Abstract: The present invention relates to a support (20) for a prop (22). The prop (22) comprises a telescopic tube (26) and opposing transversely extending feet. The support (20) comprises a board (30) for contacting a support surface to transmit a supporting load thereto; a load bearing surface for receiving the supporting load from a prop (22); a bracket (32) coupled to the board (30), the bracket (32) arranged to support an end of the prop (22) at a load bearing position on the load bearing surface; and a guide for guiding the prop (22) to the load bearing position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a support (20) for a prop (22). The prop (22) comprises a telescopic tube (26) and opposing transversely extending feet. The support (20) comprises a board (30) for contacting a support surface to transmit a supporting load thereto; a load bearing surface for receiving the supporting load from a prop (22); a bracket (32) coupled to the board (30), the bracket (32) arranged to support an end of the prop (22) at a load bearing position on the load bearing surface; and a guide for guiding the prop (22) to the load bearing position.

Abstract: An oven is provided that includes an internal surface that faces a cooking area of the oven. An oven door is present that has a convex surface. The oven door is movable from a closed position in which the oven door blocks access to the cooking area from outside of the oven to an open position in which the oven door does not block access to the cooking area from outside of the oven. The oven may also include a receiving compartment that receives at least a portion of the oven door when the oven door is in the open position.

Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting packets of a packet stream in real-time.

Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting packets of a packet stream in real-time.

Abstract: An oven is provided that includes an internal surface that faces a cooking area of the oven. An oven door is present that has a convex surface. The oven door is movable from a closed position in which the oven door blocks access to the cooking area from outside of the oven to an open position in which the oven door does not block access to the cooking area from outside of the oven. The oven may also include a receiving compartment that receives at least a portion of the oven door when the oven door is in the open position.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sequencing determines possible next states for respective possible previous states based upon resources, selects one of the possible next states as an actual next state based upon an actual previous state, and communicates the actual next state as the actual previous state.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for generating and displaying debriefing charts to authorized users. According to disclosed methods, debriefing charts are generated by obtaining summarized evaluation data; formatting the summarized data according to predetermined settings; and generating slides or pages using the formatted data. In some cases, custom debriefing charts may be generated e.g., based upon user authorization level. The apparatus includes a debriefing tool that may be standalone or integrated with a proposal evaluation tool using appropriate APIs, plug-ins, etc. The debriefing tool includes a plurality of modules including e.g., an evaluation data acquisition module, a formatting module, a debriefing chart generating module, a display module, and a user interface module.

Abstract: A bus data signal is applied to a tapped data delay line. The various increasingly delayed data values present at the taps of the delay line are clocked into respective cells of a sticky ZEROs register (SZERO) previously initialized to all ONES, and into respective cells of a sticky ONES (SONE) register previously initialized to all ZEROS. SZERO measures the unit interval of a ONE.

Abstract: An oversampling delay is provided between clock and data signals by steering a current between first and second nodes. The first node is coupled to an input differential pair of a clock interpolator and a delayed differential pair of a data interpolator. The second node is coupled to an input differential pair of the data interpolator and a delayed differential pair of the clock interpolator. First clock and data signals are provided to a first data sampling element and, respectively, to the clock and data interpolators. Second clock and data signals, respectively output from the clock and data interpolators, are provided to a second data sampling element. Additional data sampling elements may be linked to form a longer chain of data sampling elements.

Abstract: Modular, jitter-tolerant, data acquisition and processing systems are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment comprises a receiving portion having a first module configured to receive a serial bit stream and recover a serial data stream and a first clocking signal from the serial bit stream. The receiving portion also comprises a second module configured to receive the serial data stream and the first clocking signal and generate a parallel data stream and a second clocking signal.

Abstract: A probe apparatus has first and second access ports and a measurement port. The first and second access ports are adapted to be interposed in a test circuit. A voltage amplifier and a voltage splitter are adapted to present the second access port and the measurement port each with a voltage representative of a voltage received by the first access port.

Abstract: A description of signal behavior in the vicinity of a time and voltage of interest is produced by defining a region in the (time, voltage) plane that is a closed straight sided figure whose vertices are identified by threshold crossings offset for the voltage of interest and clocked by time delays offset from a clock time of interest. A first set of latches clocked by the time delays accumulates the state of signal behavior relative to the threshold voltages as it occurs, and their contents are subsequently transferred to a second set of latches at the start of a new clock cycle, allowing a new accumulation to begin and also allowing a detection logic circuit to operate on a unified and completed collection of indicators of what the just concluded description amounts to. The detection logic circuit responds to the combinations of latched indications to produce a signal corresponding to that description.

Abstract: A probe apparatus has first and second access ports and a measurement port. The first and second access ports are adapted to be interposed in a test circuit. A voltage amplifier and a voltage splitter are adapted to present the second access port and the measurement port each with a voltage representative of a voltage received by the first access port.

Abstract: An isolation resistor is incorporated into the plunger of a probe tip spring pin by, for example, doping a ceramic that is used to form the plunger, or forming the plunger of first and second electrically coupled materials, at least a first of which has a resistivity sufficient to serve as an isolation resistor. Alternately, an isolation resistor is embedded in a printed circuit board trace that is used to couple either an upper or lower blind plated hole to a via. A probe tip spring pin is then inserted into the upper blind plated hole.

Abstract: An isolation resistor is incorporated into the plunger of a probe tip spring pin by, for example, doping a ceramic that is used to form the plunger, or forming the plunger of first and second electrically coupled materials, at least a first of which has a resistivity sufficient to serve as an isolation resistor. Alternately, an isolation resistor is embedded in a printed circuit board trace that is used to couple either an upper or lower blind plated hole to a via. A probe tip spring pin is then inserted into the upper blind plated hole.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sequencing includes sequencing elements in rippled combination, each sequencing element processing a subset of de-multiplexed incoming data over a single resource cycle. Each sequencing element processes a one hot counter proxy that represents a sequencer counter.

Abstract: An electrical circuit detects a “squelch,” or “out-of-band,” state of a differential signal pair having a positive (“p”) signal line and a negative (“n”) signal line. In one embodiment of the invention, a first and a second comparator each have positive inputs driven by the positive and negative signal lines, respectively. The negative inputs of the comparators are driven by the outputs of separate digital-to-analog converters (DACs) which are set to a lower squelch threshold voltage. The outputs of the comparators then drive the inputs of a logical AND gate, the output of which indicates the current squelch state of the differential signal pair.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sequencing determines possible next states for respective possible previous states based upon resources, selects one of the possible next states as an actual next state based upon an actual previous state, and communicates the actual next state as the actual previous state.