Abstract: An electronic device includes a cache memory including a memory space for storing a first cache set including a plurality of sector data and a plurality of dirty bits, each of the plurality of dirty bits representing whether corresponding sector data of the plurality of sector data are modified, a memory controller, connected to a plurality of data lines and a data mask line, for receiving the plurality of sector data and the plurality of dirty bits from the cache memory, setting a logic level of a data mask signal based on a logic level of each of the plurality of dirty bits, and outputting the plurality of sector data through the plurality of data lines and the data mask signal through the data mask line, and a memory device, connected to the plurality of data lines and the data mask line, for receiving the plurality of sector data through the plurality of data lines, and receiving the data mask signal through the data mask line.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes: an inner casing having a storage chamber defined therein; a middle plate surrounding an outer surface of the inner casing; a thermal-insulating material disposed between the inner casing and the middle plate; a module mounting casing fixed to the middle plate and having a top opening and an inserting opening; a cabinet cover to cover the top opening and to define a top appearance of the refrigerator; and a wireless charging module mounted on the module mounting casing through the inserting opening, wherein the wireless charging module includes an coil part for wirelessly-charging a battery of a mobile device placed on the cabinet cover.

Abstract: Provide is an electronic apparatus that includes a communication interface, a memory storing at least one instruction, and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to: obtain an image including a person object, obtain a 3D shape model corresponding to the person object included in the image, map a texture of the image to the 3D shape model based on identification information for each area of the 3D shape model, and generate a 3D avatar corresponding to the person object based on the 3D shape model to which the texture of the image is mapped.

Abstract: An electronic device may include: a housing including a first housing and a second housing movable with respect to the first housing; a flexible display in which a display area for displaying a screen is expanded or reduced as the second housing moves with respect to the first housing; a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: identify a change in the size of the display area on the basis of the movement of the second housing relative to the first housing; determine an application to be preloaded from among a plurality of applications on the basis of the identified size of the display area; load, into the memory, a preload process including some of resources for executing the determined application to be preloaded; and, in response to the occurrence of an event associated with the execution of the application to be preloaded, load an activity for the execution of the application by using the loaded preload process.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic apparatus and a sensor ball registration method of the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus according to examples of the present disclosure comprises: a communication circuit; a display; an actuator; a speaker; and a controller electrically connected to the communication circuit, the display, the actuator, and the speaker.

Abstract: A voltage trimming circuit including: a first resistance circuit having a first resistance value determined by up codes and down codes; a second resistance circuit having a second resistance value determined by the up codes and the down codes; and a comparator to output a voltage detection signal by comparing a voltage level of a reference voltage trimming node to that of a feedback node, wherein the voltage detection signal adjusts the up and down codes, which increase the first resistance value and decrease the second resistance value when the voltage level of the reference voltage trimming node is higher than that of the feedback node, and adjusts the up and down codes, which decrease the first resistance value and increase the second resistance value when the voltage level of the reference voltage trimming node is lower than that of the feedback node.

Abstract: A separator for a rechargeable battery, a method of preparing a separator, and a rechargeable lithium battery, the separator including a porous substrate; and at least one coating layer on one surface of the porous substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a fluorine-containing binder, a filler, and an additive, the fluorine-containing binder has a concentration gradient in which a concentration thereof in the coating layer increases toward an outer surface of the separator in a thickness direction of the separator, an infrared spectral intensity of a C—F group of the fluorine-containing binder is greater than 0.0030 to less than 0.0050, the additive is a hydrocarbon polymer compound that includes a carboxyl group, and a weight average molecular weight of the hydrocarbon polymer compound is about 5,000 g/mol to about 15,000 g/mol.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first switch coupling a first switch coupling a first power source and a first node according to a first control signal; a sense amplifier coupled between the first node and a second node and performing a sensing operation; a second switch coupling a second power source and the second node according to a second control signal; and a sense amplifier control circuit providing the first control signal and the second control signal. The sense amplifier control circuit controls the second control signal so that a voltage of the second node reaches a shift voltage higher than a voltage of the second power source during a first sensing period of the sensing operation and a bias current flows through the second node during a second sensing period of the sensing operation. The sensing period is subsequent to the first sensing period.

Abstract: Disclosed are substrate processing apparatuses and methods. The substrate processing apparatus comprises a chuck that supports a substrate, an insulator ring that surrounds the chuck, a focus ring on the insulator ring, and a ground ring outside the insulator ring. The ground ring includes a ground ring body and an extension ring on the ground ring body. A width of the extension ring is less than that of the ground ring body. An inner lateral surface of the extension ring is more outwardly than that of the ground ring body. A difference in level between a top of the extension ring and a top surface of the chuck is in a range of about 52 mm to about 60 mm.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a processor configured to launch a first application, display a launch screen of the first application on a first display, determine a second application expected to be launched on at least one of the first display or a second display, based on a determination a specified trigger condition is satisfied, perform a pre-loading process of one or more resources, generate, based on the pre-loaded one or more resources, a launch screen of the second application in a virtual window, and based on a determination a screen switch event occurs with respect to the launch screen of the first application, display the launch screen of the second application generated in the virtual window on at least one display corresponding to the screen switch event among the first display and the second display, thereby completing launching of the second application.

Abstract: A solar cell module can include a plurality of solar cells, each solar cell among the plurality of solar cells including a first electrode and a second electrode arranged in parallel on a rear surface of a semiconductor substrate; a substrate including a conductive pattern electrically connecting the plurality of solar cells with each other; and a protective film disposed on the plurality of solar cells on a front surface of the substrate, in which the conductive pattern includes: a plurality of conductive portions, each of the plurality of conductive portions being arranged between two adjacent solar cells among the plurality of solar cells, an electrode portion formed on a rear surface of the substrate, and a connection portion connected to the electrode portion and surrounding a side surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device, a semiconductor substrate, and a test system including the integrated circuit device are disclosed. The integrated circuit device includes a power terminal configured to receive a source voltage, a power via connected to the power terminal and passing through at least one of a number of layers, a number of inductive vias arranged apart from the power via and passing through at least one of the number of layers, a number of wirings connected to ends of at least some of the number of inductive vias and configured to form a coil wound in toroidal form together with the number of inductive vias, around the power via, and a test terminal configured to output an induced voltage in the coil externally of the integrated circuit device, in response to the supply of the source voltage.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a substrate including a recess, a gate insulation layer on a surface of the recess, an impurity barrier layer on a surface of the gate insulation layer to cover the surface of the gate insulation layer, a first gate pattern on impurity barrier layer to fill a lower portion of the recess, a second gate pattern on the first gate pattern in the recess, a capping insulation pattern on the second gate pattern to fill the recess, and impurity regions at the substrate adjacent to an upper sidewall of the recess. The impurity barrier layer may have a concentration of nitrogen higher than a concentration of nitrogen included in the gate insulation layer. The second gate pattern may include a material different from a material of the first gate pattern. A lower surface of the impurity regions may be higher than an upper surface of the first gate pattern. Thus, the semiconductor device may have good characteristics.

Abstract: A method of controlling a memory and an electronic device performing the method are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store instructions executable by the processor; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: determine a use state of the electronic device corresponding to an available area of the memory, determine a temperature of the electronic device, determine a memory parameter based on the use state and the temperature, and convert a used area of the memory into the available area based on the memory parameter.

Abstract: A display module includes a display panel which is bent at opposing ends thereof and includes a flat area and a bent area which extends bent from the flat area, a panel protective film facing both the flat area and the bent area of the display panel, and a release film removably attached to the panel protective film. The release film includes a first release film facing both the flat area and the bent area of the display panel with the panel protective film therebetween, a second release film facing the display panel with the first release film therebetween, a third release film between the first release film and the second release film and corresponding to the bent area, and a first adhesive layer between the third release film and the second release film and attaches the third release film to the second release film.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a cabinet including an inner case provided with a storage compartment, a case supporter coupled to a lower side of the inner case to support the inner case, and a base coupled to a lower side of the case supporter; a door disposed on a front portion of the cabinet to open and close the storage compartment; and a cooling device disposed on a rear surface of the inner case to have at least a portion thereof exposed to the storage compartment, wherein a water collection hole is formed on a rear end of a bottom surface of the inner case, wherein a water collection guide is mounted on the inner case to guide water flowing into the water collection hole to flow downward, wherein a water collection portion is formed on the base to collect water passing through the water collection guide.

Abstract: An electronic device and a method for operating the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing which includes a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, a display which is disposed on at least a part of the first surface, a proximity sensor which is disposed between the display and the second surface, an illuminance sensor, and a processor which is operably connected to the display and the illuminance sensor, wherein the processor is configured to activate the display and the illuminance sensor in response to the occurrence of an event, measure, by using the illuminance sensor, illuminance of a region where the electronic device is disposed, confirm the characteristic of an input occurring on the display by an external object, and determine, based on the measured illuminance and the characteristic of the input, whether or not to inactivate a touch input reception function of at least a partial region of the display.

Abstract: A display device includes a cover member which is at least partially bent, a panel member arranged along a surface of the cover member, where the panel member displays an image, and a support member arranged on another surface of the panel member different from the surface of the panel member on which the cover member is arranged.

Abstract: A sensor module may be mounted in an electronic device including a rotating body rotatably arranged inside a housing. The sensor module may include a stator fixed in the housing; an energy harvester including a rotor mounted in the rotating body, at a position to at least partially face the stator; and a sensor arranged inside the rotating body together with the rotor, wherein, as the rotating body rotates, the rotor may be configured to rotate about the stator and generate an induced current and supply same to the sensor. The sensor may be configured to detect, using power based on the induced current, environmental information of the inside of the rotating body or operating state information of the rotating body.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a sensor device may comprise: an energy harvester configured to generate electrical energy; an energy storage circuit configured to store the generated electrical energy; a monitoring circuit; a sensor; a communication circuit; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to identify a voltage of the energy storage circuit through the monitoring circuit, operate in a first mode in response to identification that the voltage is equal to or lower than a threshold value, operate in a second mode which consumes more power than the first mode, in response to identification that the voltage exceeds the threshold value, acquire a sensing value through the sensor according to a sensing scheme corresponding to one of the first mode and the second mode, and control the communication circuit to transmit the voltage and the sensing value to another electronic device according to the communication scheme corresponding to one of the first mode and the second