Our aim was to optimize a SOA control system by evolving the architecture of the service component that transforms system models into task trees, which are then executed by the runtime library called the Task Tree Executor, TTE. In the paper we present the two novel TTE architectures that evolved from the previous TTE architecture and introduced finer grained parallelism. The novel architecture...

One reason for the interest in performance-based building is that it is commonly advocated as a powerful way of enhancing innovation performance by articulating building performance outcomes, and by offering relevant procurement actors the discretion to innovate to meet these performance requirements more effectively and/or efficiently. The paper argues that the current approach to performance-...

The objective of this research is to develop built-in testing (BIT) techniques for the functional verification of analog and RF circuits and systems. The aim is to avoid the use of external analog instrumentation so that the cost of testing is reduced. The major challenges addressed by this work are: (1) To develop techniques for the on-chip test of integrated RF and analog circuits through a f...

Analog VLSI signal processing is most effective when precision is not required, and is therefore an ideal solution for the implementation of perception systems. The possibility to choose the physical variable that represents each signal allows all the features of the transistor to be exploited opportunistically to implement very dense timeand amplitude-continuous processing cells. This paper de...

In sensor data management, it is often useful to collect statistics about state changes of an observed phenomenon. The most basic case is to keep track of how often certain transitions, e.g. from state c to d, have occurred. In our research, we consider a discrete state space and timeline. For example, in the above figure, the state space corresponds to actual two-dimensional space and is divid...

The discovery of the spin-torque effect has made magnetic nanodevices realistic candidates for active elements of memory devices and applications. Magnetoresistive effects allow the read-out of increasingly small magnetic bits, and the spin torque provides an efficient tool to manipulate - precisely, rapidly and at low energy cost - the magnetic state, which is in turn the central information m...

A new kind of artifacts called intellige developed. These artifacts consist of a num blocks with individual processing and com assembling the building blocks into a structur develop both physical and functional structu user can be programming a behavior of the sys a physical structure. Some building blocks processing units, whereas other can includ sensing. The processing in the individual buil...

Many books and publications have been written about user experience, but it still lacks a commonly agreed definition. The definition together with understanding of user experience building blocks would help in designing for good experiences and in evaluating user experience of a product. Based on the existing knowledge about user experience and our own empirical research, this paper proposes a ...