Abstract: The present invention presents a non-volatile memory and method for its operation that ensures reliable mechanism for write and erase abort detection in the event of lost of power during non-volatile memory programming and erasing with minimized system performance penalty. During a multi-sector write process, an indication of a successful write in one sector is written into the overhead of the following sector at the same time as the following sector's data content is written. The last sector written will additionally have an indication of its own successful write written into its overhead. For erase, an erase abort flag in the first sector of the block can be marked after a successful erase operation.

Abstract: Multi-bit data signals are digitally switched between input and output endpoints for simultaneously interconnecting various sets of inputs and output endpoints. Single input may send data to single endpoint, or single input may send data to multiple output endpoints. Multiple bitwidth (b) data is serialized to single bitwidth at high data rate using N-by-1 multiplexer. Loadable barrel shifters shift serial data, so same data is used by multiple output endpoints at different times.

Abstract: A surface mounted device includes a base body that is mounted on a building or vehicle exterior, and a raised body that is supported and secured on the base body with elongated members. A free space is formed between the base body and the raised body. An opening or openings are facilitated on, and near the center of, the upper surface of the base body, to connect the free space with an internal space of the base body that will be channeled to any other space needing air relief. Alternatively, an opening or openings are facilitated on, and near the center of, the lower surface of the raised body, and channeled to the internal space of the base body through a hollowed raised body and hollowed elongated support members. The base body and the raised body are configured in such a way that the free space between them is narrower at the center than along the perimeter.

Abstract: Aminopyridine and aminopyrazine compounds of formula (1), compositions including these compounds, and methods of their use are provided. Preferred compounds of formula 1 have activity as protein kinase inhibitors, including as inhibitors of c-MET.

Abstract: A femur rasp fastener has a frame and a linkage. The frame has a chamber for housing the linkage. When a femur rasp is engaged with the frame and a handle of the linkage is moved, an arched and elastic suspension bar will be driven to pull a bucking hear which is engaged with a front end of the suspension bar so that the bucking head will clamp a strut in an indented recess located at one end of the femur rasp. The femur rasp thus will be held securely and continuously by the frame of the fastener.

Abstract: A method of stripping a photoresist layer in a plasma derived from an etch gas for the photoresist and a fluorine-containing polymer includes a scavenging gas for fluorine in the resist strip etch plasma. The scavenger for flourine reduces the amount of fluorine released from a fluorine-containing polymer into the resist etch plasma during polymer dissociation in the photoresist stripping step, thereby providing a photoresist stripping mechanism with reduced stop layer loss.

Abstract: A disk storage device adapted for holding a disk having a center spindle hole, the disk storage device including a disk holder plate and a spring element fastened to the disk holder plate, the disk holder plate having a retainer flange forced into engagement with the center spindle hole of the loaded disk, and an insertion slot which receives the loaded disk, the spring element imparting an upward pressure to the loaded disk, causing the center spindle hole of the loaded disk to be firmly retained in engagement with the retainer flange.

Abstract: Cascaded diffraction grated pairs are employed to form submicron gratings and other patterns in various types of devices using photolithographic, UV exposure and other techniques. Cascaded grating pairs are formed in masks which are positioned between a source of radiation and the device or substrate in which a grating is to be formed. The interaction of the diffracted beams generated by each diffraction grating in a cascade grating pair results in the device grating having a period which is substantially smaller than that of either of the gratings in the cascaded grating pair. As a result, gratings with substantially smaller periods than were previously obtainable can now be achieved using conventional fabrication techniques. To eliminate sensitivity to background exposure in photolithographic fabrication applications, a mask is employed in which first and second cascaded grating pairs are separated from one another by an opaque region that acts as a spatial filter.