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  • Acceleration of a heuristic PLA product term reduction program through complementation of the PLA specification

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    Gilbert, John D.
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    Minimizing the number of product terms in a PLA implementation is a large step towards saving area on a VLSI chip using PLA logic. Due to the large amounts of computer time necessary to achieve this minimization, a number of heuristic approaches have been developed to provide near-optimal solutions in...
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    program through complementation of the PLA specification AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John D. Gilbert

  • Zonal Resource Adequacy for Voltage Control

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    Boller, Michael D.
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    In a power system, operators maintain voltage stability through adequate reactive reserves. Maintaining and accessing an efficient allocation of reactive reserves is prohibitively complex because of reactive line losses, the variety of reactive resources, and either limited or variable reactive outputs from renewable sources. By clustering the system into smaller...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael D. Boller for the

  • Design and analysis of planar and multilevel inductors

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    Phillips, Michael D. (Michael Donovan)
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    Industry today is pushing personal portable handheld communication de- vices, from cellular telephones to personal navigation systems, and society is embracing the push. The goal is to make compact multi-functional handheld products that can transfer information to those around us through high bandwidth mobile communications. These modules rely heavily on...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael D. Phillips for the degree of

  • Special associative preprocessing structures for qualitative feature extraction

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    Bibby, Michael C.
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    Existing pattern recognition and classification algorithms in computer vision require vast amounts of computations on input data. As a result, memory access time is a critical parameter in system performance. Tremendous parallelism in structure and algorithm is required for the system to operate in real-time. A preprocessing structure for qualitative...
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    qualitative feature extraction AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael C. Bibby for the degree of Master of

  • PRONTO programs for product term reduction

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    Abweh, Nael Nabih
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    PRONTO is a direct, one-pass heuristic method designed to shrink the size of reducible programmable logic arrays. Several people have contributed to the design, and translation to a computer program, of this attempt to produce a good solution quickly. This thesis discusses efforts to improve PRONTO's implementation in order to...
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    on by D. Dagit, resulted in a correct PRONTO program that was tested for several PLAs. As for my

  • A computer controlled robot analyzer for in situ water quality monitoring

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    Birch, Kenneth Norman
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    A new, computer oriented system for automatic, in situ monitoring of water quality is proposed which makes full and effective use of modern computer technology. The main objective of this thesis work was the development of the concept for in situ computer controlled experimenting as a reasonable and effective means...
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    Civil Engineering. I would like to extend my particular gratitude to Mr. R. R. Michael, my major

  • An approach for selecting a language for computer hardware description and simulation

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    Milden, Mark R.
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    This paper corrects an apparent deficiency in the published information concerning Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) by introducing and discussing an approach for selecting an HDL for use in a design project. Although three classes of HDLs are discussed in this paper, High-Level Languages (HLLs), General Purpose Simulation Languages (GPSLs) and...
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    (2)/ R4---M(C), D countup D, /FETCH*P(3)/ F4---R(OP),C R(ADDR), /ADD*P(2)/ R4-- -M (C) /ADD*P(3

  • Adversarial planning by strategy switching in a real-time strategy game

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    King, Brian D.
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    We consider the problem of strategic adversarial planning in a Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game. Strategic adversarial planning is the generation of a network of high-level tasks to satisfy goals while anticipating an adversary's actions. In this thesis we describe an abstract state and action space used for planning in an...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brian D. King for the

  • Computing Substation Fragility as a Function of Seismic Component Failure

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    Stark, William D.
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    The electrical grid of the Western Interconnection is vulnerable to earthquake damage, especially large-magnitude megathrust events, due to the unique seismic profile of the region. However, the size of the Western Interconnection makes it difficult to model seismic failure in electrical substations to the level of detail necessary to improve...
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    infectious and has provided help and support more times than I can count. Thank you also to Dr. Michael

  • General pole number model for the brushless doubly-fed machine

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    Boger, Michael S.
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    The Brush less Doubly-Fed Machine (BDFM) has the potential to be a more cost effective replacement for conventional induction or synchronous machine drives. The BDFM has two stator windings: a power winding and a control winding. An electronic power converter of variable voltage and frequency is connected to the control...
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    machine AN ABSTRACT FOR THE THESIS OF Michael S. Boger for the degree of Master of Science in