Most previous work about the hardware design of a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) intended to either improve its inference performance for real-time applications or to reduce its hardware cost. To our knowledge, there has been no attempt to design a hardware FLC that can perform an adaptive fuzzy inference for the applications of on-line adaptation. The purpose of this paper is to present such an ...

Rail transit is developing rapidly in major cities of China and has become a key component of urban transport. Nevertheless, the security and reliability in operation are significant issues that cannot be neglected. In this paper, the network and station vulnerabilities of the urban rail transit system were analyzed based on complex network and graph theories. A vulnerability evaluation model w...

This paper is presentation of resulting physical models that were used to explore the relationship between design modeling in CAD and digital fabrication with plywood sheets. We explored a process in making tabletop models with digital fabrication machines and thin plywood sheets. Each was built from combination of predetermined wood joining techniques and structures. These models are believed ...

Visual attention to salient and relevant scene regions is crucial for an animal’s survival in the natural world. It is guided by a complex interplay of at least two factors – image-driven, bottom-up salience [1] and knowledge-driven, top-down guidance [2, 3]. For instance, a ripe red fruit among green leaves captures visual attention due to its bottom-up salience, while a non-salient camouflage...

Vision provides us with an ever-changing neural representation of the world from which we must extract stable object categorisations. We argue that visual analysis involves a fundamental interaction between the observer's top-down categorisation goals and the incoming stimulation. Specifically, we discuss the information available for categorisation from an analysis of different spatial scales ...

Area estimation of I layouts has -:come an important requirement for early design and top-down chip planning tools. Especially the relation of area and aspect ratio (shape function) is necessary for chip planning. Statistical models have been published with good results for standard cell blocks with near unity aspect ratios. This paper describes a new model for the prediction of shape functions...

VLSI technology scaling has caused interconnect delay to increasingly dominate the overall chip performance. A design that satisfies timing constraints after logic synthesis will not necessarily meet timing constraints after place-androute due to wire delays. Physical synthesis has been emerged as a necessary weapon for design closure. It is a core component of modern VLSI design methodologies ...

Computer Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) is rapidly reaching worldwide acceptance in different fields of medicine. Particularly, CAD has found one of its main applications in breast cancer diagnosis where the detection of microcalcifications in women breasts is typically associated with the presence of cancer. In this paper, a method for automatic breast contour detection is presented as a pre-process...

The question raised by the panel is how much testing should be included in a VLSI Design course and what makes a “well-rounded” electrical and computer engineering graduate. The fact that we had to have a National Science Foundation workshop and now an ITC panel to discuss how to incorporate test in a design course shows that the disconnect between design and test happens not only in industry b...

This paper presents a novel methodology for deriving the dynamic equations of mechatronic systems from component models that are represented as linear graphs. This work is part of a larger research effort in composable simulation. In this framework, CAD models of system components are augmented with simulation models describing the component’s dynamic behavior in different energy domains. By co...