Abstract: A selectably customizable semconductor device including a first metal layer disposed in a first plane and including first elongate strips extending parallel to a first axis, a second metal layer disposed in a second plane generally parallel to and electrically insulated from the first plane and including second elongate strips extending parallel to a second axis, the second axis being generally perpendicular to the first axis, whereby a multiplicity of elongate strip overlap locations are defined at which the elongate strips of the first and second metal layers overlap in electrical insulating relationship, the first metal layer including a plurality of fusible conductive bridges joining adjacent pairs of the first elongate strips, the fusible conductive bridges including first and second fusible links, the first metal layer also including a plurality of branch strips, each branch strip connecting one of the fusible conductive bridges at a location intermediate the first and second fusible links to a branch o

Abstract: A selectably customizable semiconductor device first and second metal layers disposed in respective first and second planes and including respective first and second elongate strips, conductive branches being provided in association with the elongate strips.

Abstract: A pulse width digital to analog converter is constructed which provides an output clock rate that is a multiple of the input sampling rate. In one embodiment a latch is used to store N-bit digital word representing the analog signal value to be generated. (N-K) of the most significant bits are stored in a counter which decrements its count in response to a clock signal. A plurality of least significant bits of said digital word stored in said latch are applied to a logic circuit. A ring counter is utilized to indicate which section of the output signal is currently being generated.

Abstract: In one embodiment of this invention, a uniquely designed switched capacitor multiplier/adder (129) is provided which also functions as a digital-to-analog converter in a single subcircuit. The multiplier/adder, in a single operation, multiplies an analog voltage by a binary coefficient, and sums this product with a second analog voltage. The use of this unique subcircuit significantly reduces the space requirements for the construction of, for example, a speech synthesis circuit utilizing linear predictive coding over prior art circuits. This invention provides a novel structure and method which minimizes error components in the synthesized speech signal due to voltage errors inherent in the use of analog sample and hold circuits which are used to store the forward and backward prediction errors utilized in the linear predictive coding technique. Using the method of this invention, the inherent error components are alternatively inverted and not inverted upon each clock cycle of the multiplier/adder.

Abstract: This invention provides a uniquely designed switched capacitor multiplier/adder (129) which also functions as a digital-to-analog converter in a single subcircuit. The multiplier/adder, in a single operation, multiplies an analog voltage by a binary coefficient, and sums this product with a second analog voltage. The use of this unique subcircuit results in a significant reduction in space requirements for the construction of, for example, a speech synthesis circuit utilizing linear predictive coding over prior art circuits. This reduction in size results in a significant reduction in the manufacturing costs for this circuit over prior art circuits, and additionally allows the option of including on the speech synthesis chip a memory for the storage of binary representations of to-be-synthesized speech patterns.

Abstract: An operational amplifier gain stage utilizing switched capacitor resistor equivalent circuits is designed utilizing a delayed clock reference signal (.phi..sub.D, .phi..sub.D) in a unique manner, thereby eliminating the effects of spurious error voltages (E.sub.S) generated when utilizing metal oxide silicon field effect transistors as switches (12, 15, 21, 23, 25). The single remaining MOSFET switch (21) which will contribute a spurious voltage component to the output of the operational amplifier gain stage is designed in such a manner as to minimize the spurious voltage generated during operation of the MOSFET switch. A single dummy switch (31) is utilized to further minimize the spurious voltage generated by this single MOSFET switch.