120 results about "Programmable circuits" patented technology

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for device authentication in a dedicated private network. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to utilize the machine readable instructions to generate first credentials associated with a first network based on second credentials associated with a second network, the first credentials including first location data corresponding to a dedicated private network (DPN), cause a mobile device to program a programmable subscriber identity module (SIM) of the mobile device based on the first credentials, and permit the mobile device to access the DPN based on a determination that second location data corresponding to the mobile device and included with the programmable SIM corresponds to the first location data.

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to generate potential actions to, if implemented, re-assign a client device in the wireless network from a first base station device in the wireless network to another base station device in the wireless network, wherein the re-assignment is to cause the first base station device to stop communications with the client device and is to cause the another base station device to begin communications with the client device; execute a first machine learning model to predict which of the potential actions would satisfy a quality of service (QoS) threshold; execute a second machine learning model to select one of the potential actions predicted to satisfy the QoS threshold; and implement the selected action within the wireless network.

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for virtual execution environments and interface circuitry in time-sensitive networking. An example compute device includes interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and at least one programmable circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions. The example at least one programmable circuit is to be programmed execute a first application for a time-sensitive network (TSN) in a first virtual execution environment (VEE) and execute a second application for the TSN in a second VEE. Additionally, the example at least one programmable circuit is to cause first real-time traffic to be sent from the first application to the interface circuitry based on a first schedule and cause second real-time traffic to be sent from the second application to the interface circuitry based on a second schedule such that transmission of the first real-time traffic does not occur at the same time as transmission of the second real-time traffic.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve webservers using dynamic load balancers. An example method includes identifying a first and second data object type associated with media and with first and second data objects of the media. The example method also includes enqueuing first and second event data associated with the first and second data object in a first and second queue in first circuitry in a die of programmable circuitry. The example method further includes dequeuing the first and second event data into a third and fourth queue associated with a first and second core of the programmable circuitry, the first circuitry separate from the first core and the second core. The example method additionally includes causing the first and second core to execute a first and second computing operation based on the first and second event data in the third and fourth queues.

An example apparatus disclosed includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of execute or instantiate the machine readable instructions to identify a first source of object label representation and a second source of object label representation, the first source or the second source including an estimated label prototype vector associated with an input text-based object query, determine a first contextualized embedding for the first source and a second contextualized embedding for the second source, and combine the first contextualized embedding and the second contextualized embedding to generate a candidate object representation associated with the input text-based object query.

Disclosed is a technical solution to accelerate deep learning with inter-iteration scheduling based on operation categorization associated with the deep learning. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: classify a group of operations of a distributed deep learning workload based on a resource utilization of the group of operations; select at least two operations of the group of operations for overlapped execution based on the classification and a dependency analysis of the at least two operations of the group of operations; and perform a distributed training of the distributed deep learning workload based on an execution schedule that includes overlapped execution of the selected at least two operations.

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for space-based monitoring of aircraft. An example space-based apparatus to monitor aircraft includes communication interface circuitry to access aircraft operation data; machine-readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to: identify an anomaly based on the aircraft operation data; prepare an updated mission plan for an aircraft based on the anomaly; and communicate the updated mission plan to the aircraft.

An example apparatus includes: a first portion of storage having a first firmware image, the first firmware image including first instructions; a second portion of storage having a second firmware image, the second firmware image including firmware update instructions; memory circuitry; and programmable circuitry configured to at least one of instantiate or execute the first instructions of the first portion of storage to: implement the first firmware image in the first portion of storage; and copy the firmware update instructions of the second firmware image to the memory circuitry.

Methods, devices, systems, and manufactured articles for the automatic processing of preliminary peripheral data are disclosed. An exemplary device includes at least one programmable circuit for using a machine learning model to select a first application or a second application based on context information associated with at least one of the first application, the second application, or an input signal from a peripheral device, and to forward the input signal to the selected first application or second application.

The invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and an article of manufacture for mitigating interference in Doppler distance representations. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry (212) for receiving digital samples representing a chirp frame. The apparatus includes programmable circuitry (214) programmable by instructions to: determine, for a range Fourier transform (FT) representation of the chirp frame, a reconstructed chirp in the chirp frame that includes chirps of corrupted samples; determining a first Doppler range representation of the chirp frame based on the range FT representation, the range FT representation including the reconstructed chirp; and determining a second Doppler distance representation as an element-by-element minimum between the first Doppler distance representation and a third Doppler distance representation of the chirp frame, the third Doppler distance representation based on the digital samples including reconstructed samples that replace the corrupted samples of the chirp. Other examples are described.

An automatic uncoupled charging device includes a control system, a power system, a charging system, and an auxiliary system. The control system is equipped with a programmable circuit to control a screw speed. Explosives are charged into a container through manual handling or flowing from a mixed explosive vehicle. Explosive bags with different diameters are installed at the bottom of a discharge port. The device is set to start with one click, and the screw drives the explosive into the bag, achieving uncoupled charging. An automatic uncoupled charging method applying to the automatic uncoupled charging device not only reduces labor intensity, achieves fast charging, improves labor efficiency, but also achieves the goal of “mechanization reducing personnel”, further advancing towards the essential safety of blasting construction.

An arithmetic operator includes: multiple arithmetic elements each serving as a programmable circuit capable of programming a logical function; and a data bus that connects two or more of the multiple arithmetic elements and that transmits transmission data. The transmission data includes first data used in one of the two or more arithmetic elements and second data used to reconfigure a logical function of any one of the two or more arithmetic elements, the transmission data destined for each of the two or more arithmetic elements on the same data bus is collectively transmitted on the same data bus at a cycle different with each of the two or more arithmetic elements, and each arithmetic elements receives the first data and the second data for own arithmetic element by extracting the transmission data destined for the own arithmetic element at a cycle associated with the own arithmetic element.

This disclosure relates generally to vehicle headlights and, more particularly, to camera-based control of the light emission angle of a vehicle headlight. An example headlight leveling apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, programmable circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to based on at least one image captured by a front camera of a vehicle, determine a geometric relationship between an output light emitting direction of a headlight and a direction defining a current orientation of the front camera, determine a current pitch angle of the front camera based on images captured by the front camera, and control a vertical light emission angle of the headlight based on the geometric relationship and the current pitch angle of the front camera.

This invention relates to a photonic chip implemented through the combination and interconnection of identically oriented programmable photonic processing blocks, all of which are parallel along their longitudinal axes, implemented on a single photonic chip capable of implementing one or more simultaneous photonic circuits with optical feedback paths and / or linear multiport switching through appropriate programming of its resources and selection of its input and output ports. The invention also relates to a parallel field-programmable photonic array (P-FPPA) comprising at least one programmable circuit block based on an identically oriented / parallel adjustable beamsplitter with independent coupling and phase-shift configurations and a peripheral high-performance architecture.

A disclosed example non-transitory machine readable storage medium includes instructions to cause programmable circuitry to at least determine, based on output from at least one sensor, (i) a first parameter corresponding to a first position in a casing of a gas turbine engine, the first position at or downstream of a volume at which flows from respective ones of bleed offtakes are combined, and (ii) a second parameter corresponding to a second position in a casing of a gas turbine engine, the second position upstream from the first position, determine a status of at least one of the bleed offtakes or the at least one sensor based on the first and second parameters, and provide or indicate the status in response to the status indicating improper operation of at least one of the bleed offtakes or the at least one sensor.

An exemplary setup includes an interface circuit arrangement for receiving digital samples representing a frame of chirps.The device includes a programmable circuit arrangement that can be programmed by instructions to: determine a distance Fourier transform (FT) representation of the frame of chirps; determine a reconstructed chirp for a chirp in the frame of chirps that contains a faulty sample; determine a first Doppler distance representation of the frame of chirps based on the distance FT representation, where the distance FT representation contains the reconstructed chirp; and determine a second Doppler distance representation as an element-wise minimum between the first Doppler distance representation and a third Doppler distance representation of the frame of chirps, where the third Doppler distance representation is based on the digital samples, the digital samples containing a reconstructed sample that substitutes for the faulty sample of the chirp. Other examples are described.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system includes: interface circuitry; programmable circuitry; and instructions to program the programmable circuitry to: obtain audio of a media presentation; obtain ambient noise in an area associated with the media presentation; determine an intensity of a difference between the audio and the ambient noise; and determine an engagement level of an audience of the media presentation based on a duration the intensity satisfies a threshold value.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to automatically process an image based on a detection of a face mask. An example article of manufacture include instructions that, when executed, cause programmable circuitry to at least: map a characteristic of an upper area of a face of a person in an image to a color plot including a face skin tone cone; map a characteristic of a lower area of the face to the color plot; and identify a presence or an absence of a face mask based on the respective positions of the characteristic of the upper area and the characteristic of the lower area relative to the skin tone cone.

A device may determine, by a microprocessor, whether the circuit breaker is performing a task which is already in progress, wherein when the determine is that the circuit breaker is performing the task, store the second firmware data to a second location of the memory. A device may receive, by a circuit breaker, a second firmware data transmitted from a computing device, wherein the circuit breaker already has a first firmware data stored in a first location of memory. A device may the first location of the memory being a firmware location for execution to operate the circuit breaker according to the first firmware data. A device may set, by the microprocessor, the second location of the memory as the firmware location, wherein the reset of the circuit breaker executes the second firmware data at the second location to operate the circuit breaker according to the second firmware data.

The application relates to a 16Bit off-chip one-time programmable circuit, which belongs to the technical field of programming circuits and comprises basic storage units, a clock module, a pulse generator module, a counter module, a latch module, a code decoder module, a shutdown delay module and a switch module. Under the joint action of the related modules, the electromigration resistance change memory is easy to realize due to the resistor device, the mask plate manufacturing cost is reduced, the current for causing the electromigration of the resistor is smaller than the current for fusing the FUSE resistor, the metal splashing does not affect the safety of the surrounding circuit, the area required by the electromigration resistance change memory is small, the chip flow cost is reduced, the comparator can detect the slight change of the resistance value, the fault tolerance rate of data writing is increased to a certain extent, data can be written after the whole is packaged into a chip, and the calibration of the parameters of the chip in the actual use environment is facilitated.

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for providing hardware enforcement security for a service grid are disclosed. An example first server for a service grid, disclosed herein, to provide hardware-enforced security for the service grid, includes programmable circuitry, the programmable circuitry is to implement at least one of instantiating the machine-readable instructions or executing the machine-readable instructions to detect a second server of the service grid, store a public key of the second server in the first enclave, and add the second server to the service grid after attestation of the second enclave is obtained.

An example apparatus includes: interface circuitry; and programmable circuitry configured to: obtain a set of processor instructions; select a first subset of processor instructions from the set; encrypt the first subset of processor instructions; select a second subset of processor instructions from the set; compute a plurality of message authentication codes (MACs) corresponding to the second subset of processor instructions; cause the interface circuitry to write the set of processor instructions to an external memory; and cause the interface circuitry to write a description of the first subset of processor instructions, a description of the second subset of processor instructions, and the plurality of MACs to the external memory.

An apparatus includes a host interface, a network interface, and a programmable circuitry communicably coupled to the host interface and the network interface. The programmable circuitry can include one or more processors to implement network interface functionality, and a discrete trusted platform module (dTPM) to enable the one or more processors to establish a secure boot mechanism for the apparatus, wherein the one or more processors are to instantiate a virtual TPM (vTPM) manager that is associated with the dTPM, the vTPM manager to host vTPM instances corresponding to one or more virtualized environments hosted on at least one of the programmable circuitry or a host device communicable coupled to the apparatus.

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to generate and / or utilize hints in tiered memories and storage. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry; instructions; and at least one programmable circuitry to be programmed by the instructions to: generate operational constraint hint information based on a pragma included in programming code; and insert a machine readable instruction into an application corresponding to the programming code based on the operational constraint hint information.

An example apparatus includes: memory circuitry structured to store an array of data; streaming engine circuitry coupled to the memory circuitry; and programmable circuitry coupled to the memory circuitry and the streaming engine circuitry, the programmable circuitry configured to at least one of execute or instantiate machine-readable instructions to at least: cause the streaming engine circuitry to copy a portion of the array of data from a memory location in the memory circuitry to a buffer responsive to the programmable circuitry processing the portion of the array of data; and write a transpose of the portion of the array of data to the memory location in the memory circuitry.

Systems, devices, articles, and methods for validating results of nucleic acid amplification reaction tests are disclosed. An example device includes programmable circuitry to instantiate or execute at least one of machine-readable instructions to: calculate amplitude differences between consecutive cycles of a plurality of cycles in a fluorescent signal obtained from the test; determine a sum of the amplitude differences between consecutive cycles; identify a final amplitude; identify a minimum amplitude of the plurality of cycles; determine a distance as a difference between the final amplitude and the minimum amplitude; determine a ratio of the sum to the distance; and validate a test result based on the ratio.

According to various embodiments, an array of elements forms an artificially-structured material. The artificially-structured material can also include an array of tuning mechanisms included as part of the array of elements that are configured to change material properties of the artificially-structured material on a per-element basis. The tuning mechanisms can change the material properties of the artificially-structured material by changing operational properties of the elements in the array of elements on a per-element basis based on one or a combination of stimuli detected by sensors included in the array of tuning mechanisms, programmable circuit modules included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, data stored at individual data stores included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, and communications transmitted through interconnects included as part of the array of elements.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for private network mobility management. An example private network in a box includes interface circuitry to communicate with multi-access terrestrial network (TN) nodes and non-terrestrial network (NTN) nodes, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry. The example programmable circuitry is to generate a first mesh associated with a geographical area of the private network and a second mesh associated with the geographical area. The example programmable circuitry is also to initiate at least one of the multi-access TN nodes in alignment with the first mesh and at least one of the NTN nodes in alignment with the second mesh. Additionally, the example programmable circuitry is to facilitate communication associated with at least one user equipment within at least one of the first mesh or the second mesh using the private network.

Methods and apparatus to provide efficient tracking of computer resource utilization are disclosed. An example machine readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause programmable circuitry to determine whether at least one of a first intermediate node or a second intermediate node can satisfy a first request associated with a root node, after the determination, update at least one of a first value of the first intermediate node or a first value of the second intermediate node and a second value of the root node, determine whether a first child node can satisfy a second request associated with the first child node, and after a determination that the first child node can satisfy the second request, update a first value of the first child node, a second value of the first intermediate node, and the second value of the root node.