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The invention is a seamless projection lithography system that eliminates the need for masks through the use of a programmable Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) with high parallel processing power. Illuminating the SLM with a radiation source (1), which while preferably a pulsed laser may be a shuttered lamp or multiple lasers with alternating synchronization, provides a patterning image of many pixels via a projection system (4) onto a substrate (5). The preferred SLM is a Deformable Micromirror Device (3) for reflective pixel selection using a synchronized pulse laser. An alternative SLM is a Liquid Crystal Light Valve (LCLV) (45) for pass-through pixel selection. Electronic programming enables pixel selection control for error correction of faulty pixel elements. Pixel selection control also provides for negative and positive imaging and for complementary overlapping polygon development for seamless uniform dosage. The invention provides seamless scanning by complementary overlapping scans to equalize radiation dosage, to expose a pattern on a large area substrate (5). The invention is suitable for rapid prototyping, flexible manufacturing, and even mask making.

Various embodiments may be used for laser-based modification of target material of a workpiece while advantageously achieving improvements in processing throughput and/or quality. Embodiments of a method of processing may include focusing and directing laser pulses to a region of the workpiece at a pulse width sufficiently short so that material is efficiently removed by nonlinear optical absorption from the region and a quantity of heat affected zone and thermal stress on the material within the region, proximate to the region, or both is reduced relative to a quantity obtainable using a laser with longer pulses. In at least one embodiment, an ultrashort pulse laser system may include at least one of a fiber amplifier or fiber laser. Various embodiments are suitable for at least one of dicing, cutting, scribing, and forming features on or within a composite material.

An integrated financial data reporting system provides for real time data entry, assessment, and report generation. The system includes message formatting, database management, and select applications for preparing sophisticated financial presentations in essentially real time. An alert notification server alerts users when a financial threshold specifying a credit limit and/or a trading limit has been crossed. A data distribution server electronically distributes data to users on a recurring and/or periodic basis, and a search engine server provides free-form searches against information stored in a consolidated database. Through the inventive system, financial institutions rationalize risk, performance, and compliance positions in a cost-effective manner.

Methods, systems, and data structures are provided selectively encrypting portions of media data that are streamed over a network. Media data is identified and a portion of the data is selectively encrypted. The media data is then streamed over a network to one or more recipients for consumption. The intended recipients cannot consume the media data until the encrypted portion is properly decrypted.

A substrate carrier for a parallel wafer processing reactor supports a plurality of substrates. The substrate carrier includes a plurality of susceptors, which may be thermal plates or annular rings that are arranged horizontally in a vertical stack. The substrates are mounted between pairs of susceptors on two or more supports provided around the outer periphery of the susceptors. The number of substrates mounted between each pair of susceptors may the same or different but is two or more between at least one pair of susceptors.

A package including an electrical circuit may be produced in a more efficient manner when on a substrate including a plurality of electrical circuits the circuits are tested for their functionality and when the functional circuits are connected, by means of a frame enclosing the circuit on the surface of the substrate, to a second substrate whose surface area is smaller than that of the first substrate. The substrates are connected, by means of a second frame, which is adapted to the first frame and is located on the surface of the second substrate, such that the first and second frames lie one on top of the other. Subsequently, the functional packaged circuits may be singulated in a technologically simple manner.

A mailpiece sorter system including a mailpiece feeding assembly operative to selectively feed mailpieces singularly or in groupings of mailpieces consisting of more than one mailpiece and a mailpiece sortation assembly operatively coupled to the mailpiece feeding assembly. The mailpiece sortation system includes a plurality mailpiece sortation bins and a diverting assembly for directing fed mailpieces into a predetermined mailpiece sortation bins. A control system is operatively coupled to the mailpiece feeding assembly to determine which mailpieces are to be singularly fed from said feeding assembly and which mailpieces are to be fed from said feeding assembly in a predetermined grouping of mailpieces.

Bare porous polymer monoliths, fluidic chips, methods of incorporating bare porous polymer monoliths into fluidic chips, and methods for functionalizing bare porous polymer monoliths are described. Bare porous polymer monoliths may be fabricated ex situ in a mold. The bare porous polymer monoliths may also be functionalized ex situ. Incorporating the bare preformed porous polymer monoliths into the fluidic chips may include inserting the monoliths into channels of channel substrates of the fluidic chips. Incorporating the bare preformed porous polymer monoliths into the fluidic chips may include bonding a capping layer to the channel substrate. The bare porous polymer monoliths may be mechanically anchored to channel walls and to the capping layer. The bare porous polymer monoliths may be functionalized by ex situ immobilization of capture probes on the monoliths. The monoliths may be functionalized by direct attachment of chitosan.

A fused multiply add floating point unit 1 includes multiplying circuitry 4 and adding circuitry 8. The multiply circuitry 4 multiplies operands B and C having N-bit significands to generate an unrounded product B*C. The unrounded product B*C has an M-bit significand, where M>N. The adding circuitry 8 receives an operand A that is input at a later processing cycle than a processing cycle at which the multiplying circuitry 4 receives operands B and C. The adding circuitry 8 commences processing of the operand A after the unrounded product B*C is generated by the multiplying circuitry 4. The adding circuitry 8 adds the operand A to the unrounded product B*C and outputs a rounded result A+B*C.

Provided are techniques for increasing transaction processing throughput. A transaction item with a message identifier and a session identifier is obtained. The transaction item is added to an earliest aggregated transaction in a list of aggregated transactions in which no other transaction item as the same session identifier. A first aggregated transaction in the list of aggregated transactions that has met execution criteria is executed. In response to determining that the aggregated transaction is not committing, the aggregated transaction is broken up into multiple smaller aggregated transactions and a target size of each aggregated transaction is adjusted based on measurements of system throughput.

Graphics processing elements are capable of processing multiple contexts simultaneously, reducing the need to perform time consuming context switches compared with processing a single context at a time. Processing elements of a graphics processing pipeline may be configured to support all of the multiple contexts or only a portion of the multiple contexts. Each processing element may be allocated to process a particular context or a portion of the multiple contexts in order to simultaneously process more than one context. The allocation of processing elements to the multiple contexts may be determined dynamically in order to improve graphics processing throughput.

In order to perform cache processing for the received packets, a network apparatus is provided with a network-processor accelerator for caching the process result of a network processor. Accordingly, the network apparatus of the present invention ensuring higher packet-processing throughput can be realized by improving the packet-processing throughput without increase in the chip area, increase in the power consumption, and shortage in an external connected memory bandwidth.

Methods and apparatus for increasing the processing throughput of multiple lots of semiconductor wafers through a cluster tool while maintaining a constant wafer history for each lot are provided. A first lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into a cluster tool containing one or more processing chambers. The first lot of wafers is processed for a first time period. A second lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into the cluster tool prior to completion of the first time period, wherein the second lot is introduced so as to minimize a time gap between the n-th wafer of the first lot of wafers and the first wafer of the second lot of wafers while maintaining a first constant wafer history for each wafer within the first lot and maintaining a second constant wafer history for each wafer in the second lot.

The present invention features processes of making tablets having reduced internal fractures. In one aspect, the processes comprise the steps of (1) compressing a pre-tabletting material in a die to form a tablet, where an internal surface of the die is lubricated with at least one lubricant and the pre-tabletting material comprises at least one therapeutic agent and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable polymer; and (2) ejecting said tablet from said die. In another aspect, the processes employ a granular or powdery pre-tabletting material which comprises at least one therapeutic agent and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable polymer, wherein 90% of the particles in the pre-tabletting material are smaller than 400 μm.

Disclosed is an apparatus for in-memory data management includes a hybrid memory including a plurality of types of memories with different characteristics and a storage engine. The storage engine rearranges data among the plurality of memories by the unit of a page by monitoring workloads for data stored in the memories and reconfigures a page layout by the unit of the page based on a data access characteristic of an application for each of pages constituting each of the plurality of memories.

The present invention relates a physical vapor deposition (PVD) system. e.g. a planetary system, for forming one or more layers of a coating material on a substrate and for treating, or modifying, the substrate surface, which can include the surface of the substrate or a deposited layer of coating material thereon. The PVD system includes a single vacuum (or process) chamber having an ion source and at least one PVD source of the coating material. The ion source, such as a linear ion source, is configured to emit a beam of energetic particles at a substrate for surface modification of the substrate surface, for example, to provide film densification, etching, cleaning, surface smoothing, and/or oxidation thereof. The PVD source(s) of the coating material deposits one or more layers of coating material(s) on the substrate. The uniformity of substrate surface modification and the thickness uniformity of the deposited layers can be maintained by velocity profiling of the rotating substrate within the vacuum chamber.

The invention provides a memory computing-based customizable multimode big data processing system. The system comprises a data storage layer module, a memory-based data sharing and management layer module, a memory computing-based universal execution framework layer module and an access interface layer module, wherein a distributed memory abstraction mechanism, a position-sensing scheduling mechanism and a distributed hybrid column storage mechanism of data are adopted. According to the system, massive data storage is constructed; a cluster concurrent computing-oriented memory data management and sharing framework is provided, and an efficient and customized big data multimode universal processing framework is provided; batch processing and real-time data stream computing are supported; and the support is provided for flexible analysis and deep utilization of the data.

The invention relates generally to solid supports for chromatography. In specific embodiments the invention provides for solid supports suitable for affinity chromatography along with methods, systems and kits which use the same.

A process for contacting a bed of particulate material, usually catalyst, with a transverse flow of fluid is disclosed. The particulate material moves or is prevented from not moving, while the fluid passes through the bed at a rate greater than the stagnant bed pinning flow rate. This invention is applicable to hydrocarbon conversion processes and allows for higher fluid throughput rates compared to prior art processes.

A process system that uses a reduced amount of lime or other base to clarify or purify juice or other process liquid (1) obtained from plant material (2) such as sugar cane, sugar beets, or sweet sorghum. Specifically, apparatus and methods to reduce volatile materials in juice or other process liquid (1) to increase pH requiring the use of less lime or other base to achieve the desired pH values for clarification or purification in subsequent steps, such as preliming (33).

A method of observing a specimen using a scanning electron microscope, makes it possible to shorten the time required to perform automatic focusing at the time of semiconductor defect automatic review and improves the throughput in the processing in which the specimen is observed. In the above method, the specimen is imaged at a low resolution by the scanning electron microscope to obtain an image, an area for imaging the specimen at a high resolution is specified from the image acquired at the low resolution, the specimen is imaged at a high resolution by the scanning electron microscope to determine a focus position, a focal point of the scanning electron microscope is set to the determined focus position, and a high resolution image in the specified area is acquired in a state in which the focus position has been set to the determined focus position.