Abstract: Methods and systems for emulating a hardware accelerator is provided. When executed by a computer, the platform includes a plurality of computational resources provided by the computer; a hardware emulator operated on a first computational resource of the plurality of computational resources; and an accelerator being emulated in the platform and operated on a second computational resource of the plurality of computational resources, the accelerator being configured to execute an offloading operation.

Abstract: In some aspects of the present disclosure, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is disclosed. In some aspects, the ESD protection circuit includes a first transistor coupled to a pad, a second transistor coupled between the first transistor and ground, a stack of transistors coupled to the first transistor, and an ESD clamp coupled between the stack of transistors and the ground.

Abstract: A double-sided display device includes a first panel, a second panel, a light guide plate and a light source. The second panel is arranged opposite to the first panel. The light guide plate is arranged between the first panel and the second panel, and includes a main body portion including a first surface and a second surface, a first pattern arranged on the first surface, and a second pattern arranged on the second surface. The light source is arranged adjacent to the light guide plate. The first pattern is different from the second pattern.

Abstract: An automatic heating vending machine including a storage space, a storage mechanism, a fetching mechanism, a gripping arm mechanism, a rotating disc mechanism and a heating mechanism are disclosed. The storage mechanism is installed in the storage space to store food. The fetching mechanism is installed in the storage space and disposed under the storage mechanism to catch the food. The gripping arm mechanism grips the food on the fetching mechanism. The rotating disc mechanism is disposed on one side of the gripping arm mechanism. The gripping arm mechanism grips the food and then places the food on the rotating disc mechanism. The heating mechanism is disposed above the rotating disc mechanism. After the food has been placed on the rotating disc mechanism, the rotating disc mechanism undergoes horizontal movement and vertical movement, allowing the food to be admitted to the heating mechanism and heated.

Abstract: Aspects concern a method for controlling vehicles to perform transport tasks comprising supplying information about vehicles and information about transport tasks to a graph neural network by associating each vehicle with a vehicle graph node and each transport task with a transport task graph node, processing the vehicle and the transport graph by the neural network, wherein the neural network determines a feature for each graph node, determining, for each pair of a transport graph node and vehicle graph node, a weight representing a similarity between the features determined for the transport graph node and the vehicle graph node, selecting an assignment between the transport graph nodes and the vehicle graph nodes from a set of possible assignments, wherein the selected assignment maximizes the sum of the weights of the pairs and controlling each vehicle according to the selected assignment.

Abstract: An eFuse structure is provided, the structure comprising a first fuse link having a first side. The first fuse link having a first indentation on the first side, the first indentation having a non-linear profile. A first dummy structure may be laterally spaced from the first indentation of the first fuse link.

Abstract: A method for 3D object tracking is described. The method includes inferring first 2D semantic keypoints of a 3D object within a sparsely annotated video stream. The method also includes matching the first 2D semantic keypoints of a current frame with second 2D semantic keypoints in a next frame of the sparsely annotated video stream using embedded descriptors within the current frame and the next frame. The method further includes warping the first 2D semantic keypoints to the second 2D semantic keypoints to form warped 2D semantic keypoints in the next frame. The method also includes labeling a 3D bounding box in the next frame according to the warped 2D semantic keypoints in the next frame.

Abstract: A package includes a package component, a device die over and bonded to the package component, a metal cap having a top portion over the device die, and a thermal interface material between and contacting the device die and the metal cap. The thermal interface material includes a first portion directly over an inner portion of the device die, and a second portion extending directly over a corner region of the device die. The first portion has a first thickness. The second portion has a second thickness greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: A coil component is provided. The coil component includes a body having fifth and sixth surfaces opposing each other, first and second surfaces respectively connecting the fifth and sixth surfaces of the body and opposing each other, and third and fourth surfaces respectively connecting the first and second surfaces of the body and opposing each other in one direction, a recess disposed in an edge between one of the first and second surfaces of the body and the sixth surface of the body, a coil portion disposed inside the body and exposed through the recess, and an external electrode including a connection portion disposed in the recess and connected to the coil portion, and a pad portion disposed on one surface of the body. A length of the pad portion in the one direction is greater than a length of the connection portion in the one direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a photomask. The method includes: forming a multilayer structure on a substrate; forming a capping layer on the multilayer structure, the capping layer including a ruthenium oxide (RuO) layer; forming a light-absorbing structure on the capping layer; forming a hard mask on the light-absorbing structure; etching the light-absorbing structure to form a recess by using the hard mask as an etch mask, wherein the recess exposes a top portion of the capping layer; and performing a treatment to convert the top portion into a ruthenium nitride (RuN) layer.

Abstract: A card wallet for a mobile phone is disclosed. The card wallet includes a rear part having a rectangular shape corresponding to a card and being in surface contact with a rear surface of the mobile phone, a front part opposed to the rear part such that a reception space is defined between the rear part and the front part, a connection part, which extends from the front part and is coupled to the rear part to close lateral and lower sides of the reception space, and a magnet member provided at the rear part. Loss of the card wallet is prevented by virtue of being attached to the mobile phone. Since the upper end of a card is first exposed from the card wallet when the card is taken out of the card wallet, the card is easily taken out of the card wallet.

Abstract: A display device, including a first display panel, a second display panel, and a first optical structure layer, is provided. The first display panel has a first display surface emitting light toward a first direction. The second display panel has a second display surface emitting light toward a second direction, wherein the first direction is different from the second direction. The first optical structure layer is disposed on the first display panel, wherein a glossiness of the first optical structure layer is between 4 GU and 35 GU, and a reflectivity of specular component included (SCI) of the first optical structure layer is between 3% and 6%. The display device provided by the disclosure can reduce the influence of ambient light from the outside on a displayed image.

Abstract: A method of fabricating magnetoresistive random access memory, including providing a substrate, forming a bottom electrode layer, a magnetic tunnel junction stack, a top electrode layer and a hard mask layer sequentially on the substrate, wherein a material of the top electrode layer is titanium nitride, a material of the hard mask layer is tantalum or tantalum nitride, and a percentage of nitrogen in the titanium nitride gradually decreases from a top surface of top electrode layer to a bottom surface of top electrode layer, and patterning the bottom electrode layer, the magnetic tunnel junction stack, the top electrode layer and the hard mask layer into multiple magnetoresistive random access memory cells.

Abstract: A method for reducing waste by recovering transition metal of a lithium secondary battery of the present invention includes preparing a cathode active material from a cathode of the lithium secondary battery, producing a first leachate by treating the cathode active material with a first acidic solution containing a reducing agent in an amount smaller than an amount corresponding to a reaction equivalent of the cathode active material, and producing a second leachate by treating the remaining cathode active material, which excludes a fraction contained in the first leachate, with a second acidic solution containing a reducing agent. Accordingly, extraction rate of manganese and purity of cobalt may be improved.

Abstract: A system for trajectory prediction using a predicted endpoint conditioned network includes one or more processors and a memory that includes a sensor input module, an endpoint distribution module, and a future trajectory module. The modules cause the one or more processors to the one or more processors to obtain sensor data of a scene having a plurality of pedestrians, determine endpoint distributions of the plurality of pedestrians within the scene, the endpoint distributions representing desired end destinations of the plurality of pedestrians from the scene, and determine future trajectory points for at least one of the plurality of pedestrians based on prior trajectory points of the plurality of pedestrians and the endpoint distributions of the plurality of pedestrians. The future trajectory points may be conditioned not only on the pedestrian and their immediate neighbors' histories (observed trajectories) but also on all the other pedestrian's estimated endpoints.

Abstract: A Computation-in-Memory (CiM) device includes a plurality of first synaptic cells disposed between row lines and column lines and configured to output read currents to the column lines, the read currents corresponding to pulse signals applied through the row lines; a plurality of second synaptic cells disposed between the row lines and two or more reference column lines and configured to output two or more reference read currents to the reference column lines, the reference read currents corresponding to the pulse signals applied through the row lines; and a column control circuit configured to output digital data by compensating for the read currents output through the column lines, based on the reference read currents output through the reference column lines.

Abstract: An improved modularized socket structure comprises: a main socket module, first, second and third polar main jacks are formed on a main conductive component of the module; at least one expansion socket module, first, second and third polar expansion jacks are formed on an expansion conductive component of the module; a sub-socket module, first, second and third polar sub-jacks are formed on a sub-conductive component of the module; and an expansion conductive plate set comprising first, second and third conductive plates, the first conductive plate has first extension portions inserted into first polar main jack, first polar expansion jack and first polar sub-jack, the second conductive plate has second extension portions inserted into second polar main jack, second polar expansion jack and second polar sub-jack, and the third conductive plate has third extension portions inserted into third polar main jack, third polar expansion jack and third polar sub-jack.

Abstract: A battery cell stack includes a plurality of battery cells, a temperature adjuster configured to prevent an increase in temperature of the battery cell stack due to a high external temperature, a heat plate disposed at a lower surface and a side surface of the battery cell stack, a pack case configured to receive the battery cell stack, the temperature adjuster, and the heat plate therein, and a cooling fan configured to discharge heat in the pack case to the outside. The battery cell stack is configured such that, when external power is supplied to an electrical apparatus connected to the battery pack, the battery cell stack does not supply current to the electrical apparatus, and when no external power is supplied to the electrical apparatus, the battery cell stack supplies current to the electrical apparatus.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing is provided, whereby a support structure is utilized to provide additional support for a conductive element in order to eliminate or reduce the formation of a defective surface such that the conductive element may be formed to have a thinner structure without suffering deleterious structures.