Abstract: An artificial intelligence system includes a neural network layer including an arithmetic operation circuit that performs an arithmetic operation of a sigmoid function. The arithmetic operation circuit includes a first circuit configured to perform an exponent arithmetic operation using a Napier's constant e as a base and output a first calculation result when an exponent in the exponent arithmetic operation is a negative number, wherein an absolute value of the exponent is used in the exponent arithmetic operation, and a second circuit configured to subtract the first calculation result obtained by the first circuit from 1 and output the subtracted value.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a neural network device includes a circuit configured to receive a first bit sequence representing a first value and output a second bit sequence representing a threefold value of the first value. The device includes a circuit configured to generate a fourth bit sequence based on the first and second bit sequences and two adjacent bits of a third bit sequence representing a second value, and output a fifth bit sequence representing a product of the first and second values based on the fourth bit sequence, and to generate a seventh bit sequence based on the first and second bit sequences and two adjacent bits of a sixth bit sequence representing a third value, and output an eighth bit sequence representing a product of the first and third values based on the seventh bit sequence.

Abstract: An artificial intelligence system includes a neural network layer including an arithmetic operation circuit that performs an arithmetic operation of a sigmoid function. The arithmetic operation circuit includes a first circuit configured to perform an exponent arithmetic operation using a Napier's constant e as a base and output a first calculation result when an exponent in the exponent arithmetic operation is a negative number, wherein an absolute value of the exponent is used in the exponent arithmetic operation, and a second circuit configured to subtract the first calculation result obtained by the first circuit from 1 and output the subtracted value.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication control section which is a semiconductor device includes a communication circuit capable of operating in at least two operation modes of normal mode L0 and low-power mode L0s. A power management control section controls an UpdateFC transmission control section to make a transition of operation mode of the communication circuit to low-power mode L0s and transmit an UpdateFC signal at intervals of a second time period d2 longer than a first time period d1 if, during operation of the communication circuit in normal mode L0, transmission data is absent and reception data is absent in a reception buffer and controls the UpdateFC transmission control section to make a transition of the operation mode of the communication circuit to normal mode L0 if, during operation of the communication circuit in low-power mode L0s, transmission data is present or the second time period d2 elapses.

Abstract: A conveying device has a substrate conveying device for conveying a flexible substrate while holding the flexible substrate upright, with one end part in a width direction of the flexible substrate being on an upper side; and a substrate retaining device. The substrate retaining device has a pair of grip rollers; a support mechanism rotatably supporting the pair of grip rollers; a transmission mechanism transmitting a force to pressure contact one of the grip rollers with the other grip roller; a first driving device configured to adjust a pressure contact force of the pair of grip rollers; an angle adjusting mechanism configured to incline the pair of grip rollers with respect to a conveying direction of the flexible substrate; and a second driving device configured to adjust an inclination angle of the pair of grip rollers with respect to the conveying direction of the flexible substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus (30) for control of the position of a flexible substrate (1) in the vertical width direction has first and second upper sandwiching roller pairs (31, 32) for sandwiching the upper edge of the flexible substrate while sending the flexible substrate. Rotation shafts of the first upper sandwiching rollers (31) are inclined so as to have a deflection angle (?) directed obliquely upward with respect to a first transport direction (F), in a sandwiching portion, of the flexible substrate, and rotation shafts of the second upper sandwiching rollers (32) are inclined so as to have a deflection angle (?) directed obliquely upward with respect to a second transport direction (R) opposite the first transport direction in a sandwiching portion. A switching device for switching the first and second upper sandwiching roller pairs (31, 32) between operative and inoperative states is provided.

Abstract: A steel is subjected to a hot rolling step, a cold rolling step, and an annealing step having a maximum achieving temperature: 800° C. to 900° C., two-step heating, and two-step cooling. The two-step heating includes first-step heating to (maximum achieving temperature—(10° C. to 50° C.)) at an average temperature raising rate: 0.5° C. to 5.0° C./s and second-step heating in which the temperature raising time from that temperature range to the maximum achieving temperature is specified to be 30 to 150 s. Two-step cooling includes first-step cooling to cool from the maximum achieving temperature at a cooling rate of 10° C. to 40° C./s and second-step cooling to cool to a temperature range of 400° C. to 500° C. at a cooling rate of 0.2 to 0.8 times the first-step cooling rate for a cooling time of 0.2 to 0.8 times the total cooling time.

Abstract: A film substrate conveying device is a device for conveying a belt-like film substrate while placing the film substrate upright, with one end part thereof being on an upper side in a width direction thereof. The film substrate conveying device has at least a pair of first grip rollers disposed to sandwich an upper end part of the film substrate therebetween; and a first angle adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting an inclination direction and an inclination angle of the first grip rollers to be capable of inclining a rotation angle of the first grip rollers such that a rotation direction of the first grip rollers is on an upper side with respect to a conveying direction.

Abstract: A conveying device has a substrate conveying device for conveying a flexible substrate while holding the flexible substrate upright, with one end part in a width direction of the flexible substrate being on an upper side; and a substrate retaining device. The substrate retaining device has a pair of grip rollers; a support mechanism rotatably supporting the pair of grip rollers; a transmission mechanism transmitting a force to pressure contact one of the grip rollers with the other grip roller; a first driving device configured to adjust a pressure contact force of the pair of grip rollers; an angle adjusting mechanism configured to incline the pair of grip rollers with respect to a conveying direction of the flexible substrate; and a second driving device configured to adjust an inclination angle of the pair of grip rollers with respect to the conveying direction of the flexible substrate.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for manufacturing a thin film stacked member capable of improving the quality of the thin film stacked member by decreasing creases, heat wrinkles, and tension wrinkles in the film through wrinkle smoothing-out. An apparatus for manufacturing a thin film stacked member transports a strip-shape flexible substrate in a horizontal direction with a width direction of the strip-shape flexible substrate as the vertical direction. The strip-shape flexible substrate is transported to a film deposition portion provided in a transport path of the strip-shape flexible substrate. A thin film is stacked on a surface of the strip-shape flexible substrate by means of a film deposition apparatus provided in the film deposition portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a thin-film laminate prevents loosening of a strip-shaped flexible substrate at the time of conveying or misalignment of the strip-shaped flexible substrate with respect to a winding roller at the time of winding. In the apparatus, a strip-shaped flexible substrate in a lateral direction is conveyed by positioning longitudinally the width direction of the strip-shaped flexible substrate wound in a roll shape. The apparatus includes a deposition device having a deposition chamber for forming a thin film on the strip-shaped flexible substrate, a winding roll for winding a thin-film laminate, and an adjustment roller to prevent a loosening or misalignment of the strip-shaped flexible substrate between a pair of grip rollers and the winding roll, and the pair of grip rollers arranged in front of the adjustment roller to convey the thin-film laminate while maintaining a given height.

Abstract: A bus bridge is connected between a general-purpose first bus and a second bus on which an interruption signal is transmitted using a packet. The bus bridge includes a plurality of reception buffers and a control section. The control section controllably switches the order of read of the read responses and the requests based on the order of reception of the read responses and the requests after recognizing reception of an interruption assert signal packet transferred by the second bus and before recognizing reception of an interruption de-assert signal packet transferred by the second bus.