X-Nico

5 unusual facts about application-specific integrated circuit


Physics processing unit

This project was extended into a considerably more advanced ASIC-based system named HELLAS.

RemoteFX

The RemoteFX Codec does not require any special hardware, and uses the CPU for encoding, with optional hardware-acceleration by either a GPU or ASIC.

A RemoteFX encoder ASIC may also be optionally installed to further accelerate encoding.

System Packet Interface

Another application of this interface might be between a packet processor ASIC and a traffic manager device.

Virtual circuit

Switches can easily be implemented in ASIC hardware, while routing is more complex and requires software implementation.


A2LL

The application server was developed using Microsoft's (D)COM technology and uses an Informix 9.4x database running on a Solaris machine containing 80 CPUs and a 300 GB Cache-RAM.

Abbotsbury Railway

First proposed in 1872, to tap the stone deposits at Portesham and ironstone around the village of Abbotsbury itself, the first Parliamentary Bill was opposed by a local landowner and withdrawn in 1873.Further application was made in 1876 and received Royal Assent on 6 June 1877.

Aircraft engine controls

Carburetor Heat Control - Controls the application of heat to the carburetor venturi area to remove or prevent the formation of ice in the throat of the carburetor as well as bypassing the air filter in case of impact icing.

Aloha, Oregon

Supposedly the last two letters were transposed by the Post Office during the application process.

Azendoo

The application has partnered with Evernote, Box, Dropbox and Google so that users can centralize and share all of their informational sources confidentially.

CAML

Collaborative Application Markup Language, an XML-based markup language used with the Microsoft SharePoint collaborative portal application

Canonical normal form

Most gate circuits accept more than 2 input variables; for example, the spaceborne Apollo Guidance Computer, which pioneered the application of integrated circuits in the 1960s, was built with only one type of gate, a 3-input NOR, whose output is true only when all 3 inputs are false.

Capability Maturity Model

The first application of a staged maturity model to IT was not by CMM/SEI, but rather by Richard L. Nolan, who, in 1973 published the stages of growth model for IT organizations.

Carriage by Air Act 1961

Sections 1 and 2 of the Act cover its application to the United Kingdom, with Section 1 allowing it to come into force when the Queen makes an Order in Council authorising it, and Section 2 using the same procedure for changing or limiting its territorial extent.

Carruthers Beattie

During the Anglo-Boer War in February 1899, he and others demonstrated the application of wireless telegraphy by transmitting signals over a distance of 120 metres on Cape Town's Grand Parade using equipment imported from Britain.

Christopher Garnett

This was alongside a High Court judgement rejecting GNER's application for a judicial review over Grand Central Railway's access to the East Coast Main Line.

Design structure matrix

SonarQube the open source software quality platform has design structure matrix functionality included in it for analyzing your application.

Dieter Vollhardt

2006 Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society "for the development and application of the dynamical mean field theory" (together with A. Georges, G. Kotliar, W. Metzner)

DoJa

DoJa profile is a Java application environment specification for DoCoMo's i-mode mobile phone.

Emergency Bandage

The application allowed Bar-Natan to become a part of a technology incubator program in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim, with a government grant covering 3/4 of the expenses connected to the research and development of the bandage.

Euler diagram

Thus the matter would rest until 1952 when Maurice Karnaugh (1924– ) would adapt and expand a method proposed by Edward W. Veitch; this work would rely on the truth table method precisely defined in Emil Post's 1921 PhD thesis "Introduction to a general theory of elementary propositions" and the application of propositional logic to switching logic by (among others) Claude Shannon, George Stibitz, and Alan Turing.

Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar

The FPI-R was developed as a personality test with a mean bandwidth for various tasks of psychological diagnosis, but has an application focus in the areas of psychosomatic, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, chronic diseases and health psychology.

Full Channel

Later that year, Donofrio's company was awarded the first cable television franchise in Rhode Island after his application was approved by the City of East Providence.

Global Clean Energy Holdings

In mid-2011, GCEH, Emerald Biofuels and Honeywell's UOP LLC submitted a joint Renewable Fuel Standard pathway application to the U.S. EPA for Jatropha.

Graphical user interface builder

Ebase Xi RAD platform for web application, workflow and integration.

GraphicConverter

The application features a batch processor, slideshow mode, image preview browser, and access to metadata comments (such as XMP, Exif, and IPTC).

Guide Bridge railway station

However, due to the need to substantially rewrite the 2008 WCML timetable, in order to accommodate the additional services, the application was withdrawn in August 2008.

Harry Toulmin

Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. (1858–1942), Ohio lawyer who drafted the Wright Brothers' patent application for their "flying machine"

IADB

Integrated Archaeological Database, an open source web based application for archaeological excavation projects

IbisBrowser

Currently, ibisBrowserLT/ibisBrowserDX is offered for NTT DoCoMo FOMA as i-mode Java application, for au the open application version of ibisBrowserDX, and Java edition for corresponding Willcom model version equipped with Java application.

International Data Encryption Algorithm

A patent application for IDEA was first filed in Switzerland (CH A 1690/90) on May 18, 1990, then an international patent application was filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty on May 16, 1991.

Java Champions

In 2006, the Java Champions supported Michael Kölling in his attempts to get Microsoft to withdraw their patent application that would have stopped BlueJ.

Killer NIC

Bigfoot also publishes some of their own applications; these include a firewall, BitTorrent client, FTP application, and Telnet service that allows access to the Killer NIC's OS.

Lubov

Lubov claims to have trained at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in Russia, where her focus was on the classical application of oils.

Maddie Coleman

Before he was sentenced to prison, Casey secretly submitted an application to Wesleyan University on Maddie's behalf.

Madrid system

In Europe, resistance to the Protocol was brought by trademark attorneys who were afraid of losing business because a Community Trade Mark application could be filed directly through the Madrid Protocol process.

Master of Business Systems

Important application domains of Business Systems may be investigated in courses like enterprise resource planning, E-Commerce, SAP and e-business networking, industrial information systems, or electronic finance/electronic banking, web security, simulation models etc.

Measuring network throughput

In this application, kilo, mega and giga are the standard S.I. prefixes indicating multiplication by 1,000 (kilo), 1,000,000 (mega), and 1,000,000,000 (giga).

Microsoft UI Automation

Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) is an Application Programming Interface that allows one to access, identify, and manipulate UI elements of another application.

NBC Bearings

The company was awarded the prestigious Deming Application Prize by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE).

NeoLoad

NeoLoad is mentioned in the Gartner IT Market Clock for Application Development report.

Nicholas Byron Cavadias

Specializing in the application of electronics to aviation, Cavadias began his career at TAE Greek National Airlines in 1946 as a radio engineer before becoming a ground radar specialist with the Royal Air Force in 1953.

Numina Application Framework

The Numina Application Framework is a product from Numina Solutions LLC which provides single sign-on capabilities and an Application framework for building applications.

Organotitanium compound

Ziegler-Natta catalysts utilizing titanium-based catalysts soon followed as a major commercial application for which the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded.

Patrick Stevedores v MUA

The Court heard an application for special leave to appeal from a decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, which itself was an appeal from a decision by Justice Tony North of the Federal Court upon an application for urgent interlocutory relief which had been brought by the Maritime Union of Australia.

Provisional application

The provisional application was introduced to U.S. patent law with a 1994 amendment of the Patent Act of 1952.

SIMY

There are addition specific support like the Exam support program, CV & application support, employability services (in conjunction with PYT, Fairbridge and West Glasgow Employability).

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance

Membrane proteins and amyloid fibrils, the latter related to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, are two examples of application where solid-state NMR spectroscopy complements solution-state NMR spectroscopy and beam diffraction methods (e.g. X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy).

Swell Radio

Swell Radio is a mobile radio streaming application that learns user listening preferences based on listening behavior, community filtering, and a proprietary algorithm.

Testdroid

Testdroid can use testing frameworks, such as Robotium, cisimple, and uiautomator for native and Selenium for web applications, targeted for mobile application and game developers.

The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves

The club's website claims that Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe It or Not! fame had applied for membership before this restriction was eliminated, and the clerk-treasurer returned his application with a note rejecting his application.

Torsion bar suspension

The most famous American passenger car application was the Chrysler system used beginning with the 1957 model year, although Chrysler's "Torsion-Aire" suspension was only for the front; the same basic system (longitudinal mounting) was maintained until the 1981 introduction of the K-car.

Universal binary

A universal binary is, in Apple parlance, an executable file or application bundle that runs natively on either PowerPC or Intel-manufactured IA-32 or Intel 64-based Macintosh computers; it is an implementation of the concept more generally known as a fat binary.

US Microbics

Robinson’s application of microbic technology for the hospitality industry ranged from the pioneering cleanout of the fuel holding tanks on the RMS Queen Mary during its "transplant" as a Long Beach tourist attraction in the 70’s, to the grease trap maintenance for odor and grease buildup at the world famous Pea Soup Anderson Restaurant (in Buellton, California), to the Buellton Wild Animal Park’s odor and runoff control.

Wannier function

Wannier functions have recently found application in describing the polarization in crystals, for example, ferroelectrics.


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