The internet now provides us with ever increasing ways to communicate and spread information. Institute of Intelligent Power Electronics of Helsinki University of Technology organized an online conference during fall 2000. This rather new type of conference proved to be a success, but a lot more could be achieved. In this paper, we sum up the experience gathered from organizing WSC5.

The paper describes used techniques, operation characteristics and develops information of the unconventional soft switched active power filter. The power part is based on progressive IGBT’s and high speed voltage and current sensors. The APF is connected in parallel to the AC input of the system, and corrects all loads directly from the AC main. Control unit is based on use of digital signal p...

In this paper, we propose low-power filtering algorithm developed via the sofl DSP framework. Soft DSP refers to scaling the supply voltage of a DSP implementation beyond the voltage required to match its critical path delay to the throughput. This deliberate introduction of input-dependent errors leads to degradation in the algorithmic performance, which is then compensated for via algorithmic...

in this paper, based in the l ukasiewicz logic, the definition offuzzifying soft neighborhood structure and fuzzifying soft continuity areintroduced. also, the fuzzifying soft proximity spaces which are ageneralizations of the classical soft proximity spaces are given. severaltheorems on classical soft proximities are special cases of the theorems weprove in this paper.

We propose a new power macromodel for usage in the context of register-transfer level (RTL) power estimation. The model is suitable for reconfigurable, synthesizable, soft macros because it is parameterized with respect to the input data size (i.e., bit width) and can also be automatically scaled with respect to different technology libraries and/or synthesis options. The power model is prechar...

Planar and rigid wafer-based electronics are intrinsically incompatible with curvilinear and deformable organisms. Recent development of organic and inorganic flexible and stretchable electronics enabled sensing, stimulation, and actuation of/for soft biological and artificial entities. This review summarizes the enabling technologies of soft sensors and actuators, as well as power sources base...

Reducing leakage power and improving the reliability of data stored in the memory cells are both becoming challenging as technology scales down. While the smaller threshold voltages causes increased leakage, smaller supply voltages and node capacitances can be a problem for soft errors. This work compares the soft error rates of some recently proposed SRAM leakage optimization approaches. Our r...

This manuscript describes the use of explosions to power a soft robot—one composed solely of organic elastomers (e.g., silicones). The robot has three pneumatic actuators (pneu-nets) in a tripedal configuration. Explosion of a stoichiometric mixture of methane and oxygen within the microchannels making up the actuators produced hot gas that rapidly inflated the pneu-nets, and caused the robot t...

In this paper, we introduce soft sets over 2 where 2 is the power set of the universe U , propose some operations on soft sets over 2 and investigate some types of soft sets over 2 such as keeping intersection and keeping union. We obtain lattice and topological structures of soft sets over 2 . We consider soft rough approximations and soft rough sets, and obtain structures of soft rough sets. ...