PCI Express普及化超乎想象

PCI Express(PCIe)是目前最新的高速串行连接技术之一,短期内将无所不在.由于它继承了全球相当普遍的PCI数据总线,因此这项技术具有快速带动PC及外围配备市场的威力和重大意义,因而受到相当大的重视.因各式各样的需求所致,PCIe足迹已遍布各种应用系统和市场中,未来还会出现在哪些应用上呢?本文将与您共同探讨一二.     

实用模拟BIST的基本原则

实用模拟BIST有潜力降低IC测试成本,以及产品上市时间。20多年来,研究人员和半导体制造商一直在试图开发一种针对混合信号IC的实用模拟BIST(内置自检)。这种技术能够用数字测试仪作混合信号IC测试,以及简化的多址测试,从而能减少IC测试成本,以及IC上市时间。其它预期优点还有更快的测试开发,以及系统上的自检等。     

USB热门应用②海量存储等级vs.媒体传输协议

数字版权管理(DRM)与内容保护需要运用特别的通讯协议,在微软的DRM引擎Janus中,底层采用的技术为MTP.MTP可被视为取代传统MSC的方案,能传送受保护的内容.图1是传统海量存储装置应用以及相关的软件堆栈.     

移动和无线正向企业IT走来2011年展望

在应对全球金融危机的大环境下,移动及无线行业在2010年经历了飞速发展与重塑的过程。全球手机数量飙升至13亿部（根据诺基亚数据）,而其中20％为智能手机（根据Gartner研究）。     

Immunoregulation of Macrophages by Controlling Winding and Unwinding of Nanohelical Ligands

Developing materials with the capability of changing their innate features can help to unravel direct interactions between cells and ligand-displaying features. This study demonstrates the grafting of magnetic nanohelices displaying cell-adhesive Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) ligand partly to a material surface. These enable nanoscale control of rapid winding (“W”) and unwinding (“UW”) of their nongrafted portion, such as directional changes in nanohelix unwinding (lower, middle, and upper directions) by changing the position of a permanent magnet while keeping the ligand-conjugated nanohelix surface area constant. The unwinding (“UW”) setting cytocompatibility facilitates direct integrin recruitment onto the ligand-conjugated nanohelix to mediate the development of paxillin adhesion assemblies of macrophages that stimulate M2 polarization using glass and silicon substrates for in vitro and in vivo settings, respectively, at a single cell level. Real time and in vivo imaging are demonstrated that nanohelices exhibit reversible unwinding, winding, and unwinding settings, which modulate time-resolved adhesion and polarization of macrophages. It is envisaged that this remote, reversible, and cytocompatible control can help to elucidate molecular-level cell–material interactions that modulate regenerative/anti-inflammatory immune responses to implants.     

Dynamic Policy-Based Network Management for a Secure Coalition Environment

This article reports the latest results of an R&D effort to develop a prototype implementation of a dynamic policy-based network management (PBNM) system that can be used to configure and manage a secure network for a coalition environment across an unsecured wide area network. The prototype, based on a distributed architecture, includes capabilities for policy creation and management, dynamic policy negotiation, and dynamic policy provisioning. The policy negotiation facilitates the rapid deployment of a coalition network while the dynamic policy provisioning automates the configuration and management of network services including firewalls, virtual private network connections, routing, quality of service (QoS), and domain name services. Such a PBNM system enhances an organization's ability to react to network incidents identified by a network situational awareness assessment. Although the focus of the current research is a military coalition environment, the system can be used in any distributed enterprise or collaborative environment     

Tracing the route of China’s Internet censorship: An empirical study

Faced with the world’s largest Internet population, the Chinese government is torn between its massive drive for marketization and the need to curb cyber dissent. This paper investigates how the Chinese state censors the Internet by tracing the trajectory of mechanisms to block websites non grata. Results show that Chinese government’s Internet control methods are diverse with systematic collaborations from local authorities at various administrative levels. We also found evidence that the government has customized blocking strategies for what it considers to be important websites. The efficacy and implications of China’s Internet censorship system were also discussed.     

Accelerated development of CuSbS2 thin film photovoltaic device prototypes

Development of alternative thin film photovoltaic technologies is an important research topic because of the potential of low‐cost, high‐efficiency solar cells to produce terawatt levels of clean power. However, this development of unexplored yet promising absorbers can be hindered by complications that arise during solar cell fabrication. Here, a high‐throughput combinatorial method is applied to accelerate development of photovoltaic devices, in this case, using the novel CuSbS₂ absorber via a newly developed three‐stage self‐regulated growth process to control absorber purity and orientation. Photovoltaic performance of the absorber, using the typical substrate CuIn_xGa_{1 − x}Se₂ (CIGS) device architecture, is explored as a function of absorber quality and thickness using a variety of back contacts. This study yields CuSbS₂ device prototypes with ~1% conversion efficiency, suggesting that the optimal CuSbS₂ device fabrication parameters and contact selection criteria are quite different than for CIGS, despite the similarity of these two absorbers. The CuSbS₂ device efficiency is at present limited by low short‐circuit current because of bulk recombination related to defects, and a small open‐circuit voltage because of a theoretically predicted cliff‐type conduction band offset between CuSbS₂ and CdS. Overall, these results illustrate both the potential and limits of combinatorial methods to accelerate the development of thin film photovoltaic devices using novel absorbers. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the complexity of Internet traffic dynamics on its topology

Most studies of Internet traffic rely on observations from a single link. The corresponding traffic dynamics has been studied for more than a decade and is well understood. The study of how traffic on the Internet topology, on the other hand, is poorly understood and has been largely limited to the distribution of traffic among source-destination pairs inside the studied network, also called the traffic matrix. In this paper, we make a first step towards understanding the way traffic gets distributed onto the whole topology of the Internet. For this, we rely on the traffic seen by a transit network, for a period of more than a week. As we are still at the stage of understanding the topological traffic distribution, we do not try to model the traffic dynamics. Rather we concentrate on understanding the complexity of describing the traffic observed by a transit network, how it maps onto the AS-level topology of the Internet and how it changes over time. For this, we rely on well-known tools of multi-variate analysis and multi-resolution analysis. Our first observation is that the structure of the Internet topology highly impacts the traffic distribution. Second, our attempts at compressing the traffic on the topology through dimension reduction suggests two options for traffic modeling: (1) to ignore links on the topology for which we do not see much traffic, or (2) to ignore time scales smaller than a few hours. In either case, important properties of the traffic might be lost, so might not be an option to build realistic models of Internet traffic. Realistic models of Internet traffic on the topology are not out of reach though. In this paper, we identify two properties such models should have: (1) use a compact representation of the dependencies of the traffic on the topology, and (2) be able to capture the complex multi-scale nature of traffic dynamics on different types of links.     

深层发酵灵芝胞内多糖的组成与结构分析

测定了深层发酵灵芝胞内多糖的分子量和单糖组成,首次详细分析了深层发酵灵芝胞内多糖的结构特性,为深入研究深层发酵灵芝多糖的生物活性及其构效关系奠定了基础。经单糖组成分析和光谱初步解析,灵芝胞内多糖是由5种单糖组成,其摩尔比为葡萄糖∶半乳糖∶甘露糖∶阿拉伯糖∶木糖=83.75∶4.76∶4.15∶2.04∶5.30;通过IR、GC-MS、HPAE-PAD、NMR等分析其是以α-(1→4)位键合吡喃葡萄糖主链为主,以T-Glcp为主要的残基,同时存在半乳糖、甘露糖、阿拉伯糖和木糖的分支残基。