Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 06/09

20090164178 - Crashworthiness design methodology using a hybrid cellular automata algorithm for the synthesis of topologies for structures subject to nonlinear transient loading: Crashworthiness designing of a structure using a Hybrid Cellular Automata (HCA) algorithm where field states are computed using finite element analysis (FEA) and the material distribution of the structure is updated at each iteration using cellular automata method. The HCA algorithm optimizes the topology of the structures to achieve certain... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090164175 - Method and system to optimize surface design: Method and system to optimise the surface design of an object by optimising one or more of its objective functions J, which includes the following stages: a) Provide an initial geometry (51) of the surface, including its NURBS definition, and define as optimisation parameters p of the same a subset... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090164176 - Method of producing a finite-element model of a unique body of complex shape and structure: A method of producing a finite-element model of a unique body of complex shape having an outer surface that is known in the form of a cloud of points describing said surface analytically or algebraically in a determined frame of reference, the method comprising the steps of a) using a... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090164177 - Tolerance analyzing/calculating system, tolerance analyzing method, and storage medium: A tolerance analyzing/calculating system analyzes and examines the size tolerance of each component configuring a structure with respect to a size tolerance at the time of assembly of the structure designed with design data. This system comprises a size condition setting unit for defining design data, and the size tolerance... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090164180 - Apparatus and method for modeling mos transistor: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for modeling a MOSFET (Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor). The method can include the steps of: establishing an equation and a variable that determine the driving current characteristics of the MOS transistor; generating a random number; converting the random number such that the... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090164181 - Apparatus and method for modeling mos transistor: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for modeling a MOSFET (Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor). The method includes establishing an equation and a variable that determine the driving current characteristics of the MOS transistor; generating a random number; converting the random number such that the random number has a... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20090164182 - Apparatus and method for modeling mos transistor: A multipoint geostatistics computer-implemented method for modeling of discrete properties, comprising acquiring by a computer software program a training image made from at least one dimensional array of discrete property values, the values depicting the spatial relationship and variability considered to be typical of a n-dimensional surface to be modeled;... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20090164179 - Soil-water coupled analyzer and soil-water coupled analysis method: The soil-water coupled analysis program of the invention computes a global L matrix and a modified global L matrix regarding a volume change rate of a soil skeleton over time, a global H matrix regarding a water permeability of soil, a global M matrix regarding a mass, and a global... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090164184 - Method and system for implementing a complex system or process: The present approach models a process as a series of steps corresponding to sets of inputs and outputs, where the inputs relates to various configurations of elements for a given step of the process. For each step in the process, one or more models are constructed that correspond to the... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090164183 - Methodology for thermal modeling of on-chip interconnects based on electromagnetic simulation tools: A method and apparatus for thermal modeling of on-chip interconnects using electromagnetic tools to determine a temperature profile across the interconnect structure and the temperature at each node of an equivalent thermal circuit derived from an electrical model.... Agent: Prtsi, Inc

20090164185 - method of measuring flow sections of a turbomachine nozzle sector by digitizing: the nozzle sector having contact surfaces, and being positioned relative to adjacent nozzle sectors by putting said contact surfaces into abutment, the numerical models of the sector and of the reference vanes including models of the contact surfaces involved in putting them into their assembly relative position, and step c)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090164186 - Method for determining improved estimates of properties of a model: A method is disclosed for determining improved estimates of properties of a model, on the basis of estimated prior constraints, by running a mathematical inversion several times using the output posterior estimate of the previous inversion, or any of the previous inversions to provide an input for the next inversion.... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

20090164187 - Method for reservoir characterization and monitoring including deep reading quad combo measurements: A method is disclosed for building a predictive or forward model adapted for predicting the future evolution of a reservoir, comprising: integrating together a plurality of measurements thereby generating an integrated set of deep reading measurements, the integrated set of deep reading measurements being sufficiently deep to be able to... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090164188 - Method for upscaling a reservoir model using deep reading measurements: A method of upscaling for reservoir simulation is disclosed, comprising: inverting a set of deep reading measurements constrained by upscaled multi-well data, and, in response to the inverting step, upscaling for reservoir simulation.... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090164189 - Method of optimizing the development of a fluid reservoir by taking into account a geologic and transient exchange term between matrix blocks and fractures: Method for optimizing the development of a fluid reservoir by taking into account a transient exchange term between porous blocks and fractures. The reservoir is discretized into a set of grid cells and an image representative of the fracture network delimiting porous blocks and fractures is associated with each cell.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090164190 - Physiological condition simulation device and method: Method and system for providing physiological therapy analysis and modeling is provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20090164191 - Simulation: Identifying a set of rules, each of which, when executed, modify an agent in a model of a physical system. Identifying a causal map among the rules. Identifying a probability distribution on the set of the rules based on the causal map. Identifying a rule based on the probability distribution.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090164192 - Efficient message representations for belief propagation algorithms: A method is provided for determining probabilities of states of a system represented by a model including a plurality of nodes connected by links. Each node represents possible states of a corresponding part of the system and each link represents statistical dependencies between possible states of related nodes. The method... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090164193 - Method and system for verifying electronic designs having software components: Disclosed is a method and system for providing an improved and flexible approach for handling models of hardware and software designs for verification activities. The semantics of the software and hardware are mapped to allow correct interfacing between the hardware and software models. This allows designers to more efficiently and... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090164195 - Apparatus and method for modeling mos transistor: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for modeling a MOSFET (Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor). The method can include the steps of: establishing an equation and a variable that determine the driving current characteristics of the MOS transistor; generating a random number; converting the random number such that the... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090164196 - Method and apparatus of circuit simulation of high-withstand-voltage mos transistor: Disclosed is a method in which a simulation is performed using a macro model for carrying out a simulation of a high-withstand-voltage MOSFET. The macro model is obtained by adding first and second JFETs to drain and source sides, respectively, of an NMOSFET; connecting one end of a first diode... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090164194 - Netlist partitioning for characterizing effect of within-die variations: Techniques are presented for determining effects of process variations on the leakage of an integrated circuit having multiple devices. The operation of the circuit is simulated using a first set of values for the process parameters for the devices and is also simulated with some of the process parameter values... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP- Cadence Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

20090164197 - Method for transforming overlapping paths in a logical model to their physical equivalent based on transformation rules and limited traceability: A method for transforming paths in a logical model to their physical equivalent in a physical model is provided. A logical model is retrieved. All entities in the logical model are mapped. All paths connecting the entities of the logical model are mapped. Tables are created that correspond to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090164198 - Parallel simulation using an ordered priority of event regions: In one embodiment, a plurality of kernels are provided. Each kernel may simulate a partition of a design under test. A plurality of event regions are provided. The regions may be in an ordered priority. Events for the device under test may be determined for event regions in each of... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090164200 - Distributed simulation: A method and apparatus are presented to facilitate simulation of complex systems on multiple computing devices. Model authors can specify state-related information to be exported for viewing or access by other applications and models. Subsystem models may be written to enable connection with other subsystem models via controlled interfaces, such... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090164199 - Method and system for simulating recommendations in a social network for an offline user: A method and system are provided for simulating recommendations for unavailable users in a social media recommendation network. In general, the social media recommendation network is formed such that each user in the social media recommendation network sends and receives recommendations from their friends. When one of the users in... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090164201 - Method, system and computer program for the centralized system management on endpoints of a distributed data processing system: A method is described for performing system management operations on at least one target endpoint data processing apparatus (110a, 110b) of a distributed data processing system (100) including a system management server (120) adapted to the centralized system management of the endpoints of the distributed data processing system. The method... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090164202 - Synchronization of a graphical program and a robot program: A device and a method for synchronization of a robot program and a graphical program. The device includes a first converter adapted to convert a graphical program into a first sequence of tokens representing data for motions and actions contained in the graphical program. A second converter is adapted to... Agent: Venable LLP

20090164203 - Non-volatile memory compiler: A non-volatile memory compiler for non-volatile memory is disclosed. The non-volatile memory complier may include an input module and a builder module. The input module may accept memory parameters and the builder module may use the inputted memory parameters and its knowledge of the memory to design memory builds. The... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20090164204 - Solid state drive with non-volatile memory for a media device: A media device is provided that includes a processor configured to execute a media device program, a non-volatile memory electrically coupled with the processor, the non-volatile memory being vertically configured, an input/output module electrically coupled with the processor and the non-volatile memory and configured to communicate with an input/output device,... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20090164205 - Processor emulation using fragment level transaltion: Processor emulation using fragment level translation is disclosed. A target system having a main target processor, a secondary target processor element and an instruction memory associated with the secondary target processor element may be emulated with a host system having one or more host processors and a host memory. Two... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090157360 - Methods and system for lithography process window simulation: P

20090157361 - Method of well placement modeling and geosteering: The present invention is a method of establishing a geographical model of a wellbore that includes receiving a first geographical model of the wellbore and receiving measured log data and a trajectory of the wellbore. A first simulated tool response is simulated along the trajectory based on the first geographical... Agent: Michael F. Hoffman Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090157362 - Model modification method for a semiconductor device: A model modification method for a semiconductor device comprises the steps of: analyzing the electrical properties of a goal semiconductor device, in detail, to build a goal model that can be used to describe the behavior of the goal semiconductor device; and modifying the goal model according to the results... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090157364 - Method and system for a quick calculation of aerodynamic forces on an aircraft: A computer-aided method suitable for assisting in the design of an aircraft by providing the dimensioning aerodynamic forces and other relevant values comprising the following steps: a) Selecting a set of parameters of the aircraft, being said aerodynamic forces and other relevant values dependant of said parameters; b) Performing flow... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090157365 - Simulation device and simulation method: Provided is a simulation device including: a simple model computing portion for generating simulation information by correcting measured information sampled on a real vehicle on the basis of control information input from an electronic control unit; and an outputting portion for outputting the simulation information generated by the simple model... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090157363 - System, method, and computer program product for predicting cruise orientation of an as-built airplane: Illustrative computer-executable methods, systems, and computer software program products predict cruise orientation of an as-built airplane. In illustrative embodiments, nominal orientation of an as-built airplane is input. Deviation from the nominal orientation of the as-built airplane is automatically computed, and the computed deviation from the nominal orientation of the as-built... Agent: Boeing (tlg) C/o Toler Law Group

20090157366 - System for simulating digital watercolor image and method therefor: A method for simulating digital watercolor image includes: receiving a background texture on a virtual canvas where a watercolor image will be painted; receiving parameters for fluid simulation; and creating brushstrokes by a mouse pointer's movement on the virtual canvas. Further, the method includes converting coordinates of the brushstrokes on... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090157367 - Optimizing drilling operations using petrotechnical data: A method for optimizing drilling operations. The method includes providing an earth model of a volume having a well, obtaining petrotechnical data about the volume while drilling the well, comparing the petrotechnical data with the earth model, updating the earth model with the petrotechnical data based on the comparison, and... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20090157368 - Computational method for predicting the contribution of mutations to the drug resistance phenotype exhibited by hiv based on a linear regression analysis of the log fold resistance: The present invention concerns methods and systems for analysis of drug resistance in HIV-1. More specifically, the invention provides methods for predicting drug resistance by correlating genotypic information with phenotypic profiles. The methods allow the identification of primary and secondary resistance-associated mutations for new and existing drugs and for calculating... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090157369 - Fast and high-throughput search engine for materials for lithium-ion batteries using quantum simulations: Provided are methods and systems for determining the structure of a composite or solid solution material for an electrode in lithium-ion batteries. In one embodiment, a method is presented where a building-block database of hypothetical structures containing only one transition metal atom is constructed by use of quantum simulation. Then,... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090157373 - Analyzing model creating apparatus and method, and computer-readable storage medium: An analyzing model creating apparatus includes an interval acquiring part to acquire intervals of a plurality of parts that are mounted on a PCB for an electronic equipment, from design data of the PCB, a comparing part to compare a minimum part interval between the parts and a first mesh... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090157370 - Computing method of motor model, motor simulation method, motor simulation apparatus, motor-model computing program, simulation method and simulation program: This is to provide a computing method of motor model, a motor simulation method and a motor simulation apparatus in which high-speed real-time simulation is made feasible while saving computer resources. A motor model is formulated, motor model which uses a motor model of alternate-current motor which virtually includes the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090157372 - Method and apparatus for modeling source-drain current of thin film transistor: Provided are a method and apparatus for modeling source-drain current of a TFT. The method includes receiving sample data, the sample data including a sample input value and a sample output value; adjusting modeling variables according to the sample data; calculating a current model value according to the adjusted modeling... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090157371 - Multi-layered model for survivability analysis of network services: A system and method of using a multi-layered network model for analyzing the survivability of network services. The model is defined in terms of layers, connections, entities, physical processing elements, physical network elements, and physical infrastructure elements. Network services are modeled by sets of communicating entities at the application layer... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090157374 - Simulation test system and method for testing vehicle electronic component: Disclosed is a simulation test system and method for testing a vehicle electronic component capable of easily testing performance of the electronic component anytime regardless of location without repeating the same driving test.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090157375 - Power index computing apparatus, method of computing power index, and computer product: A power index computing apparatus that computes a power index for a circuit having one or more modules includes an obtaining unit that obtains estimated power consumption for a module in the circuit and a first computing unit that computes entropy based on a transition probability of an output signal... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090157376 - Techniques for incorporating timing jitter and/or amplitude noise into hardware description language-based input stimuli: Methods for generating waveforms with realistic transitions, controllable timing jitter, and controllable amplitude noise in a computer-based simulation environment are disclosed. A first method includes obtaining signal information for one or more parallel data signals. In one embodiment, signal information for the one or more parallel data signals is mapped... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090157377 - Method and system for multiprocessor emulation on a multiprocessor host system: A method (and system) for executing a multiprocessor program written for a target instruction set architecture on a host computing system having a plurality of processors designed to process instructions of a second instruction set architecture, includes representing each portion of the program designed to run on a processor of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090157378 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for intelligent workload control of distributed storage: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating a multiple-input, multiple output (MIMO) workload model of a distributed storage environment on a plurality of predictive controller devices. The MIMO models can then be utilized by the predictive controller to manage storage resources on a distributed storage system.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090150123 - Method of laying out a data center using a plurality of thermal simulators: A method is provided for facilitating installation of one or more electronics racks within a data center. The method includes: placing a plurality of thermal simulators in the data center in a data center layout to establish a thermally simulated data center, each thermal simulator simulating at least one of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090150124 - Model based workflow for interpreting deep-reading electromagnetic data: One embodiment of the invention involves a method for determining whether an electromagnetic survey will be able to distinguish between different subsurface conditions in an area that includes developing a three-dimensional electromagnetic property model of the area, and simulating an electromagnetic response of a field electromagnetic data acquisition system using... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20090150125 - Computer method and apparatus for chaining of model-to-model transformations: Computer method, apparatus and system chains model-to-model transformations. In a series of model transformations, there are respective bridges before and after each model transformation. For each pair of consecutive model transformations in the series, the respective bridge (i) receives a model output from a first model transformation of the pair,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090150128 - Method for detecting people of interest from information sources: A method for detecting people of interest from information sources. Method performs automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data. Correlation analysis is employed to identify links within the community. Method may be particularized for solving specific problems, for example, such as determining the activities between individuals within a money... Agent: Air Force Research Laboratory Rij

20090150127 - Method, system and apparatus for numerical black oil delumping: A method for black oil delumping is disclosed which comprises: converting a black oil wellstream into a compositional wellstream thereby enabling the composition and component molar rates of a production well in a black oil reservoir simulation to be reconstituted.... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090150126 - System and method for sparse gaussian process regression using predictive measures: An improved system and method is provided for sparse Gaussian process regression using predictive measures. A Gaussian process regressor model may be construction by interleaving basis vector set selection and hyper-parameter optimization until the chosen predictive measure stabilizes. One of various LOO-CV based predictive measures may be used to find... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090150129 - Apparatus and method for simulating heated airflow exhaust of an electronics subsystem, electronics rack or row of electronics racks: Apparatus and method are provided for facilitating simulation of heated airflow exhaust of an electronics subsystem, electronics rack or row of electronics racks. The apparatus includes a thermal simulator, which includes an air-moving device and a fluid-to-air heat exchanger. The air-moving device establishes airflow from an air inlet to air... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090150130 - Software systems for development, control, programming, simulation, and emulation of fixed and reconfigurable lab-on-a-chip devices: A software system for development, control, programming, simulation, and emulation of fixed, software-configurable, software-reconfigurable, and software-controlled Lab-on-a-chip (“LoC”) devices. Files may be used to specify LoC configurations for models, emulation, and fabrication, and scripts can be implemented to control numerical simulations as well as physical emulations of modeled LoC devices.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090150131 - Methods and systems for performing diagnostics regarding underlying root causes in turbine engines: A method for performing diagnostics for an engine comprises the steps of identifying an engine component as potentially being related to operational data of an engine, calculating a deviation from a thermodynamic model, and comparing the deviation with root cause deviation measures. The deviation relates the engine component to an... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090150132 - Method and apparatus for simulating multiple ground station ranging for spacecraft: A spacecraft emulation system for emulating the operation of a spacecraft and the operation of a plurality of ground stations is coupled to spacecraft status and control clients that request connections to one of the plurality of simulated ground station ranging and tracking servers. The connection requests are made to... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, P.C.

20090150133 - Apparatus and method for simulating one or more operational characteristics of an electronics rack: Apparatus and method are provided for facilitating simulation of one or more operating characteristics of an electronics rack. The apparatus includes a rack frame, one or more air-moving devices associated with the rack frame, and an adjustable heat source associated with the rack frame. The one or more air-moving devices... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090150134 - Simulating patient-specific outcomes: The invention encompasses systems, methods, and apparatus for predicting clinical outcomes and monitoring an individual's response to a therapeutic regimen. The invention further encompasses methods for predicting cardiovascular risk based a genetic marker status and methods for modifying a computer to reflect genetic data and for incorporating genetic markers into... Agent: Entelos, Inc. C/o Law Offices Of Karen E. Flick

20090150136 - Dynamic-based verification apparatus for verification from electronic system level to gate level, and verification method using the same: e

20090150135 - Method for modeling performance of embedded processors having combined cache and memory hierarchy: A method allocating firmware objects between different types of memory in a product model based on a frequency of access of each firmware object in trace data. The allocated firmware objects and trace data are used to simulate the performance of the product model. Memory access statistics obtained during the... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090150138 - Apparatus and method for analyzing circuit: In an aspect of the present invention, a circuit analyzing method includes: generating an analysis object circuit model by connecting a package model as a lumped parameter circuit model of a package, a noise source model as a lumped parameter circuit model of a noise source circuit, a noise-receiving circuit... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090150137 - Method for generating performance evaluation model: A method for generating performance evaluation model may be provided which executes, by using first models of function modules which are described in a transaction level, a first simulation of system operation at the transaction level between the function modules, records transactions which are generated in the first simulation per... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090144030 - Computer readable storage medium storing instructions for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system: Embodiments of the invention include a computer readable storage medium storing instructions for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system. One embodiment is a computer readable storage medium, storing instructions executable by a processor for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090144028 - Method and apparatus of combining mixed resolution databases and mixed radio frequency propagation techniques: A method (10 or 500) and system (200) for simulating and improving accuracy of empirical propagation models for radio frequency coverage can include a display (210) and a processor (202) coupled to the display. The processor can be operable to input (502 and 504) low-resolution data and high-resolution data, select... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090144029 - System and method of providing code compliant wall bracing: Aspects of the present invention are directed at determining whether a structure's braced wall layout complies with building code bracing requirements. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that obtains input describing the geometry of the braced wall line. Then, the applicable building codes that define the wall... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20090144031 - System for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system: Embodiments of the invention are systems for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system. One embodiment is a system, comprising: a geographic data information system, wherein the geographic data information system stores database segments in a database, wherein the database segments describe roadways; and a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090144033 - Object comparison, retrieval, and categorization methods and apparatuses: Object comparison is disclosed, including: adapting N universal mixture model components to a first object to generate N corresponding first object mixture model components, where N is an integer greater than or equal to two; and generating a similarity measure based on component-by-component comparison of the N first object mixture... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090144032 - System and computer program product to predict edges in a non-cumulative graph: To predict edges in a non-cumulative graph, based on a sequence of non-cumulative previous occurrences of the graph, the sequence of non-cumulative previous occurrences of the graph is obtained, and topological properties of each of the previous occurrences of the graph are extracted. Topological similarities between each of the previous... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090144034 - Time modulated generative probabilistic models for automated causal discovery: Dependencies between different channels or different services in a client or server may be determined from the observation of the times of the incoming and outgoing of the packets constituting those channels or services. A probabilistic model may be used to formally characterize these dependencies. The probabilistic model may be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090144035 - Black box model for large signal transient integrated circuit simulation: A modified “black box” integrated circuit simulation model is provided that is based only upon on the external steady-state and transient characteristics of a device under test (DUT). The method utilizes probe pulses as well as steady-state I-V and C-V look-up tables. In contrast to conventional black box simulation models,... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20090144038 - Analyzing structural durability in the frequency domain: A method of analyzing the durability of a structure. Load-controlled testing is performed on samples of a composite material of the structure to relate critical strain invariants of the material to cyclic rates of strain invariant accumulation and frequencies associated with the cyclic rates. The material is characterized based on... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090144037 - Method and apparatus for enhancing the accuracy and speed of a ray launching simulation tool: A method (600) and simulation tool (200) having enhanced accuracy and speed for simulation using ray launching in a mixed environment (20) by using adaptive ray expansion mechanisms can include a memory (204) coupled to a processor (202). The processor can select (602) a target area within the mixed environment... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090144039 - Optimization of energy source usage in ships: A method, computer program and system for optimizing the usage of energy sources on ships is disclosed. The method involves creating a computer simulation model of a ship, optimized for fuel efficiency. Creating the computer simulation model involves selecting equations from a pool of equations, describing core components and structural... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090144040 - Shape prediction simulator, method and program: An overlap amount definition section defines an amount of overlap between divided regions when a shape prediction objective region in a polished surface formed by chemical mechanical polishing is divided into a plurality of regions. A shape prediction computation processing section divides the objective region into the plurality of regions... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090144036 - System and method for sound system simulation: A sound system design/simulation system includes background noise to provide more realistic sound renderings of the designed space and more accurate quality measures of the design space. The background noise may be provided as a library in the design system that allows the user to select a background noise profile.... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090144043 - Post initial microcode load co-simulation: Disclosed is simulation of circuit behavior by running a central electronic core simulation in a high level simulator up to and including initial microload, creation of a post-IML (initial microcode load) state, and transferring the post-initial microcode state from the central electronic core simulation to the post-initial microcode load co-simulator.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090144041 - System and method for simulating a semiconductor wafer prober and a class memory test handler: A method runs a simulation. The method comprises receiving a selection of a device. The device is one of a prober used in wafer testing and a handler used in package testing. The method comprises receiving at least one parameter for a set of parameters for the simulation. The method... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20090144042 - System and method for three-dimensional schematic capture and result visualization of multi-physics system models: A 3-D multi-physics design environment (“3-D design environment”) for designing and simulating multi-physics devices such as MEMS devices is discussed. The 3-D design environment is programmatically integrated with a system modeling environment that is suitable for system-level design and simulation of analog-signal ICs, mixed-signal ICs and multi-physics systems. A parameterized... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090144044 - Logic simulator and logic simulation method: A logic simulator includes a storage device and a simulator part. The storage device stores a signal duration delay file which associates first signal duration information indicating duration of an input signal supplied to a logic gate of a logic circuit with first element delay value information indicating a first... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090144045 - Data transmission system-on-chip memory model based validation: Systems and/or methods that facilitate simulation, verification, and optimization of a data transmission system by utilizing simulation memory component(s) are presented. A simulation memory component can be used to replace memory components and/or hardware components to facilitate early simulation and/or verification of the overall interconnectivity of the system. A simulation... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090144046 - Method to encapsulate an option rom for operation in multiple firmware and platform architectures: A method and apparatus described herein are for providing a simplified option Read Only Memory (ROM) that is compatible in multiple firmware and platform architectures. Instead of providing multiple option ROM images for every variation of platform architecture and firmware architecture, a single code image is provided along with an... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global