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THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF SWITCHABLE HOLOGRAMS IN RAPID (\ NANOSECOND) REPROGRAMMING OF VLSI CHIPS. THE CONCEPT WAS CHOSEN FOR HIGH SPEED, LOW SIZE, LOW COST, LOW POWER CONSUMPTION, AND MINIMUM WIRING. IT WILL RESULT IN HIGH FLEXIBILITY AND VERY RAPID REPROGRAMMING BUT WILL NOT BE AS FLEXIBLE AS A CROSS BAR SYSTEM. THE FINAL SYSTEM SHOULD SERVE REAL NEEDS, E.G. CHIP COMPUT ...

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PULSED POWER CONDITIONING FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHER SYSTEMS REQUIRES FAST-ACTING RHEOSTATS (MODULATORS) WITH ENOUGH THERMAL INERTIA TO ABSORB TENS OF MEGAJOULES ADIABATICALLY WITHIN MILLISECONDS, AND ENOUGH COOLING CAPABILITY TO DISSIPATE THE ABSORBED ENERGY BETWEEN LAUNCHES. ONE UNEXPLORED CLASS OF DEVICES FOR ACCOMPLISHING THIS ARE MODERN VERSIONS OF THE CLASSIC CARBON PILE RHEOSTAT, IN WHICH ...

R3 Logic proposes to develop an openly accessible Design Environment that will incorporate CAD tools needed for the analysis and design of 3D integrated circuits, including schematic capture, VHDL interfaces, 3D physical layout, verification, 3D parasiticextraction, interactive coupled electro-thermal simulations, and thermally-aware place and route methods. We will achieve this goal, first by bui ...

This project will design and deliver a high accuracy monitor for the photo-chemically coupled pollutants nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone using infrared absorption spectroscopy with quantum cascade (QC) lasers. The target molecules are monitored at air quality stations worldwide using instruments which require frequent calibration and are subject to significant chemical interferences (in t ...

Solid-state light sources promise many advantages over traditional technologies. Among these advantages is the ability to construct a source whose relative spectral distribution can be tuned to better match a desired spectrum. We propose addressing this technical and market opportunity through the development of a novel single-chip semiconductor device which delivers high optical output power (>20 ...

The use of thermal neutrons has been widespread over the past several decades in many investigations such as non-destructive testing (NDT), neutron radiography and macromolecular crystallography. For some applications such as crystallographic diffraction studies, neutrons are scattered over 4o in space and an ideal detector would be able to image the scattered radiation on a spherical surface. Cur ...

While there have been a number of recent advances in track precision and maintenance via the AMSTE program, long-term track maintenance remains an elusive goal. Track breaks are primarily the result of miss-detections due to micro-obscuration from foliageand buildings and or due to the vehicle dropping below Minimum Detectable Velocity (MDV) because of parking or stopping at intersections and yiel ...

We propose a new automatic target recognition (ATR) system that operates on video data, exploiting the inherent redundancy and spatio-temporal coherence of motion imagery to create three-dimensional target signatures. Unlike previous approaches that useshape alone, our method will additionally model and predict object surface appearance properties, in the form of bi-directional reflectance distrib ...