Abstract: In a bus driver circuit having a floating gate circuit for controlling voltage on the gate of the output driver and a floating well circuit for controlling voltage on the body of the output driver, the improvement comprising a well pull up circuit coupled to the output driver for applying supply voltage to the body during transmission and for applying the output of the floating gate circuit to the body during quiescence.

Abstract: A fabrication process for dielectrically isolated high frequency complementary analog bipolar and CMOS transistors. Polysilicon extrinsic bases, polysilicon emitters with sidewall spacers formed after intrinsic base formation provides high current gain, large emitter-to-base breakdown voltage, large Early voltage, and high cutoff frequency.

Abstract: A fabrication process for dielectrically isolated high frequency complementary analog bipolar and CMOS transistors. Polysilicon extrinsic bases, polysilicon emitters with sidewall spacers formed after intrinsic base formation provides high current gain, large emitter-to-base breakdown voltage, large Early voltage, and high cutoff frequency.

Abstract: A fabrication process for dielectrically isolated high frequency complementary analog bipolar and CMOS transistors. Polysilicon extrinsic bases, polysilicon emitters with sidewall spacers formed after intrinsic base formation provides high current gain, large emitter-to-base breakdown voltage, large Early voltage, and high cutoff frequency.

Abstract: A resistor in an integrated circuit having a conductive shield layer between the resistor and an insulative layer. The contacts of the resistor may also contact the conductive shield layer. The shield layer may be formed during a single or double level polysilicon bipolar transistor fabrication process.

Abstract: A JFET having top gate contact regions formed in either one or both of the source and drain regions at and contacting a substantial portion of the edge terminations of the top gate in the source and drain regions. The improved top gate contact region can be used in three and four terminal JFET's.

Abstract: A multiple-access communications system for an unlimited user population wherein a system controller continuously transmits Aloha signals on a slot-by-slot basis giving an updated number of time slots available whereby a calling party can select any one of the designated time slots at random. The calling party checks the time slot immediately preceding its selected time slot to ascertain if the current Aloha number is zero (or an equivalent thereof). If it is zero then the calling party reverts to listening for a time slot containing an Aloha number greater than zero. Alternatively if it is not zero the calling party apparatus sends a signal to the system controller in its selected time slot. Multipurpose signalling in each time slot can be carried out by the system controller thereby reducing the overhead on the system and speeding-up the setting-up of calls which may be off-air or non off-air.

Abstract: In order to make optimum use of the available transmission channels in an information transmission system, such as a trunked mobile ratio transmission system, where a number of uncoordinated users may wish to signal to a central control point in addition to using the channels for another purpose, the central control point monitors the channels and, when a channel is or becomes free, sends a command signal on that channel. When a user who is waiting to signal receives the command signal he chooses one of a predetermined number of immediately following time slots in an effectively random manner and sends his request in that slot in digital message form. The central control point sends an acknowledgement in the next time slot if and only if it receives the request in an error-free manner. If a user does not receive such an acknowledgement in response to the transmission of such a request he tries again when he receives the next command.

Abstract: In order to form a first-come first-served queue in an information transmission system employing a common transmission channel when several transmitters of the system try to gain access to the channel when it is already occupied, without employing a further transmission channel to a point at which an account is kept of the order in which the various transmitters request access, each transmitter which tries to gain access in these circumstances is caused to delay after the channel subsequently free before it actually accesses the channel, this delay being inversely proportional to the time the corresponding transmitter has waited. Thus the transmitter which has waited the longest gains the channel first and causes the other waiting transmitters to continue to wait.