This paper surveys the design of embedded computer systems, which use software running on programmable computers to implement system functions. Creating an embedded computer system which meets its performance, cost, and design time goals is a hardware-software co-design p r o b l e w h e design of the hardware and software components influence each other. This paper emphasizes a historical appr...

We describe a system for storing, transmitting and presenting digital lms in a computer network. The hardware used in the system is standard hardware, as found in typical workstations today; no special hardware is required. The movies are shown in a window of the X Window System. This allows full integration with the classical components of computer applications such as text, color graphics, me...

Computers are a very important part of our lives and the major reason why they have been such a success is because of the excellent graphical operating systems that run on these powerful machines. As the computer hardware is becoming more and more powerful, it is also vital to keep the software updated in order to utilize the hardware of the system efficiently and make it faster and smarter. Th...

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) has been a useful model for various industrial and engineering applications. These include image processing and pattern recognition, VLSI engineering, robotics manipulation, and computer hardware design automation. In this paper , we give a novel AI architecture for discrete relaxation that eeectively prunes a backtracking search tree in CSP. This algor...

1.1 Motivation In 3D computer graphics, polygonal models are often used to represent individual objects and entire environments. Planar polygons, especially triangles, are used primarily because they are easy and efficient to render. Their simple geometry has enabled the development of custom graphics hardware, currently capable of rendering millions or even tens of millions of triangles per se...

The traditional dilemma for performing network simulations with analog circuits is the great difficulty of handling the connectivity in hardware. The main problem is that hardware-based connectivity must be built following predefined plasticity and connectivity rules, and that once the hardware is built, it is usually not possible to change its configuration. We show here an alternative system ...

Smith Waterman Algorithm[1] is an efficient and useful algorithm for homology search problems. However, it can not be processed within reasonable time on desktop computer systems, therefore, dedicated hardware systems which is very expensive are used in general. In this paper, we propose a homology search system with reconfigurable hardware. For reducing the cost, the system is composed of off-...