This paper describes the method used in the design of a 26 million transistors chip at BULL to verify the timing performance using the hierarchical timing analysis tool HiTas as well as the interactive path browser Xtas. Those tools have been designed at UPMC and are now commercialized by AVERTEC. The complexity is handled by partitioning the analysis according to the hierarchical partitioning ...

Article history: Received 17 February 2016 Accepted 30 May 2016 Available online 6 July 2016

This chapter provides an assessment of the environmental benefits of generating electricity from wind energy (current and future development) in the United States and its Mid-Atlantic Highlands (MAH), with specific attention to the potential contribution to the electricity supply and air quality improvement as indicated by emission reductions. For context, a general overview is provided describ...

Wind loads on buildings can be quantified through synchronous measurements of pressure over building model surfaces or by high frequency force balance (HFFB) measurements. Although this loading information can be directly utilized for building design applications, current design practice often requires the transformation of dynamic wind loading to the equivalent static wind loads (ESWLs). This ...

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We formalize the phenomenon of disruptive technologies that initially serve isolated market niches and, as they mature, expand to displace established technologies from mainstream segments. Using a novel model of horizontal and vertical di®erentiation with discrete customer segmentation, we show how the emergence of technology competition depends on numerous factors including the number of ̄rms...

The Thomson’s Theorem states that static charge distributions in conductors show up at the conducting surfaces in an equipotential configuration, so that the electrostatic energy is a minimum. In this work we study an analogue statement for magnetic systems: in a given set of conductors, the stored magnetic field energy reaches the minimum value for superficial current distributions so that the...