Signals,timers, and continuations for multithreaded user‐level protocols

Precise timing and asynchronous I/O are appealing features for many applications. Unix kernels provide such features on a per‐process basis, using signals to communicate asynchronous events to applications. Per‐process signals and timers are grossly inadequate for complex multithreaded applications that require per‐thread signals and timers that operate at finer granularity. To respond to this need, we present a scheme that integrates asynchronous (Unix) signals with user‐level threads, using the ARIADNE system as a platform. This is done with a view towards support for portable, multithreaded, and multiprotocol distributed applications, namely the CLAM (connectionless, lightweight, and multiway) communications library. In the same context, we propose the use of continuations as an efficient mechanism for reducing thread context‐switching and busy‐wait overheads in multithreaded protocols. Our proposal for integrating timers and signal‐handling mechanisms not only solves problems related to race conditions, but also offers an efficient and flexible interface for timing and signalling threads. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

适用于LED显示屏或照明工程的异步控制卡DS2000-M1

DS2000-M1是高性能、开放式的LED控制系统,本文从软硬件两方面简述其设计原理。     

双接触器型三相异步电动机Y-△降压启动电路

提出并试验了一种使用2个接触器的三相异步电动机Y-△降压启动电路,该Y-△降压启动电路比传统电路节省1个接触器。试验结果表明其可以应用于老设备维修改造和新设备设计中。     

Incremental join view maintenance on distributed log-structured storage

Modern database systems desperate for the ability to support highly scalable transactions and efficient queries simultaneously for real-time applications. One solution is to utilize query optimization techniques on the on-line transaction processing (OLTP) systems. The materialized view is considered as a panacea to decrease query latency. However, it also involves the significant cost of maintenance which trades away transaction performance. In this paper, we examine the design space and conclude several design features for the implementation of a view on a distributed log-structured merge-tree (LSMtree), which is a well-known structure for improving data write performance. As a result, we develop two incremental view maintenance (IVM) approaches on LSM-tree. One avoids join computation in view maintenance transactions. Another with two optimizations is proposed to decouple the view maintenance with the transaction process. Under the asynchronous update, we also provide consistency queries for views. Experiments on TPC-H benchmark show our methods achieve better performance than straightforward methods on different workloads.     

无纺设备的针板停车位控制器设计

根据实际工程背景,为无纺设备设计了基于AT89C4051微处理器的针板停车位控制器。通过控制变频器的输出电压,使设备的上、下针板能够比较准确的分别停靠在上、下支点处。     

异步128位AES算法的硬件设计

基于四相握手协议设计异步流水线,实现单轮运算内流水操作,设计轮运算启动模块和异步控制信号生成模块,满足算法多轮运算的需要。在子密钥生成模块、字节替代模块和列混合模块使用复用技术,降低了对硬件的需求。在COMS0.18μm工艺下进行综合、布局布线和仿真,与采用同样数据路径设计方法的同步电路相比,吞吐率提高了12.5%。     

Robust stabilisation and L2 -gain analysis for switched systems with actuator saturation under asynchronous switching

Robust stabilisation and L₂-gain analysis for a class of switched systems with actuator saturation are studied in this paper. The switching signal of the controllers lags behind that of the system modes, which leads to the asynchronous switching between the candidate controllers and the subsystems. By combining the piecewise Lyapunov function method with the convex hull technique, sufficient conditions in terms of LMIs for the solvability of the robust stabilisation and weighted L₂-gain problems are presented respectively under the dwell time scheme. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed results.     

Adoption of Asynchronous Learning Tools by Traditional Full-Time Students: A Pilot Study

Comparing the performance of distance learning and on-campus students is a well-studied problem. Results have shown that distance learners can perform as well or better than on-campus students. Few studies, however, have explored how or why traditional on-campus students utilize the technology intended for distance learners. Many universities and corporations provide educational and training content simultaneously to both face-to-face and distance students. Thus, exploring how instructional technology typically designed for distance learning students could benefit traditional students is important to our understanding of present and future learning environments. To this end, a pilot study was undertaken that explored how graduate students – primarily business majors – adopted and used video-streaming technology for a one semester course on Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques. Results indicated that age, previous use of the technology, need for interaction and Internet connectivity all influenced the decisions of the subjects to adopt the technology. Two-thirds of the subjects used the technology, with a self-reported estimate of procuring 16% of the course content asynchronously. Most used video streaming for convenience reasons and to review class material.     

异步电机无速度传感器矢量控制的实现

介绍了一种交流异步电机无速度传感器矢量控制实现方案。该方案结合了传统的电流和电压磁链观测方法的优点，采用改进的磁链观测方法，在电机高速和低速运行时都能准确地观测磁链，从而估算出电机速度，实现无速度传感器的矢量控制。该实现方案基于高性能数字信号处理器TMS320F2806。试验表明，它在高速和低速段都其有较好的性能。