published_or_final_version / Mechanical Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

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published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

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Long limited to universities and very-high-income firms, interest in computer-aided drafting and design has been growing rapidly among smaller architectural practices. Pressure exerted by clients and peers, as well as the promise of better design capabilities and faster design cycles, has fuelled the integration of CAD into architectural practice. / This thesis investigates the implications of CAD acquisition and integration through an analysis of the changes experienced by firms which have acquired this technology. We will look at the effects of CAD on office organization, staff, drawings and models and the design process. We will examine CAD as a means of replacing and surpassing traditional methods of representation and documentation, and consider its impact on the managerial aspects of professional practice. / Although this study is not exhaustive, it can serve the architect as a primer for a better understanding of the use of computers and their impact on architectural practice.

Typescript (photocopy) / vii, 190 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide, 1979

This thesis describes the development of a software package to upgrade computer systems. The package, named OPTIMAL, solves the following problem: given an existing computer system and its workload, a budget, and the costs and descriptions of available upgrade alternatives for devices in the system, what is the most cost-effective way of upgrading and tuning the system to produce the optimal system throughput? To enhance the practicality of OPTIMAL, the research followed two criteria: i) input required by OPTIMAL must be system and workload characteristics directly measurable from the system under consideration; ii) other than gathering the appropriate input data, the package must be completely automated and must not require any specialized knowledge in systems performance evaluation to interpret the results. The output of OPTIMAL consists of the optimal system throughput under the budget constraint, the workload and system configuration (or upgrade strategy) that provide such throughput, and the cost of the upgrade. Various optimization techniques, including saturation analysis and fine tuning, have been applied to enhance the performance of OPTIMAL. / Science, Faculty of / Computer Science, Department of / Graduate

Lo Wing Hang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-61). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Preliminaries --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Backgrounds and Definitions --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Boolean Network --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Transitive Fanin and Fanout Cone --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Controlling and Sensitizing Values --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Stuck-at Faults and Test Generation --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- Mandatory Assignments --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Review of ATPG-based Rewiring --- p.9 / Chapter 3 --- Improved Single-Pass Rewiring Scheme Using Inconsistent Assignments --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- Overview of FIRE --- p.15 / Chapter 3.3 --- Alternative Wire Identification Method --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Identifying Candidate Wires --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Redundancy Test on Candidate Wire --- p.18 / Chapter 3.4 --- Redundancy Identification Using Inconsistent Assignments --- p.21 / Chapter 3.5 --- Experimental Results --- p.26 / Chapter 3.6 --- Conclusions --- p.28 / Chapter 4 --- Improving Circuit Partitioning With Rewiring Techniques --- p.29 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.29 / Chapter 4.2 --- Implementation of Rewiring Schemes --- p.31 / Chapter 4.3 --- Coupling Partitioning Algorithm With Rewiring Techniques --- p.33 / Chapter 4.4 --- Experimental Results --- p.37 / Chapter 4.5 --- Conclusions --- p.43 / Chapter 5 --- Circuit Logic Level Reduction by Rewiring for FPGA Mapping --- p.45 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.45 / Chapter 5.2 --- Overview of the Technology Mapping Problem --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Problem Formulation --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- FlowMap Algorithm Outline --- p.49 / Chapter 5.3 --- Logic Level Reduction by Rewiring Transformations --- p.51 / Chapter 5.4 --- Experimental Results --- p.54 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conclusions --- p.57 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and Future Works --- p.58 / Bibliography --- p.60

published_or_final_version / Electrical Engineering / Master / Master of Philosophy