189 results about "Embedded controller" patented technology

The invention discloses a multi-device and multi-mode centralized control system which comprises an interaction control end and a device assembly. The interactive control end is configured according to three different control modes of centralized control, independent control and hybrid control, in the centralized control mode, a set of main control unit is configured for all devices, and the main control unit comprises a main control server which is used for operating a main control program and coordinating and controlling operation of all device components; in the independent control mode, each equipment component is provided with a corresponding embedded controller, and the embedded controller comprises an embedded control server which is used for operating a main control program for controlling the corresponding equipment component; in the hybrid control mode, one or more independent devices are provided with embedded controllers, the embedded controllers communicate with the main control server, the device assembly comprises a device body and a driving unit, and the device body is driven by the driving unit to achieve various operation functions. According to the invention, centralized control of multiple devices in a large-scale manufacturing factory can be realized.

Systems and methods for hardware-agnostic boot tracking by an Embedded Controller (EC) in an Information Handling System (IHS). In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, by an EC coupled to the processor, a host Operating System (OS) boot progress indication; and store the indication by the EC.

Systems and methods for handling communications between a host Operating System (OS) application and a Battery Management Unit (BMU) through an Embedded Controller (EC) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, by a kernel driver of a host OS, a message from a host OS application; and at least in part in response to a determination that the processor comprises a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor, send a request to an EC, wherein the EC is configured to request battery data from a BMU.

Systems and methods for injecting an overlay into a video framebuffer memory by a Basic Input / Output System (BIOS) without triggering a host Operating System (OS) error. An Information Handling System (IHS) includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores program instructions that, upon execution, cause the processor to receive a command from an Embedded Controller (EC) and create an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) table with a video framebuffer memory location usable to store an overlay. The EC issues the command in response to the IHS returning from a selected power state or determining that the IHS is in a selected posture. The overlay may include a software keyboard icon or an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) splash screen. The host OS checks the ACPI table during boot and allows the BIOS to write to the video framebuffer memory location without triggering an error.

Systems and methods for cross operating environment diagnostic operations with context resume. An Information Handling System (IHS) includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores program instructions that, upon execution, cause the IHS to receive a command at a Basic Input / Output System (BIOS) from an Embedded Controller (EC) to perform a deep scan diagnostic operation. The command is received in response to a request by a host Operating System (OS) application. The BIOS executes the deep scan diagnostic operation and stores the result in an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) table. The host OS retrieves the result from the ACPI table and validates the result. The system enables comprehensive diagnostics by leveraging the BIOS environment, ensuring seamless context resume.

An information handling system may include at least one central processing unit (CPU); a Basic Input / Output System (BIOS); and an embedded controller (EC). The information handling system may be configured to: execute an operating system (OS) via the at least one CPU; execute an OS device driver for the EC, wherein the OS device driver is configured to provide non-blocking input / output (I / O) operations on the EC without the execution of a system management interrupt (SMI); and allow access to the EC from an application program via the device driver.

Systems and methods for routing manageability data in heterogeneous computing platforms. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a heterogeneous computing platform comprising a plurality of devices and an Out-of-Band (OOB) Microcontroller Unit (MCU), an Embedded Controller (EC), or a network device integrated into or coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform and distinct from any host processor of the heterogeneous computing platform, where the OOB MCU, EC, or network device is configured to receive a packet or command from a cloud service, and send the packet or command to a selected one of the plurality of devices.

A portable information handling system modular hybrid architecture separates components between rotationally coupled housing portions to minimize cabling, connectors and materials, and to provide improved durability that supports recycling and reuse of the components. For example, a plurality of main board configurations provide selectable performance characteristics assembled behind a display in one housing portion and powered by a battery and charger in the other housing portion. A secondary board that supports the charger provides a variety of customizable secondary functions, such as audio processing supported by integrated speakers, a keyboard interfaced with an embedded controller and held by a housing cover.

The invention relates to the technical field of integrated control systems, in particular to an integrated control system and method for hollow filter stick forming equipment, and the method comprises the steps: taking an embedded controller for running a real-time operating system as a control decision module, and carrying out the unified execution of all control algorithms; an Ethernet protocol with microsecond-level period and precise clock synchronization is used as a real-time communication module to form a system backbone network; the execution and acquisition layer integrates a motion control module composed of a servo driver and a motor as a network slave station, a signal interaction module composed of a distributed I / O module, and a subsystem integration module formed by bridging a third party subsystem through a communication gateway. According to the system, all key units are deeply integrated into the same real-time network as slave stations, so that centralized management, real-time synchronization and refined closed-loop control of the whole system are realized.

Systems and methods for platform-agnostic communications between a host Operating System (OS) and an Embedded Controller (EC) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, at a kernel driver of a host OS, a message from a host OS application for distribution to an EC; translate the message, by the kernel driver, into an Application Programming Interface (API) call corresponding to a selected one of a plurality of data transfer paths between the kernel driver and the EC, based, at least in part, upon a type of the processor; and transmit the API call by the kernel driver to the EC via the selected data transfer path.

Systems and methods for display control in a pre-boot environment are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, by a pre-boot application, telemetry data from an Embedded Controller (EC) coupled to the processor; and in response to a determination, by the pre-boot application, that a policy condition or rule is met based, at least in part, upon the telemetry data, modify a display setting.

Systems and methods for handling Embedded Controller (EC) diagnostic tests using a hardware-based security architecture driver of a heterogenous computing platform are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a heterogenous computing platform and an EC integrated into or coupled to the heterogenous computing platform, the EC configured to: receive, from a hardware-based security architecture driver of the heterogenous computing platform, a command to perform or trigger a diagnostic operation; and respond to the command.

The invention provides a four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle visual navigation control method and system suitable for a complex low-altitude environment, and is applied to the field of data processing application. According to the method, a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle is taken as an object, and flight-related basic information and environment data of the quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle are acquired; processing the basic information to establish a flight control basic model, processing environment data and basic model information, establishing a state estimation system, using a depth camera to acquire and process visual information, and combining visual SLAM to realize pose estimation and positioning mapping to obtain environment perception and positioning mapping information; processing positioning mapping and basic model information, transmitting a signal to an embedded controller to control a steering engine, and fusing data to generate a control instruction and positioning tracking information; then, an upper computer monitoring system is constructed, and track planning and monitoring information is generated; and finally, integrating various types of information, and generating target implementation information of the visual navigation unmanned aerial vehicle control system.

The invention discloses a wafer pre-alignment method, and relates to the field of semiconductors. According to the wafer pre-alignment method, a driving assembly composed of a single-axis robot module is adopted, high-speed and high-precision wafer calibration is achieved, the precision of the wafer position is smaller than + / -0.1 mm, and the edge missing or notch of the wafer is smaller than + / -0.1 degrees; equipment calibration is efficient, the position of the notch of the wafer can be positioned only in 3 seconds, the correction action of the center and the angle of the wafer can be quickly completed, and meanwhile, positioning is achieved; the CCD sensor adopts a high-performance optical sensor, can support the contour detection function of transparent, semitransparent and opaque objects and the like, and is suitable for detecting wafers and glass with the diameter of 100-300mm; the equipment adopts an embedded controller design, so that extra arrangement of a controller and a wiring space is not needed, and an ultra-small volume size is realized; the method is suitable for high-cleanliness environments such as semiconductors and photoelectricity.

Methods and systems for managing cooling of a data processing system. In particular, active cooling using a fan controlled by an embedded controller is provided in a data processing system having components from a thermal architecture that is only capable of providing passive cooling through throttling of a motherboard of the data processing system. The thermal architecture is based on a passive cooling thermal architecture of a computing device without the capacity to include the fan and the embedded controller, and the motherboard is one of the components of the thermal architecture.

The invention belongs to the technical field of power supply control, and particularly discloses a digital power supply graphical programming method based on flow driving, which comprises the following steps of: constructing a power supply control Flow component library which comprises a plurality of Flow nodes, and storing the nodes in a script file form, the script file comprises basic code snippets required by node function implementation and describes data terminals, logic terminals and node attribute parameters of input and output reserved by nodes; constructing a graphical programming module, and providing a graphical programming interface to receive a setting operation of a user so as to form a graphical program logic description file; generating a graphical program script file according to the description file and each Flow node script file; and generating a power supply control code based on the graphical program script file and the chip peripheral drive script file, and compiling and burning the power supply control code into an embedded controller of the digital power supply. According to the method, low-code / code-free development can be realized, and the development difficulty is effectively reduced.

The invention discloses a motor micro-channel heat dissipation online optimization method based on deep reinforcement learning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, modeling a control problem of a motor micro-channel heat dissipation system as a Markov decision process; secondly, a double-delay depth deterministic strategy gradient algorithm is adopted, a deep neural network based on an actor-commentator framework is constructed to serve as a strategy network, and mapping from a state vector to an optimal control action is achieved; then, in a digital twinborn simulation environment, performing security pre-training on the strategy network to obtain an initial agent model; and finally, deploying the model to an embedded controller of an actual motor system, carrying out online fine adjustment with security constraints through online acquisition of interaction data, and adding a security fault-tolerant mechanism to ensure stable operation of the system. According to the method, self-learning can be carried out, a global optimal balance point of heat dissipation efficiency and energy consumption can be found, on-demand heat dissipation and prospective control are realized, local hot spots are effectively inhibited, and the temperature control precision and the energy-saving effect under complex working conditions are remarkably improved.

An information handling system executing computer readable code instructions for a firmware-level artificial intelligence (AI) productivity tool may comprise a hardware processor executing code instructions for a firmware adjustment listening module to identify and report a recent execution by an AI productivity tool enableable software application, in response to a received user query input, of a responsive application capability to an embedded controller executing computer-readable code instructions for a tandem, firmware-level AI productivity tool to identify a best match hardware or firmware capability with the received user query input and identified responsive application capability generating a highest lexical similarity search score, and instructing firmware for one of the hardware components associated with the best match hardware or firmware capability to execute the best match hardware or firmware capability at a platform level of the information handling system in response to the user query input to augment the responsive application capability.

The invention belongs to the technical field of fault detection and recovery, and particularly relates to a fault self-diagnosis and self-adaptive recovery method for an embedded controller, which comprises the following steps of: starting a fault self-diagnosis process by adopting a periodic triggering mode and an event triggering mode, and acquiring, processing and generating a diagnosis data source with time sequence characteristics in real time; step-by-step anomaly recognition is carried out through a three-level anomaly recognition mechanism, an anomaly feature set is extracted, cooperative fault positioning is carried out in combination with a weighted cosine similarity algorithm and fault tree analysis, fault types and severity levels are judged, and a fault positioning report is generated; the optimal self-adaptive recovery strategy is matched to carry out preliminary recovery, the strategy is divided into light, medium and deep levels according to serious levels and is provided with priorities, and the scheme with the minimum influence on the core service is preferentially selected; the recovery effect is verified through multi-dimensional comparison, and processing is carried out according to the recovery effect. According to the method, the real-time accurate diagnosis, intelligent positioning and self-adaptive recovery of the fault of the embedded controller are realized, and the reliability and self-healing capability of the system are improved.

Systems and methods for thermal-aware network selection in an Information Handling System (IHS) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive telemetry data from an Embedded Controller (EC) coupled to the processor; and in response to a determination that a policy is met based, at least in part, upon the telemetry data, modify a network communication of a pre-boot application.

Systems and methods for handling communications between a host Operating System (OS) application and a display controller through an Embedded Controller (EC) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, by a kernel driver of a host OS, a message from a host OS application; and at least in part in response to a determination that the processor comprises a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor, send a request to an EC, where the request is configured to cause the EC to trigger a display's Built-In Self-Test (BIST) by a display controller.

The invention provides a shaftless drilling winch and an intelligent cooperative control and thermal management method thereof, and the method is implemented based on an embedded controller and a sensor network, and comprises the following steps: data real-time acquisition, intelligent lubrication heat dissipation control, dual-motor dynamic cooperative control, predictive maintenance management based on a health state, and fault tolerance and degradation operation. According to the system, efficient cooperative driving, on-demand accurate heat management and state-based predictive health maintenance of the winch are achieved, the problems that a traditional winch control system is poor in collaboration, extensive in heat management, lack of health management and the like are solved, and the safety, economical efficiency and modernization level of drilling operation are remarkably improved. According to the invention, the winch is changed from traditional mechanical equipment to intelligent equipment with self-sensing, intelligent decision making and active health management capabilities.

The invention provides a power management device and a power conversion method. The power management device comprises a step-down circuit, a step-up circuit, a first O-ring diode circuit and a second O-ring diode circuit. The step-down circuit adjusts an input voltage provided by an input power supply to a first voltage. The embedded controller is activated and powered based on a first voltage. The boost circuit adjusts the first voltage to a second voltage. The system device is activated and powered based on the second voltage. The activated system device provides first and second alternative power sources on first and second alternative power source paths, respectively. After the system device is started, the first O-ring diode circuit and the second O-ring diode circuit respectively supply the first alternative power supply and the second alternative power supply to the embedded controller and the system device. The step-down circuit and the step-up circuit are turned off after the system device is turned on and a predetermined delay time has elapsed.

The invention relates to a multi-body dynamics simulation modeling method for a laser radar control system of a paddy field laser land leveler, and the method comprises the steps: building a whole machine mechanical model based on a multi-body dynamics simulation environment, enabling a virtual marking point and a measurement function to be equivalent to a laser radar sensing module, and integrating an embedded controller based on a built-in calculation function of software, thereby achieving the simulation modeling of the laser radar control system of the paddy field laser land leveler. Full-link closed-loop simulation of'perception-decision-execution-response 'is realized in a unified platform; by simulating various road excitation and operation conditions, the tracking precision, response speed and stability of a control algorithm can be directly verified in a virtual environment, and parameter optimization is completed. The method solves the key problem that a control system lacks a real controlled object and excessively depends on a physical model machine in the early stage of development, achieves full-digital system-level verification and performance prediction, can remarkably shorten the research and development period and reduce the development cost, and belongs to the technical field of agricultural machinery control system simulation verification.

Systems and methods for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-level processing of Out-of-Band (OOB) commands in heterogeneous computing platforms. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a heterogeneous computing platform having a plurality of devices, and an OOB Microcontroller Unit (MCU), Embedded Controller (EC), or networking device integrated into or coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform and distinct from a host processor of the heterogeneous computing platform, where the OOB MCU, EC, or networking device is configured to: receive an OOB packet while the host processor is in a low-power state, and execute an OOB command contained in the OOB packet, by the host processor, at least in part through initialization of UEFI without initialization of any video device.

Embodiments herein relate to a computing device in which an embedded controller (EC) detects an anomalous low-power state. When a processor in a chip package enters a low power state, such as a deep idle state, the EC obtains information to verify whether the activity of the processor is consistent with the low power state. The EC may communicate with the chip package via a serial peripheral interface to obtain counter data indicating idle state residence of subsystems of the chip package and internal temperature data. The EC may also access data from an external temperature sensor and a battery voltameter. The EC determines whether the counter data, the temperature, and the battery discharge rate are inconsistent with the processor entering the low power state. If there is an inconsistency, the EC may turn off or restart the computing device.

This invention discloses a method for recording the power-down and reset paths of an embedded controller, the embedded controller itself, and a vehicle. The method includes: when the embedded controller executes any preset power-down or reset procedure, before the procedure ends, writing a path identifier representing the procedure into the non-volatile memory area of ​​the embedded controller; after the embedded controller is powered on, reading the stored path identifier from the non-volatile memory area and assigning it a path flag; immediately writing a preset diagnostic flag into the non-volatile memory area to overwrite the path identifier; determining the state of the previous power-down or reset based on the value of the path flag and setting a corresponding fault flag; and outputting the path flag and the fault flag. This invention enables accurate recording of each power-down / reset path and reliable judgment of abnormal power failures, significantly improving system reliability and maintainability, and providing support for remote diagnostics and big data analysis, without incurring additional hardware costs.

The application discloses an intelligent petroleum hydrocarbon sampler system and relates to the technical field of petroleum hydrocarbon sampling. The intelligent petroleum hydrocarbon sampler system is provided with a heat insulation structure, the heat insulation effect is improved, the temperature inside the box body is detected in real time through a temperature feedback control module, cooling is performed by a refrigeration module, the temperature is controllable, the internal acrylic plate is cut into different sizes of matrix type storage grids, the sampling bottles are conveniently stored, the low-temperature design can maximally reduce the volatilization of petroleum hydrocarbon, the accuracy of preservation and monitoring is ensured, the reliable traceability of measured data is ensured, information is collected and entered, personnel can identify and record through an embedded controller, all data are entered at one time, the measurement data can be automatically uploaded through a communication interface and a digital platform, manual intervention is reduced, the quality traceability of all measured results is ensured, and intelligent management of collection is realized.

Systems and methods for handling communications between a host Operating System (OS) application and a display controller through an Embedded Controller (EC) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, by a kernel driver of a host OS, a message from a host OS application; and at least in part in response to a determination that the processor comprises a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor, send a request to an EC, where the request is configured to cause the EC to trigger a display's Built-In Self-Test (BIST) by a display controller.

An information handling system battery interfaces with a motherboard through a connector and receptacle that contribute to a standardized coupling arrangement while accommodating a wide variety of footprints and component configurations. The connector terminates to pin terminals that mount to a circuit board and gap terminals that accept a wire to accommodate different coupling arrangements. The connector conductive elements slide horizontally into receptacle conductive members or alternatively press down for a vertical coupling. Insertion of the battery connector into the battery receptacle completes a circuit detected by an embedded controller that can selectively reset the system in the event of a hangup.