Energy per Instruction (EPI) is a measure of the amount of energy expended by a microprocessor for each instruction that the microprocessor executes. In this paper, we present an overview of EPI, explain the factors that affect a microprocessor’s EPI, and derive a historical comparison of the trends in EPI over multiple generations of Intel microprocessors. We show that the recent Intel® Pentiu...

This paper explores the theory and potential of a family of reluctance motors as well as brief review of different types of reluctance motors, motivated by the increased demands for geometric versatility and ruggedness for electric motors. This paper presents a new and novel disc type reluctance motor that has been designed built, tested, and analyzed. The magnetic circuit-based analysis shows ...

Electric vehicles are one of the most complicated electric devices to simulate due to the significant number of different processes involved in electrical structure of it. There are concurrent processes of energy consumption and generation with different onboard systems, which make simulation tasks more complicated to perform. More accurate simulation on energy consumption can provide a better ...

this research was conducted in order to evaluate fatigue behavior of asphalt mixes containing electric arc furnace (eaf) steel slag. after initial evaluation of the properties of eaf steel slag using x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electric microscope (sem), six sets of laboratory mixtures were prepared. each set were treated replacing various portions of limestone aggregates of the mix wi...

in this paper, a new non-contact ultrasonic abrasive finishing mechanism is designed and fabricated. this mechanism combines the function of ultrasonic vibrations and the magnetic abrasive finishing (maf) process. a permanent magnet which is mounted on a horn has been used as the processing tool. this polishing tool is vibrated at an ultrasonic frequency with piezo-electric actuators. ultrasoni...

The rich countries of Western Europe and its citizens benefited during at least the last 30 years from an extraordinary stable electricity grid. This stability was achieved by the european grid system and a large flexible and reliable spare power plant capacity. This system allowed a continuous demand growth during the past 10-20 years of up to a few % per year. However, partially due to this o...

battery pack is the main energy storage element, and directly affects the performance of electric vehicle. this paper selects the forced air cooling of horizontal battery pack as the study object, and researches the heat dissipation performance of different operating conditions with fleunt software. results indicate that: according to the four kinds of transient state conditions and steady stat...

It is fairly evident that one should be able to observe nonlinear effects in the interaction of lasers with matter. A 1-MW laser can create an electric field a few volts per angstrom in matter. Since this is on the order of atomic fields, it is not surprising that nonlinear interactions are observable in matter not possessing a center-of-inversion symmetry. In contrast, it is certainly not evid...