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Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Tactical Fabs, Inc.

Altera Corporation

Quicklogic Corporation

Nif/t, LLC

Mammen Thomas

Richard L Bechtel

Susan George

Matthew Weinberg

George Madathilparambil George

James W Hively

Andrew K Chan

John M Birkner

Ralph G Whitten

Hua-Thye Chua

Neil Mammen

Wen C Ko

Greg Maturi

Robert J Strain

Atiye Bayman

Sarah Peter

Elizabeth Thomas

Sagar Edara

Linda J Koyama

Harry Jay Levinson

Ali A Iranmanesh

Sanjay Agarwal

Arun Mammen Thomas

Ronald Lloyd Schlupp

William L Price

Yan A Borodovsky

M Varghese Ninan

Scott W Wang

Danny Ma

Shiao-Hoo Chang

A flat field transistor (FFT) based dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) (FFT-DRAM) is disclosed. The FFT-DRAM comprises an epitaxially grown source region comprising a source extension and an epitaxial source over and in contact with the source extension. The epitaxially grown source region is over a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The FFT-DRAM further comprises a trench capacitor structurally integrated into the epitaxially grown source region. The trench capacitor has a first terminal formed by the epitaxially grown source region and a second terminal being a conductive material filling one or more trenches of the trench capacitor. The second terminal is connected to a ground terminal or a fixed voltage terminal.

FFT-DRAM

Datalink frames or networking packets contain protocol information in the header and optionally in the trailer of a frame or a packet. We are proposing a method in which part of or all of the protocol information corresponding to a frame or a packet is transmitted separately in another datalink frame. The 'Separately Transmitted Protocol Information' is referred to as STPI. The STPI contains enough protocol information to identify the next hop node or port. STPI can be used avoid network congestion and improve link efficiency. Preferably, there will be one datalink frame or network packet corresponding to each STPI, containing the data and the rest of the protocol information and this frame/packet is referred to as DFoNP. The creation of STPI and DFoNP is done by the originator of the frame or packet such as an operating system.

Delaying layer 2 frame transmission

A pulling mechanism using a motor, and a rolling tube or rod of sufficient strength to pull a patient lying on a sheet on the bed is provided to move patients up the bed with little manual effort. In most hospitals and care facilities a common problem is that patients tend to slip down the beds causing discomfort for the patient. Patients have to be moved-up to comfortable position on the bed. Currently this is done manually by two nursing staff one on either side of the bed, with the patient on a slide sheet and pulling the patient manually up using the slide sheet. This simple but strenuous operation has been the cause of back problems for many nursing staff. The current invention is a way to reduce or eliminate this injury to nursing staff by mechanizing the pull-up operation.

Patient puller

A mechanism using a motor, and a rolling tube or rod of sufficient strength to apply a pull force on one side of a sheet on the bed with the patient lying on the sheet is provided to help turn patients on his side with little manual effort. Patients having mobility issues under care in homes, nursing-homes or hospitals have to be turned on their sides often to reduce formation of bed sores among other reasons. Currently this is done manually by nurses or caregivers turning the patient by pulling up on one side of the sheet to turn the patient on his side. This simple but strenuous operation has been the cause of back problems for many caregivers. The current invention is a way to reduce or eliminate this injury to caregivers by providing a mechanized help for the patient turning operation.

Data link frame reordering

FFT-dram

PCI Express is a Bus or I/O interconnect standard for use inside the computer or embedded system enabling faster data transfers to and from peripheral devices. The standard is still evolving but has achieved a degree of stability such that other applications can be implemented using PCIE as basis. A PCIE based interconnect scheme to enable switching and inter-connection between multiple PCIE enabled systems each having its own PCIE root complex, such that the scalability of PCIE architecture can be applied to enable data transport between connected systems to form a cluster of systems, is proposed. These connected systems can be any computing, control, storage or embedded system. The scalability of the interconnect will allow the cluster to grow the bandwidth between the systems as they become necessary without changing to a different connection architecture.

PCI express to PCI express based low latency interconnect scheme for clustering systems

Network congestion and packet reordering

Networking using PCI express

Network congestion avoidance

A method and process is described for providing Non-Invasive three dimensional (3-D) image of a patient such that during surgical or other procedures, the person performing the procedure can visually identify the organs and the location of the instruments in real time inside the body. Such a non-invasive imaging and reconstruction using spatially coordinated imaging in three dimensions is a very valuable tool especially to the surgical community. The high powered computing capabilities, advances in the imaging techniques, individually or in combination when combined with noise filtering and error correction capabilities, have made accurate 3-D imaging in real time from scans a reality. These 3-D images are also used as a diagnostic tool, a practice tool and a teaching tool by the medical community. There may be other applications in these and related areas which may emerge as technology develops and they become apparent to individuals practicing the art.

Non-invasive imager for medical applications

Method for congestion avoidance

Method for identifying next hop

PCI Express is a Bus or I/O interconnect standard for use inside the computer or embedded system enabling faster data transfers to and from peripheral devices. The standard is still evolving but has achieved a degree of stability such that other applications can be implemented using PCIE as basis. A PCIE based interconnect scheme to enable switching and inter-connection between external systems, such that the scalability can be applied to enable data transport between connected systems to form a cluster of systems is proposed. These connected systems can be any computing or embedded system. The scalability of the interconnect will allow the cluster to grow the bandwidth between the systems as they become necessary without changing to a different connection architecture.

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