Understanding dictated short-messages requires the system to perform speech recognition on the user’s speech. This speech recognition process is prone to errors. If the system can automatically detect the presence of an error, it can use dialog to clarify or correct its transcript. In this work, we present our analysis on what types of errors a recognition system makes, and propose a method to ...

The rotary pipeline processor is a new architecture for superscalar computing. It is based on a simple and regular pipeline structure which can support several ALUs for efficient dispatching of multiple instructions. Register values flow around a rotary pipeline, constrained by local data dependencies. During normal operation the control circuits are not on the critical path and performance is ...

The classical PERT approach uses the path with the largest expected duration as the critical path to estimate the probability of completing a network by a given deadline. However, in general, such a path is not the most critical path (MCP) and does not have the smallest estimate for the probability of completion time. The main idea of this paper is derived from the domination structure between ...

Effective and detailed planning of large-scale, complex construction projects is of great importance to fulfilling project cost and time objectives. At Tsinghua University of China and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the four dimensional-computer aided design (4D construction operations simulation methodology have been researched for years respectively, resulting in innovative, in constru...

The development of robust desulfurizers and new reforming catalysts is a critical path for the use of jet fuels in powering the commercial growth of fuel cell systems for air and military applications. The presence of high concentrations of sulfur-containing organic compounds leads to rapid deactivation of traditional reforming catalysts, and removal of the sulfur components from the fuel throu...

A new flip-flop design using a double-pulsed static latch is presented. The flip-flop has only a single stage of logic in the critical path and as a result is up to three times faster than the fastest previously known flip-flops, while consuming approximately the same energy as the lowestpower flip-flops. The flip-flop has asymmetric timing properties which make it a good match to skewed logic ...

High-performance cache architectures always pull up the bitlines in all cache subarrays to hide the bitline charging latency prior to a cache access. Unfortunately, such architectures lead to significant bitline discharge in unaccessed subarrays in nanoscale CMOS caches and waste power. Recent proposals advocate bitline isolation to reduce bitline discharge in unaccessed subarrays by turning of...

Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks can support a wide variety of applications with varying data rates. Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) networks are targeted to support similar applications, but only in a LAN environment. Both of these networks are characterized by high data rates and low error rates. In addition, they can provide applications with varying degrees of performance g...

The FFT processor is a critical block in all multi-carrier systems used primarily in the mobile environment. The portability requirement of these systems is mainly responsible for the need of low power FFT architectures. In this study, an efficient addressing scheme for radix-4 64 point FFT processor is presented. It avoids the modulo-r addition in the address generation; hence, the critical pa...

In the present paper, Characteristics of fuzzy project network using statistical data are discussed in detail in order to calculate the fuzzy critical path, fuzzy earliest times, fuzzy latest times and fuzzy total float. Fuzzy number as fuzzy activity time is constructed using interval estimate by calculating mean, variance and standard error. A new ranking function is used to discriminate the ...