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20080220657 | Connector keep-out apparatus and methods - Connector apparatus and methods providing for “keep-out” functionality against improperly sized plugs or inserts are disclosed. In one embodiment the invention discloses a connector assembly incorporating an integrated keep-out feature associated with the housing. In one variant, the connector assembly comprises a modular jack connector, and the keep-out feature(s) is/are formed substantially within one or more the sidewall(s) of the housing, thereby simplifying its assembly and reducing its cost, as well as conserving on connector interior space. In another embodiment, the keep-out feature comprises an element disposed substantially within a plane parallel to the front face of the connector. Methods for manufacturing and using connectors with integrated keep-out features are also disclosed. | 09-11-2008 |
20080233803 | Integrated connector apparatus and methods - An electrical connector mountable on a printed circuit board. In one embodiment, the electrical connector comprises an insulative housing comprising one or more electronic components, a plurality of electrical conductors in signal communication with the electronic components and adapted to interface with a plug and a plurality of terminals in signal communication with the one or more electronic components. In one aspect, the plurality of terminals are adapted to interface with one or more externally mounted electronic components on the printed circuit board thereby filtering signals passing between the electrical conductors and the printed circuit board, with the externally mounted electronic components mounted within the footprint of the electrical connector. Methods of manufacture for the aforementioned electrical connector and business methods are also disclosed. | 09-25-2008 |
20120196456 | INTEGRATED CONNECTOR APPARATUS AND METHODS - An electrical connector mountable on a printed circuit board. In one embodiment, the electrical connector comprises an insulative housing comprising one or more electronic components, a plurality of electrical conductors in signal communication with the electronic components and adapted to interface with a plug and a plurality of terminals in signal communication with the one or more electronic components. In one aspect, the plurality of terminals are adapted to interface with one or more externally mounted electronic components on the printed circuit board thereby filtering signals passing between the electrical conductors and the printed circuit board, with the externally mounted electronic components mounted within the footprint of the electrical connector. Methods of manufacture for the aforementioned electrical connector and business methods are also disclosed. | 08-02-2012 |
20140377996 | INTEGRATED CONNECTOR APPARATUS AND METHODS - An electrical connector mountable on a printed circuit board. In one embodiment, the electrical connector comprises an insulative housing comprising one or more electronic components, a plurality of electrical conductors in signal communication with the electronic components and adapted to interface with a plug and a plurality of terminals in signal communication with the one or more electronic components. In one aspect, the plurality of terminals are adapted to interface with one or more externally mounted electronic components on the printed circuit board thereby filtering signals passing between the electrical conductors and the printed circuit board, with the externally mounted electronic components mounted within the footprint of the electrical connector. Methods of manufacture for the aforementioned electrical connector and business methods are also disclosed. | 12-25-2014 |
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20140092106 | CLAMPING OF DYNAMIC CAPACITANCE FOR GRAPHICS - Methods and apparatus relating to clamping or reducing of dynamic capacitance for graphics logic are described. In one embodiment, utilization values for a plurality of subsystems of a graphics logic are determined and a first capacitance value is in turn determined based on (e.g., a sum of products of) the determined utilization values (e.g., and one or more capacitance weight values). A second capacitance value (e.g., corresponding to a maximum dynamic capacitance or Cdyn_max corresponding to the graphics logic) is modified based on (e.g., a comparison of the first capacitance value and a (e.g., threshold) capacitance value. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095906 | Rotational Graphics Sub-Slice and Execution Unit Power Down to Improve Power Performance Efficiency - Methods and apparatus relating to rotational graphics sub-slice and Execution Unit (EU) power down to improve power performance efficiency are described. In one embodiment, power-gating is rotated amongst single sub-slices within each slice of a plurality of slices based on an indication to reduce power consumption of a computational logic. The computational logic includes the plurality of slices and each of the plurality of slices includes a plurality of sub-slices to perform one or more computations. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 04-03-2014 |
20150091915 | CURRENT CHANGE MITIGATION POLICY FOR LIMITING VOLTAGE DROOP IN GRAPHICS LOGIC - Methods and apparatus relating to a current change mitigation policy for limiting voltage droop in graphics logic are described. In an embodiment, logic inserts one or more bubbles in one or more Execution Unit (EU) logic pipelines or one or more sampler logic pipelines of a processor. The bubbles at least temporarily reduce execution of operations in one or more subsystems of the processor based at least partially on a comparison of a first value and one or more clamping threshold values. The first value is determined based at least partially on a summation of products of one or more event counts and dynamic capacitance weights for one or more subsystems of the processor. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150178987 | DYNAMIC GRAPHICS GEOMETRY PREPROCESSING FREQUENCY SCALING AND PREDICTION OF PERFORMANCE GAIN - Technologies are presented that optimize graphics processing performance. A method of frequency scaling may include beginning a graphics workload with a starting geometry preprocessing frequency of a multiple of a streaming shader engine frequency where the multiple is non-zero; determining a primitive start pitch for a primitive of the graphics workload; comparing the determined primitive start pitch to a predetermined threshold and, if it exceeds the predetermined threshold: reducing the geometry preprocessing frequency, and, at the start of the next primitive, setting the geometry preprocessing frequency back to the starting geometry preprocessing frequency; and repeating the determining and comparing for each remaining primitive until an end of the graphics workload. Performance gain based on primitive start pitch information may also be determined. | 06-25-2015 |
20150179146 | GRAPHICS VOLTAGE REDUCTION FOR LOAD LINE OPTIMIZATION - Technologies are presented that optimize graphics power-performance efficiency. A method of graphics processing may include beginning a graphics workload with a first voltage and a first clamping threshold; monitoring amounts of time that bursts of dynamic capacitance remain above the first clamping threshold; and, if the dynamic capacitance remains above the first clamping threshold for more than a predetermined time threshold, setting the voltage to a second voltage and setting the clamping threshold to a second clamping threshold until the end of the frame. If, at the end of an initial frame, a number of clock cycles from a start of the frame to when the predetermined time threshold is exceeded is less than a predetermined minimum number of clock cycles, the second clamping threshold and the second voltage may be maintained for processing of a predetermined number of subsequent frames. | 06-25-2015 |
20150371610 | PROGRAMMABLE POWER PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION FOR GRAPHICS CORES - Methods and apparatus relating to programmable power performance optimization for graphics cores are described. In one embodiment, the first frame of a scene is analyzed. It is then determined whether to optimize one or more operations, to be performed on one or more frames of the scene, based on the second frame of the scene and an idle status of one or more subsystems of a processor. And, one or more optimization operations are performed on a third frame of the scene based on the determination of whether to optimize the one or more operations. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 12-24-2015 |
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20090060841 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINED USE OF VARIABLE FLIP ANGLES AND CENTRIC PHASE ENCODING IN HYPERPOLARIZED 13C IMAGING - A system and method for MR imaging includes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet, and an RF transceiver system and an RF switch controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF signals to an RF coil assembly to acquire MR images. The apparatus further includes a controller programmed to determine a variable flip angle (VFA) sequence to excite a hyperpolarized material in a subject and to determine a delay period during which application of the VFA sequence is delayed after injection of a hyperpolarized contrast agent. The delay period is based on dynamic data of the hyperpolarized material acquired from the subject. The controller is also programmed to cause application of the VFA sequence to excite the hyperpolarized material in the subject and to acquire MR data from the hyperpolarized material using an isotropic centric phase encoding (iCPE) technique. | 03-05-2009 |
20090189605 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TISSUE SPECIFIC MR IMAGING OF METABOLITES USING SPECTRAL-SPATIALLY FORMED STIMULATED ECHO - A system for magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy includes a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet and an RF coil assembly coupled to a pulse generator to emit RF pulse sequences and arranged to receive resulting MR signals from a subject of interest. A system control is also included in the MR spectroscopy system and is coupled to the plurality of gradient coils and the RF coil assembly. The system control is programmed to cause the RF coil assembly to emit a first RF pulse and a second RF pulse, wherein at least one of the first and second RF pulses is spectrally selective and at least one of the first and second RF pulses is spatially selective. The system control is also programmed to cause the RF coil assembly to emit a third RF pulse after a pre-defined time delay to generate a stimulated echo and detect MR signals resulting from the stimulated echo. | 07-30-2009 |
20100283465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TISSUE SPECIFIC MR IMAGING OF METABOLITES USING SPECTRAL-SPATIALLY FORMED STIMULATED ECHO - A system for magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy includes a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet and an RF coil assembly coupled to a pulse generator to emit RF pulse sequences and arranged to receive resulting MR signals from a subject of interest. A system control is also included in the MR spectroscopy system and is coupled to the plurality of gradient coils and the RF coil assembly. The system control is programmed to cause the RF coil assembly to emit a first RF pulse and a second RF pulse, wherein at least one of the first and second RF pulses is spectrally selective and at least one of the first and second RF pulses is spatially selective. The system control is also programmed to cause the RF coil assembly to emit a third RF pulse after a pre-defined time delay to generate a stimulated echo and detect MR signals resulting from the stimulated echo. | 11-11-2010 |
20140330110 | PROTON DECOUPLED HYPERPOLARIZED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - A system and method for improving available signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and speed of MR imaging of hyperpolarized substances is disclosed. The system and method include decoupling spin effects of hydrogen nuclei from non-hydrogen nuclei of interest during sampling of MR signals therefrom. Though the hydrogen nuclei of the hyperpolarized substance may not be directly bonded to the non-hydrogen nuclei of interest, resonance splitting may still impact SNR. Long range decoupling improves T2* time, and thus preserves signal strength and available SNR. | 11-06-2014 |