Abstract: An electrical connection to or in a hearing apparatus is established by assembling a series capacitor. The capacitor is formed by one part having one capacitor plate and a second part having another capacitor plate. A part of the casing of the hearing apparatus can be used as a dielectricum of the capacitor.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for allocating memory arrangement addresses to a buffer chip, during an initialization mode, for use in addressing one or more memory arrangements connected to the buffer chip are provided. A buffer circuit may receive first initialization data specifying a first set of available memory arrangement addresses and associate one or more of the first set of available memory arrangement addresses with the one or more memory arrangements connected to the buffer chip. The buffer circuit may also generate second initialization data specifying the set of available memory arrangement addresses available after the association. The second initialization data may be transmitted to another buffer circuit for use in address allocation or back to a memory access control unit.

Abstract: A method is provided for adapting the phase relationship between a clock signal and a strobe signal for accepting write data to be transmitted into a memory circuit, a write command signal being transmitted to the memory circuit in a manner synchronized with the clock signal, a write data signal being transmitted synchronously with the strobe signal, a phase offset between the transmitted clock signal and the transmitted strobe signal being set such that the write data are reliably accepted in the memory circuit.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric lamp including at least one vessel for producing and emitting visible electromagnetic radiation, a base for securing and making electrical contact with the lamp in a luminaire fitting, and a connecting part which connects the base to one of the remaining parts of the lamp. The connecting part is in the form of a rotationally symmetrical rotary device which allows the remaining parts of the lamp to be rotated with respect to the base, when the base is secured in the fitting, about the axis of the lamp.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to a RAM memory circuit. A memory circuit includes a multiplicity of memory cells which can be selectively addressed, I/O circuitry for data; a clock input for receiving a system clock signal; a reception sampling circuit for sampling the received data using a reception strobe signal; and a reception strobe signal generating device which internally generates the reception strobe signal with synchronization with the received system clock signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a buffer component for a memory module having a plurality of memory components, comprising a first data interface for receiving an item of access information in accordance with a data transmission protocol, the address, clock, control and command signals depending on the access information, a second data interface for driving a clock signal and address and command signals to the plurality of memory components and for driving a control signal to a group of the plurality of memory components in accordance with a signaling protocol, wherein an activation of the memory components and an acceptance of the address and command signals are effected in a manner dependent on the control signals, and a control unit which applies the address and command signals to the plurality of memory components during a first clock period of the clock signal and applies the control signal for activating the group of the plurality of memory components to the group of the plurality of memory components to be ac

Abstract: A memory module includes a plurality of integrated memory components are arranged on a mounting substrate and a refresh control circuit arranged separately from the memory components on the mounting substrate. The output of the refresh control circuit is connected to the plurality of integrated memory components. The refresh control circuit receives and processes address or command signals which have been generated outside the memory module; based on the access information obtained therefrom, independently generates a refresh command or a refresh command sequence for refreshing the contents of memory cells in a selected one of the memory components; and transmits the command or command sequence to the selected memory component. Refresh commands of this type no longer have to be generated by a memory controller.

Abstract: The invention relates to a DLL circuit for providing an adjustable time delay of a periodic input signal, said circuit having controllable delay elements which are connected in series and form a delay chain, having a phase detector in order to generate a control signal on the basis of the periodic input signal and a periodic signal which has been delayed by the delay chain, the delay of each of the delay elements being adjusted on the basis of the control signal, and having a selection unit which is respectively connected to one of the delay elements in order to apply an output signal from one of the delay elements to an output of the DLL circuit on the basis of a selection variable which has been provided, and a compensation circuit which modifies the selection signal such that an additional delay (which is caused at least by the selection unit) between the periodic input signal and the output signal from the DLL circuit is compensated for.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a DLL circuit for providing an output signal which is shifted with by a desired phase shift with respect to a periodic input signal. In one embodiment, the DLL Circuit comprises a plurality of delay elements all having the same delay time and being connected in series to form a delay chain, wherein the periodic input signal is applied to the first delay element of the delay chain. The DLL circuit further comprises a detection unit which is connected to the outputs of at least a portion of the delay elements and which is provided to determine which delay element a particular edge of the periodic signal has reached after a predetermined phase progress of the periodic signal, and to generate a corresponding control information which indicates at which delay element the particular edge of the periodic signal has last been determined.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus are described for the treatment of wafers, in particular for the thinning of wafers. A wafer with a carrier layer and an interlayer arranged between the carrier layer and the wafer is also described, in which the interlayer is a plasmapolymeric layer that adheres to the wafer and adheres more strongly to the carrier layer than to the wafer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor memory module having at least one memory chip and a buffer chip, which drives clock, address and command signals to the memory chip and drives data signals to, and receives them from, the memory chip via a module-internal clock, address, command and data bus. The buffer chip forms an interface to an external memory main bus. The data bus lines and/or the clock, command and address bus lines are respectively connected to the buffer chip at their two ends and are capable of being driven by the buffer chip from these two ends. Control means are being provided and set up in such a manner that they respectively match the directions of propagation of the data signals and of the clock, command and address signals on the corresponding bus lines during writing and reading.

Abstract: The invention describes a method for adjusting signal propagation times in a memory system in which a controller is connected to at least one memory chip via a plurality of connecting lines for the purpose of transmitting control and data signals and at least one time reference signal. In line with the invention, the propagation time differences between connecting lines are ascertained from the result of echo measurements. To this end a respective transmitted pulse is applied to one end, selected as the transmission end, of the connecting lines in question, while the other end of the connecting lines in question is respectively terminated with a reflective termination. At the transmission end, the echo time which elapses between one edge of the transmitted pulse and the appearance of this edge's echo reflected from the other end is measured. On the basis of the ascertained propagation time differences, regulatable delay devices are set in order to compensate for these propagation time differences.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting memory data from a memory to a memory control module, in which method a read command is transmitted from the memory control module to the memory, and the memory data which correspond to the read command are transmitted from the memory to the memory control module, a sampling control signal which controls the acceptance of the memory data into the memory control module being transmitted from the memory to the memory control module in parallel with the memory data. In order to avoid defective data transmission between the memory and the memory control module as reliably as possible, the sampling control signal is transmitted with a preamble which indicates the imminent beginning of data transmission, for the sampling control signal to be monitored for the presence of the preamble, and for a data input amplifier of the memory control module to be switched on only when the presence of the preamble is detected.

Abstract: A calibration apparatus is provided for adjusting the relative phase between two signals received at a memory chip, the two signals being generated such that they are synchronized with one another in a controller and are transmitted to the memory chip via separate lines. The calibration apparatus comprises a measuring device, which is arranged in the memory chip and is designed for measuring the relative phase between the two received signals, and a feedback loop containing a phase-controlling correction device. The measuring device is designed for generating an item of control information indicating the deviation of the measured relative phase from a defined tolerance range. The correction device responds to the control information to compensate for the deviation. The correction device is arranged in the controller and is designed for influencing the relative phase between the two signals to be transmitted to the memory chip.

Abstract: An integrated memory has address inputs for applying a row address or a column address and a latency value, and an instruction decoder with a signal input. The instruction decoder uses a signal applied to the signal input to determine whether the address applied to the address inputs is the row address or the column address. If a column address is applied, an evaluation unit which is connected downstream of the instruction decoder and has evaluation inputs which are connected to the address inputs, is used to apply a latency signal corresponding to the latency value to an output of the evaluation unit.

Abstract: A code driver is described having a codeword source, which has n>1 source terminals and is designed to output at these terminals a sequence of n-digit codewords, each in the form of n parallel code characters, and having n parallel transmission paths between the n source terminals and n transmit terminals for sending the message represented by the codewords to a receiver. According to the invention, a selection device is provided, which indicates explicitly for each codeword which of the n digits of the codeword concerned are relevant to the decoding of the message in the receiver, and which, dependent on this explicit indication, activates only those of the n transmission paths that are assigned to the relevant digits of the codeword.

Abstract: The invention relates to a memory controller for the exchange of data between a digital memory arrangement (RAMs) and a data processing device, comprising a distributor circuit, to be connected to the data processing device, and a plurality m?2 of parallel transfer blocks, each of which is constructed for transmitting data words which in each case consist of n parallel data bits. According to the invention, in at least one group of p?2 transfer blocks, only one of the transfer blocks is configured as a master for the transfer of strobe signals by this transfer block. All other transfer blocks of the group are in each case configured as a slave in that the strobe terminals with this transfer block provided for transmitting the strobe signal to the distributor circuit are connected to the strobe terminals of the master which are provided for transmitting the strobe signal to the distributor circuit.

Abstract: A device for the regulated delay of a clock signal is proposed, which comprises a delay means in order to generate a delayed clock signal, and comparison means for the phase comparison of the delayed clock signal with a reference clock signal. The reference clock signal is in this connection preferably formed by the clock signal or is derived therefrom. On the basis of a comparison signal generated by the comparison means, a digital control signal is generated for controlling the delay means. The comparison means are configured so as to generate the comparison signal as a digitally coded signal that has a pulse duty ratio and a frequency that are determined by a further clock signal that is generated independently of the first clock signal, and that preferably has twice the frequency of the first clock signal.

Abstract: A memory module comprises a plurality of integrated memory components which are arranged on a carrier substrate. An access control circuit, which is arranged separately from the memory components on the carrier substrate, is connected, on the input side, to terminals for supplying address and command signals and, on the output side, to the plurality of integrated memory components. The access control circuit is designed in such a manner that, when supplying an address signal, it receives an address for a memory access to a selected memory component; generates, from the address received, at least one column address and row address for accessing a bit line and word line of the selected memory component and transmits the addresses to the latter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor memory module having a plurality of memory chips and at least one buffer chip, which drives clock signals and command and address signals to the memory chips and also drives data signals to, and receives them from, the memory chips via a module-internal clock, address, command and data signal bus. The buffer chip forms an interface to an external memory main bus and the memory chips are arranged in at least one row.