo
  • Patent number: 11978416
    Abstract: Display elements, each having anode and cathode terminals, are arranged into rows and columns. Each row has an anode-line coupled to the anode terminals for its display elements. Each column has a cathode-line coupled to the cathode terminals for its display elements. A switch for each anode-line selectively couples that anode-line to a storage capacitor, and a switch for each cathode-line selectively couples that cathode-line to the storage capacitor. A display driver activates the row driver for a given row and the column driver for a given column. A switch driver closes the switch for the cathode-line for the given column, then opens the switch for that cathode-line. The display driver deactivates the row driver for the given row, after closing the switch for the cathode-line for the given column. The switch driver closes the switch for the anode-line for the given row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Gaetano L'Episcopo, Giovanni Conti
  • Patent number: 11979143
    Abstract: A circuit includes a high-side transistor pair and a low-side transistor pair having a common intermediate node. The high-side transistor pair includes a first transistor having a control node and a current flowpath therethrough configured to provide a current flow line between a supply voltage node and the intermediate node, and a second transistor having a current flowpath therethrough coupled to the control node of the first transistor. The low-side transistor pair includes a third transistor having a control node and a current flowpath therethrough configured to provide a current flow line between the intermediate node and the reference voltage node, and a fourth transistor having a current flowpath therethrough coupled to the control node of the third transistor. Testing circuitry is configured to be coupled to at least one of the second transistor and the fourth transistor to apply thereto a test-mode signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Nicola Errico, Valerio Bendotti, Luca Finazzi, Gaudenzia Bagnati
  • Publication number: 20240142294
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for detecting a liquid on a main surface of a body. The method is performed through a detection device including a processing module, a reference electrode at a reference electric voltage and a first sensing electrode on the main surface and configurated to detect an environmental electric and/or electrostatic charge variation indicative of the presence of the liquid. The method includes the steps of: biasing the first sensing electrode to a bias electric voltage; while the first sensing electrode is at the bias electric voltage, acquiring a first charge variation signal indicative of the electric and/or electrostatic charge variation detected by the first sensing electrode; verifying whether the first charge variation signal is indicative of the presence of the liquid on the main surface, at the first sensing electrode; and, if it is, determining the presence of the liquid on the main surface at the first sensing electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Stefano Paolo RIVOLTA, Andrea LABOMBARDA, Carlo GUADALUPI, Mauro BARDONE
  • Publication number: 20240141543
    Abstract: Articles such as substrates for semiconductor products comprising metal and resin portions with adhesion promoter material are processed in a plating bath, wherein the adhesion promoter material is exposed to dissolution as a result of prolonged exposure to the plating bath. The articles are processed by dipping them in the processing bath so that they have opposed surfaces exposed to the processing bath. The movement of the articles through the processing bath B may occur to be halted. In that case a gas flow is provided lapping the opposed surfaces of the articles to shield the opposed surfaces of the articles from exposure to the processing bath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventor: Paolo CREMA
  • Publication number: 20240145351
    Abstract: A semiconductor die is arranged on a first surface of a leadframe having a first thickness between the first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface and an array of electrically conductive leads. Terminal recesses are provided in the electrically conductive leads in the array at the first surface. At the terminal recesses, the electrically conductive leads have a second thickness less than the first thickness. The semiconductor die is coupled with the electrically conductive leads via wires or ribbons having ends coupled to the electrically conductive leads arranged in the terminal recesses. The leadframe is partially cut starting from the second surface at the terminal recesses with a cutting depth between the first thickness and the second thickness. The partial cut produces exposed surfaces of the electrically conductive leads and the ends of the electrically conductive elongated formations providing wettable flanks for solder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Matteo DE SANTA, Mauro MAZZOLA
  • Publication number: 20240140783
    Abstract: A device and method for manufacturing a device comprising two semiconductor dice. The device is formed by a first die and a second die. The first die is of semiconductor material and integrates electronic components. The second die has a main surface, forms patterned structures, and is bonded to the first die. Internal electrical coupling structures electrically couple the main surface of the first die to the second die. External connection regions extend on the main surface of the first die. A package packages the first die, the second die and the internal electrical coupling structures and partially surrounds the external connection regions, the external connection regions partially protruding from the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Mark Andrew SHAW, Lorenzo CORSO, Matteo GARAVAGLIA, Giorgio ALLEGATO
  • Publication number: 20240145429
    Abstract: Laser direct structuring, LDS material is molded onto semiconductor dice arranged on die pads in a leadframe and the semiconductor dice are electrically coupled with electrically conductive leads in the leadframe via electrical connections that comprise electrically conductive formations exposed at the front surface of the LDS material, electrically conductive vias between the semiconductor dice and the front surface of the LDS material, as well as electrically conductive lines over the front surface of the LDS material that couple selected ones of the electrically conductive formations with selected ones of the second electrically conductive vias. The electrically conductive vias and lines are provided applying laser beam energy to the front surface of the laser direct structuring material at spatial positions located as a function of the electrically conductive formations exposed at the front surface of the LDS material acting as fiducials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Riccardo VILLA, Guendalina CATALANO
  • Publication number: 20240145355
    Abstract: A leadframe includes a die pad and electrically conductive leads arranged peripherally of the die pad. A semiconductor die is mounted to the die pad. The die is electrically coupled to the electrically conductive leads using an electrical coupling member applied onto the semiconductor die. The electrical coupling member includes a planar body configured to cover the semiconductor die and the electrically conductive leads. The planar body of the electrical coupling member includes strip-like, electrically conductive formations embedded in an electrically insulating material. Each strip-like, electrically conductive formation has a first end configured to contact the semiconductor die and a second end configured to contact the electrically conductive lead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: Mauro MAZZOLA