This paper proposes a new method to speedup simulation of VHDL models. Therefore, a tool named ATOMS (Automatic Optimization of VHDL Models for Simulation) reads in a VHDL source model and generates automatically a new optimized VHDL model which is simulated faster by the same simulator. ATOMS arises out of an approach to speedup simulation of a RISC computer system running its operating system...

The research was conducted to compare the impacts of problem-based learning (PBL) and example-based learning (EBL) on the learning performance in an engineering domain. The research was implemented by means of experimental design. Specifically, a two-group experiment with a preand post-test design was used in this research. A total of 37 students were randomly assigned to PBL and EBL groups. A ...

Multiple importance sampling (MIS) is employed to reduce variance of estimators, but when sampling and weighting are not suitable to the integrand, the estimators would have extra variance. Therefore, robust light transport simulation algorithms based on Monte Carlo sampling for different types of scenes are still uncompleted. In this paper, we address this problem by present a general method, ...