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US 10,478,797 B2Granted
Bio-sensing and temperature-sensing integrated circuit
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsTung-Tsun Chen, Yi-Shao Liu, Jui-Cheng Huang, Chin-Hua Wen, Felix Ying-Kit Tsui, Yung-Chow Peng
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Abstract
An integrated circuit includes two or more rows of heating elements, two or more columns of heating elements, and a plurality of sensing areas. Each sensing area is between two adjacent rows of the rows of heating elements, between two adjacent columns of the columns of heating elements, and includes a bio-sensing device and a temperature-sensing device.
Claims20
An integrated circuit comprising:
- two or more rows of heating elements;
- two or more columns of heating elements;
- a plurality of sensing areas, each sensing area of the plurality of sensing areas being between two adjacent rows of the rows of heating elements and being between two adjacent columns of the columns of heating elements;
- and
- a control unit configured to receive:
- a first digital code based on a plurality of bio-sensing signals corresponding to the plurality of sensing areas;
- and
- a second digital code based on a plurality of temperature-sensing signals corresponding to the plurality of sensing areas.
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An integrated circuit, comprising:
- two or more rows of heating elements;
- two or more columns of heating elements;
- a plurality of sensing areas, each sensing area of the plurality of sensing areas:
- being between two adjacent rows of the rows of heating elements;
- being between two adjacent columns of the columns of heating elements;
- and
- comprising a bio-sensing device configured to generate a bio-sensing signal and a temperature-sensing device configured to generate a temperature-sensing signal,
- the plurality of sensing areas thereby being configured to generate a plurality of bio-sensing signals and a plurality of temperature-sensing signals;
- and
- a control unit configured to receive a first digital code based on the plurality of bio-sensing signals and a second digital code based on the plurality of temperature-sensing signals.
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An integrated circuit comprising:
- two or more rows of heating elements;
- two or more columns of heating elements;
- a heater driver coupled with the two or more rows of heating elements and the two or more columns of heating elements;
- a plurality of sensing areas, each sensing area of the plurality of sensing areas being between two adjacent rows of the rows of heating elements and being between two adjacent columns of the columns of heating elements;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- control a temperature distribution of the two or more rows of heating elements and the two or more columns of heating elements through the heater driver;
- receive a first digital code based on a plurality of bio-sensing signals corresponding to the plurality of sensing areas;
- and
- receive a second digital code based on a plurality of temperature-sensing signals corresponding to the plurality of sensing areas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.