Abstract:
A method and apparatus for inserting antenna diodes into an integrated circuit design is described. During the design process, diode cells are placed in filler cells of the integrated circuit design, but left unconnected. Subsequently, when an ECO is received requiring antenna diodes to be inserted in the integrated circuit design, only metal mask changes are required to connect the diode cells to gate electrodes of specified transistors or cells. Since the diode cells are already part of the original integrated circuit design layout, it is not necessary to perform a re-layout of the design cells with the diode cells performing antenna diode functions, thereby speeding up the EDA redesign process as well.
Abstract:
Controlling a probability that user equipment is in a power saving mode to adapt the user equipment to characteristics of a shared channel and packet service includes determining a class of the user equipment by comparing at least one data traffic requirement value and a power condition value of the user equipment with predetermined threshold values, and adjusting mode timers according to the determined class of the user equipment depending on the data traffic requirement values and depending on the power condition value of the user equipment.
Abstract:
A method for allocating wireless communication resources in a distributed antenna system, in which the reuse factor of the wireless communication resource is further reduced and the utilization efficiency of the wireless communication resources is improved. In a group of service areas joining as a node in the system, the coverage area of each service area is divided into a central region and a boundary region, with each central region forming a central region allocating unit, and the boundary regions of a pair of adjoining service areas forming a boundary region allocating unit; each central region allocating unit is allocated with the same wireless communication resources and the quantity thereof is decided by the ratio of the area size of said central region to the area size of said service area, and also the quantity of all usable wireless communication resources in the system; each boundary region allocating unit is allocated with different wireless communication resources and the quantity thereof is decided by the remaining wireless quantity of wireless communication resources after the quantity of all usable wireless communication resources in the system minus the quantity of the wireless communication resources allocated to the central region allocating unit, and also the number of said boundary region reallocating units; and in a different group of service areas joining at one node, all usable wireless communication resources in said system are reused by the same allocating mode.
Abstract:
A selective IPO procedure based on the concept of a “timing violation potential” prioritizes the components and nets in a critical path. User input criteria is used to select the components or nets (or both) which have the larger “timing violation potential;” only those components and nets are then operated on. After a selective IPO step, the total number of critical paths is reduced, as well as the worst negative slacks (WNS) of the critical path compared to the traditional IPO method.
Abstract:
A snubber circuit for use with a DC/DC converter broadly comprises a snubber resistor connected in parallel with a snubber inductor. The DC/DC converter may include a voltage source, a first switching element, a second switching element, an output inductor, and an output capacitor. The voltage source may include a positive terminal and a negative terminal connected to a ground node. The first switching element may include a first terminal connected to the positive terminal of the voltage source The second switching element may be connected to a second terminal of the first switching element. The series combination of the output inductor and the output capacitor may be connected between the second terminal of the first switching element and the ground node. The snubber circuit may be connected between the second switching element and the ground node.
Abstract:
Controlling a probability that user equipment is in a power saving mode to adapt the user equipment to characteristics of a shared channel and packet service includes determining a class of the user equipment by comparing at least one data traffic requirement value and a power condition value of the user equipment with predetermined threshold values, and adjusting mode timers according to the determined class of the user equipment depending on the data traffic requirement values and depending on the power condition value of the user equipment.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for controlling character animation, in which the character animation includes at least two bones and skins corresponding to the bones, the method includes: (a) dividing the character animation into at least two parts, and setting an identification number for each part; (b) establishing a mapping table comprising a corresponding relationship between the identification number and skin data of each part; (c) picking skin data of an operation focus location in the character animation; (d) querying the mapping table according to the skin data, obtaining a corresponding identification number, and controlling the part in the character animation corresponding to the identification number. Embodiments of the present invention also provide a system for controlling character animation. Different parts of the character animation may be picked respectively by dividing the character animation into multiple parts.