The difficulties to analyse the state space of a special class of nonlinear electronic circuits are illustrated and a new method to treat these problems is presented. Theoretical aspects of circuit equations from a di...
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Integration of materials such as GaN, InP, SiGe, and Si is a natural extension of the 3D-IC perspective and provides a unique solution for high performance circuits. In this approach, application of a component is no ...
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In distributed systems, likelihood of failure increases with increase in the number of processes and a single failure often renders the entire system state useless. Checkpointing and rollback recovery is a common tech...
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In distributed systems, likelihood of failure increases with increase in the number of processes and a single failure often renders the entire system state useless. Checkpointing and rollback recovery is a common technique used for increasing the system reliability against various anticipated and unanticipated failures. Checkpointing can be independent, quasi-synchronous and coordinated. Coordinated checkpointing can be blocking or non-blocking. Also, either all the processes in the distributed system may need to checkpoint or only a minimum number of processes may be required to checkpoint. Minimizing the number of processes to checkpoint may introduce blocking. The non-blocking checkpointing protocols introduce overhead of piggybacking some information for non-intrusiveness. Minimization of this piggybacked information is the objective of our work. We have designed a non-blocking coordinated checkpointing protocol for distributed systems with reliable communication channels that minimize piggybacked information on each message.
In the development of an effective medication management system to improve medication adherence, the challenge of flexibly dispensing of medications of multiple sizes and shapes was encountered. It is found that most ...
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In the development of an effective medication management system to improve medication adherence, the challenge of flexibly dispensing of medications of multiple sizes and shapes was encountered. It is found that most of the medication dispensers in the market, as well as the feeding and orienting mechanisms in manufacturing sector, are customized to be operated with objects of specific size. In view of the inflexibility of those mechanisms, we proposed a novel method to handle and singulate medications of different sizes and shapes. A three dimensional adjustable cavity is designed as a carrier to separate and dispense one pill at a time. Rotational reciprocating vibration is then designed to provide centrifugal effect to the objects in hopper, in order to assist the singulation. An angle inclination test has been performed on the prototype built to investigate the optimum inclination of the feeding hopper. Preliminary testing has shown propitious results for dispensing round shape tablets of various sizes. The prototype built validated the concept of three dimensional adjustable cavity as a novel singulation technique. The mechanism is not only restricted to the dispensing of various sizes of pills, but has the potential to be implemented in dispensing or feeding of other objects in applications like vending machine, manufacturing system and etc.
Traditional display fashions of housing design mainly depend on static pictures, which are short of the intuition of house space and do not support interaction during design periods. This paper proposes a virtual hous...
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This paper discusses two applications of probing dense volumetric data for MR orthopedics and dynamic contrast enhanced MRI mammography. In order not to reduce the context information and to extract the essential part...
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We have created a stochastic impulse-response (IR) moment-extraction algorithm for RLCM circuit networks. It employs a newly discovered Feynman Sum-over-Paths (SoP) postulate. We report here results of an initial nume...
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We have created a stochastic impulse-response (IR) moment-extraction algorithm for RLCM circuit networks. It employs a newly discovered Feynman Sum-over-Paths (SoP) postulate. We report here results of an initial numerical verification, involving an uncoupled RLCM-line benchmark problem. We obtained promising results: less than 0.5% and 10% approximate l-σ error for first- and second-order IR moments, respectively, after only 10K sampled path-sum terms. We believe, in conclusion, that this type of IR-moment extraction algorithm may find useful application in a massively coupled electrical system, such as that encountered in high-end digital-IC interconnects.
Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) techniques aim to outline the shape of objects and reduce visual clutter such as shadows and inner texture edges. As the first phase result of our entire research, this work is conce...
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We have recently created a stochastic impulse-response (IR) moment-extraction algorithm for RLCM IC-inter connect networks. [1] It employs a newly discovered Sum-over-Paths (SoP) postulate. We report here results of a...
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We have recently created a stochastic impulse-response (IR) moment-extraction algorithm for RLCM IC-inter connect networks. [1] It employs a newly discovered Sum-over-Paths (SoP) postulate. We report here results of a first-time numerical verification for 1-, 2-, and 3-stage coupled RLCM interconnects. We achieved less than 0.5% and 5% approximate 1-σ error for first- and second-order IR moments, respectively, after only 10K sampled path-sum terms. Our results, we believe, indicate that this type of IR-moment extraction algorithm may find useful application in future CAD-tool computational kernels for massively coupled, high-end digital-IC interconnects.
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