Abstract:
A control method and system when a flash memory is used as a semiconductor disk or a main memory in an information processing system. A semiconductor file system comprises a first nonvolatile memory electrically erasable, a second nonvolatile memory not electrically erasable, a volatile memory, a controller which controls the memories, and a control section which controls the controller wherein a physical address corresponding to a logical address specified from an external system is accessed. The first nonvolatile memory stores data for the external system to perform operations, first management information indicating the correspondence between physical addresses at which the data is stored and logical addresses, and second management information indicating a state of the first nonvolatile memory. The second nonvolatile memory previously stores interface information required for inputting and outputting the data from and to the external system and read-only data of the data. The controller has a control means for determining a physical sector address forming predetermined high-order bits of the physical address when data is output from the first nonvolatile memory or when data is input to the volatile memory, means for storing the determined physical sector address, and means for consecutively generating addresses in a sector determined by the physical sector address.
Abstract:
A control method and system when a flash memory is used as a semiconductor disk or a main memory in an information processing system. A semiconductor file system comprises a first nonvolatile memory electrically erasable, a second nonvolatile memory not electrically erasable, a volatile memory, a controller which controls the memories, and a control section which controls the controller wherein a physical address corresponding to a logical address specified from an external system is accessed. The first nonvolatile memory stores data for the external system to perform operations, first management information indicating the correspondence between physical addresses at which the data is stored and logical addresses, and second management information indicating a state of the first nonvolatile memory. The second nonvolatile memory previously stores interface information required for inputting and outputting the data from and to the external system and read-only data of the data. The controller comprises control means for determining a physical sector address forming predetermined high-order bits of the physical address when data is output from the first nonvolatile memory or when data is input to the volatile memory, means for storing the determined physical sector address, and means for consecutively generating addresses in a sector determined by the physical sector address.
Abstract:
A non-shared system with respect to an outside and an inside cache in a multi-processor system has multi-layer hierarchical cache. An invalidation address on a main memory address bus 31 in company with the rewriting of a main memory 30 is transmitted via a first and a second path 35, 36 to inside caches 11,21 so as to invalidate these inside caches 11, 21. The invalidation address is transmitted to the outside caches 12, 22 via the bidirectional connections between the main memory address bus 31 and outside caches 12, 22 so as to invalidate these outside caches 12, 22. It is extremely improbable for the address of access for writing to the transmitted to the main memory address bus 31 because the outside caches 12, 22 are operated in either copy back or write once system. As a result, even though the invalidation address is transmitted to the outside caches 12, 22 via the bidirectional connections between the main memory address bus 31 and the outside caches 12, 22, it is extremely improbably for the address of access for writing to conflict with a signal on the bidirectional connection.
Abstract:
In a cache memory setup, a buffer register is provided to accommodate the data read from a data memory. Between the buffer register and the data memory is connected a selector. This selector selectively transfers to the buffer register part of the data read from the data memory. The remaining part of the data is replaced with appropriate data for transfer to the buffer register. This arrangement provides the cache memory with a partial-write function.
Abstract:
A mechanism in an automatic tape cassette changer for engaging and moving tape cassettes from a tape cassette container to engage a tape cassette player/recorder. The mechanism comprising an engagement mechanism on a rail and a cam mechanism, where the engagement mechanism engages one of a plurality of tape cassettes in a tape cassette container and moves the tape cassette engaged along the rail to a second position where the cam mechanism causes the tape cassette engaged to move into a playing/recording position of a tape cassette player/recorder, the engagement mechanism then moves back along the rail to its initial position and remains there during the playing/recording of the tape cassette engaged with the tape cassette player/recorder. The mechanism provides for this series of steps to be performed in reverse when the tape cassette in the cassette tape player/recorder is to be moved back from the tape cassette player/recorder to the tape cassette container.
Abstract:
A tape container in an automatic tape cassette changer for holding a plurality of cassette tapes. The tape container having holes in its partition walls corresponding to locations adjacent to the hubs in each cassette tape, such that a hub locking mechanism is capable of passing through the holes to engage the hubs of the cassette tapes disposed in the tape container. The hub locking mechanism is a rod member having a protrusion engagable with a protrusion in the hub of the cassette tapes disposed in the tape container. The rod member has an end portion which is tapered.
Abstract:
A liquid-filled suspension device having an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder, and an elastic member connecting these cylinders to each other. A connecting member is arranged on the cylinder, a closed liquid chamber formed inside at least one of the inner and outer cylinders, a restricted passage formed in the middle portion of the closed liquid chamber, and a flexible membrane member arranged in the closed liquid chamber. An electroviscous liquid is filled in the closed liquid chamber, and two electrode plates arranged in the restricted passage. In this suspension device is used a control device having sensors arranged on these cylinders, and arithmetic decision logic operated by signals from these sensors, and a high-voltage generating circuit operated by signal from the arithmetic decision logic.
Abstract:
A first generator 1 produces a continuously increasing signal corresponding to the tone arm pick-up stylus position, and a second generator 2 produces a synchronizing signal comprising a pulse for each turntable rotation. The synchronizing pulses alternately trigger a pair of parallel sample and hold circuits 4a, 4b supplied with the position signal, whose differential output S is compared with a reference signal T. When the former exceeds the latter the tone arm is returned. Any cyclical variations in the position signal due to the eccentricity of the record spindle hole are self-cancelling during the differential comparison because their magnitudes are substantially the same when sampled during the same relative periods of the turntable rotation cycle. The high pitch of the lead-out groove at the end of the record play produces a large differential output signal, to thereby trigger the tone arm return.In a second embodiment a variable amplitude pulse generator is employed whose turntable revolution synchronized output pulses each have an amplitude corresponding to the instantaneous tone arm position. Such pulses thus serve the dual functions of providing synchronized gating signals and indicating the rotational position of the tone arm.
Abstract:
Provided is a substrate for a thin-film photoelectric conversion device which makes it possible to produce the device having improved characteristics at low cost and high productivity. The substrate includes a transparent base member, with a transparent underlying layer and a transparent electrode layer successively stacked on one main surface of the transparent base member. The underlying layer includes transparent insulating fine particles and transparent binder, and the particles are dispersed to cover the one main surface with a coverage factor of particles ranging from 30% or more to less than 80%. An antireflection layer is provided on the other main surface of the transparent base. The antireflection layer includes transparent insulating fine particles and transparent binder, and the particles are dispersed to cover the other main surface with a coverage factor greater than the underlying layer. The transparent electrode layer contains zinc oxide deposited by low-pressure CVD method.
Abstract:
The reliability of the semiconductor device which has the structure which stores a plurality of semiconductor chips with which plane sizes differ in the same sealing body in the state where they are accumulated via the insulating film which has adhesive property is improved.In the semiconductor device which has the structure which stores a plurality of semiconductor chips with which plane sizes differ in the same sealing body in the state where they are accumulated via DAF, thickness of DAF of the back surface of the uppermost semiconductor chip with which the control circuit was formed was made thicker than each of DAF of the back surface of the lower layer semiconductor chip with which the memory circuit was formed. Hereby, the defect that the bonding wire which connects the uppermost semiconductor chip and a wiring substrate contacts the main surface corner part of a lower layer semiconductor chip can be reduced.