All The Claims

1. A semiconductor device comprising:
lower electrodes on a substrate, each of the lower electrodes having a taller side with a height that is greater than an opposing shorter side;
a supporting layer pattern disposed between the lower electrodes to support the lower electrodes, the supporting layer pattern contacting the taller sides of the lower electrodes;
a dielectric layer disposed on the lower electrodes and the supporting layer pattern;
an upper electrode disposed on the dielectric layer;
an inter-metal dielectric layer disposed on the upper electrode; and
a metal contact penetrating through the inter-metal dielectric layer and contacting with the upper electrode, a bottom portion of the metal contact being aligned above the shorter sides of the lower electrodes.
2. The semiconductor device of claim 1, further comprising:
a conductive line on the substrate, the conductive line contacting a bottom portion of the lower electrodes.
3. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein an upper surface of the shorter side of a lower electrode aligned with the bottom portion of the metal contact is lower than a bottom portion of the supporting layer pattern.
4. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the supporting layer pattern has a pattern shape including a hole, and the metal contact is aligned with an inner portion of the hole.
5. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the supporting layer pattern has a line shape, and the metal contact is aligned with an inner portion of a gap between adjacent supporting layer patterns.
6. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the lower electrodes, the dielectric layer, the upper electrode, and the supporting layer pattern constitute at least one capacitor, the at least one capacitor including a peripheral capacitor in a peripheral region of the substrate.
7. The semiconductor device of claim 6, wherein the at least one capacitor includes a cell capacitor in a cell region of the substrate.
8. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the lower electrode or the supporting layer pattern is overlapped by the metal contact.
9. A semiconductor device comprising:
lower electrodes on a substrate, each of the lower electrodes having a taller side that tapers down to an opposing shorter side, at least two of the lower electrodes have shorter sides facing each other;
a supporting layer pattern disposed between the taller sides of the lower electrodes and configured to support the lower electrodes;
a dielectric layer disposed on the lower electrodes and the supporting layer pattern;
an upper electrode disposed on the dielectric layer;
an inter-metal dielectric layer disposed on the upper electrode; and
a metal contact penetrating through the inter-metal dielectric layer and contacting with the upper electrode, a bottom portion of the metal contact being aligned above and between the shorter sides of the lower electrodes.
10. The semiconductor device of claim 9, wherein the lower electrodes are arranged about a common center, the shorter sides of the lower electrodes being closer to the common center than the taller sides.
11. The semiconductor device of claim 9, wherein the lower electrodes are arranged in rows such that the shorter sides of at least two adjacent rows of lower electrodes face each other.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

We claim:

1. A fusible link configuration in or on integrated circuits, comprising:
a memory field segment;
at least one bank of fusible links defining a total number of said fusible links and configured beside and associated with said memory field segment, said at least one bank of said fusible links divided into units of said fusible links, each one of said units of said fusible links including a smaller number of said fusible links than said total number of said fusible links, said units of said fusible links being grouped to define a width of said at least one bank of said fusible links and being grouped such that at least some of said fusible links are disposed adjacently in a direction that is transverse with respect to a direction of said width of said at least one bank of said fusible links; and
an evaluation logic unit electrically connected to said fusible links for determining whether one or more of said fusible links is severed.
2. The fusible link configuration according to claim 1, wherein said at least one bank of said fusible links is divided into two halves of said fusible links that are disposed beside each other at right angles with respect to the direction of said width of said at least one bank of said fusible links, and said width of said at least one bank of said fusible links is one half of a width that it would have if it were not divided into said two halves.
3. The fusible link configuration according to claim 1, comprising:
a ground track;
said at least one bank of said fusible links divided into a first half of said fusible links and a second half of said fusible links;
said first half of said fusible links having first ends individually wired to said evaluation logic unit and having second ends connected to said ground track;
said second half of said fusible links having first ends individually wired to said evaluation logic unit and having second ends connected to said ground track; and
said second ends of said fusible links of said first half disposed to adjoin said second ends of said fusible links of said second half in the direction that is transverse with respect to the direction of said width of said at least one bank of said fusible links.
4. The fusible link configuration according to claim 3, comprising wiring, connecting said fusible links to said evaluation logic unit, that is routed in at least one metallization plane of a chip.
5. In combination with a highly integrated memory chip, a fusible link configuration, comprising:
a memory field segment;
at least one bank of fusible links defining a total number of said fusible links and configured beside and associated with said memory field segment, said at least one bank of said fusible links divided into units of said fusible links, each one of said units of said fusible links including a smaller number of said fusible links than said total number of said fusible links, said units of said fusible links being grouped to define a width of said at least one bank of said fusible links and being grouped such that at least some of said fusible links are disposed adjacently in a direction that is transverse with respect to a direction of said width of said at least one bank of said fusible links; and
an evaluation logic unit electrically connected to said fusible links for determining whether one or more of said fusible links is severed.

1. A grinding machine for machining workpieces, the grinding machine comprising:
a workpiece holder for receiving a workpiece,
a spindle head for receiving a grinding wheel,
a handle that is arranged at the spindle head, and
a control device,
wherein the spindle head is movable by motor with respect to the workpiece holder,
wherein the handle comprises at least one detector that is arranged to detect operator impacts on the handle, and
wherein the control device is arranged, in at least one operation mode, to move the spindle head by motor in a defined manner under consideration of the detected operator impacts on the handle.
2. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the detector is arranged to detect an actuating force that is applied to the handle by the operator.
3. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the at least one detector comprises at least one sensor for detecting deformations of the handle.
4. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 3,
wherein the at least one detector is arranged to mediately detect an actuating force that is applied to the handle by the operator.
5. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the at least one detector is arranged to detect deformations of the handle in at least two directions in space.
6. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
a displacement drive comprising at least one controlled displacement axis for the spindle head,
wherein the control device routes control commands, that are generated dependent on the detected operator impacts on the handle, to the displacement drive.
7. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 6,
wherein the control device is arranged to generate control commands comprising at least one motion parameter that is dependent on a detected actuating force.
8. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 7,
wherein the control commands comprise a defined travel speed that is dependent on the detected actuating force.
9. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 6,
wherein the control commands comprise a travel direction that is dependent on a directional component of the detected actuating force.
10. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 6,
wherein the control device is further arranged to generate control commands for displacing the spindle head that are dependent on at least a further influencing factor.
11. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 10,
wherein the control device is arranged to generate control commands for displacing the spindle head that are dependent on an actual position of the spindle head.
12. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 11,
wherein the control device is arranged to adapt the travel speed of the spindle head, or to stop the movement of the spindle head, when the spindle head enters a defined region when moving.
13. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the handle is arranged as an operating handle and comprises a detection region that is elastically deformable, and
wherein the at least one detector is applied at the detection region.
14. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
an activation switch that is associated with the handle.
15. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the control device is further arranged to generate, dependent on at least one influencing factor, a selective tactile feedback at the handle.
16. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 15,
wherein the tactile feedback is generated by at least one vibration transducer that is arranged at the handle.
17. The grinding machine as claimed in claim 15,
wherein the tactile feedback is effected by a kinetic momentum that is induced in the displacement drive of the spindle head.
18. A machine tool for machining workpieces, the machine tool comprising:
a workpiece holder for receiving a workpiece,
a spindle head for receiving a machining tool,
a handle that is arranged at the spindle head, and
a control device,
wherein the spindle head is movable by motor with respect to the workpiece holder,
wherein the handle comprises at least one detector that is arranged to detect impacts on the handle, and
wherein the control device is arranged is arranged, in an equipping mode or a set-up mode, to mediately detect an actuating force that is applied to the handle by the operator and to move the spindle head by motor in a defined manner under consideration of the detected impacts on the handle.
19. A method for positioning, in an equipping mode or a set-up mode, a spindle head of a machine tool for machining workpieces, wherein the spindle head is movable by motor with respect to a workpiece holder of the machine tool, the method comprising the following steps:
detecting operator impacts on a handle, wherein the handle is attached to a spindle head, and wherein the operator impacts comprise at least one of a direction information or a force information,
generating control commands for controlling a displacement drive under consideration of motion parameters that are selected dependent on the detected operator impacts, and
moving the spindle head by means of the displacement drive under consideration of the control commands, wherein the displacement drive is arranged to move the spindle head by motor in a defined manner with respect to the workpiece holder.
20. The method as claimed in claim 19, further comprising the following steps:
monitoring an actual position of the spindle head,
dependent on the detected operator impacts, generating a tactile feedback at the handle, and
adapting a travel speed, or stopping the movement of the spindle head, when the spindle head enters defined regions when moving.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast receiver, the method comprising:
receiving a broadcast signal comprising mobile service data, a signaling information table, known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein a plurality of Reed Solomon (RS) frames includes the mobile service data and the signaling information table, wherein the FIC data comprises information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data comprises FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data and a parade identifier to identify a parade;
decoding the plurality of RS frames from the received broadcast signal;
obtaining the signaling information table from at least one of the decoded plurality of RS frames; and
obtaining an Internet protocol (IP) datagram of the mobile service data using the obtained signaling information table,
wherein the signaling information table is received according to at least one section, each of the at least one section comprising a section header and a section body,
wherein the section header comprises an ensemble identifier to identify an ensemble and the section body includes access information of the mobile service data,
wherein the ensemble identifier comprises the parade identifier,
wherein at least one of the plurality of RS frames belongs to a primary ensemble or a secondary ensemble, and
wherein the primary ensemble is carried over primary RS frames, and the secondary ensemble is carried over secondary RS frames.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the parade carries at least one of the primary ensemble and the secondary ensemble.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the primary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20180\u2019.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the secondary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20181\u2019.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein a least significant 7-bits of the ensemble identifier correspond to the parade identifier.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least two of the known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart and have different lengths.
7. A broadcast receiver comprising:
a tuner for receiving a broadcast signal, the broadcast signal comprising mobile service data, a signaling information table, known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein a plurality of Reed Solomon (RS) frames includes the mobile service data and the signaling information table,
wherein the FIC data comprises information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data comprises FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data and a parade identifier to identify a parade;
a decoder for decoding the plurality of RS frames from the received broadcast signal;
a first handler for obtaining the signaling information table from at least one of the decoded plurality of RS frames; and
a second handler for obtaining an Internet protocol (IP) datagram of the mobile service data using the obtained signaling information table,
wherein the signaling information table is received according to at least one section, each of the at least one section comprising a section header and a section body,
wherein the section header comprises an ensemble identifier to identify an ensemble and the section body includes access information of the mobile service data,
wherein the ensemble identifier comprises the parade identifier,
wherein at least one of the plurality of RS frames belongs to a primary ensemble or a secondary ensemble, and
wherein the primary ensemble is carried over primary RS frames, and the secondary ensemble is carried over secondary RS frames.
8. The broadcast receiver of claim 7, wherein the parade carries at least one of the primary ensemble and the secondary ensemble.
9. The broadcast receiver of claim 7, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the primary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20180\u2019.
10. The broadcast receiver of claim 7, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the secondary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20181\u2019.
11. The broadcast receiver of claim 7, wherein a least significant 7-bits of the ensemble identifier correspond to the parade identifier.
12. The broadcast receiver of claim 7, wherein at least two of the known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart and have different lengths.
13. A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter, the method comprising:
performing, by a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder, RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data and a signaling information table comprising access information of the mobile service data to build a plurality of RS frames, wherein the plurality of RS frames includes the mobile service data and the signaling information table;
mapping at least one of the plurality of RS frames into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the plurality of groups comprises a portion of the at least one of the plurality of RS frames, known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data comprises information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data and a parade identifier to identify a parade; and
transmitting a broadcast signal including the plurality of groups,
wherein the signaling information table is carried according to at least one section, each of the at least one section comprising a section header and a section body,
wherein the section header comprises an ensemble identifier to identify an ensemble and the section body comprises access information of the mobile service data,
wherein the ensemble identifier comprises the parade identifier,
wherein the at least one of the plurality of RS frames belongs to a primary ensemble or a secondary ensemble, and
wherein the primary ensemble is carried over primary RS frames, and the secondary ensemble is carried over secondary RS frames.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the parade carries at least one of the primary ensemble and the secondary ensemble.
15. The method of claim 13, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the primary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20180\u2019.
16. The method of claim 13, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the secondary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20181\u2019.
17. The method of claim 13, wherein a least significant 7-bits of the ensemble identifier correspond to the parade identifier.
18. The method of claim 13, wherein at least two of the known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart and have different lengths.
19. A broadcast transmitter comprising:
a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder for performing RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data and a signaling information table that includes access information of the mobile service data to build a plurality of RS frames, wherein the plurality of RS frames includes the mobile service data and the signaling information table;
a group formatting means for mapping at least one of the plurality of RS frames into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the plurality of groups comprises a portion of the at least one of the plurality of RS frames, known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data comprises information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data and a parade identifier to identify a parade; and
a transmitting means for transmitting a broadcast signal including the plurality of groups,
wherein the signaling information table is carried according to at least one section, each of the at least one section comprising a section header and a section body,
wherein the section header comprises an ensemble identifier to identify an ensemble and the section body comprises access information of the mobile service data,
wherein the ensemble identifier comprises the parade identifier,
wherein the at least one of the plurality of RS frames belongs to a primary ensemble or a secondary ensemble, and
wherein the primary ensemble is carried over primary RS frames, and the secondary ensemble is carried over secondary RS frames.
20. The broadcast transmitter of claim 19, wherein the parade carries at least one of the primary ensemble and the secondary ensemble.
21. The broadcast transmitter of claim 19, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the primary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20180\u2019.
22. The broadcast transmitter of claim 19, wherein the ensemble identifier is for the secondary ensemble carried through the parade when a most significant bit (MSB) of the ensemble identifier is set to \u20181\u2019.
23. The broadcast transmitter of claim 19, wherein a least significant 7-bits of the ensemble identifier correspond to the parade identifier.
24. The broadcast transmitter of claim 19, wherein at least two of the known data sequences are spaced 16 segments apart and have different lengths.