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The emergence of more sophisticated full body plethysmograph systems has occurred over recent years reflecting necessity for broader testing of respiratory functions. Specific airway resistance (sRaw) and interthoratic gas volume (ITGV/TGV) or FRCpleth can provide more accurate measure of lung function utilizing a computerized full body plethysmograph. Clinics and/or specialized test facilities today...
In today's verification field System-On-a-Chip (SOC) designs contain increased levels of functional and structural complexities. Different SOC's having various design blocks and those blocks are operated at different clock frequencies which causes CDC issues. The CDC issues are visualized through ACE using Blue Pearl Software Suite. In this paper we discuss about Advance Clock Environment (ACE) and...
Fog screens have been widely used in theme parks and exhibition halls for entertainment and advertising purposes as the semi-transparent images suspending in the mid-air can create impressive pseudo 3D effect. However, conventional fog screens are flat and the projected images are not true 3D in nature. This paper suggests a new 3D fog display that exploits spatial projection mapping technique on...
Data availability at all times is the key requirement for major business operations and the financial impact of business outage could be disastrous (see table 1). There could be many majors threats to information availability, be it natural disasters, unplanned or planned occurrences. Remote replication is the process of creating copies of data known as replica at geographically distance location...
Telemetry package is one of the inevitable subsystems in a complex spacecraft. Telemetry (TM) data of the mainframe and payload section of the spacecraft is required to be monitored continuously throughout its life span to check the subsystems health and take appropriate decision from ground or autonomously from on-board. In various types of spacecraft like geostationary, remote sensing and interplanetary...
Knowledge of bilateral asymmetry of moments of muscle forces is important because a “weak” muscle that is not fully ready to create the required moment can be identified and restored to provide symmetric gait. However, there is currently no method to determine the symmetry of muscular moments of the left and right sides of body during walking. Recently, new technique based on the geometric properties...
Jnana Edge provides a fundamentally different approach to bringing a knowledge experience, in a qualitatively rich, focused way to specific demographics. This is done through an interdisciplinary convergence of key technological advancements from scalable hierarchical system architectures, cloud computing, dynamic cache hierarchies, and distributed virtualization. Architecture and implementation considerations...
Join Point Interfaces (JPI) represent a currentAspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) methodology for solving modularization issues in classic AOP. Nevertheless, as it is for classic AOP, phases of requirement elicitation and software design are needed for the JPI software development process. In order to advance towards the solution of these issues, this article proposes and applies to a case study JPI...
The design of avionic systems is a complex engineering activity. The iterative integration approach helps in controlling the complexity of such activity. On the other hand, using such approach to design evolving systems requires the reconfiguration of scheduling parameters of already integrated parts. This reconfiguration results in a recertification process having a cost that depends on the criticality...
The paper presents an affordable, but genuine smart device, as a versatile, complementary tool, that might be use in specialized therapeutic units or even at home. It is an important advantage, considering that most of the already developed devices can work only inside specialized institutes, as they require special operating conditions and qualified personnel. Essentially, it is a common joystick...
This paper presents an extensive performance study of the implementation of Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) in the Haswell generation of Intel x86 core processors. This study evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of this new architecture exploring several dimensions in the space of Transactional Memory (TM) application characteristics using the Eigenbench [1] and the CLOMP-TM [2] benchmarks....
Code clone detection has been widely accepted and is being carried out at the industrial level using a number of tools. But along with clone detection, clone management also becomes an important area of research. Clone Management includes refactoring or even removal of clones and works on the resultant information obtained from the clone detection tools. This paper discusses an approach to rank the...
"Flipped classrooms" have been tested in engineering education through the on-line delivery of lectures using speech-synchronized PC-screen-capture technology (SS-capture) to increase engineering students' enthusiasm towards studying. The SS-capture system records Screenshots as a series of still images synchronously with input from a microphone. The resultant recording is akin to a slide...
Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) is a popular topic in many fields of industry. Within this paper the authors present a system for optimizing agricultural processes using M2M technologies as a result of research project “M2M-Teledesk”.
In a model-driven engineering (MDE) context, the coordination of different roles such as enterprise architects and developers can be supported when dependencies between roles and artifacts are stated. Similarly, provisioning and deployment of service topologies can be facilitated. For specifying dependencies, an editor permits to define roles, artifacts, services, and service topologies in descriptive...
A smart electric grid incorporating local generation and storage is an area of active research in the industrial automation community. Very little attention has been given to similar possibilities in hot water grids that are used extensively for district heating in several countries, especially in Central and Northern Europe. In this paper, possibilities for heat trade in such a grid are investigated...
We face a glut of languages for programming distributed software today. However, only a few languages have proven their potential with wider practical use in different domains of computing. We picked two such languages, meant for different domains, to see if they could cross-pollinate and enrich one another. Specifically, we chose SystemJ, a language to program distributed embedded systems, and IEC61499,...
This work investigates the composition of interdependent software components on a shared platform from a timing perspective. Because we consider software components for vehicular systems, which are often sensitive to timing, the individual components and the composed system require timing analysis. In order to support independent development of components, the real-time systems community proposed...
For a distributed embedded system (DES) to operate continuously in a dynamic environment, it must be flexible and highly reliable. This applies in particular to its communication subsystem. The Flexible Time-Triggered Replicated Star for Ethernet (FTTRS) aims at providing such a subsystem by means of a highly-reliable switched-Ethernet architecture based on the Flexible Time-Triggered paradigm (FTT),...
We present a novel approach for design of manufacturing automation systems with formal verification of selected properties based on the use of Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous programming language SystemJ and industrial-proof verification tools. By being able to prove properties of the automation control logic that consists of multiple concurrent controllers, represented by FSMs that correspond...
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