Abstract: The disclosure relates to a transparent multi-tactile sensor including a transparent semi-conducting active layer provided between two transparent conducting layers arranged as an array of cells formed by the intersection of rows and columns, characterised in that it comprises a control circuit successively supplying each semi-conducting portion corresponding to a cell, said control circuit including a means for analyzing the variation in the electrical characteristics due to the deformation of one or more sensor areas, each area including one or more cells, the semi-conducting characteristic of said intermediate layer making said cells independent from the measuring circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multipoint touch sensor with active matrix comprising: —a matrix layer exhibiting N×M independent cells, each of the cells Px, y being linked to a row Lx and to a column Cy through a switching element, the rows Lx being common to all the cells Px, i, i lying between 1 and N, and the columns Cy being common to all the cells Pj, y, j lying between 1 and Q, Q being at most equal to M, an intermediate layer able to cause a local modification of the electrical properties of the cells situated under the tactile activation zone, said intermediate layer being placed between the active surface of the adjacent surface of the said Px, y, cells, —an upper activation layer allowing tactile interaction, —an electronic circuit sequentially controlling, for each set of cells Ca, b1-b2 with b2-b1 lying between 1 and Q, a first step of activating said cells Ca, b1-b2 followed by a second step of detecting the electrical properties of each cell Ca, b1-b2 individually so as to deliver an item o

Abstract: A high speed programmable ER computational engine that is based on a micro-programmed control unit and a register intensive pipelined datapath that removes the need for having an instruction set interpreter includes a data path unit operably coupled to directly receive datapath control words from a control unit. The control unit includes memory and an address unit, where the memory stores the data path control words, which relate to a computational algorithm. The address unit receives input (e.g., begin an ER calculation) from an external source, where the input causes at least some of the data path control words to be retrieved from the memory. The data path unit includes a pair of register files, a plurality of floating point units, and data flow coupling. The pair of register files operate in a double buffering manner such that one of the register files is receiving parameters (e.g., data rate information of a connection) for subsequent computation while the other is used for a current computation.