Welding technology is very vital for the industrial development and technological advancement of any country. In this regard achieving good quality machine manufactured products cannot be over emphasized. Since weldin...Welding technology is very vital for the industrial development and technological advancement of any country. In this regard achieving good quality machine manufactured products cannot be over emphasized. Since welding is a very reliable method of joining metals together permanently, several methodologies have been adopted to improve the quality of weldments, such as the neural network, fuzzy logic, surface response methodology, full factorial method, and so on. In this case, the multi-objective optimization on the basis of ratio analysis (MOORA) is applied. MOORA is used to solve multi-criteria (objective) optimization problem in welding. MOORA in combination with standard deviation (SDV) was used for the optimization process. SDV was used to determine the weights that were used for normalizing the responses obtained from the mechanical test results. From applying the SDV-MOORA method, it was found that welding current of 350 A, welding voltage of 22 V, an electrode diameter of 3.2 mm and welding speed of 100 mm/s produced the weldment with the best mechanical properties. The mechanical properties compare very well with those obtained from other literature. It is, therefore, concluded that the SDV-MOORA method has successfully optimized the welding process parameters used in this study.展开更多
System-on-a-chips with intellectual property cores need a large volume of data for testing. The large volume of test data requires a large testing time and test data memory. Therefore new techniques are needed to opti...System-on-a-chips with intellectual property cores need a large volume of data for testing. The large volume of test data requires a large testing time and test data memory. Therefore new techniques are needed to optimize the test data volume, decrease the testing time, and conquer the ATE memory limitation for SOC designs. This paper presents a new compression method of testing for intellectual property core-based system-on-chip. The proposed method is based on new split- data variable length (SDV) codes that are designed using the split-options along with identification bits in a string of test data. This paper analyses the reduction of test data volume, testing time, run time, size of memory required in ATE and improvement of compression ratio. Experimental results for ISCAS 85 and ISCAS 89 Benchmark circuits show that SDV codes outperform other compression methods with the best compression ratio for test data compression. The decompression architecture for SDV codes is also presented for decoding the implementations of compressed bits. The proposed scheme shows that SDV codes are accessible to any of the variations in the input test data stream.展开更多
文摘Welding technology is very vital for the industrial development and technological advancement of any country. In this regard achieving good quality machine manufactured products cannot be over emphasized. Since welding is a very reliable method of joining metals together permanently, several methodologies have been adopted to improve the quality of weldments, such as the neural network, fuzzy logic, surface response methodology, full factorial method, and so on. In this case, the multi-objective optimization on the basis of ratio analysis (MOORA) is applied. MOORA is used to solve multi-criteria (objective) optimization problem in welding. MOORA in combination with standard deviation (SDV) was used for the optimization process. SDV was used to determine the weights that were used for normalizing the responses obtained from the mechanical test results. From applying the SDV-MOORA method, it was found that welding current of 350 A, welding voltage of 22 V, an electrode diameter of 3.2 mm and welding speed of 100 mm/s produced the weldment with the best mechanical properties. The mechanical properties compare very well with those obtained from other literature. It is, therefore, concluded that the SDV-MOORA method has successfully optimized the welding process parameters used in this study.
文摘System-on-a-chips with intellectual property cores need a large volume of data for testing. The large volume of test data requires a large testing time and test data memory. Therefore new techniques are needed to optimize the test data volume, decrease the testing time, and conquer the ATE memory limitation for SOC designs. This paper presents a new compression method of testing for intellectual property core-based system-on-chip. The proposed method is based on new split- data variable length (SDV) codes that are designed using the split-options along with identification bits in a string of test data. This paper analyses the reduction of test data volume, testing time, run time, size of memory required in ATE and improvement of compression ratio. Experimental results for ISCAS 85 and ISCAS 89 Benchmark circuits show that SDV codes outperform other compression methods with the best compression ratio for test data compression. The decompression architecture for SDV codes is also presented for decoding the implementations of compressed bits. The proposed scheme shows that SDV codes are accessible to any of the variations in the input test data stream.