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20080218225 | Semiconductor Device and Communication Control Method - The present invention relates to a technique capable of establishing communications between cores, which can provide a large degree of freedom of clock frequencies settable in each core, and thus providing deterministic operation, small communication latency, and high reliability. An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device with high reliability, by analyzing factors affecting the performance of the semiconductor device, based on the communication histories within the semiconductor device, and reflecting the analysis back to the next generation semiconductor devices. The improved semiconductor device includes a core A for transmitting data in sync with the clock signal clkA, a core B for receiving data in sync with the clock signal clkB coincided with the rising or falling of the clock signal clkA in a constant period, and a controller for controlling communications between the core A and the core B. The controller controls in such way that the core B can receive only the data arriving prior to the setup of the clock signal clkB. The controller stores the history on a communication status between cores. | 09-11-2008 |
20100042373 | SIGNAL MEASURING DEVICE AND SIGNAL MEASURING METHOD - A signal measuring device, comprises one set, or a plurality of sets, of measuring unit(s) measuring an object of measurement in synch with a driving clock signal for measurement and outputting result of measurement as first data, and a timing identification unit which, in accordance with a measurement-start command, outputs a value, which differs every period, as second data in synch with a reference signal having a prescribed period and a speed lower than that of the driving clock signal; and a storage unit collecting and successively storing the first data and the second data as one set in synch with the driving clock signal. | 02-18-2010 |
20100052740 | CLOCK SIGNAL FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUIT AND CLOCK SIGNAL FREQUENCY DIVIDING METHOD - To provide a rational frequency dividing circuit wherein the variations in cycle times of frequency divided clock signals are small, there are many occasions in which the minimum cycle time of frequency divided clock signals and test costs are small. A clock signal frequency dividing circuit, the frequency division ratio of which is specified as N/M where are both N and Mare integers, includes an output clock selecting circuit ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100052753 | CLOCK SIGNAL DIVIDING CIRCUIT - A clock signal dividing circuit in which a dividing ratio is regulated by N/M (M and N are positive integers and satisfy M>N) includes: a variable delay circuit which gives a predetermined delay amount based on a control value to an input clock signal CKI to output an output clock signal CKO; and a variable delay control circuit which cumulatively adds values obtained by subtracting N from M every cycle of the input clock signal CKI, when the addition result is N or more, performs a calculation which subtracts N from the addition result to obtain a calculation result K, and calculates, to a maximum delay amount in the variable delay circuit corresponding to one cycle of the input clock signal CKI, a control value corresponding to a delay amount of K/N of the maximum delay amount to give the control value to the variable delay circuit. | 03-04-2010 |
20110089981 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - It is possible to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device and a communication method in which communication can be performed between circuits with a large degree of freedom of clock frequency which can be set in each of the circuits, a decisive operation, and a small communication latency. The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a first circuit that performs processing based on a first clock signal, the first clock signal having a frequency M/N times as large as a frequency of a second clock signal (N is a positive integer, and M is a positive integer larger than N); a second circuit that performs processing based on the second clock signal; and a communication timing control circuit that generates a communication timing signal to control a timing at which the first circuit performs communication with the second circuit. The communication timing control circuit generates the communication timing signal determined by a frequency ratio information and a phase relation information, the frequency ratio information setting a frequency ratio of the first clock signal to the second clock signal, the phase relation information indicating a phase relation between the first clock signal and the second clock signal. | 04-21-2011 |
20110187418 | CLOCK SIGNAL FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUIT AND METHOD - A mask circuit ( | 08-04-2011 |
20110193596 | CLOCK FREQUENCY DIVIDER CIRCUIT, CLOCK DISTRIBUTION CIRCUIT, CLOCK FREQUENCY DIVISION METHOD, AND CLOCK DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A clock frequency divider circuit | 08-11-2011 |
20110200162 | CLOCK FREQUENCY DIVIDER CIRCUIT, CLOCK DISTRIBUTION CIRCUIT, CLOCK FREQUENCY DIVISION METHOD, AND CLOCK DISTRIBUTION METHOD - To provide a clock frequency divider circuit that generates a clock signal enabling an expected proper communication in communication with a circuit operating by a clock having a different frequency. A clock frequency division circuit according to the present invention generates an output clock signal obtained by dividing a frequency of an input clock signal into N/S by subtracting (S−N) clock pulses from S clock pulses of the input clock signal based on a frequency division ratio defined as N/S. The clock frequency division circuit generates a control signal used to preferentially subtract a clock pulse at a timing other than a communication timing of data communication performed by a target circuit using the output clock signal among S clock pulses of the input clock signal. Further, it generates the output clock signal by subtracting a clock pulse of the input clock signal according to the generated control signal. | 08-18-2011 |
20120096300 | COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a communication circuit ( | 04-19-2012 |
20120098583 | PIPELINE CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND PIPELINE CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a pipeline circuit capable of flexibly controlling clock frequencies regardless of whether a pipeline operation by a flow control is stopped or not, without significantly increasing a processing latency even if a clock frequency is decreased, and in response to performance requests for a processing throughput. Among P clocks (P is a positive integer), the phases of which are delayed in the order from a first clock to a P-th clock, for example, among six clocks of P | 04-26-2012 |
20120117337 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND EXPONENT CALCULATION METHOD - Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit and an exponent calculation method that, when normalizing a plurality of data by a common exponent, speed up exponent calculation and reduce circuit scale and power consumption. When normalizing a plurality of data by a common exponent, a semiconductor integrated circuit calculates the exponent of the plurality of data. Included is a bit string generator that generates a second bit string containing bits having a transition value indicating that values of adjacent bits are different or a non-transition value indicating that values of adjacent bits are not different for each pair of adjacent bits of a first bit string constituting the data, and an exponent calculator that calculates the exponent of the plurality of data based on bit position of the transition value of a plurality of second bit strings generated from a plurality of first bit strings respectively constituting the plurality of data. | 05-10-2012 |
20130194008 | CLOCK FREQUENCY DIVIDER CIRCUIT, CLOCK DISTRIBUTION CIRCUIT, CLOCK FREQUENCY DIVISION METHOD, AND CLOCK DISTRIBUTION METHOD - To provide a clock frequency divider circuit that generates a clock signal enabling an expected proper communication in communication with a circuit operating by a clock having a different frequency. A clock frequency division circuit according to the present invention generates an output clock signal obtained by dividing a frequency of an input clock signal into N/S by subtracting (S−N) clock pulses from S clock pulses of the input clock signal based on a frequency division ratio defined as N/S. The clock frequency division circuit generates a control signal used to preferentially subtract a clock pulse at a timing other than a communication timing of data communication performed by a target circuit using the output clock signal among S clock pulses of the input clock signal. Further, it generates the output clock signal by subtracting a clock pulse of the input clock signal according to the generated control signal. | 08-01-2013 |
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20140089361 | ARITHMETIC PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AN ARITHMETIC PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an arithmetic processing apparatus and an arithmetic processing method which can perform block floating point processing with small circuit scale and high precision. | 03-27-2014 |
20140379771 | DIGITAL FILTER CIRCUIT AND DIGITAL FILTER PROCESSING METHOD - A digital filter circuit includes an FFT circuit ( | 12-25-2014 |
20150019608 | DIGITAL FILTER CIRCUIT, DIGITAL FILTER PROCESSING METHOD AND DIGITAL FILTER PROCESSING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Reduction of a circuit size and power consumption for performing digital filtering processing in a frequency domain is realized. The digital filter circuit includes: a complex conjugate generation unit for generating a second complex number signal including conjugate complex numbers of all complex numbers included in a first complex number signal of the frequency domain generated by converting a complex number signal of a time domain by Fourier transform; a filter coefficient generation unit for generating a first and a second frequency domain filter coefficient of a complex number from a first, a second and a third input filter coefficient of a complex number having been inputted; a first filtering unit for performing filtering processing to the first complex number signal by the first frequency domain filter coefficient, and outputting a third complex number signal; a second filtering unit for performing filtering processing to the second complex number signal by the second frequency domain filter coefficient, and outputting a fourth complex number signal; and a complex conjugate combining unit for combining the third complex number signal and the fourth complex number signal, and generating a fifth complex number signal. | 01-15-2015 |
20150363360 | FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM DEVICE, FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM PROGRAM - [Problem] A fast Fourier transform method is provided that are able to input data to be processed or output processing results in no particular order. | 12-17-2015 |
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20120209658 | POPULATION MOBILITY ESTIMATION SYSTEM, POPULATION MOBILITY ESTIMATION METHOD, AND POPULATION MOBILITY ESTIMATION PROGRAM - A system includes a calculation master storage unit to store a calculation master that is required for estimating the number of visitors to steady mobility facilities within a predetermined period of time, and is obtained by further classifying the steady mobility facilities by type, and a calculation master that is required for estimating the number of visitors to variable mobility facilities within a predetermined period of time, and is based on an actual survey value for each type obtained by further classifying the variable mobility facilities by type, and a building visitor number calculation unit to extract a name of a facility from map information, estimate a type of the facility based on the name, and refer to the calculation master corresponding to the type from the calculation master storage unit based on the estimated type, to calculate an estimate value of the number of visitors to the facility. | 08-16-2012 |
20130115961 | COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYZING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYZING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYZING PROGRAM - [Object] To improve analysis precision of communication characteristic, while minimizing the calculation amount, to determine a local dead area, thereby providing useful information for cell site design. | 05-09-2013 |
20140185471 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer having a communication function is caused to receive user instructions designating execution of a process other than a process for acquiring information relating to a communication environment; execute the process designated by the user instructions; acquire information relating to the communication environment of the computer, when the user instructions are received or when the process indicated by the user instructions is executed; and acquire position information of the computer, when the user instructions are received or when the process indicated by the user instructions is executed. | 07-03-2014 |
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20100018350 | Hydrometallurgical process for a nickel oxide ore - The hydrometallurgical process for a nickel oxide ore comprising a step (1) for obtaining an aqueous solution of crude nickel sulfate by High Pressure Acid Leach of a nickel oxide ore; a step (2) for obtaining a zinc free final solution formed; a step (3) for obtaining a waste solution; and a step (4) for scrubbing a hydrogen sulfide gas in exhaust gas, wherein utilization efficiency of hydrogen sulfide gas is enhanced while maintaining nickel recovery rate. | 01-28-2010 |
20100028227 | Hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore - The hydrometallurgical Process for a nickel oxide ore, which is capable of preventing inevitable operation shutdown of a leaching step and maintaining high operation efficiency as a whole process, in a trouble of the steps other than the leaching step, in a hydrometallurgical Process for a nickel oxide ore using a High Pressure Acid Leach. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034716 | Separation method for zinc sulfide - The separation method for zinc sulfide, in the hydrometallurgical process by a High Pressure Acid Leach for nickel oxide ore comprising leaching and solid/liquid separation step, neutralization step, zinc removal step, and nickel recovery step, which can inhibit clogging of a filter cloth and reduce a frequency of washing operation and replacement operation of a filter cloth by improving filtration performance of zinc sulfide, and inhibit decrease of nickel recovery ratio, in the zinc removal step in which zinc sulfide is formed by adding a sulfurizing agent to the neutralization final liquid containing zinc as well as nickel and cobalt and zinc sulfide is separated to obtain a mother liquid for nickel recovery containing nickel and cobalt. | 02-11-2010 |
20100135878 | Production process of sulfide containing nickel and cobalt - A production process of a sulfide containing nickel and cobalt by adding a sulfurizing agent under pressurization into an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid containing nickel and cobalt, which is capable of recovering nickel and cobalt as a sulfide in high yield, as well as enhancing the utilization efficiency of hydrogen sulfide gas. | 06-03-2010 |
20120161374 | HYDROMETALLURGICAL PLANT OF NICKEL LATERITE ORE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - In a hydrometallurgical plant of a nickel laterite ore having a plurality of lines of treatment facilities, the hydrometallurgical plant of the nickel laterite ore which is, even when a serious trouble will occur in said treatment facilities, capable of minimizing decrease in throughput caused by this, and restoring a normal operation state early, after eliminating the serious trouble, and an operation method thereof. | 06-28-2012 |
20130074653 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RAW MATERIAL FOR FERRONICKEL SMELTING FROM LOW GRADE NICKEL OXIDE ORE - Provided is a method for producing ferronickel from a nickel sulfide or a mixed sulfide containing nickel and cobalt, obtained by hydrometallurgy of nickel oxide ore or obtained from scraps or products in process. The method for producing a ferronickel raw material is to form the ferronickel raw material from a nickel sulfide or a mixed sulfide containing nickel sulfide and cobalt sulfide, wherein treatments are performed through the following steps: (1) redissolution step, (2) deferrization step, (3) solvent extraction step, (4) hydroxylation step, (5) roasting step, and (6) washing and calcining step. | 03-28-2013 |
20140048987 | METHOD FOR SHORTENING OPERATION SHUTDOWN TIME OF HIGH PRESSURE ACID LEACH EQUIPMENT IN A HYDROMETALLURGICAL PROCESS - This invention provides a method for shortening operation shutdown time of high pressure acid leach equipment in a hydrometallurgical process, wherein the high pressure acid leach equipment comprises (i) means to transfer an ore slurry into the high pressure acid leach equipment; (ii) means to increase temperature and pressure of an ore slurry before leaching; (iii) means to add sulfuric acid into the high pressure acid leach equipment and to leach the ore slurry to obtain a leached slurry at high temperature under high pressure; (iv) means to adjust the pressure of the leached slurry; and (v) means to discharge the leached from the high pressure acid leach equipment; wherein, upon operation shutdown of the high pressure acid leach equipment, the leached slurry is subjected to self-circulation inside the high pressure acid leach equipment. | 02-20-2014 |
20140151472 | ORE SLURRY PRODUCTION METHOD AND METAL REFINING METHOD - Disclosed is a method for producing an ore slurry that can suppress a rise in the viscosity of the ore slurry and consequently prevent a failure in transporting the slurry, and also to provide a metal refining method utilizing such a slurry producing method. The present invention includes: a pulverizing/classifying step of pulverizing raw material ores and classifying the resulting ores at a predetermined classifying point so that oversized ore particles are removed so as to obtain a coarse ore slurry composed of undersized ore particles; a grain size measuring step of measuring the grain size of the resulting coarse ore slurry; and an ore slurry condensing step of loading the coarse ore slurry to a solid-liquid separation device and separating and removing moisture contained in the coarse ore slurry therefrom so as to condense ore components. | 06-05-2014 |
20150225269 | METHOD FOR EFFLUENT TREATMENT IN SMELTING OF NICKEL OXIDE ORE - The present invention aims at providing a method for effluent treatment, which enables the separation and recovery of a high-density and high-concentration aluminum sediment from waste water that is discharged in the smelting of a nickel oxide ore and contains aluminum ions. In the present invention, an alkali and an iron-containing solid are added to waste water containing aluminum ions to form a slurry, and the slurry is allowed to stand to perform solid-liquid separation, whereby an aluminum sediment and an effluent is formed. | 08-13-2015 |
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20090316271 | Antireflection Film - The present invention provides an antireflection film which has sufficient antireflection properties and antistatic properties, a high level of light transmittance and no interference fringe at a low cost. It is a feature of the antireflection film of the present invention that a hard coat layer and an antireflection layer is formed on a transparent substrate, a conductive polymer is included in the hard coat layer, a light reflectance on the low refractive index layer is in the range of 0.5-1.5%, a surface resistance of the low refractive index layer is less than 1×10 | 12-24-2009 |
20110164209 | ANTI-REFLECTION FILM - The present invention provides an anti-reflection film which provides not only sufficient anti-reflection properties and antistatic properties but also excellent contrast in a bright place and excellent contrast in a dark place especially applied on a surface of a transmissive LCD. The anti-reflection film has an antistatic hard coat layer and a low refractive index layer in order on at least one surface of a transparent substrate, average luminous reflectance in the range of 0.5-1.5% on a surface of the low refractive index layer side, haze equal to or less than 0.5%, parallel light transmittance in the range of 94.0-96.5%, and an absorption loss in average luminous transmittance in the range of 0.5-3.0%. | 07-07-2011 |
20120218637 | ANTI-REFLECTION FILM - An anti-reflection film with low production costs, excellent anti-reflection performance or excellent optical properties free from interference variation, high abrasion resistance, and antistatic function to prevent dust adhesion is demanded. In the present invention, the problem to be solved is to provide an anti-reflection film having low production costs, excellent optical property and excellent abrasion resistance and antistatic function. | 08-30-2012 |
20120281287 | ANTI-REFLECTION FILM - The present invention provides an anti-reflection film having excellent optical property, excellent excoriation resistance, and antistatic function at low production costs. The present invention includes an anti-reflection film in which a localized layer and a low refractive index layer are stacked in this order on at least one surface of a transparent substrate, the localized layer is stacked with an intermediate layer, a hard coat layer, an antistatic layer containing a conductive material, and a leveling layer containing a leveling material in this order, which are localized, at least from the side of the transparent substrate, and the leveling material contains at least a fluorocompound or a compound which has a siloxane bond. | 11-08-2012 |
20140023840 | ANTIREFLECTION FILM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME - Provided is an antireflection film obtained by laminating, in succession, a transparent substrate, a first layer, and a second layer having a lower refractive index than the refractive index of the first layer. The first layer is obtained by curing a film containing an ionizing radiation-curable material, a quaternary ammonium salt material, a leveling agent, and a solvent, and has a structure wherein a middle layer, hard coating layer and recoating layer are laminated in succession from the transparent substrate side. The recoating layer does not contain a quaternary ammonium salt. The hard coating layer contains a quaternary ammonium salt, and the concentration of the quaternary ammonium salt in the hard coating layer gradually increases from the middle layer side to the recoating layer side. | 01-23-2014 |
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20150302996 | PHOTOELECTRODE FOR DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS, AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL - A photoelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cells of the present invention includes a light-transmitting substrate including a transparent electroconductive layer formed on a light-transmitting base; an adhesion layer formed on the transparent electroconductive layer, the adhesion layer being configured of an electroconductive portion formed of electroconductive particles and a coating layer formed by applying metal alkoxide thereon to cover the electroconductive particles; and a photoelectric conversion layer formed on the adhesion layer by using a photoelectric conversion material in which a sensitizing dye is supported on a functional semiconductor. | 10-22-2015 |
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20150234618 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE SYSTEM - When executing an instruction for changing a configuration of a virtual storage apparatus during an inter-enclosure data migration of storage apparatuses that provide the virtual storage apparatus, an appropriate command is issued to an appropriate storage apparatus. | 08-20-2015 |
20150261462 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, STORAGE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management computer stores, in a memory, virtual logical volume management information showing information on virtual logical volumes provided to a host computer by a storage device, and pool management information showing information related to a use status of pools. The management computer acquires performance information related to an access to the storage device from the host computer, determines whether the acquired performance related to the access satisfies a predetermined first required performance, or not, and specifies any virtual logical volume which is a cause of the state based on the virtual logical volume management information if the first required performance is not satisfied. The management computer calculates a capacity consumption trend of the real area included in each pool based on the pool management information, creates a countermeasure for satisfying the first required performance implementable after a given time, and outputs the countermeasure to an output device. | 09-17-2015 |
20150373119 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT CALCULATOR, AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD - In one mode, a management calculator is connected to a host calculator and a storage device, and stores, in a memory, composition information and function setting information. The composition information shows multiple logic storage regions provided by the storage device, and objects that are stored in one logic storage region from among the multiple logic storage regions and that are executed by the host calculator, the logic storage regions and the objects being shown in association with one another. Meanwhile, the function setting information shows storage functions set for the logic storage regions. | 12-24-2015 |
20160006668 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A computer system comprises a storage system that is configured by at least one real storage apparatus that is provided with a plurality of real resources and a management system that is coupled to the storage system. The management system is configured to allocate a real resource or a virtual resource based on the real resource as a tenant resource from the at least one real storage apparatus to a tenant based on first information that includes an upper limit that is related to a real resource of each of at least one real storage apparatus that is provided with a plurality of real resources and second information that is an upper limit that is related to a real resource that is allocated as a tenant resource that is a resource that can be used by a tenant or as a resource that is a basis of the tenant resource. | 01-07-2016 |