Background: As application complexity continues to increase, multi-processor systems-on-chip (MPSoC) with tens to hundreds of processing cores are becoming the norm. While computational cores have be..
Background: Out-of-order processors issue instructions even before their source operands are available. The processor component central to out-of-order processing is the Instruction Queue (IQ). Its p..
Background: Most conventional clustered processor architectures are symmetric systems. It is known that the scalability of ahigh-performance processor architecture has been limited in new system desi..
Background: Previous mechanisms for connecting two or more devices in the same physical space have been cumbersome, and offered little advantage over connecting two devices that are hundreds of miles..
Background: A decade after Java arrived, there have been improvements in the runtime performance of platform-independent virtual-machine based software. However, using such machine-independent softwa..
Background: In the past, several modeling abstraction levels were proposed to improve simulation speed and modeling time over detailed cycle accurate (CA) models. The Pin Accurate Bus Cycle Accurate ..
Background: Photochromic fulgides are capable of reversible light-induced coloration. These organic compounds exhibit several important physical properties such as thermal stability of both colorless..
A method of printing lines on circuit boards from computer information in a manner similar to using an inkjet printer. Utilizing capillary stream break-up of molten metal droplets, this novel approach..
Background: Components of application systems based on a network of computing nodes (e.g., PC's and workstations) often maintain the client-server relationship among themselves. For the sake of attai..
Background: Current methods of transmitting time-varying images involve encoding the digital image information into a set of still frames. To reduce the bandwidth necessary to transmit the full image..
Abstract Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a magnetic tunneling structure that consists of layers formed of first and second ferromagnetic layers and a insulating tunneling barri..
Digital Capacitivie Accelerometer Case Number: 1944
Abstract A capacitive accelerometer includes electrode plates supported and aligned for movement in the direction of a substrate in which they ar..
Abstract A method of bonding two silicon wafers each having a capacitive plate. Two highly-doped electrically semiconductive feedthrough paths are formed through one wafer, each path contacting one of..
Abstract A suspended element etched in a silicon substrate whcih is deflected in linear proportion to an applied force. A pair of flexing member symmetrically positioned around the suspended element p..
An accelerometer fabricated from silicon which is responsive to the three orthogonal components of an applied force. A method is also disclosed for etching the accelerometer from a single silicon subs..
Abstract An accelerometer fabricated by silicon etching techniques. A first suspended beam is formed having a first conductive portion, the beam being deflectable in response to an acceleration force...
Abstract A method for making pressure sensors is disclosed. A wafer of doped silicon or other semiconductive material is selectively chemically etched (micromachined) on both sides to form a plurality..
A gas sensor and a method for measuring gas constituents, particularly exhaust gas constituents for an internal combustion engine, comprising a pair of polysilicon plates, each plate supporting a pair..
Researchers at the University of Michigan Center of Integrated Sensors and Circuits have developed techniques for the low cost manufacture of integrated circuits with precise fluid delivery capability..
Abstract A method and system for detecting a failure or performance degradation in a dynamic system having sensors for measuring state variables and providing corresponding output signals in response ..
Researchers in the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed a computer program that identifies musical patterns likely to be significant to human..
Researchers at the University of Michigan Center of Integrated Sensors and Circuits have developed techniques for the low cost manufacture of integrated circuits with precise fluid delivery capability..
Abstract This is a software algorithm, coded in MATLAB, designed to solve constrained, nonlinear optimization problems. It is based on publications in the open literature (Jones, D.R. (2001). The DIRE..
Abstract Opensource software - M5 is a software platform for the simulation of computer systems. Its primary purpose is to allow evaluation of computer system design ideas involving harware modificati..
SuperEGO is an optimization algorithm written in MATLAB. It is designed to solve nonlinear, constrained optimization problems for a small number of (less than 10) design variables. It iteratively crea..
Matlab software to self-consistently solve the Schr*dinger equation for quasi-bound quantum states and the Poisson equation for a given semiconductor heterostructure in one dimension.
A performance counter accumulates a value by periodically adding a variable increment value representing the amount of work performed. The increment value can be varied in dependence upon the processo..
A target processor performance level is calculated from a utilisation history of a processor in performance of a plurality of processing tasks. The method comprises calculating a task work value indic..
This is a database that understands natural language queries, expressed as questions in the English language. It uses a novel notion of "schema-free querying". This is a generic natural language quer..
Background Image registration transforms different sets of data into a single coordinate system and is thus critical for comparison and integration of data obtained from different measurements. This t..
TDD is a Top-Down Disk-based algorithm for constructing suffix trees on very large sequences. The approach to this algorithm is described in Practical Suffix Tree Construction (Tata, Hankins, Patel - ..
Background More than 1 million Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) nodes have been deployed in 2005 alone, with an expected increase in deployment approaching 300%. Over 100 OEMs and service providers world..
method of writing data on certain optically-readable media with an intrinsic characteristic write-time of the order of 10 psec, much shorter than current methods for writing on optical recording medi..
Researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan have developed a new memory cell architecture for GaAs MESFETs. This cell delivers three to f..
Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a magnetic tunneling structure that consists of layers formed of first and second ferromagnetic layers and a insulating tunneling barrier layer ..
Background Multi-disc brakes and clutches sometimes exhibit thermoelastic instability * thermal distortions generated as a result of an unstable interaction between frictional heating, thermoelastic d..
Researchers in the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed a computer program that identifies musical patterns likely to be significant to human..
The environment of modern clinical laboratories requires handling huge volumes of clinical data, maintaining a dependable inventory of samples, and a flexible deployment of current and new assays. Eff..
In an effort to secure higher levels of system performance, microprocessor designs often employ dynamic scheduling as a technique to extract instruction level parallelism from serial instruction strea..
Present day health care information relies on the use of extensive Clinical Database Repositories (CDRs) to store critical data on both clinical and financial aspects of care. Such data may include in..
This is a database that understands natural language queries, expressed as questions in the English language. It uses a novel notion of "schema-free querying". This is a generic natural language query..
The techniques of telemanipulation, or teleoperation as it is often called (the human control of devices at a distance), are extended through the innovative use of advanced concepts created from infor..
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a novel containment scheme for malicious activities based on quarantine within an enterprise network. In this application, an enterprise networ..
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This invention provides a heat dissipation structure for use in optoelectronic devices. More specifically, this technology is an innovative heat dissipation thick/thin organic-inorganic coa..
Software program that connects and configures first-time users to a campus network
TECH FIELD(S)
Software security for higher education networks
FEATURES
Get Connected eases the burden ..
The University of Virginia has developed a user-friendly personal computer-based atomic scale simulation code for designing and evaluating ion beam deposition systems. This work entails first defining..
Smartcards, cards where information is stored locally on an embedded integrated circuit rather than a magnetic strip, are examples of secure hardware devices that are becoming prolific in use. Such de..
Vanadium oxides have a rich history because of the metal insulator transitions that several of the oxides and sub-oxides exhibit. In particular, VO2 has a metal–semiconductor transition just above r..
It is expected that the Moore’s law progression of CMOS technology will end in less than two decades, and there is a worldwide search for new devices that can either extend Moore’s law or provide ..
As the scaling of traditional CMOS devices goes beyond the 32-nm node, the present memory technology will face numerous technical hurdles. MRAM is an emergent memory technology that has the potential ..
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Fiber optic systems being deployed to date are predominately based on old copper-based system architectures, where each premises has a transceiver consisting of a receiver and a laser. Pa..
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Biometrically Auditable Public Key Infrastructure for Secure Multimedia (BAPTISM) addresses the issues of digital content protection by returning responsibility to the consumer.
The p..
Background The Automated negotiation solution for inter-carrier connectivity (M2MN) addresses the problem of inter-carrier selection and management based upon the best network path offer at every mome..
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Modern day homes can consist of a vast array of applicences such as audio devices, video servers, storage servers and network routers. WiFi access points are providing a heterogeneous home..
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Many independently living elderly people are not compliant with their drug therapy, which can result in serious health risks. Care schemes and retrospective assessment procedures tackle th..
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NUI, Galway has developed and filed a patent application for a method to compute the physical and engineering properties of seabed sediments using typical sub-bottom
seismic reflection pr..
General Information
VoxelVision is imaging software that interactively segments and displays images of 3D anatomy derived from MRI, CT, or ultrasound scans. While other 3D imaging software is avail..
A new method has been developed to quickly determine fine-grid reservoir simulation pressures. It is estimated that the pressures in a one-billion cell simulation model can be determined in less than ..
A method to store digital data for longer periods of time with less degradation was developed at BYU and has since been licensed to a private company called Millenniata. The following information is a..
ICESHEETS is a brand new spreadsheet technology that combines the power of a large database with the ease of use of a spreadsheet. It gives a user the ability to view and access to multiple data sets ..
A secure and convenient alternative to the numerous User IDs and passwords used for online accounts. Securely authenticates users through their email accounts to avoid difficulties in managing and rem..
Imagine setting down your Smart Phone and PDA on the desk of a conference room, and connecting wireless to a flat panel TV on the wall. You connect a wireless keyboard to your PDA and begin to run a s..
Direct Machining (DMAC)-The process of driving production machines directly from a higher order part description such as CAD. DMAC integrates the part description software and machine controller on th..
The traffic stopped delay algorithm rapidly determines the stopped delay of the traffic (which is the time each vehicle is stopped in the queue of a lighted intersection) from the video feed provided ..
