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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7286971 | System and method for efficiently visualizing and comparing communication network system performance A method for visualizing and efficiently making comparisons of communication system performance utilizing predicted performance, measured performance, or other performance data sets is described. A system permits visualizing the comparisons of system performance dat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280942 | Method for representing a combination of signals with a distribution of a single lognormal random variable A method analyzes a set of signal acquired from a physical system. A set of parameters characterizing the set of signals is measured. The parameters can include the mean and the variance of the power of the signal, and a Rician factor. A first point and a second poi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277841 | Method for adaptive sub-gridding for power/ground plane simulations An adaptive subgridding method for power/ground plane simulations. The method includes superimposing a grid of cells onto a circuit plane. For each cell, the method may determine a fill ratio representing the amount of area in a given cell that overlaps with the cir... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275025 | Method and system for analyzing performance of a turbine A method and system for analyzing performance of a turbine. The turbine optimizer allows a user to evaluate the current performance of their turbine with its current configuration and the future performance of their turbine with a modified configuration. The turbine... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272516 | Failure rate adjustment for electric power network reliability analysis Methodologies adjust a component failure rate for electric power network reliability analysis. A component may include subcomponents and the failure of each subcomponent may be feature dependent. Features are measurable or observable inputs, which can affect the lif... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265684 | Onboard equipment for aircraft and the like An emergency lighting system for an aircraft comprises networked light units that communicate wirelessly with a master controller to switch the light units on in an emergency. Each unit has its own battery power source and is arranged conserve power consumption by c... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260808 | Method and metric for low power standard cell logic synthesis Pseudo area values, which represent standard cell power dissipation, are substituted for physical standard cell areas in a standard cell library. As a result, when a logic synthesizer synthesizes a gate level netlist from hardware description language (HDL) code, th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260517 | Synchronization of multiple simulation domains in an EDA simulation environment A simulation environment includes a number of simulation domains. Particular simulation domains in a simulation environment are selectively activated and deactivated such that performance and resolution for a circuit design being simulated are dynamically controlled... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254802 | Standard cell library having cell drive strengths selected according to delay A cell library which enables reduced quantization over-design in large scale circuit design is provided. Library cells having the same cell function have drive strengths selected to provide delays about equal to a predetermined set of design delays, at a nominal loa... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254584 | Relationship-based inherited attributes system A relationship-based inherited attributes system provides an Inheritance Table where each object in the table has an Inherited Object ID. Each ID is listed with all of the ID's that the object inherits from with sequence number that indicates the order of the inheri... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251754 | Fault management system for a communications network A fault management system is directed to the access network part of a communications network where terminating lines in the form of pairs of copper wires extend from a local switch through a series of nodes to terminal equipment provided for user of the network. Eac... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249331 | Architectural level throughput based power modeling methodology and apparatus for pervasively clock-gated processor cores A method for estimating power dissipated by processor core processing a workload includes analyzing a reference test case to generate a reference workload characteristic, analyzing an actual workload to generate an actual workload characteristic, performing a power ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246014 | Human machine interface for an energy analytics system An Enterprise Energy Management (“EEM”) software system is disclosed that displays EEM data and allows a user to interact with the data to better understand and manage their electrical system. The EEM software system collects real-time, near real-time and histor... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243054 | Method and system for displaying network performance, cost, maintenance, and infrastructure wiring diagram A network which includes electromagnetic components, such as a wireless communications system, is designed, optimized, modified and/or saved or exported to another applications program using a graphical interface. A display may present a graphical rendering of perfo... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243006 | Predictive control system and method A control system and method selects a switch configuration for a power circuit having N binary switches, based in part on a finite state machine. The control system includes an embedded simulator, and present and next state contemplators. The various switch states o... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240245 | Fault management system for a communications network A fault management system is operated for an access network which forms part of a communications network. In the access network, terminating lines in the form of pairs of copper wires extend from a local switch through a series of nodes to terminal equipment provide... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240304 | Method for voltage drop analysis in integreted circuits A method for performing a voltage drop analysis in a logic circuit that takes into consideration voltage drop—current drain dependency. The voltage drop analysis helps in accurately estimating power requirements of the logic circuit, designing optimal power grids ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236920 | 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 ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231281 | Dynamic control system for power sub-network A dynamic power control system for controlling power utilization on a local level in a power sub-network of a power grid is presented. The power sub-network is configured with switchable power nodes, each having an associated priority level and each having a switch ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231261 | Method for automatically obtaining an operational sequence of processes and a tool for performing such method In order to automatically calculate an operational sequence of processes that determine an output value from at least one input value, a multitude of processes (P1–P8), whose inputs are provided with at least one of the attributes: input value of the... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231280 | Dynamic control system for power sub-network A dynamic power control system for controlling power utilization on a local level in a power sub-network of a power grid is presented. The power sub-network is configured with switchable power nodes, each having a switch element that operates to switch coupling and ... | 06/12/2007 |
