Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 01/06

20060020430 - Path analysis system with client and server-side applications: Aspects of the present invention relate to a client-based application and server-based application for providing optimized corridors and alignments, routes, and or paths subject to a plurality of constraints. In embodiments, methods and systems are provided for identifying alternative paths and determining optimized paths for projects. The methods and systems...

20060020431 - Path determination system for transport system: Aspects of the present invention relate to path determination for transport system infrastructure paths. In embodiments, methods and systems are provided for identifying alternative paths and determining optimized transport system paths for projects. The methods and systems may involve providing a client-based application having a GUI that presents a plurality...

20060020432 - Selection of component: A method of selecting a component of optimal design comprising automated steps of a) measuring the periphery of at least part of said component; b) producing a 2D co-ordinate dataset (20) from said measurements; c) processing the 2D co-ordinate dataset (20) so as to produce a representation of characteristics of...

20060020434 - Method of calculating predictive shape of wire structure, calculation apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium: A calculating apparatus includes a finite element model creating unit that creates a finite element model of the wire structure, a setting unit that sets physical properties, restriction conditions and loads of the wire structure to the finite element model, a predictive shape calculating unit that calculates a predictive shape...

20060020433 - Synchronization code methods: A system, method and computer software product are provided. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for generating and employing numerical sequences that may be used for synchronization codes. In one embodiment of the present invention, the derivation of numerical sequences, or codes is based on an encoding...

20060020435 - Method of predicting noise of air conditioner, and method of manufacturing air conditioner using the same: A method of predicting a noise of an air conditioner, including modeling an operating condition, e.g., a shape of a heat exchanger or of a fan, a rotational speed of the fan, etc., obtaining information of a velocity of air by analyzing an air flow according to the modeled operating...

20060020436 - Centrifugal clutch balanced design: A methodology and system for balancing a centrifugal clutch can be implemented that includes a 3-dimensional model of a centrifugal clutch assembly in an engaged position thereof. A mass center of the centrifugal clutch assembly can be calculated, and a distance from the axis of rotation of the centrifugal clutch...

20060020437 - Computer system and method for calculating an index to evaluate the quality of an automobile interior trim part: An improved system for designing vehicle interior trim parts or modules includes means for storing a specified package space profile and a CAD program for designing a module to be accommodated in the package space profile. The volume of the package space and the volume of the module are calculated....

20060020438 - Method and system for simulating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation: The invention is a method for simulating one or more characteristics of a multi-component, hydrocarbon-bearing formation into which a displacement fluid having at least one component is injected to displace formation hydrocarbons. The first step of the method is to equate at least part of the formation to a multiplicity...

20060020440 - Molecular flux rates through critical pathways measured by stable isotope labeling in vivo, as biomarkers of drug action and disease activity: The methods described herein enable the evaluation of compounds on subjects to assess their therapeutic efficacy or toxic effects. The target of analysis is the underlying biochemical process or processes (i.e., metabolic process) thought to be involved in disease pathogenesis. Molecular flux rates within the one or more biochemical processes...

20060020439 - System and method for discovering gene regulatory models and genetic networks using relational fuzzy models: A system, method and program product for discovering gene regulatory models using relational fuzzy models. A system is providing that includes a data selection system that clusters gene expression data into a set of clusters and identifies a representative subset of genes from the set of clusters; and a relational...

20060020441 - Method and system for creating timing constraint library: A cell has input pins and output pins, and the input pins are connected to output pins through timing arcs. A method of creating a timing constraint library of the cell includes: selecting one of the timing arcs as a representative timing arc; calculating the timing constraint with respect to...

20060020442 - Built-in self-test emulator: Systems, methods, and a computer program are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a compiler for developing verification tests of an integrated circuit. The compiler comprises an interface and a built-in self-test (BIST) emulator. The interface includes an input and an output. The interface receives and forwards operator-level instructions to the BIST...

20060020443 - Pulse waveform timing in einstlt templates: The present invention provides for simulating signal transitions. Circuit characteristics are generated. Circuit characteristics are loaded into memory. Circuit behaviour is simulated. A non-leading edge circuit transition is captured. This occurs in software....

20060015305 - Control of items in a complex system by using fluid models and solving continuous linear programs: A method and apparatus for the control of a system comprising of a plurality of items through the scheduling of actions and the allocation of resources is disclosed. Primary areas of utility include manufacturing systems, city wide vehicle traffic control, multiple project scheduling, communications networks and economic systems. The method...

20060015308 - Facial image processing: In the described embodiment, methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that illuminates a face with illumination that is sufficient to enable the simultaneous capture of both structure data, e.g. a range or depth map, and...

20060015307 - Method for determining a linear relationship from measured data that can be stored electronically: The invention relates to a method for determining a linear relationship in a set of measured data that can be stored electronically, it being possible for the linear relationship to be represented graphically by means of a straight line and the measured data in each case comprising a measured value...

20060015300 - Method for generating a geometric offset form of an object: A method for generating a digital geometric offset shape of an object based on a shape of the object according to an offset transformation including generating a digital geometric shape for describing the shape of the object, wherein the digital geometric shape comprises a plurality of basic figures, as in...

20060015302 - Method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation: A method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation in N dimensions employing mathematical expressions for modeling a device. The table model uses an unstructured N-dimensional grid for approximating the expressions. The method includes the steps of: (a) establishing a function domain having boundary limits in the...

20060015303 - Method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation: A method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation in N dimensions employing mathematical expressions for modeling a device. The table model uses an unstructured N-dimensional grid for approximating the expressions. The method includes the steps of: (a) establishing a function domain having boundary limits in the...

20060015304 - Method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation: A method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation in N dimensions employing mathematical expressions for modeling a device. The table model uses an unstructured N-dimensional grid for approximating the expressions. The method includes the steps of: (a) establishing a function domain having boundary limits in the...

20060015306 - Simulation techniques: The application describes various techniques for improving the accuracy and numerical stability of computer-implemented simulations which employ subgridding techniques. In particular, techniques are described in which information is transferred across a common interface between two neighbouring fine-grids. Furthermore, techniques are also described in which, during the update of a grid...

20060015301 - System and method for efficient visualization and comparison of ladar point data to detailed cad models of targets: A method (300) for comparison of point data to detailed CAD models of known targets. The method comprises the acts of receiving a CAD model space (302); storing the received CAD model space in a three-dimensional voxel array (304); computing, for each voxel in the array, a distance to a...

20060015309 - Control of items in a complex system by using fluid models and solving continuous linear programs: A method and apparatus for the control of a system comprising of a plurality of items through the scheduling of actions and the allocation of resources is disclosed. Primary areas of utility include manufacturing systems, city wide vehicle traffic control, multiple project scheduling, communications networks and economic systems. The method...

20060015310 - Method for simulation modeling of well fracturing: A model system for simulating the performance of a subterranean well, starts with a base model wherein input logging data, pressure transient data and PVT data is introduced into the base model. A numerical interpreter then calculates the predicted performance of the well. A match system compares actual performance data...

20060015311 - Circuit design support method and system: A method for circuit design support. A device instance identity is acquired. A device specification screen comprising at least one input field for entering at least one manufacturing parameter corresponding to the device instance identity is displayed. At least one target electrical characteristic variation is determined by applying the manufacturing...

20060015312 - Method and apparatus for simulating logic circuits that include a circuit block to which power is not supplied: A logic circuit simulation apparatus used in designing a logic IC (integrated circuit) is provided. The logic circuit simulation apparatus includes a power control signal specifying unit which creates power control signal information for specifying statuses of a plurality of power control signals, a logic circuit simulation control information generation...

20060015313 - Method of programming a co-verification system: A co-verification system includes a computer programmed to act as a simulator for simulating behavior of a first portion of an electronic device under test (DUT) by acquiring, processing and generating data representing DUT signals. The co-verification system also includes emulation resources programmed to emulate a second portion of the...

20060015314 - Methods, systems and program products for annotating system traces with control program information and presenting annotated system traces: The signal state that a signal of interest within a system under test has during each of a plurality of cycles of operation of the system under test is stored in a trace file. In association with the signal state, information regarding a requested access to the signal state by...

20060015315 - Process for developing and implementing a model for the formal description of a collaborative system comprised of multiple distributed components, especially an intelligent, flexible production and/or process automation system: Process for developing and implementing a model (ASM) for the formal description of a collaborative system including multiple, distributed components, wherein analyzable models of the components are generated via simulation processes. The invention includes the steps of generation of models of collaborative units, preparation of a catalog of models of...

20060015316 - Virtual pc printer driver: A method and system for printing from a guest operating system that executes in a virtual PC. In the guest operating system, a special printer driver (or extension to an existing printer driver) is installed. The printer driver receives print data from the guest operating system and applications that execute...

20060009957 - Method for determining a matrix of transmission cross coefficients in an optical proximity correction of mask layouts: The present invention relates to a method for determining a matrix of transmission cross coefficients w for an optical modeling in an optical proximity correction of mask layouts. In a first step, there is calculation of Fourier transforms of an illumination aperture, a lens aperture and a complex conjugate lens...

20060009954 - Methods and systems for generating models of application environments for applications and portions thereof: An application or a portion thereof can be thought of as a container having a set of instruments with mathematical descriptions of relationships between the instruments and other portions of the application infrastructure. The set of instruments may include only those instruments determined to significantly affect or be significantly affected...

20060009956 - Spectral element eigensolver for inhomogeneous media: Methods are provided to generate eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for structures that include inhomogeneous media. In embodiments, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions generated as solutions to differential equations provide parameters for analyzing and constructing structures modeled by the differential equations....

20060009955 - System, method and apparatus for clustering features: A method, system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying a boundary of a cluster in a bitmap, the bitmap having at least one initially set bit, for applying an expansion shape to each of the initially set bits in the bitmap and identifying vertex bits on the boundary of the...

20060009958 - Open-loop and closed-loop control unit: An open-loop and closed-loop control unit for a safety-relevant apparatus, in particular for aviation applications, has a computer unit with a number of computer inputs and computer outputs, and a circuit unit with a number of circuit inputs and circuit outputs. The circuit unit has hardware components for simulating some...

20060009959 - Activity factor based design: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with activity factor based design are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an activity factor logic configured to determine an activity factor for a first node. The activity factor relates an input activity for the first node to an output activity for the...

20060009960 - System and method for managing data tables: A system and a method for managing a set of data tables stored in at least one database (15). The system (10) includes at least one constructor device (11) configured to create at least one dated link in order to establish a relationship between at least two of said data...

20060004549 - Computer aided design file processing: One implementation provides a method for processing a first representation of a geometry of a component that is stored in a computer file. In this implementation, the method includes analyzing the first representation of the geometry of the component, and, upon analysis, generating a second, non-invertible representation of the geometry...

20060004550 - Crush modelling: A method of determining the impact resistance of a structure including a crushable material comprises the steps of determining for one or more layers of a finite element of said material during an impact whether said element or layer thereof is to be treated as failing by crushing. If the...

20060004548 - Method and apparatus for enhanced design of multi-tier systems: A system and method for performing enhanced modeling of multi-tiered architectures is presented. The system and method enable selection of a preferred design for a multi-tiered architecture of components based on a set of established criteria, and may employ certain vectors and functions in component attributes, and such attributes may...

20060004552 - Boundary element analytic method and a boundary element analytic program: Various types of data for the use in the boundary element analysis, which have been previously input at step S101, are stored at step S102. To carry out this operation, at least boundary element definition information for defining a boundary element in the subject to be analyzed and state quantity...

20060004553 - Implementing a model on programmable hardware: A computer-implemented system and method for generating a hardware implementation of graphical code. The method comprises first creating a graphical program. A first portion of the graphical program may optionally be compiled into machine code for execution by a CPU. A second portion of the graphical program is converted into...

20060004551 - Method and apparatus for structure-preserving reduced-order modeling: A processing unit of an analysis system comprises a processor coupled to a memory, and is configured to generate a structure-preserving reduced-order model of a circuit, device or system. The reduced-order model in one embodiment is generated by projection of input matrices characterizing the circuit, device or system onto at...

20060004554 - Systems and methods for development of emulated devices in a virtual machine environment: The present invention provides a means for dynamically adding virtual devices to a virtual computing environment. The system described in the invention includes a virtualized computing system with a manifest, which further includes device lists and an external device directory, which provides users of the virtualized computing system with a...

20060004555 - Well-managed virtual hospital: The Well-Managed Virtual Hospital is a web-based and compact disc-based, 3-D interactive audiovisual business simulation of managing a real hospital. The primary purpose of the simulation is to serve as a training, education and entertainment tool. The primary target audience for the tool is the hospital board of directors, senior...

20060004556 - Method, system and program product for providing a configuration specification language supporting incompletely specified configuration entities: In a hardware definition language (HDL) file among one or more files, one or more design entities containing a functional portion of a digital system are specified. The one or more design entities logically contain a plurality of latches having a respective plurality of different possible latch values that each...

20060004557 - System and method for reducing size of simulation value change files: During simulation of an IC design, traces of certain signals can be generated, thereby allowing defects in the design to be detected. The traces of these signals, i.e. the target set, are typically saved in a value change file. Unfortunately, this value change file can get very large, thereby causing...

20060004558 - System and method for performing compound computational experiments: A system and method for performing compound computational experiments include an experiment having at least one input. The experiment includes a process controllable by a computer and responsive to the input to produce at least one output, the output capable of being stored on a medium readable by the computer....

20060004559 - Simulation of application-instrument communications: A method for simulating communications between an application module and an instrument. In representative embodiments, a command is transmitted from the application module to a simulation module. The communications include commands which originate from the application module and responses which originate from the simulation module in response to commands. A...