1.-20. (canceled)
21. A hand-held control for an electromotive furniture drive, comprising:
at least one detector; and
at least one control panel section having at least one actuation surface which cooperates with the at least one detector.
22. The hand-held control of claim 21, wherein the at least one control panel section comprises a plurality of said actuation surface, said actuation surfaces being arranged at a predetermined distance from one another.
23. The hand-held control of claim 21, wherein the at least one actuation surface cooperates with the at least one detector so that the at least one actuation surface (4) has at least one touch-sensitive function.
24. The hand-held control of claim 21, wherein the at least one control panel section has a firm, non-resilient surface.
25. The hand-held control of claim 24, wherein the surface of the hand-held control has the at least one control panel section.
26. The hand-held control of claim 21, further comprising a detector printed circuit board, said at least one detector being provided on the detector printed circuit board.
27. The hand-held control of claim 21, wherein the at least one detector comprises at least one sensor surface having at least one ground plane assigned thereto.
28. The hand-held control of claim 27, further comprising at least one evaluation unit, said at least one sensor surface with the at least one associated ground plane being connected in an electrically conducting manner to the at least one evaluation unit.
29. The hand-held control of claim 27, wherein the at least one sensor surface is configured as an electrically conducting rectangular, preferably square, frame.
30. The hand-held control of claim 27, wherein the at least one sensor surface is configured to at least partially surround a through hole.
31. The hand-held control of claim 27, wherein the at least one ground plane is configured to at least partially or completely surround the at least one sensor surface.
32. The hand-held control of claim 27, wherein the at least one ground plane comprises at least one cross pattern surrounded by an edge.
33. The hand-held control of claim 21, further comprising at least one control device for generating a control signal.
34. A method for detecting an actuation of a hand-held control, comprising the steps of:
applying an electric periodic test signal from at least one evaluation unit to at least one sensor surface of at least one detector;
recording a response signal by means of a test signal modified by actuation of the at least one detector;
evaluating the test signal thus obtained and producing a logic switching signal for detecting the actuation of the hand-held control.
35. The method of claim 34, wherein the logic switching signal is formed directly from the response signal.
36. The method of claim 34, wherein the at least one evaluation unit compares in the evaluating step all response signals, with the one of the response signals having a highest signal level being used for relaying to a control device of the hand-held control.
37. The method of claim 34, wherein the at least one evaluation unit relays in the evaluating step an output value corresponding to a signal level of the response signal to a control device.
38. The method of claim 37, wherein in the presence of a plurality of recorded identical or similar response signals, the control device takes into account a geometrical arrangement of the sensor surfaces that have delivered the response signals, with the control device specifying a geometrically nearest sensor surface as the one whose function an operator has intended.
39. The method of claim 34, wherein a height of a signal level of the response signal of the sensor surface of the detector is previously assigned to a related actuation.
40. An electromotive furniture drive for adjustment of a movable component of an item of furniture, said electromotive furniture drive comprising at least one hand-held control which includes at least one detector, and at least one control panel section having at least one actuation surface which cooperates with the at least one detector, and which is detected by applying an electric periodic test signal from at least one evaluation unit to at least one sensor surface of at least one detector, recording a response signal by means of a test signal modified by actuation of the at least one detector, evaluating the test signal thus obtained and producing a logic switching signal for detecting the actuation of the hand-held control.
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 integrated into a design of a system-on-chip (SOC) circuit, the apparatus connected to a plurality of scan groups having one or more clock domains therein, the scan groups further having peripheral isolation and a defined activity factor (AF) for each of the plurality of scan groups, wherein the apparatus is configured to divide the SOC circuit respective of an estimation of power dissipation of each of the plurality of scan groups.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein for the estimation of power dissipation, the apparatus comprises:
a first circuit which generates one or more scan groups using at least a register-transfer-level (RTL) design description of the SOC circuit and a circuit library corresponding the SOC circuit;
a second circuit which establishes a peripheral interaction factor (PIF) for each of the plurality of scan groups;
a third circuit which performs a power simulation for each of the plurality of scan groups;
a fourth circuit which generates a report for each of the plurality of scan groups containing at least power consumption data of the plurality of scan groups obtained in response to the power simulation for the plurality of scan groups; and
a fifth circuit which optimizes the testing of the SOC by grouping the plurality of scan groups into a plurality of test groups based on the power consumption of the plurality of scan groups as provided in the report and at least one of a tester’s power capability, desired test time, and test cost on the tester.
3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the fifth circuit optimizes the testing by providing an optimum combination of the plurality of scan groups into the plurality of test groups to be tested individually.
4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein, when the fifth circuit optimizes the testing based on the tester’s power capability, the optimizing comprises grouping the plurality of scan groups such that at test time on the tester each test group does not exceed power supply limitations of the tester.
5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the second circuit further changes the AF for at least one of the plurality of scan groups to improve scan power estimation.
6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the second circuit adjusts the clock frequency value of a clock domain of the at least one scan group of the plurality of scan groups to adjust power of the at least one scan group.
7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the third circuit increases the clock frequency value during scan power estimation to speed up testing.
8. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the third circuit uses the PIF to account for influence of any peripheral circuits that dissipate power during scan power testing of at least one of the one or more scan groups.