Large scale digital beamforming(LS-DBFs)are widely used in satellite communications for spectrum reuse and transmission enhancement.SRAM-FPGAs are a popular option for software defined satellite platforms due to their...Large scale digital beamforming(LS-DBFs)are widely used in satellite communications for spectrum reuse and transmission enhancement.SRAM-FPGAs are a popular option for software defined satellite platforms due to their rich computation resources and high flexibility.However,they are sensitive to soft errors,which limit their application in space.This paper discusses the application of coding based fault tolerance schemes for the protection of LS-DBFs on software defined payloads.Since multiple FPGAs are usually needed to support the whole LS-DBFs system,different decomposition schemes are compared in terms of resource efficiency and reliability when the coding based scheme is applied to protect the DBFs on a FPGA.Theoretical analysis and hardware experiments shows that resource efficiency and reliability are a pair of contradictory requirements for decomposition schemes.The protection with vertical decomposition could improve the reliability by 96%with 1.5x redundancy.And the protection with horizontal decomposition could improve the reliability by 85%with 1.2 x redundancy.展开更多
Background:This study aims to clarify the role of FinTech digital banking start-ups in the financial industry.We examine the impact of the funding of such start-ups on the stock returns of 47 incumbent US retail banks...Background:This study aims to clarify the role of FinTech digital banking start-ups in the financial industry.We examine the impact of the funding of such start-ups on the stock returns of 47 incumbent US retail banks for 2010 to 2016.Methods:To capture the importance of FinTech start-ups,we use data on both the dollar-volume of funding and number of deals.We relate these to the stock returns with panel data regression methods.Results:Our results indicate a positive relationship exists between the growth in FinTech funding or deals and the contemporaneous stock returns of incumbent retail banks.Conclusions:Although these results suggest complementarity between FinTech and traditional banking,we note that our results at the banking industry level are not statistically significant,and that the coefficient signs for about one-third of the banks are negative,but not statistically significant.Since the FinTech industry is young and our sample period short,we cannot rule out that our findings are spurious.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61501321,61620106001)in part by the Generic Technology Projects of the 13th Fiveyear Plan。
文摘Large scale digital beamforming(LS-DBFs)are widely used in satellite communications for spectrum reuse and transmission enhancement.SRAM-FPGAs are a popular option for software defined satellite platforms due to their rich computation resources and high flexibility.However,they are sensitive to soft errors,which limit their application in space.This paper discusses the application of coding based fault tolerance schemes for the protection of LS-DBFs on software defined payloads.Since multiple FPGAs are usually needed to support the whole LS-DBFs system,different decomposition schemes are compared in terms of resource efficiency and reliability when the coding based scheme is applied to protect the DBFs on a FPGA.Theoretical analysis and hardware experiments shows that resource efficiency and reliability are a pair of contradictory requirements for decomposition schemes.The protection with vertical decomposition could improve the reliability by 96%with 1.5x redundancy.And the protection with horizontal decomposition could improve the reliability by 85%with 1.2 x redundancy.
文摘Background:This study aims to clarify the role of FinTech digital banking start-ups in the financial industry.We examine the impact of the funding of such start-ups on the stock returns of 47 incumbent US retail banks for 2010 to 2016.Methods:To capture the importance of FinTech start-ups,we use data on both the dollar-volume of funding and number of deals.We relate these to the stock returns with panel data regression methods.Results:Our results indicate a positive relationship exists between the growth in FinTech funding or deals and the contemporaneous stock returns of incumbent retail banks.Conclusions:Although these results suggest complementarity between FinTech and traditional banking,we note that our results at the banking industry level are not statistically significant,and that the coefficient signs for about one-third of the banks are negative,but not statistically significant.Since the FinTech industry is young and our sample period short,we cannot rule out that our findings are spurious.
