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| 1 |  | Brunvand, Erik L. | ACT: A DFT tool for self-timed circuits | This paper presents a Design for Testability (DFT) tool called ACT (Asynchronous Circuit Testing) which uses a partial scan technique to make macro-module based selftimed circuits testable. The ACT tool is the first oFits kind for testing macro-module based self-timed circuits. ACT modifies design... | | 1997 |
| 2 |  | Mathews, V. John | Adaptive unsharp masking for contrast enhancement | ABSTRACT A new scheme o,f unsharp masking for image contrast enhancement is presented in this paper. An adaptive algorithm is introduced so that a sharpening action is performed only in locations where the image exhibits significant dynamics. Hence, the amplification of noise in smooth areas i... | | 1997 |
| 3 |  | Myers, Chris J. | An asynchronous implementations of the MAXLIST algorithm | ABSTRACT We present an efficient asynchronous VLSI architecture for calculating running maximum or minimum values over a sliding window. Running maximums or minimums are very useful for many signal and image processing tasks. Our architecture performs the calculation using the MAXLIST algorithm. In... | | 1997 |
| 4 |  | Davis, Al | An introduction to asynchronous circuit design | The purpose of this monograph is to provide both an introduction to field of asynchronous digital circuit design and an overview of the practical state of the art in 1997. In the early days of digital circuit design, little distinction was made between synchronous and asynchronous circuits. However,... | Asynchronous circuit design | 1997 |
| 5 |  | Carter, John B. | Analysis of avalanche's shared memory architecture | In this paper, we describe the design of the Avalanche multiprocessor's shared memory subsystem, evaluate its performance, and discuss problems associated with using commodity workstations and network interconnects as the building blocks of a scalable shared memory multiprocessor. Compared to other ... | Avalanche multiprocessor; Shared memory | 1997 |
| 6 |  | Jacobson, Hans; Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh | Application specific asynchronous microengines for efficient high-level control | Despite the growing interest in asynchronous circuits programmable asynchronous controllers based on the idea of microprogramming have not been actively pursued Since programmable control is widely used in many commercial ASICs to allow late correction of design errors to easily upgrade product f... | Asynchronous microengines | 1997 |
| 7 |  | Jacobson, Hans | Application specific asynchronous microgengines for efficient high-level control | Despite the growing interest in asynchronous circuits, programmable asynchronous controllers based on the idea of microprogramming have not been actively pursued. Since programmable control is widely used in many commercial ASICs to allow late correction of design errors, to easily upgrade product ... | Asynchronous microgengines; Programmable asynchronous controllers | 1997 |
| 8 |  | Horch, Kenneth W. | Are the extrinsic muscles better suited for signaling joint angles or finger tip location? | We used a biomechanical model of the human long finger to determine whether the extrinsic muscles are better suited for estimating the finger's joint angles or for estimating location of the finger tip. We found that two of the extrinsic muscles together could provide information sufficient to direc... | Extrinsic muscles; Metacarpophalangeal joint; Biomechanical models | 1997 |
| 9 |  | Weinstein, David | Cache-rings for memory efficient isosurface construction | Processor speeds continue to increase at faster rates than memory speeds. As this performance gap widens, it becomes increasingly important to develop "memory-conscious" algorithms - programs that still optimize instruction count and algorithmic complexity, but that also integrate optimizations for ... | Processor speeds; Memory speeds; Computer memory; Cache-rings | 1997 |
| 10 |  | Freire, Juliana | Combining scheduling strategies in tabled evaluations | Tabled evaluations ensure termination for Datalog programs by distinguishing calls to tabled subgoals. Given several variant subgoals in an evaluation, only the first (the generator) will use program clause resolution, the rest (consumers) must perform answer resolution using answers computed by th... | SLG; SLG-WAM; Tabling; Local scheduling; Batched scheduling | 1997 |
| 11 |  | Stringfellow, Gerald B. | Compositional modulation and ordering in semiconductors | The science of materials as a specific discipline is a relatively modern development. Within this rather modern field, the study of semiconductor materials is an even more recent development. Modern textbooks on materials science focus primarily on the properties of metals and second on the properti... | Materials scientists; Controlled ordering | 1997 |
| 12 |  | Parker, Steven G.; Hansen, Charles D.; Johnson, Christopher R. | Computational steering and the SCIRun integrated problem solving environment | SCIRun is a problem solving environment that allows the interactive construction, debugging, and steering of large-scale scientific computations. We review related systems and introduce a taxonomy that explores different computational steering solutions. Considering these approaches, we discuss why ... | Computational steering; Problem solving environment; SCIRun; Volume rendering | 1997 |
| 13 |  | Mathews, V. John; Schlegel, Christian | Computationally efficient multiuser detection for coded CDMA | Abstract: Computationally efficient multiuser detection for coded asynchronous CDMA systems is investigated. The particular receiver studied is a near-far resistant multi-user detector known as the projection receiver (PR) [originally developed in [1, 2]]. The PR perfoms multiple access interference... | | 1997 |
| 14 |  | Furse, Cynthia M.; Gandhi, Om P. | Computations of SAR distributions for two anatomically-based models of the human head using CAD files of commercial telephones and the parallelized FDTD code | The Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is well suited for the computation of bio-electromagnetic effects and has become the method of choice for most researchers in this area. There does however remain some limitations on its use. Firstly the FDTD method requires large amounts of memory and... | Finite-difference time-domain method; FDTD; SAR distributions; CAD files | 1997 |
| 15 |  | Riloff, Ellen M. | Corpus-based approach for building semantic lexicons | Semantic knowledge can be a great asset to natural language processing systems, but it is usually hand-coded for each application. Although some semantic information is available in general-purpose knowledge bases such as Word Net and Cyc, many applications require domain-specific lexicons that repr... | Corpus-based method; Semantic lexicons | 1997 |
| 16 |  | Brunvand, Erik L. | Critical hazard free test generation for asynchronous circuits | We describe a technique to generate critical hazard-free tests for self-timed control circuits build using a macromodule library, in a partial scan based DFT environment. We propose a 6 valued algebra to generate these tests which are guaranteed to be critical hazard free under an unbounded delay m... | | 1997 |
| 17 |  | Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh | Deriving efficient cache coherence protocols through refinement | We address the problem of developing efficient cache coherence protocols for use in distributed systems implementing distributed shared memory (DSM) using message passing. A serious drawback of traditional approaches to this problem is that the users are required to state the desired coherence prot... | Cache coherence protocols; DSM; Message passing | 1997 |
| 18 |  | Miller, Jan D. | Direct three-dimensional liberation analysis by cone beam x-ray microtomography | Liberation of valuable minerals during size reduction is an important aspect of mineral processing technology. In practice, most quantitative information on liberation is based on the application of stereological theorems for the analysis of image data from two-dimensional polished sections. On th... | Mineral processing; cone beam x-ray; microtomography | 1997 |
| 19 |  | Christensen, Douglas A. | Dispersion effects in fiber optic interferometry | An extended analysis of the effects of uncompensated fiber dispersion on the fringe visibility of a fiber optic interferometer is developed, with particular emphasis on stellar interferometry. Both material and waveguide dispersion for single-mode, polarization-preserving fibers are considered. It... | Stellar interferometry; Fiber optics; Statistical optics | 1997 |
| 20 |  | Stringfellow, Gerald B. | Effect of growth rate on step structure and ordering in GaInP | CuPt ordering is widely observed in GaInP epitaxial layers grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy. The formation of this spontaneously ordered structure during epitaxial growth is intimately related to the atomic-scale physical processes occurring on the surface, specifically surface reconst... | Atomic force microscopy; Organometallic vapor phase; Crystallographic plane | 1997 |
| 21 |  | Miller, Jan D. | Effect of ink types and printing processes on flotation deinking | Examination of ink types reveals that newsprint oil-based offset-cold and offset-heat inks contain substantial oil (45 to 60%) and resin (5 to 35%), water-based ink contains water (40%) and resin (polystyrene, 30%). These inks are liquids with densities around 1 g/cm3, having various viscosities... | Toners; inks; photocopying; laser printing; flotation; deinking; recycling; office waste; hyrdophobicity | 1997 |
| 22 |  | Stringfellow, Gerald B. | Effects of V/III ratio on ordering and antiphase boundaries in GaInP layers | Transmission electron microscope (TEM) and transmission electron diffraction (TED) studies have been performed to investigate the effects of V/III ratio on ordering and antiphase boundaries (APBs) in organometallic vapor phase epitaxial Ga0.5In0.5P layers grown onto (001) GaAs vicinal substrates ... | Antiphase boundaries; APB; Heterostructures; Organometallics | 1997 |
| 23 |  | Myers, Chris J. | Efficient timing analysis algorithms for timed state space exploration* | Abstract This paper presents new timing analysis algorithms for efficient state space exploration during timed circuit synthesis. Timed circuits are a class of asynchronous circuits that incorporate explicit timing information in the specification which is used throughout the synthesis procedure t... | | 1997 |
| 24 |  | Horch, Kenneth W. | Electrical stimulation of the ventral lumbo-sacral spinal cord results in mixed recruitment order of quadriceps and tibialis anterior motor units | Pulse width modulated, twitch recruitment curves for quadriceps and tibialis anterior were obtained by stimulating their respective motor activation pools in the ventral lumbo-sacral portion of the spinal cord. The duration of the twitch responses were analyzed as a function of stimulus strength ... | Quadriceps; Tibialis anterior; Ventral lumbo-sacral spinal cord; Reversed recruitment | 1997 |
| 25 |  | Henderson, Thomas C. | Instrumented sensor system - practice | In previous work, we introduced the notion of Instrumented Logical Sensor Systems (ILSS) that are derived from a modeling and design methodology [4, 2]. The instrumented sensor approach is based on a sensori-computational model which defines the components of the sensor system in terms of their func... | Instrumented Logical Sensor Systems; ILSS | 1997 |
