Abstract: The invention concerns a procedure and a device for emulating a programmable unit using an external emulation device. The method comprises transferring a signal to the external emulation device, which allows deriving the original CPU clock signal of the target programmable unit, and, in a defined relationship with the CPU clock signal (8), emulation data, which are formed by those data, which cannot be calculated on the basis of a given model of the target programmable unit and on the basis of the program code. The target programmable unit is emulated by the external emulation device (1) using the transferred emulation data, and respective trace data are ascertained from the emulation. The invention further concerns an apparatus for emulation, comprising a target programmable unit, which has at least one CPU, and comprising an emulation device, which, as an external unit (14), is connected via an emulation port as a communication link with the target programmable unit.

Abstract: In a stent intended for implantation in a living body and having a bridge structure in which at least two bridges are coupled to one another at at least one node region on at least one of the bridges near the node region, the section modulus of the bridge varies along the length thereof, and the stresses arising at the node region upon deformation of the stent are distributed in the longitudinal direction of the bridge.