GOALS Low-power systems often find the power cost of floating-point hardware prohibitively expensive. This research explores ways of reducing floating-point power consumption by minimizing the bitwidth representation of floating-point data. Analysis of several floating point programs that manipulate low-resolution human sensory data shows that these programs suffer no loss of accuracy even with...

The purpose of the present study was to develop an optimized gastric floating drug delivery system (GFDDS) containing domperidone as a model drug. Box-Behnken design was employed in formulating the GFDDS with three polymers: hydroxypropyl methylcellulose K4M (HPMC K4M) (X1), Carbopol 934P (X2) and sodium alginate (X3), as independent variables. Floating lag time (FLT), total floating time (TFT)...

Six diesel-degrading bacterial strains were isolated from oil-polluted sites located in central Taiwan. The floating activity of the isolates in an oil-supplemented liquid medium was monitored. Cell-surface hydrophobicity as well as cell-free and cell-residue emulsification activities were also investigated. Three isolates, identified as Gordonia alkanivorans CC-JG 39, Rhodococcus erythropolis ...

The floating photovoltaic system is a new concept in energy technology to meet the needs of our time. The system integrates existing land based photovoltaic technology with a newly developed floating photovoltaic technology. Because module temperature of floating PV system is lower than that of overland PV system, the floating PV system has 11% better generation efficiency than overland PV syst...

In this paper we will present a detailed study on tuning double-precision matrix-matrix multiplication (DGEMM) on the Intel Xeon E5-2680 CPU. We selected an optimal algorithm from the instruction set perspective as well software tools optimized for Intel Advance Vector Extensions (AVX). Our optimizations included the use of vector memory operations, and AVX instructions. Our proposed algorithm ...

Abstract Salmon farming in Chile constitutes one of the nation's principal food exporting sectors. In the seawater stage, one of the most important in the farm production chain, salmon are cultivated in floating cages fitted with nets that hold the fish during the entire grow-out process. The maintenance of the cage nets is carried out at land-based facilities. This article reports on the creat...

We present a tool for design and implementation of reconfigurable computing applications based on the use of distributed arithmetic. Our tool provides the user the possibility to investigate different tradeoffs like area vs speed for his design. After simulation of the design, a synthesizable HDL code for a reconfigurable platform can be generated. Beside the existing fixed-point solutions for ...

We present a tool for design and implementation of reconfigurable computing applications based on the use of distributed arithmetic. Our tool provides the user the possibility to investigate different tradeoffs like area vs speed for his design. After simulation of the design, a synthesizable HDL code for a reconfigurable platform can be generated. Beside the existing fixed-point solutions for ...