Abstract: A purchase order tracking system and method is proposed, which allows a customer who have issued an electronic purchase order, such as EDI 850, to a manufacturer to track the progress of the manipulation of the purchase order by the manufacturer. The proposed purchase order tracking system and method is characterized by the provision of an on-line purchase order manipulation progress report for each received EDI-850 electronic purchase order to record related data at the completion of each stage of the purchase order manipulation. The purchase order manipulation progress report is then downloaded into a Web-linked database so as to allow the customer to gain access to the purchase order manipulation progress report by linking via Internet to the Web server and view the contents of the purchase order manipulation progress report through a Web browser program.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a structure for ATA bus protocol compatible time-division multiplexing data transfer of single-bus and multi-drive. It mainly consists of a primary ATA bus arbiter and several ATA/HD bridges and concurrent ATA master drives. The primary ATA bus arbiter combines the bus requests of ATA bus masters to complete time-division multiplexing on the host side and allocate the ATA bus application. The ATA/HD bridges are used to respond to the on-line requests of the bus masters by switching the time-division multiplexing on the target side and resolve the possible bus contention that may be generated when two or more ATA drives are acting simultaneously. The concurrent ATA master drives will default all ATA drives as master drives under a bridge structure to allow them to become independent to each other so as to carry out respective commands and await requests from the main system individually.

Abstract: The invention provides a solution/device of controlling external parameters by using of the same data cable and specific software to transfer/receive message and monitor/controlling external parameters in a system. Additionally, the invention is compatible with ATA/ATAPI by using of ATA protocol or side-band protocol to make a main system communicates with other device(s) through original ATA/ATAPI devices data cable.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for forming shallow trench isolation. Isolation trenches are firstly formed on a silicon substrate. High-density plasma oxide layer is used to fill the trenches. A layer of poly-silicon and a thin oxide layer are then deposited on the high-density plasma oxide layer. Selective poly-silicon chemical mechanical polishing is then used to form a self-align reverse poly mask on the surface of the shallow trenches filled with the high-density plasma oxide layer. The high-density plasma oxide layer is locally etched. Chemical mechanical polishing is then used to perform a planarization process on the surface. In the present invention, photolithography is not necessary in the planarization process of high-density plasma oxide layer. Manufacture cost is thus lower.