Floating point units form an important component of many reconfigurable computing applications. The creation of floating point units under a collection of area, latency, and throughput constraints is an important consideration for system designers. Given the range of possible tradeoffs, most commercial or academic floating point libraries for FPGAs provide a small fraction of possible floating ...

conventional sand filtration which has become a common wastewater treatment technology to satisfy regulations appointed for effluent reuse, suffers from the disadvantage of high energy for backwashing. the subject of this study is application of downflow floating media prior to coarse sand filtration, which requires less water for backwash. two pilots have been employed in two stages. for the f...

This paper describes the architectural extensions to the PA-RISC 1.1 architecture to enable 64-bit processing of integers and pointers. It also describes MAX, the Multi-media Acceleration eXtensions which speed up the processing of multimedia and other applications with parallelism at the intra instruction, or subword, level. Other additions to the PA-RISC 2.0 architecture include performance e...

Original scientific paper The floating cranes, which transfer payloads during offshore constructions, need meet rigorous demands for efficiency and safety in serious sea conditions while the unexpected motion of the floating crane caused by wave make it even harder. This paper analyses the dynamics of a floating crane and presents an active heave compensation system (HCS) to allow the payloads ...

A new object sorting device using impulsive manipulation and air floating will be developed. First, two methods for impulsive object sorting are evaluated using computer simulation for the design of a sorting device. Second, an object sorting system with air floating will be developed. Finally, the developed system is evaluated experimentally.

It is tempting to describe any structure or body part which is not in continuity with its adjacent structures as 'floating'. The indiscriminate use of this word has led to description of complex injury patterns, surgeries, congenital anomalies, functional deformities or even normal anatomical structures by a single vague term 'floating'. The article stresses the importance of proper description...

Two novel methods are proposed which enhance the angular sampling rate of the integral floating display by adopting dynamically variable apertures in front of the lenslet array or the floating lens. Adopted dynamically variable apertures are opened sequentially in synchronization with proper elemental images to subdivide the angular sampling step by time-multiplexing method. Our proposed method...

The residue number system is an integer number system and is inconvenient to represent numbers with fractional parts. In the symmetric residue system, a new representation of floating-point numbers and arithmetic algorithms for its addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are proposed. A floating-point number is expressed as an integer multiplied by a product of the moduli. The propo...

Gastric emptying is a complex process and makes in vivo performance of the drug delivery systems uncertain. In order to avoid this variability, efforts have been made to increase the retention time of the drug-delivery systems for more than 12 hours. The floating or hydrodynamically controlled drug delivery systems are useful in such application. From the formulation and technological point of ...