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A microcontroller is disclosed. The microcontroller comprises a processor system and a high voltage interface coupled to the processor system and adapted to be coupled to a battery. The microcontroller further includes a battery management system for monitoring the battery and managing the battery based upon the monitoring of the battery. The microcontroller is a single chip. This one-chip solution saves design cost and PCB space in addition to broadening the functionality of the smart battery application. With the accuracy of the microcontroller, the charge status of the battery can be predicted more accurately and therefore effectively increases actual battery capacity.
1. A battery controller comprising:
a processor system including a data bus;
a battery interface coupled to the processor system, wherein a battery to be coupled to the battery interface comprises a plurality of cells, wherein the battery interface includes a plurality of inputs to the battery controller capable of operating in a range of about 4 volts to about 25 volts; and
a battery management system, including a plurality of cell-balancing field effect transistors coupled to the data bus, wherein a cell balancing field effect transistor is to be coupled to a cell of the plurality of cells,
wherein the battery controller is a single integrated circuit chip.
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detect when the battery controller enters a low power mode; and
place the voltage regulator circuit in a reduced power consumption mode when the low power mode of the battery controller is detected.
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13. A monolithic integrated circuit chip comprising:
a processor system including a data bus;
a battery interface coupled to the processor system, wherein a battery to be coupled to the battery interface comprises a plurality of cells, wherein the battery interface includes a plurality of inputs to the monolithic integrated circuit chip that are capable of operating in a range of about 4 volts to about 25 volts; and
a battery management system, including a plurality of cell-balancing field effect transistors coupled to the data bus, wherein a cell balancing field effect transistor is to be coupled to a cell of the plurality of cells.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/335,057, filed Jan. 18, 2006 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,759,902, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/645,460, filed Jan. 19, 2005, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
The present invention relates generally to a microcontroller and more specifically to a single chip microcontroller which includes a battery management and protection system.
The demand for portable applications such as laptop PCs, cell phones, and digital cameras is ever-increasing. These applications keep getting smaller and more advanced with tougher price competition every day. No application component can escape these toughening requirements, and the vital application power source, the battery, is certainly no exception. Battery capacity development is lagging behind the increasing demands from the application and control of the chemical reaction inside the battery is subject to severe safety requirements, making it difficult to push the limits of the chemical technology. To make life even more difficult for battery vendors, the battery is. Expected to shrink in size and price along with the rest of the application.
Advanced battery packs, or smart batteries, contain a large amount of electronic components. This includes fail-safe circuitry to ensure that the battery cell is not damaged or dangerous to the user; monitoring capabilities and logic to interpret battery conditions and estimate charge left depending on battery load; and communication with the host application. Current smart battery applications are implemented using at least two integrated circuits: a microcontroller for battery management and an analog front-end to ensure battery protection and measurements. In addition, some require a third chip, an EEPROM containing data specific to the battery chemistry, necessary for charge left estimation and other monitoring parameters. These solutions are costly and take up board space.
In addition, rechargeable battery cells typically have a low current capability. For applications where high instant energy is needed, this problem is overcome by using many cells in series. This results in a higher voltage allowing a higher energy with a lower current. The higher voltage is a problem for standard semiconductors as these typically can handle voltages between 2-5 volts. Smart battery vendors solve the high voltage input/output problem by using separate driver circuits. This adds to the cost, weight, and complexity of the system.
Accordingly, what is needed is a system and method for overcoming the above-identified issues. The present invention addresses such a need.
A microcontroller is disclosed. The microcontroller comprises a processor system and a high voltage interface coupled to the processor system and adapted to be coupled to a battery. The microcontroller further includes a battery management system for monitoring the battery and managing the battery based upon the monitoring of the battery. The microcontroller is a single chip. This one-chip solution saves design cost and PCB space in addition to broadening the functionality of the smart battery application. With the accuracy of the microcontroller, the charge status of the battery can be predicted more accurately and therefore effectively increases actual battery capacity.
The present invention relates generally to a microcontroller and more specifically to a single chip microcontroller which includes a battery management and protection system. The following description is presented to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention and is provided in the context of a patent application and its requirements. Various modifications to the preferred embodiments and the generic principles and features described herein will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features described herein.
A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides for a single chip device which includes battery management and protection. In a single die, the microcontroller includes a central processing unit and a voltage regulator capable of being powered directly from a multiple cell battery. The microcontroller also includes analog to digital converters tailored for battery monitoring, high voltage charge and discharge FET drivers, cell balancing capabilities, and independent battery protection circuitry. This one-chip solution saves design cost and PCB space in addition to broadening the functionality of the smart battery application. With the accuracy of the microcontroller, the charge status of the battery can be predicted more accurately. The more that is known about the charge status of the battery, the more the battery cell can be allowed to be depleted before reaching the level where the cell itself starts to be damaged. Accordingly, the actual capacity of the battery is increased.
The microcontroller features a high voltage input/output, which greatly helps reduce the total part count in the system. The microcontroller also includes an internal voltage regulator. The regulator enables operation of the microcontroller within a predetermined voltage range (i.e., from 4 volts to 25 volts). The analog to digital converter input channels can measure battery cell voltages as high as 25 volts, eliminating an external high voltage analog front-end. The device also provides a plurality of internal FET drivers capable of computing 25V levels, so no external FET drivers are required.
The battery monitoring capabilities of the microcontroller are tailored to smart batteries. The battery monitoring capabilities include a voltage analog to digital converter that at 12 volts DC provides for +−1 least significant (LSB) maximum error which provides good voltage measurements across the cells of the battery. A dedicated fuel gauging current sensing ADC provides continuous current monitoring at a high resolution (such as 18-bit resolution) and high accuracy. The high accuracy of the microcontroller battery monitoring is made possible by an on-chip voltage reference with +−0.1% error after calibration. An example of this type of calibration is described, for example, in U.S. application Ser. No. 10/795,027, entitled "Method and Apparatus of Temperature Compensation for an Integrated Circuit Chip Using On-Chip Sensor and Computation Means," filed on Mar. 4, 2004 and incorporated by reference in its entirety herein. The voltage and current measurements make it possible to estimate the charge left in the battery very accurately, allowing an application to draw more energy from the battery. It is known that a cell of the battery can be damaged if it is depleted below a certain voltage level. However, if this level is reliably known, it is safe to allow depletion very close to this level without risking cell damage. If the battery's state-of-charge is reliably known, it is possible to push the safe limit further towards depletion. With less refined measurement equipment, a guardband must be inserted into the estimate to ensure that the user will be able to shut down reliably. This guardband represents energy that could be used if the estimate really were to be trusted. A microcontroller in accordance with the present invention supplies the required accuracy to make use of this energy.
To describe the features of the present invention in more detail, refer now to the following discussion in conjunction with the accompanying figures. The present invention will be described in the context of a particular microcontroller; however, one of ordinary skill in the art recognizes that the features of the present invention could be utilized in a variety of devices and that use would be within the spirit and scope of the present invention. A device that incorporates the features of the present invention is a Smart Battery AVR (ATmega 406), manufactured by Atmel. The ATmega 406 is described in an ATmega 406 Preliminary Complete Document dated June 2005, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety herein.
The microcontroller 100 further includes a voltage regulator 102, a FET control circuitry 104, dedicated battery protection circuitry 106, integrated cell balancing FETs 108, high-voltage analog front-end, and two ADCs 110 and 114 with on-chip voltage reference 112 for battery fuel gauging.
In one embodiment, the CPU 116 combines a rich instruction set with the plurality of general purpose working registers. All of the registers are directly connected to the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) (not shown), allowing two independent registers to be accessed in one single instruction executed in one clock cycle. The resulting architecture is more code efficient while achieving throughputs up to ten times faster than conventional CISC microcontrollers.
The idle mode stops the CPU 116 while allowing the other chip function to continue functioning. The power-down mode allows the voltage regulator 102, battery protection circuitry 106, watchdog timer 124, and wake-up timer 136 to operate, while disabling all other chip functions until the next interrupt or hardware reset. In power-save mode, the wake-up timer 136, battery protection circuitry 106 and the CC-ADC 114 continues to run.
The on-chip Flash memory 130 allows the program memory to be reprogrammed in-system, by a conventional non-volatile memory programmer or by an on-chip boot program running on the CPU 116. A boot program can use any interface to download the application program in the Flash memory. Software in the boot Flash 130 will continue to run while the application Flash section is updated, providing true read-while-write operation. By combining the CPU 116 with the Flash memory 130, ADCs 110 and 114, dedicated battery protection circuitry 106, cell balancing FETs 108, and a voltage regulator 102 on a monolithic chip, the microcontroller 100 provides a highly flexible and cost effective solution for battery applications.
The voltage regulator 102 operates over a wide range of voltages, for example, 4.0-25 volts. This voltage is regulated to a constant supply voltage of nominally, for example, 3.3 volts for the integrated logic and analog functions.
The battery protection circuitry 106 monitors the battery voltage and charge/discharge current to detect illegal conditions and protect the battery from these when required. The illegal conditions are deep under-voltage during discharging, short-circuit during discharging and over-current during charging and discharging.
The integrated cell-balancing FETs 108 allow cell balancing algorithms to be implemented in software.
To describe the features of the microcontroller 100 in more detail, refer now to the following description in conjunction with the accompanying figures.
High Voltage I/O.
For battery monitoring and management devices several high voltage inputs and outputs are provided:
Input to voltage regulator. This input provides power to the device drawn directly from the battery, in the range of 4-25 volts.
Input to voltage ADC for individual cell voltage measurements.
Input to detect the presence of a battery charger.
High Voltage Open Drain Output (PCO).
Outputs to charge; discharge, and pre-charge FETs.
The high voltage technology makes it possible to integrate Flash program memory and logic as well as accurate analog circuitry on the same die as high-voltage tolerant I/O. The microcontroller 100 is high voltage (25 volts) tolerant, making it appropriate for multiple cell batteries.
Voltage Regulator 102
To minimize power consumption during inactive periods, the voltage regulator optionally contains a power consumption control module 202. When the microcontroller 100 enters low power modes, the voltage regulator 102 will reduce the consumption in the regulator itself, further contributing to low power consumption. An external decoupling capacitor 206 of IJ-IF or larger is provided for operation of the voltage regulator 102.
Battery Management
A smart battery will not only monitor battery parameters, it will also manage the environment of the battery according to these parameters. The microcontroller 100 provides battery charging algorithms, cell balancing, and communication with the host application to manage and protect the battery pack.
FET Control 104
The pulse width modulator (PWM) output from the 8-bit timer/counter 0, signal OC0B, can be configured to drive the C-FET 352 via FET driver 310, Precharge FET (PC-FET) driver 312 or both directly. This can be useful for controlling the charging of the battery cells. The PWM is configured by the 2:0 bits in the registers. Note that the OC0B pins do not need to be configured as an output. This means that the PWM output can be used to drive the C-FET 352 and/or the PC-FET 350 without occupying the OCOB-pin.
If C-FET 352 is disabled and D-FET 354 enabled, discharge current will run through the body-drain diode of the C-FE T 352 and vice versa. To avoid the potential heat problem from this situation, software must ensure that D-FET 354 is not disabled when a charge current is flowing, and that C-FET 352 is not disabled when a discharge current is flowing.
If the battery has been deeply discharged, large surge currents may result when a charger is connected. In this case, it is recommended to first pre charge the battery through a current limiting resistor. For this purpose, the microcontroller 100 provides a Precharge FET 350 (PC-FET) control output. This output is default enabled.
If the microcontroller 100 has entered the power-off mode, all FET control outputs will be disabled. When a charger is connected, the CPU 116 will wake up. When waking up from power-off mode, the C-FET 352 and D-FET 354 control outputs will remain disabled while PC-FET 350 is default enabled. When the CPU 116 detects that the cell voltages have risen enough to allow normal charging, it should enable the C-FET 352 and D-FET 354 control outputs and disable the PC-FET 350 control output. If the current battery protection (CBP) which will be described in detail hereinafter, has been activated, the current protection timer will ensure a hold-off time of 1 second before software can re-enable the external FETs.
Cell Balancing 108
Typical current through the cell balancing FETs 402 a-402 d (TCB) is 2 mA. The cell balancing FETs 402 a-402 d are controlled by the cell balancing control register 406. In this embodiment, neighboring FETs cannot be simultaneously enabled. If trying to enable two neighboring FETs, both will be disabled.
SMBuS™ 118
In the PC battery pack application, SMBus (System Management Bus) is the standard for communication with the PC. The microcontroller 100 features a two-wire serial interface compatible with the SMBus standard.
The SMBus interface can be used to upgrade the program code using the CPU's self-programming capabilities.
Battery Parameters
As before described, the microcontroller 100 includes an EEPROM 134 for data storage. It is organized as a separate data space, in which single bytes can be read and written. This data space is intended for storage of key parameters vital to the battery application.
Voltage Measurements
Individual cell voltages within the battery require differential ADC measurements. To adjust the level of the measured cell voltage to that of the ADC, an internal gain is provided. Single-ended channels are utilized to measure other parameters such as the regulated voltage, and temperature at various locations inside the battery pack.
Voltage ADC 110
To obtain accurate cell voltage measurements, calibration registers for the individual cell voltage gain in the analog front-end are provided. A factory calibration value is stored in the register, and a V-ADC conversion of a cell voltage is scaled with the corresponding calibration value to correct for gain error in the analog front-end. Typically this calibration occurs via software.
Counting Electrons
A PC battery pack is under constant abuse; it is constantly being depleted and then recharged at several levels of load. The smart battery is expected to tell how long it will be able to sustain the current load before it is depleted at any given time. In order to provide this service to the end user, the battery needs to know exactly how much energy has been drained from the battery so that this amount can be deducted from the full charge capacity of the pack. Once the remaining battery capacity is determined, a charge left algorithm can estimate the time left on the existing load. Calibration at various voltage points on the charge curve is not accurate enough; the smart battery has to actively log and count current charged into and discharged from the battery.
As before mentioned, the microcontroller 100 also includes a dedicated Coulomb counting analog-to-digital converter (CC-ADC) 114 optimized for Coulomb counting to sample the charge or discharge current flowing through the external sense resistor. This type of ADC is described in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/043,669 [3446P], entitled "Current Sensing Analog to Digital Converter and Method of Use," and assigned to the assignee of the present application.
The accumulate current output is a high-resolution, high accuracy output with programmable conversion time. The converted value is an accurate measurement of the average current flow during one conversion period. The CC-ADC 114 generates an interrupt each time a new accumulate current conversion has finished if the interrupt is enabled.
While the CC-ADC 114 is converting, the CPU 116 can enter sleep mode and wait for an interrupt from the accumulate current conversion. After adding the new accumulate current value for Coulomb Counting, the CPU 116 can go back to sleep again. This reduces the CPU workload, and allows more time spent in low power modes, reducing power consumption.
The CC-ADC 114 can generate an interrupt if the result of an instantaneous current conversion is greater than a programmable threshold. This allows the detection of a regular current condition. This allows an ultra-low power operation, where the CC-ADC 114 can be configured to enter a regular current detection mode with a programmable current sampling interval. The CC-ADC 114 will repeatedly perform one instantaneous current conversion, before it is turned off for a timing interval specified by the user software. This allows operating the regular current detection while keeping the CC-ADC 114 off most of the time.
Internal Voltage Reference 112
To provide low temperature drift after factory calibration, the microcontroller 100 includes a two-step calibration algorithm. This algorithm is described, for example, in the before-mentioned U.S. application Ser. No. 10/795,027. The first predetermined temperature such as 85° and the second step is performed at a second predetermined temperature such as room temperature. By default, the factory calibration is 85°, and the result is stored in the Flash memory. The second calibration step can be implemented by a user as an instruction in their test flow. The step requires an accurate input voltage and a stable room temperature. The calibration register can also be altered runtime to implement temperature compensation in software. Accuracy for any temperature inside the temperature range can be achieved.
Also, in another embodiment the microcontroller 100 includes an on-chip temperature sensor (not shown) for monitoring the die temperature. A voltage proportional-to-absolute temperature, VPTAT, is generated in the voltage reference circuit and connected to the multiplexer at the V-ADC input. The temperature sensor can be used for runtime compensation of temperature drift in both the voltage reference and the on-chip oscillator 120.
Battery Protection CPU Interface
Each protection has an interrupt flag. Each flag can be read and cleared by the CPU 116, and each flag has an individual interrupt enable. All enabled flags are combined into a single battery protection interrupt request to the CPU 116. This interrupt can wake up the CPU 116 from any operation mode, except power-off. The interrupt flags are cleared by writing a logic '1' to their bit locations from the CPU 116.
There are neither flags nor status bits indicating that the microcontroller 100 has entered the power off mode. This is because the CPU 116 is powered down in this mode. The CPU 116 will, however, be able to detect that it came from a power-off situation by monitoring CPU 116 reset flags when it resumes operation.
The over-current and short-circuit protection parameters are reprogrammable to adapt to different types of batteries. The parameters are set by writing to I/O registers. The parameter registers can be locked after the initial configuration, prohibiting any further updates until the next hardware reset.
Secure Parameter Storage
In a preferred embodiment, the battery protection parameters set in the battery protection parameter registers and the disable function set in the battery protection disable register can be locked from any further software updates. Once locked, these registers cannot be accessed until the next hardware reset. This provides a safe method for protecting these registers from unintentional modification by software runaway. It is recommended that software sets these registers shortly after reset, and then protects these registers from any further updates.
The current battery protection circuitry (CBPC) 804 monitors the charge and discharge current and disables C-FET, PC-FET, and D-FET if an over-current or short-circuit condition is detected. There are three different programmable detection levels: discharge over-current detection level, charge over-current detection level and short-circuit detection level. The external filter at the PI/NI input pins will cause too large delay for short-circuit detection. Therefore the separate PPI/NNI inputs are used for current battery protection. There are two different programmable delays for activating current battery protection: short-circuit reaction time and over-current reaction time. After current battery protection has been activated, the application software must re-enable the FETs. In one embodiment, the battery protection circuitry 106 provides a hold-off time of, for example, one second before software can re-enable the discharge FET. This provides safety in case the application software should unintentionally re-enable the discharge FET too early.
The activation of a protection also issues an interrupt to the CPU 116. The battery protection interrupts can be individually enabled and disabled by the CPU 116.
The effect of the various battery protection types in this embodiment is provided in
In order to reduce power consumption, both short-circuit and discharge over-current protection are automatically deactivated when the D-FET is disabled. The charge over-current protection is disabled when both the C-FET and the PC-FET are disabled. Note however that charge over-current protection is never automatically disabled when any of the C-FET or PC-FETs are controlled by PWM.
Each of these types of battery protections and their features are described in detail hereinbelow.
Deep Under-Voltage Protection
The deep under-voltage protection ensures that the battery cells will not be discharged deeper than the programmable deep under-voltage detection level. If the voltage at the VFET pin is below this level for a time longer than the programmable delay time, the FETs are automatically switched off and the microcontroller enters power-off mode. A deep under-voltage early warning interrupt flag (DUVIF) within the battery protection interrupt register will be set 250 ms before the microcontroller enters power-off. This will give the CPU 116 a chance to take necessary actions before the power is switched off.
The microcontroller 100 will remain in the power-off mode until a charger is connected. When a charger is detected, a normal power-up sequence is started and the microcontroller 100 initializes to default state.
The deep under-voltage delay time and deep under-voltage detection level are set in the battery protection deep under-voltage register (BPDUV) which is part of the battery protection level register. The parameter registers can be locked after the initial configuration, prohibiting any further updates until the next hardware reset.
Discharge Over-Current Protection
The current battery protection current monitors the cell current by sampling the voltage at the PPI/NNI input pins. A differential operational amplifier amplifies the voltage with a suitable gain. The output from the operational amplifier is compared to an accurate, programmable on-chip voltage reference by an analog comparator. If the shunt resistor voltage is above the discharge over-current detection level for a time longer than over-current protection reaction time, the microcontroller 100 activates discharge over-current protection. A sampled system clocked by an internal ULP oscillator is used for over-current and short-circuit protection. This ensures a reliable clock source, off-set cancellation and low power consumption.
When the discharge over-current protection is activated, the external D-FET, PC-FET, and C-FET are disabled and a current protection timer is started. This timer ensures that the FETs are disabled for a predetermined period of time (i.e., one second). The application software must then set the DFE and CFE bits in the FET control and status register to re-enable normal operation when this is considered safe. If the D-FET is re-enabled while the loading of the battery still is too large, the discharge over-current protection will be activated again.
Charge Over-Current Protection
If the voltage at the PPI/NNI pins is above a charge over-current detection level for a time longer than over-current protection reaction time, the microcontroller 100 activates charge over-current protection.
When the charge over-current protection is activated, the external D-FET, PC-FET, and C-FET are disabled and a current protection timer is started. This timer ensures that the FETs are disabled for at least one second. The DFE and CFE bits in the FET control and status register 302 (
Short-Circuit Protection
A second level of high current detection is provided to enable a faster response time to very large discharge currents. If a discharge current larger than the short-circuit detection level is present for a period longer than short-circuit reaction time, the short-circuit protection is activated.
When the short-circuit protection is activated, the D-FET, PC-FET, and C-FET are disabled and a current protection timer is started. This timer ensures that the D-FET, PCFET, and C-FET are disabled for at least one second. The application software must then set the DFE and CFE bits in the FET control and status register 302 (
Power Consumption
To avoid damaging the battery cells during long-term storage, it is important for the battery itself to consume as little power as possible. The single chip implementation helps reduce system power consumption by eliminating external components and collecting all functionality in one single package. In addition, the microcontroller 100 features various low-power modes called sleep modes. Sleep modes enable the application to shut down unused modules in the microcontroller 100, thereby saving power. The microcontroller 100 provides four sleep modes allowing the user to tailor the power consumption to the application's requirement:
1. Idle mode, in which the CPU 116 is stopped but all peripheral functions continue operating.
2. ADC noise reduction mode, which improves the noise environment for the ADC while saving power. If the V-ADC 110 (
3. Power-save mode, in which a fast RC oscillator is stopped. Only the battery protection circuitry 106 and slow oscillators are kept running, as well as the CC-ADC 114 (
4. Power-down mode, in which both the fast RC and slow RC clocks are halted. Battery protection, a watchdog timer 124 (
5. Power-off mode enables the voltage regulator 102 (
Table 2 shows key power consumption figures for one embodiment of the microcontroller 100.
A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides for a microcontroller which includes battery management and protection. The microcontroller provides for a single chip device which includes battery protection and management. This one-chip solution saves design cost and PCB space in addition to broadening the functionality of the smart battery application. With the accuracy of the microcontroller, the charge status of the battery can be predicted more accurately and therefore effectively increases actual battery capacity.
Although the present invention has been described in accordance with the embodiments shown, one of ordinary skill in the art will readily recognize that there could be variations to the embodiments and those variations would be within the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, many modifications may be made by one of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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|Corn tortillas
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In a lightly oiled skillet, warm tortillas until limp, about 20 seconds on each side, then put tortillas aside.
Over medium heat in saucepan, mix soup and Velveeta.
Stir frequently until cheese melts, then pour in the can of jalapenos and mix.
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Well, considering it has nothing to do with FF13, other than being part of the same sub-franchise, and if I recall is being worked on by what is basically the "Kingdom Hearts Team", I expect it to be nothing like FF13 and a lot like Kingdom Hearts, just, you know, without all the cross over stuff. So... Kingdom Hearts, but Final Fantasy.
Edit: Also, I hope it's not as divisive as FF13 was. Not that FF13 was a bad or good game, but with it being such a divisive title, and with FF14 having been a total failure for them, Square probably can't afford yet another blemish on their record at this time, even if their blemishes still make them billions or millions of dollars.
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It looks interesting. I want it.
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Square hasn't made a good FF game since 2000, why stop now?
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" I really hope this isn't the acronym for that game, because holy shit. "Yeah, it makes the Roman numerals a mess; kinda looks like it's called "FFUX 3", which sounds like a rape simulator.
Why are people always so insistent on reffering back to FF13 when discussing this title? It's an action RPG by the Tokyo Kingdom Hearts team (Square Enix PDD1), and it's not even a mainline FF game. As a Kingdom Hearts fan, I've always been more interested in this than FF13 and still fully expect it to be the better game, but that's mainly because this type of game appeals to me more and I know it's in good hands. I thought FF13 was fine for what it was, but I definitely don't need to see any of its gameplay elements make their way into Versus.
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" Square hasn't made a good FF game since 2000, why stop now? "My thoughts exactly.
It's because your average person doesn't know that, fundamentally, there is no real connection between FF13, FF Versus 13, and FF Agito 13. It's Square's fault for giving them all the name "13" despite only one of them actually being 13. The only thing that connects the game is that they're part of a sub-franchise; Fabula Nova Crystalis, and it's Squares fault because they have done almost nothing to convey that to the general public. They should have just been called FF13, FF Versus, and FF Agito and all had a sub heading on them somewhere saying Fabula Nova Crystalis instead of relying on the number 13.
I'm plenty excited for it, I love the world they established in FFXIII. It'll be a very different type of game, but if the setting carries over much at all, I'll be pretty excited, since FFXIII was one of my top games of 2010. On the other hand, I generally do not like action RPGs so much as their main JRPG counterparts, so I'll be keeping a skeptic eye on it for the most part.
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OCEANSIDE -- He's fond of country music, loves to garden and openly admits his golf game is horrible.
Larry Perondi lives in Chula Vista, but the Oceanside Unified School District's new superintendent says he doesn't dread the drive to work, even when traffic doubles the time he must spend behind the wheel of his aging BMW. He uses the time to "debrief" or catch up on phone calls.
The son of an Italian immigrant father, Perondi, 55, spent two years as a foster child and said he faced demons of his own as a teenager.
He credits tough love from a football coach and the continuity of Mountain Empire High School for correcting his course.
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That conversation must include parents, he said, and assessing students must happen throughout the school year, "in real time," and not just at the end of it, "which is kind of like doing an autopsy."
He wants a California Distinguished School award on the shelf of every Oceanside campus. So far, 15 of the district's 24 schools have the accolades.
Above all, he wants every student to receive a diploma. Any who don't Perondi regards as a capital loss.
"I want them to get the greatest jobs they can, I want them to pay lots of taxes," he said, smiling at his own joke. "These are our future doctors. I want them to take care of me in my old age."
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Today, Perondi takes care of himself with regular, early morning trips to a gym in Oceanside.
The daybreak sessions on the treadmill or weight machines have been part of his routine for two years, when Noonan hired Perondi as his deputy superintendent.
By then, Oceanside Unified had risen to national prominence under Noonan's insistence of English-only instruction in a district where nearly 1 in 4 students is classified as an English learner.
The district's graduation requirements, once among the lowest in the county, today are equal to or exceed those of any other district in the region.
Perondi said his focus is to increase the number of Oceanside students who meet California State University and University of California requirements before they graduate.
Years ago, "there were very low expectations coming from the top down," said Trustee Janet Bledsoe Lacy, who was on the board that hired Noonan. "What we needed when Ken came aboard 10 years ago was radical change, and we got radical change -- for the better. What we want to do now is stay the course."


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The Savannah-Chatham Public School Board held their first evening meeting of the year and tentatively adopted a $497,256,421 budget and a millage rate of 15.881 mills for next year.
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MIA has some surprises in store as it turns 100
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- Introduction
- The development of quantitative science
- The Newtonian paradigm
- Interplay of experiment and theory
- Concepts fundamental to the attitudes and methods of physical science
The contours on a standard map are lines along which the height of the ground above sea level is constant. They usually take a complicated form, but if one imagines contours drawn at very close intervals of height and a small portion of the map to be greatly enlarged, the contours of this local region will become very nearly straight, like the two drawn in Figure 6 for heights h and h + δh.
Walking along any of these contours, one remains on the level. The slope of the ground is steepest along PQ, and, if the distance from P to Q is δl, the gradient is δh/δl or dh/dl in the limit when δh and δl are allowed to go to zero. The vector gradient is a vector of this magnitude drawn parallel to PQ and is written as grad h, or ∇h. Walking along any other line PR at an angle θ to PQ, the slope is less in the ratio PQ/PR, or cos θ. The slope along PR is (grad h) cos θ and is the component of the vector grad h along a line at an angle θ to the vector itself. This is an example of the general rule for finding components of vectors. In particular, the components parallel to the x and y directions have magnitude ∂h/∂x and ∂h/∂y (the partial derivatives, represented by the symbol ∂, mean, for instance, that ∂h/∂x is the rate at which h changes with distance in the x direction, if one moves so as to keep y constant; and ∂h/∂y is the rate of change in the y direction, x being constant). This result is expressed by
the quantities in brackets being the components of the vector along the coordinate axes. Vector quantities that vary in three dimensions can similarly be represented by three Cartesian components, along x, y, and z axes; e.g., V = (Vx, Vy, Vz).
Line integral
Imagine a line, not necessarily straight, drawn between two points A and B and marked off in innumerable small elements like δl in Figure 7, which is to be thought of as a vector. If a vector field takes a value V at this point, the quantity Vδl·cos θ is called the scalar product of the two vectors V and δl and is written as V·δl. The sum of all similar contributions from the different δl gives, in the limit when the elements are made infinitesimally small, the line integral V ·dl along the line chosen.
Reverting to the contour map, it will be seen that (grad h)·dl is just the vertical height of B above A and that the value of the line integral is the same for all choices of line joining the two points. When a scalar quantity ϕ, having magnitude but not direction, is uniquely defined at every point in space, as h is on a two-dimensional map, the vector grad ϕ is then said to be irrotational, and ϕ(r) is the potential function from which a vector field grad ϕ can be derived. Not all vector fields can be derived from a potential function, but the Coulomb and gravitational fields are of this form.
A potential function ϕ(r) defined by ϕ = A/r, where A is a constant, takes a constant value on every sphere centred at the origin. The set of nesting spheres is the analogue in three dimensions of the contours of height on a map, and grad ϕ at a point r is a vector pointing normal to the sphere that passes through r; it therefore lies along the radius through r, and has magnitude −A/r2. That is to say, grad ϕ = −Ar/r3 and describes a field of inverse square form. If A is set equal to q1/4πε0, the electrostatic field due to a charge q1 at the origin is E = −grad ϕ.
When the field is produced by a number of point charges, each contributes to the potential ϕ(r) in proportion to the size of the charge and inversely as the distance from the charge to the point r. To find the field strength E at r, the potential contributions can be added as numbers and contours of the resultant ϕ plotted; from these E follows by calculating −grad ϕ. By the use of the potential, the necessity of vector addition of individual field contributions is avoided. An example of equipotentials is shown in Figure 8. Each is determined by the equation 3/r1 − 1/r2 = constant, with a different constant value for each, as shown. For any two charges of opposite sign, the equipotential surface, ϕ = 0, is a sphere, as no other is.


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- When: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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A smokin' guitar player and soulful singer, Wayman Chapman's career has taken him all over the world playing in different bands, recently leading him to take root as a solo act in the Northwest. A charismatic performer and versatile musician who can play it all but is best known for his Blues, Jazz, Funk, and R&B. Come early for good seats, great BBQ and kick-ass wine!
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A lively mix of topical stories, human interest and lifestyle features with Neil Delamere
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Tomorrow night Barack Obama makes his fifth appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman and it could be a good opportunity to regain some mojo, make an appeal to those women voters who have swung toward John McCain in the last few weeks and get in few digs at his opponents under the guise of a joke.
In honor of Obama's visit to the Ed Sullivan Theater, with apologies to the comedy writers out there…
Top Ten Ways Barack Obama Can Get His Polling Groove Back
10. Look the other way when the "Hockey Moms for Truth" start running ads
9. Show off previously unknown moose-hunting skills while at a PTA meeting
8. Get Biden on the cover a supermarket tabloid (Weekly World News: "Biden is Bat Boy?")
7. Rimless glasses
6. Forget Berlin - rally in Juneau
5. Tell Michelle to lose the "Squash Mom" t-shirt
4. Change Malia's name to "Oprah Van Ohio Obama"
3. Set up campaign office in Wasilla
2. Build a Bridge to Somewhere, Anywhere
1. Hope that Canada Annexes Alaska
ABC News' Jake Tapper reports that at a press availability this afternoon in Dayton, Ohio, Obama expressed skepticism about the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll that shows a 20-point swing among white women towards John McCain.
"You know I just think that the notion that people are swinging back and forth in the span of a few weeks, or a few days, this wildly generally isn't borne out," Obama said. "These are the same polls that had me 20 down last summer that have swung wildly thought this process."
Tapper reports that Obama said Palin had attracted a lot of attention and, among conservatives, excitement -- but that it had more to do with her "ideological predispositions" than her didn't think gender played factor.
"There is no doubt that Gov. Palin attracted a lot of attention this week," Obama said. "She's been on the minds of all of you, and as a consequence has been before the American people constantly throughout the week, and has brought excitement to the Republican party, there is no doubt about that."
Obama and McCain are both in Virginia tomorrow making a push for the state's 13 electoral votes.
Virginia has gone to the Republican presidential candidate in every election since 1964 but this year it is one of the key battleground states that could determine who gets to the magic number of 270 electoral votes. The two presidential candidates are not going to run into each other on the highway, but they are each campaigning in areas that seem to be more favorable to their opponent. McCain holds a rally in Fairfax, VA, an area that Democrats see as fertile ground for Obama in November. Fairfax County has a quickly growing Hispanic and immigrant population and the high-tech economy has brought many college-educated and wealthy voters to the area. Obama is campaigning in Norfolk, which could be a solid area for McCain to pick up votes among the large military population. The Norfolk-Hampton Roads area also has a large African-American population that could turn out strongly for Obama.
After the Fairfax rally with McCain, Sarah Palin finally breaks off on her own on the trail and heads back to Alaska for a rally in Fairbanks. Joe Biden attends a rally in Nashua NH.
On the campaign front. . . JOHN McCAIN -- 11:00 am ET: Attends a Road to Victory Rally, Fairfax, VA


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Transcription of a protein-coding gene on B chromosomes of the Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus)
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1 Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SВ RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
2 Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
3 Cambridge Centre for Comparative Genomics, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
4 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
BMC Biology 2013, 11:90 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-11-90Published: 6 August 2013
Most eukaryotic species represent stable karyotypes with a particular diploid number. B chromosomes are additional to standard karyotypes and may vary in size, number and morphology even between cells of the same individual. For many years it was generally believed that B chromosomes found in some plant, animal and fungi species lacked active genes. Recently, molecular cytogenetic studies showed the presence of additional copies of protein-coding genes on B chromosomes. However, the transcriptional activity of these genes remained elusive. We studied karyotypes of the Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus) that possess up to 14 B chromosomes to investigate the presence and expression of genes on supernumerary chromosomes.
Here, we describe a 2 Mbp region homologous to cattle chromosome 3 and containing TNNI3K (partial), FPGT, LRRIQ3 and a large gene-sparse segment on B chromosomes of the Siberian roe deer. The presence of the copy of the autosomal region was demonstrated by B-specific cDNA analysis, PCR assisted mapping, cattle bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clone localization and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). By comparative analysis of B-specific and non-B chromosomal sequences we discovered some B chromosome-specific mutations in protein-coding genes, which further enabled the detection of a FPGT-TNNI3K transcript expressed from duplicated genes located on B chromosomes in roe deer fibroblasts.
Discovery of a large autosomal segment in all B chromosomes of the Siberian roe deer further corroborates the view of an autosomal origin for these elements. Detection of a B-derived transcript in fibroblasts implies that the protein coding sequences located on Bs are not fully inactivated. The origin, evolution and effect on host of B chromosomal genes seem to be similar to autosomal segmental duplications, which reinforces the view that supernumerary chromosomal elements might play an important role in genome evolution.


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Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard was delighted with their 2-0 victory at Real Mallorca last night.
Rafael Marquez headed Barca into an early second-half lead before Samuel Eto'o wrapped up the points late on with a superb individual effort.
"We won at a very difficult ground against an uncomfortable opponent. Additionally, I think the playing field, which was very dry, did not favor our style of play," said Rijkaard.
"We always have to stick with the philosophy of our game, to be attractive, but at this stage of the season it is clear that the results and the points are very important to us.
"You always prefer a combination of attractive football and three points, but with good attitude and fighting from everyone on the field."