With the growing complexity of the structure and function of the digital home appliance controllers, the higher requirements on the design of integrated circuits are expected. In view of the lower efficiency of the traditional large scale integrated circuit design, such as long design cycle, high investment and bad flexibility, therefore, the traditional design method is unable to meet the rapi...

Vesicle and cell rupture caused by large viscous stresses in ultrasonication is central to biomedical and bioprocessing applications. The flow-induced opening of lipid membranes can be exploited to deliver drugs into cells, or to recover products from cells, provided that it can be obtained in a controlled fashion. Here we demonstrate that differences in lipid membrane and vesicle properties ca...

In this paper we propose a co-design methodology, based on a UML and Model Driven Architecture approach, in order to design embedded reconfigurable systems. We particularly focus on the design of software radio and cognitive radio equipments. A potential hardware target is System on Programmable Chip (SoPC), like FPGA components, taking into account the specific capability of partial reconfigur...

The conventional Newton’s method (also known as Newton–Raphson method) for the AC power flow problem is preferred in some situations due to its local quadratic convergence. However, its high computation and memory requirements due to the required LU factorization of the Jacobian matrix at each iteration limit its practical employment in the online operation of very large systems. We produce her...

The classical micro-pipette aspiration technique, applied for measuring the membrane bending elasticity, is in the present work reviewed and extended to span the range of pipette aspiration pressures going through the flaccid (low pressures) to tense (high pressures) membrane regime. The quality of the conventional methods for analysing data is evaluated using numerically generated data and a n...

Navigation and obstacle avoidance are some of the important tasks or mission deployed and accomplished by an autonomous mobile robot. This paper presents the designed obstacle avoidance program for mobile robot that incorporates a neuro-fuzzy algorithm using Altera Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development board. To generate collisionfree path for mobile robot, a proper motion planning i...

Values of the bending modulus KC and the tilt modulus Kθ are reported for single component lipid bilayers. The lipids studied have the common names DOPC, DMPC, diC22:1PC, SOPC, POPC, diPhyPC, DLPC, DPPC, DHPC and DEPC, listed in the order of number of samples examined. The experimental method, thus far the only one that measures the tilt modulus of lipid bilayers, first obtains diffuse X-ray sc...

The purpose of this paper is to utilize Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to perform stereo vision distance detection. However, the stereo vision built by two cameras makes memory space lacking and image process slow under the constraints of FPGA application. In this paper, efficient memory space allocation and hardware calculation for stereo vision detection built in a System on a Programma...

Back-projection (BP) is a costly computational step in tomography image reconstruction such as positron emission tomography (PET). To reduce the computation time, this paper presents a pipelined, prefetch, and parallelized architecture for PET BP (3PAPET). The key feature of this architecture is its original memory access strategy, masking the high latency of the external memory. Indeed, the pa...

The sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network are normally microcontroller based which are having limited computational capability related to various applications. This paper describes the selection, specification and realization of a wireless sensor node using the field programmable gate array (FPGA) based architecture for an early detection of hazards (e.g fire and gas-leak ) in mines area. T...