As the continuous development on the capacity and work frequency, Programmable Logic Devices (PLD) especially Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are playing an increasingly important role in embedded systems designs. The FPGA market has hit about 3 and 4 billion US dollars respectively in 2009 and 2010, and is expected by Xilinx CEO Moshe Gavrielov to grow steadily to 4.5 billion by the end ...

Since financial deregulation, retail banks have changed significantly, largely driven by a combination of technological advances and competition. A major area of change is in the role of branches in providing payment services. This role has come under increasing pressure from alternative delivery channels, such as automatic teller machines (ATMs) and on-line debit of accounts through electronic...

One of the most important problems facing any distributed application over a heterogeneous network is the protection of private sensitive information in local terminals. A subfield of cryptography called secure multiparty computation (SMC) is the study of such distributed computation protocols that allow distrusted parties to perform joint computation without disclosing private data. SMC is inc...

Circular polarizing filters have recently been introduced in several ophthalmic applications. These applications include clinical instruments for ophthalmoscopy, slit-lamp specular microscopy, and fundus photography, as well as consumer products such as 3-D movie projection and viewing systems and glare-control screens for computer visual display terminals. The nature of circularly polarized li...

Computer networks are limited in performance by the electronic equipment. Terminals have received little attention, but need to be redesigned in order to be able to manage 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The Internet checksum computation, which is used in TCP and UDP requires specialized processing resources. The TUCFP hardware accelerator calculates the Internet checksum. It processes 32 bits in parallel...

Technology allows employers to monitor many aspects of their employees' workplace activities. Employers use technology to provide insight into employee behavior based on the trail of "digital footprints" created each day in the workplace. This technology can piece together all of these electronic records to provide behavior patterns that employers may utilize to evaluate employee performance an...

This paper presents an overview of the hardand software architecture of a mobile visitor information system for the Konrad Zuse building of the School of Computer Science and Automation at the Ilmenau University of Technology. Two mobile robots serve as mobile information terminals with capabilities for generating way descriptions and guiding the visitor to the points of interest (labs, meeting...

We consider a centralized network model representing a teleprocessing or a centralized computer communication network. The network is topologically described by a tree structure. A single central node represents a data-processing center, while the other nodes correspond to remote terminals. A maximal average message delay value is prescribed. A cost function is assumed to incorporate a term rep...

As computers become more and more networked, and more bandwidth will be consumed by network flow because customers will be connected through networks which will transfer files and data, such as video files (MPEGn, AVI, WMV, etc.) to be watched at a customer?s computer. The main purpose of this paper is to optimize large scale network handling capabilities for large system inventories and to imp...

The defining characteristic of fixed interval scheduling problems is that each job has a finite number of fixed processing intervals. A job can be processed only in one of its intervals on one of the available machines, or is not processed at all. A decision has to be made about a subset of the jobs to be processed and their assignment to the processing intervals such that the intervals on the ...