A Modified Implementation of Tristate Inverter Based Static Master-Slave Flip-Flop with Improved Power-Delay-Area Product

The paper introduces novel architectures for implementation of fully static master-slave flip-flops for low power, high performance, and high density. Based on the proposed structure, traditional C2MOS latch (tristate inverter/clocked inverter) based flip-flop is implemented with fewer transistors. The modified C2MOS based flip-flop designs mC2MOSff1 and mC2MOSff2 are realized using only sixteen transistors each while the number of clocked transistors is also reduced in case of mC2MOSff1. Postlayout simulations indicate that mC2MOSff1 flip-flop shows 12.4% improvement in PDAP (power-delay-area product) when compared with transmission gate flip-flop (TGFF) at 16X capacitive load which is considered to be the best design alternative among the conventional master-slave flip-flops. To validate the correct behaviour of the proposed design, an eight bit asynchronous counter is designed to layout level. LVS and parasitic extraction were carried out on Calibre, whereas layouts were implemented using IC station (Mentor Graphics). HSPICE simulations were used to characterize the transient response of the flip-flop designs in a 180 nm/1.8 V CMOS technology. Simulations were also performed at 130 nm, 90 nm, and 65 nm to reveal the scalability of both the designs at modern process nodes

Energy-efficient analog-to-digital conversion for ultra-wideband radio

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-222).In energy constrained signal processing and communication systems, a focus on the analog or digital circuits in isolation cannot achieve the minimum power consumption. Furthermore, in advanced technologies with significant variation, yield is traditionally achieved only through conservative design and a sacrifice of energy efficiency. In this thesis, these limitations are addressed with both a comprehensive mixed-signal design methodology and new circuits and architectures, as presented in the context of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for ultra-wideband (UWB) radio. UWB is an emerging technology capable of high-data-rate wireless communication and precise locationing, and it requires high-speed (>500MS/s), low-resolution ADCs. The successive approximation register (SAR) topology exhibits significantly reduced complexity compared to the traditional flash architecture. Three time-interleaved SAR ADCs have been implemented. At the mixed-signal optimum energy point, parallelism and reduced voltage supplies provide more than 3x energy savings. Custom control logic, a new capacitive DAC, and a hierarchical sampling network enable the high-speed operation. Finally, only a small amount of redundancy, with negligible power penalty, dramatically improves the yield of the highly parallel ADC in deep sub-micron CMOS.by Brian P. Ginsburg.Ph.D

The deep space network

Presented is Deep Space Network (DSN) progress in flight project support, tracking and data acquisition (TDA) research and technology, network engineering, hardware and software implementation, and operations

Sustainability in design: now! Challenges and opportunities for design research, education and practice in the XXI century

Copyright @ 2010 Greenleaf PublicationsLeNS project funded by the Asia Link Programme, EuropeAid, European Commission

Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age

From Ken Burns’s documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E’s Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined—or ignored—by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past “off limits” to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture. Winner of the 2001 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Outstanding Textbook given by the Popular Culture Association Offers much food for thought in this highly visual age. —Alliance (OH) Review As an example of well-reasoned, original research, Television Histories makes an important contribution to the study of the medium. —Anthony Slide, Classic Images This book is even more timely and provocative because much of the material discussed is being rebroadcast now that digital television is opening even more new channels. —Choice An engrossing collection that slides the thorny subject of television, history, and memory under a microscope. . . . Digs deep into a contemporary phenomenon, and its many conclusions are right on target. —Film & History Helps those of us who care about history think more clearly about how television can shape historical thinking among our friends, neighbors, and students. —Florida Historical Quarterly Television Histories, a pioneer work, weaves an inspired and informed interdisciplinary analysis of television and history. The chapters are enlightening, readable, and entertaining; the editors and the authors have produced a work that enriches and strengthens the study of film and history. —Michael Schoenecke The stuff serious thinkers in a media age should read, mark and remember. —Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette An insightful and important addition to the literature that sheds light on an often controversial subject for professional historians. —Southern Historian Most of the essays are likely to be of considerable value to any attentive student of television. —Television Quarterly Working from the thesis that people learn about history through television more than any other medium, Edgerton and Rollins look at what TV subliminally teaches us by what is shows and does not show. —Varietyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_film_and_media_studies/1020/thumbnail.jp

Governing Rights in La Reunion: Social Legislation, Landholding, Housing and the Making of France in the Indian Ocean, 1946-2009.

The study of governance is often divided between formal state institutions and informal types of authority. Some scholars focus on state institutions: engineers, bureaucrats and politicians. Others study so-called “traditional” authority: landed relations and family networks, usually seen as motors for corrupting state resources. Instead of such divisions, this dissertation examines how different modes of governance interacted, to rethink conventional understandings of how state authority works. The peculiar modern history of Réunion Island – a sugar-growing French colony in the Indian Ocean whose multiracial inhabitants were French citizens from 1870, which became a French Department in 1946, and is now the only European Union region in the Southern Hemisphere – creates an opportune site for considering how different ruling practices interact. From 1946 all French laws were to apply in Réunion Island, where Creole agricultural workers were dominated by white landowning minority who also ran the local government. Through historical archive research and ethnographic fieldwork the dissertation examines how Metropolitan French and Réunionnais politicians, civil servants, property owners, landlords, tenants and families claimed and reconfigured French social rights in rural areas, shantytown and social housing neighborhoods in Réunion’s capital St Denis. The dissertation demonstrates how the underlying logics of Réunionnais governance, based on landlord-tenant obligation, reshaped the French administration in Réunion, which became a participant in landlord-tenant relations rather than assimilating Réunion to French forms of governance. The governance of social legislation in Réunion is an important case study combining histories of socialism, the demise of colonial empires and the rise of state interventions overseas. The dissertation extends conventional interpretations of French colonialism by examining how the project of French social rights for colonial political loyalty endured in Overseas France - beyond the 1962 Algerian defeat when France is considered to have “decolonized.” French welfare eventually transformed class and racial divides in Réunion, enabling Creole descendants of Africans, Malagasy, Indians and Europeans to create meanings about being French in Overseas France and eventually to appropriate the governance of French welfare systems themselves. The dissertation provides a new, comparative overseas perspective for understanding racial difference and social equality in contemporary France.Ph.D.Anthropology and HistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75985/1/heloisef_1.pd

Living Divided No More: An Exploration of Authenticity in Philosophically Inspired Schools

This study explores school authenticity (SA) by conducting research at three philosophically inspired schools. The study investigates consciousness to identity, integrity to that identity, and ascertains characteristics of authenticity across settings through an investigation of the school\u27s congruence between the philosophy and the school ecology. Two frameworks are utilized to explore school congruence. The first framework addresses establishment of identity--the school\u27s attention to and congruence between the philosophy and their identified core educational principles. The second investigates integrity by exploring adherence to identity--in other words, the school\u27s attention to and congruence between educational principles and the school ecology. I explore SA through observation, interviews, and document review, utilizing educational connoisseurship and criticism as the qualitative method

JAEPL, Vol. 23, Winter 2017-2018

Editors’ Parting Message Essays The Politics of Consciousness, Kurt Spellmeyer Writing, Silence, and Well-being, Robert P. Yagelski Writing as a Liberal Art in an Age Neither Artful nor Liberal, Douglas Hesse The Tyranny of ‘Best Practices,’ Roger Thompson SPECIAL SECTION: TEACHING AND LEARNING AS BODILY ARTS Corporal Pedagogies: An Introduction, Wendy Ryden Embodied Databases: Attending to Research ‘Places’ through Emotion and Movement, Kati Fargo Ahern Embodied Ethos and a Pedagogy of Presence: Reflections from a Writing Yogi, Christy I. Wenger Rhetorics of Reflection: Revisiting Listening Rhetoric through Mindfulness, Empathy, and Non-Violent Communication, Renea Frey Performance and the Possible: Embodiment, Privilege, and the Politics of Teaching Writing, Lesley Erin Bartlett Un/learning Habituation of Body-Mind Binary through the Teaching/Learning Body/Mind, Jeong-eun Rhee, Stephanie L. Curley, and Sharon Subreenduth Book Reviews Looking for Solace, Irene Papoulis Golub, Adam, and Heather Richardson Hayton, eds. Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2017, Wendy Ryden Waite, Stacey. Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowledge. Pittsburgh, PA: U of PA Press, 2017, Mark McBeth Eodice, Michele, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner. The Meaningful Writing Project: Learning, Teaching, and Writing in Higher Education. Boulder, CO: Utah State UP, 2016, Mary Pigliacelli Connecting The Emotional Labor of Our Work, Christy I. Wenger Interdisciplinary Dangers: A Small Caveat, W. Keith Duffy One Mindful Step, Sheila M. Kennedy and Jen Consilio The Way to the Falls, Carl Vandermeulen A Good Rain, Robert Randolp

Rhetorical Ripples: The Church of the SubGenius, Kenneth Burke & Comic, Symbolic Tinkering

Humor has long been an effective way to engage difficult sociopolitical topics in a way that avoids polemical confrontation and provides opportunity for pleasure, catharsis and self-knowledge. In the context of today’s polarized politics and protest, creative satirical performance that deploys “symbolic tinkering” can provide a “comic frame of reference” that, according to Kenneth Burke, more effectively conveys its message while providing reflexive insight. The satirical Church of the SubGenius naturally practices this rhetorical frame in their multimedia creations. Using the lens of Burke’s Attitudes Toward History, this essay is an analysis of SubGenius rhetoric with a focus on their Hour of Slack live radio program and the book Revelation X to provide an informative example of Burke’s comic frame applied, and clarify the nature of its utility by exploring the rhetorical impact of the Church of the SubGenius and the relevance of its “comic corrective.” Politically cynical, SubGenii are nevertheless keen cultural critics whose sophisticated use of a complex comic rhetoric warrants more serious attention