Rapid prototyping by means of stereolithography using different types of photopolymers has gained increasing interest because cellular structures can be built at a high resolution with sub-lm feature sizes. Structures made with digital light processing and microstereolithography and rapid prototyping based on two-photon absorption photopolymerization techniques are presented. Soluble photopolym...

In most cases, it is simple inconvenience of use that keeps formal methods from being put to industrial use. This paper argues that functionalities, even though of simple formal principles, can be decisive for the applicability of such a formal development tool. Several of those functionalities, as found in the AUTOFOCUS tool prototype, like integrated graphical and hierarchical description tec...

Competition in marketplace requires manufacturers to develop their products in shorter turn-around times. This encourages engineers and researchers to devise methodologies to respond to this market-driven requirement. Rapid prototyping is one solution to produce a design in minimum amount of time. In this paper we focus on rapid prototyping of robots. For this purpose, development of the robot ...

PVSio is a conservative extension to the PVS prelude library that provides basic input/output capabilities to the PVS ground evaluator. It supports rapid prototyping in PVS by enhancing the specification language with built-in constructs for string manipulation, floating point arithmetic, and input/output operations.

This paper is about the automated production of dialogue models. The goal is to propose and validate a methodology that allows the production of finalized dialogue models (i.e. dialogue models specific for given applications) in a few hours. The solution we propose for such a methodology, called the Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology (RDPM), is decomposed into five consecutive main steps, n...

The March, April, and May 2007 issues of IEEE Distributed Systems Online feature revised versions of the best papers presented at the 17th International IEEE Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP 06). These articles were selected by reviewers from a large selection of excellent submissions. This month's issue features two articles. In "Prototyping Multiprocessor System-on-Chip Applications:...

In order to stay competitive in the high-tech electronics consumer market, companies must continue to offer new products with superior capabilities, higher power efficiency, and smaller form factors at accelerated design schedules. For example, consumers upgrade their cell phones about every two years. Manufacturers are thus challenged to rapidly develop and produce phones that offer more advan...

APICES is a tool for very rapid development of software prototypes and applications. It offers special support for technical applications dealing with network-like structures. Network-like structures are modelled with predefined object-oriented building blocks so-called graph pattern. Software development with APICES starts with an object-oriented model of the application. This application mode...

In this paper we describe the rapid prototyping of an adaptive speech beamformer, using the Graphical Rapid Prototyping Environment: GRAPE-II [1]. We used a general purpose, commercially available multi-processor with 4 TMS320C40 DSP-processors. Our work proves the feasibility of real-time prototyping using a multiprocessor and a powerful programming