Patents by Inventor Philippe Noel

Philippe Noel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10872642
    Abstract: A memory circuit including: a plurality of elementary storage cells arranged in an array of rows and of columns; a data input/output port; an address input port; a mode selection input port; and an internal control circuit configured to: read a mode selection signal applied to the mode selection port; when the mode selection signal is in a first state, read an address of a row from the address input port and implement a read or write operation in this row; and when the mode selection signal is in a second state, read from the data input/output port an instruction signal and implement an operation including the simultaneous activation in read or write mode of at least two rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Henri-Pierre Charles, Maha Kooli, Jean-Philippe Noel
  • Publication number: 20200378683
    Abstract: An apparatus for drying bulk material can include a housing defining a chamber, an inlet for receiving the bulk material into the chamber, and an outlet for discharging the bulk material from the chamber. At least one conveyor mechanism can be disposed within the housing and can be arranged to convey the bulk material from the inlet to the outlet. A ventilation system can be coupled to the chamber and configured to remove water vapor from the chamber. A method of drying bulk material can include receiving the bulk material into a chamber, conveying the bulk material within the chamber, removing water vapor from the chamber, and discharging the bulk material from the chamber. The system can be used to process peat moss or other bulk materials, such as soil, manure, wood pulp, vegetables, or other products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Neri Jean, Philippe Noël, Conrad David Cormier
  • Patent number: 10847216
    Abstract: SRAM memory including: a matrix of memory cells; bit lines and word lines; read ports associated with the memory cells and coupled to the bit lines and to the word lines; local virtual ground, LVGND, lines each coupled to the reference potential terminals of the read ports of at least one row of memory cells; local control elements each configured to electrically couple one of the LVGND lines to a power supply potential or to a global virtual ground line, or GVGND line; a global control element configured to couple the GVGND line to the power supply electric potential or to a reference electric potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Noel
  • Patent number: 10811087
    Abstract: A memory circuit including a plurality of elementary cells arranged in an array of rows and of columns, and a control circuit capable of implementing an operation of vertical reading of a word from a column of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Commissariat à lÉnergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Bastien Giraud
  • Patent number: 10803927
    Abstract: A memory circuit including a plurality of elementary cells distributed in a plurality of arrays, each including N columns, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, wherein: each column of each array includes a first local bit line directly connected to each of the cells in the column; each column of each array includes a first general bit line coupled to the first local bit line of the column by a first coupling circuit; and the first general bit lines of the columns of same rank j of the different arrays, j being an integer in the range from 0 to M?1, are coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Avishek Biswas, Bastien Giraud
  • Publication number: 20200227098
    Abstract: A Memory device comprising a matrix of memory cells, the matrix being provided with at least one first column, the device also being provided with a test circuit configured to perform a test phase during a read operation to indicate whether or not the proportion of cells in said column storing the same logical data, particularly a logical ‘1’, is greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe NOEL, Reda Boumchedda, Bastien Giraud
  • Publication number: 20200227097
    Abstract: A memory circuit including: a plurality of elementary storage cells arranged in an array of rows and of columns; a data input/output port; an address input port; a mode selection input port; and an internal control circuit configured to: read a mode selection signal applied to the mode selection port; when the mode selection signal is in a first state, read an address of a row from the address input port and implement a read or write operation in this row; and when the mode selection signal is in a second state, read from the data input/output port an instruction signal and implement an operation including the simultaneous activation in read or write mode of at least two rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Henri-Pierre Charles, Maha Kooli, Jean-Philippe Noel
  • Publication number: 20200185392
    Abstract: A 3D-RAM memory comprising: several memory cell arrays distributed in several superimposed memory layers; a word line driver; a row decoder coupled to the word line driver; wherein the row decoder and the word line driver are arranged in a layer of command electronics which is separate from the memory layers, and wherein, in each of the memory layers, each of the word lines is connected to an output of an electronic selection device arranged in the memory layer, a data input of which is connected to the word line driver, a command input of which is connected to the row decoder, and which is configured to let a signal of access to the transistors pass or not depending on the value of a received command signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Adam MAKOSIEJ, Bastien GIRAUD, Jean-Philippe NOEL
  • Publication number: 20200160905
    Abstract: A memory circuit including: a plurality of elementary storage cells arranged in an array of rows and of columns, the cells of a same column sharing a same read bit line and a same write bit line; an internal control circuit capable of implementing a calculation operation including the simultaneous activation in read mode of at least two rows of the array; and a shuffle circuit including a data input register, a configuration register, and an output port, the shuffle circuit being capable of delivering on its output port the data stored in its input register shuffled according to a shuffle operation defined according to the state of its configuration register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Henri-Pierre Charles, Maha Kooli, Jean-Philippe Noel
  • Publication number: 20200035294
    Abstract: SRAM memory including: a matrix of memory cells; bit lines and word lines; read ports associated with the memory cells and coupled to the bit lines and to the word lines; local virtual ground, LVGND, lines each coupled to the reference potential terminals of the read ports of at least one row of memory cells; local control elements each configured to electrically couple one of the LVGND lines to a power supply potential or to a global virtual ground line, or GVGND line; a global control element configured to couple the GVGND line to the power supply electric potential or to a reference electric potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe NOEL
  • Publication number: 20190198094
    Abstract: A memory circuit including a plurality of elementary cells arranged in a plurality of arrays, each including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and wherein: the elementary cells having the same coordinates in the different arrays share a same first conductive track; and in each array, the elementary cells of a same row of the array share a same second conductive track and a same third conductive track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Bastien Giraud, Adam Makosiej
  • Publication number: 20190189166
    Abstract: A memory circuit including: a plurality of elementary storage cells arranged in an array of rows and of columns; a data input/output port; an address input port; a mode selection input port; and an internal control circuit configured to: read a mode selection signal applied to the mode selection port; when the mode selection signal is in a first state, read an address of a row from the address input port and implement a read or write operation in this row; and when the mode selection signal is in a second state, read from the data input/output port an instruction signal and implement an operation including the simultaneous activation in read or write mode of at least two rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Henri-Pierre Charles, Maha Kooli, Jean-Philippe Noel
  • Publication number: 20190189199
    Abstract: A memory circuit including a plurality of elementary cells arranged in an array of rows and of columns, and a control circuit capable of implementing an operation of vertical reading of a word from a column of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Bastien Giraud
  • Publication number: 20190189198
    Abstract: A memory circuit including a plurality of elementary cells distributed in a plurality of arrays, each including N columns, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, wherein: each column of each array includes a first local bit line directly connected to each of the cells in the column; each column of each array includes a first general bit line coupled to the first local bit line of the column by a first coupling circuit; and the first general bit lines of the columns of same rank j of the different arrays, j being an integer in the range from 0 to M?1, are coupled together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Avishek Biswas, Bastien Giraud
  • Publication number: 20190172526
    Abstract: Static random access memory device comprising a memory matrix provided with at least one column (COL1) formed from a plurality of SRAM memory cells (C11, CN1), the device being provided with a fast erase memory circuit configured to connect a first bit line (BLT) and a second bit line (BLF) shared by cells in said column, following reception of an erase signal (ERASE).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Noemie Boher, Romain Wacquez
  • Publication number: 20190153861
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a top portion and a middle portion. The top portion includes an inlet for receiving peat moss. A feeding mechanism delivers the peat moss from the top portion to the middle portion. A compression mechanism housed in the middle portion includes at least one roller assembly for at least partially dewatering the peat moss. The roller assembly can include upper and lower rollers. Peat moss passing between the rollers can be pressed to reduce moisture content of the peat moss. The lower roller can include perforations allowing moisture to drain away from the peat moss. Speeds of rotation of the rollers and/or a distance between the rollers can be adjustable. A bottom portion underneath the middle portion can include an outlet for discharging the peat moss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Neri Jean, Philippe Noël, Conrad David Cormier
  • Patent number: 10297319
    Abstract: A memory circuit including cells connected in rows and in columns, each cell including a programmable resistive element and a control transistor, the memory circuit further including a control circuit capable of, during a cell programming phase: applying a first voltage to a control conductive track of the column including the cell; applying a second voltage to the first control conductive track of the row including the cell; applying a third voltage capable of turning on the cell control transistor to a second row control conductive track including the cell; and applying a fourth voltage capable of turning off the control transistors to the control conductive tracks of columns which do not include the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Bastien Giraud, Alexandre Levisse, Jean-Philippe Noel
  • Publication number: 20180277197
    Abstract: A SRAM cell, including, in a stack of layers, transistors including at least first and second access transistors connected to a word line, the first access transistor coupling a first bit line and a first storage node and the second access transistor coupling a second bit line and a second storage node, and a flip-flop including a first conduction transistor coupling the first storage node to a source of a first reference potential and having its gate coupled to the second storage node and a second conduction transistor coupling the second storage node to the source of the first reference potential and having its gate coupled to the first storage node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Kaya Can Akyel, Bastien Giraud
  • Patent number: 10043581
    Abstract: A memory circuit capable of implementing calculation operations, including: memory cells arranged in rows and in columns, each cell including: a data bit storage node, a read-out transistor connected by its gate to the storage node, and a selection transistor series-connected with the read-out transistor between a reference node and a conductive output track common to all the cells of a same column; and a control circuit configured to simultaneously activate the selection transistors of at least two cells of a same column of the circuit, and to read from the conductive output track of the column a value representative of the result of a logic operation having as operands the data of the two cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Noel, Kaya Can Akyel
  • Patent number: 9911737
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a substrate with first and second cells having first and second FDSOI field-effect transistors. There are first and second ground planes, a buried oxide layer and first and second wells, under the ground planes. The first well and the first ground plane have the same doping and the second well and the second ground plane have the same doping. The first and second cells are adjoined and their transistors are aligned in a first direction. The wells of the first cell and the first well of the second cell are doped opposite of the second well. A control device applies a first electrical bias to the wells with the first doping and a second electrical bias to the well with the second doping. The transistors of the first cell and second cell have different threshold voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Bastien Giraud, Philippe Flatresse, Jean-Philippe Noel, Bertrand Pelloux-Prayer