{"title":"Extension of PCI bus to 21 slots using GTLP transceiver","authors":"C. Siegl, R. Klem","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845586","url":null,"abstract":"The PCI (peripheral component interconnect) bus in various form factors is the most frequently implemented interface for a broad class of computing application architectures in new designs. While originally developed as a local interconnect bus for the PC market (around 1994 it became the de facto standard for high speed device interconnect on PC planers), the technology has been widely adopted in both proprietary, as well as standard (CompactPCI(R) and CardBUS for example) implementations. These implementations are all limited in the number of slots supported, 4 slots in the PC and 8 slots for CompactPCI(R). This paper demonstrates how, through the application of IWS (incident wave switching) with GTLP (gunning transceiver logic plus) transceivers and an optimized backplane, the CompactPCI(R) (sometimes abbreviated to cPCI) standard can be extended to 21 slots at 33 MHz and to 14 slots at 66 MHz.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130044450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selection of varistor for surge protection purposes based on their voltage-current characteristic","authors":"R. Siegert, Osman Abdalla Abaker Mohammed","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845460","url":null,"abstract":"The use of metal-oxide varistors in surge protection modules for telecommunication systems was evaluated. For this purpose, the definition of the device model and its voltage-current characteristics were defined and analyzed in detail. A high voltage impulse generator was developed to generate double exponential currents, in order to recreate the effects of indirect lightning strikes and switching overvoltages. As a result, an experimental setup was developed to record the time response of different nonlinear protective devices. This paper describes the voltage-current characteristics of small packaged varistors and the relation between numerical simulation results and the data recorded from the actual impulse testing of such devices. Additionally, it is intended to be used by engineers and system designers as an initial approach for selecting the adequate nonlinear protective device for telecommunication systems.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128913829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human-robot interaction over the Internet","authors":"A. Sekmen, Z. Bingul, V. Hombal, S. Zein-Sabatto","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845568","url":null,"abstract":"Describes two Java-based Internet control mechanisms, manual control and autonomous navigation, for a mobile robot to allow users to explore the robot's environment. In the manual control, a user sends control commands to the robot over the Internet to make the robot explore its environment. In the autonomous navigation mode, the user only needs to specify the target point and the rest of the task is taken care of by the robot. In both cases, the real time video images, the robot trajectory, and a status report of the robot are sent to the user over the Internet. In addition, sonar readings are transmitted over the Internet in the manual control to provide more detailed information to the user. The mobile robot was successfully controlled from several locations in the USA.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121854262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical aging models for fine gauge magnet wire enamel of flyback transformer","authors":"E. Feilat, S. Grzybowski, P. Knight","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845451","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of accelerated aging tests conducted on electrical insulation of fine gauge magnet wire used in high voltage coils of an encapsulated flyback transformer. The aim of this work is to find an empirical aging model to estimate the lifetime of the insulation exposed to high frequency pulse voltages. Both the inverse power law and exponential models were examined. The lifetime model was obtained by combining the Weibull distribution of failure data with the proposed aging model. The arbitrary parameters of the combined Weibull-lifetime-stress model were obtained using maximum likelihood estimation. The aging results show that failure data at pulse voltage can be represented by both the inverse power law and exponential models.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121930901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A graphical user interface for a finite difference time domain simulation tool","authors":"A. Elsherbeni, C. Riley, C.E. Smith","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845579","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an efficient graphical user interface for the finite difference time domain techniques with emphasis on electromagnetic and antenna applications. The interface is designed for Windows operating systems using combination of programming languages such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Digital Visual Fortran, and the OpenGL 3D graphics API. The interface consists of windows addressing each task in defining the device to be analyzed, the source of the electromagnetic field excitation, the required field parameters to be computed by the finite difference time domain computational engine, and the interactive visualization the parameters for field evolution during the time stepping procedure. One example of simulating a printed antenna is presented.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128520423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infusing adaptability, autonomy and cooperation into an information visualisation system","authors":"Zhongwei Zhang, S. Suthaharan","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845577","url":null,"abstract":"Information visualization has been formalised as a continuous process of displaying information on computers. Information visualization systems used today are comprised of control and learning processes, however, they suffer from the incapability to automated job completion at the right time. Intelligent agents and multi-agent techniques have been employed to solve the real problem in which the adaptability and autonomy are essential. Most obvious application domains include database access via the Web, management of a computer network such as the Internet, electronic commerce, and industrial automation and control. This paper proposes an intelligent agents and a multi-agent system to model information visualization. The proposed techniques extend existing object-oriented representation techniques. The approach used provides a conceptual framework to guide system design and specification.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124731842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical multi-agent motion planning in a static environment","authors":"E. A. Johnson, A. Esterline","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845426","url":null,"abstract":"This hierarchical approach to motion planning has good asymptotic complexity and, when the assumptions are met, gives near-optimal solutions. We address adaptations of our heuristics (a clear method encapsulating an arbitrary set of points) to handle situations where our assumptions do not quite hold.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128183355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fuzzy integrated robotic behavioral architecture","authors":"V. Hombal, A. Sekmen, S. Zein-Sabatto","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845424","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a variant of the fine-grained subsumption architecture. We use active perception layers instead of whole behavior components. This provides for context sensitive behavior arbitration. Each behavior is tied to an active perception unit that may implement a behavior selection mechanism. Further, information passing between layers in terms of fuzzy variables is suggested. This allows for graceful command arbitration at the action execution layer. The whole robot control system can be viewed as a multistage fuzzy control system. We also provide a brief discussion of our implementation of the architecture. The minimal implementation of the scheme has provided encouraging results and further work is on in the analysis of the architecture.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132373260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive rate delta modulation for non-synchronous, full duplex, wireless digital communications","authors":"Dr. Bruce A. Harvey","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845403","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the concept of a low-cost wireless digital communication system for voice communication based on a technique called adaptive rate delta modulation. This technique uses a tri-level threshold to produce delta-modulated pulses only when the amplitude has changed by a predetermined amount. This technique significantly reduces the average pulse rate required for transmission and lowers the noise generated by delta modulation under zero input conditions. The receiver for such a modulation is reduced to simple pulse detection and a counter to recreate the original signal. The characteristics of delta modulation result in a system that does not require headers, packets or other synchronizing schemes. Multiple users can concurrently use the same channel for \"open microphone\" communication allowing for simultaneous transmit and receive, and simple voice combining.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132824120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive rate coding for wideband CDMA wireless networks","authors":"V. Bhaskar, L. Joiner","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2000.845614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2000.845614","url":null,"abstract":"One method of optimizing throughput for a wireless system while maintaining a certain level of performance is to design the error control system so that it offers two or more different rate codes. The system uses channel-state information to determine which of the various codes should be used at any given moment. In order to minimize system complexity, the same encoder and decoder are used for the different rate codes. This paper presents a method of comparing the performance of the system for different rate convolutional codes. The results show the optimal code rate for various channel conditions and the gain in throughput by using adaptive rate codes in a wideband CDMA system.","PeriodicalId":206022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2000. 'Preparing for The New Millennium' (Cat. No.00CH37105)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133993088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}