An apparatus for damping the motion of a tailgate attached to a truck bed comprising a damper having a truck bed attachment point at one end and a tailgate attachment point at the other end. A power-on reset circuit provides a power-on-reset signal to a state machine. The parallel coupled filter can be miniaturized to a desirable size, on the basis of relatively simple theoretical knowledge. Selected fractions are molded and agglomerated by sintering with a binder at a temperature below the softening temperature, or without a binder at a temperature about, or above, the softening temperature but below the temperature of liquidity. Interconnection layers of dielectric materials and conductive traces are then fabricated on the microelectronic die, the encapsulation material, and the microelectronic substrate core to form the microelectronic substrate. One embodiment comprises a system that includes an initial scheduler that schedules a plurality of tasks of an associated priority group within an available schedule time period based on an earliest possible end time of a task duration of a respective task, such that tasks that have a task duration that overlap task durations of scheduled tasks are unscheduled tasks.