The ubiquitous computing era has pushed the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry towards new frontiers of digitally enabled practice. Are these the frontiers originally identified by the pioneers in the field? Architectural design has progressively shifted from two-dimensional paper based pencil sketched models to digital models drawn in various Computer-Aided Design (CAD)...

Wave-pipelining is a method of high-performance circuit design which implements pipelining in logic without the use of intermediate latches or registers. The combination of high-performance integrated circuit (IC) technologies, pipelined architectures, and sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) tools has converted wave-pipelining from a theoretical oddity into a realistic, although challengi...

A design method and the corresponding CAD tools for the design of digital computers from a very high-level functional specification is presented. Computers are specified by a set of application programs, for which they shall be optimized, and a set of boundary conditions for the type and number of hardware resources. The paper describes CAD tools, which synthesize architectures from the specifi...

A semi-custom high-speed datapath design flow is described using commercial ASIC design CAD tools interacting with a simple hierarchical placement Matlab code. The flow leverages the vast automation and verification capabilities of ASIC design CAD tools, while providing a precision close to a fully custom-designed circuit. The methodology is applied to the design of a 4channel, 3-GHz per-channe...

PREMIO is a CAD-based object recognition and localization system that uses CAD models of 3D objects and knowledge of lighting and sensors to predict the detectability of features in various views of the object. The predictions that PREMIO produces are powerful new tools in recognizing and determining the pose of a 3D object. In order to take advantage of these tools, we have developed a new mat...

Extracting fuzzy rule bases from numerical data draws a great interest nowadays. Several algorithms based on grid partitions or clustering have been reported in the literature for this purpose, and several CAD tools have been developed to implement one or other type of techniques. This paper presents the CAD tool xfdm that allows applying both types of techniques. In particular, it permits to s...

Micro-mirror arrays are currently being developed by a number of companies for optical switching. To bring these products to the market quickly, a rapid development cycle is needed, leaving little time for multiple fabrication runs. CAD tools for MEMS can reduce the number of fabrication iterations run by allowing prototyping to occur within the virtual environment. Here, many models can be tes...

CAD systems are very useful tools in the industry, because they help design processes and new product development. However, it requires new mechanisms of interaction to provide greater usability of these tools. This usability can be provided through new interaction devices such as Kinect. We describe a methodology to find a series of gestures makes by the hands for control a CAD system with Kin...