A device, which may be a peripheral device or a host computing device, comprises a communication interface, a memory and a processor. The processor is arranged to detect imminent disconnection of a communication link between the peripheral device and the host computing device and in response to detecting the imminent disconnection of the communication link, to trigger a data transfer from the host computing device to the peripheral device via the communication interface. The data transfer defines, at least in part, a fixed output data set which, after disconnection, is output via an output device in the peripheral device.

Embodiments include a system for performance monitoring, the system includes a processor configured to perform a method. The method includes detecting, by a redundancy register, a change to a counter value corresponding to one of a plurality of hardware counters, wherein the redundancy register comprises a plurality of memory locations; storing, in each of the plurality of memory locations, a value indicating a change was detected for the counter value corresponding to the plurality of hardware counters, wherein each of the plurality of hardware counters map to one of the plurality of memory locations; performing read operation on a subset of the hardware counters, wherein members of the subset of the hardware counters are determined based upon the value indicating that the change was detected for the counter value corresponding to the plurality of hardware counters; and resetting the value stored in all the memory locations to a default value.

An ability to present user-defined start pages on graphical user interfaces is provided. At least one of a user interface of a computing device, an operating system executing on the computing device, and an application executing on the computing device is monitored to detect, on the user interface, one or more trigger conditions that are associated with the application. The one or more trigger conditions are detected, and in response, a start-page database is queried for information that describes, at least in part, a user-defined start page that is associated with the application. The user-defined start page, and not a default start page, is presented on a screen of the computing device via an interface with at least one of the application and the operating system.

A method includes monitoring a use of a cable assembly that includes a communication cable terminated by a termination module. Data indicative of the use is written to a writeable non-volatile memory in the termination module. The use of the cable assembly is acted upon by reading the data from the non-volatile memory.

A baseboard management controller (BMC) may be configured to enable a communication interface from the BMC to a host processor on a host computing device and provide input to the host processor via the communication interface. The input causes at least one diagnostic operation to be performed on the host computing device. The BMC may collect host information in response to the diagnostic operation(s) being performed. The BMC may report the host information to another entity and/or store the host information in persistent memory within the BMC. In some embodiments, the input may be provided to the host processor in response to receiving a signal from a fabric controller. In some embodiments, the input may be provided to the host processor in response to detecting an anomaly associated with the host computing device. The BMC may take at least one action to mitigate the anomaly.

The invention enables commissioning of field devices within a control system by implementing the steps of (i) detecting a connection event comprising a field device interfacing with an I/O port that is communicably coupled with the server, (ii) retrieving from a memory of the field device that is interfacing with the I/O port, a first field device identifier corresponding to the field device, (iii) retrieving from a non-transient memory database communicably coupled with the server, field device configuration data associated with the I/O port, wherein, the set of field device attributes includes a second field device identifier, and at least a segment of the second field device identifier is different from a corresponding segment of the first field device identifier, (iv) generating one of a translated first field device identifier and a translated second field device identifier, based on predefined translation data, (v) comparing the translated first field device identifier with the second field device identifier, or comparing the first field device identifier with the translated second field device identifier, (vi) generating a connection check output decision based on an output of the comparison, and (vii) optionally, initiate a connection check output event based on the connection check output decision.

The present disclosure provides a touch monitoring method, a touch monitoring device, and a terminal. The touch monitoring method includes steps of: acquiring a plurality of touch operations performed by a user within a predetermined time period at a predetermined touch region of a terminal; acquiring attribute information corresponding to each touch operation; and prompting the user in accordance with the attribute information corresponding to the touch operations. The touch monitoring device includes an operation acquisition module, an attribute information acquisition module and a prompt module.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for updating a System on Chip (SOC) image without using direct memory access (DMA) programming. A target SOC monitors a target mailbox to determine reception of a data packet of an SOC image received from a host computer, wherein the SOC image includes a plurality of data packets. The target SOC reads the data packet from a buffer of the target SOC and writes a status message to a host mailbox of the target SOC, wherein the status message is indicative of a reception status of the data packet.

A controller includes: a command queue scheduler for queuing normal commands, and providing a priority order to a suspend command, when the suspend command is input; a data input/output component for outputting data in response to a data output signal output the command queue scheduler, and stopping the output of the data in response to a data output stop signal; and a data monitor for dividing data input to the data input/output component into a plurality of data groups, and monitoring information of a data group including data currently output from the data input/output component. The data input/output component outputs data up to the currently output data included in the data group and then stops the output of the data, in response to the data output stop signal. The command queue scheduler outputs the suspend command, when the output of the data group is stopped.

An adaptive voltage converter adapted to compensate for the exponential sensitivities of sub-threshold and near-threshold circuits. The converter can change its power/performance characteristics between different energy modes. The converter may comprise two or more voltage converters/regulators. A multiplexing circuit selects between the outputs of the several converters/regulators depending on the state of a control signal generated by a control facility. The converter is specially adapted to change the output of each converter/regulator based on a number of variables, including, for example, process corner, temperature and input voltage.