Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takahiro Kondo

Tsuyoshi Nakamura

Tomonori Yonezawa

Takayuki Sasaki

Maiko Taruki

Ryu Okuda

Nobuyuki Sowa

Kenta Shirai

Hiroki Otsuki

Hiroki Mori

Provided is a guide shoe for a passenger conveyor, including: a base portion to be slid across a skirt guard provided along a moving direction of a plurality of steps that are movably provided; and a weight containing a material having a specific gravity larger than a specific gravity of a material of the base portion, which is provided to the base portion.

Passenger conveyor and guide shoe for passenger conveyor

A simulator operable to simulate behaviors of a processor using software is provided. The simulator includes a command input unit, a memory element, a register element, a control element, a resource information storage unit, and a resource access-analyzing unit. The command input unit is operable to analyze/process entered commands. The memory element is operable to store executive instructions issued by the processor and data treated by the processor. The register element is operable to contain data for use in calculation. The control element is operable to access the memory element and register element in accordance with the executive instructions. The resource information storage unit is operable to contain specified resource information and a piece of read/write information for each piece of the resource information. The resource access-analyzing unit is operable to compare access destinations (the memory element and register element to be accessed by the control element) and a read/write classification with the resource information and read/write information contained in the resource information storage unit, thereby practicing a resource access analysis as to whether or not the access destinations are allowed by the resource information and read/write information.

Simulator and simulation method for behaviors of processors

The processing quantity of each description part is estimated through a source code analysis of a system operation description language or through simulation, or power consumption of each function is estimated through an operation description analysis of functions. Predetermined threshold values are set with respect to the processing quantity and the power consumption of each description part or function, so as to determine S/W and H/W implementation, and then, S/W and H/W partitioning is carried out. Thereafter, it is determined whether or not the total processing quantity or the total power consumption satisfies a desired design condition. Also, the S/W and H/W partitioning can be adjusted again in comprehensive consideration of the power consumption and the processing quantity, and the accuracy in the S/W and H/W partitioning can be improved by providing an instruction set simulator with a function to analyze power consumption. Moreover, an interface between S/W and H/W can be generated in the S/W and H/W partitioning so as to be automatically inserted into a S/W implemented part or a H/W implemented part.

Method of designing semiconductor integrated circuit device, method of analyzing power consumption of circuit and apparatus for analyzing power consumption

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Takahiro Kondo