LECSIM is a highly efficient logic simulator which integrates the advantages of event driven interpretive simulation and levelized compiled simulation. Two techniques contribute to the high efficiency. First it employs the zerodelay simulation model with levelized event scheduling to eliminate most unnecessary evaluations. Second, it compiles the central event scheduler into simple local schedu...

Prosopis africana is an under utilized tree crop with immense medicinal and industrial values. Manual threshing of the pods to extract the seeds is uneconomical, time consuming, associated with drudgery and low output capacity. A motorized Prosopis africana pod thresher was designed, fabricated and assessed for performance. The main components of the thresher include hopper, threshing unit, cle...

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...

iii Nomenclature h altitude, ft ˙ h vertical velocity, ft/sec K fnt scale factor for lift from jet-induced fountain p roll rate, deg/sec q pitch rate, deg/sec r yaw rate, deg/sec T CN cruise nozzle thrust, lb T LF lift-fan thrust, lb T LN lift-nozzle thrust, lb T R rise time, sec V airspeed, knots V ej equivalent jet velocity ratio V x ground speed, ft/sec V y lateral velocity, ft/sec β sidesli...

This paper proposes a comparator design using conventional digital CMOS cells featuring wide-range and high-speed operation. The Comparison is most basic arithmetic operation that determines whether one number is greater than, less than or equal to the other number. Our comparator uses a novel scalable parallel prefix structure that leverages the comparison outcome of the MSB, proceeding bitwis...

An active noise control system has previously been developed for the reduction of tonal noise radiated by small axial cooling fans, such as those found in desktop computers. This system uses four small actuators surrounding the fan in a mock computer casing. Due to industry volume constraints, a smaller fan and speaker configuration is desirable. If the smaller configuration is able to maintain...

We study providing ancillary service to the power grid by using the flexibility of HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) systems in commercial buildings. The building HVAC system’s thermal and power consumption models are constructed and key model parameters are estimated from measure data from Pugh Hall of University of Florida. We develop a method for optimal output tracking of a time...