A special purpose silicon compiler for designing supercomputing VLSI systems

Design of general/special purpose supercomputing VLSI systems for numeric algorithm execution involves tackling two important aspects, namely their computational and communication complexities. Development of software tools for designing such systems itself becomes complex. Hence a novel design methodology has to be developed. For designing such complex systems a special purpose silicon compiler is needed in which: the computational and communicational structures of different numeric algorithms should be taken into account to simplify the silicon compiler design, the approach is macrocell based, and the software tools at different levels (algorithm down to the VLSI circuit layout) should get integrated. In this paper a special purpose silicon (SPS) compiler based on PACUBE macrocell VLSI arrays for designing supercomputing VLSI systems is presented. It is shown that turn-around time and silicon real estate get reduced over the silicon compilers based on PLA's, SLA's, and gate arrays. The first two silicon compiler characteristics mentioned above enable the SPS compiler to perform systolic mapping (at the macrocell level) of algorithms whose computational structures are of GIPOP (generalized inner product outer product) form. Direct systolic mapping on PLA's, SLA's, and gate arrays is very difficult as they are micro-cell based. A novel GIPOP processor is under development using this special purpose silicon compiler

An overview of burst, buckling, durability and corrosion analysis of lightweight FRP composite pipes and their applicability

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.The main aim of this review article was to address the performance of filament wound fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composite pipes and their critical properties, such as burst, buckling, durability and corrosion. The importance of process parameters concerning merits and demerits of the manufacturing methods was discussed for the better-quality performance. Burst analysis revealed that the winding angle of ±55° was observed to be optimum with minimum failure mechanisms, such as matrix cracking, whitening, leakage and fracture. The reduction of buckling effect was reported in case of lower hoop stress value in the hoop to axial stress ratio against axial, compression and torsion. A significant improvement in energy absorption was observed in the hybrid composite pipes with the effect of thermal treatment. However, the varying winding angle in FRP pipe fabrication was reported as an influencing factor affecting all the aforementioned properties. Almost 90% of the reviewed studies was done using E-glass/epoxy materials for the composite pipe production. By overcoming associated limitations, such as replacing synthetic materials, designing new material combinations and cost-benefit analysis, the production cost of the lightweight FRP composite pipes can be decreased for the real-time applications.Peer reviewe

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Traction loads are subjected to significant load changes and frequent voltage change of about 5%, which is usually unacceptable to the public electricity supply. This paper presents a comparative study of traction transformers such as Scott, YNvd, Leblanc and Impedance Matching Transformer for reducing the total harmonic distortion and thereby improving the power quality in a co-phase traction system. A dual converter with a compensator is employed together with special traction balanced transformers to reduce the harmonics, voltage unbalance, negative sequence current and reactive power problems. This scheme is implemented by using Matlab/Simulink R2009a software. The simulation results show that the performance of the Impedance Matching Transformer is better compared to other special traction transformers

Load Flow Solution in Distribution Systems using Modified Forward Substitution Method

Summary An interconnected power system represents an electric network with a multitude of branches and nodes, where the transmission lines typically constitute the branches. In power lingo the nodes are referred to as "buses". Even medium sized power company serving a mixed urban and rural population of 2 to 3 million people operates a network that may contain typically hundreds of buses and thousands of branches, not even counting the distribution network