Abstract: A catheter assembly for delivery of an expandable implant having at least one branch portal, which utilizes a secondary sleeve for releasably constraining a middle portion of the expandable implant after releasing a primary constraining sleeve used for constraining the expandable implant toward a delivery configuration for endoluminal delivery; and methods of using the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Abstract: A modem includes an outer transceiver including a soft decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) circuit, wherein the SD-FEC circuit is hardwired and programmable to perform at least one of encoding or decoding data using a code type selected from a plurality of different code types, and an inner transceiver coupled to the SD-FEC circuit, wherein the inner transceiver is implemented in programmable circuitry.

Abstract: A catheter assembly for delivery of an expandable implant having at least one branch portal, which utilizes a secondary sleeve for releasably constraining a middle portion of the expandable implant after releasing a primary constraining sleeve used for constraining the expandable implant toward a delivery configuration for endoluminal delivery; and methods of using the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Abstract: A decoder in a device receiving data having an error correction code is described. The decoder comprises a memory storing program code having instructions including control signals for decoding an error correction code; an address generator coupled to the memory, the address generator updating an address coupled to the memory for generating a next control signal; and a data processing circuit coupled to receive an instruction from the memory and further coupled to receive syndrome data, the data processing circuit generating error correction values. A method for decoding data having an error correction code is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Abstract: A circuit for a multi-channel add-compare-select unit is disclosed. The circuit includes a compare unit and a datapath. The datapath is coupled to the compare unit, and includes a number of adder units, a selection unit (which is coupled to the adder units), and a number of clocked storage stages.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for coding and, more particularly, for Reed-Solomon encoding and decoding with puncturing are described. At least one core is generated responsive to a puncture pattern input provided to a core generator. The core may be an encoder core or a decoder core, or a combination thereof such as a CODEC. For this generation, the puncture pattern input, including puncture patterns, are for a polynomial generator. The at least one core is configured to provide encoding or decoding, as applicable, responsive to the puncture patterns for which it was configured as generated with the core generator.

Abstract: An enclosed switching apparatus includes an enclosure and a primary power supply disconnect mounted in the enclosure. The primary power supply disconnect has first and second terminals, the first terminals are electrically connectable to a primary power source and the second terminals are electrically connectable to a load. An auxiliary power supply unit includes an auxiliary power supply disconnect having third and fourth terminals. The third terminals are electrically connectable to the primary power source. A transformer has fifth and sixth terminals, the fifth terminals are electrically connected to the fourth terminals of the auxiliary power supply disconnect. An auxiliary fusible element has seventh and eighth terminals, the seventh terminal is electrically connected to one of the sixth terminals of the transformer. A receptacle has ninth terminals thereon. One of the ninth terminals is electrically connected to the eighth terminal of the auxiliary fusible element.

Abstract: A configuration structure for a field programmable gate array (FPGA) allows a user to reconfigure or partly reconfigure the FPGA from within the FPGA, allows an addressable configuration memory to be addressed in parallel through a set of address and data or through a serial interface. Signals such as chip-enable and other control signals can be modified by user logic so that data loaded through a serial interface pin is entered into an addressed portion of configuration memory. The configuration memory programs not only the internal circuitry accessed by the user but also a programmable switch for directing signals between external pins, configuration memory control lines, and a serial data interface.

Abstract: In an FPGA having registers which are part of a user's logic functions and a configuration memory which is read and written through an addressing structure, a register protect circuit controllably protects the contects of these user logic registers from being modified by signals from the user's logic, allows these registers to be written by a microprocessor through the configuration memory addressing structure, and allows both the user's registers and lines which provide combinational signals to be read by a microprocessor through the configuration memory addressing structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means and method of generating a long error checking polynomial remainder having the ability to detect errors with high reliability and inserting only a subset of the polynomial remainder periodically into a data stream, then at the receiving end recalculating the polynomial remainder and checking the inserted subset for errors. The polynomial has the property that the current remainder value is a function of all data previously transmitted in a transmission session. The subset transmitted also preferably has this property. A longer subset of the polynomial remainder, or the full polynomial remainder, may be inserted less frequently, and is preferably sent and tested at the end of the transmission session. Both serial and parallel data streams may be checked.