We present a data compression method and decompression architecture for testing embedded cores in a system-on-a-chip (SOC). The proposed approach makes effective use of Golomb coding and the internal scan chain(s) of the core under test and provides significantly better results than a recent compression method that uses Golomb coding and a separate cyclical scan register (CSR). The major advant...

We present a data compression method and decompression architecture for testing embedded cores in a system-on-a-chip (SOC). The proposed approach makes effective use of Golomb coding and the internal scan chain(s) of the core under test, and provides significantly better results than a recent compression method that uses Golomb coding and a separate cyclical scan register (CSR). The major advan...

From the first shoulder arthroscopy performed on a cadaver in 1931, shoulder arthroscopy has grown tremendously in its ability to diagnose and treat pathologic conditions about the shoulder. Despite improvements in arthroscopic techniques and instrumentation, it is only recently that arthroscopists have begun to explore precise anatomical structures within the subdeltoid space. By way of a thor...

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+ 1 Sikes, CV; 2 Brown, PJ; 2 Danelson, KA; 1 Seyler, TM; 1 Mannava, S; 1 Jinnah, RH; 2 Stitzel, JD; 1 Lang, JE +Wake Forest University Orthopaedic Surgery, Winston-Salem, NC, 2 Wake Forest University Biomedical Engineering, Winston-Salem, NC [email protected] INTRODUCTION: Avascular Necrosis (AVN) of the hip is a condition involving disruption of the blood supply to the femoral head with subseq...

We performed 41 core decompressions in 32 patients for stage I or stage II osteonecrosis of the femoral head. The intra-osseous pressure at the intertrochanteric level was raised in 28 (68%) and there was histological confirmation of necrosis in 36 hips (88%). After a follow-up of 10 to 84 months (mean 31) nine of the 12 stage I hips (75%) showed significant clinical or radiological deteriorati...