[1] ABSTRACT II. SERIALIZER STRUCTURE Analytical model is employed to characterize and compare serial and parallel communication techniques in NoC interconnect. Simulations that are based on 130nm and 70nm technology parameters reveal up to ×5.5 and ×17 reduction in power and area of serial vs. 32-bit multi-layer parallel link, respectively. Lower power is dissipated by a single-layer parallel ...

An important step during the design of a parallel manipulator is the determination of its workspace. For a 6 d.o.f. parallel manipulator workspace limitations are due to the bounded range of their linear actuators, mechanical limits on their passive joints and links interference. The computation of the workspace of a parallel manipulator is far more complex than for serial link manipulator as i...

Pulse generator is the key equipment of electrical discharge machining (EDM). Considering the disadvantage of the traditional EDM pulse generator, a new pulse generator based on VB and SCM is designed. The simulation and serial communication with SCM are achieved, and the pulse width, pulse period, and phase sequence difference can be adjusted by the upper computer at a wide range. The simulati...

This study presents a quantitative analysis of humor markers in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The data for this analysis consists of naturally occurring asynchronous CMC interactions from a public fan forum. Posts were tagged and coded as either humorous or non-humorous, and each individual humorous unit was coded as being one of 8 specific forms of humor. Next, each post was tagged an...

Optical communication is considered as one of the fastest communication in present scenario. It provides quality oriented, reliable services than the wired communication. Due to the Advancement in the communication, it has made optical communication a reliable networking choice to meet the increasing demands for high bandwidth for the high performance applications. So, optical networks give hig...

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Dedication To Amma and Anna for teaching me to value education And to Anu for ensuring that I have the patience and the perseverance to take up this task and complete it.

We introduce a model of preference diffusion in which agents in a social network update their preferences based on those of their influencers in the network, and we study the dynamics of this model. Preferences are modelled as ordinal rankings over a finite set of alternatives. At each time step, some of the agents update the relative ordering of two alternatives adjacent in their current ranki...

The mStar environment for distributed education utilizes the WWW and IP-multicast to enable teacher-student collaboration over large geographic distances. Several educational projects, spanning from secondary school courses to in-house training in companies, have deployed the mStar environment. This paper reports on experiences gained over a year of practice at Luleå University of Technology an...