fab-less business model in semiconductor industry has led to serious concerns about trustworthy hardware. in untrusted foundries and manufacturing companies, submitted layout may be analyzed and reverse engineered to steal the information of a design or insert malicious trojans. understanding the netlist topology is the ultimate goal of the reverse engineering process. in this paper, we propose...

Object-oriented languages have recently become common, making register indirect jumps more important than ever. In objectoriented languages, virtual functions are heavily used because they improve programming productivity greatly. Virtual function calls usually consist of register indirect jumps, and consequently, programs written in objectoriented languages contain many register indirect jumps...

In the current environment of IT organizations, externalization of services and processes to an external and specialized organization (Raisinghani, Starr, Hickerson, Morrison, & Howard, 2008) constitutes an extended practice known as Outsourcing (Barthelemy, 2003). Outsourcing is the process by which an organization moves or uses certain resources to carry specific tasks for an external organiz...

In nuclear medicine, analysis, interpretation and diagnosis may each be appropriate as applications for ANNs. Image processing and pattern recognition are two application areas of ANN technology that appear promising. An ANN (21) was used to classify normal and abnormal FDG-PET scans and performed better than discriminant analysis. Favorable results have been obtained from an ANN (22) in the in...

Co-design is concerned with the joint design of hardware and software making up an embedded computer system [Wol94]. A top down design flow for an embedded system begins with a system specification. If it is executable, it may be used for simulation, system verification or to identify algorithmical bottlenecks. In contrast to other chapters of this book, the specification is not developed in th...

they have additional information on their patients’ health and clinical statuses. The information could be acquired directly from patients or electronically from other providers through healthcare information exchanges (HIE). In the latter case, a common language or standard is necessary for sending and receiving digital forms of clinical data among healthcare organizations. On February 12, 200...