Patents Assigned to Sony Electric Co., Ltd
  • Patent number: 7709953
    Abstract: In a multi-chip package semiconductor device, a drive chip having an analog circuit and a logic chip having a digital circuit are mounted within the same package. The driver chip includes a logic-chip power-supply circuit that makes up a logic-chip power supply for the logic chip and a group of operational amplifiers that amplify detection signals from a plurality of sensors. The driver chip has the shape of a square as a whole, and the plurality of operational amplifiers and the logic-chip power-supply circuit are disposed in diagonally opposed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignees: Sony Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Yokoo
  • Patent number: 7203819
    Abstract: A program processing device that improves efficiency when debugging software. The processing device includes a CPU core and a break circuit, which is connected to an internal bus that is used by the CPU core to access a memory area. The break circuit monitors the internal bus and checks whether a designated variable in the program has been rewritten. When the designated variable has been rewritten, the break circuit breaks the operation of the CPU core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Naoya Yamakawa