Patents by Inventor Gunther Kotzle

Gunther Kotzle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5744996
    Abstract: An integrated semiconductor circuit for reducing power consumption, employing CMOS technology in which a transistor pair can be operated stably at different supply voltages. At each supply voltage the transistors have an associated threshold voltage which can be set via the well and substrate bias voltages. The substrate of the transistor pair is connected to a substrate bias voltage generator circuit and the well is connected to a well bias voltage generator circuit. An input signal representing the level of the supply voltage sets the respective bias voltages corresponding to the level of the supply voltage. Thus, the threshold voltage of each transistor is adapted to the existing supply voltage, thereby ensuring stable operation of the transistor pair. A battery driven data processing system with the integrated semiconductor circuit can attain an approximate 100 fold extension of the operating time of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gunther Kotzle, Volker Kreuter, Thomas Ludwig, Helmut Schettler