The parts inspection industry requires image processing machines operating at speeds unattainable by microprocessor systems. Parallel processors can provide higher speeds, but often the speeds required can only be achieved using custom hardware. Unfortunately, building machines …
This dissertation seeks to examine the impact of technology importation on occupational health and safety in both Saudi Arabian and the U.S. oil refining industries. Technologies imported to the Saudi oil industry take two forms: hardware (sophisticated equipment to run oil faci…
Neural networks present a fundamentally different model of computation from the conventional sequential digital model. Dedicated hardware may thus be more suitable for executing them. Given that there is no clear consensus on the model of computation in the brain, model flexibil…
Due to the productivity gain of using software in the design of embedded systems, processors are increasingly used in these systems. Embedded processors often run only one or a few applications in the life-time of the system. Therefore, they can be customized for the target appl…
Manufacturing technology has permitted an exponential growth in transistor count and density. However, making efficient use of the available transistors in the design has become exceedingly difficult. Standard design flow involves synthesis, verification, placement and routing f…
In ionospheric modeling, the differential code biases (DCBs) are a non-negligible error source, which are routinely estimated by the different analysis centers of the International GNSS Service (IGS) as a by-product of their global ionospheric analysis. These are, however, estim…