Month of June 2004

Lithium battery chargers are intelligent chargers. When charging lithium battery packs, the charger can indicate a “waiting to charge” state to the end user. This “waiting to charge” state is often the result of a battery heating up beyond the maximum allowed threshold for charging. Ambient temperature has a...

In a static timing tool, automatic calculation of appropriate minimum acceptable pulse width values for non-50% duty cycle can be accomplished using the multiplier and offset technique and taking into account the potentially different values of active and inactive interval specified by the user when he defines...

Manual entry of pulse width information as input to static timing tool can be replaced with automated computation using a multiplier and offset formula and thereby reduce the risk of unidentified pulse width problems escaping into the design due to typographical errors or failure to update fixed value entries to...

The following describes a programming method which allows updates which are not dependent upon one another to be performed concurrently across a remote geographically mirrored set of systems while preserving the sequence of order dependent operations.

Thin film magnetic recording heads are manufactured via a deposition process followed by sequential dicing and polishing steps. During the final slider dicing operation, the edges of the sliders become chipped due to the brittle nature of the AlTiC substrate and result in a rough surface on the edge of the sliders. ...

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