910 results about "Hardware modules" patented technology

A reconfigurable test system including a host computer coupled to a reconfigurable test instrument. The reconfigurable test instrument includes reconfigurable hardware-i.e. a reconfigurable hardware module with one or more programmable elements such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays for realizing an arbitrary hardware architecture and a reconfigurable front end with programmable transceivers for interfacing with any desired physical medium-and optionally, an embedded processor. A user specifies system features with a software configuration utility which directs a component selector to select a set of software modules and hardware configuration files from a series of libraries. The modules are embedded in a host software driver or downloaded for execution on the embedded CPU. The configuration files are downloaded to the reconfigurable hardware. The entire selection process is performed in real-time and can be changed whenever the user deems necessary. Alternatively, the user may create a graphical program in a graphical programming environment and compile the program into various software modules and configuration files for host execution, embedded processor execution, or programming the reconfigurable hardware.

A local area network includes one or more wireless access points for receiving and sending voice and data messages from and to a mobile wireless communications device and a router to manage the delivery of messages to either a DHCP server, a VPN server, or the wireless access points. The DHCP server provides configuration parameters specific to a client requesting DHCP information. The VPN server operates, in conjunction with wireless communications devices to perform key exchange, mode configuration, client authentication, and to maintain the security of a VPN session. The wireless communications device includes a hybrid VPN client that operates, in conjunction with the LAN, to initiate the establishment of a VPN tunnel between the wireless communications device and the VPN server. The hybrid VPN client includes both software and hardware modules that operate together to limit communications latency during the establishment and maintenance of a VPN session.

A method and apparatus for capture and distribution of audio and video media including digitalization, encryption and media management from live and archived audio and video sources. The method and apparatus utilizes a unified software application to employ digitalization, distribution, digital rights management, and encryption in real time based on digitalization, encryption and distribution rules. Use of a unified software application unifies numerous complex steps and insure proper interface between otherwise potentially incompatible software and hardware modules which are distributed at various remote locations. Capture and distribution of secure and validly purchased media may then be distributed to appropriate destinations for immediate use or storage subject to the rights granted by the digital rights management rules.

The invention discloses an accurate public traffic positioning method based on standard line matching, which pertains to the filed of dynamic public traffic information collection and is applied to dynamic information release and dynamic scheduling. The traditional method adopts the method of difference, inertial navigation or adding road test equipment to improve the positioning precision, and the equipment cost is increased due to the adding of additional hardware modules. According to the deviation or loss rule of the urban public traffic vehicle-bone GPS collected data, by being combined with the public traffic operation characters and on the basis of not increasing the equipment cost, the invention effectively improves the accuracy of the GPS positioning by being matched with the GIS public traffic line map data with the shape points of high density. The method firstly generates the GIS public traffic line map data with the shape points of high density and accurate stop positions so that the map data is taken as a reference to be used as the foundation for correcting the deviation and filling up the lost data, and matches the real-time collected data with the map data to obtain the precise position information, thus meeting the requirement of public traffic positioning. The method can also be applied to the problem of correcting other positioning information with fixed lines.

The present invention provides an infusion pump control system comprises a plurality of computing components positioned on discrete hardware modules to complete an infusion task. Those discrete processors, which are internally redundant and communicate through a common medium that provides for redundancy of the communication ability to react to internal failures in a known manner, implement capabilities specific to infusion pump functions, to complete an infusion task. Also, this invention provides automatically switchable redundant power supplies and a new mechanism for firmware provisioning using multi-dropped JTAG for a plurality of computing components.

A computing apparatus comprises a plurality of hardware modules (102,104,106) and a shared communication infrastructure (110) by which the modules can communicate with each other in the usual way. In order to increase the level of trust and security in the apparatus, a trusted hardware module (120) is also provided and is connected to the other modules by respective communication paths (122a;122b;122c), distinct from the communication infrastructure, by which each of those modules can communicate directly with the trusted module but cannot communicate directly with any other of the modules. The trusted module can therefore have secure communications, for example of “unsafe” data, with each of the other modules without any of the remaining modules eavesdropping, and the trusted module can route unsafe data between any pair of the other modules, or decline to provide such routing, for example in dependence on policy stored in the trusted module.

A method for clearing and delivering digital rights management (DRM) licenses to websites and IP connected devices is disclosed. The method utilizes one or more Web services to receive one or more license requests from devices connected by IP Networks and generates, clears and delivers licenses containing license keys and rights or rules that govern the use of one or more digital media file or live broadcast. Use of a Web service unifies numerous complex steps and insures proper interface between otherwise potentially incompatible software and hardware modules which may be distributed at various remote locations. License clearing and delivery may then be performed seamlessly and transparently to a virtually unlimited number of devices connected by IP Networks.

The system and method of the invention automatically provide appropriate configuration and control software to a hardware system consisting of multiple target hardware modules. A system controller is connected to the target hardware modules and to a repository that stores a set of software modules. Each software module includes configuration and control information for a particular target hardware module. When a particular software control and configuration scheme for at least a portion of the target hardware modules is to be implemented in the hardware system, software modules corresponding to the particular software control and configuration scheme are selected and associated with a system definition file that is also stored in the repository. When the system definition file is invoked by the system controller, the system controller executes the associated software modules thereby providing the particular software control and configuration scheme to appropriate target hardware modules. When the particular software control and configuration scheme needs to be updated, one or more software modules of the system definition file may be replaced with an updated version without reconfiguring the hardware system.

A method and system for generating ciphertext and message authentication codes utilizing shared hardware are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided of generating ciphertext message data and message authentication codes utilizing shared authenticated encryption unit hardware. In the described embodiment, plaintext message data is received at an authenticated encryption unit which comprises first and second authenticated encryption hardware modules. Thereafter, a first message authentication code (MAC) associated with a first authenticated encryption mode and a second MAC associated with a second authenticated encryption mode are generated. More specifically, the first MAC is generated utilizing the plaintext message data and first authenticated encryption hardware module and ciphertext message data and the second MAC are generated utilizing the plaintext message data and second authenticated encryption hardware module.

Provided are an apparatus and method of transmitting working context, which can minimize power consumption in a power-off standby mode of a portable apparatus including a system on a chip, where the method includes selecting a power-off standby mode, transmitting working context with respect to a hardware module, which is mounted on a semiconductor chip, to a predetermined memory, and storing the working context in the predetermined memory, transmitting the working context stored in the memory to a non-volatile memory outside the semiconductor chip, and storing the working context in the non-volatile memory, and executing the power-off standby mode; where the method may further include releasing the power-off standby mode, restoring the working context with respect to the hardware module, which is stored in the non-volatile memory, to the predetermined memory, and recovering the at least one hardware module to a state existing immediately before the power-off standby mode was executed by using the working context restored to the memory from the non-volatile memory.

Systems and methods which provide a modular processor framework and instruction set architecture designed to efficiently execute applications whose memory access patterns are irregular or non-unit stride as disclosed. A hybrid multithreading framework (HMTF) of embodiments provides a framework for constructing tightly coupled, chip-multithreading (CMT) processors that contain specific features well-suited to hiding latency to main memory and executing highly concurrent applications. The HMTF of embodiments includes an instruction set designed specifically to exploit the high degree of parallelism and concurrency control mechanisms present in the HMTF hardware modules. The instruction format implemented by a HMTF of embodiments is designed to give the architecture, the runtime libraries, and / or the application ultimate control over how and when concurrency between thread cache units is initiated. For example, one or more bit of the instruction payload may be designated as a context switch bit (CTX) for expressly controlling context switching.

An efficient and low-cost method for testing multiple DUTs in a parallel test system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for scheduling tests in a parallel test system having at least two devices-under-test (DUTs) coupled to a test controller through one or more vendor hardware modules includes receiving a test plan comprising a plurality of tests arranged in a predetermined test flow, where the predetermined test flow comprises a plurality of tests arranged in a directed graph and each test is arranged as a vertex in the directed graph, determining a test execution schedule in accordance with the test plan at runtime, where the test execution schedule identifies a set of next tests to be executed according to current states of the at least two DUTs and where the set of next tests include different tests to be performed on different DUTs, and testing the at least two DUTs using the test execution schedule.

A processing device, configured to implement at least a portion of a scheduled medium-access protocol (SMAP) in a communication system, comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and one or more additional hardware modules. The functionality of the portion of the SMAP implemented in the processing device is partitioned between software, stored in the memory and executable by the processor, and hardware comprising the one or more additional hardware modules. In an illustrative embodiment, the processing device comprises a head-end device of a passive optical network, and the functionality comprises at least a scheduler and a grant generator, with the scheduler being implemented in the software and the grant generator being implemented in the hardware.

The invention discloses a firmware automatic configuration system of baseboard managing controller. It packages the hardware module, interface module, command module, SDR module and OEM module according to species. Then, a configuration file would be created and separated catalog of every module would be gained. A Makefile would be created after initializing. Reading content of the configuration file, when user chooses an option in a module, checking the configuration file and dynamic display the option of the relate module on the interface and register the relative option on the Makefile. Finally, BMC firmware data would be created and automatically finish the configuration of BMC firmware according to the invention.

The invention discloses a universal simulator for aircraft engines. The universal simulator comprises an upper industrial personal computer, a simulation measurement and control computer, a display control desk, a combination instrument case with a plurality of instrument hardware modules, an instrument extension case, a signal adaptation unit, a direct-current voltage-stabilized source and a special testing cable. The universal simulator has the advantages that mathematical models of the engines are operated by an embedded high-performance real-time operating system of the simulation measurement and control computer, so that the real-time performance and the effectiveness of simulation experiments can be guaranteed; hardware architectures for forming testing systems are standard PXI [PCI (peripheral component interconnect) extensions for instrumentation] bus open architectures, accordingly, the hardware modules of various mature PXI bus interfaces can be extended and configured according to particular testing application, and the universal simulator is high in automation degree, extensibility and compatibility and good in maintainability; the signal adaptation unit is configured with standard and universal electric connectors by means of integration, and only corresponding matched testing connecting cables need to be replaced, so that electric connection of the testing systems can be quickly reconstructed by the simulator for the engines, and requirements of platforms on the universality can be met.

The invention discloses an intelligent building sales reception system, which comprises a face identification hardware module, a background management module and an APP (Application) front-end module, wherein the face identification hardware module carries out shooting and face identification on the image of a visiting house-inspecting person and uploads face information to the background management module; the background management module compares the information with data in an original database, divides the visiting house-inspecting person into a first-time user, a multi-time user and a transaction user, and transmits the relevant information of the user and an execution scheme to the APP front-end module; and the APP front-end module is used for checking and inputting the information of the house-inspecting person. The intelligent building sales reception system has the characteristics of reliability, timeliness, safety and correlation and can cause a salesman to carry out targeted reception on the client.

A modular interface allows new functionalities to be added to a television receiver. A module can be added to the television receiver through the interface that will enable additional functionalities on the television. The interface allows copy protection of digital video and audio content by incorporating HDCP technology, thereby also allowing the manufacturer of the interface to control the access to the interface.

The invention discloses a network interactive voice toy component which can automatically update and download audio programs from internet and play interactive voice programs and a method for realizing the same. Through running a special audio file controlled by a command line, the invention can control the playing of the audio programs, receive input information of users, control subsequent playing, driving software hardware functions and driving net access according to the input information of the users and output processed data. The invention realizes the functions such as: interactive question and answer, interactive story, multi-line story, interactive phonetic game, interactive teaching. The users can control endings of stories, participate in games, answer questions through the toy, thus human-computer interaction can be really realized. Because the system is an integrated and independent hardware module, the system can be easy to implant into all kinds of plush, plastic toys, the interactivity among the toys and the users can be significantly expanded, and education through entertainment can be really realized.

The invention belongs to the communication field and provides a mobile terminal power saving method and system and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps that the dump energy of the mobile terminal is detected in real time; the level of the dump energy is judged according to a preset electric quantity level threshold; when the level of the dump energy is lower than the preset level, a hardware module list and a third-party application list in the mobile terminal are obtained, and the working state of hardware modules and the running state of third-party applications are controlled according to the level of the dump energy and preset power saving rules. The method enables the mobile terminal to close some hardware modules and some third-party applications so as to save electric energy of the mobile terminal when the electric quantity level is low, and then the service time of the mobile terminal is prolonged.

The invention relates to a compact peripheral components interconnect (CPCI)-bus-based 1553B protocol data communication and serial loading module, which comprises a hardware module and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) program. The hardware module comprises an impedance control circuit board, a signal connection socket, a standard CPCI bus connector and a standard 3UEurocard board card front panel, wherein the impedance control circuit board is the core of the module, and is divided into an FPGA unit, a CPCI bus unit, an isolating transformer unit, a logic level translation unit, a 1553B bus protocol chip unit, a serial loading unit and an auxiliary circuit unit. The FPGA program comprises a 1553B bus communication bus controller (BC) module, a remote terminal (RT) module, a monitor terminal (MT) module, and a serial loading module, and is developed by Verilog hardware description language (HDL) programming. The module has stable performance and high reliability, can perform 1553B communication for long and can be randomly set as a BC, an RT or an MT in the 1553B communication; an RT address of external equipment suspended under a 1553B bus together with the module can be serially loaded and flexibly set; the data transmission of a CPCI bus has a direct memory access (DMA) function, the actual transmission rate of the bus is 1MB / s and continuous transmission can be realized without frame loss.

The invention relates to a tax bill / invoice auto drawing technique, especially providing a system of paying tax money at any moment and self- drawing tax bill / invoice and the application method thereof for temporary operation taxpayers, private business, and value added tax payers. And the system comprises software module and hardware module, where the software module mainly comprises data processing module, display module, print control module, and data management module and the hardware module mainly comprises network connection module, computing resources module, and data storage and backup recovery module, tax bill / invoice running module and printing module. And the invention can arrange terminals in the public places, such as market-dense regions, banks, and tax halls to make taxpayers pay taxes and draw tax bills and invoices by themselves by the system, providing convenience for tax collectors and payers and beneficial to raise efficiency and improve quality of service and able to effectively prevent cases of invoice illegality.

The invention discloses an intelligent network terminal for collecting and encrypting classroom teaching multimedia information in real time and a working method of the intelligent network terminal for collecting and encrypting the classroom teaching multimedia information in real time. The intelligent network terminal comprises a hardware module and a software module, the hardware module of the intelligent network terminal is installed on a single desk, teacher and student mutual information such as image-texts, videos and audios in the classroom teaching process is collected, the collected information is optimized and encrypted through a self-control expansion card, and the information is transmitted to an upper control computer through the WIFI; according to the intelligent network terminal, a command of the upper control computer is received through the WIFI, and image-text, picture, video and audio communication between groups of the terminal is achieved in a classroom; by means of the intelligent network terminal, the classroom teaching quality is improved, real-time data collecting is provided for classroom teaching surveying, basic data are provided for teaching evaluation, the whole device faces classroom teaching, the multiple protective technology is adopted, it is guaranteed that the intelligent network terminal stably operates all the day for a long time, classroom teaching data are accurately collected in real time, and safety transmission and storage are achieved.

Methods of providing and limiting access to trusted memory are provided. Trusted memory pages are not mapped with page map pages. When a central processor is operated in a page-mapping mode, access to the trusted memory is limited. In particular, without mapping information, software and hardware modules cannot access and modify the contents of trusted memory sections.

The invention discloses a full-automatic intelligent sheet selection machine for neodymium-iron-boron magnetic workpieces based on machine vision. The full-automatic intelligent sheet selection machine comprises a rack, wherein an upper computer, a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller), a communication conversion card and a main load-bearing steel plate are fixedly mounted on the rack; a loading transmission belt, a servo motor, a glass turntable, an approach switch, three solenoid valves, three pneumatic nozzles, three discharging cylinders, four image collection cameras, a coaxial light source and a backlight source are mounted on the main load-bearing steel plate; the servo motor is used for driving the glass turntable to rotate at a constant speed, thereby driving the workpieces to carry out uniform circular motion and sequentially pass through the approach switch, the pneumatic nozzles and the image collection cameras; the parts respectively carry out corresponding actions under the control of the PLC. The full-automatic intelligent sheet selection machine for neodymium-iron-boron magnetic workpieces is capable of effectively integrating hardware modules from the aspects of hardware structures based on the principle of machine vision, thus solving the problems of low detection accuracy, slow speed and high costs for detecting the neodymium-iron-boron magnetic workpieces.

A modular computer component system has at least one linking module. A plurality of interchangeable hardware modules is provided. Each hardware module houses one computer component. Each hardware module is coupled to the linking module to allow data communication between the hardware module and the linking module thereby forming a complete computer system. The plurality of interchangeable hardware modules includes at least a processor module, a memory module, a hard drive module.

A modular computer component system has at least one linking module. A plurality of interchangeable hardware modules is provided. Each hardware module houses one computer component. Each hardware module is coupled to the linking module to allow data communication between the hardware module and the linking module thereby forming a complete computer system. The plurality of interchangeable hardware modules includes at least a processor module, a memory module, a hard drive module.

The invention provides a method for connecting a WI-FI network by an intelligent hardware terminal based on sound waves. The method comprises the following steps: intelligent equipment obtains an SSID (Service Set Identifier) and a password to be accessed into the WI-FI network of the intelligent hardware terminal, and converts the obtained SSID and password into a byte stream; the byte stream is converted into a sound wave signal according to an encoding rule and is transmitted by a loudspeaker; the intelligent hardware terminal receives the sound wave signal and converts the sound wave signal into a byte stream according to the encoding rule; then, the SSID and password to be accessed into the WI-FI network are analyzed, and obtained SSID and password information is connected with the WI-FI network. The method and the system can be effectively realized without additionally arranging other hardware modules on the intelligent hardware terminal, so that the method and the system have strong adaptability and are portable and easy to use.

Method and system for associating software components with vendor hardware module versions in an open architecture test system are disclosed. The method includes receiving a set of hardware versions of a vendor hardware module, receiving a set of software components supported by the vendor hardware module, processing the set of hardware versions, where the set of hardware versions is represented as an equivalence class of hardware version numbers using a mask value, obtaining user choices of hardware versions of the vendor hardware module, validating the user choices of hardware versions of the vendor hardware module, and creating a system profile in accordance with the user choices of hardware versions.

A seamless indoor and outdoor positioning switching method comprises the steps as follows: I, a perception layer L1 is used for detecting scene changes and changes in needs of users, and reporting to a switching module; 2, an algorithm layer L2 reports the current algorithm to the switching module; 3, the algorithm layer L2 gives a notice to a hardware layer L3 to open a hardware module; 4, a data layer L4 feeds new measured positioning data back to the L2 to judge whether a candidate positioning algorithm can be used or not, if yes, the candidate positioning algorithm is reported to the switching module, and if the algorithm after switching cannot be used for positioning yet, another predetermined candidate positioning algorithm is selected again until the algorithm after switching can be used; 5, when the switching module continuously receives the instruction that the current algorithm cannot be used and receives the instruction that the candidate positioning algorithm can be used during a window time period, the L2 is notified to perform algorithm switching, and meanwhile, the MEMS positioning technology is closed, and the candidate positioning algorithm is used for positioning; 6, after switching of the L2 is completed, the L3 is notified to close unnecessary hardware modules. According to the invention, the terminal electric quantity can be saved, and maintenance and standardization are facilitated.

A computer system includes a plurality of systems configured to be connected to each other by links and to operate synchronously each other. Each of said plurality of systems includes a fault tolerant controller, a CPU, a baseboard management controller and a plurality of hardware modules. The CPU is connected with the fault tolerant controller. The baseboard management controller is connected with the fault tolerant controller. The plurality of hardware modules is connected with the fault tolerant controller. When receiving a trouble which occurs in any of the plurality of systems, the fault tolerant controller outputs an interrupt regarding the trouble to at least one of the CPU and the baseboard management controller predetermined correspondingly to the trouble.