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US-7,373,572 System pulse latch and shadow pulse latch coupled to output joining circuit
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a system pulse latch to generate at least one system latch signal in response to a data input signal and a pulsed system...
US-7,373,571 Achieving desired synchronization at sequential elements while testing integrated circuits using sequential...
A programmable delay circuit is provided in either data input path or a clock input path of a sequential element contained in a scan chain of an integrated...
US-7,373,570 LSI device having scan separators provided in number reduced from signal lines of combinatorial circuits
A scan separator in a large scale integration device is made more extensive to suppress an increase in the circuit scale of the entire device. In one embodiment,...
US-7,373,569 Pulsed flop with scan circuitry
In one embodiment, a storage circuit comprises a first passgate having an input coupled to receive a signal representing a data input to the storage circuit and...
US-7,373,568 Scan insertion
An integrated circuit comprises n storage elements, arranged to form a scan chain, that define m clock domains, wherein m.gtoreq.2 and n.gtoreq.m. A clock driver...
US-7,373,567 System and method of providing error detection and correction capability in an integrated circuit using...
A system and method of providing error detection and correction capability in an IC using redundant logic cells and an embedded field programmable gate array...
US-7,373,566 Semiconductor device for accurate measurement of time parameters in operation
A memory-logics LSI device forms an input/output path for testing. A memory device has a memory input/output unit,which includes an input/output selector with...
US-7,373,565 Start/stop circuit for performance counter
A circuit for tracking a number of clock cycles between occurrences of an event of interest. The circuit includes logic for asserting a run signal responsive to...
US-7,373,564 Semiconductor memory
A normal write data selection circuit operates in the normal operation mode, and thus outputs data received through external data terminals to any one of regular...
US-7,373,563 Root cause correlation in connectionless networks
A method for correlating routing errors to link failures in a network, the method including detecting a link failure between a first and a second router NODES in...
US-7,373,562 Memory circuit comprising redundant memory areas
The invention relates to a memory circuit comprising regular memory areas and redundant memory areas, redundancy circuits in each case being assigned to the...
US-7,373,561 Integrated packet bit error rate tester for 10G SERDES
An integrated packet bit error rate tester includes a packet transmit circuit that has a first memory for storing transmit packet data and is connectable to a...
US-7,373,560 Circuit for measuring signal delays of asynchronous inputs of synchronous elements
A system measures propagation delays in any number of test circuits, each having two asynchronous inputs and an output, without using their clock inputs to...
US-7,373,559 Method and system for proactive drive replacement for high availability storage systems
Methods for preventing the failure of disk drives in storage systems are disclosed. A system and a computer program product for preventing the failure are also...
US-7,373,558 Vectoring process-kill errors to an application program
A processor includes a process identifier unit to assign process identifiers to one or more processes executed by the processor. The processor also includes an...
US-7,373,557 Performance monitor for data processing systems
A portable scalable performance monitoring system is provided for monitoring the performance of one or more data processing systems in real time. The portable...
US-7,373,556 Method for monitoring sub-system health
A server self health monitor (SHM) system monitors the health of the server it resides on. The health of a server is determined by the health of all of a...
US-7,373,555 Systems and methods controlling transaction draining for error recovery
Disclosed are systems and methods for controlling transaction draining for error recovery comprising asserting a control signal to prevent system resources...
US-7,373,554 Techniques for automatic software error diagnostics and correction
Techniques are provided for automatically circumventing errors encountered by a software system. The software system automatically determines that the code path...
US-7,373,553 Computer support network with customer portal to monitor incident-handling status by vendor's computer service...
Customer support personnel can access via a vendor's portal an automated support vendor website to view the status of a fault incident that is being handled by...
US-7,373,552 Model based diagnosis and repair for event logs
A system and appertaining method isolates a hardware or user error in a software controlled apparatus e.g., an NMR-apparatus. A diagnostic function is added to...
US-7,373,551 Method to provide autonomic boot recovery
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to autonomic boot recovery. In at least one embodiment, the present invention utilizes...
US-7,373,550 Generation of a computer program to test for correct operation of a data processing apparatus
Software built in self test computer programs 12 are generated using a genetic algorithm 14 technique. A fault simulator 20 is used to simulate candidate...
US-7,373,549 Error detection and recovery in a storage driver
A command is received, at a network storage driver, from an operating system storage stack, wherein the command is for communication with a target storage device...
US-7,373,548 Hardware recovery in a multi-threaded architecture
Log-based hardware recovery. A checkpointed state of a system includes both architectural register values and memory. The checkpoint consists of a copy of the...
US-7,373,547 Self-reparable semiconductor and method thereof
A self-reparable semiconductor comprises first, second and spare functional units including first and second sub-functional units that cooperate to perform first...
US-7,373,546 Cluster network with redundant communication paths
A cluster network is provided in which the storage enclosures of the network are grouped into storage sets or columns of storage enclosures. Each server node of...
US-7,373,545 Fault tolerant computer system
A fault-tolerant computer system includes at least two servers, each of which is configured to perform a first set of operations. Each of the two servers...
US-7,373,544 Concept of zero network element mirroring and disaster restoration process
There is provided a system and method of disaster restoration of service of damaged or destroyed telecommunication network elements. A controller component is...
US-7,373,543 Method and apparatus for uninterrupted packet transfer using replication over disjoint paths
A method of operating a fault tolerant connection in a network is described. The network includes a number of network elements and a number of links. Each of the...
US-7,373,542 Automatic startup of a cluster system after occurrence of a recoverable error
The invention relates to a method for the automatic startup of a cluster (10) after an error has occurred in a node (12, 14) of said cluster (10) that led to a...
US-7,373,541 Alignment signal control apparatus and method for operating the same
Broadly speaking, an apparatus and associated method of operation is provided for controlling alignment signal transmission in an electronic communication...
US-7,373,540 System-on-chip having adjustable voltage level and method for the same
A system-on-chip may include a plurality of power domains each of which may have a different operating frequency and include a monitoring unit. A power supply...
US-7,373,539 Parallel path alignment method and apparatus
A method for aligning parallel path data bit streams that may contain skewed data between bit streams and an integrated circuit are disclosed. The method...
US-7,373,538 Method for determining interconnect line performance within an integrated circuit
A method for determining propagation delay differences for conductive lines of an integrated circuit is described. A first path is formed by coupling a first...
US-7,373,537 Response to wake event while a system is in reduced power consumption state
An apparatus adapted to facilitate execution of task or tasks in response to a detection of an occurrence of one of one or more particular wake events while a...
US-7,373,536 Fine granularity halt instruction
Systems and methods for halting the execution of instructions in a microprocessor are disclosed. The halt instruction may have an operand which allows a...
US-7,373,535 Electric power saving apparatus comprising semi-conductor device to pass energy of infrared ray synthetic...
The present invention relates to an electric power saving apparatus wherein light energy is irradiated to a semiconductor device, with the light energy emitted...
US-7,373,534 Reducing storage data transfer interference with processor power management
Systems and methods of managing power consumption provide for placing a processor in a non-snoopable state while a storage interface associated with the...
US-7,373,533 Programmable I/O cell capable of holding its state in power-down mode
The present invention comprises a microcontroller unit including a processor for generating a power down signal. Control logic generates a hold signal responsive...
US-7,373,532 Inline power controller
An inline power controller includes at least one analog interface circuit module (AICM) having a first analog input node for receiving an inline power port...
US-7,373,531 Signal detection method, frequency detection method, power consumption control method, signal detecting device,...
A power consumption control device for detecting output of a pulse signal from an output terminal of an oscillator as an operation monitoring target and...
US-7,373,530 Systems and methods for providing power-loss protection to sleeping computers systems
Transitioning to a suspend to RAM sleeping state while also protecting against power losses while sleeping is provided. System state context data is saved to...
US-7,373,529 Performing a power supply check for an information storage device to increase power consumption in a stepwise...
In an information storage device adapted to use a power supply supplied from an interface or a battery, a voltage input from the power supply is monitored in...
US-7,373,528 Increased power for power over Ethernet applications
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for supplying power over Ethernet includes determining whether a first port of power sourcing equipment is...
US-7,373,527 System and method for interleaving point-of-load regulators
A system and method for providing interleaving point-of-load (POL) regulators such that each regulator's switching cycle is phase displaced with respect to those...
US-7,373,526 System and method for managing power in an ASF system
Techniques are disclosed for providing system manageability for computing systems operating under OS-absent conditions. In particular, techniques are disclosed...
US-7,373,525 Data processing method and data checking method
Cyclic-redundancy-check (CRC) processing is executed on data blocks each having a predetermined data amount, thereby calculating respective CRC values for the...
US-7,373,524 Methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring user behavior for a server application
Methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for monitoring user behavior for a server application in a computer network. The methods, systems,...
US-7,373,523 Preparing data for storage in a secure fashion
Digital data is prepared for storage in a secure fashion. Each data byte of a data file is encrypted. A unique bit number is assigned to each data bit in the...
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