Abstract: This disclosure provides automatic analyzers and reagent wheels thereof. The reagent wheel can have one or more rings of reagent bottle seats that may be used for placing a reagent container and distributed along a circumferential direction. An included angle may be formed between a symmetrical centerline of the reagent container placed on the reagent bottle seat and a radius of a circle where the reagent wheel is located, where the included angle is not equal to zero. Compared with the situation in which the symmetrical centerline of the reagent container overlaps with the radius of the circle where the reagent wheel is located, an improved balance can be achieved between the capacity and the diametric size of the reagent wheel, thus making an improvement in meeting application requirements of the analyzers.

Abstract: A difference between a first expected required polish time for a first substrate and a second expected required polish time for a second substrate is determined using a first pre-polish thickness and a second pre-polish thickness measured at an in-line metrology station. A duration of an initial period is determined based on the difference between the first expected required polish time and the second expected required polish time. For the initial period at a beginning of a polishing operation, no pressure is applied to whichever of the first substrate and the second substrate has a lesser expected required polish time while simultaneously pressure is applied to whichever of the first substrate and the second substrate has a greater expected required polish time. After the initial period, pressure is applied to both the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for materials that include conch shell structures, methods of making conch shell slices, devices for storing energy, and the like.

Abstract: A method for accessing a cache including reading an access instruction for acquiring data; determining, according to a delay identifier carried by the access instruction, whether the access instruction produces a delay; accessing the cache and performing, according to a location identifier carried by the access instruction, a pre-fetch operation if a delay is produced; and modifying, according to a location where the data required by the access instruction is acquired, the delay identifier and the location identifier carried by the access instruction. The technical solutions solve the problem of a low hit rate upon cache access, reduce the probability of misses, and reduce an access delay caused by a level-by-level access to each level of cache upon target data acquisition, which correspondingly lowers the power consumption generated upon the cache access and improves the CPU performance.

Abstract: An automatic biochemical analyzer is provided, the analyzer includes a reaction wheel that comprises an inner ring and outer ring, an interval of a photoelectric detection position of the inner ring and that of the outer ring is N cuvette positions along counterclockwise or clockwise direction, and an interval of a sample injecting position, a reagent injecting positions, a sample stirring position and a reagent stirring position of the inter ring and those of the outer ring respectively is M cuvette positions along the same direction, wherein M and N are integers and the difference between M and N is 0 or 1. The analyzer at the premise of ensuring the test flow, reducing wasting number of cuvettes, saving the cost of the whole analyzer, and the size of the reaction wheel will be as small as possible.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for materials that include conch shell structures, methods of making conch shell slices, devices for storing energy, and the like.

Abstract: A processor includes an execution unit and a filter module. The filter module includes logic to receive an instruction, determine whether the instruction was previously executed to prefetch information from a cache, and discard the instruction based on a determination that the instruction was previously executed to prefetch the information from the cache.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method, device and system for discovering a PCE. A proxy server corresponds to PCEs of the same layer, wherein a method applied to the proxy server includes that: state information of all PCEs of a current layer is stored; a first request for querying state information of a PCE of the current layer is received; and the state information to-be-queried is provided to an initiator of the first request. On the basis of an existing multi-layer PCE architecture, the disclosure enables all PCEs of the same layer to correspond to a proxy server, and cross-layer/grade PCE information can be obtained by interaction between proxy servers. Furthermore, the method simplifies a mechanism for querying PCE state information and a proxy server is responsible for transmitting the state information, thus largely saving network broadband resources. In the meanwhile, the method is easy to implement and has high applicability.

Abstract: A sample analyzer comprises a reaction tray, a sample/reagent tray, and a probe. The reaction tray performs a first number of stops and rotations during an operating cycle, wherein the first number is configured to cause each of the reaction vessels to stop once at a position for the test before any of the number of the reaction vessels stops at the position for a second time. The sample/reagent tray rotates one of a sample container and reagent containers to a sample/reagent retrieving position during an operating cycle. The probe dispenses test sample(s), first reagent, and second reagent during different periods in different stop periods during an operating cycle. A method for analyzing samples is also disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for materials that include a pre-designed patterned, porous membrane (e.g., micro- and/or nano-scale patterned), structures or devices that include a pre-designed patterned, porous membrane, methods of making pre-designed patterned, porous membranes, methods of separation, and the like.

Abstract: A method for receiving push information and a related apparatus and system are disclosed. The method for receiving push information includes: receiving, by a terminal, information about a network access interface sent by a network access point, where the information about the network access interface includes address information of a push server and access information of a wireless local area network WLAN access hotspot; acquiring, by the terminal, the address information of the push server included in the information about the network access interface; accessing, by the terminal, the WLAN access hotspot based on the access information of the WLAN access hotspot; establishing a push connection channel between the terminal and the push server according to the address information of the push server by using the WLAN access hotspot; and receiving, by the terminal by using the established push connection channel, push information sent by the push server.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for network topology, wherein the method includes: dividing label switching routers in a single control area into a plurality of sub-areas, the label switching routers in each sub-area forming Open Shortest Path First neighbors; acquiring traffic engineering resource information of each sub-area, collecting the traffic engineering resource information of all the sub-areas, and generating a network topology within the single control area.

Abstract: A system-on-chip device operates in a low power mode and keeps on-board peripherals such as FIFO registers operational by maintaining a low frequency bit clock and gating other clock sources. When a peripheral device initiates a DMA (direct memory access) operation, the SOC's bus clock is enabled in response to a signal generated by the peripheral. Once data has been moved between the peripheral and system memory, the bus clock can be gated again.

Abstract: A method of controlling polishing includes storing a sequence of default values, polishing a substrate, monitoring the substrate during polishing with an in-situ monitoring system, generating a sequence of measured values from measurements from the in-situ monitoring system, combining the sequence of measured values with the sequence of default values to generate a sequence of modified values, fitting a function to the sequence of modified values, and determining at least one of a polishing endpoint or an adjustment for a polishing rate based on the function.

Abstract: A method of controlling a polishing operation includes polishing a substrate, during polishing obtaining a sequence over time of measured spectra from the substrate with an in-situ optical monitoring system, for each measured spectrum from the sequence of measured spectra determining a difference between the measured spectrum and an immediate previous spectrum from the sequence, accumulating the difference for each measured spectrum to generate a total difference, comparing the total difference to a threshold, and detecting a polishing endpoint based on the comparison of the total difference to the threshold.

Abstract: A method and device for long-term storage of cross-domain path information are provided. The method is applied on a stateless PCE.

Abstract: A substrate for use in fabrication of an integrated circuit has a layer with a plurality of conductive interconnects. The substrate includes a semiconductor body, a dielectric layer disposed over the semiconductor body, a plurality of conductive lines of a conductive material disposed in first trenches in the dielectric layer to provide the conductive interconnects, and a closed conductive loop structure of the conductive material disposed in second trenches in the dielectric layer. The closed conductive loop is not electrically connected to any of the conductive lines.

Abstract: In fabrication of an integrated circuit having a layer with a plurality of conductive interconnects, a layer of a substrate is polished to provide the layer of the integrated circuit. The layer of the substrate includes conductive lines to provide the conductive interconnects. The layer of the substrate includes a closed conductive loop formed of a conductive material in a trench. A depth of the conductive material in the trench is monitored using an inductive monitoring system and a signal is generated. Monitoring includes generating a magnetic field that intermittently passes through the closed conductive loop. A sequence of values over time is extracted from the signal, the sequence of values representing the depth of the conductive material over time.

Abstract: Before a first surface of a substrate is polished using a chemical mechanical process, the substrate is transferred to a modification station. The substrate comprises a side wall connected with the first surface at an edge and a second surface opposite to the first surface and also connected to the side wall. The first surface is substantially flat. The side wall is substantially perpendicular to the first surface. The edge of the substrate is modified at the modification station by removing material from a region of the first surface. The side wall of the substrate is a boundary of the region. The modified edge comprises a modified first surface that tapers within the region towards the second surface. The side wall remains substantially perpendicular to the first surface.

Abstract: A sample analyzer comprises a reaction tray, a sample/reagent tray, and a probe. The reaction tray performs a first number of stops and rotations during an operating cycle, wherein the first number is configured to cause each of the reaction vessels to stop once at a position for the test before any of the number of the reaction vessels stops at the position for a second time. The sample/reagent tray rotates one of a sample container and reagent containers to a sample/reagent retrieving position during an operating cycle. The probe dispenses test sample(s), first reagent, and second reagent during different periods in different stop periods during an operating cycle. A method for analyzing samples is also disclosed.