摘要:
A communications link of multiple parallel communications lines includes at least one redundant line. In a first aspect, the lines are periodically recalibrated one at a time while the others carry functional data. If a fault is detected, the faulty line is disabled and the remaining previously calibrated lines transmit functional data. In a second aspect, impending line malfunction is detected from anomalies during calibration. In a third aspect, line malfunction is detected from receiver circuit output by determining a logical lane upon which each detected error occurs, and by mapping the logical lane to a physical line currently carrying the logical lane data.
摘要:
A system and method for closed loop clock correction includes adjusting two or more input signals comprising at least one in-phase clock and one quadrature clock, and applying adjusted quadrature clock signals to a device capable of generating a 4-quadrant interpolated output clock phase. An interpolated output clock phase is delayed to form a clock for a measurement device. Two or more adjusted input signals are measured on a measurement device over a range of interpolated output clock phases. Errors are determined on the in-phase clock and the quadrature clock using sampled information from the measurement device. The in-phase clock and the quadrature clock are adapted using determined error information.
摘要:
A method for on-chip detection of data lock and measurement of data lock time in a high-speed serial data link, including: permitting one or more incoming data streams into the high-speed data link; establishing a pattern to be searched in the one or more incoming data streams; comparing patterns in the one or more incoming data streams to a programmable data pattern; holding a repetitive pattern of bits in the one or more incoming data streams by one or more programmable data pattern registers, wherein when one or more occurrences of a byte are detected, an appropriate bit in the one or more programmable data pattern registers is set to indicate the byte's relative position; and filtering false indications in the repetitive pattern by using a byte detection state machine, the state machine controlling and keeping track of a search progress.
摘要:
Systems for processing dope for the manufacture of microporous phase inversion membrane having any one of a plurality of different pore sizes from a single master dope batch is disclosed. The systems and methods include formulating a single master batch of dope preferably maximizing the non-solvent to solvent ratio for a given weight percentage of polymer for use in a microporous phase inversion membrane casting operation to produce phase inversion membranes having one of a plurality of different predetermined pore sizes. The master dope batch is controllably formulated in a vessel such that the temperature of the dope does not exceed a predetermined maximum mixing temperature and is maintained at a relatively low temperature (lower than the mixing temperature) suitable for storage. A small portion of the dope is then sequentially heated to a temperature no higher than any one of a plurality of target temperatures, the target temperature corresponding to a specific desired pore size to be formed in the microporous phase inversion membrane that results from casting the dope. As portions of the dope are incrementally transferred from the vessel to the dope casting apparatus, the dope portions are heated to a temperature no higher than within about .+-.0.15.degree. C. of the target temperature. The dope is then cooled to about room temperature or the temperature which results in a suitable and/or optimal casting viscosity and transferred to the dope casting apparatus to be forming microporous phase inversion membrane having any one of a plurality of different possible pore sizes.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for preventing spotting of the undersurface of the evaporation caps of an incubator in a clinical analyzer. It has been discovered that the surprising cause of the problem was electrostatic attraction building up on the caps, due to the use of plastic parts. The solution to that problem is the provision, in a plastic cover plate mounting the incubator housing on its drive spindle, with carbon fibers rather than glass fibers, in an amount sufficient to provide a volume resistivity throughout the plastic of between about 10.sup.5 and about 10.sup.9 ohm-cm, and grounding the housing through the spindle on which it is mounted.
摘要:
This invention concerns a support device for raising an animal from a collapsed position to an upright position. The support structure is a fluid inflatable bag which may be inflated by air or water. The bag has four apertures to receive the legs of collapsed animals thereby enabling the animal to be supported with its legs clear of the ground. In the preferred form the bag comprises three compartments which are separately inflatable. The compartments may be further provided with a plurality of additional compartments underneath or to each side. The bag may be made from a strong canvas outer skin with an interior lining of a suitable plastics material. There is no frame or other form of support member for the bag, it being entirely self-supporting and self-raising by virtue of the fluid pressure of air or water.
摘要:
A serial data receiver includes an amplitude path including a first signal conditioner that adds a first offset or subtracts a second offset based on a selection input, a preamp configured to receive a signal from a transmitter and provide an input signal to the amplitude path, an amplitude latch coupled to the amplitude path, a data latch having a data output and a decision feedback equalization (DFE) logic block coupled to the first conditioning element and the data output and configured to generate the selection output based on the data output of the data latch.
摘要:
A system and method for closed loop clock correction includes adjusting two or more input signals comprising at least one in-phase clock and one quadrature clock, and applying adjusted quadrature clock signals to a device capable of generating a 4-quadrant interpolated output clock phase. An interpolated output clock phase is delayed to form a clock for a measurement device. Two or more adjusted input signals are measured on a measurement device over a range of interpolated output clock phases. Errors are determined on the in-phase clock and the quadrature clock using sampled information from the measurement device. The in-phase clock and the quadrature clock are adapted using determined error information.
摘要:
The present invention provides a robust global timing resynchronization architecture, a multi-link communications system including the same, and a method for minimizing the effects of resynchronization signal skew, reference clock skew, and PLL static phase error variations on resynchronization of multi-link communications systems.
摘要:
A method for on-chip detection of data lock and measurement of data lock time in a high-speed serial data link, including: permitting one or more incoming data streams into the high-speed data link; establishing a pattern to be searched in the one or more incoming data streams; comparing patterns in the one or more incoming data streams to a programmable data pattern; holding a repetitive pattern of bits in the one or more incoming data streams by one or more programmable data pattern registers, wherein when one or more occurrences of a byte are detected, an appropriate bit in the one or more programmable data pattern registers is set to indicate the byte's relative position; and filtering false indications in the repetitive pattern by using a byte detection state machine, the state machine controlling and keeping track of a search progress.