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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070294072 | TESTING MODEL The invention is directed to a method for testing a chip, wherein the chip comprises a plurality of devices. The method comprises steps of screening out at least one questionable device within the chip by applying a testing model on each of the devices with a normal ope... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070282588 | ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM TRAINING SIMULATION SOFTWARE AND PROCESS FOR ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM TRAINING A time driven, computer simulation based electric power system training software package designed to train power system operators is used with an existing set of electric power system modeling algorithms, such as sold under the Powerworldâ„¢ brand. The software package ... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070276645 | Power modelling in circuit designs A system and method is described for generating a power model of a circuit from a lower level description, such as Gate-level or RTL. In one aspect, simulation data is converted into a series of messages or transactions. Power is then determined on a per message or per ... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070271081 | OVERHEAD POWER TRANSMISSION LINE CONDUCTOR SELECTION In general the invention is directed to systems and methods to identify conductors that may be used as part of a power transmission line system. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a computer-implemented method of evaluating an electric conductor for an over... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070260444 | System DC Analysis Methodology A method of power delivery analysis and design for a hierarchical system including building a model corresponding to each element of the hierarchical system, compiling a repository that contains the models corresponding to each element of the hierarchical system, assemb... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070168174 | Energy system modeling apparatus and methods A computer-implemented method for modeling and/or improving operational performance of an energy system includes providing a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to manipulate equipment icons into an energy system model representation, using modular, piec... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070143090 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR TESTING OF A POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF A MARINE VESSEL Herein disclosed is a system for testing a power management system (2) of a marine vessel (1), in which said power management system (2) is arranged for controlling systems (6) that produce electrical energy, in which said power management sy... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070043549 | Distributed energy resources An improved method for analyzing power systems; in particular, power systems that may incorporate distributed energy resources (DER), that provides a thorough determination of the potential for network performance improvement that DER could provide, independent of non-n... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20060277509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRONIC DESIGN UNDERGOING EMULATION OR HARDWARE BASED SIMULATION ACCELERATION The invention described here is the methods of using a hardware-based functional verification system to mimic a design under test (DUT), under intended application environment and software, to record or derive the transition activities of all circuits of the DUT, then c... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060167673 | Method and apparatus to generate circuit energy models for macros containing internal clock gating A method, a computer program, and an apparatus are provided for generating circuit energy models for a macro containing internal clock gating. Circuit energy models are used to estimate system power consumption. The present invention enables circuit energy models to be ... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060149527 | System and method to determine peak power demand in an integrated circuit A method comprises receiving a description of a power distribution network of a circuit, defining at least one DC supernode in the power distribution network, receiving a logical description of the circuit, and determining at least one logic path in the circuit. The met... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060100840 | Mechanism for estimating and controlling di/dt-induced power supply voltage variations A system for delivering power to a device in a specified voltage range is disclosed. The system includes a power delivery network, characterized by a response function, to deliver power to the device. A current computation unit stores values representing a sequence of c... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060080625 | Architectural level throughput based power modeling methodology and apparatus for pervasively clock-gated processor cores A method, system, and apparatus for estimating the power dissipated by a processor core processing a workload, where the method includes analyzing a reference test case to generate a reference workload characteristic. Analyzing an actual workload to generate an actual w... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060080076 | System-level power estimation using heteregeneous power models A power estimation framework based on a network of power monitors that observe component- and system-level execution and power statistics at run time. Based on those statistics, the power monitors (i) select between multiple alternative power models for each component a... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060064293 | A METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING AND VERIFYING ISOLATION LOGIC MODULES IN DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS A method, system and computer program product for generating and verifying the correctness of isolation logic modules in design of integrated circuits (ICs). The method disclosed generates an isolation logic module for each power domain specified by a user, instantiates... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20060052996 | Accurate pin-based memory power model using arc-based characterization A pin-based memory power modeling method using arc-based characterization includes steps as follows. All power arcs of a memory model are identified and characterized. A power arc is selected from the identified and characterized power arcs. Output bus switching power i... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20060047493 | Memory management to enable memory deep power down mode in general computing systems An apparatus and method is disclosed for reducing power consumption in a computing system by moving pages allocated in real memory portions to other real memory portions. When a real memory portion contains no pages, that memory portion can be put into a Deep Power Down... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060047370 | Efficient look-ahead load margin and voltage profiles contingency analysis using a tangent vector index method Given the current operating condition at each bus from real-time database, from the short-term load forecast, or from near-term generation dispatch, we present a method for real-time contingency prediction and selection in current energy management systems. This method ... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060009959 | Activity factor based design Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with activity factor based design are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an activity factor logic configured to determine an activity factor for a first node. The activity factor relates an... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050222833 | Method of determining nuclear reactor core design with reduced control blade density In the method, a reference core design is generated based on a defined set of limits. The set of limits may include a target hot excess reactivity constraint to be satisfied over a given core energy cycle and a given desired control blade definition that is set for the ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050203722 | Power distribution network simulation method using variable reduction method A power distribution network simulation method capable of speedily and accurately analyzing a large power distribution network. In the power distribution network simulation method, the large original circuit is reduced to a suitable size by using a variable reduction me... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050192787 | Simulation apparatus and method of designing semiconductor integrated circuit A simulation apparatus of a semiconductor integrated circuit, capable of measuring power consumption in a higher abstract degree than an RT level and in a high speed, is realized, so that a low power consumption designing operation can be carried out by employing a simu... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050182612 | Always ready computing device Systems and methods for producing a simulated off condition in a computing device using a set of software drivers that interact with a system service and the device BIOS. The computing device includes system components such as a power supply, processors and fans that ar... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050182979 | System and method for customizing design of settings management user interface systems used to configure settings for intelligent electronic devices A system and method for customization of the settings configuration process for an intelligent electronics device is disclosed. The disclosed system and method permits the end user to customize not only the operation of an intelligent electronics device for a particular... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050182613 | Simulation of guided wave reflection signals representing defects in conduits A method and system for simulating defects in conduits, where the defects are detected using long-range guided-wave inspection techniques. The guided wave interaction with a defect is treated as a one-dimensional problem of plane wave reflection from a boundary of diffe... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050171753 | Arrangement and method of estimating and optimizing energy consumption of a system including I/O devices An arrangement and method provides energy consumption estimates of a multiple component electrical system controlled by a processor. The arrangement includes a component model corresponding to each component of the system. Each component model includes an energy consump... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050131845 | Method for maintaining a technical facility technical field It is proposed to identify the component parts of a technical facility in an initialization phase and to record specific data of these component parts with the aid of a databank system. In a prognosis phase, the servicing intervals for the component parts of the technic... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050102126 | Control logic simulation-verification method and simulation-verification personal computer A simulation-verification personal computer comprises a control device simulating simulator personal computer, and a plant model simulator personal computer. The control device simulating simulator personal computer is loaded with a control logic incorporated into a con... | 05/12/2005 |