We present a hardware sharing method for design space exploration of multi-processor embedded systems. In our prior work, we had developed a system-level design tool named SystemBuilder which automatically synthesizes target implementation of a system from a functional description. In this work, we have extended SystemBuilder so that it can automatically synthesize an area-efficient implementat...

CAD plays a fundamental role in both top-down and bottom-up system fabrication. This paper presents a bottom-up circuit patterning process based on DNA selfassembly in terms of the design tool requirements and the new opportunities self-assembly creates for circuit designers. The paper also connects recent demonstrations of addressable selfassembly to applications in computer architecture and s...

Skeuomorphism in user interface (UI) design has received much attention and criticism about its usefulness and purpose the design of smartphone apps. The argument of whether or not Skeuomorphism still has a place in UI design is explored in this paper. A questionnaire survey was undertaken by design students to establish their awareness of Skeuomorphism and their opinion of its relevance in UI ...

The present paper describes the linguistic components of a platform for building spoken language dialogue systems. The platform is being designed and implemented within the EU-language engineering project REWARD. The linguistic components mainly consist of a suite of general unification based natural language processing utilities and a window based Sub Grammar Design Tool which provides non-exp...

Sketching consists of a widely practiced activity during early design phases of product in general and for user interface development in particular in order to convey informal specifications of the interface before actually implementing it. It is quite interesting to observe that designers as well as end users have abilities to sketch parts or whole of the final user interface they want, while ...

Striving for greater accuracy, some machine tool manufacturers are developing parallel structures for the next generation machine tool. Therefore, tools are needed to analyze the effect error sources have on this type of structure. A model of a Stewart Platform based machine tool is developed that provides the framework for inclusion of all relevant error sources. An error analysis is presented...

Current approaches to refactoring automation [1] are focused on finding and applying each individual transformation step. When decided which and where a refactoring opportunity exists, development tools are used to automatically apply the refactoring and test its effects. This kind of methodologies are design improvement oriented. If deeper redesigning is needed, for example when starting a fra...