Abstract: An apparatus is for use in a display device having a defective signal line with a defect that isolates a first signal line portion from a second signal line portion of the defective signal line. The apparatus includes a signal driver that has a driver output terminal electrically connected to the first signal line portion, and a first repair buffer having an input terminal and an output terminal. A repair line is electrically connected to the output terminal of the first repair buffer. The input terminal of the first repair buffer is initially electrically isolated from the defective signal line. To repair the defective signal line, the input terminal of the first repair buffer is electrically connected to the defective signal line to enable a signal from the signal driver to travel through the first repair buffer over the repair line to the second signal line portion of the defective signal line.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for allocating at least one dedicated core and at least one shareable core to a first partition of a system, where the cores are owned by the first partition. During operation, the shareable core(s) may be made dynamically available for use in one or more other partitions of the system, while the first partition retains ownership of the shared core(s). Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes an LCD which comprises a back light module, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, an LCD panel, a first viewing angle controller and a third polarizer. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are disposed on the back light module and respectively have a first transparent axis and a second transparent axis which are perpendicular to each other. The LCD panel is disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. The first viewing angle controller is disposed between the LCD panel and the second polarizer and has a first horizontal alignment liquid crystal layer. The third polarizer is disposed between the LCD panel and the first viewing angle controller and has a third transparent axis parallel to the second transparent axis.

Abstract: Hierarchical bounding of displaced parametric surfaces may be a very common use case for tessellation in interactive and real-time rendering. An efficient normal bounding technique may be used, together with min-max mipmap hierarchies and oriented bounding boxes. This provides substantially faster convergence for the bounding volumes of the displaced surface, without tessellating and displacing the surface in some embodiments. This bounding technique can be used for different types of culling, ray tracing, and to sort higher order primitives in tiling architectures.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a substrate includes a core material formed from a filler including aluminum trihydrate and a secondary filler material. The secondary filler material has a secondary decomposition reaction that occurs at a temperature higher than a reflow temperature reached during processing of the substrate, or the secondary filler traps water released at reflow temperature by aluminum trihydrate. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus can include a first detector to receive a first signal from a first switch configured to open and close based on position of a metering wheel associated with a flow line. The apparatus can further include a first counter to count within a first range based on a change in a state of the first signal. Using this information, the apparatus can determine usage and direction of, e.g., a fluid or liquid flowing along the flow line.

Abstract: By using a resistive film as a shunt, the snapback exhibited when transitioning from the reset state or amorphous phase of a phase change material, may be reduced or avoided. The resistive film may be sufficiently resistive that it heats the phase change material and causes the appropriate phase transitions without requiring a dielectric breakdown of the phase change material.

Abstract: The present invention includes apparatus and methods to calibrate a phase detector and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) offset and gain. In one such embodiment, an apparatus includes a phase detector to generate an error pulse and a reference pulse, a combiner to combine the pulses, and an ADC to receive the combined pulses, where the ADC has a full scale set by an average of the reference pulse. Still further, a calibration loop may be coupled between the output of the ADC and the phase detector to generate and provide a phase adjust signal to reduce or eliminate phase offsets. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A backlight module includes a back housing, a top housing, a lamp, a light-guide plate, and a reflecting sheet. The back housing includes a bottom plate. The back housing and top housing form an accommodating space; the lamp is situated in the accommodating space. The light-guide plate is disposed on the bottom plate and has a lateral light-inputting surface and a bottom surface. Light emitted from the lamp enters the light-guide plate through the lateral light-inputting surface. The reflecting sheet is disposed between the light-guide plate and the bottom plate. The reflecting sheet includes a curved portion to enable the light-guide plate and the reflecting sheet to be combined conformingly.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a cache coherency message in an interconnect router from a caching agent, mapping the message to a criticality level according to a predetermined mapping, and appending the criticality level to each flow control unit of the message, which can be transmitted from the interconnect router based at least in part on the criticality level. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A thread scheduler may be used in a chip multiprocessor or symmetric multiprocessor system to schedule threads to processors. The scheduler may determine the bandwidth utilization of the two threads in combination and whether that utilization exceeds the threshold value. If so, the threads may be scheduled on different processor clusters that do not have the same paths between the common memory and the processors. If not, then the threads may be allocated on the same processor cluster that shares cache among processors.

Abstract: In an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access communication system, the location of one- and two-dimensional bursts may be specified by specifying the starting location of the plurality of bursts. The length of a burst may then be determined by subtracting starting locations of successive bursts. In some embodiments, the number of bits needed to specifying the location of bursts may be reduced.

Abstract: Using a shorter read pulse width may increase read window in some embodiments. This may allow the use of higher voltages with less likelihood of a read disturb where a bit unintentionally changes phase.

Abstract: A wireless system includes a radio and a voltage regulator, which provides a supply voltage to the radio. The voltage regulator includes a storage element, at least one switch that is coupled to the storage element and a controller. The controller operates the voltage regulator in a continuous mode of operation, operates the voltage regulator in a discontinuous mode of operation in response to an output current of the voltage regulator decreasing below a predetermined threshold; operates the switch(es) to energize the storage element in response to a detection of whether an output voltage is below a threshold level; operates the switch(es) to halt the energization of the storage element in response to detecting a current in the storage element reaching a predetermined current threshold; operates the switch(es) to energize and de-energize the storage element in the discontinuous mode of operation; and operates the switch(es) to energize the storage element in synchronization with a periodic clock signal.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having an automatic gain control (AGC) stage to receive an input signal from a communication channel physical medium, a first local gain stage coupled to an output of the AGC stage, an equalizer coupled to an output of the first local gain stage, an echo canceller to receive local data to be transmitted along the communication channel physical medium, and a second local gain stage coupled to an output of the echo canceller. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a turbine to generate mechanical energy from kinetic energy, a generator coupled to the turbine to receive the mechanical energy and to output multiple isolated supply powers, and multiple power stages each coupled to the generator. Each of the power stages may receive at least one of the isolated supply powers.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a power cell chamber for a drive system includes moveable and fixed portions. The moveable portion includes a rectifier stage to rectify an input signal received from a secondary winding of a transformer to provide a rectified signal and an inverter stage having a plurality of switching devices to receive a DC signal and output an AC signal. This moveable portion can be slidably adapted within a cabinet of the drive system. In turn, the fixed portion includes a DC link having at least one capacitor to receive the rectified signal and provide the DC signal to the inverter stage.

Abstract: In a metal gate replacement process, strain may be selectively induced in the channels of NMOS and PMOS transistors. For example, a material having a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than the substrate may be used to form the gate electrodes of PMOS transistors. A material with a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the substrate may be used to form the gate electrodes of NMOS transistors.

Abstract: A prosthesis that resiliently engages a body passage includes an annular clamping ring which may be folded along a diametric axis for insertion into the body passage. The clamping ring is adapted to resiliently spring outwardly, once in position inside the body passage, and to be continually resiliently biased against the interior surface of the body passage. One or more of the clamping rings may be attached to opposed ends of a tubular graft. The rings and connected graft may be positioned in the body passage using a applicator which selectively permits expansion and/or in some embodiments contraction of the annular ring in position within a body passage. Alternatively a retaining member may be used to retain the annular ring in a compressed condition until it is in a desired position within a body passage. Among other potential uses, the present invention may be useful as a vascular stent for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Abstract: The porosity of a diamond film may be increased and its dielectric constant lowered by exposing a film containing sp3 hybridization to ion implantation. The implantation produces a greater concentration of sp2 hybridizations. The sp2 hybridizations may then be selectively etched, for example, using atomic hydrogen plasma to increase the porosity of the film. A series of layers may be deposited and successively treated in the same fashion to build up a composite, porous diamond film.