Design of assemblies will become an area of study when using rapid prototyping devices in the architectural design process becomes standard practice. This paper is a presentation of a design process study focused on understanding a method of working with rapid prototyping devices in a creative design process. This paper has an emphasis is on the creation of physically large models. These models...

In this paper the investigations of two projects using the terrestrial 3D laser scanning system "CYRAX 2500®" from Leica Geosystems are presented. The CYRAX 2500 is tested in 3D data acquisition and object modelling for industrial as-built documentation and for an architectural application. The major aspects of these investigations were the accuracy of point determination and object modelling, ...

Embedded system architectures comprising of software programmable components (e.g. DSP, ASIP, and micro-controller cores) and customized hardware co-processors, integrated into a single cost-efficient VLSI chip, are emerging as a key solution to today's microelectronics design problems. This trend is being driven by new emerging applications in the areas of wireless communication, highspeed opt...

background: coronary artery disease (cad) is a multifactorial and heterogenic disease. recently, genome-wide association studies have reported that rs1333040 (c/t) and rs1004638 (a/t) single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in the 9p21 locus have very strong association with cad. this study aimed to examine these associations in southwest of iran. methods: blood samples were collected from 200 c...

The VPR toolset has been widely used in FPGA architecture and CAD research, but has not evolved over the past decade along with commercial FPGAs, to include many new architectural features. This paper describes and uses a new version of the toolset that includes four significant new features: first, it supports a broad range of single-driver routing architectures, which have significantly diffe...

In this paper, some of the architectural and tracking aspects of the software engine used in our on-going MARIN (Mobile Augmented Reality Tool for Marine Industry) project are described. The purpose of the project is to construct an augmented reality tool for shipbuilding. The future target usages of the system vary from inspection to actually improving the efficiency of some of the repeating p...

In the decade since FPGAs were invented they have created many new opportunities. Perhaps the most exciting is reconfigurable computing. In this paper we present a vision of the next decade of reconfigurable computing. FPGA architectures will support millions of gates on a chip, requiring the integration of FPGAs with CPUs, DSPs, and SRAMs. Reconfigurable computing specific architectural featur...

A collaborative multimedia environment allows users to work remotely on common projects by sharing applications (e.g., CAD tools, text editors, white boards) and simultaneously communicate audiovisually. Several dedicated applications (e.g., MBone tools) exist for transmitting video, audio and data between users. Due to the fact that they have been developed for the Internet which does not prov...

Our research group has been investigating various aspects of graphics recognition techniques for more than ten years. We have worked on map analysis, symbol recognition, dimension analysis and the conversion of engineering drawings to CAD models. Lately, we are also conducting research on the interpretation of architectural drawings. In addition, we have built up a software platform of generic ...