摘要:
An apparatus and method for duplicating tag addresses to maintain addresses of central processing unit (CPU) data stored in write buffers external to a cache are disclosed. Advance notification of write transactions is issued to allow a subsystem that maintains duplicate cache tags to know in advance which write transactions are present in the CPU's buffers. Such information is used to keep duplicate tags for both the cache and any buffers that contain writes that are to be removed from the cache. The cache is preferably a direct mapped cache and the CPU preferably resides within a multiprocessor architecture. In the preferred embodiment, all write transactions are indirectly caused by a read transaction that is about to bring a line into the cache. Thus, a read transaction is issued by the CPU before the write transaction is issued. A field is added to the read transaction that indicates whether or not the read transaction has a corresponding line that must be written out of the cache and into a buffer, such that the duplicate tags duplicate both the CPU cache and the CPU write buffers.
摘要:
The present invention provides a protocol method for waiting the bus in a digital computer and an apparatus for implementing that protocol. By allowing the bus to continue running after a wait command has been asserted, modules on the computer bus are not required to respond instantly to the wait command. Information on the bus during the multiple cycles of the wait period is defined as invalid and valid data is driven on the bus after the wait period has expired. Bus driver modules are provided with a replay queue to replay, on the bus, data the driver module drove on the bus during the wait period if required.
摘要:
A method provides for verifying soft error handling in an integrated circuit (IC) design. A diagnostic program is executed on a virtual IC based on the IC design using a simulator. A soft error is injected into the virtual IC to trigger hardware error correction in the virtual IC and a software exception. A record of a type and a location of the soft error at the time of the injecting is created. The error log generated by hardware error correction is then compared with the record of injected error, the hardware error correction being part of the virtual IC. An IC design flaw is indicated when a discrepancy exists between the error log and the record of the injected error.
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The present invention provides a lipid-modified insulin comprising an insulin molecule linked to an alkyl group by an amine linkage. Preferably, the alkyl group is a straight chain carbon comprising from about 14 to 20 carbon atoms. Preferably, the alkyl group is linked to the B1 phenylalanine or the B29 lysine. The present invention also provides a liposome comprising such lipid-modified insulin. Preferably, the liposomes are small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) which have a particle size of less than 100 nm.The present invention also provides a method for making a lipid-modified insulin. The method comprises reacting the protein with a hydrophobic aldehyde in the presence a reducing agent to provide a lipid-modified insulin in which an amino acid of the insulin is linked to an alkyl group by an amine linkage.The present invention also relates to a method of killing hepatoma cells, particularly the hepatoma cells that are found in a hepatocellular carcinoma. The method comprises the steps of: providing liposomes containing a cytotoxic agent and having a lipid-modified insulin associated with the lipid bilayer thereof and exposing the hepatoma cells to the liposomes.
摘要:
The present invention provides an anti cancer treatment which has an improved stability and does not produce acrolein. The invention includes dichlorodiethyl phosphoramide drugs including, for example, the cyclohexylamine salt phosphoramide mustard and isophosphoramide mustard and mixtures thereof, which have been entrapped by liposomes. Preferably the liposomes contain sphingomyelin and cholesterol.
摘要:
Compounds and methods useful for the treatment of cancer in subjects in need of such treatment. The compounds are metabolites of the compound FK228 which have been identified as possessing HDAC inhibitory activity and anticancer properties. Further provided are compounds and methods for inducing apoptosis in cancer cells. Further provided are compounds and methods for inhibiting HDAC in cancer cells.
摘要:
A computer system has a multi-tiered bus system. The multi-tiered bus system includes one or more local buses and a central bus connected to each local bus by a bus interface. In order to maintain one global view of transaction ordering, the processors on each local bus record bus transactions in an order on which the bus transactions appear on the central bus. To do this, bus transactions which are initiated on any local bus are forwarded to the central bus by the corresponding bus interface. The processors connected to the local bus do not record bus transactions when they are initiated on the local bus. Every transaction which occurs on the central bus is echoed back to every local bus by the corresponding bus interface. Each processor records bus transactions at the time they are echoed back to the local bus.
摘要:
A system is disclosed for completing communication connections from end-users served by a connectionless (broadcast) type system in a manner which allows expansion of the calling area beyond the immediate physical limitations of the broadcast media. The system is based upon a device for mediating between the connectionless system and a connection oriented system. The device creates logical local area networks interconnectable by the connection oriented system. Calling user identification is used in conjunction with call completion data stored in a central memory for controlling all interconnections.
摘要:
In a digital computer system which employs a plurality of host processors, at least two system buses and a plurality of peripheral input/output ports, an input/output system is provided whereby ownership of the input/output channels is shared. The device controller employs a first port controller having a first ownership latch, a second port controller having a second ownership latch, a first bus, a dedicated microprocessor having control over the first bus (the MPU bus), a second, higher-speed bus, a multiple-channel direct memory access (DMA) controller which is a state machine which controls the second bus (the data buffer bus), a bus switch for exchanging data between buses, a multiple device peripheral device interface, namely a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), and at least provision for interface with data communication equipment (DCEs) or data terminal equipment (DTEs). The DMA controller arbitrates data bus usage and can allocate alternate bus clock cycles in response to requests to exchange data and is capable of supporting overlapping transfers. The microprocessor is allowed access to the data buffer bus only if the data buffer bus is not in use for data transfer. The latches associated with each port grant ownership to either port or both ports allowing data exchange between addressed peripheral devices and requesting ports.