Reconfigurability-power trade-offs in turbo decoder design and implementation

(1) Background: A large body of literature is available on the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of alternative food systems, but not much of it is devoted to the dynamics underlying their design and implementation, more specifically the processes that make an alternative food system successful or not in terms of its sustainability aims. This gap seems to be particularly critical in studies concerning alternative food systems in urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA). This paper explores how the design and implementation of multifunctional farming activity in a peri-urban area surrounding the city of Reggio Emilia in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy impact the achievement of its sustainability aims. (2) Methods: The environmental, social, and economic components of this project are explored in light of the sociology of market agencements. This method brings up the motivations of the human entities involved in the project, the role played by nonhuman entities, and the technical devices used for the fulfillment of the project’s aims. (3) Results: The alternative food system under study lacked a robust design phase and a shared definition of the project aims among all the stakeholders involved. This ended in a substantial mismatch between project aims and consumer expectations. (4) Conclusions: When a comprehensive design stage is neglected, the threefold aim concerning sustainability might not be achievable. In particular, the design of alternative food systems must take into account the social environment where it is intended to be put in place, especially in UPA, where consumers often live in suburban neighborhoods wherein the sense of community is not strong, thus preventing them from getting involved in a community-based project. In such cases, hybridization can play a role in the sustainability of alternative food networks, provided that some trade-offs occur among the different components of sustainability—some components of sustainability will be fully achieved, while others will not.

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Biodiversity Offset Program Design and Implementation

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11246903 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (24) ◽

pp. 6903 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Marie Grimm ◽

Johann Köppel

Keyword(s):

Program Design ◽

Landscape Scale ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

No Net Loss ◽

Regulatory Frameworks ◽

Biodiversity Offsets ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Mitigation Hierarchy ◽

Balance Development ◽

Biodiversity Offset

Biodiversity offsets are applied in many countries to compensate for impacts on the environment, but research on regulatory frameworks and implementation enabling effective offsets is lacking. This paper reviews research on biodiversity offsets, providing a framework for the analysis of program design (no net loss goal, uncertainty and ratios, equivalence and accounting, site selection, landscape-scale mitigation planning, timing) and implementation (compliance, adherence to the mitigation hierarchy, leakage and trade-offs, oversight, transparency and monitoring). Some more challenging aspects concern the proper metrics and accounting allowing for program evaluation, as well as the consideration of trade-offs when regulations focus only on the biodiversity aspect of ecosystems. Results can be used to assess offsets anywhere and support the creation of programs that balance development and conservation.

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Low-Latency Turbo Decoder Design by Concurrent Decoding of Component Codes

2008 3rd International Conference on Innovative Computing Information and Control ◽

10.1109/icicic.2008.341 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ya-Cheng Lu ◽

Tso-Cho Chen ◽

Erl-Huei Lu

Keyword(s):

Low Latency ◽

Turbo Decoder ◽

Decoder Design

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AND-OR-XOR NETWORK SYNTHESIS WITH AREA-POWER TRADE-OFF

Journal of Circuits System and Computers ◽

10.1142/s0218126611007736 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (06) ◽

pp. 1019-1035 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SAMBHU NATH PRADHAN ◽

M. TILAK KUMAR ◽

SANTANU CHATTOPDHYAY

Keyword(s):

Boolean Function ◽

Solution Space ◽

Leakage Power ◽

Total Power ◽

Synthesis Process ◽

Network Synthesis ◽

Trade Off ◽

Delay Performance ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Power Trade

In this paper, a heuristic based on genetic algorithm to realize multi-output Boolean function as three-level AND-OR-XOR network performing area power trade-off is presented. All the previous works dealt with the minimization of number of product terms only in the two sum-of-product-expressions representing a Boolean function during AND-OR-XOR network synthesis. To the best of knowledge this is the first ever effort to incorporate total power, that is, dynamic and leakage power along with the area (in terms of number of product terms) during three-level AND-OR-XOR networks synthesis. The synthesis process, without changing the delay performance results in lesser number of product terms compared to those reported in the literature. It also enumerates the trade-offs present in the solution space for different weights associated with area, dynamic power, and leakage power of the resulting circuit.

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Power Trade-Offs and Low-Power in Analog CMOS ICs

10.1007/b100867 ◽

2003 ◽

Keyword(s):

Low Power ◽

Analog Cmos ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Power Trade

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Framework Design Supporting QoS-Power Trade-Offs for Heterogeneous Networked Systems

Network-Based Information Systems - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-85693-1_9 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 71-80

Author(s):

Christos Antonopoulos ◽

Evangelos Topalis ◽

Aggeliki Prayati ◽

Spilios Giannoulis ◽

Antonis Athanasopoulos ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Networked Systems ◽

Framework Design ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Power Trade

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Systematic Design Principles for Cost-Effective Hard Constraint Management in Dynamic Nonlinear Systems

International Journal of Adaptive Resilient and Autonomic Systems ◽

10.4018/jaras.2011010102 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 18-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Satyakiran Munaga ◽

Francky Catthoor

Keyword(s):

Cost Effective ◽

Greedy Heuristics ◽

Worst Case ◽

Hard Constraint ◽

Video Decoder ◽

Constraint Management ◽

Fine Grain ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Decoder Design ◽

Energy Gains

Modern cost-conscious dynamic systems incorporate knobs that allow run-time trade-offs between system metrics of interest. In these systems regular knob tuning to minimize costs while satisfying hard system constraints is an important aspect. Knob tuning is a combinatorial constrained nonlinear dynamic optimization problem with uncertainties and time-linkage. Hiding uncertainties under worst-case bounds, reacting after the fact, optimizing only the present, and applying static greedy heuristics are widely used problem simplification strategies to keep the design complexity and decision overhead low. Applying any of these will result in highly sub-optimal system realizations in the presence of nonlinearities. The more recently introduced System Scenarios methodology can only handle limited form of dynamics and nonlinearities. Existing predictive optimization approaches are far from optimal as they do not fully exploit the predictability of the system at hand. To bridge this gap, the authors propose the combined strategy of dynamic bounding and proactive system conditioning for the predicted likely future. This paper describes systematic principles to design low-overhead controllers for cost-effective hard constraint management. When applied to fine-grain performance scaling mode assignment problem in a video decoder design, proposed concepts resulted in more than 2x energy gains compared to state-of-the-art techniques.

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An Application of the A’WOT Analysis for the Management of Cultural Heritage Assets: The Case of the Historical Farmhouses in the Aglié Castle (Turin)

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12031071 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 1071 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marta Bottero ◽

Chiara D’Alpaos ◽

Alessia Marello

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Unesco World Heritage ◽

World Heritage Sites ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Decision Aiding ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Real Estate Assets

In recent years, governments, public institutions, and local communities have devoted growing attention to the identification of promising strategies for the preservation and valorization of cultural heritage assets. Decisions on the management of cultural heritage assets based on multiple, often conflicting, criteria and on the stakes of various, and potentially non-consensual actors and stakeholders. In this context, in which the trade-offs between the preservation of assets historical symbolic values and the adaptation to alternative and economically profitable uses play a key role in investment decisions, multi-criteria analyses provide robust theoretical and methodological frameworks to support decision-makers in the design and implementation of adaptive reuse strategies for cultural heritage and public real estate assets. In this paper, we provide a multi-criteria decision aiding approach for ranking valorization strategies of cultural heritage assets aimed at promoting their restoration and conservation, as well as at creating cultural and economic benefits. In detail, we present a novel application of the A’WOT analysis to support the design and implementation of alternative management strategies of abandoned cultural heritage assets. The paper focuses on the potential reuse and management of four historical farmhouses (Cascina Mandria, Cascina Lavanderia, Cascina Gozzani, and Cascina Ortovalle) located in the Agliè Castle estate, one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, currently listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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