Abstract: This invention relates to a fire hydrant locating system which includes a hydrant locator that facilitates the location of a hydrant by firefighters, particularly in an emergency vehicle such as a fire engine. The hydrant locator as secured to the hydrant cylinder has a low profile. The hydrant locating system includes a transmitter adapted to be located in the emergency vehicle. Upon actuation of a switch in the transmitter in the emergency vehicle a receiver-signal generator in the hydrant locator will be activated to set off strobe lights to alert firefighters of the hydrant location. The receiver-signal generator in the hydrant locator includes a strobe light structure. The transmitter can be set such that when actuated it will activate only those hydrant locators within a preselected range such as approximately 1500 feet.

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a system, methods and mechanism for management and translation of mapping between logical sequencer addresses and physical or logical sequencers in a multi-sequencer multithreading system. A mapping manager may manage assignment and mapping of logical sequencer addresses or pages to actual sequencers or frames of the system. Rationing logic associated with the mapping manager may take into account sequencer attributes when such mapping is performed Relocation logic associated with the mapping manager may manage spill and fill of context information to/from a backing store when re-mapping actual sequencers. Sequencers may be allocated singly, or may be allocated as part of partitioned blocks. The mapping manager may also include translation logic that provides an identifier for the mapped sequencer each time a logical sequencer address is used in a user program. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A toy with a springable cord and an object at the other end of the cord, which object can be a ball of many kinds, or a device covering a ball. The ball may include electronics therein that are actuated when the ball is hit against a surface.

Abstract: Pixel values of an image are loaded into main memory and cache of a computer system. Two different instructions are used to load pixel values of the image from the cache to a set of registers in a processor of the system. A first one is used when loading an operand (containing pixel values) that is aligned with a cache line boundary of the cache. A second instruction is to be used when loading an operand (containing pixel values) that is not aligned with the cache line boundary. The second instruction can execute a cache line split without a significant performance penalty relative to execution of the first instruction. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A method for computing a decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform of a sample is provided, the method including inputting first 2B-bit values representing the sample into a radix-4 first section of the decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform and performing first complex 2B-bit integer additions and subtractions on the first 2B-bit values to form second 2B-bit values, without performing a multiplication. The method also includes rounding the second 2B-bit values to form B-bit values output from the radix-4 first section of the decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform.