1. A passive learning system for learning associated meanings of signaling flags, the system comprising:
a deck of playing cards defining a back surface and a front surface, the back surfaces of the playing cards having a common indicia, the front surfaces of the playing card having a unique card identifier, a flag indicia and a corresponding flag descriptor indicia.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein each playing card of the deck has at least two flag indices and corresponding flag descriptor indices.
3. The system of claim 2 wherein a first flag indicia and corresponding flag descriptor indicia is inverted and aligned with respect to a second flag indicia and corresponding flag descriptor indicia.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein an outer periphery of each card of the deck is pentagonal.
5. The system of claim 5 wherein the border is rectangular, square, circular, or pentagonal.
6. The system of claim 1 further comprising a border containing the flag indicia and flag descriptor indicia to demarcate the unique card identifier from the flag indicia and the corresponding flag descriptor indicia.
7. The system of claim 6 wherein the border is pentagonal.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein the cards are fabricated from a durable material.
9. The system of claim 8 wherein the durable material is resilient.
10. A method of learning to recognize the signal flags and recall their meanings, the method comprising the steps of:
a. providing a deck of playing cards defining a back surface and a front surface, the back surfaces of the playing cards having a common indicia, the front surfaces of the playing card having a unique card identifier, a flag indicia and a corresponding flag descriptor indicia; and
b. playing a card game with the deck of playing cards.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the card game is gin or crazy eight.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein the card game is poker.
13. The method of claim 12 further comprising the step of designating a joker card in terms of one of the signal flag.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein the joker card is identified as \u201calpha\u201d flag.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An apparatus for profiling the power consumption of an embedded system, the apparatus comprising:
a system event routing module configured to record system events from an embedded system having a processing unit and one or more peripherals;
a power measurement unit configured to repeatedly measure the power consumption of an embedded system;
a power profile module configured to receive the recorded system events and the measured power consumption; and
a power profile viewer configured to generate a display of a power profile for the embedded system based in part upon the recorded system events and the measured power consumption.