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House Republicans wanted to keep the caps in place for 2018, while Democrats said they would press for a new piece of legislation to extend the threshold into next year. The Democratic majority feared that if they didn't move ahead with the Senate version of the bill they wouldn't pass legislation in time for towns to warn school budgets before Town Meeting Day.
The House ultimately concurred with the Senate compromise, which bumps up every district's allowable growth by 0.9 percent. Districts that spend $14,095 or less are exempted from the spending thresholds altogether and the Agency of Education will use whichever calculation helps a district stay within spending limits. Penalties will go up from 25 percent of every dollar spent over to 40 percent.
The GOP used the one tool in their tool box on Friday — a monkey wrench — to stave off a vote on the Senate's modifications to Act 46's spending thresholds.
Twice Speaker Shap Smith tried to bring the legislation to the floor for immediate consideration Friday, and twice he was defeated because he could not garner the 107 votes needed.
Most of the Republicans were unhappy that the Senate did away with the spending caps in FY18 and many had hoped they could stall the vote until Tuesday so they could speak with their constituents first.
"An accelerated path is ill-advised and side steps deliberation. Today we move to suspend the rules on legislation that happened last night in the Senate after we went home many of us haven't had time to understand the changes nor talk to the people it would effect," said Paul Dame, R-Essex.
The rules that guide the legislature require a day to pass between a bill passing in one chamber and being voted on in the other. Enough Republicans voted against suspending the rules that lawmakers had to come back at a minute past midnight to cast their vote.
"The people of Vermont deserve better than this," said Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, during one of the Democratic caucuses today. When the applause died down he finished, "This is a bunch of procedural nonsense. If we're going to get the business of the state done we should get the business of the state done."
Sarah Buxton D-Tunbridge was aghast. "After the full committee consideration, after intensive negotiations resulting in compromise with the other body, we are not ready?"
January 31 is the unofficial deadline for a resolution because that is the last day that most school boards can change their budgets — many of which will be voted on Town Meeting Day.
"Many Vermonters, including school board members, have asked us to revisit this issue and act quickly," said Sandy Haas, P-Rochester.
Rep. Tom Stevens, D-Waterbury, chimed in. "Are we really happy to see our communities suffer and squirm while we delay for another weekend?"
Only a few House Republicans felt there was an urgency to vote on Friday.
"School boards have voted on this. The train has left the station — this is not an emergency," Patricia McCoy R-Pultney said to the Republican caucus.
Last week, some House GOP members used procedure to try and strip a piece out of the House Committee on Education's spending cap amendment that would allow the Agency of Education to use whichever spending calculation best served a community because they believed there was an urgent need for clarity.
"We owe it to the hard working school boards who did what we asked – who played by the rules – to hold them harmless," Rep. Paul Dame, R-Essex, said last week. On Friday, the same members of the GOP blocked voting on the Senate's compromise on S. 233 that contains the very language to do just that.
"Suddenly many who wanted immediate action in order to give timely information to our school districts are now willing to keep them in the dark," said David Sharpe D-Bristol.
Thursday night, the Senate compromised with the House and backed off a full repeal of the allowable growth percentage and penalties put into Act 46.
"The Senate came an awful long way from 28 to 1 to repeal everything in FY17 and 18. They came and awful long way toward the House proposal," Sharpe told the House.
The Senate also repealed the AGP for FY18.
Rep. Carolyn Branagan, R-Georgia, planned to introduce an amendment that would put AGP back in for FY18 because she said it would give lawmakers something to work with when rebuilding a cost containment measure.
The amendment failed 37 to 87.
Many Republicans worry that they won't be able to get it back into the law if they relent.
"We still have to deal with the Senate and it took us till the last day of the last session in conference committee for this proposal- this imperfect proposal to come out," said Kurt Wright R-Burlington who supports the amendment. "Most of the '17 budgets are done so the year in question is the next one and now we are repealing that," said Wright.
The Ways and Means Committee voted against the amendment.
CORRECTION: The quote "Are we really happy to see our communities suffer and squirm while we delay for another weekend?" was wrongly attributed to Rep. Sandy Haas in the original version of this story. Rep. Tom Stevens, D-Waterbury, made the statement.


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Euro Zone Must Change or Die
When Greece first kicked off the European sovereign debt crisis, market watchers pretty much unanimously decided that the whole mess would work like this:
- First, we all worry about Greece.
- Then we get bored, and worry about Portugal.
- Then we move on to Spain and Italy.
- Then, if things are really, really bad after all that fretting, we all worry about the whole structure of the euro and whether it can continue to survive in its current form.
That would have been bad enough. But it's actually working out somewhat worse than that.
Instead, after investors (German translation: speculators) grew weary of Greece-bashing, and the European powers-that-be tried but failed to stop the rot, the market is shifting into all-out systemic crisis mode, with only a brief day or two worrying about Spain.
Right now, investors are not on a whirlwind tour of Europe's garlic belt. They're not just picking off the currency bloc's weakest members and punishing their bonds.
There's an element of that, of course. The costs of insuring government bonds from the likes of Greece, Portugal and Spain are back up around the levels they held in early May, even despite the $1 trillion shock-and-awe rescue package. And Spanish and Italian bond yields are rising, reflecting, at least in part, renewed investor nerves.
The difference now is that French and Belgian bonds — previously seen as safe — are also coming under some pressure. Their equities are still drawing in decent demand. But the bonds — the first to be hit in this situation — are under strain. Only northern European bonds, chiefly from Germany, are still immune.
That's not good. It's a sign that the domino effect, where pessimistic investors prowl around the weak links and knock them down one by one, is not working. Now, says Steve Barrow, an analyst at Standard Bank in London, it looks like the market wants to "flatten all the dominoes at once."
So, why the shift in gear?
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Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited to run the Eugene Marathon. I feel strong and ready for it, but the last few weeks, my heart and head just haven't been very "in it."
I knew motivation was waning when I had a tempo run on my schedule for the evening and all my mind wanted to do was nap. And let me tell you, I do NOT nap. The manfriend has to force me to lay down often after long runs because I just want to keep doing stuff.
Looking back at my racing calendar, I haven't really taken a break from half marathon/marathon/50K training in the last two years. I've simply bounced from one training cycle right on to the next without so much as a month to chill. Wouldn't that be a novel idea?
In fact, yesterday's King Estate 5K reminded me how much fun (and hard) this running thing can be.
the marathon.
Anyway, my goal for this week is to take it easy. Often, the final week of training gets me spazzed out because I want to make up for the missed mileage by doing other "easy" stuff like biking, weight lifting, cross training, etc. but I need to make sure to keep my body fresh and focus on the race ahead.
So after the marathon, what do I plan to do? Well, for now, the plan is to NOT run for a week. I will probably do some light biking and yoga, but that's it.
Previously, I thought about starting Jamie Eason's Life Fit Trainer program after the marathon, but I haven't decided. Also, a few weeks ago, I put my name in the lottery for the McKenzie River 50K again and got in - gah, I know! I sort of did this waffling over whether or not I wanted to run the entire summer away.
The reality is, I'll be running a lot whether or not I'm training for this 50K. Plus running on beautiful trails with friends isn't such a bad way to spend your day.
Overall, I just want to make sure I have time for other priorities and fun adventures with the manfriend (hello camping, I'm looking at you). And if I have to drop out of the race, I'm not afraid to do so.
Moral of the story: I need a mini break from running so I can fall back in love with it all over again.
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London: Children of all ages should be given an hour's "happiness lessons" every week to nurture their development and stop schools behaving as "exams factories", a major British report will warn this week.
It comes as separate figures show the numbers of children in the UK receiving counselling sessions because of exam stress has tripled in a year.
Former ministers and government advisers are calling for radical changes in the way British pupils are brought up, with accusations of a "grossly inhumane" failure to care for children's wellbeing.
Their report, due to be presented to a global health summit this week, will say mental health problems among children and teenagers have become "a massive problem", with one in 10 now suffering from diagnoses such as anxiety and depression.
The study by Lord Ara Darzi, a former health minister, and Lord Richard Layard, an economist and former government adviser, calls for changes in the education of all children, so that "life skills" are given the same attention as reading and writing.
Under the proposals, school pupils from the age of five would spend at least one hour a week discussing their emotions, setting positive life goals, and learning how to cope with everyday pressures and social media.
Such approaches - dubbed "happiness lessons" - were pioneered by Anthony Seldon at Wellington College, one of Britain's best-known boarding schools, but are not used in most schools.
The new report, which will be presented to the World Innovation Summit in Health in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, says such lessons should be offered to every child from the start to the end of their time at school. It also says help should be offered far earlier to children showing signs of mental distress.
The damning report warns that the failure to offer counselling is not only "grossly inhumane" but economically inefficient, because well-rounded children are more likely to succeed in life. The report states that modern lifestyles are heaping too many pressures on children, without taking care of their development: "Our schools need to adopt children's wellbeing as one of their objectives - both in their ethos and their teaching. Life skills can be taught as professionally as mathematics or literature."
International research involving 270,000 children enrolled in programmes to develop social and emotional skills found a 10 per cent gain in their skills, behaviour and academic performance, the study says.
The report suggests schools which push children too hard can end up getting worse academic results, as well as damaging their pupils.
"Increasingly, schools are becoming exam factories," the study says. "To improve child wellbeing schools must address the emotional and spiritual needs of their children, as well as their intellectual development."
New figures from British helpline Childline show a steep rise in the number of children receiving counselling who say their anxiety is caused by exams. The charity's annual statistics show a tripling in the number of counselling sessions relating to exam stress, with 7546 cases in 2013/14, plus 87,500 views of online advice on the topic.
In total, 43 per cent of those receiving counselling about school and education problems were under the age of 11.
Last week Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, said the Government had a "moral mission" to provide compassion and support to children struggling with mental health problems.
Ms Morgan said that preparing "well-rounded young people" to be ready for adult life is one of the department's key aims since her appointment last year.
Next month the Personal, Social and Health Education Association will produce guidance for schools, funded by Government, on how to teach mental health issues.
Earlier studies suggested that British standards of literacy, numeracy and physical skills lag far behind those of almost every other Western country.
Researchers from University College London's Institute of Health Equity said the figures suggest many children in Britain are left damaged by early years in which they did not get enough personal time with their parents.
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OPELOUSAS — The first phase of the St. Landry Parish $66 million road improvement project is about 85 percent complete, according to a report from parish President Bill Fontenot.
But that report was not enough to quiet complaints from several residents who spoke at Wednesday's Parish Council meeting about deteriorating roads they say are dangerous to drive on in the parish and are ruining their vehicles.
The funding source for the road program is a 2-cent sales tax collected over the next 15 years in the unincorporated areas of the parish.
Fontenot said in an interview that the $66 million will pave and overlay a maximum of 350 miles of roads.
The parish, Fontenot said, has about 800 miles of roads that will eventually be overlaid during the 15 years the tax is collected.
According to Fontenot's report, work on seven on the roads in the first phase is complete, while work continues on another 15 roads. Recent rains have prevented contractors from doing much work on the road projects, Fontenot said. Several residents questioned why their roads are not included in the project's first phase, saying their roads are in deplorable condition.
John Peck, a bus driver for the St. Landry Parish school district, said he was unable to bring busloads of students to school because of two roads in an rural area between Port Barre and Arnaudville.
"I had to refuse service because of safety concerns," he said.
Peck also said one of the roads, Lanclos Road, floods frequently.
"My concern is for the children; I almost went into a ditch the other day on that road," he said.
Larry Singletary, who lives on Chretien Point Road, said that road "is beyond disrepair."
Chretien Point Road, in the Sunset and Cankton areas, has done damage to his vehicles, Singletary said.
"Struts, shocks are ruined and I can't keep anything in alignment. I understand it's number four on the road list. I think I have been extremely patient," Singletary said.
Fontenot told Peck and Singletary that the roads they discussed will eventually be fixed.
In another matter Wednesday, the council voted to introduce an ordinance creating a no-wake zone for Two O'Clock Bayou between Krotz Springs and Port Barre.
The proposed ordinance overs the distance between U.S. 190 south to the bayou's landing and weir areas.
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Giants LB Antonio Pierce said today he's proud of how he acted the night former teammate Plaxico Burress shot himself last November.
Pierce escaped indictment from a New York grand jury, which indicted Burress on Monday on felony weapons charges.
"I am not sorry for how I acted that night," Piece told reporters at Giants training camp today (via theNew York Daily News). "I'm not sorry for how I responded. I am sorry for putting myself in position that I had to respond the way I had to respond. There's a lot of lessons I learned from this. I've taken them to heart. I've taken them seriously."
Pierce brought Burress to the hospital after the shooting. Prosecutors allege that Pierce possessed Burress' gun after the shooting until returning it to the receiver's home the next day.
"I thought I acted very reasonably, responsibly and sensibly," Pierce told reporters. "Basically a teammate was down and that was my concern that night, to get him help."
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10 Best Movie Theaters in Metro Phoenix
The Valley is home to some unique movie theaters and art houses, running everything from blockbusters to independent and local films.
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Like favorite candy bars, Seinfeld episodes, and One Directioners, having a favorite movie theater is, well, not exactly important. But knowing what you like and why? It makes all the difference, especially when you're looking to cool off with the latest blockbuster or indie must-see. And in metro Phoenix, moviegoers have plenty of great options. Everyone has his or her favorite movie theater — and for very specific reasons. This place has reclining seats, another has food, another has student discounts, and yet another has some actual good movies.
Though we've not yet been graced with the Chandler location of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (it's coming soon, guys), we still have 10 theaters in town with a little something special to take in everything from booming summer blockbusters to moody art films.
Here are our 10 favorite movie theaters in the Valley.
Mill Avenue's AMC Centerpoint 11 in Tempe offers those plush recliners and the attached Pedal Haus Brewery.
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AMC Centerpoint 11
730 South Mill Ave, Tempe
Arizona State University students might not like that student discounts aren't offered this close to campus, but what they will like about AMC Centerpoint 11 is the fully reclining plush seats. You can practically lay down during the whole three-hour sequel you just signed up for. Set on Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe, this renovated theater used to be MADCAP Theaters – but is now the 11-auditorium AMC Theatres at Centerpoint, showing first-run movies and midnight premieres. Standard popcorn, nachos, and Coca Cola freestyle machine drinks apply here, unless you check out the attached Pedal Haus Brewery. Tickets still start at $4.99 every day before 4 p.m. – just don't forget to validate your Centerpoint Parking Garage ticket.
The Biltmore area's AMC Dine-in Theatres Esplanade 14 offers luxury seats and seat-side service for their full menu.
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AMC Dine-in Theatres Esplanade 14
2515 East Camelback Road
You're in the Biltmore area, so you would expect nothing less than what you'll find at AMC Dine-in Theatres Esplanade 14 – set just east of 24th Street and Camelback Road. This is the type of theater with luxury seats, plus a full menu with seat-side service. The sole AMC Dine-In Theatres location in Arizona, the Esplanade 14 offers the date-night appropriate Cinema Suites theaters – best before and after a visit to the onsite MacGuffins Bar & Lounge – or the more family-friendly Fork & Screen auditoriums. To cut it down a bit, AMC offers the AMC Stubs, plus reduced prices for student, military, and senior moviegoers at certain times.
Since 2011, FilmBar in downtown Phoenix has screened independent, foreign, and local films in their 76-seat microcinema. Also, beer and wine is there.
Lauren Cusimano
815 North Second Street
Billed as "Phoenix's true indie alternative," FilmBar has been around since 2011, and in the past five years has done some pretty innovative things. This downtown indie theater is at Second and McKinley streets, and features a soundproof, 76-seat microcinema with 2K digital projection technology. FilmBar is known for screening independent and foreign films, plus current, locally made, and cult films during special nights. The front of the house is a 21-and-over beer and wine bar, also offering tamales, nachos, popcorn, and candy. Stop by for a drink, and you don't even need to see a movie to enjoy this part of FilmBar. Tickets run $9 a showing, and $5 for retro screenings.
The newer Harkins Camelview at Fashion Square 14 is found in the East Wing, and screens independent film and big titles.
Lauren Cusimano
Harkins Camelview at Fashion Square 14
7014 East Camelback Road, Scottsdale
When news hit that the iconic Harkins Camelview 5 Theatres was closing in December 2015, many a Phoenician groaned. Where would we see our independent, foreign, artistic, and Oscar-worthy movies now? Harkins Theatres Fashion Square 7, nestled in the Scottsdale Fashion Square food court area, was also closed. But now the go-to mall is home to a perfect blend of both now-closed theaters: Harkins Camelview at Fashion Square 14, found on the second floor of the East Wing. The new Camelview features 14 wall-to-wall curved screens, those plush, reclining Harkins' Ultimate Loungers in all auditoriums, and Fashion-Square-worthy amenities like the Harkins' Lobby Café and the Vérité Lounge.
The Ciné Capri features a 30-foot by 80-foot screen with a Dolby Atmos sound system at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 14 and Harkins Tempe Marketplace 14.
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Harkins Cine Capri at Scottsdale 101
7000 East Mayo Boulevard, Scottsdale
Billed as the "Ultimate Moviegoing Experience," the Ciné Capri at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 is a unique viewing experience for a couple of reasons. The Cine Capri screen is 30 feet tall and 80 feet wide, and backed by Dolby Atmos system pumping out 40,000 watts of digital sound to 600 stadium-style Ultimate Rocker loveseats. If you've seen a movie in the Cine Capri auditorium before, you know the people at Harkins might give a little spiel about the screen, and signature golden curtains will open dramatically right before the preview starts. And if the Loop 101 and Scottsdale Road is a little north for you, the Valley is home to a second Cine Capri screen at Harkins Tempe Marketplace 14.
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To achieve mobile applications so you can use special software if they want to create something more complex, but lasts longer, and websites to create mobile applications for Android that are simple to setup.
Creating programs for Android: the best program is evident that offered by the team behind the Android operating system, namely Android SDK that you can download here, and if you use Eclipse and ADT can download the plugin here. Before beginning work on applications, you should first follow tutorials for creating user applications on Android.com.
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Appery – is a website that lets you make free Android applications are available more features, is among the most complete development system that I found online, and allows you to test application live directly in the browser. Like I said earlier, there is no need to download a program, everything is "in the cloud" with an intuitive interface, and you can also find tutorials for different types of applications. If you want to create an Android application for personal blog or website must choose based application that will add RSS feed content into the application from the website. It also lets you customize more application because it provides access and programming, editing HTML / CSS. I recommend you try it!
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What is Something you wish you had done when you were pregnant??
I was just commenting to Meg, who has Popped a little that she should take monthly pics of her growing belly... I only took a late picture and of course we have photos throughout, but nothing with me, standing sideways with my belly growing... I kind of wish I had...
Anyone wish they had done something with their pregnancy?
A belly cast? A photographer to take some special pregnancy pics? 3D or something ultrasound? Video???
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LOL... I KNOW.. A body cast would be cool but then what? Do you mount it on the wall like some horns?? I figured it would just be another thing taking up room in a white bag in my closet... like my wedding dress... Boxes of baby stuff I can't let go of...
But a body cast? I feel that would be weird to just run across one day... lol
But a body cast? I feel that would be weird to just run across one day... lol
LOL! I have the same feelings about a body cast.. actually, they freak me out. But seriously, WTH do you do with it? hahaha
Oh Jessica... did my girlfriends all conspire with you :) They all keep bugging me! Perhaps I will soon.. just for myself to look back and see.. I think I am still in the body transition phase.. hopefully I get over it by time I have he/she haha
I did take photos in most of my pregnancies and got really lax with the later ones. A belly cast never really appealed to me.
LOL! I think most of us agree... casts are weird! haha
def more pictures and a journal of all the symptoms and cravings to share with my child when she got older
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But now when you set to 0 that index row will get very wide as it collects everything completed. ĀYou may want to consider deleting the indexed column for completed rows when done.
Thanks for all the help everyone. ĀThe values were meant to be binary. ĀI ended making the possible values between 0 and 50 instead of just 0 or 1. ĀThat way no single index row gets that wide. ĀI now run queries for everything from 1 to 50 to get 'queued' items and set the value to 0 when I'm done (I will never query for row_loaded = 0). ĀIt's unfortunate Cassandra doesn't delegate the query execution to a node that had the index row on it, but rather tries to move the entire index row to the node that is queried.
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This is all very hypothetical, but I've been bitten by this before.
Does row_loaded happen to be a binary or boolean value? If so the secondary index generated by Cassandra will have at most 2 rows, and they'll be REALLY wide if you have a lot of entries. Since Cassandra doesn't distribute columns over rows, those potentially very wide index rows, and their replicas, must live in SSTables in their entirety on the nodes that own them (and their replicas).
Even though you limit 1, I'm not sure what "behind the scenes" things Cassandra does. I've received advice to avoid the built in secondary indexes in Cassandra for some of these reasons. Also if row_loaded is meant to implement some kind of queuing behavior, it could be the wrong problem space for Cassandra as a result of all of the above.
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:22 PM, aaron morton < email@example.com > wrote:
Is there anything in the logs when you run the queries ?
Try turning the logging up to DEBUG on the node that fails to return and see what happens. You will see it send messages to other nodes and do work itself.
One thing to note, a query that uses secondary indexes runs on a node for each token range. So it will use more than CL number of nodes.
Aaron Morton
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On 30/03/2012, at 11:52 AM, Chris Hart wrote:
I have the following cluster:
<ip address> MountainViewRAC1 Up Normal 1.86 GB 20.00% 0
<ip address> MountainViewRAC1 Up Normal 2.17 GB 33.33% 56713727820156410577229101238628035242
<ip address> MountainViewRAC1 Up Normal 2.41 GB 33.33% 113427455640312821154458202477256070485
<ip address> Rackspace RAC1 Up Normal 3.9 GB 13.33% 136112946768375385385349842972707284580
The following query runs quickly on all nodes except 1 MountainView node:
select * from Access_Log where row_loaded = 0 limit 1;
There is a secondary index on row_loaded. The query usually doesn't complete (but sometimes does) on the bad node and returns very quickly on all other nodes. I've upping the rpc timeout to a full minute (rpc_timeout_in_ms: 60000) in the yaml, but it still often doesn't complete in a minute. It seems just as likely to complete and takes about the same amount of time whether the limit is 1, 100 or 1000.
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The present invention relates generally to a system and method for consolidating separate initialization EEPROMs from various integrated components on a circuit board into a single EEPROM module. More particularly, the present invention relates to an EEPROM module that may include an arbiter and protocol translator configured to allow a shared EEPROM to appear as a dedicated EEPROM to more than one component.
2. Background of the Invention
Early computer systems included a processor (or CPU), random access memory (RAM), and certain peripheral devices such as a floppy drive, a keyboard and a display. These components were typically coupled together using a network of address, data and control lines, commonly referred to as a "bus." As computer technology evolved, it became common to connect additional peripheral devices to the computer through ports (such as a parallel port or a serial port), or by attaching the peripheral devices to sockets on the main system circuit board (or "motherboard") which were connected to the system bus. One early bus that still is in use today is the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus. The ISA bus, as the name implies, was a bus standard adopted by computer manufacturers to permit the manufacturers of peripheral devices to design devices that would be compatible with most computer systems. The ISA bus includes 16 data lines and 24 address lines and operates at a clock speed of 8 MHz. A large number of peripheral components have been developed over the years to operate with the ISA protocol.
The components which connect to a given bus receive data from the other components on the same bus via the bus signal lines. Selected components may operate as "bus masters" to initiate data transfers over the bus. Each component on the bus circuit operates according to a bus protocol that defines the purpose of each bus signal and regulates such parameters as bus speed and arbitration between components requesting bus mastership. A bus protocol also determines the proper sequence of bus signals for transferring data over the bus. As computer systems have continued to evolve, new bus circuits offering heightened functionality have replaced older bus circuits, allowing existing components to transfer data more effectively.
One way in which the system bus has been made more effective is to permit data to be exchanged in a computer system without the assistance of the CPU. To implement this design, a new bus architecture called Extended Industrial Standard Architecture (EISA) was developed. The EISA bus protocol permits system components residing on the EISA bus to obtain mastership of the bus and to run cycles on the bus independently of the CPU. Another bus that has become increasingly popular is the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. Like the EISA bus, the PCI bus provides bus master capabilities to devices connected to the PCI bus. The PCI bus operates at clock speeds of 33 MHz or faster. Current designs contemplate implementing a 100 MHz PCI bus.
To ensure that existing components continue to remain compatible with future generations of computer systems, new computer designs often include many different types of buses. Because different buses operate according to different protocols, bridge devices are used to interface, or bridge, the different buses. Such a scheme permits components coupled to one bus to exchange data with components coupled to another bus.
FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a configuration of various computer components that may be found in a representative prior art computer system. The computer system of FIG. 1 includes a CPU 102 coupled to a bridge logic device 106 via a CPU bus. The bridge logic device 106 is sometimes referred to as a "North bridge" for no other reason than it often is depicted near the top of a computer system drawing. The North bridge 106 also couples to a main memory array 104 by a memory bus, and may further couple to a graphics controller 108 via an accelerated graphics port (AGP) bus. The North bridge 106 couples CPU 102, memory 104, and graphics controller 108 to the other peripheral devices in the system through a primary expansion bus (BUS A) such as a PCI bus or an EISA bus. Various components that understand the bus protocol of BUS A may reside on this bus, such as an audio device 114, an external bus adapter (e.g. an IEEE 1394 interface device) 116, and a network interface card (NIC) 118. These components may be integrated onto the motherboard, as suggested by FIG. 1, or they may be plugged into expansion slots 110 that are connected to BUS A. As technology evolves and higher-performance systems are increasingly sought, there is a greater tendency to integrate many of the devices into the motherboard which were previously separate plug-in components.
If other secondary expansion buses are provided in the computer system, as is typically the case, another bridge logic device 112 is used to couple the primary expansion bus (BUS A) to the secondary expansion bus (BUS B). This bridge logic 112 is sometimes referred to as a "South bridge" reflecting its location vis-ŕ-vis the North bridge 106 in a typical computer system drawing. An example of such bridge logic is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,634,073, assigned to Compaq Computer Corporation. Various components that understand the bus protocol of BUS B may reside on this bus, such as hard disk controller 122, Flash ROM 124, and Super I/O (input/output) controller 126. Slots 120 may also be provided for plug-in components that comply with the protocol of BUS B.
The Super I/O controller 126 typically interfaces to basic input/output devices such as a keyboard 130, a mouse 132, a floppy disk drive 128, a parallel port, a serial port, and sometimes various other input switches such as a power switch and a suspend switch. The Super I/O controller 126 often has the capability to handle power management functions such as reducing or terminating power to components such as the floppy drive 130, and blocking the clock signals that drive components such as the bridge devices 106, 112 thereby inducing a sleep mode in the expansion buses. The Super I/O controller 126 may further assert System Management Interrupt (SMI) signals to various devices such as the CPU 102 and North bridge 106 to indicate special conditions pertaining to input/output activities such as sleep mode. The Super I/O controller 126 may incorporate a counter or a Real Time Clock (RTC) to track the activities of certain components such as the hard disk 122 and the primary expansion bus, inducing a sleep mode or reduced power mode after a predetermined time of inactivity. The Super I/O controller 126 may also induce a low-power suspend mode if the suspend switch is pressed, in which the power is completely shut off to all but a few selected devices. Exempted devices might be the Super I/O controller 126 itself and NIC 118.
Many of the peripheral components may include a programmable read-only memory (PROM) of some form for initializing configuration registers and providing serial numbers or unique identifiers of one form or another. This technique is popular because the use of PROMs to store device settings advantageously reduces the number of components and reduces design effort. Some bus protocols, such as PCI, require that components be provided with configuration information including a vendor id, a serial number, perhaps a subsystem vendor id, revision numbers, and the like. Typically, PCI peripherals will retrieve this information from the PROMs at power-up and store it in internal configuration registers reserved for this purpose. Electrically erasable PROMs (EEPROMs) are often used with configurable peripheral components since they allow a device's configuration information to be modified and retained indefinitely. Examples of components which would likely include an EEPROM are graphics accelerators, audio devices, NICs, modems, and external bus interfaces (e.g. IEEE 1394, SCSI).
Most EEPROMs have a capacity of at least 128 bytes and support a serial interface such as the Inter IC bus (I2C), Microwire™ bus or the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). Normally, less than ⅓to ˝of the full storage capacity of these EEPROMs is used, and in most cases these EEPROMs are only used during the device's initialization phase (i.e. during power-up). This results in numerous EEPROMs each having excess capacity when peripheral components are integrated onto the motherboard. It would be desirable to have a shared, central EEPROM module that appears as an individual dedicated EEPROM to each of several components in the system, thus minimizing the number of components required on the system board.
Accordingly, there is provided herein a computer system having a non-volatile memory module that is shared by a plurality of system components. In one embodiment, the computer system comprises a processor for executing program instructions, a memory device for storing data and program instructions, a number of integrated system components for carrying out specialized functions, a bridge logic device for communication between the processor, memory, and system components, and a shared non-volatile memory module for storing configuration information for each of the system components. Each of the integrated system components is configured to retrieve its associated configuration information from the shared non-volatile memory module during initialization, rather than from a dedicated non-volatile memory as is conventionally done. This consolidation of multiple non-volatile memories into a single memory module provides numerous advantages including reduction of cost and required space on the motherboard. The non-volatile memory module may include an arbiter for resolving memory access conflicts, and may further include a bus protocol translator for converting between interfaces implemented by the system components and the interface of a chosen non-volatile memory array where the configuration information is actually stored. In one contemplated embodiment, the non-volatile memory module may be incorporated into the non-volatile system memory where the BIOS is stored. In this embodiment, the non-volatile system memory might be coupled to a system bus through a system interface, and coupled to a number of serial busses through a second interface.
One embodiment as claimed contemplates a system board for a computer that comprises a system bus, a number of system components, and a shared EEPROM module. The system bus is configured to couple a processor to the system components, and each of the system components is configured to access an EEPROM to retrieve configuration information. The shared EEPROM module couples to each of the system components and stores the configuration information for each of the of system components.
Another embodiment as claimed contemplates a method for initializing a computer system that comprises: (i) storing configuration information for a number of system devices in a shared non-volatile memory module; (ii) asserting and releasing a reset signal coupled to a processor and the system components; (iii) and servicing the information requests to the shared non-volatile memory module. When the reset signal is released in step (ii), the system components initiate information requests to the shared non-volatile memory module for configuration information.
A better understanding of the present invention can be obtained when the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment is considered in conjunction with the following drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a prior art computer system that comprises various system components coupled together by bus logic;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a computer system according to the present invention with a shared central EEPROM module;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of a shared central EEPROM module; and
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of second embodiment of a shared central EEPROM module.
While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the drawings and detailed description thereto are not intended to limit the invention to the particular form disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
In addition, certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular system components. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but not function. In the following discussion and in the claims, the terms "including" and "comprising" are used in an open-ended fashion, and thus should be interpreted to mean "including, but not limited to . . . ". Also, the term "couple" or "couples" is intended to mean either an indirect or direct electrical connection. Thus, if a first device couples to a second device, that connection may be through a direct electrical connection or through an indirect electrical connection via other devices and connections.
Referring now to FIG. 2, an exemplary computer system constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment generally includes an EEPROM controller 202 and a central, shared EEPROM 204, in addition to the various other standard computer system components, such as CPU 102, main memory 104, north bridge 106, graphics controller 108, primary expansion bus slots 110, south bridge 112, audio device 114, external bus adapter 116, NIC 118, secondary bus slots 120, hard disk controller 122, flash ROM 124, Super I/O module 126, floppy disk 128, keyboard 130, and mouse 132. As one of skill in the art will understand, many alternate configurations of some or all of the standard system components shown may be employed without violating the spirit of the present invention. Graphics controller 108, audio device 114, external bus adapter 116, and NIC 118 are illustrative of peripheral components that may be provided as part of a standard computer system motherboard. As technology evolves and manufacturers become more sophisticated, the number of peripheral components integrated into the motherboard will probably increase, and it will become common to integrate various other system components. In the prior art, exemplary components 108 (graphics controller), 114 (audio controller), 116 (external bus adapter), 118 (network interface) would conventionally include a dedicated EEPROM for storing configuration information for retrieval during system initialization. In the present invention shown in FIG. 2, these devices preferably do not include a dedicated EEPROM. In accordance with a preferred embodiment an EEPROM controller 202 couples to a graphics controller 108, audio controller 114, external bus adapter 116, and NIC 118. The EEPROM controller 202 also preferably couples to an integrated EEPROM 204. Together controller 202 and EEPROM 204 form a central, shared EEPROM module. All the information which normally would be stored separately in the various dedicated EEPROMs is stored in EEPROM 204, and EEPROM controller 202 operates to service all EEPROM access requests from the various system components. In this manner the number of EEPROM chips on a system motherboard can be reduced, thereby reducing costs and the amount of space required on the motherboard. A time savings may also be realized since it is necessary to program only a single EEPROM, and the motherboard assembly time may be reduced since fewer components need to be placed. A gain in reliability may also be realized by the presence of fewer components.
As the various components may each expect a dedicated EEPROM, the EEPROM controller 202 may have to emulate a different EEPROM interface for each component. For example, the graphics controller 108 may use a Microwire™ bus for communicating with the EEPROM controller 202, while the NIC 118 could be using an SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) bus and the external bus adapter 116 could be using an I2C bus. Since the EEPROM 204 preferably uses only one bus standard, one embodiment of the EEPROM controller 202 provides translation between bus protocols.
One of skill in the art will understand that as the computer system exits the reset mode, the various system components will undergo an initialization process. During the initialization process the components coupled to the EEPROM controller 202 will, in no particular order and generally in parallel, begin making EEPROM information requests to controller 202.
In one embodiment, EEPROM controller 202 and EEPROM 204 operate at a sufficiently high speed to service all information requests concurrently, without having to resort to an arbitration process that forces one or more components to wait while another is being serviced. For example, if at most four information requests may be simultaneously received by the EEPROM controller 202 on 12 kHz busses, the EEPROM controller 202 may use a 1 MHz bus to retrieve the first reply byte for each request from EEPROM 204 and place the reply information in outgoing buffers within one clock cycle of the slower busses. For this embodiment, a high-speed (1 MHz) extension of the SPI bus may be used for coupling the controller 202 to the EEPROM 204.
In another embodiment, at most one system component is wait-state intolerant (for example, a component which couples to the controller 202 via a Microwire™ bus), and the controller 202 employs an arbitration scheme to determine the order in which information requests get serviced. Understandably, the wait-state intolerant device would be given the highest priority, while the other devices that tolerate wait-states take turns receiving EEPROM access. Illustratively, when an information request from a wait-state intolerant component and three information requests from other components are simultaneously received by EEPROM controller 202, the EEPROM controller 202 places the other components in a wait state until the information request from the wait-state intolerant component has been serviced. The three pending information requests may then be serviced on a round-robin basis.
In a hybrid embodiment, the EEPROM module operates fast enough to support multiple wait-state intolerant components, but must still employ wait-states on those devices which will tolerate them in order to service all information requests. For example, if at most two information requests from wait-state intolerant components and two more information requests are received from other components, the controller 202 may place the wait-state tolerant components into wait states, and retrieve the first reply bytes and place them in the outgoing buffers for the wait-state intolerant components within one clock cycle of the slower busses. Advantageously, the bus speed between the controller 202 and EEPROM 204 does not have to operate at as high a speed as the first described embodiment, and multiple wait-state intolerant components can be serviced.
Components which couple to the controller 202 by SPI or I2C busses may be tolerant of wait states. The SPI bus and I2C bus standards provide a means by which the EEPROM controller 202 may force components coupled to the controller by these busses to enter a wait-state. This preferably allows the controller 202 to arbitrate between concurrent information requests from different components. The I2C bus standard, in particular, is now described.
The I2C bus standard employs a signal data line (SDA) and a signal clock line (SCL). Both these lines are driven in open-collector fashion with pull-up resistors for raising the signal logic level high when none of the devices is actively pulling the line down to a low signal logic level. A device which initiates a data transfer on the bus becomes a bus master, and begins by driving the SDA line low followed by the SCL line. If everything proceeds normally, all subsequent transitions on the SDA line take place during the upswing of the SCL line. Any other device coupled to the bus can "stall" the transfer of data by holding the SCL line low, i.e. not allowing an upswing to occur. In this manner, an EEPROM access request by system components that employ the I2C bus can be put "on hold" by controller 202 if the controller 202 is providing access to a different component. More details on the I2C bus and the other bus standards can be found be referring to the published specifications and much of the EEPROM product literature. The I2C bus specifically is discussed in "The I2C-bus and how to use it (including specifications)" publication by Philips Semiconductors (April 1995), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
EEPROM 204 may be pre-programmed with configuration information for the various system components before the EEPROM is installed on the board, or after installation during in-circuit test (ICT) of the motherboard. The EEPROM 204 stores the configuration information for all the system components coupled to the controller 202. Each component is allotted storage space in the EEPROM 204, and the controller 202 is provided with a corresponding address map. The mapping scheme for the various component allotments may use fixed block sizes for simplicity or variable length blocks for better efficiency (in terms of smaller required EEPROM capacity). In addition to the configuration information for the system components, the EEPROM may include information about the serial interface type being used by each of the system components and their tolerance of wait-states.
In addition to the data that would normally be stored in the dedicated EEPROMs, the EEPROM 204 may also include configuration information for EEPROM controller 202. For example, the address or identification that the EEPROM controller 202 is expected to respond to for each bus may be stored in EEPROM 204. In one embodiment, controller 202 is a general purpose microcontroller that may store software in EEPROM 204.
FIG. 3 shows a functional block diagram of one embodiment of EEPROM controller 202. The controller 202 is shown comprising the functional blocks of configuration logic 302, arbiter 304, protocol translator 306, and optionally buffer 308. It should be understood that controller 202 may be implemented using a general purpose microcontroller that executes special purpose software, and may alternatively be implemented using an application-specific integrated chip (ASIC). Also, although the EEPROM 204 is shown as an external device, it is contemplated that the EEPROM 204 and the controller 202 may be integrated onto the same chip.
In the embodiment of FIG. 3, each bus to which the arbiter 304 is coupled is provided with a set of configuration pins. By tying the configuration pins to high or low logic levels, the systems engineer may "program" the controller with the characteristics of each of the incoming busses. These characteristics may include the bus type (e.g. SPI, I2C, Microwire™, etc.) and wait-state tolerance (e.g. wait-state allowed, no wait-state allowed). The configuration logic 302 processes the pin states and alters the function of the arbiter 304 as appropriate. The configuration pins may be eliminated if the corresponding configuration information is stored in EEPROM 204. In any case, it may be desired to provide a set of configuration pins for specifying the bus interface employed by EEPROM 204, particularly if EEPROM 204 is a separate chip.
The arbiter 304 preferably monitors the bus transactions initiated by the integrated components and handles all information requests as they occur. The handling preferably includes (1) receiving an information request, (2) determining if the request is material (i.e. directed to an EEPROM location within the central EEPROM module), (3) determining the priority of material requests, (4) placing requests in a queue according to priority and possibly interrupting ongoing information transactions of lower priority, (5) placing requests in the queue "on hold"(6) retrieving a request from the top of the queue and conducting an information transaction in response to the information request if no other transaction is being conducted and the queue is not empty. The conducting of the information transaction preferably takes the form of providing the information request to protocol translator 306 and receiving the response in ready-to-transmit form. Then the arbiter 304 preferably transmits the response to the requesting component. When the controller 202 uses a high-speed bus to communicate with EEPROM 204, the arbiter 304 is preferably provided with a buffer 308 for buffering responses to information requests. In this embodiment, the arbiter 304 preferably begins servicing the next information request while the response to the previous information request is still being transmitted.
Protocol translator 306 is coupled to EEPROM 204 to make information requests and to receive responses from EEPROM 204. In a preferred embodiment, an SPI bus couples translator 306 to EEPROM 204. The arbiter 304 transfers an information request to translator 306 to be translated and relayed to EEPROM 204. The translator 306 preferably converts the information request from the incoming bus protocol into the SPI protocol. Similarly, translator 306 preferably converts the response from the SPI protocol back into the original bus protocol. It is expected that in an ASIC, the translator 306 could be implemented using a relatively simple state machine. It should also be understood that other bus protocols including I2C and Microwire™ could be used to communicate between the controller 202 and the EEPROM 204.
Referring now to FIG. 4, an alternate embodiment is shown in which the central EEPROM module is incorporated into flash ROM 124. In the embodiment of FIG. 4, the non-volatile memory array of Flash ROM 124 is divided into a BIOS area 406 and an EEPROM DATA area 408. The BIOS area 406 is accessed by the CPU 102 in the normal fashion, i.e. via a system bus and a system interface 402. System components are coupled to the EEPROM DATA area 408 via an EEPROM interface 404. Since it is not unlikely that CPU 102 would be accessing the BIOS at roughly the same time the various system components are trying to access their EEPROM information, the system interface 402 and the EEPROM interface 404 may be configured to coordinate their accesses to the non-volatile memory array. As the CPU 102 is normally wait-state tolerant, EEPROM interface 404 may control the overall arbitration for access to the non-volatile memory array. It is expected that this embodiment would result in the greatest savings of space on the motherboard.
Hence, a central, shared EEPROM module has been disclosed which provides advantages in terms of cost and space savings when various system components are integrated onto the system board. In particular, an embodiment has been disclosed which permits a single EEPROM chip to be shared by multiple devices that may each be configured for a dedicated EEPROM chip. Numerous variations and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art once the above disclosure is fully appreciated. For example, other non-volatile memories types may be shared in this fashion, including ROMs, and PROMs. Further, various well-known arbitration methods, including e.g. the round-robin method, may be employed for sharing access to the central shared memory. Additionally, the use of other interfaces than those described herein is contemplated. Another variation may involve providing the system components access to the shared EEPROM module via a shared bus such as the I2C bus which may be configured as a shared bus. It is intended that the following claims be interpreted to embrace all such variations and modifications.
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DENVER IND. CO., LTD specializes in manufacturing manual / CNC lathes, milling machines and accommodates made-to-order special purpose machineries commission-ed by clients from all over the world. Since the company founder Chairman Kao Yuan-Tang started the business, full commitment and passion were given to the developing and innovating new machine tools.
In order to keep DENVER going even stronger, the company tries it's best to offer the products to customers in terms of product quality, after sale service and management. Keeping in technical innovation, DENVER has manufactured solid and durable products for customers to create great wealth.
Taiwan metalworking machine tools-
(1) Lathes- high speed variable-speed lathe, heavy duty lathes, precision lathe, metal facing lathe.
(2) CNC Lathes- cnc heavy duty powerful lathe machines, multiple guide way heavy duty cnc lathe ( flat bed), cnc slant bed lathe.
(3) Milling Machines- vertical milling machinery, cnc mill machines, vertical horizontal turret milling machine, bed type vertical milling machine.
(4) Made-to-Order Special Purpose Machineries.