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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7640152 | 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 pow... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7490030 | Power modelling of a circuit Stimulation signals (22) are applied to a first circuit model (20) and the power behaviour of the circuit being modelled is determined from the behaviour of the first circuit model (20). In parallel, the same stimulation signals (22) are ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483826 | Group-based BCU methods for on-line dynamical security assessments and energy margin calculations of practical power systems This invention relates to a method of determining stability of unstable equilibrium point (UEP) computed by using BCU method, comprising selecting UEP computed by using BCU method, obtaining a test vector Xtest for the selected UEP, say XUEP us... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7469204 | Method and apparatus for calculating voltage drop A method for performing voltage drop calculations in an alarm circuit comprises creating a circuit to be controlled. A first device is selected from a list of devices to add to the circuit. An estimated power supply of the first device is calculated using modified n... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7444208 | Electrical system wiring diagram generating system, and power supply device and program used for the same Each of connection data 11, . . . , or 15, of the downstream side of a socket 1, . . . , or 5 or a panel board 6, 7, or 8 in a power supply direction, is generated in a tap 16, a UPS 25 and 35, or a term... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7421378 | Power signature diagnosing In a diagnosing method for an apparatus having movable mechanical components and a diagnosing device, an instantaneous total supply of power is measured and recorded as a function of time. A dynamic physical power-flow model of the driven apparatus is created. The m... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7398192 | Variable structure in physical modeling A method and apparatus programmatically define structure within a physical modeling environment. The system and corresponding method of modeling, provides a computationally based modeling environment in which a physical entity can be modeled parametrically and hiera... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398194 | 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 n... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395198 | Techniques for powering an electronic device with simulated backup power supply communications An electronic system has a powerable device (e.g., one or more storage processors), a power supply assembly adapted to provide power from an external power source to the powerable device, and a data communications cable interconnected between the powerable device an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383167 | Methods and systems for modeling power plants A modular method of modeling a power plant includes selecting a major component module model from a library of component module models for each major component of the power plant, with each major component module representing a power plant major component of a uniqu... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383452 | Electronic device and method for initiating powering-up of a processor in the electronic device A device and method for making a peripheral device compliant with a power management standard, such as the USB standard, are described. The device includes a power management unit (PMU) and a timing unit. The PMU is coupled to a battery pack and to a processor of th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376541 | 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 pow... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370213 | Power supply unit and computer A series power supply circuit and a switching power supply circuit are combined within a single power supply unit. The switching power supply circuit provides an efficiency lower than that of the series power supply circuit under a light load and provides an efficie... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370039 | Method and system for optimizing configuration classification of software A method and system to minimize to redundancy in testing a new software system by utilizing a knowledge base is provided. The knowledge base may be represented in a form of a decision tree including leaf nodes which store previously tested optimal configurations. Wh... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367018 | System and method for organizing and sharing of process plant design and operations data Computer method and apparatus for managing process and plant engineering data for chemical or other engineering processes across applications. The method and apparatus include a respective class view for each of multiple software applications, a composite class view... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366649 | Method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation A method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation in N dimensions employing mathematical expressions for modeling a device. The table model uses an unstructured N-dimensional grid for approximating the expressions. The method includes the s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363208 | Power consumption estimation A process for deriving a power transfer function of a circuit. The power transfer function can be used to represent the real time power consumption of a circuit based on the status of the inputs. In one embodiment, the power transfer function is derived from frequen... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356411 | Method for acquiring and interpreting transient electromagnetic measurements A method for interpreting transient electromagnetic survey data includes measuring transient response of a medium over a plurality of switching events. The measured transient response to a first one of the current switching events is modeled. Transient response to t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356431 | Method for testing an input/output functional board A computer-based method for testing an input/output functional board is provided. The method includes the steps of: obtaining control information of the computer; testing devices coupled with the input/output functional board by using the control information; and de... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356383 | Methods and apparatus for optimizing combined cycle/combined process facilities Methods and systems for operating combined cycle electrical generating plants is provided. The method includes simulating the electrical power plant performance, simulating the steam utilizing process plant performance, parameterizing plant equipment and plant perfo... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353469 | Method and program for designing semiconductor device It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device design method and program that can rapidly improve power supply noise characteristics and reduce the noise sufficiently without being restricted in design and noise solution. A step of perfor... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353490 | Power network synthesizer for an integrated circuit design A plan for a power network for an integrated circuit device is automatically preparing in two stages. In a first stage, a number of simplified plans are prepared on a global scale, without regard to design rule checking constraints and routing blockages. Next, the s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353155 | System and method for automatic selection of transmission line macromodels Transmission line macromodels can be classified into main categories of delay-extraction and rational approximation. The exponential solution of the Telegrapher's Equation is used to create a system and method that enable a time-domain circuit simulator to automatic... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349828 | Estimating an electronic device condition In a method for estimating a condition of an electronic device, a model correlating at least one utilization metric of a component of the electronic device and the condition of the component to be estimated is formulated. In addition, the at least one utilization me... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349835 | 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, instanti... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343276 | Recording media including code for estimating IC power consumption A computer readable medium includes computer executable code stored thereon, the code for estimating power consumption of an integrated circuit, comprising code for simulating logic of basic and mega cells of the integrated circuit, code for estimating a current con... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343499 | Method and apparatus to generate circuit energy models with multiple clock gating inputs A method, a computer program, and an apparatus are provided for generating circuit energy models for a macro using multiple clock gating inputs. Circuit energy models are used to estimate system power consumption. The present invention enables circuit energy models ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340387 | Control rod driving simulator for verification of control rod driving mechanism control system of atomic power plant A control rod driving simulator has a control rod driving unit having a plurality of coil members vertically mounted therein, a control rod mounted vertically movably through the centers of the coil members, a cart having a reserve tank storing cooling water, a cool... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337183 | Customer extranet portal According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method of providing information to a customer in the power industry includes automatically receiving data representing a plurality of characteristics of a power plant device associated with a power plant o... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321810 | Method of dynamic economic dispatch Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: for an electrical power system comprising a plurality of committed electrical power generating units: for each of the committed electrical power generating units, obtaining an optimal power output temporal t... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319946 | Method for on-chip signal integrity and noise verification using frequency dependent RLC extraction and modeling techniques New Frequency dependent RLC extraction and modeling for on chip integrity and noise verification employs: A) 2D scan line algorithm for the collection of adjacent signal and power conductor coordinates; B) In core ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315804 | Engineering assist method and system A car engineering assist system and method establish a master data and set a computer-generated virtual car model to represent at least a portion of a product design specification (PDS) of a test car. A real time simulator performs computer simulation of a test modu... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313509 | Simulation method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium A simulation method makes a noise analysis based on parameters including a conductor resistance which takes skin effect into consideration. The simulation method calculates a first resistance of one of conductors having a largest cross sectional area, obtains a pred... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310572 | Predictive contract system and method A control method includes modeling a power generation apparatus, monitoring the generation of a total amount power from the power generation apparatus, monitoring internal consumption of power for a power generation apparatus, acquiring a power generation requiremen... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305335 | Permanent three-pole independent pole operation recloser simulator feature in a single-pole trip capable recloser control Disclosed is a permanent recloser simulator feature for use in a single-pole trip capable recloser control. The permanent recloser simulator feature includes a first logic circuit capable of enabling and disabling operation of the permanent recloser simulator featur... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305639 | Method and apparatus for specifying multiple voltage domains and validating physical implementation and interconnections in a processor chip A method, an apparatus and computer instructions are provided for specifying multiple voltage domains of a signal and macros in a processor chip and validating physical implementation and interconnections of the signal and macros. A set of attributes is provided for... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301440 | Power line communication system and method The present invention provides a device for providing communications through power lines comprised of multiple conductors by transmitting the data signals through a plurality of the conductors. One embodiment of the present invention may be comprised of a transmit c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302664 | System and method for automatic insertion of on-chip decoupling capacitors A system and method for automatic insertion of on-chip decoupling capacitors are provided. With the system and method, an integrated circuit design is partitioned into cells and the noise distribution per cell of an integrated circuit is determined. This noise distr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290895 | File system for a stage lighting array system A file system for a stage lighting system that maintains the different files associated with the stage lighting system. Each of the files that can represent an effect are maintained within the system within a configuration file. The configuration file can be updated... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288921 | Method and apparatus for providing economic analysis of power generation and distribution An economic dispatch program optimally allocates load demand specifying real power and reactive power to be generated by a power plant among various power generators in a manner so that each of the power generators are operated within its optimal operating space as ... | 10/30/2007 |