Abstract: A switch and a process of operating a switch are described where a received data frame is copied one or more times into a memory before being transmitted out of the switch. The switch and method determine how much space in the memory is needed to store all of the copies of the received data frame and then the switch and method determine locations in the memory for storing the copies of the received data frames. The copies of the received data frame are stored until the ports designated as transmitting the copies of the received data frame are ready. When a port is ready, a copy of the received data frame is read out of the memory and the port is instructed where to locate the copy on a bus. When the port has retrieved the copy of the data frame, it transmits the data frame out of the switch.

Abstract: A monohydric alcohol-free, transparent, moisturizing bar soap having a high humectant solvent content. The formulation includes: (i) from about 38% to about 96% of one or more humectant solvents and (ii) from about 3% to about 20% of insoluble and/or soluble fatty acid soaps, with at least about 3% insoluble fatty acid soap. The weight ratio of humectant solvent to insoluble fatty acid soap ranges from about 3:1 to about 23:1. The bar soap has a standardized wear rate of less than about 15% and a hardness of from about 30 to about 100 hardness units. The transparent solid bar soap may be manufactured by a “hot pour” process with conventional batch mixing equipment designed for relatively moderate temperatures; accordingly, the bar soap may be packaged for final consumer use in the mold in which it was formed.

Abstract: A monohydric alcohol-free, transparent, moisturizing bar soap having a high humectant solvent content. The formulation includes: (i) from about 38% to about 96% of one or more humectant solvents and (ii) from about 3% to about 20% of insoluble and/or soluble fatty acid soaps, with at least about 3% insoluble fatty acid soap. The weight ratio of humectant solvent to insoluble fatty acid soap ranges from about 3:1 to about 23:1. The bar soap has a standardized wear rate of less than about 15% and a hardness of from about 30 to about 100 hardness units. The transparent solid bar soap may be manufactured by a “hot pour” process with conventional batch mixing equipment designed for relatively moderate temperatures; accordingly, the bar soap may be packaged for final consumer use in the mold in which it was formed.

Abstract: A monohydric alcohol-free, transparent, moisturizing bar soap having a high humectant solvent content. The formulation includes: (i) from about 38% to about 96% of one or more humectant solvents and (ii) from about 3% to about 20% of insoluble and/or soluble fatty acid soaps, with at least about 3% insoluble fatty acid soap. The weight ratio of humectant solvent to insoluble fatty acid soap ranges from about 3:1 to about 23:1. The bar soap has a standardized wear rate of less than about 15% and a hardness of from about 30 to about 100 hardness units. The transparent solid bar soap may be manufactured by a “hot pour” process with conventional batch mixing equipment designed for relatively moderate temperatures; accordingly, the bar soap may be packaged for final consumer use in the mold in which it was formed.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for rounding a result operand of a floating-point (FP) operation which causes an underflow. The FP operation is recomputed using a truncate rounding mode to generate an underflowed operand. The underflowed operand is denormalized and providing characteristic bits. A rounding bit is generated based on the characteristic bits. The rounding bit is merged with the denormalized operand to generate the rounded result operand.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for reporting exception in a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processor in computing an arithmetic function for a plurality of argument data. The SIMD processor is configured for processing N elements simultaneously. A sequence of instructions is re-arranged to allocate the plurality of argument data in the N elements. The N elements are processed simultaneously. The exceptions for N elements are detected simultaneously. The detected exceptions are then combined to generate a global exception.