CompactPCI系统管理

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Effect of thermal treatment on ZnO substrate for epitaxial growth

ZnO is a highly efficient photon emitter, and has optical and piezoelectric properties that are attractive for a variety of applications in sensors and potentially optoelectronic devices such as emitters. Due to its identical stacking order and close lattice match to GaN, it is also being developed as a substrate material for GaN epitaxy. However, the surface finish of the ZnO is such that much of the damage induced by sawing and follow up mechanical polishing remains. We developed a thermal treatment method to eliminate surface damage on the 0 face of ZnO (0 0 0 1) to prepare it for epitaxial growth. Atomic force microscopy images of ZnO (0 0 0 1) annealed at 1050 °C for 3 h etc. show that residual scratches from mechanical polishing are removed and atomically flat, terrace-like surfaces are attained. In addition, low-temperature photoluminescence and high-resolution X-ray diffraction measurements have been employed to investigate the effect of annealing on ZnO substrates.     

选择正确的DC/DC转换器拓扑

基于电子设备的处理器系统设计人员经常在选择最佳电源架构时遇到困难。有时最佳的解决方案是插入式电源,而有时采用分立的元件组成的电源才是最佳解决方案。选择插入式电源解决方案相对来说比较直接,但对于缺乏电源设计经验的数字设计人员来说,设计一个分立电源解决方案可能会使他望而却步。大多 DC/DC 电源控制 IC 供应商均可提供有助于电路设计的详细辅助材料。但是,在开始电源设计之前,设计人员必须选择正确的拓扑。本文将介绍以下方法,来帮助为某些用于MCU、DSP及基于FPGA 的电子产品的最常用结构选择正确的电源拓扑。线性调节…     

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State observability and condition observability for a class of interacting discrete event systems

This paper introduces the concepts of state observability and condition observability for condition systems, a class of systems composed of discrete state components which interact via discrete binary signals called conditions. Given a set of externally observed conditions, state observability implies that the state of the system can be determined from the observations, and condition observability implies that all unobserved input and output conditions of the system can be determined from the observations. In this paper, we present a class of systems which is state observable and condition observable. We present a method to synthesize an observer system to provide state and condition signal estimates for a single component subsystem.     

Quantifying DNS namespace influence

Name resolution using the Domain Name System (DNS) is integral to today’s Internet. The resolution of a domain name is often dependent on namespace outside the control of the domain’s owner. In this article we review the DNS protocol and several DNS server implementations. Based on our examination, we propose a formal model for analyzing the name dependencies inherent in DNS. Using our name dependency model we derive metrics to quantify the extent to which domain names affect other domain names. It is found that under certain conditions, more than half of the queries for a domain name are influenced by namespaces not expressly configured by administrators. This result serves to quantify the degree of vulnerability of DNS due to dependencies that administrators are unaware of. When we apply metrics from our model to production DNS data, we show that the set of domains whose resolution affects a given domain name is much smaller than previously thought. However, behaviors such as using cached addresses for querying authoritative servers and chaining domain name aliases increase the number and diversity of influential domains, thereby making the DNS infrastructure more vulnerable.