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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"RTR"”.
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RTR Media Center Small Crescent Around A Garden
This masters project is a media center (radio and television station) for the Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha, located in Chur, Switzerland. Developed while studing at the Accademia d' Architettura under the direction of Peter Zumthor, the new media acts as a new headpiece to the historic district of …
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An FPGA-based Run-time Reconfigurable 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform Core
… an ideal template for run-time reconfigurable (RTR) designs. Only recently have RTR enabling design tools that bypass the traditional synthesis and bitstream generation process for FPGAs become available. The JBits tool suite is an environment that provides support for RTR designs on Xilinx …
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Tongue Root Harmony And Vowel Contrast In Northeast Asian Languages
… in these languages was in fact based on an RTR, rather than a palatal, contrast, and provides a formal account for the development of individual vowel systems within the framework of Contrastive Hierarchy (Dresher, 2009). Following the general and theoretical background in Chapter 1, Chapter …
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VLSI Implementation of a Run-time Reconfigurable Custom Computing Integrated Circuit
… popularity of the run-time reconfigurable (RTR) concept in the CCM community, questions have arisen as to what computational device should be at the heart of an RTR platform. Currently the preferred device, and really the only practical device, has been the RAM-based Field-Programmable Gate …
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The Effects of Caching on Reconfigurable Adaptive Computing Systems
… to this problem is runtime reconfiguration (RTR). Using RTR techniques, a large algorithm is implemented as a collection of configurations for the reconfigurable hardware. These configurations are loaded onto the reconfigurable hardware as necessary to implement the algorithm. A primary …
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Effects of Dip-coated films on the Properties of Implantable Intracortical Microelectrodes
… is limited by a reactive tissue response (RTR) of the brain. This RTR culminates in the formation of a tight glial scar and a loss of neuronal density around implanted ICMs, and is accompanied by a decrease in signal to noise ratio and an increase in impedance. While no comprehensive …
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A Multiplexed Memory Port for Run Time Reconfigurable Applications
… of implementing run time reconfiguration (RTR) on CCMs are addressed in this thesis. Tools and techniques are introduced to simplify the development and synthesis of applications and partitions for RTR applications. A multiplexed memory port (MMP) is presented in JHDL and VHDL that …
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A Stream-Based In-Line Allocatable Multiplier for Configurable Computing
… have, Wormhole run-time reconfigurable (RTR) techniques has been developed to address some high performance digital signal processing (DSP) problems. Multiplication is one of the basic functions used in digital signal processing. Most high-performance DSP systems rely on hardware …
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Advanced Tongue Root harmony in Setswana.
… is that there exists a feature $\rm\lbrack{\pm}RTR\rbrack$ which is distinct from $\rm\lbrack{\pm}ATR\rbrack;$ specifically, (+RTR) is different from $\rm\lbrack{-}ATR\rbrack.$ The inclusion of this feature solves the problem of making a distinction between the phonologically "advanced" vowels …
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The Design and Implementation of a Spatial Partitioner for use in a Runtime Reconfigurable System
… of doing this is with Runtime Reconfigurable (RTR) computing architectures. In an RTR system, one challenging problem is the assignment of operators onto the array of processing elements (PEs) in a way as to simultaneously minimize both the number of PEs used and the number of interconnections …
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Refractometry by total reflection
… solids, refractometry by total reflection (RTR) is by far the simplest, most rapid, and precise method to determine the refractive indices, provided a polished surface of sufficient size exists. Its precision exceeds that for routine oil immersion techniques but compares less favorably to …
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Wormhole Run-Time Reconfiguration: Conceptualization and VLSI Design of a High Performance Computing System
… called Wormhole Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR) that allows multiple data ports to simultaneously program different sections of the chip independently. Used as the primary example of Wormhole RTR in the patent application, Colt is the first system to employ this computing paradigm.
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Structured Approach to Dynamic Computing Application Development
… details that complicate Run-Time Reconfigurable (RTR) application development suffer severe limitations. This dissertation describes a comprehensive approach to dynamic hardware development, providing a designer with appropriate models for computation, communication, and reconfiguration integrated …
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VLSI Implementation of a Run-time Configurable Computing Integrated Circuit - The Stallion Chip
… pathways. The Wormhole Run-time Reconfigurable (RTR) computing architecture is a concept developed at Virginia Tech to address the weaknesses of contemporary FPGAs for configurable computing. The Stallion chip is a full-custom configurable computing "FPGA"-like integrated circuit with a coarse …
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Assessment of Nutritional Counseling Frequency on Weight Status in Renal Transplant Recipients
… medical records from consenting, de-identified RTR at a Midwest transplant center were collected. Specific biological and anthropometric measures were analyzed.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> Patients that met with the out-patient dietitian more frequently (4 to 9 times) experienced less weight …
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A quantitative assessment of nuclear weapons proliferation risk utilizing probabilistic methods
… of the nuclear fuel (Radkowsky Thorium Reactor-RTR) and a high temperature, gas cooled, reactor with a pebble bed core (PBMR). This probabilistic method permits integration of all aspects of fissile material proliferation in formulating an overall estimate of relative proliferation risk. The …
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Tongue Retraction in Arabic: An Ultrasound and Acoustic Study
… and pharyngeals are assigned the feature [RTR] and the study proposes alternative representations. The current study deepens our understanding of the physiological and acoustic aspects of tongue retraction in Arabic.
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The effects of winter cover crops and soil compaction treatments on soil properties and soybean production in Illinois
… L.) “RR”, triticale (× Triticosecale cv Presto) “RTR”, buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum L. Moench) “RB”, or hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) “RHV”, and a control with no cover crop “NCOV”. Compaction treatments included a control with no compaction (Nc), and three levels of compaction achieved with …
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Analyzing the Effect of Moving Resonance on Seismic Response of Structures using Wavelet Transforms
… response is defined as Record-to-Record (RTR) Variability. Ground motion characteristics that contribute to this variability in response includes the variation of signal composition (frequency content) with time (spectral nonstationarity).The phenomenon of moving resonance which occurs …
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VLSI Implementation of a Wormhole Runtime Reconfigurable Processor
Until now, the performance improvement of computing machines was a mostly a result of shrinking transistor geometries and increasing clock speeds. With the advent of signal processing applications that have stringent performance requirements from processing hardware, the field of configurable …
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