Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for implementing legal placement with contextual awareness for an electronic design. These techniques identify one or more hierarchies from one or more groups or one or more instances located at these one or more hierarchies in a layout or floorplan. A plurality of instances including the one or more identified instances may be promoted to an honorary top hierarchy. A layout operation may then be performed on the one or more identified instances based in part or in whole upon a boundary requirement and context information.

Abstract: A system for wirelessly charging an electrical energy storage device such as an electrochemical cell or battery pack is described. The system comprises a transmitting base unit having a charging tray that is capable of wirelessly transmitting electrical power received from an external electrical energy source. In addition, the system comprises an electrical energy capture assembly that is electrically incorporatable with an energy storage device. The energy capture assembly comprises a receiving coil that is electrically connected to various sub-circuits that condition and modify the wirelessly received electrical energy so that it re-charges the energy storage device. The system is primarily designed to be used with electrical power that is wirelessly transmitted by near field magnetic induction. The circuitry of the system is designed to accommodate for fluctuations in magnitude of wirelessly transmitted electrical power.

Abstract: A wireless charging system comprises a first coaxial structure configured to have an RF signal present on a conductor; and a second coaxial structure configured to have an RF signal present, power being transferred from the first coaxial structure to the second coaxial structure when the first coaxial structure and the second coaxial structure are excited in proximity to each other.

Abstract: An electric power converter device for charging a battery in a vehicle may include a power factor converter, a DC-to-DC converter, and a bypass switch. The power factor converter receives a DC power from a power source and increases a voltage level of the DC power. The DC-to-DC converter is operable to decrease the voltage of the DC power from the power factor converter. The bypass switch is operable to electrically couple a power output device to one of the power factor converter or the DC-to-DC converter such that the electrical power provided by the power output device to the battery is based on one of a voltage output of the power factor converter or a voltage output of the DC-to-DC converter.

Abstract: Method of automatic synthesis of circuits comprising the generation of a network of regular processes reading or writing data in channels, according to which a single producer process is authorized to write in a channel and a single consumer process is authorized to read in a channel; and a synchronization unit associated with said channel authorizes or disables the implementation of a new iteration of said producer process, respectively consumer process, as a function of a comparison of a position of execution determined as a function of the value of a new iteration collected from the producer process, respectively consumer process, and of a position of execution determined as a function of a last iteration value collected from the consumer process, respectively producer process.

Abstract: The present embodiments relate generally to creating power grids for complex integrated circuits having many power domains, macros, and secondary power regions. In some embodiments, a power grid compiler translates a high level description of a power grid into base-level commands that can be used by other tools to implement the wires and vias of the power grid. In these and other embodiments, the high level description comprises a terse, high-level, process technology dependent and design/chip independent language for describing the grid of power and ground wires and vias, including their connections to macros and a multitude of complex power nets that are typical in recent day SOCs. According to certain additional aspects, embodiments include a power grid optimizer for optimizing portions of a power grid based on analytics such as QOR analytics, and incrementally updating the power grid to include these optimized portions.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described of managing a battery system. The battery system including at least one battery cell and one or more sensors configured to measure a temperature of the at least one battery cell. The method includes receiving a measurement of the temperature of the at least one battery cell, estimating an open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell, estimating a capacity fade of the at least one battery cell based on the open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell and a ratio of a change in the open circuit potential relative to a change in the temperature of the at least one battery cell, and regulating at least one of charging or discharging of the at least one battery cell based on the estimation of the capacity fade.

Abstract: A mobile phone charger with a sterilization UV LED may include: a charger case having a space formed therein and including a mobile phone stand formed at the front surface thereof; and one or more first UV LEDs installed at one side of the space of the charger case.

Abstract: Disclosed is methods and devices for charging an electronic device. An exemplary method includes receiving, by an antenna of an electronic device, a wireless signal. A receiver chip is embedded in the electronic device and connected to the antenna, and the receiver chip includes a switch and rectifier circuitry. The method further includes: (i) in response to determining that the antenna is receiving power above a threshold level, routing, via the switch, the received wireless signal to the rectifier circuity, the rectifier circuitry being configured to convert the wireless signal into usable energy for charging a battery of the electronic device connected to the rectifier circuitry, and (ii) in response to determining that the antenna is not receiving power above the threshold level, routing, via the switch, the received wireless signal to the transceiver, the transceiver being configured to process the wireless signal as data.

Abstract: Provided is a non-contact charging module wherein adverse effects from magnets have been prevented even where magnets are used for positioning, power transmission efficiency has been improved, and the entire module has been made thin due to a state of improved power transmission efficiency. The non-contact charging module comprises a planar coil portion (2) of spirally wound conductive wiring, and a magnetic sheet (3) that is provided so as to oppose a surface of a coil (21) on the planar coil portion (2), and is characterized in that the magnetic sheet is layered with a first layer, and a second layer that has a lower magnetic permeability and a higher saturation magnetic flux density than the first layer.

Abstract: A method for controlling a state of a battery includes: providing and using a specific connecting interface to connect the battery and a portable device; and controlling the battery to enter a shipping mode and exit the shipping mode by using the specific connecting interface.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described of managing a battery system. The battery system including at least one battery cell and one or more sensors configured to measure a temperature of the at least one battery cell. The method includes receiving a measurement of the temperature of the at least one battery cell, estimating an open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell, estimating a capacity fade of the at least one battery cell based on the open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell and a ratio of a change in the open circuit potential relative to a change in the temperature of the at least one battery cell, and regulating at least one of charging or discharging of the at least one battery cell based on the estimation of the capacity fade.

Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for assigning feature colors for a multiple patterning process are provided. The apparatus receives integrated circuit layout information including a set of features and an assigned color of a plurality of colors for each feature of a first subset of features of the set of features. In addition, the apparatus performs color decomposition on a second subset of features to assign colors to features in the second subset of features. The second subset of features includes features in the set of features that are not included in the first subset of features with an assigned color.

Abstract: A prototyping apparatus includes a housing, a microcontroller within the housing, a user interface on an exterior surface of the housing for interaction between a user and the microcontroller, and a first connector, exposed in a first slot in the housing, having a first plurality of pins for accepting a first external component. Via the user interface, the microcontroller presents a first plurality of configuration choices for the first plurality of pins, and accepts user selections from among the first plurality of choices. The prototyping apparatus may further include a second connector exposed in a first slot in the housing, having a second plurality of pins for accepting a second external component, in which case, via the user interface, the microcontroller presents a second plurality of configuration choices for the second plurality of pins, and accepts user selections from among the second plurality of configuration choices.

Abstract: Electronic design automation systems, methods, and media are presented for hierarchical timing analysis with multi-instance blocks. Some embodiments involve generation of a combined timing context for instances of a multi-instance block. Such embodiments may merge timing context information with multi-mode multi-context (MMMC) views for different instances of a multi-instance block. Other embodiments involve efficient merging of instance timing contexts during block level static timing analysis. Various different embodiments involve separate or hybrid merged timing analysis based on a user selection.

Abstract: A cell layout, a cell layout library and a synthesizing method are disclosed. The cell layout includes a cell block and a tapping connector. The cell block has a pin. The pin being disposed at a Nth metal layer in the cell layout. The tapping connector is disposed at a (N+1)th metal layer and a (N+2)th metal layer and stacked above the pin of the cell block. The tapping connector is electrically connected to the pin and forms an equivalent tapping point of the pin of the cell block. N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

Abstract: A method includes receiving an input that is in an electronic file format and that includes information associated with an integrated circuit (IC) layout, selecting a non EM rule compliant metal line of the IC layout that is in violation of an EM rule from the input, obtaining a current of the non EM rule compliant metal line from the input, comparing the current with a threshold current, and determining whether the EM rule violation is negligible based on the result of comparison. As such, a semiconductor device may be fabricated from the IC layout when it is determined that the EM rule violation is negligible.

Abstract: A wireless power transfer system for charging a battery located in a vehicle includes a primary side network and a secondary side network. The primary side network includes a transmitting coil and a primary side compensation network. The primary side compensation network includes a primary compensation coil. The secondary side network includes a receiving coil and a secondary side compensation network. The secondary compensation network includes a secondary compensation coil. The primary compensation coil and the secondary compensation network has one of an unipolar coil design and a bipolar coil design, and the transmitting coil and the receiving coil has the other one of the unipolar coil design and the bipolar coil design.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a method includes accessing an initial layout of global wires and a congestion related metric for each net in a gate level design description of an integrated circuit. A second layout is accessed that specifies, for each net, detailed routing information that includes connections between specific wires in the regions of the integrated circuit. A list of nets with a same source region and target region in the initial layout as the failing net is generated. A net in the list of nets is selected and the failing net is rerouted over the selected net. The rerouting includes the global router updating the initial layout and the detailed router updating the second layout. The congestion related metric for each net is updated in response to the global router updating the initial layout.

Abstract: A wireless charging circuit includes a substrate. The first surface of the substrate includes a first metal wire, which is spirally disposed on the first surface. A second metal wire is disposed on the second surface of the substrate. An end of the second metal wire is electrically connected to an end of the first metal wire. The second metal wire further has a first extending portion on the second surface; wherein the first extending portion is corresponding to the first metal wire and the length of the first extending portion is smaller than a half of that of the first metal wire.