Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Wangdat, Inc.

Eric L Severtson

Horia Cristian Simionescu

Michael Stephen Rothberg

Gregory B Thelin

Lynn Charles Berning

Daniel R Ostrander

Robert Joseph Harvey

Curtis Adam Harper

Roger G Mintzlaff

John Edward Lauber

David Alexander Jachmann

Aleksandr Dean Schwerdt

An apparatus for electrically coupling an electrical interface of a unit under test with a debugging component includes a bracket assembly having a socket configured to electrically couple with the electrical interface, a baseplate assembly configured to secure the unit under test on a plate, a crane assembly coupled to the bracket assembly, and a cable assembly. The crane assembly is configured to enable movement of the socket relative to the electrical interface in each of a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, and an angular direction; and secure the socket in place relative to the electrical interface while applying a force by the socket against the electrical interface. The cable assembly is associated in part with the bracket assembly and is configured to electrically couple with the socket at a first end and with the debugging component at a second end.

Apparatus and method for electrically coupling a unit under test with a debugging component

A disk drive is disclosed for executing a preemptive multitasking operating system comprising tasks of varying priority, including a disk task for processing disk commands by initiating seek operations and configuring parameters of a read/write channel, a host task for initiating disk commands in response to host commands received from a host computer, a background task for initiating disk commands to perform background operations including a defect scan of the disk, and an execution task for arbitrating the disk commands generated by the host task and the background task and for transmitting the arbitrated disk commands to the disk task.

Disk drive executing a preemptive multitasking operating system comprising tasks of varying priority

A disk drive is disclosed for executing a program comprising a plurality of instructions. The disk drive comprises a primary memory for storing the instructions, and a cache memory for caching the instructions. The cache management is enhanced by not re-filling the cache due to accessing a non-sequential immediate operand.

Disk drive employing enhanced instruction cache management to facilitate non-sequential immediate operands

A method and apparatus for storing compressed data on DAT media. The data is stored into a standard DDS group format prior to compression, and after compression, the group is stored into a variable number of frames for recording onto the DAT media. If the compression does not meet a predetermined standard of efficiency, then the group is stored in a fixed number of frames and recorded onto the DAT media without compression.

Method and apparatus for recording compressed data on DAT media

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Trabuco Canyon, CA, United States of America

Eric L Severtson