Abstract: A memory self-testing device for testing a plurality of memory control units includes: a test control unit, coupled to the memory control units, generating a plurality of access request signals and a plurality of sets of data; a channel control unit, coupled to the test control unit and the memory control units, determining a leading feedback signal among a plurality of feedback signals; and a data control unit, coupled to the test control unit and the memory control units, storing the sets of data, and transmitting the sets of data to the memory control units according to a plurality of read/write signals. The feedback signals and the read/write signals are generated by the memory control units in response to the access request signals. The test control units generate the sets of data according to the leading feedback signal.

Abstract: A display control circuit is capable of adjusting backlight intensity according to image content as well as compensating pixel values of frames for power saving and distortion reduction. The display control circuit includes a threshold determining circuit, a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit and a pixel value adjusting circuit. The threshold determining circuit determines a threshold according to a reference value by histogramming a to-be-displayed frame. The threshold is smaller than an upper limit of the pixel values, and a proportion of the number of pixel values between the threshold and the upper limit which occupy a total pixel number is lower than the reference value. The PWM control circuit generates a PWM signal for controlling a backlight luminance according to the threshold. The pixel value adjusting circuit adjusts the values of the pixels according to the threshold.

Abstract: An electrode of a self-capacitive touch panel is provided. The electrode, coupled to a control circuit of the self-capacitive touch panel via a conducting wire, includes: a serpentine portion, having a first side; a main portion, having a second side; and a connecting portion, connected to the first side and the second side to connect the serpentine portion and the main portion. A length of the connecting portion is smaller than a length of the first side and a length of the second side.

Abstract: A receiving circuit for a digital television is provided. The receiving circuit of the digital television, adapted to process a digital television signal to generate transmission data, includes: a front-end circuit, configured to process the digital television signal to generate an interleaved signal; a setting unit, configured to provide a setting value associated with a digital video standard of the digital television signal; a frequency de-interleaving and time de-interleaving circuit, configured to select a frequency de-interleaving scheme and a time de-interleaving scheme corresponding to different digital video standards according to the setting value, and to process the interleaved signal to generate a de-interleaved signal; a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) demapping circuit, configured to demap the de-interleaved signal to generate a demapped signal; and a decoder, configured to decode the demapped signal to generate the transmission data.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus supporting simultaneous playback includes a processor, two tuners, a receiving element and a transmitting element. The first tuner generates first television data transmitted via a first frequency range, and provides the first television data to an internal playback device. The second tuner generates second television data transmitted via a second frequency range. The receiving element receives a data request for a selected television channel from an external electronic device. In response to the data request, the processor controls the second tuner to generate the second television data including video/audio data of the selected television channel. When the internal playback device performs playback according to the first television data, the transmitting element transmits the video/audio data of the selected television channel to the external electronic device for playback.

Abstract: A subtitle processing method includes a subtitle parsing step and a subtitle reading step. The subtitle parsing step includes: dividing a subtitle file into a plurality of subtitle blocks, each of the subtitle blocks including a plurality of subtitle contents, each of the subtitle contents corresponding to a subtitle time; generating an index table that records characteristic times of the subtitle blocks. The subtitle reading step, for reading a target subtitle content corresponding to a current time, includes: identifying a target subtitle block corresponding to the current time and the characteristic times recorded in the index table; and reading the target subtitle content of the target subtitle block according to the current time.

Abstract: A device for eliminating a channel effect is provided. A time-domain channel estimating unit generates a channel estimation result according to a first reference signal. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) unit performs FFT on the channel estimation result to generate a plurality of channel frequency responses corresponding to a plurality of frequency indices. An adjusting unit receives a plurality of input signals, and determines whether to adjust the input signal of each of the frequency indices according to the amplitude of the channel frequency response of each of the frequency indices to generate a set of adjusted signals. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) unit performs IFFT on a set of output signals associated with the set of adjusted signals to generate a feedback signal. The time-domain channel estimating unit further generates another channel estimation result according to a second reference signal and the feedback signal.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a first tilt angle between the electronic device and a reference plane, and controlling the electronic device to perform an operating according to the first tilt angle. The operation is associated with a user interface operation or an audio/video playback operation.

Abstract: A mismatch compensating device includes: a signal generator, synchronously outputting first and second signal; a gain and phase compensator, processing the first and second signals according to a gain parameter and a phase parameter to generate compensated first and second signals; a DAC, performing a digital-to-analog conversion on the compensated first and second signals to generate first and second analog signals; an analog front-end circuit, processing the first and second analog signals to output a joint signal; a mismatch detecting circuit, detecting the power of the joint signal to generate a detection result; a frequency-dependent mismatch compensator, compensating at least one of the first and second signals; and a control circuit, setting the gain and phase parameters and a parameter of the frequency-dependent mismatch compensator according to the detection result to compensate frequency-independent gain and phase mismatch and a frequency-dependent mismatch response.

Abstract: A control method for a delay locked loop includes: delaying an input signal to generate an internal signal; delaying the internal signal to generate an output signal; and selectively providing a reference clock signal or the output signal as the input signal according to the output signal and the internal signal.

Abstract: By comparing a chip unique password, certification for activating a debug function can be established on the chip unique password. Thus, even when the chip unique password is lost due to negligence, not only certification for activating debugging on other motherboards of the same model number can remain unaffected, but also risks caused by replacing a chip or by a private key leakage from a system manufacturer are eliminated.

Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for the offline static analysis of a stable code base in order to build a compiler and tools specialized to that code base. This allows global code base knowledge to be applied earlier in the compilation process giving better opportunities for optimization. The offline static analysis produces specialized compiler components that are then used to rebuild the compiler. This results, over time, in a compiler specialized to the code base with improved optimization after every compiler release cycle.

Abstract: A smart television, and a turn-off method and a turn-on method for the smart television system are provided. The smart television system includes a remote controller and a smart television. The smart television includes a remote control module, a main chip, a memory chip and a memory chip. The turn-off method includes: when a remote control signal is received from the remote controller, quitting all operating interfaces of the television system; executing a television main program, which enters a wait status after completing loading a database and a program link process; storing a status of the main chip, and causing the memory chip to stay in a self-refresh operating mode; disconnecting power supplied to modules other than the remote control module and the memory chip, and the smart television system entering a turn off status.

Abstract: A data access method is provided. The data access method is applied for a data device access device to access data from N layers to display an image, where N is a positive integer. Each of the N layers includes a horizontal start point, a horizontal end point, a vertical start point and a vertical end point. The data access method includes: dividing the image into a plurality of regions according to the horizontal start points, the horizontal end points, the vertical start points and the vertical end points, wherein the regions respectively correspond to the N layers; and accessing data from the respective layers corresponding to the regions when displaying the image.

Abstract: A method for processing burn data of NAND flash is provided. The method includes: identifying all half-empty blocks in the burn data of the NAND flash, the half-empty blocks being blocks in which a part of pages are written with data and the remaining part of pages being blank pages; writing a predetermined label character to all the blank pages of the all the half-empty blocks to convert the half-empty blocks to full blocks. With the above approach, the present invention fulfills the requirement that every page is either empty or written with data, so as to prevent from damaging data in a high-temperature patching process to thereby enhance product quality and reliability.

Abstract: A decoding method for an audio video coding standard (AVS) system is provided. According to a stop-fetching criterion, a stop-fetching flag is set to an enabled status or a disabled status. In an offset fetching procedure, it is determined whether an offset value is smaller than a threshold and whether the stop-fetching is in the disabled status. When a determination result is affirmative, one subsequent bit is fetched for the offset value, an offset shift value is correspondingly increased, and the determination step is iterated. When the determination result is negative, the offset fetching procedure is terminated. Next, it is determined whether a decoding result is a least probable symbol (LPS) or a most probable symbol (MPS).

Abstract: A communication circuit includes a receiver path, a frequency translating loop filter and a signal source circuit. The frequency translating loop filter includes an auxiliary mixer, and a frequency translating filter backend circuit such as a filter. The signal source circuit can be shared with a transmitter path. When the receiver path receives an external signal, the auxiliary mixer and the frequency translating filter backend circuit perform high-frequency filtering. When the receiver path need not receive the external signal, the auxiliary mixer up-converts a low-frequency auxiliary signal provided by the signal source circuit to a high-frequency domain, and the up-converted signal is received by the receiver path. Thus, an operation parameter of the receiver path can be adjusted and calibrated according to a response of the receiver path.

Abstract: A calibration system built in an electronic device with noise suppression is provided. The calibration system includes a first audio receiving module, a second audio receiving module and a correction module. The correction module corrects an adjustment value of the first audio receiving module and the second audio receiving module. The adjustment value is for adjusting gains of audio received results of the first audio receiving and second audio receiving.

Abstract: A method for calculating a feed forward equalizer coefficient of a feed forward equalizer in a minimum mean square error decision feedback equalizer (MMSE-DFE) based on a fast transversal recursive least squares (FT-RLS) algorithm is provided. The length of the feed-forward equalizer is LF, which is a positive integer. The method includes an outer iteration having an LF number of iterations. The outer iteration includes an inner iteration having an n number of iterations, where n is an integer between 0 and (LF?2).

Abstract: A capacitance sensing apparatus applied to a touch panel is provided. The capacitance sensing apparatus includes a plurality of sensor channels including a first sensor channel and a second sensor channel neighboring to each other. A first voltage signal is outputted to the first sensor channel. A plurality of capacitances of the first sensor channel are detected to generate a first capacitance result for touch sensing. A second voltage signal is outputted to the second sensor channel. A first voltage difference is present when the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal are respectively outputted to the first sensor channel and the second sensor channel, and a second voltage difference is present when the capacitance of the first sensor channel. The first voltage difference and the second voltage difference are substantially the same.