Category Archives: Simulation and Design

Smart Home’s connected technology will help drive house sales

Posted on June 1, 2010 by admin

Constructech.com reports that a smart home is more attractive to buyers, who are looking for value add services being integrated into their prospective purchase. “Industry data suggests three areas of connected home technology will fuel consumer demand moving forward, including home … Continue reading →

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Darwin inspired microprocessor chips

Posted on February 2, 2009 by admin

Mu PhD Doctorate Thesis utilised Darwinian evolution modelling to design cost and effective and low power microprocessor chips. The model was an OO model of a Network Processor. We owe a lot to Charles Darwin and his origin of the … Continue reading →

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FDL 07 Barcelona 18 – 20 Sept 2007 – Call for Papers

Posted on February 28, 2007 by admin

The Forum on specification and Design Languages will host therir conference in Barcelona from September 18-20, 2007. The conference is organised around several themes, these include: Property-Driven Design, Verification & Debug C/C++-Based System Design Analog, Mixed-Signal, and Heterogeneous System Design … Continue reading →

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Challenges facing Mechatronic designers

Posted on October 1, 2006 by admin

At FDL 06 Prod. K. D. Mueller-Glaser of Universität Karlsruhe gave a keynote speech that highlighted the challenges facing designers that try to model a complex system that consists of 79 processors, 2000m of wiring, 15 year life time expectancy … Continue reading →

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New site for POOSL

Posted on October 7, 2005 by admin

TIPPINST – Bart Theelen from the University of Eindhoven has been in touch to inform me that they have a new website for POOSL. www.es.ele.tue.nl/poosl The new site intends to give a more complete overview of the POOSL language and … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers ISSC 2005 Sep 1 – 2 Dublin City University

Posted on July 4, 2005 by admin

TIPPINST – I just received notification on Friday that the ISSC conference is going ahead this year. The deadlines are extemely tight as papers have to be submitted by July 12th ! This year’s Irish Signals and Systems Conference will … Continue reading →

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POOSL to be discussed at two European conferences this summer

Posted on June 21, 2005 by admin

TIPPINST – We use POOSL to model a complex network processor and recently were notified by the authors of this tool that they will be hosting a tutorial session at two conferences this summer. The first will take place at … Continue reading →

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Implementing Extended subwords in Simplescalar

Posted on May 18, 2005 by admin

TIPPINST – Implementing new instructions on Simplescalar is a slow and tedious process as I outlined in an article a few months back. The CoMP research group in the Dep. Math. and Comp. Science at the University of Antwerp realise … Continue reading →

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Mutating evolving and doing weird stuff

Posted on April 15, 2005 by admin

TIPPINST- My genetic algorithm is finally “alive” and up and running the problem is it will take a while for the results to come back. I have no real idea how long as each entity will run for a different … Continue reading →

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Phd Reference Book – Multi-Objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms

Posted on April 4, 2005 by admin

The latest book to occupy my overstuffed shelves is a book written by Kalyanmoy Deb and published by Wiley. Its title is “Multi-Objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms” ISBN 0-471-87339-X What I like about this book is that it provides a … Continue reading →

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