The purpose of this research is to develop methods to
translate a certain machine independent intermediate
language (IML) to efficient horizontal microprograms for a
class of microprogrammable machines. This IML has been
developed by Malik (12) and is compiled directly from a
high level microprogramming language used to implement a...
This paper investigates the benefit of various parallel processing
architectures for a Command and Control system for the Royal
Thai Air Force. Parallel processing has been shown to be useful
for air defense and air traffic control applications. Its advantages
are examined within the constraint imposed by the available
resources...
Most technological problems associated with man-machine conversations
have been solved and are well documented in both the
contemporary technical and lay literature. The major remaining
technological problem is the real time conversion of a human's vocal
uterances into a "written" phoneme sequence representing the information
content of speech. The work...
It is popular belief that the volatility of the exchange rate is due
to the balance of payments, which in turn is mainly influenced by the
balance of trade. A closed-loop dynamic economic model is proposed
to describe and analyse the effect of the international trade of a
country on...
A liquid crystal thermographic technique was developed
for application to several problems in clinical
medicine and physiology. The procedure was inexpensive,
rapid, simple, versatile and acceptable to patients.
Investigators in the past have used cholesteric liquid
crystals for thermography but their use was limited to
research in the medical field...
A non-volatile electrically alterable read-only memory using
an MOS field effect transistor with a threshold voltage which depended
upon the position of ionic charges for its memory was fabricated.
The conventional silicon dioxide layer was replaced by a composite
layer consisting of thermal silicon dioxide, electron beam
evaporated aluminum oxide,...
The feasibility of using the Franz-Keldysh effect in practical
light intensity controlling devices was investigated.
Reverse-biased diodes made from CdS were implemented to obtain
high electric fields necessary for the effect. The three types of
diodes studies were: MIS, metal-semiconductor barrier, and p⁺-n
heterojunction. An expression for the change in...
This report is concerned with the analysis of the effect of
finite wordlength, channel capacity and source rate in digital feedback
control of linear systems. The cases considered are (1) finite
wordlength A/D conversion, no feedback delay, ideal ROM (read
only memory) controller; (2) finite A/D wordlength (source rate),
state...
The dynamics of land use in the State of Oregon are simulated
on a digital computer. The introductory chapter outlines the complex
nature of the problems facing the post-industrial society and argues
that the scientific and professional estates share in the responsibility
for public policy formulation. The second chapter .presents...