The Device File-System (devfs) provides a powerful new device management mechanism for Linux. Unlike other existing and proposed device management schemes, it is powerful, flexible, scalable and efficient. It is an alternative to conventional disc-based character and block special devices. Kernel device drivers can register devices by name rather than device numbers, and these device entries wi...

Power consumption from logic circuits, interconnections, dock distribution, on chip memories, and off chip driving in CMOS VLSI is estimated. Estimation methods are demonstrated and verified. An estimate tool is created. Power consumption distribution between ~ I I ~ I T O M ~ C ~ ~ O I W , clock distribution, logic gates, memories, and off chip driving are analyzed by examples. Comparisons are...

Improving techniques for portable trace analyte collection and pretreatment is of critical concern for security, medical, food and environmental applications. The trend has been to employ MEMS technologies to meet this need as these microfabricated devices offer advantages such as small dead volumes, low power consumption, capacity for large scale manufacture and a commensurate savings with eco...

This paper describes how multi-agent system technology can be used as the underpinning platform for voltage control in power systems. In this study, some FACTS (flexible AC transmission systems) devices are properly designed to coordinate their decisions and actions in order to provide a coordinated secondary voltage control mechanism based on multi-agent theory. Each device here is modeled as ...

S IGNAL integrity has become one of the most critical issues in deep submicrometer (DSM) design today. It refers to a general requirement that signals in digital and mixed-signal circuits remain within some specified margins and are tolerant to noise of any kind, so as to minimize data errors. With the continuous reduction of feature size and the consequent explosion of circuit complexity, it h...