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A negative pressure wound therapy apparatus can include a wound dressing, a fluid collection container, a vacuum pump comprising a pump motor, and tubing. Additionally, the apparatus can include a pressure sensor that measures a pressure in the tubing. One or more tubes can channel a fluid between the wound dressing, the fluid collection canister, and the pump. In addition, first and second control circuits can be provided for controlling the pump motor without using a processor. The first control circuit can generate a difference signal between a desired pressure input and a pressure sensor input, and can further generate a motor control signal responsive to the difference signal. Moreover, a second control circuit can provide an override signal based at least in part on the difference signal and at least one reference signal. The override signal beneficially overrides the motor control signal to prevent the pump motor from stalling.

Methods, network services, and computer program products that dynamically assign computer network users to firewall policy groups are provided. A user is assigned to a first firewall policy group, and user activity on the computer network is monitored. The user is assigned to a second, different firewall policy group automatically if monitored user activity indicates that a change in detail level of rules is necessary. Each firewall policy group has rules that control whether to block or allow communications through firewalls on the computer network. The firewall policy groups are arranged in a hierarchical structure having a plurality of levels that are arranged such that rules within the firewall policy groups are different at each level. A user may be assigned to a different firewall policy group that is below, above, or at the same level as the initial firewall policy group.

A request transaction ordering method and system includes designing of the Open Core Protocol (OCP) bus to an Advanced extensible Interface (AXI) bus bridge. The general flow of the bridge is to accept a plurality of read and write requests from the OCP bus and convert them to a plurality of AXI read and write requests. Control logic is set for each first in first out policy of push and pop control and for a plurality of handshake signals in OCP and in the AXI. The request ordering part of the bridge performs hazard checking to preserve required order policies for both OCP and AXI bus protocols by using a FIFO (first in first out) policy to hold the outstanding writes, a plurality of comparators, a first in first out policy to hold OCP identities for a plurality of read requests.

A block data compression system comprising a Compression unit and a Decompression unit, and an Algorithm for fast block data compression using multi-byte search.Objective of the invention is to develop a block data compression system and algorithm for fast block data compression with multi-byte search for optimal encoding during the learning phase of substitutional methods, allowing length-limited and relative small blocks of input data symbols to be compressed independently, as required by random-access storage or telecommunication devices; and reaching high-performance characteristics by employed accelerating architectures and highly pipelines data-flow principles.According to the present invention these objectives are accomplished by a Compression Unit comprising an Input-FIFO (8), connected to a Modeling Unit (6), where said Modeling Unit (6) is connected to a multitude of memory locations represented by Trie-Dictionary (4) memory, to a Zero-Finder Look-Up Table (3), to search means in the form of a Comparison Unit (5), to memory means in the form of a Literal-Dictionary (2) and also to an Encoder Unit (7); said Encoder Unit (7) also connected through an Aligning Unit (7) to an Output-FIFO (12).The invention comprises a block data compression system, composed of a Compression Unit and a Decompression Unit, and an algorithm for fast block data compression using multi-byte search; and is related to the field of data compression, specifically to the implementation of a lossless, adaptive, reversible and fast block data compression for storage and telecommunication devices.

A pipelined processor includes a branch acceleration technique which is based on an improved branch cache. The improved branch cache minimizes or eliminates delays caused by branch instructions, especially data-dependent unpredictable branches. In pipelined and multiply pipelined machines, branches can potentially cause the pipeline to stall because the branch alters the instruction flow, leaving the prefetch buffer and first pipeline stages with discarded instructions. This has the effect of reducing system performance by making the branch instruction appear to require multiple cycles to execute. The improved branch cache differs from conventional branch caches. In particular, the improved cache is not used for branch prediction, but rather, the improved branch cache avoids stalls by providing data that will be inserted into the pipeline stages that would otherwise have stalled when a branch is taken. Special architectural features and control structures are supplied to minimize the amount of information that must be cached by recognizing that only selected types of branches should be cached and by making use of available cycles that would otherwise be wasted. The improved branch cache supplies the missing information to the pipeline in the place of the discarded instructions, completely eliminating the pipeline stall. This technique accelerates performance, especially in real-time code that must evaluate data-dependent conditions and branch accordingly.

A tractor includes an internal combustion engine for delivering torque, wheels or tracks for imparting a propulsive force to the ground, and a power takeoff shaft for delivering torque to implements attached thereto. The power takeoff shaft is driven by a mechanical drive connection to the engine. An electrical motor / generator is drivingly connected to the engine, and at least one electrical motor is arranged to deliver a propulsion force to the wheels or tracks. The motor is electrically connected to, and powered by, the electrical motor / generator. A battery is connected to the electrical motor / generator and to the electrical motor so that electrical energy can be passed therebetween. The motor / generator can also operate as a motor so that the power takeoff shaft is at least partially powered by electrical energy from the battery.

A FIFO design interfaces a sender subsystem and a receiver subsystem operating on different time domains. The sender subsystem and the receiver subsystem may be synchronous or asynchronous. The FIFO circuit includes a put interface configured to operate in accordance with the sender time domain and get interface configured to operate in accordance with the receiver time domain. The FIFO circuit includes an array of cells having a register and state controller indicative of the state of the cell. Each cell also has a put component part configured to operate according to the sender time domain including a put token passing circuit and put controller circuit. Each cell has get component part configured to operate according to the receiver time domain including a get token passing circuit and a get controller circuit. A mixed-clock relay station design interfaces a sender subsystem and a receiver subsystem working at different time domains, and where the latency between sender and receiver is large.