Abstract: A profiler which provides information to optimize an application specific architecture processor and a program for the processor is provided.

Abstract: A cutting insert has an upper face and a lower face; a front side face portion and a back side face portion, the front and back side face portions connecting the upper face and the lower face; and a through-hole passing through the upper face and the lower face. A cutting edge is formed in the front side face portion, and the back side face portion is provided with a first inclined face and a second inclined face which are inclined forwardly at different angles, respectively, with respect to a plane normal to a rotational axis. The first inclined face is longer than the second inclined face so that the back side face portion has a non-symmetrical convex “V” shape.

Abstract: Provided is a processor and method of performing speculative load instructions of the processor in which a load instruction is performed only in the case where the load instruction substantially accesses a memory. A load instruction for canceling operations is performed in other cases except the above case, so that problems occurring by accessing an input/output (I/O) mapped memory area and the like at the time of performing speculative load instructions can be prevented using only a software-like method, thereby improving the performance of a processor.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the strength of concrete using a surface wave velocity including an ultrasonic transmission and reception probe is provided. The apparatus is configured to include a surface wave velocity measurement device including an ultrasonic transmission probe and an ultrasonic reception probe. Further, a method of constructing the slip form of a concrete column member is provided. The method is capable of reducing the construction period by raising a concrete form rapidly and safely using a method of determining the slip-up time of the slip form based on the strength of concrete measured by the apparatus.

Abstract: A tile binning method including: dividing a scene for rendering a triangle, into a plurality of tiles; determining identification values of tile nodes of each of the tiles; and identifying a tile including an entirety or a part of the triangle from the tiles, based on the identification value of the tile nodes for each of the tiles.

Abstract: A shifting device for a vehicle and a shifting system using the same are provided. The shifting device for a vehicle may be connected to a transmission of the vehicle via a cable to operate the transmission. More specifically, the shifting device may include an interface module which receives an input of a shift signal, and an actuator which is connected to one end of the cable, and operates the cable according to the shift signal inputted to the interface module to operate the transmission connected to the other end of the cable.

Abstract: Provided is a data storage device. The data storage device includes an interface, a buffer controller, a memory controller, a non-volatile memory, and a self-powered semiconductor device adjacent to and electrically connected to the buffer controller. The self-powered semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a rechargeable micro-battery attached to the semiconductor chip. The rechargeable micro-battery includes a first current collector and a second current collector, which face each other, a first polarizing electrode in contact with the first current collector and facing the second current collector, a second polarizing electrode in contact with the second current collector and facing the first polarizing electrode, and an electrolyte layer formed between the first and second polarizing electrodes.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for avoiding bank conflict. A first instruction that is one of access instructions that are predicted to cause the bank conflict is replaced with a second instruction by changing an execute timing of the first instruction to a timing prior to the execute timing of the first instruction so as for the access instructions not to cause the bank conflict. Next, a load/store unit that is scheduled to access the bank according to the first instruction accesses the bank and reads out a data from the bank at an execute timing of the second instruction, and after that, the load/store unit is allowed to be inputted the read data at the execute timing of the first instruction. Accordingly, although the access instructions that are predicted to cause the bank conflict are allocated to the load/store units, the bank conflict can be prevented, so that it is possible to avoid deterioration in performance due the occurrence of the bank conflict.

Abstract: A method and system for an early Z test in a tile-based three-dimensional rendering is provided. In the method and system for an early Z test, a portion which is not displayed to a user is removed prior to performing a rasterization process, and thereby performing the 3D rendering efficiently. The method includes segmenting a scene into tiles for performing a rendering with respect to a triangle; selecting a first tile of the tiles, which has a tile Z value less than a minimum Z value of the triangle; and performing the rendering with respect to the triangle in remaining tiles excluding the selected first tile of the tiles.

Abstract: A cutting insert has an upper face and a lower face; a front side face portion and a back side face portion, the front and back side face portions connecting the upper face and the lower face; and a through-hole passing through the upper face and the lower face. A cutting edge is formed in the front side face portion, and the back side face portion is provided with a first inclined face and a second inclined face which are inclined forwardly at different angles, respectively, with respect to a plane normal to a rotational axis. The first inclined face is longer than the second inclined face so that the back side face portion has a non-symmetrical convex “V” shape.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a tool body and at least one double-sided cutting insert mounted in an insert pocket of the tool body. The at least one double-sided cutting insert includes: an elliptical top surface; an elliptical bottom surface; first and second side surfaces connecting between both side ends of the top and bottom surfaces, respectively; a pair of corners connecting between both side ends of the first and second side surfaces, respectively; first and second cutting edges formed at a boundary portion between the top surface and the first side surface and a boundary portion between the bottom side surface and the second side surface and having a curved shape, respectively.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for processing an array in a loop in a computer system, including: applying loop unrolling to a multi-dimensional array included in a loop based on a predetermined unrolling factor to generate a plurality of unrolled multi-dimensional arrays; and transforming each of the plurality of unrolled multi-dimensional arrays into a one-dimensional array having an array subscript expression in a form of an affine function with respect to a loop counter variable.

Abstract: A method and system for an early Z test in a tile-based three-dimensional rendering is provided. In the method and system for an early Z test, a portion which is not displayed to a user is removed prior to performing a rasterization process, and thereby performing the 3D rendering efficiently. The method includes segmenting a scene into tiles for performing a rendering with respect to a triangle; selecting a first tile of the tiles, which has a tile Z value less than a minimum Z value of the triangle; and performing the rendering with respect to the triangle in remaining tiles excluding the selected first tile of the tiles.

Abstract: A method, medium, and apparatus to effectively handle an interrupt in a reconfigurable array. In the method, the reconfigurable array pauses execution of an operation when an interrupt request occurs, and after storing register values of a register to be used for handling the interrupt request, an interrupt service is performed by select processing units of the reconfigurable array in response to the interrupt request. Upon completion of the interrupt service, the register values are restored, and the reconfigurable array resumes execution of the operation.

Abstract: A memory access method includes: obtaining a, b, and c from a program code for accessing a memory with a triple loop in a program, a being a number of values which an inner-most loop variable of the triple loop may have, b being a number of values which a middle loop variable of the triple loop may have, and c being a number of values which an outer-most loop variable of the triple loop may have; obtaining a starting address of the memory accessed by the triple loop; and obtaining an a×b×c number of addresses of the memory accessed by the triple loop using the starting address and a function.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for a parallel processing very long instruction word (VLIW) computer. The apparatus includes: an index code generation unit sequentially generating an index code, which is associated with a number of no operation (NOP) instruction word between effective instruction words, with respect to each of instruction word groups to be executed in a VLIW computer; an instruction compression unit sequentially deleting the NOP instruction word which corresponds to the index code with respect to each of instruction word groups; and an instruction word conversion unit converting the effective instruction words to include the index code, the effective instruction words corresponding to the NOP instruction words.

Abstract: Provided is a data storage device. The data storage device includes an interface, a buffer controller, a memory controller, a non-volatile memory, and a self-powered semiconductor device adjacent to and electrically connected to the buffer controller. The self-powered semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a rechargeable micro-battery attached to the semiconductor chip. The rechargeable micro-battery includes a first current collector and a second current collector, which face each other, a first polarizing electrode in contact with the first current collector and facing the second current collector, a second polarizing electrode in contact with the second current collector and facing the first polarizing electrode, and an electrolyte layer formed between the first and second polarizing electrodes.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a capacitor having a bottom electrode, a dielectric layer formed on the bottom electrode, a top electrode formed on the dielectric layer, and a contact plug having a metal that is connected with the top electrode, wherein the top electrode includes a doped poly-Si1-xGex layer and a doped polysilicon layer epitaxially deposited on the doped poly-Si1-xGex layer and the contact plug makes a contact with the doped polysilicon layer.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting software error are provided. Trace files are respectively generated by a target machine and a functional simulator that imitates the target machine and performs the same operation as the target machine. Each of the trace files may include at least one of a data-flow-type trace including execution information about one or more instructions and a control-flow-type trace representing information about a part in which a change in address indicating the position of an instruction is a predetermined threshold value or more when the instruction is executed. By comparing the generated trace files, software error may be detected.

Abstract: A first concept is directed to an improved dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). In a first embodiment, photo energy conversion efficiency (PCE) is increased by employing a reflective layer disposed underneath the DSSC device to direct light that would otherwise be wasted back into the DSSC device. In a second embodiment, the PCE of a DSSC is increased by adding an additional dye, which exhibits significant absorption in the red and near-IR regions. A novel phthalocyanine derivative has been developed that absorbs well in the red and near IR-regions, readily couples to the titanium oxide semiconductor in the DSSC, and enables the DSSC device to exhibit a high photo-current efficiency. A second concept is directed to novel thermoelectric materials formed from a mechanical alloy of silicon and at least one other periodic element, wherein the mechanical alloy is fused together using spark plasma sintering.