A unique family of high-speed, microprogrammable asyn-chronous controller (MAC) modules is described in this correspondence.Each MAC module consists of two fundamental mode machines thatcommunicate by means of a handshake interface that permits it to bedriven by any programmable logic device including ROM’s. Any statemachine controller design@ with a MAC module will operate ...

When the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is directly extended to a multi-block separable convex minimization model whose objective function is the sum of more than two functions without coupled variables, it was recently shown that the convergence is not guaranteed. Despite of the lack of convergence, the direct extension of ADMM is empirically efficient for many applications...

The use of nonlinear projection matrix in co-rotational (CR) analysis was pioneered by Rankin and Nour-Omid 1990s (Computers & Structures, 30 (1988) 257-267; Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 93 (1991) 353-384), has almost became a standard manner for CR formulations deduction over the past thirty years. This however relies heavily on hysterical sophisticated derivation variation local displa...

Bit faults induced by single-event upsets in instruction may not cause a system to experience an error. The instruction vulnerability factor (IVF) is first defined to quantify the effect of non-effective upsets on program reliability in this paper; and the mean time to failure (MTTF) model of program memory is then derived based on IVF. Further analysis of MTTF model concludes that the MTTF of ...