Simulation has great potential to improve the development process for automotive ECUs. Simulation helps to move development tasks to PC, where they often can be performed faster, cheaper or better. However, development tasks such as calibration and test are typically performed by an OEM, while the ECU code is owned by the supplier of the ECU. Therefore, the OEM is often unable to set up a simul...

In this article we study the health of software engineering conferences by means of a suite of metrics created for this purpose. The metrics measure stability of the community, openness to new authors, introversion, representativeness of the PC with respect to the authors’ community, availability of PC candidates, and scientific prestige. Using this metrics suite, we assess the health of 11 sof...

To support concurrent programming the MONADS-PC instruction set and operating system kernel provide facilities for process creation, synchronization and scheduling. These facilities are assimilated with the LEIBNIZ programming environment, appearing as module class denitions. They form a small and ecient set of primitives which, when utilized by the modular features of the LEIBNIZ programming l...

A Software Defined Radio is a radio receiver that is reconfigurable by software. This reconfigurability leads to flexibility that can be used to offer more functionality to the user. Also, because common reconfigurable hardware can be used for very diverse radio interfaces, production and logistics can be faster and cheaper. In our Software Defined Radio project we aim at a receiver that is abl...

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are often used to monitor environmental data because of their low cost. However, writing applications for such a technology requires not trivial programming skills. Moreover it is not easy to find available general purpose tools that can be used to perform a monitoring task with a WSN because usually such tools are focused on a specific application scenario. In th...

The existence and identity of non-Watson-Crick base pairs (bps) within RNA bulges, internal loops, and hairpin loops cannot reliably be predicted by existing algorithms. We have developed the Isfold (Isosteric Folding) program as a tool to examine patterns of nucleotide substitutions from sequence alignments or mutation experiments and identify plausible bp interactions. We infer these interact...

Background Time-resolved three-directional phase contrast magnetic resonance velocity mapping (4D PC-MR) has the potential to be a powerful modality for studying normal physiology and pathophysiology. However, a wider application of 4D PC-MR is hampered by a lack of methods for quantitative analysis. Currently available software packages for visualization of 4D PC-MR do not allow for modificati...

The paper describes a new PC and LabVIEW software package based system forelectrochemical research. An overview of well known electrochemical methods, such aspotential measurements, galvanostatic and potentiostatic method, cyclic voltammetry andEIS is given. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy has been adapted for systemscontaining large capacitances. For signal generation and recording of t...

In this work we introduce DXPCS, a software tool capable of performing consistency-based diagnosis of continuous dynamic systems whose models can be represented as a set of Ordinary Differential Equations. The diagnosis approach relies upon the Possible Conflict, PC for short, concept. DXPCS is able to automatically build the simulation models for each PC. Single-fault and multiple-fault scenar...

Real-time signal, image, and control applications have very important time constraints, involving the use of several powerful numerical calculation units. The aim of our work is to develop a fast and automatic prototyping process dedicated to parallel architectures made of both PC and several last generation Texas Instruments digital signal processors: TMS320C6X DSP. The process is based on Syn...