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Patent No. 5871518

Smoking Cessation Lighter and Method

A lighter for tobacco products suppresses the urge to smoke by operant conditioning.

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Assignee: Mips Computer Systems, Inc.


Location: Sunnyvale, CA
No. of patents: 6

NumberTitleIssue Date
5327381Redundancy selection apparatus and method for an array
A fused decoder for selecting one or more elements of an array, such as a row of memory, is provided. The corresponding row of memory can be permanently deselected by blowing the fuse of the decoder. Array components such as a redundant row of memory, can...
07/05/1994
5307477Two-level cache memory system
A two-level cache memory system for use in a computer system including two primary cache memories, one for storing instructions and one for storing data. The system also includes a secondary cache memory for storing both instructions and data. The primary...
04/26/1994
5297092Sense amp for bit line sensing and data latching
A sense amp and latch for sensing and latching data on a plurality of bit and inverse bit lines is provided. A sense amp power line which connects the sense amp to a ground line also decouples the bit lines from the sense amp during the evaluation process...
03/22/1994
5111464Interrupt reporting for single-bit memory errors
Error reporting circuitry interrupts the CPU on the occurrence of a single bit memory error only when the chip member causing the error is different from the chip number that caused the previous error....
05/05/1992
5027270Processor controlled interface with instruction streaming
A processor controlled interface between a processor, instruction cache, and main memory provides for simultaneously refilling the cache with an instruction block from main memory and processing the instructions in the block while they are being written t...
06/25/1991
4814976RISC computer with unaligned reference handling and method for the same
In a RISC device a set of four instructions are provided which allow either the loading or the storage of an unaligned reference. The instructions are overlapped to reduce the overall execution time of the device. A circuit is also provided for executing ...
03/21/1989
 
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