ELMOS Semiconductor SE

The invention relates to a single-photon transmission device for enabling secure authentication, said device comprising a plurality of single-photon sources, a control device which is configured to actuate each of the single-photon sources separately, and an optical subdevice which is configured to combine single-photon streams of photons emitted by the at least one single-photon source into a QKD coupling beam consisting of a common stream of single photons. The invention also relates to a single-photon receiving device for receiving a QKD coupling beam transmitted from a single-photon transmission device. The invention also relates to a method for generating a common quantum key for a single-photon transmission device and a single-photon receiving device. The invention also relates to an integrated QKD circuit. The invention also relates to a car key comprising a single-photon transmission device and/or a single-photon receiving device. The invention also relates to a car comprising a single-photon transmission device and/or a single-photon receiving device. The invention also relates to the use of a single-photon transmission device and/or a single-photon receiving device for data exchange. The invention also relates to a SPAD diode for a sensor element of a single-photon detector for a single-photon transmission device and/or for a single-photon receiving device.

A secure microcontroller for controlling devices in automobiles comprises a semiconductor substrate, memory elements, at least one internal bus, at least one 8/16/32/64-bit microcontroller core, one or more data interfaces and at least one quantum process-based generator for true random numbers. The memory elements, the data interface, the quantum process-based generator and the microcontroller core are connected to the internal bus. The quantum process-based generator generates and provides a random number at the request of the microcontroller core. The microcontroller core generates a key using a program from one or more of its memory elements and the random number. The microcontroller core uses a program from one or more of its memory elements and the key to encrypt and decrypt data which it exchanges with devices external to the secure microcontroller. The semiconductor substrate integrally comprises the sub-devices of the secure microcontroller mentioned herein.

A current sensor includes a magnetometer. The magnetometer includes a sensor element including at least one paramagnetic center that generates fluorescence radiation, a radiation receiver configured to receive the fluorescence radiation from the sensor element and generate a first electrical signal based on receiving the fluorescence radiation from the sensor element, and an electronic output circuit configured to generate and output a second electrical signal based on the first electrical signal. The value of the fluorescence radiation generated by the sensor element depends in part on a magnetic flux density at the location of the sensor element. The magnetometer is configured to be placed near or in direct contact to a wire carrying a current such that the current in the wire modifies the magnetic flux density at the location of the sensor element.

A device includes a voltage regulator, circuits, and a current bus. Each of the circuits includes at least one LED driver. The voltage regulator supplies electrical energy to a plurality of LED groups. Each of the circuits includes a voltage measuring circuit for detecting voltage drops across the LED drivers. The LED drivers set the currents through the LED groups. Each of the circuits includes a local controller. The local controller withdraws a current from the control bus in dependence on the detected voltage drops of the LED drivers included in the circuit. A bias current source injects a bias current into the control bus. The control bus sums the currents in the current bus. The output of the regulator is controlled based on the summed current.

A method for starting up an electronic circuit for an airbag system is provided. The system includes a first transformer, a second transformer, a charging device, and an energy reserve device. A supply voltage is applied to the first transformer. The first transformer is controlled in a first start-up phase of the electronic circuit to output a first voltage. The charging device is controlled in a second start-up phase of the electronic circuit, such that the energy reserve device is brought to at least approximately 90% of the first voltage. The second transformer is controlled in a third start-up phase of the electronic circuit such that a second voltage that is higher than the first voltage is present at an output of the second transformer, and a third voltage that is higher than the first voltage is present at an output of the charging device.

The invention relates to an ultrasonic sensor system (USSS), in which the ultrasonic sensor system (USSS) ascertains distance values on the basis of ultrasonic echoes, which are sensed by at least four ultrasonic sensors, and the ultrasonic sensor system (USSS) ascertains solutions from these distance values by means of a trilateration method and filters each of these solutions by means of a respective Kalman filtering method to form filtered solutions and clusters the filtered solutions by means of a clustering method to form accepted solutions and discards unaccepted unaccepted filtered solutions.

A method for transmitting data from an ultrasonic sensor to a computer system includes forming a feature vector signal from an electric reception signal; recognizing signal objects in the reception signal and classifying the signal objects according to predetermined signal object classes. The signal objects are forms or sequences of forms. At least one object parameter allocated to the signal object and one symbol for the signal object class are allocated to each signal object, or for each signal object, at least one signal object parameter and a symbol object are determined. The method further includes transmitting the symbol, the at least one signal object parameter, and an error condition of the sensor to the computer system as data of a recognized signal object, wherein the transmission of the error condition is performed with higher priority than the signal object class and the allocated signal object parameter.

A method for transmitting data from an ultrasonic sensor to a computer system includes forming a feature vector signal from an electric reception signal; recognizing signal objects in the reception signal and classifying the signal objects according to predetermined signal object classes. At least one object parameter allocated to the signal object and one symbol for the signal object class are allocated to each signal object, or for each signal object, at least one signal object parameter and a symbol object are determined. The method further includes transmitting the symbol and the at least one signal object parameter to the computer system as data of a recognized signal object, wherein the transmission of the at least one symbol of the recognized signal object class includes a transmission of a signal object class of a signal object including a predefined temporal sequence of other signal objects.

A method for transmitting data from an ultrasonic sensor to a computer system includes forming a feature vector signal from an electric reception signal; recognizing signal objects in the reception signal and classifying the signal objects according to predetermined signal object classes. The signal objects are forms or sequences of forms. At least one object parameter allocated to the signal object and one symbol for the signal object class are allocated to each signal object, or for each signal object, at least one signal object parameter and a symbol object are determined. The method further includes determining a chirp value as an allocated signal object parameter. The method further includes transmitting the symbol and the at least one signal object parameter to the computer system as data of a recognized signal object, wherein the at least one signal object parameter includes a signal object parameter indicating the chirp value.

A method for transmitting data from an ultrasonic sensor to a computer system includes forming a feature vector signal from an electric reception signal; recognizing signal objects in the reception signal and classifying the signal objects according to predetermined signal object classes. The signal objects are forms or sequences of forms. At least one object parameter allocated to the signal object and one symbol for the signal object class are allocated to each signal object, or for each signal object, at least one signal object parameter and a symbol object are determined. The method further includes transmitting the symbol and the at least one signal object parameter to the computer system as data of a recognized signal object.