Estimating and minimizing the maximum power dissipation during testing is an important task in VLSI circuit realization since the power value affects the reliability of the circuits. Therefore during testing a methodology should be adopted to minimize power consumption. Test patterns generated with –D 1 option of ATALANTA contains don’t care bits (x bits). By suitable filling of don’t cares can...

The analysis in this paper demonstrates that a combination of 1) a forward contact, with fixed price for both base land and peaking power, and 2) a collar option for the number of hot days in a summer is an effective way to reduce the risk of purchasing electricity in a spot market. The main advantages are 1) the effectiveness of price signals is strengthened by making peaking power expensive, ...

’Capture Ready’ is a design concept that will enable fossil fuel plants to be more easily and economically retrofitted with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies during their life time. However, Capture Ready is not eligible to be financed by selling carbon credits under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in EU or the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) market in non-annex one countries. ...

Increasing global use of technology in everyday chores has raised the need for electric power our lives constant thereby becomes very paramount smooth running modern systems. In Nigeria incessant outages have led to failures systems and sometimes lives, necessitating multiple sources homes, offices industries, each which costs differently use. This work presents design implementation a microcon...

This study builds on option-pricing theory to explain business bankruptcy based on a sample of 139 matched pairs of bankrupt and control U.S. firms for the period 1983-94. Our results indicate that the primary option-motivated variables, such as firm volatility, play an important role in predicting default, one, two and three years prior to bankruptcy. When the model is extended to account for ...