Socially, hand-held devices are becoming ubiquitous; technologically, they are already in a position to mediate access to on-line news. We argue that current frameworks for news delivery to hand-helds, typically involving transcoding methods by remote proxies layered over generic summarisation techniques are not well suited to the task. This work addresses two questions in this context: the spe...

When developers test cyber-physical systems, there may be a lack of enough physical devices. In such cases, a tool that allows virtual simulation of the devices is useful. In this work, we propose an extension named Custom Simulation of Virtual Devices (CSVD) developed for OSATE 2, an 1 Eclipse-based tool that supports Architecture and Analysis Design Language (AADL ) models. The CSVD extension...

Programmable devices in the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology enable design and prototyping implementation of complex digital systems executing their tasks on central processing units (CPU) and application-specific logic components. The paper presents development of a custom processor system in the FPGA device. The system is based on a CPU with an accumulator easily extendable wit...

Quadriplegics rely on mouth-controlled devices to perform a variety of tasks and to establish some degree of self-sufficiency. The most functional mouthstick appliances have custom-fitted mouthpieces which are fabricated by dental professionals, and in some cases are cost-prohibitive. An inexpensive lightweight mouthstick which incorporates a new thermoplastic mouthpiece and can be custom-fitte...

This work describes a way to apply 3D Finite Element (FE) analysis to the thermal design of power electronic modules using simplified geometry models of the system components. The method here presented can overcome the problem of solving equation systems with a very high number of Degrees Of Freedom (DOF) due to complex geometry of a power module.

This paper presents the concept of the reconfigurable preprocessors for intelligent human sensing. Reconfigur-able logic can realize high-performance preprocessing of sensor data with flexibility and low power consumption. It is well known that the custom circuit for a specific application can accelerate the execution of that application. However, custom circuits were not so widely accepted, be...

Custom-designed charge-coupled devices (CCD) for Gas and Aerosols Monitoring Sensorcraft instrument were developed. These custom-designed CCD devices are linear arrays with pixel format of 512x1 elements and pixel size of 10x200 μm. These devices were characterized at NASA Langley Research Center to achieve a full well capacity as high as 6,000,000 ℮. This met the aircraft flight mission requir...