Abstract: It has been difficult to reduce a waste of energy in a fuel cell power generating process when, for example, a temporary rise or drop of a power load occurs. A fuel cell power generation system includes: load detection means of detecting power requested by a load; and output control means of accumulating a time at which a detected power requested by the load is equal to or larger than a predetermined value when a fuel cell body does not generate power to be supplied to the load, and allowing the fuel cell body to start generating power to be supplied to the load according to a predetermined rule based on an accumulation result.

Abstract: First of all, the number of referencing of a variable described in a behavior level circuit is calculated. Next, a bit width of the variable is extracted, and a plurality of memories capable of data transferring of the extracted bit width are selected. Next, a sum of a frequency of memory access for each of the selected plurality of memories when the variable is allocated thereto is calculated based on the number of referencing and the bit width of the variable. After that, as a target for allocating the variable, a memory that minimizes the calculated sum of the frequency of the memory access is selected.

Abstract: It has been difficult to reduce a waste of energy in a fuel cell power generating process when, for example, a temporary rise or drop of a power load occurs. A fuel cell power generation system includes: load detection means of detecting power requested by a load; and output control means of accumulating a time at which a detected power requested by the load is equal to or larger than a predetermined value when a fuel cell body does not generate power to be supplied to the load, and allowing the fuel cell body to start generating power to be supplied to the load according to a predetermined rule based on an accumulation result.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus which operates based on a set of parameters contained in a parameter file. The apparatus includes an acquiring section which acquires a first parameter file containing a first set of parameters, a converting section which converts the first parameter file acquired by the acquiring section into a second parameter file containing a second set of parameters, the second set of parameters corresponding to a version of a software used in the exposure apparatus, and a setting section which sets a value of a parameter contained in the second parameter file obtained by the converting section, based on a configuration file which describes a value of the parameter contained in the second parameter file.

Abstract: A high-level synthesis method of the present invention includes: generating a CDFG (Control Data Flow Graph) based an input file describing a behavior of a digital circuit; allocating each node of the CDFG generated in the CDFG generation, expressing contents of processing, to a time synchronized with a clock called a Step, based on the CDFG and a constraint condition of the digital circuit described in a constraint file, thereby scheduling the CDFG; generating allocation information representing how resources for constituting the digital circuit are allocated to respective nodes of the CDFG scheduled in the scheduling, based on resource-level layout information representing a layout of the resources, and circuit information representing a connecting relationship between the resources; and outputting the circuit information generated in the allocation and circuit information generation.

Abstract: An apparatus adapted for exposing a semiconductor is controlled by a program using a plurality of parameters. The apparatus has an extraction device that extracts a parameter, from the plurality of parameters, of which a settable range is changed due to an upgrade of the program. An edit device edits a value of an extracted parameter extracted by the extraction device.

Abstract: A sliding member having excellent seizure resistance comprising a metallic member provided with a sulfide-based solid lubricating layer on the sliding surface thereof is provided, characterized in that the interface of the metallic member in contact with said solid lubricating layer is provided with a surface roughness Rmax of 1 &mgr;m or higher. The sliding member above is obtained by preparing an aqueous solution dissolved therein one or two types or more of thiocyanates or thiosulfates of alkali metals or alkaline earth metals, and by performing electrolytic treatment in which a steel member the surface roughness thereof is controlled is used as the anode. In this manner, an iron sulfide based layer is formed on the surface of the steel member by using the Fe component derived from the steel and the S component from the solution as the reacting agents.

Abstract: Architecture design (AD), architecture floorplanning (AF), and transaction analysis (TA) are performed before transaction-analysis-based floorplanning (TF). Then, area estimation (CE) is performed on functional parts and connections before area-based floorplanning (CF) and area optimization (CO) are performed, and whether or not the area specifications area satisfied or not is validated (CR). Besides, power consumption estimation (PE) is performed to check whether or not the power consumption specifications are satisfied (PR). In the case of taking a parallelization approach to realize lower power consumption, parallelization design (PD) is performed. After the power consumption specifications are satisfied, power supply wiring/floorplanning is performed.

Abstract: It has been difficult to reduce a waste of energy in a fuel cell power generating process when, for example, a temporary rise or drop of a power load occurs. A fuel cell power generation system includes: load detection means 103 of detecting power requested by a load 104; and output control means 102 of accumulating a time at which a detected power requested by the load 104 is equal to or larger than a predetermined value when a fuel cell body 101 does not generate power to be supplied to the load 104, and allowing the fuel cell body 101 to start generating power to be supplied to the load 104 according to a predetermined rule based on an accumulation result.

Abstract: A sliding member having excellent seizure resistance comprising a metallic member provided with a sulfide-based solid lubricating layer on the sliding surface thereof is provided, characterized in that the interface of the metallic member in contact with said solid lubricating layer is provided with a surface roughness Rmax of 1 &mgr;m or higher. The sliding member above is obtained by preparing an aqueous solution dissolved therein one or two types or more of thiocyanates or thiosulfates of alkali metals or alkaline earth metals, and by performing electrolytic treatment in which a steel member the surface roughness thereof is controlled is used as the anode. In this manner, an iron sulfide based layer is formed on the surface of the steel member by using the Fe component derived from the steel and the S component from the solution as the reacting agents.

Abstract: A behavioral description is converted to a CDFG. The CDFG is scheduled in such a way that the number of registers is minimized with a desired number of clock cycles. Hardware is allocated to the scheduled results. The minimum clock period (semi-synchronous minimum clock period) attainable by adjusting clock timings for allocated registers is determined. When the semi-synchronous minimum clock period is greater than a desired clock period, all the clock timings are reset to a same value and then the positions of the registers in the CDFG are so changed as to reduce the clock period. The processing returns to the step of determining the semi-synchronous minimum clock period when the performance is improved as a result of performing retiming, or otherwise is terminated.

Abstract: A recipe (parameter file) for another exposure apparatus is automatically converted into a recipe adapted for an apparatus (exposure apparatus). A recipe is acquired from another apparatus (S701). The parameter configuration in the recipe is changed to a parameter configuration adapted for the apparatus (exposure apparatus) by increasing or decreasing the number of parameters (S702). Parameters and their values are acquired from a configuration file (S703). The values of parameters in the converted recipe are changed on the basis of the acquired parameter values (S704) and stored in a memory (S705).

Abstract: A fluid analyzer including a physical property value setting section 2 for setting a physical property value in accordance with grid information for boundary conditions and object positions, a number-of-dimension control section 5 for controlling the number of dimensions of a space to be analyzed, a momentum correction section 51 for automatically correcting the momentum of the speed vector of an inlet or outlet, and a boundary condition control section 4 for automatically setting a boundary condition not diverged even in natural convection computation, which repeats repetitive computation until resulting in convergence after generating grids. Thereby, it is possible to accurately set a physical property value and an analysis dimension according to grid division, correct a momentum, and control natural convection computation.

Abstract: The invention concerns a hypoid gear structure which includes a hypoid ring gear disposed coaxially with a rotation axis and a hypoid pinion gear provided with a rotation axis of an electric motor and engaging with the hypoid ring gear. The hypoid gear includes a first toothed portion disposed on the inner side and a second toothed portion disposed on the outer side, and one of the first toothed portion and the second toothed portion is urged by a spring to press the hypoid pinion gear.

Abstract: Architecture design (AD), architecture floorplanning (AF), and transaction analysis (TA) are performed before transaction-analysis-based floorplanning (TF). Then, area estimation (CE) is performed on functional parts and connections before area-based floorplanning (CF) and area optimization (CO) are performed, and whether or not the area specifications area satisfied or not is validated (CR). Besides, power consumption estimation (PE) is performed to check whether or not the power consumption specifications are satisfied (PR). In the case of taking a parallelization approach to realize lower power consumption, parallelization design (PD) is performed. After the power consumption specifications are satisfied, power supply wiring/floorplanning is performed.

Abstract: A hypoid gear structure which includes a hypoid ring gear disposed coaxially with a rotation axis, and a hypoid pinion gear provided with a rotation axis of an electric motor and engaging with the hypoid ring gear. The hypoid ring gear includes a first toothed portion disposed on the inner side and a second toothed portion disposed on the outer side, and one of the first toothed portion and the second toothed portion is urged by a spring to press the hypoid pinion gear.