In this note, global stabilization by output feedback is investigated for a class of non-minimum-phase nonlinear systems previously considered by Marino and Tomei (2005). It is shown that it is possible to construct, via a new design method that involves no filter transformation, a globally stabilizing dynamic output feedback controller of order n, instead of n + 2(ρ− 1), for the non-minimum ph...

A synthesizable HDL generation method for pipelined processors is proposed. By using the proposed method, data-path and control logic descriptions of a target processor is generated from a clock based instruction set specification. From the experimental results, feasibility of the proposed method is evaluated and the amount of processor design time was drastically reduced than that of conventio...

Solution growth continues to be one of the most powerful techniques for the production of single crystals for basic and applied research. It is a versatile technique that allows for the growth of congruently and incongruently melting materials with equal ease. The primary requirement for growth is that there be an exposed primary solidification surface in the appropriate equilibrium alloy phase...

2014 We have performed conductivity measurements on a series of binary and ternary copper-salts from differently substituted R, R’ 2014 N, N’-dicyano-quinonediimines (DCNQI’s ). At room temperature they all have a high conductivity, which is preserved partly down to the lowest temperatures. In comparison with the (unalloyed) single complex crystals in these alloys disorder effects shift phase t...

The majority of existing SPARQL query engines generate query plans composed of binary join operators. Albeit effective, binary joins can drastically impact on the performance of query processing whenever source answers need to be passed through multiple operators in a query plan. Multi-way joins have been proposed to overcome this problem; they are able to propagate and generate results in a si...

G.J. Lewis a,∗, J.W.A. Sachtler a, J.J. Low a, D.A. Lesch a, S.A. Faheem a, P.M. Dosek a, L.M. Knight a, L. Halloran a, C.M. Jensen b, Jun Yang c, Andrea Sudik c, Donald J. Siegel c, Christopher Wolverton c, Vidvuds Ozolins d, Shu Zhang e a UOP LLC, 25 E. Algonquin Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60017, USA b Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers, LLC, Honolulu, HI, USA c Ford Motor Company, Research and Advanced Engin...

the aim of this paper is to minimize output phase noise for the pure signal synthesis in the frequency synthesizers. for this purpose, first, an exact mathematical model of phase locked loop (pll) based frequency synthesizer is described and analyzed. then, an exact closed-form formula in terms of synthesizer bandwidth and total output phase noise is extracted. based on this formula, the phase ...

The total and causal ordering of group operations in distributed systems is at the core of solutions to many problems in distributed computing. Existing approaches are based on either a centralized coordinator to assign a sequence number for each operation or on a distributed two-phase protocol to determine the total ordering. This paper proposes a distributed single-phase protocol which determ...

We discuss important experimental considerations and high-throughput synchrotron-based techniques for structural characterization of binary and ternary composition-spread thin films. We apply these techniques to obtain detailed structural phase diagrams of CoMnGe ternary alloy system. # 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 61.10.Nz; 07.85.Qe; 68.55.Jk