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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Design cost"”.
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Design cost model for advanced composite structures
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
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Rationalisation of design cost estimation in the construction industry
… of rational approaches, using historic cost data, to the determination of realistic fee estimates for design work in the construction industry. The development of the following research methodology for the programme of work, which was initiated at the request of industrial collaborators, …
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High Level Synthesis and Evaluation of the Secure Hash Standard for FPGAs
… academia using FPGAs to accelerate SHAs. These designs were implemented using Hardware Description Language (HDL) based design methodologies, which are tedious and time consuming. High Level Synthesis (HLS) enables designers to synthesize optimized FPGA hardware from algorithm specifications in …
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2007 Formula SAE pedal box
The purpose of this thesis is the design and implementation of the pedal box for the 2007 MIT Formula SAE car. Formula SAE is a collegiate competition in which groups of degree seeking students design and manufacture small formula style race cars to compete on design, cost, marketing, and …
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"For good design, you pay now; for bad design, you pay later"--or do you?
What is the value of architectural design on office building income? This empirical study of 296 office building located in 11 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) hopes to quantitatively determine if a plain vanilla cereal box suburban office building commands more or less net operating income …
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Microarchitecture Categorization and Pre-RTL Analytical Modeling for Sparse Tensor Accelerators
… exploiting sparsity have been critical to the design of sparse tensor accelerators. Sparseloop introduced the Sparse Acceleration Feature (SAF) abstraction, which unifies prior work on sparse tensor accelerators into a taxonomy of sparsity optimizations. Sparseloop succeeds at analytical …
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Advancing Deep Learning Efficiency: From Specialized Co-Design to Automated Generation
… that effectively balance performance and costs. This work will present a comprehensive exploration into the algorithm-system co-optimization, hardware design specialization and automation for scalable AI deployment. First, we begin with algorithmic optimization for large-scale models, …
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Methodology for structured VHDL model development
… an improvement in the time required to take a design from concept to fielded prototype or to upgrade an existing design, with similar improvements in design quality and life cycle cost. The term Rapid System Prototyping signifies the need to develop systems in significantly less time or with …
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A study of the foundry industry dynamics/
… due to exponential increase in IC manufacturing/design cost and focusing strategy on design or manufacturing capabilities. In addition, the bottom-up approach (how companies in the foundry industry compete with each other) indicated that previous key success factors such as time to market, …
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Integration and Evaluation of Cache Coherence Protocols for Multiprocessor SoCs
System-on-a-chip (SoC) designs is characterized by heavy reuse of IP blocks to satisfy specific computing needs for target applications, reduce overall design cost, and expedite time-to-market. To meet their performance goal and cost constraint, SoC designers integrate multiple, sometimes …
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An evaluation of a heat syneresis process on domestic U.S. sewage sludges
… typical good conditions for the other mixtures. Design and cost evaluations of two plant scale systems (one with high pressure sludge pumping; one without) for heat treating domestic sludge show the process to be economically feasible for a design population of 100,000 persons. The annual cost of …
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Efficient Global Optimization of Multidisciplinary System using Variable Fidelity Analysis and Dynamic Sampling Method
… this dissertation is motivated by reducing the design cost at the early design stage while maintaining high design accuracy throughout all design stages. It presents four key design methods to improve the performance of Efficient Global Optimization for multidisciplinary problems. First, a …
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Conversion of oil and gas wells to geothermal reinjection
… utilization, it could significantly reduce costs and environmental impact compared to making new wells from scratch. The focus of this project is conversion of existing oil and gas wells to geothermal reinjection for potential geothermal utilization in north-west part of Croatia. Legrad …
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The Graduate Student Anchored Project : a new approach to incentivizing multifamily development in the City of Boston
… itself and the related city-wide prevailing high cost of residential rents arise out of conditions attributable in part to (i) high costs of construction within the Boston market and (ii) the greater Boston area's large graduate student population. Boston's public officials, under the new Walsh …
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Smart Base Station Antenna Performance for Several Scenarios - an Experimental and Modeling Investigation
… for various environments is important to design cost effective systems and network. This dissertation focuses on the experimental characterization and modeling of the smart base station antenna performance for various propagation environment scenarios. An eight-channel Virginia Tech smart …
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A knowledge-based design framework for airplane conceptual and preliminary design
… program. AAA-AML automates the initial airplane design process using current AAA methods in combination with AMRaven methodologies for dependency tracking and knowledge management, using the TechnoSoft Adaptive Modeling Language (AML). This will lead to the following benefits: (1) Reduced design …
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Role of Hydrogen in Industrial Decarbonization: A Case for Ammonia Industry in the United States
… Here, we evaluate the spatial variations in cost of the above electrically-driven ammonia process across the U.S. predominantly, for different scenarios of electricity supply as well as technology cost scenarios for 2030. Our approach goes beyond prior techno-economic assessments of …
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Diseño de circuitos analógicos y de señal mixta con consideraciones de diseño físico y variabilidad
… has grown steadily, the increasing number of design tasks that are involved in the creation of the integrated circuit and their complexity has led to a phenomenon known as the ``design gap´´. This is the difference between what can theoretically be integrated and what can practically be …
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Enhancing SAT-based Formal Verification Methods using Global Learning
… has increased manifold. Today, 70% of the design cost is spent in verifying these intricate systems. The two most widely used formal methods for design verification are Equivalence Checking and Model Checking. Equivalence Checking requires that the implementation circuit should be exactly …
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Life cycle cost design of concrete structures
A life cycle cost based procedure for the design of reinforced concrete structural elements is presented in this thesis. The design procedure attempts to integrate structural performance and durability together with economic cost optimization into the structural design process. The evaluation of …
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