Author: priorartbot

Interconnect structures having improved electromigration resistance are provided that include a metallic interfacial layer that is present at the bottom of a via opening. The control circuit is configured to update the first scoreboard to indicate that a write is pending for a first destination register of a first instruction in response to issuing the first instruction into a first pipeline. The actively dispersed material may be the same or different. The use of SAE in phosphor blends of lamps results in high CRI light sources with increased stability and acceptable lumen maintenance over, the course of the lamp life. The data structure can encapsulate the hardware specific characteristics of the various devices so that the application software written for the various devices can be written independent of the hardware-specific characteristics of the devices. There is monitoring of an amount of time that data controlled by each of the clusters is held in the cache memory of the cluster before being outpaged to the storage arrays.

The semiconductor device is in the form of a semiconductor chip formed as a recording head of an ink-jet printer or in the form of a semiconductor wafer having at least two semiconductor chips. In one embodiment, a method comprises playing back a set of recorded transactions on a client, monitoring selected performance-related parameters at the client, and transmitting monitored data to the server for analysis or for viewing by a system administrator. The second layer and the forth layer are etched, thereby patterning the second and fourth layer to form the second laterally confined structure.

A nozzle spray assembly for insecticide that can be readily connected to an outlet pipe of an air blower to conveniently spray an area free of insects. A friction fit between shoulders on the plug and a rib and ledge inside of the rail is attained by the relative spacing of the shoulders to the spacing of the rib and ledge. The board can be made from reused or biodegradable materials thus creating a device that is both cost-effective and less harmful to the environment. The safety construction comprises at least two mutually firmly connected elements which upon exceeding of a defined threshold load are separated and movable with respect to one another.

Techniques to generate a pseudo-random number sequence at a desired phase using \u201cmasking\u201d to adjust the phase of the PN sequence in coarse increments to account for a large phase adjustment. In one embodiment, the second substrate has an on chip capacitor. The invention is characterised in that, for a given engine stop request phase, the engine can only be stopped or started at most a pre-determined number of times. Tracing is enabled on the database application on the server side so that a log is produced, where the log includes performance information on database operation statements that are executed.

A method, computer program product, and data processing system for determining test sequences’ coverage of events in testing a semiconductor design are disclosed. Axial or compressive strain across the D-shaped cross section may be determined by measuring the change in polarization or birefringence of the light output from the sensor. The printer may use, for instance, a pagewidth drop-on-demand inkjet printhead. The method further comprises inserting the first data cell at the tail of the retransmit queue and retransmitting a second data cell at the head of the retransmit queue.

A frequency synthesizer device that includes two modulation paths and suitably adjusts the amplitude of a control voltage that is outputted from a digital-to-analog converter to a voltage-controlled oscillator. The device includes a series of electrodes that define an ion flow path. The inductive coupler includes a split ferrite core having material selected to provide a substantially flat frequency response between one and 50 megahertz. At least two supports are disposed along the cover edge and act in the clamping direction. The composition is used to print a field on the object, such as a stock certificate or bank note, for example.

A sewing machine with an adjusting structure capable of controlling a swing center of a swing arm includes an adjusting apparatus and corresponding structures cooperating with the adjusting apparatus. One or more lexical annotators that each identifies a sequence of nucleotides are created. A determination is made of a current state representation of the information system server. The best fit pattern is then used to calculate the heading for each successive sensor reading provided that the noise level is not noisy and until a new best fit pattern is identified. The memory hub is operable to configure the memory module to simultaneously address any number of ranks to operate in a high bandwidth mode, a high memory depth mode, or any combination of such modes.

This specification discloses an improved method for conducting the removal of C5 xylan based sugars from biomass. A moving mechanism C1 is driven to move a printing head 41 toward a platen and to urge the printing head against paper, and gap adjusting means C2 is driven using said position as a reference to space the printing head from the platen a predetermined amount, thereby adjusting a gap between the printing head and the platen. The transmitter may receive a notification that indicates information transmitted via the voice channel will be replaced by control information.

An integrated circuit package is proposed in which a laminar substrate 41 is provided with an aperture 43. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The apparatus is configured such that a wedge-shaped space, which is formed between a belt, a separation roller, and a pressure pad, is adequately filled by a sliding sheet, thereby preventing a pressure in the fixing nip from being decreased.

An RF phase shifter includes the cascade of active and passive RF phase shift bits, having different phase increments. The method comprises the following steps. The digital signal processor is configurable to generate an output signal related to at least one of the first data stream and the digital version of the radio frequency signal based on a selected operating mode.