This study is designed to determine the most important project management core competencies, including both hard skills and soft skills. The study determines the importance of these competencies to job success, and the current performance of project managers with respect to these core competencies. The gaps between importance and performance represent opportunities for professional development ...

The universal criterion for ultrafast vortex-core switching between the up- and down-core bistates in soft magnetic nanodots is investigated by micromagnetic simulations along with vortex-core switching that occurs whenever the velocity of vortex-core motion reaches its critical velocity, upsilon cri = (1.66 +/- 0.18) gamma mean square root of Aex (e.g., upsilon cri = 330 +/- 37 m/s for Permall...

The magnetic vortex with in-plane curling magnetization and out-of-plane magnetization at the core is a unique ground state in nanoscale magnetic elements. This kind of magnetic vortex can be used, through its downward or upward core orientation, as a memory unit for information storage, and thus, controllable core switching deserves some special attention. Our analytical and micromagnetic calc...

The major goal of our project is to measure and improve application performance, by providing an easily and efficiently reconfigurable architecture along with software support to expedite its use. Our FPGA-based system is implemented as an extensible hardware module on the Field-programmable Port Extender (FPX) platform at Washington University. The FPX platform provides an environment where a ...

In this paper, we have implemented 8 bit soft-core using VHDL, which is compatible with Intel 8051.Design consists of the control block and a memory block communicating through a bi-directional data bus, an address bus, and a few control lines. The control unit fetches instructions from the external memory and executes these instructions to run a program. These instructions are stored in the RO...

Product life time and design reusability have become critical objectives for todays system on chip designs. To achieve long life cycles for high performance devices calls for increased flexibility of intellectual property (IP) cores as well as SoC solutions. While programmability is one of the key factors in achieving this goal, its impact on die size and increased power consumption should be k...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are used widely in applications which require high speed parallel computing. It provides a perfect solution which requires short time for customization after manufacturing. MIPS soft-core processor and SPI protocol soft-core implementation is well known in FPGA, but the customized driver for SPI communication is not available. The SPI communication protocol...

in this work, we define fuzzy soft ($fs$) matrices and theiroperations which are more functional to make theoretical studies inthe $fs$-set theory. we then define products of $fs$-matrices andstudy their properties. we finally construct a $fs$-$max$-$min$decision making method which can be successfully applied to theproblems that contain uncertainties.

Roboticists have begun to design biologically inspired robots with soft or partially soft bodies, which have the potential to be more robust and adaptable, and safer for human interaction, than traditional rigid robots. However, key challenges in the design and manufacture of soft robots include the complex fabrication processes and the interfacing of soft and rigid components. We used multimat...

Current high-performance processors suffer from soft error susceptibility issues which are generated in twofold aspects. The electronic noises, which usually come from large power supplies, strong radiation, or high-energy particle strikes [3], may invert some logic bits of processor structures, introducing transient faults (or equally soft errors) into the system. On the other hand, there is a...