Part procurement system and part procurement method

    公开(公告)号:US11443081B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-13

    申请号:US16491007

    申请日:2018-09-18

    摘要: In a part procurement system including a control device performing procurement of a part required by a customer, to the control device, customer's requirements information about the procured part inputted via a data input device, and at least BOM information that is part table information, CAD information that is computer-aided design information and part compatibility information, which are stored in a file server, are inputted; and the control device extracts candidate parts including candidates for the part required by the customer and alternatives for the part, based on the BOM information, the CAD information and the part compatibility information that have been inputted, and outputs a signal for displaying the extracted candidate parts on a display device.

    Passively cooling hardware components

    公开(公告)号:US11341307B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US17077361

    申请日:2020-10-22

    发明人: Michael Mattioli

    摘要: A system and a method are disclosed for placing hardware components on a printed circuit board (“PCB”) in a way that enables all hardware components on the PCB to be passively cooled without using active cooling systems. Components are selected to be placed onto the PCB and heat metrics for each component is obtained (e.g., from a server). The components are ranked based on the amount of heat that each component generates. A corresponding position for each of the hardware components is determined based on the ranking of the components and the orientation of the PCB. The placement is based on the concept that air having higher temperature rises while air having cooler temperature falls. A representation of the PCB according to corresponding positions of the hardware components may be generated for display.

    RECONFIGURATION OF HARDWARE COMPONENTS OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

    公开(公告)号:US20220138391A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US17575289

    申请日:2022-01-13

    IPC分类号: G06F30/347 G06F111/20

    摘要: In some embodiments, a client device may obtain an external signal. The hardware components of an integrated circuit of the client device may be reconfigured from a first configuration to a second configuration based on information in the external signal such that one or more portions of the integrated circuit that was previously inaccessible is now accessible and an application may access the one or more portions of the integrated circuit. Further, in response to a trigger, the components of the integrated circuit may reconfigure from the second configuration to the first configuration such that the one or more portions of the integrated circuit is inaccessible.

    Partitioning in post-layout circuit simulation

    公开(公告)号:US11308253B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-19

    申请号:US16046957

    申请日:2018-07-26

    申请人: Synopsys, Inc.

    发明人: Ningjia Zhu

    摘要: The independent claims of this patent signify a concise description of embodiments. New techniques for the partitioning of big element blocks in a circuit are disclosed. The techniques partition both pre-layout and post-layout circuits. If a post-layout circuit has different simulation results from a pre-layout circuit, the techniques determine where and how “cross-talk” of the RC networks due to RC extraction is changing the circuit physics behavior from the original design of the circuit. A flow of the local circuit simulation of the pre-layout netlist and the post-layout netlist of the same design is presented. A flow of reference or relative or differential circuit simulation of a known design and a new design of the same kind is described. This Abstract is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.

    Tool and method for using the same
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11301596B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-12

    申请号:US16143998

    申请日:2018-09-27

    申请人: AlphaMorph, LLC

    摘要: An engineering design tool and methods for using the same are disclosed. A method may include receiving at least one parent design and generating a plurality of first-generation design copies that each include a characteristic that has mutated from the parent design. New generations of design copies are successively produced from the additional design copies based on fitness testing the new generations of design copies. Characteristics from intergenerational design copies that are not within the same generation are utilized to perform intergenerational crossover, and a likelihood of a mutation of a design copy is increased in response to a threshold number of generations without an improvement in a fitness score of a design copy. New generations continue to be successively produced until a likelihood that any design copy with a higher fitness score will be produced is below a statistical threshold.

    Hanger placement for computer-aided design

    公开(公告)号:US11295043B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-05

    申请号:US16430870

    申请日:2019-06-04

    摘要: Examples herein describe systems and methods for hanger placement for computer-aided design (“CAD”). A plugin can provide a hanger placement option on a graphical user interface (“GUI”) of the CAD program. When the option is selected, the plugin can choose hanger locations on a run of ductwork or piping based on hanger parameters and collision detection. This can include testing hanger locations by building an array between the selected item and the ceiling of a plan in the GUI, and testing for collisions with other objects at each point in the array. If a collision is detected, a new hanger location is tested. The new hanger location can be selected based on the hanger parameters, such as by incrementing the interval between hangers while staying within a maximum interval.