scholarly journals High-Level Design Space and Flexibility Exploration for Adaptive, Energy-Efficient WCDMA Channel Estimation Architectures

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Endre Rákossy ◽  
Zheng Wang ◽  
Anupam Chattopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Software Defined Radio ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Complexity Classes ◽  
Power Performance ◽  
Performance Constraints ◽  
Estimation Algorithms ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
High Level

Due to the fast changing wireless communication standards coupled with strict performance constraints, the demand for flexible yet high-performance architectures is increasing. To tackle the flexibility requirement, software-defined radio (SDR) is emerging as an obvious solution, where the underlying hardware implementation is tuned via software layers to the varied standards depending on power-performance and quality requirements leading to adaptable, cognitive radio. In this paper, we conduct a case study for representatives of two complexity classes of WCDMA channel estimation algorithms and explore the effect of flexibility on energy efficiency using different implementation options. Furthermore, we propose new design guidelines for both highly specialized architectures and highly flexible architectures using high-level synthesis, to enable the required performance and flexibility to support multiple applications. Our experiments with various design points show that the resulting architectures meet the performance constraints of WCDMA and a wide range of options are offered for tuning such architectures depending on power/performance/area constraints of SDR.

A Family of Surface Velocity Distributions for Axial Compressor Blading and Their Theoretical Performance

1976 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Walker
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Axial Compressor ◽  
Compressor Blade ◽  
Surface Velocity ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Suction Surface ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Using Data ◽  
High Level ◽  
Theoretical Performance

The influence of free stream disturbances on transition is discussed and it is noted that significant regions of laminar flow may exist on axial turbomachine blades despite the high level of disturbance to which they are subjected. A family of surface velocity distributions giving unseparated flow on the suction surface of an axial compressor blade is derived using data from detailed boundary layer measurements on the blading of a single-stage machine. The distributions are broadly similar to those adopted by Wortmann in designing high performance isolated aerofoil sections for operation at much higher Reynolds numbers. The theoretical performance of blades having the specified surface velocity distributions is computed for a wide range of conditions, and the effects of varying Reynolds number and other design parameters are analyzed. The results suggest the possibility of obtaining useful improvements in performance over that of conventional compressor blade sections. The computed performance values show an almost unique relation between the blade losses and the suction surface diffusion ratio. However the correlation of losses with the equivalent diffusion ratio is found to break down at high values of the latter parameter.

Extremely Light Weight Rheocast Components for Automotive Space Frame

2012 ◽  
Vol 192-193 ◽  
pp. 545-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Rosso ◽  
Ildiko Peter ◽  
Gianluigi Chiarmetta ◽  
Ivano Gattelli
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Mechanical Tests ◽  
Standard Samples ◽  
Fe Content ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Automotive Parts ◽  
Fracture Surface Analysis ◽  
High Level ◽  
Non Destructive ◽  
Very High

This paper presents an analysis of a new rheocasting process suitable for the manufacturing of high performance automotive parts. The process is able for the realization of components using Al alloys. An important aspect is related to the possibility to obtain quite wide range of thicknesses, starting from 2.5 mm. The used alloy is the well known A356, with low Fe content, maximum 0.08 wt%. T6 heat treatments has been performed, while the soundness of the parts has been certified by non destructive tests. These parts are produced to be mounted on a top level and famous sport car. Non standard samples for mechanical tests have been machined directly from the components. Following the mechanical tests fracture surface analysis has been carried out by SEM to observe some morphological details and to evaluate the influence of the process and of the alloy conditions on the fracture behaviour. On the polished transverse sections of the samples morphological analysis has been performed. The obtained results shown high level of mechanical strength for all series of components. The reliability of the process is very high at a convenient level of manufacturing rate. The weldability of the parts has been demonstrated.

scholarly journals An Investigation on Phenolic and Antioxidant Capacity of Under-utilized Food Legumes Consumed in China

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
Yaqian Zhang ◽  
Maninder Meenu ◽  
Hansong Yu ◽  
Baojun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Capacity ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Total Phenolic ◽  
Velvet Bean ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Food Legumes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Major Producer ◽  
Phytochemical Profile ◽  
High Level

China is a major producer of various kinds of food legumes. Some of the under-utilized food legumes are consumed by the local society from different areas in China. The antioxidant capacity and phytochemical profile of these under-utilized food legumes haven’t been investigated until now. In this study, colorimetric and high-performance liquid chromatography was employed to explore the antioxidant capacity and phytochemical profile of 21 under-utilized food legumes. Different legumes under investigation exhibit a wide range of variations in their total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoids content (TFC) and condensed tannins content (CTC). Among all the legume samples, the velvet bean from Hechi, Guangxi exhibited the highest antioxidant capacity while the white flat bean from Shangrao, Shanxi presented the least antioxidant capacity. Gallic acid was observed to be a major phenolic acid and its content in the velvet bean was significantly higher compared to the other legume samples explored in this study. The composition of flavonoids was different among all the legumes. Kaempferol was observed to be the most predominant flavonoid. The findings of this study will be beneficial for plant breeders, food scientists and consumers for the better selection of germplasm with a high level of phytochemicals that in turn possess maximum health benefits.

CONSISTENCY OF FLY ASH AND METAKAOLIN CONCRETE

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiping Bai ◽  
Albinas Gailius
Keyword(s):  
Fly Ash ◽  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Practical Design ◽  
Significance Levels ◽  
Prediction Limits

As high‐performance Portland cement (PC), fly ash (FA) and metakaolin (MK) concrete have been developed in wide applications, it has growing interest in optimizing and predicting consistency of fresh PC‐FA‐MK concrete for efficient and practical design and construction. This paper presents statistical models for predicting the consistency of concrete incorporating PC, FA and MK from the experimental results of standard consistency tests. They reflect the effect of variations of pozzolanic replacement materials including FA and MK at graduated replacement levels of up to 40% and 15%, respectively. The predictions produced are compared with the experimental results of consistency of concrete blends. Models show that they can be used to predict the consistency parameters including slump, compacting factor and Vebe time with a good degree of accuracy in a wide range of FA‐MK blends. Design guidelines for evaluating consistency parameters are tentatively recommended along with their confidence intervals for prediction limits at 5% significance levels. Santrauka Straipsnyje aprašyti cementbetonio mišinio su lakiaisiais pelenais ir metakaolinu konsistencijos (slankumo, sutankinamumo, Vebe rodiklio) tyrimai. Parenkant betono mišinių sudėtis buvo naudojami lakieji pelenai, kurie pakeisdavo iki 40 % portlandcemenčio ir metakaolinas, kurio buvo dedama iki 15 % cemento masės. Atitinkamai buvo keičiami ir portlandcemenčio kiekiai. Remiantis tyrimų rezultatais, pasiūlyti statistiniai modeliai įvairių sudėčių betono mišinio konsistencijai prognozuoti. Palyginus prognozuojamus ir eksperimentinių tyrimų betono mišinio konsistencijos rodiklius nustatyta, kad jie labai gerai koreliuoja. Todėl pasiūlytus statistinius prognozavimo modelius galima taikyti betonų technologijos praktikoje.

scholarly journals From Physics Model to Results: An Optimizing Framework for Cross-Architecture Code Generation

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Blazewicz ◽  
Ian Hinder ◽  
David M. Koppelman ◽  
Steven R. Brandt ◽  
Milosz Ciznicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Code Generation ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Einstein Equations ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Code Transformations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Problem Description ◽  
Physics Model ◽  
High Level

Starting from a high-level problem description in terms of partial differential equations using abstract tensor notation, theChemoraframework discretizes, optimizes, and generates complete high performance codes for a wide range of compute architectures. Chemora extends the capabilities of Cactus, facilitating the usage of large-scale CPU/GPU systems in an efficient manner for complex applications, without low-level code tuning. Chemora achieves parallelism through MPI and multi-threading, combining OpenMP and CUDA. Optimizations include high-level code transformations, efficient loop traversal strategies, dynamically selected data and instruction cache usage strategies, and JIT compilation of GPU code tailored to the problem characteristics. The discretization is based on higher-order finite differences on multi-block domains. Chemora's capabilities are demonstrated by simulations of black hole collisions. This problem provides an acid test of the framework, as the Einstein equations contain hundreds of variables and thousands of terms.

scholarly journals [ANT]: A Machine Learning Approach for Building Performance Simulation: Methods and Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Mahmoud M. Abdelrahman ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed Yousef Toutou
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
High Performance ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Performance Simulation ◽  
Building Performance Simulation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Performance Development ◽  
High Level

In this paper, we represent an approach for combining machine learning (ML) techniques with building performance simulation by introducing four methods in which ML could be effectively involved in this field i.e. Classification, Regression, Clustering and Model selection . Rhino-3d-Grasshopper SDK was used to develop a new plugin for involving machine learning in design process using Python programming language and making use of scikit-learn module, that is, a python module which provides a general purpose high level language to nonspecialist user by integration of wide range supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms with high performance, ease of use and well documented features. ANT plugin provides a method to make use of these modules inside Rhino\Grasshopper to be handy to designers. This tool is open source and is released under BSD simplified license. This approach represents promising results regarding making use of data in automating building performance development and could be widely applied. Future studies include providing parallel computation facility using PyOpenCL module as well as computer vision integration using scikit-image.

MEMS Inertial Technology for Aerospace Applications

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Lautenschlager
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Aerospace Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Error Terms ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control

The aerospace industry has guidance, navigation, and control needs which make use of a number of inertial technology systems. MEMS based solutions can offer several advantages over conventional technologies and are being developed for a wide range of applications. This paper will review the broad inertial applications that exist for the aerospace industry, identify some of the current non-MEMS technologies used to meet those needs, and then discuss what advantages MEMS based solutions can provide. This will be followed by a high level explanation of the general operating principles of a MEMS gyroscope, as well as identification of key performance metrics and error terms that are used for sensor evaluation. Finally, there will be a discussion of some basic design considerations, a review of the current state of the art for performance, and future goals and directions for inertial MEMS technologies. NOTICE: High performance inertial technology is subject to restrictions imposed by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITARS), and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The use of these technologies, or information pertaining to these technologies, may be restricted from foreign nationals of the United States.

scholarly journals Site-specific millimeter-wave compressive channel estimation algorithms with hybrid MIMO architectures

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Sai Subramanyam Thoota ◽  
Dolores Garcia Marti ◽  
�zlem Tugfe Demir ◽  
Rakesh Mundlamuri ◽  
Joan Palacios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Millimeter Wave ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Digital Architecture ◽  
Estimation Algorithms ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Wide Range

In this paper, we present and compare three novel model-cum-data-driven channel estimation procedures in a millimeter-wave Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The transceivers employ a hybrid analog-digital architecture. We adapt techniques from a wide range of signal processing methods, such as detection and estimation theories, compressed sensing, and Bayesian inference, to learn the unknown virtual beamspace domain dictionary, as well as the delay-and-beamspace sparse channel. We train the model-based algorithms with a site-specific training dataset generated using a realistic ray tracing-based wireless channel simulation tool. We assess the performance of the proposed channel estimation algorithms with the same site's test data. We benchmark the performance of our novel procedures in terms of normalized mean squared error against an existing fast greedy method and empirically show that model-based approaches combined with data-driven customization unanimously outperform the state-of-the-art techniques by a large margin. The proposed algorithms were selected as the top three solutions in the "ML5G-PHY Channel Estimation Global Challenge 2020" organized by the International Telecommunication Union.

scholarly journals Beamline B21: high-throughput small-angle X-ray scattering at Diamond Light Source

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 1438-1446
Author(s):  
Nathan P. Cowieson ◽  
Charlotte J. C. Edwards-Gayle ◽  
Katsuaki Inoue ◽  
Nikul S. Khunti ◽  
James Doutch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Source ◽  
Small Angle ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Biological Macromolecules ◽  
X Ray ◽  
X Ray Scattering ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level ◽  
Ray Scattering

B21 is a small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) beamline with a bending magnet source in the 3 GeV storage ring at the Diamond Light Source Ltd synchrotron in the UK. The beamline utilizes a double multi-layer monochromator and a toroidal focusing optic to deliver 2 × 1012 photons per second to a 34 × 40 µm (FWHM) focal spot at the in-vacuum Eiger 4M (Dectris) detector. A high-performance liquid chromatography system and a liquid-handling robot make it possible to load solution samples into a temperature-controlled in-vacuum sample cell with a high level of automation. Alternatively, a range of viscous or solid materials may be loaded manually using a range of custom sample cells. A default scattering vector range from 0.0026 to 0.34 Å−1 and low instrument background make B21 convenient for measuring a wide range of biological macromolecules. The beamline has run a full user programme since 2013.

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