... Issue { Inst=Get_Next_Inst(IP); If (!All_Operand_Ready(Inst)) break; For (each source operand inp of Inst) If (Prod[inp]!=0) PI[Prod[inp]]=MIN(PI[Prod[n]],CycleIssue[Prod[inp]]); For (each destination ... present a novel power saving technique Extra slow FUs with lower per-execution energy are introduced into a processor Using code analysis and/or run-time pipeline profiling, certain in...
... for concatenative speech synthesis In Proceedings of Eurospeech, volume 2, pages 607–610 Ivan Bulyko and Mari Ostendorf 2001 Unit selection for speech synthesis using splicing costs with weighted ... with input label a and output b For the purpose of our unit selection system, we had to resort to an approximation This is because in general, the backoff use just outlined...
... Section 1, a novel critical-band transform algorithm is proposed to approximate the critical-band filtering of the human ear It consists of two transforms: a constant- Q transform (CQT) in the ... speech systems In this study, we develop an efficient critical-band transform algorithm and an architecture for approximating the critical-band filtering of the human ear...
... consumption figures for a 180 nm UWB receiver with the same functionality but relying on four-phase sampling of the full UWB pulse frame are 86 mW for four ADCs operating at 300 MHz and 75 mW for digital ... mixed-mode impulse UWB transceiver with ITRS 2004 roadmap parameters It is concluded that the leakage power consumption is going to become important in low-power UWB rece...
... TUNNELING FIELD- EFFECT TRANSISTORS FOR LOW POWER LOGIC: DESIGN, SIMULATION, AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION YANG YUE (B ENG (HONS.)), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR ... relatively large bandgap, leading to a low band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) rate and low drive current for Si TFETs Therefore, novel structure designs and materials are need adv...
... different types of solar and thermal energy harvesting systems The main focus of this report is to develop energy efficient solar and thermal energy harvesters for low power wireless sensor applications ... converter (ADC) and voltage as well as current sensors Hence, the overall efficiency of the scavenging system for low power application is comparative...
... is, two interfering packets were transmitted during that time as shown in Figure Since in practical scenarios the interference probability 1, the probability of having two interfering packets ... Gittins indices makes the algorithm try unexplored channel until enough information is gained about them 3.2.2 Channel selection algorithm The channel selection can be described using t...
... Introduction Power dissipation is becoming a crucial design constraint for modern microprocessors This thesis investigates low power design schemes at the micro- architecture level to reduce power dissipation ... to reduce power dissipation induced by these sources in microprocessors In Chapter 3, firstly, the motivation for our micro- architecture level low-...
... popular and widely-used over the past few years One reason for the widespread adoption is their usability such as a transformation to a graphical interface The ability for such a transformation has ... diode leakage, gate leakage and other smaller leakage components With such a short channel length, the subthreshold (source/drain) 27 CHAPTER THE ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC UNI...
... Laszlo Kish Charles S Lessard Costas Georghiades May 2006 Major Subject: Electrical Engineering iii ABSTRACT A Low Power, High Dynamic Range, Broadband Variable Gain Amplifier for an Ultra Wideband ... A LOW POWER, HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE, BROADBAND VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER FOR AN ULTRA WIDEBAND RECEIVER A Thesis by LIN CHEN Submitted to the O...
... shape optimizations for wind turbine blades and optimization for wind- farm layouts using CFD method and genetic algorithms E-mail address: jackmin.chen@gmail.com; xc6@cec.wustl Ramesh Agarwal ... taking into account bigger size of VAWT and larger wind farms In addition, a comparative cost and power study should be performed to determine the relative economics...
... allowing workers to maintain an internal locus of control; and providing meaningful visibility into the internal workings of automation Category I, Working with volumes of information,” contains ... of understanding and insight Lay the groundwork for inspiration WORKING THROUGH SCREENS 13 FRONT MATTER | FRAMING THE PROBLEM Extensive concepting, based on intensive questioning, drivi...
... Joint Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Learning The following discussion of learning methods is based on pairwise ranking in a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) framework The resulting ... from scaling discriminative training for SMT to large training sets We deploy generic features for SCFG-based SMT that can efficiently be read off from rules at runtime...