The present disclosure provides a detection circuit and a method for detecting an abnormal interface coupling. The detection circuit includes: a power circuit; a first USB interface, including a first power wire and a first signal wire, in which a power end of the first power wire is coupled to the power circuit; a second USB interface, including a second power wire and a second signal wire, in which the second USB interface is coupled with the first USB interface, such that the second signal wire is coupled with the first signal wire; and a controller, configured to acquire a voltage difference between a voltage of the first power wire and a voltage of the second power wire, and to determine whether the interface coupling is abnormal according to the voltage difference.

A method of error detection during a booting process of a computer system includes: for each of setting variables of a BIOS program, determining whether or not a respective one of stored values corresponding to the setting variable is in a respective one of value ranges corresponding to the setting variable according to a variable range comparison table; and when it is determined that for at least one of the setting variables, the stored value corresponding thereto is not in the respective one of the value ranges, updating, according to a variable definition file, the at least one of the setting variables using one of preset default values corresponding to the at least one of the setting variables.

In some examples, a method for converged system compliance checking can include identifying a converged system compliance checking field for hardware in a converged system. The compliance checking field can, for example, be based on the purpose of the hardware. The method can further include identifying baseline compliance data for the compliance checking field, identifying actual compliance data for the compliance checking field by testing the hardware, comparing the actual compliance data to the baseline compliance data, and determining whether the hardware is in compliance with the converged system based on the comparison between the actual compliance data and the baseline compliance data.

Methods and apparatus for automatic qubit calibration. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a plurality of qubit parameters and data describing dependencies of the plurality of qubit parameters on one or more other qubit parameters; identifying a qubit parameter; selecting a set of qubit parameters that includes the identified qubit parameter and one or more dependent qubit parameters; processing one or more parameters in the set of qubit parameters in sequence according to the data describing dependencies, comprising, for a parameter in the set of qubit parameters: performing a calibration test on the parameter; and performing a first calibration experiment or a diagnostic calibration algorithm on the parameter when the calibration test fails.

It is an object to provide an information processing device and a computer-readable recording medium that enable achieving reduction in the man-hours of an operator. An information processing device comprises, a processor and a plurality of slots provided for installation of an electronic component. The processor that executes a process including; first detecting presence or absence of installation of the electronic component in each of the slots; second detecting, based on detection result obtained by the first detecting and based on an installation candidate pattern indicating presence or absence of installation of an electronic component in each of the slots as determined based on configuration of the information processing device, an installation defect of the electronic component; and notifying, when the installation defect is detected by the second detecting, the installation detect.

One or more characteristics of devices are ascertained in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. As may be consistent with one or more embodiments, the attachment of an external circuit to an input port is detected based on a resistance value presented by the external circuit. A resistance range that includes the resistance value presented at the input port is determined, in response to detecting the attachment, by dynamically coupling one or more of a plurality of resistor-based circuits relative to the input port. A signal presented by the external circuit on the input port is coded based on the determined resistance range, using one or more of the resistor-based circuits, and the code is used to identify a type of the external circuit. These aspects can provide for the communication of power and data with a variety of different types of external circuits.

A start test method executed by a system including a calculation device and a management device that manages failure information on the calculation device, the start test method includes storing, by a first processor included in the management device, a failure rate that has been calculated for each of parts of the calculation device based on the failure information received from the calculation device as performance information, associating with time information and a part of the calculation device; obtaining a failure rate of each of the parts at a time of start of the calculation device based on the performance information and a time when the calculation device is to be started; notifying the calculation device of the obtained failure rate; and executing, by a second processor included in the calculation device, a start test of the calculation device in accordance with the notified failure rate.

A method for configuring a real or virtual electronic control unit, wherein a control unit software is executed on the control unit, and the control unit software comprises a basic software layer, the basic software layer is configured by a module configuration file by setting values of parameters, the scope of the configurable parameters being defined in a first module definition file which contains the identifiers of the configurable parameters. The first module definition file is replaced by a second module definition file, and a conversion of the first module configuration file into a second module configuration file takes place.

Methods and apparatus for automatic qubit calibration. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a plurality of qubit parameters and data describing dependencies of the plurality of qubit parameters on one or more other qubit parameters; identifying a qubit parameter; selecting a set of qubit parameters that includes the identified qubit parameter and one or more dependent qubit parameters; processing one or more parameters in the set of qubit parameters in sequence according to the data describing dependencies, comprising, for a parameter in the set of qubit parameters: performing a calibration test on the parameter; and performing a first calibration experiment or a diagnostic calibration algorithm on the parameter when the calibration test fails.

A system for configuring an intrusion detection system. The system includes an input device, a display device, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive input, via the input device. The input the electronic processor receives includes a previous configuration file, a databus configuration file, and user input. The electronic processor is also configured to run, with an intrusion detection system configuration tool, a simulation of communication on a vehicle communication system based on the input received and display, on the display device, results of running the simulation with the intrusion detection system configuration tool. The electronic processor is further configured to output a new configuration file and a file configured to be uploaded to a vehicle.