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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6738677 | Method and apparatus for modeling dynamic and steady-state processes for prediction, control and optimization A method for providing independent static and dynamic models in a prediction, control and optimization environment utilizes an independent static model (20) and an independent dynamic model (22). The static model (20) is a rigorous predictive mo... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6735744 | Power mode based macro-models for power estimation of electronic circuits A method of creating models for power estimation of a circuit comprising generating an input space for the circuit. The input space is separated into multiple power modes corresponding to regions that display similar power behavior. Separate power models are generat... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6711509 | Impulsive transient hardware simulation An on-board self test system for an electrical power monitoring device includes a test signal circuit in an electronic circuit of the monitoring device, and responsive to a programmable test input signal for producing an analog signal simulating an electrical power ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6711533 | Method for controlling a double-resonance generator The delay time control entails a static term and a corrective term and a current sampling time, the control calculated at the preceding sampling time is applied and the control intended to be applied at the following sampling time is determined. The determination of... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6691065 | System foraiding the preparation of operation and maintenance plans for a power generation installation In order to provide an operation and maintenance planning aiding system for a power generation installation which prepares an operation plan for a plurality of power generation units by making use of actual plant data and based on a total judgement includ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6691079 | Method and system for analyzing test coverage A method for determining test coverage of an original high level language description which represents an electrical circuit by the data of at least one dump file exported by a simulation program, the original high level description having at least one ex... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6629044 | Electrical distribution analysis method and apparatus An apparatus and method for analyzing an apparatus, typically an electrical distribution system is provided. The apparatus and method is particularly useful for analyzing selective electrical distribution systems. The apparatus is generally a software sys... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6615164 | Method and apparatus for representing integrated circuit device characteristics using polynomial equations An approach for representing integrated circuit device characteristics using polynomial equations involves analyzing integrated circuit device characterization data in a lookup table form and using an order incremental scheme to determine a polynomial equ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6604066 | Method and apparatus for calculating delay for logic circuit and method of calculating delay data for delay library In a delay-power-source-coefficient determining step, a drain saturation current in a P-channel MOSFET is calculated on the basis of specified operating power-source voltage data and of saturation-current parameters such as the mobility of carriers and th... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6601025 | Method to partition the physical design of an integrated circuit for electrical simulation A method is provided for designing an integrated circuit that includes receiving a graphical description of the integrated circuit, extracting shapes relating to a specific circuit function from the graphical description of the integrated circuit, and par... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6591233 | Device for and method of simulation, method of setting manufacturing process condition, and recording medium A block dividing means (2) receives an original netlist (D1) defining a circuit to be simulated, selects a to-be-analyzed block specifying a device included in the circuit to be simulated based on input parameters provided from a parameter input means (1)... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6587994 | Hot-carrier degradation simulation of a semiconductor device A hot-carrier degradation simulation process of a MIS transistor includes the step of: calculating a degradation of a device characteristic of a metal-insulator-semiconductor transistor by using at least both of deep surface states and shallow surface sta... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6542859 | Method for designing a cyclic symmetric structure A method for analyzing and designing structures with structural aliasing. The concept of structural aliasing applies in one embodiment of the present invention to structural systems which are cyclically symmetric. In analyzing and designing structural sys... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6532439 | Method for determining the desired decoupling components for power distribution systems A method for determining the desired decoupling components for stabilizing the electrical impedance in the power distribution system of an electrical interconnecting apparatus, including a method for measuring the ESR for an electrical device, a method fo... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6529861 | Power consumption reduction for domino circuits A system and method which reduce power consumption of a domino circuit. An initial phase assignment for outputs of the domino circuit is generated. A final phase assignment that reduces power consumption of the domino circuit is determined. The final phas... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6513145 | Method for estimating the power consumed in a microprocessor In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for estimating the maximum power consumed in a microprocessor or other architecture, at an architectural level, prior to implementation. A functional model represents the architecture at a high le... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6493659 | Power consumption calculating apparatus and method of the same A power consumption calculating apparatus includes a power consumption library unit storing a power consumption consumed in at least one logical primitive of a logic circuit at a time of transiting a state of the logical primitive in correspondence with a... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6480815 | Path dependent power modeling A system and method for modeling the power consumed by a logic cell in a computer controlled power estimation process estimating the power consumed for an integrated circuit represented by logic cells and connections between cells. The present invention m... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6473725 | Method of accurate simulation of logic circuits The present invention relates to a logic simulation method, in which a signal is switched between two logic states to simulate a transition of a real signal. The method comprises the step of inserting between the two logic states of the signal an intermed... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6450818 | Activity-support instructional systems An activity-support instructional system includes: (1) operation monitor and control means (A) for entering process condition signals from plural pieces of equipment constituting a plant on an identifying means basis uniquely provided on each piece of the... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6426632 | Method and apparatus for testing an AFCI/GFCI circuit breaker There is disclosed and claimed herein apparatus and a method for testing an electronic circuit breaker having separable contacts and arc fault and/or ground fault interrupting capability responsive to differential currents in the line and neutral conducto... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6414858 | Multi-mode pulse-width modulator for power control applications A multi-mode modular pulse-width-modulator capable of outputting low-speed and high-speed control signals is presented. The operation of the modulator is determined by parameters that are stored within the modulator and provide for high-speed updating and... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6397170 | Simulation based power optimization A system and method for designing a low power ASIC using weighted net toggle information. In particular, the system and method includes a simulation system that executes a set of application test suites that is representative of the code that will likely ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6385565 | System and method for determining the desired decoupling components for power distribution systems using a computer system A system and method for using a computer system to determine the desired decoupling components for stabilizing the electrical impedance in the power distribution system of an electrical interconnecting apparatus, including a method for measuring the ESR f... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6374204 | Transistor amplifier model and circuit analysis methods A unique transistor model and methods for analyzing the model are disclosed. The transistor model of the present invention is simple and requires specification of a minimal number of parameters to simulate transistor operation. Three analysis methods are ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370678 | System and method for adjusting logic synthesis based on power supply circuit models A system and method of adjusting the logic synthesis process of the design of an integrated circuit takes into account the interaction between the IC core logic circuitry, the on-chip power supply circuitry, and the package power supply circuitry. In IC p... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6338025 | Data processing system and method to estimate power in mixed dynamic/static CMOS designs An apparatus and method for determining power consumption in logic devices including mixed static and dynamic logic blocks is implemented. Input logical signals are tagged as having dynamical behavior or static behavior, and the power consumption of the l... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6330703 | Method and circuit for determining the power consumption requirements for a semiconductor logic circuit and designing the circuit accordingly A logic circuit determines the power consumption of a semiconductor integrated device by taking into consideration the variation of the rate of operation. A control signal (TEST) is applied to each control signal input port (Tin) of flip-flop circuits of ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6327552 | Method and system for determining optimal delay allocation to datapath blocks based on area-delay and power-delay curves A method, system and computer program product for automatically determining optimal design parameters of a subsystem to meet design constraints. The subsystem comprises a plurality of circuits. The optimal design parameters are determined by performing a ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6321187 | System reliability assessment tool A method for assessing the reliability of an electrical power distribution system begins with identifying each element of the electrical power distribution system, and establishing characteristic data for each of these elements. The characteristic data at... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6321185 | Estimation system of LSI power consumption Power consumption of an LSI chip is estimated at the beginning stage of the designing without using the HDL description. An I/O part power of a new designing LSI chip is calculated by an equation with using the outside specifications required by the appli... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6311147 | Integrated circuit power net analysis A method for power net analysis of integrated circuits is provided. A circuit simulator determines current values for integrated circuit devices at specified supply voltages. A power net simulator uses the current values to calculate characteristics of th... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6304838 | Methods of increasing power handling capability of a power line The present invention includes methods of increasing the power handling capability of a power line. One method of the present invention includes providing a conductor configured to transmit energy intermediate plural locations; supporting the conductor at... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6275786 | Device for monitoring a neutral electrode during HF surgery The invention refers to a device for monitoring the application of a neutral electrode in unipolar HF surgery, having an impedance sensor with a resonant circuit comprising a secondary coil of a transformer and HF input capacitors of preferably two partia... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6247134 | Method and system for pipe stage gating within an operating pipelined circuit for power savings A method and system for power savings within a pipelined design by performing intelligent stage gating. The present invention recognizes that not every operand applied to the input of a pipeline requires a recomputation in the different pipeline stages. C... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6195630 | Three-dimensional power modeling table having dual output capacitance indices A system and method for modeling power consumed by a logic cell in a estimation process over an integrated circuit, represented by logic cells and connections between cells, using a three dimensional power modeling table (3-D power table). The 3-D power t... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6161081 | Simulation model for a digital system A simulation model for a digital system comprises a number of functional units, interconnected by a number of interface units for transmitting messages between the functional units. Each interface unit includes a mechanism for automatically composing and ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6157903 | Method of minimizing macrocell characterization time for state dependent power analysis A system and method are described for providing state dependent power consumption characterization data for a logic cell and for minimizing characterization time in a computer controlled power estimation process. The present invention identifies power-equ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6151568 | Power estimation software system A method and apparatus is described which enables a user to analyze an electrical design utilizing a computer. The elements of the electrical design are described at a register transfer level. Embodiments of the invention are described which allow the use... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148239 | Process control system using feed forward control threads based on material groups A process control system using feed forward control threads based on material groups performs material tracking to account and adjust for variability of processing in a process flow that includes multiple machines, machine configurations, and machine setu... | 11/14/2000 |
