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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"System-level Design"”.
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Semantic analysis for system level design automation
This thesis describes the design and implementation of a system to extract meaning from natural language specifications of digital systems. This research is part of the ASPIN project which has the long-term goal of providing an automated system for digital system synthesis from informal …
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System-level design of low-carbon structures
… for mitigating emissions from structural systems during early stages of design, it is difficult to answer these types of questions in current paradigms of performance-driven design. This dissertation makes several original contributions to the system-level design of low-carbon structures. …
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System-level design, simulation and measurement for high-speed data links
… scale. The enormous data transport places a huge design overhead in building low-cost, low-power, low-error-rate high-speed data links. This thesis provides a system-level overview of the design, simulation, and measurement of high-speed digital applications in the context of signal integrity. …
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Human-centered approaches to system level design with applications to desalination
… goal of this thesis is to better understand the design practice employed by the desalination industry from a systems-level viewpoint and offer recommendations to improve the process of design. A human-centered design research approach is used, in which industry practitioners were interviewed …
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A system level design for object location and identification in unstructured environments
Thesis (Mech. E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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System level design enhancements for cost effective renewable power generation by reverse electrodialysis
… energy technologies show that the projected levelized cost of electricity realized through current stack designs is prohibitively high. Despite these high projected costs, RED maintains other advantages - namely, the harnessing of a renewable and non-intermittent energy resource, the …
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System-level Design, Fabrication, and Optimization of Sorbent-based Atmospheric Water Harvesting Devices
… are often limited in their applicability due to system integration and device design constraints. In this thesis, we present advancement of atmospheric water harvesting technologies in both the passive and active design space by leveraging a system-level approach to modelling and optimization of …
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Towards High Efficiency and High Power Density Converter: System Level Design, Modulation, and Active EMI Filters
… the grid-connected inverter application, three-level (3-L) T-type neutral-point-clamped (TNPC) inverters has higher efficiency and lower total harmonic distortion (THD) compared to two-level inverter. Hybrid switch concept combines the benefit of both silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET and Si IGBT. By …
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Analog and mixed-signal circuitry for system-assisted high-speed I/O links
The state-of-the-art design methodology for high-speed I/O links is to specify component-level design requirements to achieve high-fidelity component-level performance. While designing each component in the link with high fidelity guarantees a reliable link, it does not inherently optimize the link …
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An expert system based advisor for the quality function deployment method
A structured and disciplined Systems Engineering process is essential for the effective and efficient design and development of products and systems which are both responsive to customer needs and competitive in the global economy. The emphasis of this research is on the conceptual design phase of …
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Investigation into low power and reliable system-on-chip design
It is likely that the demand for multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) with low power consumption and high reliability in the presence of soft errors will continue to increase. However, low power and reliable MPSoC design is challenging due to conflicting trade-off between power minimisation and …
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Modeling, Analysis and Design of Renewable Energy Nanogrid Systems
… thesis addresses electronic power distribution systems for the residential applications. Presented are both, renewable energy ac-nanogrid system along with the vehicle-to-grid technology implementation, and envisioned structure and operation of dc-nanogrid addressing all system components chosen …
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Ingredients for Successful System Level Automation & Design Methodology
This dissertation addresses the problem of making system level design (SLD) methodology based on SystemC more useful to the complex embedded system design community by presenting a number of ingredients currently absent in the existing SLD methodologies and frameworks. The complexity of embedded …
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Design and prototype of an automated system for commercially viable production using micro contact printing
… that went into prototyping a fully automated system employing Micro Contact Printing, an emerging technique for replication and pattern transfer using soft organic materials, for a nano technology based company in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the summer of 2006. The thesis takes the reader …
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Design of spacecraft for exploration of the Moon and Mars
In this thesis, I develop the conceptual design of the spacecraft required for human-Lunar and human-Mars exploration. The requirements for these vehicles are derived in the context of the NASA Concept Exploration & Refinement project. Similarly, the concepts generated are intended to operate …
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Real-Time Operating System Modelling and Simulation Using SystemC
Increasing system complexity and stringent time-to-market pressure bring challenges to the design productivity of real-time embedded systems. Various System-Level Design (SLD), System-Level Design Languages (SLDL) and Transaction-Level Modelling (TLM) approaches have been proposed as enabling tools …
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On synthesis and optimization of floating point units
This work describes the effect of architectural/system level design decisions on the performance, of floating point arithmetic units. By modeling with VHDL and using design synthesis techniques, different architectures of floating point adders, multipliers and multiply-accumulate fused units, are …
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Phrasal Document Analysis for Modeling
Specifications of digital hardware systems are typically written in a natural language. The objective of this research is automatic information extraction from specifications to aid model generation for system level design automation. This is done by automatic extraction of the noun phrases and the …
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Evaluating the Design and Performance of a Single-Chip Parallel Computer Using System-Level Models and Methodology
As single-chip systems are predicted to soon contain over a billion transistors, design methodologies are evolving dramatically to account for the fast evolution of technologies and product properties. Novel methodologies feature the exploration of design alternatives early in development, the …
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Hardware/Software Co-Design via Specification Refinement
System-level design is an engineering discipline focused on producing methods, technologies, and tools that enable the specification, design, and implementation of complex, multi-discipline, and multi-domain systems. System-level specifications are as abstract as possible, defining required system …
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