A s digital fabrication and digital design become more and more pervasive, the physical tools we use in conjunction will have to catch up. With the Internet of Things, cyberphysical systems, and Industry 4.0 in our midst, connecting and integrating measurement tools into design processes is a logical step. Here, we describe the first steps in that direction, coming from a variety of communities...

Two ways to exploit chips with a very large number of transistors are multicore processors and programmable logic chips. Some data parallel algorithms can be executed efficiently on ordinary parallel computers, including multicores. A class of data parallel algorithms is identified which have characteristics that make implementation on multiprocessors inefficient, but they are well suited for d...

KP-Lab is an EU Integrated Project envisioning a learning system that facilitates innovative practices of sharing, creating and working with knowledge in education and workplaces. The project exploits a novel pedagogical view, the knowledgecreation metaphor of learning. According to such “trialogical” approach, cognition arises through collaborative work in systematically developing shared “kno...

In digital system design, synchronization ensures that operations occur in the logically correct order, and is a critical hctur in ensuring the correct and reliable system operation. As the physical size of a system increases, or as the speed of operation increases, synchronization plays an increasingly dominant role in the system design. Digital communication has developed a number of techniqu...

In this paper, we present a novel technique for the design of FIR and IIR digital filters. The design approach begins with the specification of a discrete set of arbitrary magnitude and phase characteristics which describe a desired filter response. These frequency domain characteristics are used to create an ideal 'pseudo-filter' whose impulse response is unknown and possibly non-causal, but w...

This paper aims to deliver a better understanding of the relationship between the physical and virtual, two dimensional and three dimensional representations of form that are employed in the critical early stages of design. It presents findings from observations of practice undertaken to provide an initial dataset on how designers move between these representations, and of the kind and quantity...

The course is targeted at all computer science, electrical, electronics, telecommunications and mechanical engineers who require the understanding of the functioning and the design of logic circuits at different levels of their complexity. The motif for this lecture is to show what are the major components and how to design digital logic for real time systems (e.g. mechatronics, robotics, compu...

This paper presents a formula-based method for the design of IIR filters having more zeros than (nontrivial) poles. The filters are designed so that their square magnitude frequency responses are maximally-flat at ! = 0 and at ! = and are thereby generalizations of classical digital Butterworth filters. A main result of the paper is that, for a specified half-magnitude frequency and a specified...

In this assignment, you will become familiar with the MIPS integer and floating point pipelines. You will create a cycle-accurate simulator of an in-order MIPS processor, called mipsim, that supports 32-bit integer and floating point operations. Your simulator will be very basic: it will model all the necessary pipeline interlocks to enforce correct pipeline execution, but it will not support o...