Faster and cheaper PCR on a standard thermocycler.

Roving Faster Farther Cheaper

Current Mars rovers travel a few kilometers per year. Future rovers will need to travel a couple orders of magnitude faster than that in order to move from safe landing zones to areas of scientific interest – which may be many 10s of kilometers away from a suitable landing location. This paper describes a recent field test of the SR-II rover. SR-II is a 22kg solar powered autonomous rover, whic...

Developing More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper

Screen idols: faster, smaller, cheaper and smarter.

Create Better , Faster , Cheaper Designs for FPGAs

With the advent of ever-larger FPGAs, both software algorithm developers and hardware designers must become more productive. Given the frequent lack of resources (time, money, developers) and often unmanageable complexity, today’s complex software systems require an increase in abstraction level. A new generation of methodologies that describe algorithms at a level higher than RTL are collectiv...

Better, faster, cheaper, and safer too - Is this really possible?

Increased levels of automation together with increased complexity of automation systems brings increased responsibility on the system developers in terms of quality demands from the legal perspectives as well as company reputation. Component based development of software systems provides a viable and cost-effective alternative in this context provided one can address the quality and safety cert...