Abstract:
An apparatus for and method of automatically tuning a voltage regulation control loop for a digitally controlled switch mode power supply is provided. The method includes determining a frequency response of the power stage and calculating an open loop transfer function from the frequency response. A correlated metric is defined based at least in part on the open loop transfer function, wherein the correlated metric is correlated to an expected disturbance in regulated output voltage from the digitally controlled switch mode power supply due to a change in load. New values for the open loop transfer function are calculated for a range of controller compensation parameters to minimize the correlated metric. These values are then applied to the digital controller for use in controlling the power supply.
Abstract:
One embodiment of the present invention includes a decoder system that decodes a bi-phase modulated signal. The system includes a buffer configured to store a first plurality of digital samples associated with a first bit of the bi-phase modulated signal and a second plurality of digital samples associated with a second bit of the bi-phase modulated signal. The first bit can immediately precede the second bit. The system also includes a first summer configured to add the first plurality of digital samples to generate a first sum and a second summer configured to add the second plurality of digital samples to generate a second sum. The system further includes a comparator configured to compare the first sum and the second sum to determine an edge-transition between the first bit and the second bit, and to determine a logic-state of the first bit based on the edge-transition.
Abstract:
Clean combustion and equilibration equipment and methods are provided to progressively deliver, combust and equilibrate mixtures of fuel, oxidant and aqueous diluent in a plurality of combustion regions and in one or more equilibration regions to further progress oxidation of products of incomplete combustion, in a manner that sustains combustion while controlling temperatures and residence times sufficiently to reduce CO and NOx emissions to below 25 ppmvd, and preferably to below 3 ppmvd at 15% O2.
Abstract:
Clean combustion and equilibration equipment and methods are provided to progressively deliver, combust and equilibrate mixtures of fuel, oxidant and aqueous diluent in a plurality of combustion regions and in one or more equilibration regions to further progress oxidation of products of incomplete combustion, in a manner that sustains combustion while controlling temperatures and residence times sufficiently to reduce CO and NOx emissions to below 25 ppmvd, and preferably to below 3 ppmvd at 15% O2.
Abstract:
Cyanine dye compounds having a negatively charged substituent that are nucleic acid stains, particularly for fluorescent staining of DNA, including compounds having the formula wherein W forms one or two fused 5- or 6-membered aromatic rings, α has a value of 0 or 1, n has a value of 0, or 1, X is O, S, or Se, and D is a pyridinium, or quinolinium moiety, provided that the compound has at least one negatively charged substituent.
Abstract:
A PFC circuit modulating a power line using pulse width modulation (PWM) to drive a power MOSFET and series inductor across the power line. Since many modern electronic systems include a power factor correction circuit (PFC) that already includes a series inductor and power MOSFET, a PLC is incorporated into a controller to inject a PLC transmit signal into a control loop for the PFC circuit. This can be done using either an analog PFC controller, such as the UCC28517, the UCC2819A, or a digital PFC controller such as based on a TMS320C24xx DSP.
Abstract:
A replaceable ink supply comprises an ink container with an internal chamber formed from a plurality of walls. An ink reservoir block can be located within the internal chamber. Further, a channel can be formed in at least one wall of the internal chamber and the channel having an open side exposing a portion of the ink reservoir block.
Abstract:
A system for providing network load distribution including a network having a number of portals that are configured to access portal services hosted by the network and a plurality of control nodes on the network that are configured to establish data connections with the portals on the network. The control nodes form a virtual local area network (VLAN) that includes multicast islands and singlecast bridges for broadcasting data to other nodes on the network. When a portal requests to access a portal service hosted on the network, a portal having the requested service is identified and authenticated by one of the control nodes, and a data connection is established between the identified portal and the requesting portal for sharing the requested service.
Abstract:
An artificial intelligence dialogue processor is an integrated software solution that mimics human behavior including a dialogue oriented knowledge database that contains static and dynamic data relating to human scenarios. The knowledge base is composed in a proprietary XML-based universal format and the processor further includes translation, processing, and analysis components that facilitate composition of the core knowledge base and are responsible for processing vocal and/or textual and/or video input, extracting emotional characteristics of the input, and producing instructions on how to respond to the customer with the appropriate substantive response and emotion based on relevant information found in the knowledge base.
Abstract:
A phase modulated servo method and apparatus provide acceptable position linearity for servo positioning with a narrow transducer head in a disk file. The disk file includes at least one disk mounted for rotation about an axis and the disk has at least one disk surface for storing data and has at least one transducer mounted for movement across the disk surface for writing to and for reading data and servo patterns from the disk surface. The transducer includes a read element and a write element. The read element has a width less than the write element and the read element width is greater than ⅓ of a data cylinder and less than ½ of a data cylinder. A servo pattern is written on the data disk surface having a track pitch of less than ½ of a data cylinder and the servo pattern repeats in a selected binary number of data cylinders.