Patents by Inventor Yuan-Hua Chu

Yuan-Hua Chu 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).

  • Publication number: 20100150213
    Abstract: A signal transceiver apparatus suitable for a wired signal transceiver system includes a differential signal transmitter, an impendence matching control module and a signal receiver. The signal transmitter has an output terminal which is connected to a transceiver wire. The signal transmitter includes a first impendence tuner and is used to receive a control signal so as to tune impendence of the first impendence tuner according to the control signal. Moreover, the impendence matching control module generates the control signal according to a compare signal and a lock signal. Besides, the signal receiver generates the lock signal and the compare signal according to a compare result between a current flowing through the first impendence tuner and a reference current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Ruei-Iun Pu, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7605613
    Abstract: A current switch logic circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a current sense amplifier formed by a first transistor to a fifth transistor, and a logic tree. The logic tree is used to generate a first current and a second current. The current sense amplifier generates a first output signal and a second output signal according to the first current and the second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Chun-Tsai Hung, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7605614
    Abstract: A current switch logic circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a current sense amplifier formed by a first transistor to a fifth transistor, and a logic tree. The logic tree is used to generate a first current and a second current. The current sense amplifier generates a first output signal and a second output signal according to the first current and the second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Chun-Tsai Hung, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20090212822
    Abstract: A current switch logic circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a current sense amplifier formed by a first transistor to a fifth transistor, and a logic tree. The logic tree is used to generate a first current and a second current. The current sense amplifier generates a first output signal and a second output signal according to the first current and the second current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Chun-Tsai Hung, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20090212821
    Abstract: A current switch logic circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a current sense amplifier formed bit a first transistor to a fifth transistor, and a logic tree. The logic tree is used to generate a first current and a second current. The current sense amplifier generates a first output signal and a second output signal according to the first current and the second current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Chun-Tsai Hung, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7576599
    Abstract: A voltage generating apparatus including a current source, a first voltage source, a second voltage source, a first differential pair, a second differential pair, a voltage divider and a current mirror is provided. The voltage divider is used for reducing a voltage with a negative temperature coefficient, so as to reduce the amplification ratio of the voltage with a positive temperature coefficient used for compensating the negative temperature coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Ru-Jie Wang, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20090172683
    Abstract: A multicore interface with dynamic task management capability and a task loading and offloading method thereof are provided. The method disposes a communication interface between a micro processor unit (MPU) and a digital signal processor (DSP) and dynamically manages tasks assigned by the MPU to the DSP. First, an idle processing unit of the DSP is searched, and then one of a plurality of threads of the task is assigned to the processing unit. Finally, the processing unit is activated to execute the thread. Accordingly, the communication efficiency of the multicore processor can be effectively increased while the hardware cost can be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tai-Ji Lin, Tien-Wei Hsieh, Yuan-Hua Chu, Shih-Hao Ou, Xiang-Sheng Deng, Chih-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 7551000
    Abstract: A differential bidirectional transceiver is provided. The differential bidirectional transceiver includes a first current transmitter, a second current transmitter and a receiver. The first current transmitter and the second current transmitter are coupled to a first interconnection and a second interconnection, respectively. Each of the current transmitters includes two current sources and two switches. The receiver includes an input circuit consisting of four differential pairs, a current summation circuit and a buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Ruei-Iun Pu, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20090146727
    Abstract: A voltage generating apparatus including a current source, a first voltage source, a second voltage source, a first differential pair, a second differential pair, a voltage divider and a current mirror is provided. The voltage divider is used for reducing a voltage with a negative temperature coefficient, so as to reduce the amplification ratio of the voltage with a positive temperature coefficient used for compensating the negative temperature coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Ru-Jie Wang, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20090146625
    Abstract: A voltage generating apparatus including a voltage generator and a current splitter is provided. The voltage generator has an output node, and generates a first output voltage from the output node. The first output voltage rises when the temperature rises and the current flowing from the output end of the voltage generator is fixed. And the first output voltage drops when the temperature is fixed and the current flowing from the output node of the voltage generator rises. The current splitter is used for increasing the current flowing through the current splitter when the temperature rises. Therefore, the rise of the first output voltage of the voltage generator will be restrained, and the temperature compensation can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Ru-Jie Wang, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20090141595
    Abstract: A time-to-digital converter apparatus including a delay phase-locked loop, a subtracter, a multi-phase detector and a Vernier detector is disclosed. The delay phase-locked loop herein includes digital delay components for producing counting signals. The multi-phase detector includes digital delay components for producing delay outputs according to the counting signals and thereby detecting a pulse input signal. The Vernier detector includes digital delay components for detecting the remainder of the pulse input signal according to the difference between the delay outputs produced by the subtracter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Yi-Jui Tsai, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20090140782
    Abstract: A spread spectrum clock generating apparatus is disclosed. The spread spectrum clock generating apparatus includes a phase lock loop module and a spread spectrum module. The phase lock loop module is used for dynamically tuning frequency of an output clock. The spread spectrum module includes a counter, a plurality of delta-sigma counters and a data shifter. These delta-sigma counters accumulate input signals, and enable a first overflow signal while accumulation of a last stage delta-sigma counter is overflowed. The frequency of the output clock can be tuned dynamically according to the first overflow signal, and the spectrum of the output clock can be spread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Li-Wei Huang, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7528640
    Abstract: A digital pulse-width control apparatus including an input module, a digital delay locked loop, a plurality of programmable delay circuits connected in series, and a pulse-width modulation module is provided. The present invention uses the input module to vary a clock signal to reduce the limitation of a duty cycle of the clock signal to the digital pulse-width control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Shiun-Dian Jan, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7525355
    Abstract: A digital delay locked loop including a plurality of controllable delay circuits connected in series, a phase detecting unit, and a delay control unit is disclosed. As an output end of each of the controllable delay circuits is coupled to the phase detecting unit, the phase detecting unit samples a positive received signal at the transition points of a specific period signal transmitted by each of the controllable delay circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Shiun-Dian Jan, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7522084
    Abstract: A cycle time to digital converter includes a dual delay lock loop, multi phase sampling detector and VDL sampling detector. The dual delay lock loop generates the first voltage corresponding to the first delay time and the second voltage corresponding to the second delay time. The multi phase sampling detector receives first start signal, first stop signal and first voltage to detect a coarse delay time, generates the first group signals according to the coarse delay time, delays the first stop signal by a common delay time to generate the second stop signal, and delays the first start signal by the coarse delay time and the common delay time to generate the second start signal. The VDL sampling detector receives first voltage, second voltage, second start signal and second stop signal for detecting a fine delay time and generates the second group signals according to the fine delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Sheng-Dar Wu, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7466177
    Abstract: A pulse-width control loop (PWCL) for clock with any pulse-width ratio within a wide range is provided. A differential programmable charge pump is employed to stabilize the current source by complementary connection. The differential programmable charge pump has a pair of differential charge pumps and a current source module to adjust the ratio of charge to discharge, so as to accelerate the range of the adjustable pulse-width ratio of the output clock and increase the output resolution. Further, a ratioless input control stage is employed to simplify the circuit design and avoid static power consumption. Moreover, the control stage adjusts rising pulse width and dropping pulse width at one period, thereby accelerating the lock speed and the range of the adjustable pulse-width ratio (i.e., duty cycle) of the input clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Wei-Ming Chiu, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Patent number: 7446585
    Abstract: A programmable delay circuit including a first inverter, a second inverter, a variable resistance unit, and a variable capacitance unit is provided. The first inverter receives a positive-phase received signal, and transmits an anti-phase output signal through an anti-phase output signal line. The second inverter receives an anti-phase received signal, and transmits a positive-phase output signal through a positive-phase output signal line. The variable resistance unit regulates an equivalent resistance between the anti-phase output signal line and the positive-phase output signal line according to M bits in a delay-controlled code. The variable capacitance unit regulates an equivalent capacitance between the anti-phase output signal line and the positive-phase output signal line according to N bits in the delay-controlled code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Shiun-Dian Jan, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20080143403
    Abstract: A digital delay locked loop including a plurality of controllable delay circuits connected in series, a phase detecting unit, and a delay control unit is disclosed. As an output end of each of the controllable delay circuits is coupled to the phase detecting unit, the phase detecting unit samples a positive received signal at the transition points of a specific period signal transmitted by each of the controllable delay circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Shiun-Dian Jan, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20080143413
    Abstract: A programmable delay circuit including a first inverter, a second inverter, a variable resistance unit, and a variable capacitance unit is provided. The first inverter receives a positive-phase received signal, and transmits an anti-phase output signal through an anti-phase output signal line. The second inverter receives an anti-phase received signal, and transmits a positive-phase output signal through a positive-phase output signal line. The variable resistance unit regulates an equivalent resistance between the anti-phase output signal line and the positive-phase output signal line according to M bits in a delay-controlled code. The variable capacitance unit regulates an equivalent capacitance between the anti-phase output signal line and the positive-phase output signal line according to N bits in the delay-controlled code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Shiun-Dian Jan, Yuan-Hua Chu
  • Publication number: 20080143402
    Abstract: A digital pulse-width control apparatus including an input module, a digital delay locked loop, a plurality of programmable delay circuits connected in series, and a pulse-width modulation module is provided. The present invention uses the input module to vary a clock signal to reduce the limitation of a duty cycle of the clock signal to the digital pulse-width control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hong-Yi Huang, Shiun-Dian Jan, Yuan-Hua Chu