We present a new learning method of microprocessor architecture based on design and verification using functional simulation. Our main goals are to improve and optimize the learning process, motivating students to stu...
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We present a new learning method of microprocessor architecture based on design and verification using functional simulation. Our main goals are to improve and optimize the learning process, motivating students to study and learn theoretical and practical aspects of microprocessor architecture, using functional simulators to validate the microprocessor design and to construct knowledge; and develop research activities during an undergraduate course. Our method is based on learning, constructivism theory, problem based learning, group projects, design of academic microprocessors as motivation for theory study/learning and verification of designed microprocessors through functional simulators developed by students. To validate the proposed method we analyze two microprocessors and functional simulators: a digital signal processor using ASIP and RISC concepts, and a RISC ASIP home automation processor. They were developed in a computer architecture course (computer science, PUC-Minas, Brazil) as the application of this method. In the conclusion students and professor analyze the results, highlighting the main differences, advantages and disadvantages of the new method.
In this paper we analyze the teaching and learning of parallel processing through performance analysis using a software tool called Prober. This tool is a functional and performance analyzer of parallel programs that ...
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In this paper we analyze the teaching and learning of parallel processing through performance analysis using a software tool called Prober. This tool is a functional and performance analyzer of parallel programs that we proposed and developed during an undergraduate research project. Our teaching and learning approach consists of a practical class where students receive explanations about some concepts of parallel processing and the use of the tool. They do some oriented and simple performance tests on parallel programs and analyze their results using Prober as a single aid tool. Finally, students answer a self-assessment questionnaire about their formation, their knowledge of parallel processing concepts and also about the usability of Prober. Our main goal is to show that students can learn concepts of parallel processing in a clearer, faster and more efficient way using our approach.
In asynchronous wind micropower generation, two aspects must be associated for maximum generated power: turbine alignment and load control. An algorithm to simultaneously control the load current and the wind turbine ...
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In asynchronous wind micropower generation, two aspects must be associated for maximum generated power: turbine alignment and load control. An algorithm to simultaneously control the load current and the wind turbine shaft direction is presented aiming at maximized use of the available wind energy. This algorithm allows the tracking for the maximum power, without any direct measurement of both wind intensity and/or wind direction. With this purpose, two additional subroutines were written as a part of the main program of control, based on an heuristic forward chaining method of artificial intelligence, known as hill climbing. Both subroutines are executed alternatively and they share the same data acquisition circuits of the conventional control system. A DC motor is used to properly yaw the turbine while a power converter copes with the load current. As a result one has a simplified, robust and efficient control for use in small wind energy systems.
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Benbouzid, MEHSpornic, SABody, C[?]Dr. Mohamed El Hachemi Benbouzid (1968)
SEE received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the Electrical Engineering Institute of Batna University Algeria the MSc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1991 from the National Polytechnic Instituteof Grenoble France and the Ph.D. degree also in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1994 from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble. After graduation he joined the University of Picardie-Jules Verne France where he is Associate Professor at the Professional Institute of Amiens. His currentresearch interests include electric machines anddrives computational of electromagnetics and electromechanical actuation as well as technics for energy savings. He is actually leading a research program on the monitoring and the diagnostics of induction machine drives for the French Picardie Region. He is active in the IEEE Power Engineering Society and is the treasurer of the French Chapter of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. (Laboratoire des Systkmes Automatique Universitk de Picardie-Jules Verne 7. Rue du Moulin Neuf. F-80000 Amiens France Phone: + 33 22 827680 Fax: + 33 22 82 76 82
This paper describes a model for the non-linear magnetomechanical coupling in new highly magnetostrictive materials. This model is devoted to the Computer-Aided Design of magnetostrictive devices. It is based on an it...
This paper describes a model for the non-linear magnetomechanical coupling in new highly magnetostrictive materials. This model is devoted to the Computer-Aided Design of magnetostrictive devices. It is based on an iterative process of successive magnetic and mechanical computations by a the Finite Element Method. Magnetic and mechanical quantities are still coupled by the iterative process. As a matter of fact, the use of experimental data though the Surface Spline Method allows the introduction of the magnetomechanical coupling. The experimental data are collected from a specially designed sample holder devoted to the static characterization of Terfenol-D rods. Comparisons between numerical outputs from the model and the experimental data reveal that the model is quite powerful to describe the magnetomechanical coupling in highly magnetostrictive materials as Terfonal-D. Otherwise, the proposed model has been extended to take into account the magnetostrictive effect in microsystems using highly magnetostrictive thin films. Numerical computations provide in this case coherent results and show that it is able to describe the global behaviour of highly magnetostrictive microsystems.
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BENNETT, RAWSONUSN Chief of Naval ResearchTHE AUTHOR was born on June 16
1905. in Chicago Illinois. He was appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis. Maryland from California in 1923. Graduated and commissioned Ensign on June 2 1921 he subsequently advanced to the rank of Captain to date from March 20 1945. In December 1955 he was appointed Rear Admiral to date from January 3 1956. Following graduation in 1927 he joined the USS California flagship of the Battle Fleet. Later in 1928. he was assigned communication duty on the staff of Commander Battle Fleet serving as such until August 1930. In November of that year he reported on board the USS Isabel for duty on Asiatic Station and in October 1932 was transferred to the USS Rochester. He completed his Asiatic tour of duty in the USS Houston in 1933. Detached from this vessel he returned to the United States and joined the USS Idaho. After 7 years of sea duty he returned to Annapolis Maryland for postgraduate instruction in radio (electronic) engineering. He completed the course in May 1936 and was assigned to the University of California Berkeley for additional postgraduate work receiving the Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering after which he reported aboard the USS Concord. Continuing sea duty he joined the staff of Commander Destroyer Division Nineteen (later redesignated Destroyer Fifty) in April 1938 and served as Radio and Sound Officer until June 1941. Starting in July 1939 he set up the technical program of the first fleet Sound School at San Diego California. In July 1941 he reported to the Bureau of Ships Navy Department Washington D.C. There he served first as Head of the Underwater Sound Design Section of the Radio Division and later Head of Electronics Design Division from 1943 to 1946. He was awarded the Legion of Merit “for exceptionally meritorious conduct” during this tour of duty. Upon leaving the Bureau of Ships in August 1946 he reported as Director of the U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory Point Loma
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