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Sometimes, writing about the health reform law means reading Friday afternoon releases from CMS and combing through Health Affairs studies.
But sometimes ...
Death panels! Secret slush funds! Open warfare on the Catholic church!
... coverage of ObamaCare reads like a bad Hollywood thriller.
It's been three years since President Obama launched the campaign that would ultimately become the Affordable Care Act.
And there's been no shortage of myth-making -- and myth-busting -- ever since. ("Road to Reform" has tried to debunk rumors several times, too.)
Once-unassailable truths -- like the ACA's constitutionality -- may turn out to be fictions after all. And the jury's still out on several heavily debated points, such as where the law will come in relative to its budget estimates.
There's one absolute fact, though: ObamaCare is destined to play a major role in this year's debt talks and elections. Here are several common myths that we're still hearing, from both ACA champions and critics, and why we find them misleading.
Myth #1: Obama Messed Up the Message
Many supporters of the ACA continue to blame its popularity problems on the ultimate preventable health care error: a failure to communicate.
"Barack Obama repeatedly botched, bungled and bobbled the health reform message," patient safety advocate Michael Millenson concludes in the Huffington Post. A tone-deaf White House allowed itself to be caricatured by its conservative opponents, he adds, and "never once tried to mobilize ordinary Americans to demand a basic right available in all other industrialized nations."
Millenson's right in one respect; the White House never settled on a powerful, simple story.
Yet as Duke University professor Don Taylor notes, it's harder to play defense than offense -- and the ACA remains an especially difficult law to defend.
Its ambitious attempts to revamp health care provider payment and expand health insurance coverage can't be boiled down to a simple sound bite. Critics have developed attack lines for provisions nestled throughout the legislation, from Title III's so-called "death panels" (the Independent Payment Advisory Board) to abortion-related rules in Title I.
"It's [also] hard to know what the administration could have done differently" to better sell the ACA to the American people, political scientist Brendan Nyhan recently told California Healthline.
After all, the White House deployed surrogates on cable TV and in newspaper columns, held multiple health reform-related summits and rallied supporters in every state. And as Ezra Klein has written, there's little evidence that great presidential speeches are ultimately persuasive. Obama spoke, spoke and spoke some more -- 54 speeches on health reform alone between March 5, 2009, and March 19, 2010 -- even as support for his legislation faded.
Myth #2: The ACA is Unabashedly Liberal -- but Conservatives' Resistance Was Unprecedented
By seeking to reinforce the nation's employer-based health care system, ObamaCare openly draws on conservative principles. It generally resembles Republican Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care overhaul, combined with the GOP's alternative to President Clinton's failed 1994 health reforms.
It was "a plan that ought to attract 70 or more votes in the Senate," the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein concluded in February 2010.
It got 60 votes. Famously, none were Republican.
"Before Obama was inaugurated, Republican congressional leaders made a strategic calculation," Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution also noted in 2010, "that the best route to reclaim the majority in Congress was to unify in opposition to all of Obama's major initiatives."
Of course, Republicans were just lifting from Democrats' own playbook. When President George W. Bush attempted to privatize Social Security, congressional Democrats refused to deal, seeing the fight as a political opportunity. There was similar resistance to Bush's Medicare Part D proposal in 2003, although several Democrats, including Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), did defect to support its passage.
There were signals that a few GOP lawmakers would break from the pack and vote for the ACA, and Democrats ultimately lost months courting them.
For instance, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Baucus' longtime collaborator on the Senate Finance Committee, had indicated through the spring of 2009 that he'd be willing to compromise on the ACA -- until raucous town halls that summer changed his mind. By the end of August 2009, Grassley was warning that Democrats' health reforms would lead to "pull[ing] the plug on Grandma."
"The simple truth is that I am and always have been opposed to the Obama administration's plans to nationalize health care," Grassley later wrote in a fundraising letter. "Period."
Myth #3: Democrats' Drive for Health Reform Hurt the Economic Recovery
When the White House first took up health reform in March 2009, Congress had just passed Bush's Troubled Asset Relief Program and the Obama administration's stimulus package. Another bailout, of the automotive industry, was weeks away.
Some critics suggest that the White House should have continued to foster shovel-ready projects in 2009 and ramped up stimulus programs to boost job-creation.
But after billions in requisitions, Congress had little appetite for more federal spending. Just getting the stimulus package to nearly $800 billion was perceived as a possible overreach by the president.
Meanwhile, many Democratic lawmakers were convinced that health reform's time had come. And the new head of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, believed that reining in health costs would help reduce financial pressures on American businesses. Orszag was Obama's chief economist -- and his counsel proved crucial in spurring the president to prioritize health reform as a strategy to boost the flagging U.S. economy.
Health reform may not have been a second stimulus, but it certainly hasn't been the job-killing law that its fiercest critics warned. And health costs do continue to slow, in the wake of the ACA's passage.
Alternately, some observers argue that Obama took his eye off the ball by adding health reform to his agenda -- that it took up too much time and distracted him from other initiatives. But Washington legislators aren't single tracked.
Writing in Slate last year, John Dickerson noted a typical day in the life of the president: Obama visited a middle school and gave a speech on education policy, met with Denmark's prime minister, attended a Democratic Party fundraiser, agreed with Republicans on a stopgap measure to keep the federal government running -- oh, and chaired a meeting on the top-secret plan to kill Osama Bin Laden, too.
Myth #4: The White House's Lawyer Muddled the Message, Too
OK -- Donald Verrilli didn't have his best day in court on March 27. Even Verrilli's cheerleaders admit that the U.S. solicitor general coughed and stumbled his way through the most-scrutinized Supreme Court oral argument in years.
And although the high court won't issue its ruling for weeks, bloggers and news analysts delivered their verdict within minutes.
However, a countervailing school of thought has emerged. "The small band of lawyers who argue frequently before the Supreme Court say [Verrilli's] performance was solid," writes the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak.
According to these elite litigators, "much of the criticism misunderstood the nature of oral argument and the role of the solicitor general." Verrilli's points were well-argued, they say, and the Obama administration's legal briefs carry far more weight.
Even Chief Justice John Roberts has dismissed the importance of oral argument."Quite often the judges are debating among themselves and just using the lawyers as a backboard," Roberts has previously said. "One of the real challenges for lawyers is to get involved in that debate."
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Methods and apparatus for creating microcode-implemented peripheral devices for a microcontroller core formed in a monolithic integrated circuit. The microcontroller core has a control store for storing microcode instructions; execution circuitry operable to execute microcode instructions from the control store; and means for loading a suite of one or more microcode-device modules defining an optional peripheral device, the optional peripheral device being implemented by microcode instructions executed by the execution circuitry in accordance with the definition provided by the microcode-device modules.
1. Microcontroller apparatus comprising a microcontroller core formed in a monolithic integrated circuit, the microcontroller core implementing one or more macro instructions, the microcontroller core comprising:
a control store for storing microcode instructions;
execution circuitry operable to execute microcode instructions from the control store; and
means for loading a suite of one or more microcode-device modules defining an optional peripheral device, the optional peripheral device being implemented by microcode instructions executed by the execution circuitry in accordance with the definition provided by the microcode-device modules, the optional peripheral device being controlled using one or more of the macro instructions, the optional peripheral device beg implemented as one or more scheduled microcode-instruction tasks, that are scheduled by a scheduling microcode instruction task.
2. The apparatus of
the control store consists solely of a read-only portion; and
the means for loading comprises microcode instructions in the read-only portion, the instructions being operable to load one or more microcode-device modules of device control data into a memory accessible to microcode instructions executed by the execution circuitry.
3. The apparatus of
the control store consists solely of a rewritable portion; and
the means for loading comprises circuitry operable to load one or more microcode-device modules of microcode instructions into the rewritable portion of the control store.
4. The apparatus of
the control store comprises a read-only portion and a rewritable portion; and
the means for loading comprises microcode instructions in the read-only portion, the instructions being operable to load one or more microcode-device modules of microcode instructions into the rewritable portion of the control store.
5. The apparatus of
the optional peripheral device is a timer.
6. The apparatus of
the suite of modules defining a timer comprises data defining a start address in the control store for a timer microcode sequence and data defining control parameters for timer operation.
7. The apparatus of
the timer microcode sequence defines a service task to be executed as a scheduled service task at a regular time interval, the service task operating to determine whether it is time to perform an action and, if it is, performing the action.
8. The apparatus of
the regular time interval is determined by an interrupt;
the service task determines whether it is time to perform the action by incrementing or decrementing a counter associated with the timer and determining whether the counter has reached a predetermined number; and
the action is specified by one or more device control parameters stored in a memory accessible to microcode instructions executed by the microcontroller core.
9. The apparatus of
the interrupt occurs at a frequency of 16 kHz or greater;
the apparatus comprises an output pin; and
the action comprises writing a "1" or a "0" signal to the output pin at a time defined by a device control parameter.
10. The apparatus of
the optional peripheral device is a pulse generator.
11. The apparatus of
the suite of modules defining a pulse generator comprises data defining a start address in the control store for a first and a second pulse generator microcode sequence and data defining control parameters for pulse generator operation;
the first and second pulse generator microcode sequences define a respective first and second service task to be executed as scheduled service tasks at a regular time interval, each first and second service task operating to determine whether it is time to perform a respective action and, if it is, performing the respective action;
the apparatus comprises an output pin; and
the respective action comprises writing a "1" or a "0" signal, respectively, to the output pin at a time defined by a device control parameter, whereby a pulse train is generated on the output pin.
12. The apparatus of
the execution circuitry comprises an arithmetic logic unit and a multiply-accumulate unit accessible to microcode instructions.
13. The apparatus of
the optional peripheral device is a digital filter.
14. The apparatus of
the optional peripheral device is a stepper motor controller.
15. The apparatus of
the optional peripheral device is a data compressor or decompressor.
16. In connection with a microcontroller product comprising a microcontroller core formed in a monolithic integrated circuit, the microcontroller core implementing one or more macro instructions, the microcontroller product being operable to execute microcoded tasks in response to an interrupt, a method of configuring the product with an optional peripheral device, the optional peripheral device being controlled using one or more of the macro instructions, the method comprising:
defining the operational functionality of the optional peripheral device in a suite of one or more modules implemented as microcode tasks, the microcode tasks comprising one or more scheduled microcode-instruction tasks, that are scheduled by a scheduling microcode-instruction task;
providing the suite of modules for loading into a rewritable control store of the microcontroller core for execution; and
loading the suite of modules in a rewritable portion of a control store of the microcontroller core to configure the product.
17. The method of
the optional peripheral device is a timer.
18. The method of
the optional peripheral device is a pulse generator.
19. The method of
the optional peripheral device is a stepper motor controller.
20. The method of
the optional peripheral device is a digital filter.
The present invention relates to microcontroller architectures suitable for implementation in an integrated circuit.
An integrated circuit is electrical circuitry formed on a single monolithic semiconductor substrate. An integrated circuit can be implemented with one or more cores, which perform their various functions, and circuitry for communicating with external devices. A core is building-block circuitry that generally provides a desired high-level function. For example, a processor core is circuitry that executes a set of instructions that implement a processor architecture.
A microcontroller is an integrated circuit device. It has a processor core and communications cores or devices for connecting to peripheral devices. Microcontrollers are commonly employed as a primary control chip in a wide variety of non-computer products such as printers, cellular phones, televisions, and automobiles.
Microcontrollers provide programmable control (through programming of the processor core) of peripheral devices connected to them. Such programming is conventionally done using an instruction set defined by an instruction set architecture (ISA) implemented by the microcontroller core. To distinguish the instructions defined by the ISA from microcode instructions that may be used to implement them, the ISA instructions will be referred to in this specification as macro instructions.
Modern microcontrollers incorporate not only a processor core and communications cores, but also incorporate other commonly-employed device circuitry, such as blocks of memory and programmable timers. Integrating previously discrete components may lead to cost savings in the final product, because fewer components are needed. However, integration may increase the number of distinct microcontroller chips (integrated circuit products) that have to be manufactured, as different customers desire different configurations of additional devices.
Microcontroller suppliers traditionally have offered families of chips that differ in their on-chip complement of peripheral devices—things like timers, pulse generators, and so on. Microcontroller chips that include programmable logic with a processor core are also available.
The present invention provides a microcontroller architecture that supports configurable peripheral devices implemented in microcode instead of programmable logic or other circuitry.
In one aspect, the invention provides microcontroller apparatus that includes a microcontroller core formed in a monolithic integrated circuit. The microcontroller core has a control store for storing microcode instructions; execution circuitry operable to execute microcode instructions from the control store; and means for loading a suite of one or more microcode-device modules defining an optional peripheral device, the optional peripheral device being implemented by microcode instructions executed by the execution circuitry in accordance with the definition provided by the microcode-device modules.
In another aspect, the invention provides, in connection with a microcontroller product having a microcontroller core that is formed in a monolithic integrated circuit and that is operable to execute microcoded tasks in response to a timer interrupt, a method of configuring the product with an optional peripheral device. The method includes defining the operational functionality of the optional peripheral device in a suite of one or more modules; and providing the suite of modules for loading into a rewritable control store of the microcontroller core for execution; and loading the suite of modules in a rewritable portion of a control store of the microcontroller core to configure the product.
Advantages that can be seen in implementations of the invention include one or more of the following. Implementing frequently used peripheral functions in microcode can reduce total system cost and size. It can also reduce macro instruction fetch and execution cycles, thereby reducing demands on a power source such as a battery. It allows peripheral devices to be designed with resources, such as a multiplier or memory for lookup tables, that are already present on the microcontroller but would be relatively expensive on a separate peripheral device. It can also reduce time to market when compared to providing the same function in hardware.
The details of one or more embodiments of the invention are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the description, the drawings, and the claims.
Like reference numbers and designations in the various drawings indicate like elements.
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The microcode of the microcontroller core 100 is executed from a control store 140 made up of rewritable memory 144 and non-volatile ROM (read-only memory) 142. The rewritable portion 144 of the control store 140 can be implemented in on-chip SRAM (static random access memory) or DRAM (dynamic random access memory). The core has a memory interface 150 to memory 155 external to the core, which external memory can be on-chip or off-chip. A suitable interface 150 is described in commonly-owned copending PCT application serial number PCT/SE99/01923, designating the United States of America, for "Controlling Access to a Primary Memory" to Sven Stefan Blixt and Bj�rn Stefan Christian Blixt, filed on Oct. 25, 1999, and its priority Swedish patent application serial number SE9803708-8 for "Controlling Access to a Dynamic Random Access Memory", to Sven Stefan Blixt, filed on Oct. 28, 1998, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Real time clock functions can be provided by a real time clock and interface circuitry 160. If used, this real time clock is driven by an external quartz resonator, such as a 32768 Hz resonator, and supported by battery backup.
The core also includes an on-chip circuitry 170 providing internal clock signals and including a main oscillator and PLL (phase-locked loop) circuitry locked to a reference oscillator that uses an external crystal. The main oscillator can provide clock events at an accurate, high frequency, such as 66.667 or 80 MHz, using a crystal of one quarter of that frequency.
These and other components of the microcontroller core 100 are interconnected with busses and selectors 130 in a manner conventional to microcoded CPUs. Designed for low-power operation, the data pathways of the microcontroller core 100 are generally 8 bits wide, as are the registers.
Standard configuration microcode for the microcontroller core includes permanent microcode 143, which is stored in the read-only portion 142 of the control store 140. In one configuration, the control store 140 has 36 kilobytes of on-chip ROM and 18 kilobytes of on-chip SRAM. The control store is organized into words matching the length of the microcode instructions (which are also called microinstructions). At startup, a boot loader implemented in the permanent microcode 143 loads the rewritable portion 146 of the standard configuration microcode, typically from an off-chip source such as flash memory connected to programmable I/O port pins of the I/O logic and interface circuitry 125. After the microcontroller boots itself and initializes memory, more microcode can be loaded from the same or other sources. This sequence allows customized or patched microcode to reside in a connected device or elsewhere. This sequence will load that part of the standard configuration of microcode for the microcontroller core 100 that was not included in the read-only portion 142 of the control store 140. The microcode loaded into the rewritable portion 144 at any stage can include microcode 148 for peripheral devices implemented in microcode, which will be described below. After startup, an application program can use a special assembly-language instruction to load fresh microcode at any time, which allows applications to alter the macro instruction set of the microcontroller on the fly.
The microcontroller core 100 is designed to be implemented, and is implemented, on a single monolithic semiconductor substrate. The memory on board the microcontroller chip can optionally include memory for application software and data.
In operation, microcode instructions are decoded by the microcode control logic 105 to produce various control signals that are passed to the different functional elements of the core. In response, the elements of the core perform operations such as multiplication, addition, shifting, and logical operations. As is conventional, the microcode instruction has a long instruction word format—in the present implementation, it is 72 bits wide—and can cause the core to perform numerous operations in parallel, including selecting the next microinstruction to be executed.
The register and cache memory 120 provides storage for use by the microcode. This memory is used, for example, to provide register storage for register-based macro instructions and stack storage for stack-based macro instructions. It can be implemented in 1 kilobyte of SRAM, with stack overflow to an external memory such as memory 155.
Macro instructions are implemented as microprograms, i.e., as sequences of one or more microcode instructions. Microcode sequence control (sometimes called flow control) is controlled by fields of the microinstruction, where one field selects a kind of jump, for example, and another field selects a condition for that jump. The microcontroller core 100 has several types of multiway jumps. One type is a table jump, which decodes combinations of condition flip-flops in the arithmetic unit. Another type is a decode jump that decodes an 8-bit macro instruction opcode (whether read either directly from memory or from an instruction register IR) and jumps into a 256-word decode table.
A microinstruction sets up all the control signals for the logic in the microcontroller, so that data flows into the ALU, the MAC, and other processing units, and so that these units do the required processing operation on the data flowing into them and output the results, which then flow to the destinations specified by the microinstruction. This includes the calculation of the next microinstruction address. A microinstruction execution time ends at the rising edge of an execute clock signal, which loads the new state in the processor. Thus, a microinstruction executes and, simultaneously, fetches the next microinstruction.
There are approximately as many sequences as there are opcodes, and they are illustrated in the aggregate as opcode sequences 230. For multiple macro instruction sets, partial or entire sets of alternative sequences 230 are implemented. Each sequence starts in a slot in a decode table of 256 microinstructions. The conditional-jump boxes 202, 204, 206, 208, 210 represent the multiway jump made in the last microinstruction of each execution sequence. Each jump is made to a micro instruction contained in a fetch table. The normal flow is to the fetch table microinstruction 220, which performs a number of actions including a decode jump that gives control to one of the 256 instructions in a 256-entry decode table, which is part of the opcode sequences 230, according to the current macro instruction opcode. To switch from one instruction set to another, a microinstruction need only change the current fetch table, which changes the current decode table. In principal, any number of fetch tables, and therefore any number of instruction sets, can be created.
The multiway jump represented by boxes 202, 204, 206, 208, 210 is a jump into the current fetch table. The least significant bits of the jump address are generated by a priority encoder, the inputs to which come from several different sources, including an internal time interrupt request signal and two external interrupt request signals, NMI (non-maskable interrupt) and IRQ (interrupt request). The IRQ condition causes a jump to a microcode sequence that identifies and acknowledges the external request and sets a flag in an interrupt register IRR, which is simply a reserved area of memory, such as external memory 155 (
A microcode sequence can exit in one of a number of alternative ways. For example, opcode sequences that need to be chained to the next macro instruction without the possibility of an intervening interrupt exit to the fetch table instruction 220, bypassing the conditional-jump blocks 202, 204, 206, 208, 210 (flow path 225).
A sequence can also be programmed to suspend its processing by calling a sense routine 235, which performs its function and then returns to continue execution of the sequence that called it. The sense routine is used in the execution of opcodes that require very long execution time. Its main purpose is to check and service the time interrupt signal, so that every such request will get guaranteed service before the next one arrives, which is the same service provided in response to a time interrupt signal at jump box 204. This interrupt occurs at a sufficiently high frequency, such as 16 kHz or greater, to allow the scheduled tasks to provide real-time services.
The time service includes doing as many DRAM refresh cycles as are needed, if the microcontroller has, or is connected to, DRAM memory. It also includes adding a time increment to a time accumulator in memory, incrementing a milliseconds counter (also in memory) if it overflows, and updating the memory cells containing the time-of-day when the millisecond counter indicates this should be done. When these fixed tasks have been performed, the microcontrol program continues and performs other scheduled tasks.
The scheduled tasks can be configured to perform the functions of peripheral devices. For example, they can stream data (through a DMA buffer memory) to a print engine, or from a scanner engine, or to or from an external communications device. Separately or as part of the process of streaming data, scheduled tasks can also provide filtering functions, or compression/decompression functions, that act on such data streams that pass between I/O devices and memory, or from memory to memory, or from input device to output device. These functions can be performed by scheduled tasks because microinstructions have access to all of the processing resources of the microcontroller, including the MAC, and all data transfers within the microcontroller are performed by microcode.
A basic peripheral device function—from which numerous other functions can be built—is a timer function. This function can be performed by a scheduled task (i.e., a microcode sequence) that increments or decrements a counter value in memory and detects whether it reaches a predefined number such as zero. If so, the timer function performs an action that is specified by one or more device control parameters stored in memory. The memory cells containing the parameters belong to a scheduled instantiation of this type of timer. Several timers of the same type using common microcode can be scheduled. Shared microcode for common standard types can optionally be included in the ROM microcode 143. Timers can be chained to each other through control parameters. Timers can have parameters for start values and have actions like writing "1" or "0" to an output pin selected by parameter. In this way a pair of timers can generate a pulse train with specified frequency and duty cycle. Combinations of such pulsed signals, with specified phase and/or frequency relations, can readily be defined for purposes such as driving a stepper motor or a display.
The device control parameters can be organized with other data in a controlling data structure (a control block). For example, the initial state of a periodic pulse train signal can be defined in a control block as having any phase, so that a pair of such signals driving a stepper motor has the proper phase difference. The control block can also contain a total number of counts that is copied to a count variable when that variable has reached zero. Alternative to use of a simple one-step integer counter, an accumulator value can be used that is never restarted by loading a fixed value, but instead is increased each time by a fixed value (not simply 1) and the specified action is taken when the accumulator overflows.
An action specified for a timer can set an interrupt request in a specified bit position in an interrupt register IRR, for example, or otherwise set a condition that will be treated by the microcontroller core like a hardware interrupt from a hardware device.
The action of a timer function can also be to generate a general reset of the processor, as in a watchdog function. Such a timer must be restarted by the software at some minimum frequency; if the program derails or hangs, the watchdog will cause a restart of the system.
The scheduling can be controlled by a data structure in a memory such as memory 155. The data structure can be created and modified by software such as a development system, described below, and can be organized in a data structure such as an ordered list of elements. The elements would be accessed and acted upon, one by one in order, by a scheduled task in the time interrupt service microcode. Each element describes one task. Elements can optionally have a variable size according to the number of parameters the corresponding specific task type needs. When the last task has been performed, the microprogram can act on any requests that have been generated by the tasks and then return to normal instruction execution.
Thus, scheduled tasks can be used to implement microcode-implemented peripheral devices.
The scheduling of tasks that implement such virtual devices can be done using a table in a memory to list the device tasks in the order in which they are to be executed. The table identifies the virtual device by its microprogram start address (or an address surrogate) and includes the device parameters. The start address can be in ROM 142 or RAM 144. The device microcode can share control store space by using common microinstruction subroutines.
A development system is used by one or more program developers to create programming for the microcontroller core. The development system is a conventional integrated environment running on a general purpose platform, such as a personal computer running the Microsoft� Windows� operating system, providing programming and debugging tools through a graphical user interface. The development system includes assemblers and compilers for developing and debugging software on all programming levels. Generally, a manufacturer of a microcontroller device will provide the microcode for one or more instruction sets—such as a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) instruction set and a Java Virtual Machine bytecode instruction set—and control microcode to manage service tasks and generally handle housekeeping functions.
With conventional microcontrollers, a customer would typically buy a version of the microcontroller configured with the peripheral devices needed by the customer's application and then provide the programming for that application. The application programming is generally done in assembly or a higher-level language using a development system provided by the microcontroller vendor.
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A few further examples of virtual devices will now be given.
As described above, a pulse generator can be built from two basic timer devices. In one implementation, the timers are of a type that count up or down at each time interrupt until they reach the end, and then do their action and stop in an end state. The action changes the signal on an output pin and starts another timer of the same kind by initializing its counter. In an alternative implementation, the microcode-device module specifies microcode instructions for a complete pulse generator type of device, having a state bit keeping track of its state (high or low) and two initialization constants. This is a repetitive type of device that would not stop when at the end count, but instead reinitialize itself in the opposite state. With a third basic timer device or with a pulse generator device maintaining a third pin state, a pulse train with a third level can be produced.
Alternatively, each of these types of devices can use the other, more accurate way of counting, described above, in which an accumulator is incremented without reset by an appropriately selected value.
A higher level pattern generator device can be built to generate patterns of pulse trains, and data transfers can be coupled to the generated pulses. Stepper motors, for example, need pulse signals that have variable frequency and phase. Audio tones can be produced by pulse-width modulation by a sinusoidal signal: the service task for the virtual audio device can fetch the required data from a table in memory 155.
Sometimes one needs to generate a pulse with a width too narrow to be generated in the way that has been described, but not narrow enough to be done within an interrupt time tick. To support implementation of such a narrow-width pulse generator, the microcontroller core is configured with an optional hardware counter. This counter can be started by a microcode instruction loading it with a non-zero value. Once started it counts pulses derived from the main oscillator. When it reaches zero it stops counting and causes a high-priority hardware interrupt request, such as request 202 (
More than one narrow-width pulse generator device can be supported if needed. Because the counter is used for short pulses that are started at time ticks, one can assume that it will always have reached zero and is inactivate when the time interrupt service task is executed. If the schedule for service tasks includes narrow-width pulse generator devices, each one of will have its companion trailing edge device scheduled in another, trailing-edge list that will be used by the high-priority interrupt service microprogram that will follow some microseconds later. When the time request service scheduler finds a narrow-width pulse device, and finds that this device is now in the state when it should perform its leading-edge action, i.e., start its pulse (and do some data transfer if specified), the microprogram will do that. It will also indicate, in the device's data space (its device control parameters), that the device has an active pulse. Then the microprogram copies a device-identifier byte that identifies the device to a device-identifier location, and copies one of the device's parameters (the pulse width measured in counter clock pulses) into the counter—however, it will not do these two actions if the counter already contains a nonzero value smaller than or equal to the pulse width parameter. This can happen an narrow-pulse device earlier in the list starts its pulse on the same time interrupt tick. The microprogram indicates this very special situation with a special marker bit in memory, in a way that is easy for the high-priority interrupt service microprogram to detect.
The high-priority interrupt service microprogram is invoked when the counter reaches zero. It will read the device-identifier location, thereby identifying the pulse-starting device (or one of them), and perform that device's parameter-specified trailing edge actions and eliminate its active-pulse state indication. If the special marker bit is set, it will search for all devices having an active pulse state, selecting the one with the lowest value of pulse width, and load the counter with the difference between that pulse width and that of the device just serviced. If the difference is zero it will do the actions for the found device also, and find a new one with the lowest pulse width, and so on. This way several pulses with same or different pulse width can be allowed to overlap and be independent from each other.
Virtual devices can be used to implement LCD (liquid crystal display) driving that is configurable and can accept many different LCD types. A bigger graphic LCD normally needs parallel input data, a clock signal to clock in the data and control the scanning (stepping from a pixel to the next in a color or grayscale device, or stepping from 8 pixels to the next 8 pixels in a bilevel monochrome device), and frame or synch signals for the synchronization of the phase of the scanning process to the input data. Some scanner sensors and print engines need the same kinds of signals. The required signals can be provided by microcoded repetitive pulse generators having parameters giving them different frequencies, can be coupled by specialized actions to provide a pattern of dot clock, line synch (horizontal synch), and frame synch (vertical synch).
Sometimes the dot clock (or at least the data transfer) should be inhibited for some time between lines and/or frames. Such effects can be accomplished by a hierarchical (tree) structure for the scheduling, allowing one virtual device to control (enable/disable) another, lower-level, virtual device.
Another example application is to key switches, which are normally connected in a matrix of row and column lines. Depressing a key connects one row line to one column line. Microcontroller ports can be used to drive one set of lines, e.g. rows, while sensing the other set. A 4�5 key matrix thus requires 4 output ports and 5 input ports (or vice versa).
Such a keypad can be scanned in the following way, for the case of 4 output ports.
Another example application implements a method of automatically transferring parts of several bitmap images from memory to an LCD, such that one can select viewports in the memory image areas and divide the LCD screen into windows. A viewport-window pair defines a copy transformation from memory to LCD. These transformations are specified in a table in memory. The LCD has to be refreshed (scanned) at a steady rate, which generally gives a frame frequency of about 80 Hz.
When the automatic transfer service task, scheduled on the time tick, fetches data in the memory, it increments its memory pointer for the data in order to fetch the next data next time. It also checks, by a simple countdown, whether it has reached the right-hand edge of the window it is writing into. If so, it will look in a table to find the viewport and starting source address it should use at the point (a left edge) in the window it is entering. It also loads the count value corresponding to the width of this window. In this way multiple windows can be implemented, the contents of which will scroll "softly", scan line by scan line or pixel column by pixel column, without moving data in the memory. Soft-scrolling lists on display on a mobile telephone, for example, is useful because it is easier for the eye to follow it can be done with little more than changing a few parameters in a window definition table (instead of moving bitmaps in memory).
A line table format that can be used to define the windows on a screen in a way that can be used by such a method has five columns. Consider the following simple example.
The invention has been described in terms of particular embodiments. Other embodiments are within the scope of one or more of the following claims. For example, the steps of the invention can be performed in a different order and still achieve desirable results. In an alternative embodiment, the microcontroller core can be configured with special purpose circuitry for loading microcode instructions into a rewritable control store, in which case the entire control store can be rewritable. In a further alternative embodiment, the microcontroller core can be configured with modules of microcode-device instructions in a read-only control store, and virtual devices can be implemented solely by appropriate definition of control blocks defining fundamental functions such as timers. In this embodiment, the control blocks or device control data can be organized using a data structure such as a linked list or a tree that can be navigated by a service task implemented in read-only control store to implement the virtual devices defined by the device control data. The design of the microcontroller core can be represented in a synthesizable HDL (hardware description language) description, such as a VHDL description (VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) HDL. A synthesizable VHDL description constitutes a set of programmatic instructions from which a microcontroller chip can be manufactured.
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TOKYO: Japanese fans of Godzilla say the newly unveiled monster, set to star in a Hollywood reboot of the postwar classic, is too fat and has been "super-sized" by a country used to large portions. The latest version of the giant beast will hit 3-D screens in the United States on May 16 and in Japan two months later, in the year the huge Japanese lizard marks its 60th anniversary.
Trailers for the film and promotional stills have begun circulating, as marketers look to build excitement, but Japanese fans said their hero was looking a little chubby.
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However the new version was more promising, said Abe.
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Godzilla dates back to 1954's "Godzilla, King of the Monsters," the first of a series of groundbreaking monster flicks made by Tokyo's Toho studios.
Back then he was a 90 kilogram latex creation that left the actor inside breathless and soaked in sweat, with special effects relying on piano wires, pulleys and firecrackers.
From the moment Godzilla rose out of a roiling sea and began his swim to Japan, it was clear he was a product of the U.S. atmospheric hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in the 1950s.
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Japanese fans of Godzilla say the newly unveiled monster, set to star in a Hollywood reboot of the postwar classic, is too fat and has been "super-sized" by a country used to large portions. The latest version of the giant beast will hit 3-D screens in the United States on May 16 and in Japan two months later, in the year the huge Japanese lizard marks its 60th anniversary. Abe said the 1998 Hollywood version was more "like a fast-moving dinosaur" instead of a big-footed monster.However the new version was more promising, said Abe. Godzilla dates back to 1954's "Godzilla, King of the Monsters," the first of a series of groundbreaking monster flicks made by Tokyo's Toho studios.
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According to multiple sources close to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports, the Texas Rangers have agreed to a one year deal with outfielder Lance Berkman. The deal is pending physical. Jon Heyman of CBSSports adds that the deal is for 10$ million and that includes a vesting option with a $1 million buyout. The 36-year old Berkman hit .259/.381/.444 with 2 HR's, 7 RBI's and a .354 wOBA in 97 plate appearances for the Cardinals in 2012. He was limited to only 32 games in 2012 due to injuries. He even considered retirement during the season after injuring his knee. Image by Keith Allison under the Creative Commons License Agreement.
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Actually some Ukrainian posts have fought back. There's not much more they can do since they largely disarmed themselves at the urging of the US (and a guarantee that we would defend them). The US has broken its side of the agreement, why would Ukraine keep it's side?
Also, was Poland disarmed like this before Germany invaded?
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Aren't there TVs that will automatically adjust the volume for this very reason? That is, if you aren't skipping the commercials with a Tivo anyway.
Do we really want the government telling us what to do on that level?
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An interface. That's all they invented was a great interface, and then slapped it on a phone. That's why the phone in $500, not because it's also an iPod like Jobs was trying to sell it as. Yeah the price will go down eventually, or at least the price will stay the same long enough for the rest of the market to inflate until it seems like the price went down.


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Celebrate the fourth of July with music and fireworks at Dogwood Dell. Enjoy a free family Fourth of July celebration at Dogwood Dell with Carillon bells and Richmond Concert Band. The first half of the Richmond Concert Band concert will be "Movie Tunes" and after the intermission, it will be all patriotic, ending with the 1812 Overture, complete with the band, the howitzers, and the Carillon, played by Larry Robinson. The concert will conclude with The Stars & Stripes Forever which will entice the fireworks to begin! Come a bit early to get a seat within the Dell, bring the family and friends, and of course your picnic supper. The concert begins at 7:30pm, just after the Carillon concert.
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PHILADELPHIA - JANUARY 12: Steve Ott #29 of the Dallas Stars skates against the Philadelphia Flyers on January 12, 2010 at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Flyers defeated the Stars 6-3. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
Speaking of clowns. This is a textbook embellishment. You can't tell me that a big guy like Steve Ott who is 6'0" and 193 pounds, should be able to be knocked over this easily, no way, it's not possible. This should be a penalty on Steven Ott for embellishment. I also believe that it's probably not a smart play by Flyers defenseman Oliver Lauridsen because he fell for the bait as well. Not a good day for the Flyers defender.
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text: Sports Argus wins Chamber Tourney By Charlie Warner March 21, 2012 at 10:17 am The Caledonia Argus team won the annual Caledonia Area Chamber of Commerce Bowling Tournament held this past Friday at the Starlite Bowlng Center. The Argus won the event with a 1,679- pin total. Winona Controls came in second at 1,476, Mayo came in third at 1,460 and Sema came in fourth at 1,375. Members of the winning team are from left, Stephanie Schuldt, Jill Hahn, Pam DeMorett and Charlie Warner. Submitted photo Related posts: Warrior gymnasts take on Lancers, compete in Jeannie Harris Tourney Warriors send five to State Wrestling Tourney Warrior girls move on in sub-section tourney Warrior boys beat L-A 61-53, move on in sub-section tourney


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The series kicked off last weekend with a 35mm print showing of Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth in the titular role along with Glen Ford. If you've ever seen Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption you've already had a partial glimpse of the film – it's a scene where the inmates are viewing the picture in a prison theater, and Rita Hayworth makes her arrival as the femme fatale with her classic hair flip.
Femmes Fatales: The Women of Film Noir is a concept I had originally pitched to the curators of the museum and they thought it was a great idea. Houston's hot summer days are equally matched by sultry nights. So a series about seductive ladies in a humid climate, of course it seems ideal.
Upcoming this weekend we have The Blue Dahlia (1946), about an ex-bomber pilot suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife. Fast-paced and perfectly cast with the likes of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, the film reflects author Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled, grim wit.
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Start a new holiday tradition this year by inviting the neighborhood moms and kids over for a cookie-decorating bash.
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Bake gingerbread boys and girls (at least four cookies per child, plus a few extras in case any break), and mix up three or four different colored icings, which you can refrigerate in lidded containers. This party's all about creativity, so make sure you've got lots of decorations to choose from, like gumdrops, mini marshmallows, and chocolate candies. And don't forget to stock up on paper towels for quick cleanups.
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Our freshmen legislators must learn job quickly
Juan Garcia and Solomon Ortiz Jr., newly elected members of the Texas Legislature from the Corpus Christi area, are bright, smart and eager. But they are also new to the job, following two veterans who had built up years of seniority in Austin.
That makes the priority of the new Corpus Christi- area delegation clear: achieve unity.
Garcia defeated District 32 incumbent Gene Seaman, a 10-year veteran of the Texas House, in a bitter race that wasn't settled until the day after election day Tuesday. Ortiz, son of the area congressman, outpolled local businessman Joe McComb to succeed District 33 state Rep. Vilma Luna, who had been in the Texas House since 1993, but chose not to run for re-election.
Luna will be tough to replace. A Democrat close to the Republican leadership in Austin, Luna's seat on important legislative committees, especially Appropriations and the Legislative Budget Board, were coups for the local area. Now, the coming Texas Legislature, which meets in January, will see the Corpus Christi area looking to two House freshmen, Garcia and Ortiz; and two state representatives with one term under their belt, District 34 Rep. Abel Herrero, Dist. 35 Rep. Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles of Alice. The delegation also includes Dist. 43 Rep. Juan Escobar of Kingsville.
The Corpus Christi delegation has never been known for unity. But the region has too much on the table - adequate funding for local colleges and universities; priorities for highways, ferries and trade routes; meeting the needs of South Texas colonia residents; alleviating the insurance crunch for coastal homeowners - for members to work at cross purposes on personal agendas.
That unity ought to be helped by the fact that this delegation is all Democratic. But there's a caution: Needless partisanship in a Republican-led Texas Legislature is a dead end for effective representation of this area. The local delegation should follow Luna's lead on how a minority party member can work with the majority party.
That need for unity means close coordination with state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa of McAllen. Hinojosa now represents the most seniority and perhaps the biggest legislative clout closely associated with this area. Likewise, close coordination is needed with other top local officials. It won't hurt, for instance, for a Democratic legislator to have the first Republican county judge in modern Nueces County history, Loyd Neal, by their side when talking to the GOP leadership in Austin.
And no new page can be turned in Austin without the inauguration of recorded votes. Every vote ought to be recorded; not just "important" votes, or when two members request, but every vote. And Garcia, Ortiz, Herrero, Gonzalez Toureilles, Escobar and Hinojosa should help turn that new page.
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