Atonarp Inc.

Ipflex Inc.

Axion Research Inc.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Tomoyoshi Sato

Kenji Ikeda

Hiroshi Shimura

Prakash Sreedhar Murthy

Akira Imai

Takeshi Sato

A data processing device includes a data processing unit including a plurality of elements and wiring groups that connect the plurality of elements, wherein respective elements in the plurality of elements include: a logic element; an acquisition unit that switches on and off an input side of the logic element for any wire out of the wiring groups on a cycle-by-cycle basis to latch input data; and a post unit that switches on and off an output side of the logic element for any wire out of the wiring groups on a cycle-by-cycle basis, and the data processing unit also includes a timing control unit that controls logic executed by the logic element and functions of the acquisition unit and the post unit on a cycle-by-cycle basis.

Data processing device and control method therefor

A netlist converter, which generates configuration information for reconfiguring a reconfigurable logic operation unit, includes: a mapping unit that enumerates k-feasible cuts where the number of nodes after cutting is an integer k or fewer, out of all cuts for each node included in a netlist generated based on a specification to be processed in the logic operation unit; and a generating unit that generates configuration information including element reconfiguration information that reconfigures elements by selecting cuts assigned to the elements out of the enumerated k-feasible cuts and channel reconfiguration information for reconfiguring the data transfer channels to realize the netlist by connecting the reconfigured elements.

System and method that generate reconfiguration information

There is provided an analyzing apparatus including an irradiation unit irradiating a first point with a laser, a convergence unit causing an analysis target to converge at the first point, and a unit analyzing a sample gas including a substance that has been irradiated with the laser at the first point using an ion mobility sensor. One example of the convergence unit includes a unit causing the analysis target to be captured in a carrier substance in a liquid state; and a discharging unit discharging the carrier substance including the analysis target to the first point.

Analyzing apparatus

An olfactory system () capable of detecting a threat includes: a detection unit () including an IMS sensor () that outputs IMS data () relating to chemical substances included in fluid at a sampling point; a local memory () storing a library () including a specifying pattern () generated when a specified chemical substance was detected by the IMS sensor (); and a matching unit () that routinely compares and matches the IMS data () and the specifying pattern () for monitoring purposes included in the library ().

Apparatus for detecting chemical substances

There is provided a monitoring apparatus that monitors abnormalities in a system including a plurality of components or products. The plurality of components or products respectively include a plurality of types of microcapsules that release, due to specific causes, a plurality of marker chemical substances respectively, the marker chemical substances having respectively different ion mobilities. The monitoring apparatus includes an ion mobility sensor that detects the plurality of marker chemical substances. By detecting the marker chemical substances, the monitoring apparatus is capable of identifying the occurrence of an abnormal state, the type of abnormal state, the occurrence location, the extent of the abnormal state, and the like.

Apparatus monitoring for abnormalities

A movable olfactory robot dog () includes an IMS unit () acquiring chemical substance-related information relating to chemical substances included in external air () respectively obtained from left and right nostrils (L) and (R), and an event monitoring unit () that determines the occurrence of an event and occurrence direction of the event relative to the robot dog () based on a change in the chemical substance-related information respectively acquired at the left and right nostrils (L) and (R).

Robot

There is provided a transfer device () that transfers ionized substances in a first direction. The transfer device () includes a drift tube () and the drift tube () includes electrode plates () and () constructing an outer wall and a plurality of ring electrodes () disposed inside the tube. The ring electrodes () forms a first AC electric field for linear driving that causes the ionized substances to travel in the first direction that is the axial direction. The electrode plates () and () form an asymmetric second AC electric field that deflects the direction of travel of the ionized substances.

Ion transfer device

There is provided a chip-type sampling apparatus to be attached so that a sampling side of the sampling apparatus faces the skin, the apparatus including a porous adsorption layer that faces the sampling side and has a pore diameter in a range of 0.1 to 1000 nm. One example of the adsorption layer includes at least three porous layers with different central pore diameters that are laminated from the sampling side in descending order of the central pore diameters. The sampling apparatus should preferably also include a layer that sucks air through the adsorption layer.

Sampling apparatus

There is provided an analysis apparatus including a unit for preparing a sample gas to be supplied to an ion mobility sensor and a control unit equipped with a function of controlling the unit that prepares the gas. The unit for preparing the gas includes a concentration adjusting mechanism that changes the concentration of the target chemical included in the sample gas, and the control unit includes a driver that acquires a measurement result of the ion mobility sensor and a flow control unit that controls the concentration adjusting mechanism in a direction where is improvement in the measurement result.

Apparatus preparing samples to be supplied to an ion mobility sensor

The present invention provides an architecture codeincluding object circuit informationfor mapping an object circuit that is at least part of a circuit for executing an application onto part of a logic circuit where circuits can be dynamically reconfigured, interface circuit informationfor mapping an interface circuit in contact with the object circuit onto the logic circuit, and boundary conditionto be realized in the interface circuit. A data processing system in the present invention includes a load unit obtaining an architecture code, a mapping unit for mapping the object circuit and the interface circuit in contact with the object circuit onto the logic circuit region according to the object circuit informationand the interface circuit informationof the architecture code, and a behavior control unit for controlling the interface circuit according to the boundary conditionof the architecture code.

Data processing system

An integrated circuit device comprising a data processing block including a first matrix and a second matrix is disclosed. The first matrix and the second matrix respectively include a plurality of types of operation units and a wiring group for connecting the plurality of types of operation units, a configuration of data flow with the plurality of types of operation units being changeable by changing a route of the wiring group for data supplying to the plurality of types of operation units. One of the plurality of types of operation units is a delay type operation unit that include a data path suited to processing for delaying a transfer time of data. The wiring group of the first matrix and the wiring group of the second matrix are separated, and the integrated circuit device further comprises a plurality of the delay type operation units that are arranged along boundary of the first matrix and the second matrix for connecting the wiring group of the first matrix and the wiring group of the second matrix via data paths included in the plurality of the delay type operation units.

IC containing matrices of plural type operation units with configurable routing wiring group and plural delay operation units bridging two wiring groups

The present invention provides a data processing system that includes a plurality of processing units and first, second, and third data transfer means. The first data transfer means connects a plurality of processing units in a network, exchanges first data, and configures at least one reconfigurable data flow by connecting at least two of the plurality of processing units. The second data transfer means supplies control information that loads setting data as second data to the plurality of processing units in parallel. The third data transfer means supplies the setting data to each of the plurality of the processing units individually. Setting data is data for setting a data flow with a different function by directly or indirectly changing other processing unit connected to a processing unit via the first data transfer means, and/or changing a process included in the processing unit.

Data processing system and control method utilizing a plurality of date transfer means

An integrated circuit device with a data processing block is provided, the data processing block including a plurality of operation units that are arranged in a matrix, a plurality of first wire sets that extend in a first direction in the matrix and transfer input data of each operation unit, a plurality of second wire sets that extend in a second direction in the matrix and transfer output data of each operation unit, and a plurality of switching units that are arranged at each intersection between the first and second wire sets and can select and connect any wire in the first wire sets and any wire in the second wire sets. The plurality of operation units include a plurality of types of operation units with different data paths that are suited to special-purpose, processing, with an arrangement of operation units of the same type in the first direction or the second direction being formed in at least part of the data processing block. The functioning of the integrated circuit device can be dynamically changed by changing the configuration of the operation units and the integrated circuit device is composed of operation units with different data paths that are suited to special-purpose processing so that the integrated circuit device is both compact and economical.

Configurable interconnection of multiple different type functional units array including delay type for different instruction processing

An instruction set is provided which has a first field for describing an execution instruction for designating content of an operation or data processing that is executed in at least one processing unit forming a data processing system, and a second field for describing preparation information for setting the processing unit to such a state that is ready to execute an operation or data processing that is executed according to the execution instruction, thereby making it possible to provide a control program having the instruction set in which preparation information independent of the execution instruction described in the first field is described in the second field. Accordingly preparation for execution of the subsequent execution instruction is made based on the preparation information. In the instruction set, since destination of branch instruction is described in the second field and is known in advance, the problems that cannot be solved with a conventional instruction set can be solved.

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Tsukuba, Japan

Tomoyoshi Sato