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| 6212664 | Method and system for estimating an input data sequence based on an output data sequence and hard disk drive incorporating same A method for generating an updated path metric includes combining each of first and second provisional path metric first portions with an associated branch metric first portion to produce a first provisional updated path metric first portion candidate and... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212665 | Efficient power analysis method for logic cells with many output switchings The present invention evaluates the power dissipation of an electronic circuit. A power dissipation value is calculated for each transition or event generated during the electronic simulation of an electronic circuit design that corresponds to an actual e... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212666 | Graphic representation of circuit analysis for circuit design and timing performance evaluation A method and apparatus that displays a "delay chart" on a display screen, using a variety of user-selected formats and representing delays of a circuit being debugged. These formats include right-to-left and left-to-right displays. The displays can option... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212667 | Integrated circuit test coverage evaluation and adjustment mechanism and method Testcases are run to test the design of an integrated circuit. The coverage of the testcases is evaluated and compared against one or more microarchitecture models that define the behavior of a portion of the integrated circuit. If the coverage of the tes... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212668 | Gain matrix for hierarchical circuit partitioning A method for partitioning a group of cells in a network into a set of disjoint blocks of cells. The network is represented by a hierarchical graph with each level representing a hierarchy of resources, leaf nodes representing the blocks of cells, and edge... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212669 | Method for verifying and representing hardware by decomposition and partitioning A system and method for representing digital circuits and systems in multiple partitions of Boolean space, and for performing digital circuit or system validation using the multiple partitions. Decision diagrams are built for the digital circuit or system... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212670 | Method for implementing a programmable logic device having look-up table and product-term circuitry A programmable monolithic integrated logic circuit that includes look up table circuits and programmable logic array-like circuits. The integrated circuit can include a first number of the look up tables and a second number of the programmable logic array... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212671 | Mask pattern data producing apparatus, mask pattern data producing method and semiconductor integrated circuit device A well wall of a second type of conduction is formed so as to surround a first IC formed in a first IC forming region specified by a region specifying means and to extend from a surface of a semiconductor substrate to a bottom well on the basis of informa... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212672 | Software development system with an executable working model in an interpretable intermediate modeling language A software development tool utilizes an intermediate object modeling language. The structure of the desired program is first described graphically by generating rule diagrams, state diagrams, and object diagrams such as user interface diagrams, event diag... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212673 | Component-neutral builder interface A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture and memory for a component neutral builder interface. The interface comprises a dynamic link library (DLL) stored in the memory of and executable by a computer that is communicatively coupled to the user-def... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212674 | Graphic control process for controlling operations in a network management system A process is disclosed for generating control operations of network elements by means of a graphic control. A program for controlling the operations contains command templates for the operation steps and additional control instructions for linking these c... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212675 | Presentation of visual program test coverage information A technique, system, and computer program for presenting test coverage metrics in a visual programming environment. The information is presented in the same general visual manner in which a visual programmer creates a visual program. A number of alternati... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212676 | Event architecture for system management in an operating system An event system is provided within an object-oriented environment. The event system informs users and system functions of events within the system. Events may be modeled as objects that are visible within the global namespace. These objects include event ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212677 | Generating a natural language specification of a computer program by generating an intermediate expression table based on a flow chart from analyzed syntax of the program A specification generating method for a computer program comprises the steps of: analyzing the syntax of a predetermined computer program; generating a control flowchart based on the analyzed syntax; generating an intermediate expression table based on th... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212678 | Method of carrying out computer operations A method and apparatus with carrying out computer operations of push and pop. The series of program sections including an interpretive program or module which interprets intermediate code are constructed to consider a series of registers as all or part of... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212679 | External control of parental content controls in institutional television receivers An institutional television receiver includes parental content controls for selectively blocking television signals based upon encoded ratings therein. The television receiver is coupled to a control center via a communications path. User preferences rega... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212680 | Multi-channel electronic programming guide and soft picture-in-picture acquisition for use with digital television Multi-channel Electronic Program Guide acquisition and soft picture-in-picture system for use with digital television receiver. The digital television receiver uses its central processing unit (CPU) to perform a software decode of packets received from a ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212681 | Information processing apparatus and method therefor in a data transfer network Digital data of a plurality of video/audio softs is stored in a plurality of random-accessible large capacity storage device (9) and a control device (8) designates the reading of the video/audio softs and a vacant channel number to decoder devices of a m... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212682 | Sound/moving picture reproduction system In a sound/moving picture reproduction system 1, a main data transferring device 2 includes a sound/moving picture data storing portion storing sound/moving picture data. A plurality of auxiliary data transferring devices 4 are connected in parallel to th... | 04/03/2001 |
