Recent developments in networking hardware and software-defined networking have enabled full distribution of network control to reduce control latency and increase reliability. However, both, hardware and software of current white-box networking hardware are highly heterogeneous, which limits the deployment and operation of switch-local control applications. Furthermore, switch-local control ra...

This paper presents a new switch-box (SB) and connection-box (CB) design combination for segmented interconnection, which is the bottom level interconnection in our hierarchical FPGA. SB & CB design candidates are first pre-screened by analysis based on maze routing algorithm. Then the structure with the best routability is chosen from candidates by benchmark experiment evaluation. The new stru...

It has been observed experimentally that the mapping of global to detailed routing in conventional FPGA routing architecture (2D array) yields unpredictable results. In [8,10,13], a different class of FPGA structures called Greedy Routing Architectures (GRAs), where a locally optimal switch box routing can be extended to an optimal entire chip routing, were investigated. It was shown that GRAs ...

Abstract Synthetic biology has rapidly advanced from the setup of native genetic devices to design artificial elements able provide organisms with highly controllable functions. In particular, switches are crucial for deploying new layers regulation into engineered organisms. While assembly and mutagenesis have been extensively studied, limited progress made in rational due a lack understanding...

Mainstream display technologies have progressed towards higher resolutions and contrast levels. However, for IoT applications, where displays are embedded in the environment, there requirements to optimize lower power consumption or minimal environmental impact, potentially sacrificing switching time. We approach this issue by considering spatial design of UI components. As a first step, we exp...

There are rats in the basement. When they scurry around, they knock the fuse box and short out the power supply. Consequently, only if the rats are absent today does icking the light switch turn on the lights. This article discusses the use of a simple and-or graph representation to handle such abler statements in qualitative compartmental modeling framework. Abstract There are rats in the base...

− Temporary nonuniform traffic patterns can severely degrade the performance of wormholerouting multistage interconnection networks in multiprocessor systems. Temporary saturation trees build up inside the network under these traffic patterns that result in a temporary network overload with increased packet delay. Recently, enhanced switch box architectures and priority mechanisms were proposed...

In the daily practice of pacemaker insertion, the occurrence of atrial and ventricular lead switch at the pacemaker box header is a rare and unintentional phenomenon, with less than five cases reported in the literature. The lead switch may have dire consequences, depending on the indication for the pacemaker. One of these consequences is pacemaker syndrome, in which the normal sequence of atri...

Nonuniform traffic patterns can severely degrade the performance of wormhole-routing multistage interconnection networks in multiprocessor systems. A wormhole-routing switch box architecture is proposed that is able to control the degrading effects of saturation trees on the uniform background traffic under nonuniform traffic patterns that are known a priori. An alternating priority mechanism i...