Abstract: There is disclosed a correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication which reduces the number of constituting elements to attain low power consumption and which can obtain correlation in a short time, to solve a problem that a conventional sliding correlator requires much time to obtain the correlation and that a matched filter increases the power consumption. In the spread spectrum communication correlation circuit, an A/D converter converts a received spread spectrum signal to a digital signal. Under control of a controller, one symbol of signals are written to an S/H circuit with a 16 MHz. clock, shifted for each sample and read to a high-speed correlator from the S/H circuit with a high-speed clock of 1.6 GHz a plurality of times, and the high-speed correlator performs a product sum operation with a spread code with the 1.6 GHz clock. At the same time the reading is performed, the next symbol of signals are written to the S/H circuit.

Abstract: A reference signal detecting device detects, as a reference signal, a signal received from a transmission partner corresponding to a transmission power equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value, and a compensation-free signal detecting device detects, as compensation-free signals, signals received from other mobile station systems corresponding to a transmission power equal to or higher than a transmission power corresponding to the transmission partner. A transmitting device transmits a signal using transmission weights based on reception weights to reduce the reception level of another signal than the reference signal and the compensation-free signals and increase the reception level of the reference signal.

Abstract: A system which serves both as a host and a device cannot be realized with a single connector due to the constitution of hardware in the prior art. The prior art system only detects the existence of a device and cannot distinguish between a host and a device while a power source is turned on and switch its function. The information processing apparatus of the present invention separates the data lines of a host communication controller and the data lines of a device communication controller and activates the selected controller by means of selecting the data lines of the controllers and means of determining which is connected to a connector, a host or a device.

Abstract: A mobile station (mobile communication unit) receives system software from a base station via an antenna and a transmitter/receiver, and stores the received system software in a memory. A digital signal processor in the mobile station then performs communication processing according to the system software stored in the memory. By transmitting various system software from the base station, the single mobile station can easily be adapted to different communication principles. The base station also receives system software from a center via a public exchange network, and stores the received system software in a memory. A digital signal processor in the base station then performs communication processing according to the system software stored in the memory.

Abstract: In a conventional correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication, when a sliding correlator is used, much time is required. When a matched filter is used, a problem is that a circuit scale and power consumption are increased. In the present invention, however, there is provided a correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication which minimizes the number of constituting elements, and can reduce the power consumption. In the correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication of the present invention, a spread spectrum received signal is A/D converted and accumulated in a data memory unit by a symbol unit, data rate is converted, and a high-rate MF performs a product sum operation processing at a high rate so that a correlation output is obtained.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a plasma CVD device in which it is possible to inhibit the formation of particles resulting from the adhesion of reaction by-products of poor adhesive strength around the upper electrode.

Abstract: A despreading circuit which can reduce a circuit scale and power consumption is described. The circuit includes an A/D converter which converts a CDMA modulated analog signal to a digital signal of N bits, and a searcher which defects a synchronization phase from high-order small bits of the N bits and outputs synchronozation phase information to a control circuit. The control circuit transmits a signal for allowing despreading to be performed to a sliding correlator based on the phase information. The sliding correlator despreads the N bit digital signal outputted by the A/D converter and outputs the resulting correlation output as a despreading signal.

Abstract: A reader and/or writer apparatus having an antenna lying substantially in a plane for generating an electromagnetic field to supply power to an IC card and a conductor member to be disposed in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the antenna, wherein the distance between the antenna and the conductor member is no greater than 20 mm. A power supplying system supplies power using electromagnetic waves from the reader and/or writer apparatus to the IC card. The IC card includes a circuit for converting the supplied power to a D.C. voltage and for supplying the D.C. voltage to an internal circuit of the IC card.

Abstract: There is disclosed a correlating operation method and a matched filter in which sensitivities in received code sequence selection and path detection are held to some degrees while circuit scale can be reduced. In the correlating operation method and the matched filter, code data obtained by adding or subtracting an in-phase component and a quadrature component of a received code sequence in a code mapping unit, and an in-phase component and a quadrature component of a received complex signal are subjected to correlating operation, and a correlating operation result is subjected to power adding operation to obtain a correlating operation output.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotation accommodating shelf and a transfer machine. The rotation accommodating shelf is capable of accommodating a plurality of accommodating containers in which substrates are to be loaded. The transfer machine is for transferring the plurality of accommodating containers to the rotation accommodating shelf. The plurality of accommodating containers are respectively disposed on radial lines, which radiate from a rotation center of the rotation accommodating shelf, such that each accommodating container is respectively inclined in a horizontal plane in a same fixed direction with respect to a radial line.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming a film on a substrate to be processed in a reaction furnace at a first temperature, unloading the substrate from the reaction furnace, and lowering a temperature in the reaction furnace to a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature, conducting a gas purge, using only an inert gas, in the reaction furnace after the substrate has been unloaded from the reaction furnace.

Abstract: There is disclosed a receiver, an intermittent frame synchronizing method and a portable remote terminal which can reduce power consumption and cost, while the accuracy of generation of intermittent reception timings is maintained. For example, in the receiver, the intermittent frame synchronizing method and the portable remote terminal, averaging means, in which separate values are set in two decoders, divides clock signals transmitted from slow clock generating means as a time measuring clock with separate periods, and averages the clock signals to output slot timing signals. The slot timing signals are counted by a saving counter, which outputs a coincidence signal when the constant value is reached. Upon receiving the coincidence signal, receiving means performs reception.

Abstract: The present invention is a frequency control and orthogonal detection circuit and a FSK receiver capable of reducing a circuit size and control of VCO appropriately. The orthogonal detection circuit and the FSK receiver of the present invention include a delay circuit, a decoder for decoding the direction of rotation, and a first integral electric discharging circuit to detect the direction of rotation of the signal point of a signal received. There is also a second delay circuit, an XOR circuit, an adder, and a second integral electric discharging circuit to detect a rotation of the signal point of a signal received. The decision circuit decides a symbol on the basis of them. The AFC circuit controls the frequency of a signal outputted by the VCO in comparison with an ideal signal outputted by the standardizing circuit.

Abstract: Radio communication systems, e.g. cellular telephones, have employed a space diversity antenna system which includes a plurality of antennas. In the space diversity antenna system for use in the cellular telephone, since two antennas are positioned adjoining each other, the space diversity effect cannot be adequately provided. To solve this problem, the polarization diversity antenna system according to this invention incorporates a first antenna, a second antenna, and a conductive board on which the second antenna is fixed at a given position, thus preventing the current flowing in the conductive board from causing the reception characteristic of the second antenna to deteriorate.

Abstract: Substrate processing apparatus and method, by which an outside air and a gas-phase backward flow are restrained from entering the inside of a reaction chamber during the inside of a reaction chamber is opened to the outside through a substrate carrying-in/carrying-out opening. This substrate processing apparatus, for example, a vertical CVD apparatus (200) has a gas supply system (240) and a bypass line (264). The gas supply system (240) supplies an inert gas to a space (3a) between an outer tube (1A) and an inner tube (2A) of a reaction furnace (211) in a boat loading term and a boat unloading term. The bypass line (264) exhausts an atmosphere from a reaction chamber (1a) by performing a slow exhaust operation in the boat loading term and the boat unloading term.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method comprises a step of forming, by thermal chemical vapor deposition method, silicon nitride films on a plurality of substrates stacked in a reaction tube, with bis tertiary butyl amino silane and NH3 flowing into the reaction tube accommodating the stacked substrates, wherein the silicon nitride films are formed on the substrates in a state in which a distance “a” between adjacent the substrates and a distance “b” between edges of the substrates and an inner wall of the reaction tube are maintained substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: A semiconductor producing apparatus is capable of quickly and accurately changing a controlled variable to a target value to thereby make the controlled variable quickly follow the target value. Moreover, the controlled variable and target value can be adjusted automatically, thus improving the productivity of a process. The semiconductor producing apparatus includes a PID adjustment section to which a target value and a detected control value are inputted through an adder, a pattern generation section having an approximate function for calculating a pattern output and making it possible to change the pattern output in accordance wit parameter values of the approximate function, and a switcher for switching between an output including at least an output of the pattern generation section and an output of the PID adjustment section to thereby generate an output.

Abstract: To make it possible to detect faults of optical fibers only by allowing the Master unit side to monitor those fibers in an optical transmission system for bilateral communication of analog optical signals by use of two-route optical fibers between the Master and Slave units. An oscillator of a Master unit oscillates a monitoring signal having a frequency different from that of the RF multiplex signal, a composition means synthesizes these two signals, and a light emission means transmits the synthesized signal to a light reception means of a Slave unit via a downlink optical fiber. A filter means at the Slave unit separates the monitoring signal from the received optical signal, the Slave composition means synthesizes the separated signal and the RF multiplex signal, and a light emission means converts the synthesized signal into an optical signal having a constant average optical power and transmits it to a light reception means at the Master unit via an uplink optical fiber.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus that includes an outer tank, an inner tank, and opposed electrodes. The inner tank is provided in the outer tank and the opposed electrodes are provided in the inner tank. A distance between the opposed electrodes can be changed in a state in which the inner tank can completely confine plasma therein. The inner tank includes first and second inner tank constituent members, and the state in which the inner tank can completely confine plasma therein is established by superposing a side wall of the second inner tank constituent member on a side wall of the first inner tank constituent member.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method including a step of forming, by thermal chemical vapor deposition, silicon nitride films on a plurality of substrates vertically stacked in a vertical reaction tube having an inner wall. Bis tertiary butyl amino silane and NH3 flows into the vertical reaction tube and flows vertically from one end of the plurality of substrates to an opposing end of the plurality of substrates without flowing into the vertical reaction tube through the inner wall at a height between the one end and the opposing end of the plurality of substrates. The silicon nitride films are formed on the plurality of substrates in a state in which a distance “a” between adjacent substrates of the plurality of substrates and a distance “b” between edges of the plurality of substrates and the inner wall of the vertical reaction tube are maintained substantially equal to each other.