Design of a logistics network in proper way provides a proper platform for efficient and effective supply chain management. This paper studies a multi-period, multi echelon and multi-product integrated forward-reverse logistics network under uncertainty. First, an efficient complex mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model by considering some real-world assumptions is developed for the inte...

A significant challenge in the design of capstone courses is relationship between process and product. As academics we argue that a strong process will result in a good product but instructors face little direction in the identification of a suitable process. A major issue is that of systematically incorporating prototypes into the software design and development lifecycle. In this paper we hav...

For simple digital circuits, conventional method of designing circuits can easily be applied. But for complex digital circuits, the conventional method of designing circuits is not fruitfully applicable because it is time-consuming. On the contrary, Genetic Programming is used mostly for automatic program generation. The modern approach for designing Arithmetic circuits, commonly digital circui...

Several regular circuit structures are proposed. They provide alternatives to the widely used standard-cell structure and have better predictability and a simpler design methodology. A regular global routing scheme is developed. A design flow for use with of all these regular fabrics is discussed.

Integration of circuit CAD activities into a single design framework requires that CAD data of widely diiering forms be integrated into a single design database. This results in data which is highly structured, multi-dimensional and very complex; most current database models (for example the relational model) lack the expressive power to eeciently represent such data. The authors have developed...

The current state of the art in integrated circuit design is based on the use of special hardware design languages such as VHDL. In the context of the development of an intelligent, knowledge-based debugging aid for VHDL programs, we are dealing with analysis and diagnosis of a subset of VHDL (which is similar to conventional concurrent programming languages). We present an adaptation of conven...

Today Technology CAD (TCAD) tools are essential to the development of modern Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication processes. They are as well, required in the design/ optimization of very detailed and critical circuits related to a given IC process, where the usual higher level tools in Electronic Design CAD (ECAD) frameworks do not exhibit the precision or the features required. The boundary be...

There will be four tutorial tracks on the first day of the 2003 International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design. The tutorials included in these tracks are selected among the most popular topics in today's electronics industry. The IEEE Computer Society TTTC Test Technology Educational Program continues to support ISQED with tutorials on test topics. TTTC will be organizing the tutorial t...

The potential benefits of mathematically predicting and analyzing the integrated behavior of product concepts throughout the design synthesis cycle are widely recognized. Better up-front integrated design will not only reduce development time and cost, but also will yield higher quality products with improved performance. Many academic researchers and companies have attempted to develop integra...