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Full-Text Articles in VLSI and Circuits, Embedded and Hardware Systems

Software Engineering Issues For Mobile Application Development, Tony Wasserman Oct 2010

Software Engineering Issues For Mobile Application Development, Tony Wasserman

Tony Wasserman

This paper provides an overview of important software engineering research issues related to the development of applications that run on mobile devices. Among the topics are development processes, tools, user interface design, application portability, quality, and security.


Determination Of Material Emission Signatures By Ptr-Ms And Their Correlations With Odor Assessments By Human Subjects, Kwanghoon Han Apr 2010

Determination Of Material Emission Signatures By Ptr-Ms And Their Correlations With Odor Assessments By Human Subjects, Kwanghoon Han

Kwanghoon Han

The objectives of this study were to determine volatile organic compound (VOC) emission signatures of nine typical building materials by using proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) and to explore the correlation between the PTR-MS measurements and the measurements of acceptability by human subjects. VOC emissions from each material were measured in a 50-l small-scale chamber. Chamber air was sampled by PTR-MS to determine emission signatures. Sorbent tube sampling and TD-GC/MS analysis were also performed to identify the major VOCs emitted and to compare the resulting data with the PTR-MS emission signatures. The data on the acceptability of air quality assessed …


A Graduate Education In Software Management And The Software Business For Mid-Career Professionals, Ray Bareiss, Gladys Mercier Feb 2010

A Graduate Education In Software Management And The Software Business For Mid-Career Professionals, Ray Bareiss, Gladys Mercier

Ray Bareiss

Given the unique nature of the software business, the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus concluded that mid-career software professionals would be better served by a tailored master’s degree focusing on software management and more broadly on the business of software than by a typical MBA. Our software management master’s program integrates business, technical, and soft skills to prepare our students for technical leadership in their current companies or in entrepreneurial ventures. Our initial program built on the strengths of Carnegie Mellon’s world-class software engineering education. We targeted students working in large companies, engaged in large-scale enterprise software …


Coaching Via Cognitive Apprenticeship, Ray Bareiss, Martin Radley Feb 2010

Coaching Via Cognitive Apprenticeship, Ray Bareiss, Martin Radley

Ray Bareiss

At Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus we employ a learn by- doing educational approach in which nearly all student learning, and thus instruction, is in the context of realistic, team based projects. Consequently, we have adopted coaching as our predominant teaching model. In this paper we reflect on our experience with the nature of teaching by coaching using a framework derived from Cognitive Apprenticeship, and explain how we employ the techniques it suggests in our teaching. We also discuss a range of instructional tensions that arise in teaching by coaching and present a survey of student attitudes regarding the effectiveness …


On The Radiation-Induced Soft Error Performance Of Hardened Sequential Elements In Advanced Bulk Cmos Technologies, Norbert Seifert, Vinod Ambrose, B Gill, Q Shi, R Allmon, Charles H. Recchia, S Mukherjee, N Nassif, J Krause, J Pickholtz, A Balasubramanian Jan 2010

On The Radiation-Induced Soft Error Performance Of Hardened Sequential Elements In Advanced Bulk Cmos Technologies, Norbert Seifert, Vinod Ambrose, B Gill, Q Shi, R Allmon, Charles H. Recchia, S Mukherjee, N Nassif, J Krause, J Pickholtz, A Balasubramanian

Charles H Recchia

No abstract provided.


Embedded Systems As Datacenters, Robert Iannucci Dec 2009

Embedded Systems As Datacenters, Robert Iannucci

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of The Digit Slicing Architecture On The Fft Butterfly, Yazan Samir, Rozita Teymourzadeh Dec 2009

The Effect Of The Digit Slicing Architecture On The Fft Butterfly, Yazan Samir, Rozita Teymourzadeh

Dr. Rozita Teymourzadeh, CEng.

Most communications systems tend to achieve bandwidth, power and cost efficiencies to capable to describe modulation scheme. Hence for signal modulation orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transceiver is introduced to cover communications demand in four generation. However high performance Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) as a main heart of OFDM acts beyond the view. In order to achieve capable FFT, design and realization of its efficient internal structure is key issues of this research work. In this paper implementation of high performance butterfly for FFT by applying digit slicing technique is presented. The proposed design focused on the trade-off between the …


Vlsi Implementation Of Novel Class Of High Speed Pipelined Digital Signal Processing Filter For Wireless Receivers, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Yazan Samir, Shabuil Islam, Masuri Othman, Mok Vh Dec 2009

Vlsi Implementation Of Novel Class Of High Speed Pipelined Digital Signal Processing Filter For Wireless Receivers, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Yazan Samir, Shabuil Islam, Masuri Othman, Mok Vh

Dr. Rozita Teymourzadeh, CEng.

The need for high performance transceiver with high Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) has driven the communication system to utilize latest technique identified as over sampling systems. It was the most economical modulator and decimation in communication system. It has been proven to increase the SNR and is used in many high performance systems such as in the Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) for wireless transceiver. This research work presented the design of the novel class of decimation and its VLSI implementation which was the sub-component in the over sampling technique. The design and realization of main unit of decimation …


Design Of Automatic Soil Humidity Control Using Maximum Power Point Tracking Controller, Hoe Ck, Vaithlingam A.C., Rozita Teymourzadeh, Rajkumar R Dec 2009

Design Of Automatic Soil Humidity Control Using Maximum Power Point Tracking Controller, Hoe Ck, Vaithlingam A.C., Rozita Teymourzadeh, Rajkumar R

Dr. Rozita Teymourzadeh, CEng.

The photovoltaic system uses the photovoltaic array as a source of electrical power for the direct conversion of the sun’s radiation to direct current without any environmental hazards. The main purpose of this research is to design of a converter with Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) algorithm for any typical application of soil humidity control. Using this setup the major energy from the solar panel is used for the control of soil humidity. The design of the converter with MPPT together with the soil humidity control logic is presented in this paper. Experimental testing of the design controller is implemented …


On-Chip Implementation Of Pipeline Digit-Slicing Multiplier-Less Butterfly For Fast Fourier Transform Architecture, Yazan Samir, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Masuri Othman, Shabiul Islam, Mok Vh Dec 2009

On-Chip Implementation Of Pipeline Digit-Slicing Multiplier-Less Butterfly For Fast Fourier Transform Architecture, Yazan Samir, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Masuri Othman, Shabiul Islam, Mok Vh

Dr. Rozita Teymourzadeh, CEng.

The need for wireless communication has driven the communication systems to high performance. However, the main bottleneck that affects the communication capability is the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), which is the core of most modulators. This study presents on-chip implementation of pipeline digit-slicing multiplier-less butterfly for FFT structure. The approach taken; in order to reduce computation complexity in butterfly, digit-slicing multiplier-less single constant technique was utilized in the critical path of Radix-2 Decimation In Time (DIT) FFT structure. The proposed design focused on the trade-off between the speed and active silicon area for the chip implementation. The new architecture was …


On-Chip Implementation Of High Resolution High Speed Floating Point Adder/Subtractor With Reducing Mean Latency For Ofdm, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Yazan Samir, Nooshin Mahdavi, Masuri Othman Dec 2009

On-Chip Implementation Of High Resolution High Speed Floating Point Adder/Subtractor With Reducing Mean Latency For Ofdm, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Yazan Samir, Nooshin Mahdavi, Masuri Othman

Dr. Rozita Teymourzadeh, CEng.

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is widely applied in OFDM trance-receiver communications system. Hence Efficient FFT algorithm is always considered. This paper proposed FPGA realization of high resolution high speed low latency floating point adder/subtractor for FFT in OFDM trance-receiver. The design was implemented for 32 bit pipelined adder/subtractor which satisfied IEEE-754 Standard for floating-point Arithmetic. The design was focused on the trade-off between the latency and speed improvement as well as resolution and silicon area for the chip implementation. In order to reduce the critical path and decrease the latency, the novel structure was designed and investigated. Consequently, synthesis report …