This paper presents a low-power asynchronous implementation of the 80C51 microcontroller. It was realized in a 0.5 µ m CMOS process and it shows a power advantage of a factor 4 compared to a recent synchronous implementation in the same technology. The chip is fully bit compatible with the synchronous implementation, and timing compatible for external memory access. The circuit is a compiled VLSI-program, using Tangram as VLSI-programming language and the Tangram tool set to compile the design automatically to a standard-cell netlist. This design approach proves to be powerful enough to describe the microcontroller and derive an efficient implementation. Further, it offers the designer the possibility to explore various alternatives in the design space.
source code for a sample alarm control panel system using Freescale MC9S12DP256 . The project was implemented using ImageCraft s ICC12 compiler and tested under
Metrowerks CodeWarrior, though it should be possible to build the project with
any other HC(S)12 compiler as well.
The goal of our final project was to design an efficient elevator simulator that can accept input from a user and mechanically operate (on a small scale) a system of 4 floors and 3 elevators using pulleys and stepper motors. Users enter input using physical pushbuttons or the computer. This input is then processed by the MCU and orders are given to the elevators. We attempted to devise an algorithm that can optimally handle any number of floors. This project seemed like a fun challenge and something that had practical applications. Both of us have been frustrated at times by the inefficiency of some of the elevators here at Cornell, and we wanted to see if we could do a better job.
RS232.C was written to provide all of the basic functionality needed
to employ serial I/O in any application written with Borland C
language compilers. Some features are:
1. Ease of use. No assembly language or library files are used and a simple "#include" statement is all that is required to access all of the functions provided.
2. Both input and output are buffered and interrupt driven for efficiency.
3. Serial ports 1 - 4 are supported on PC, AT and PS/2 compatibles.Chained interrupts used on port 3 and 4 are allowed for so as not to interfere with devices such as a mouse or printer. Transmission speeds of 110 to 115200 baud are available.
4. Detection and utilization of hardware buffered UARTs (NS16550AF
etc.) found in some machines is automatic.
5. Interrupt driven hardware and XON/XOFF flow control is provided for.
6. All source code is included. RS232.C can be used with all memory
models.
an approach for capturing similarity between words that was concerned with the syntactic similarity of two strings. Today we are back to discuss another approach that is more concerned with the meaning of words. Semantic similarity is a confidence score that reflects the semantic relation between the meanings of two sentences. It is difficult to gain a high accuracy score because the exact semantic meanings are completely understood only in a particular context.
In the previous article, we presented an approach for capturing similarity between words that was concerned with the syntactic similarity of two strings. Today we are back to discuss another approach that is more concerned with the meaning of words. Semantic similarity is a confidence score that reflects the semantic relation between the meanings of two sentences. It is difficult to gain a high accuracy score because the exact semantic meanings are completely understood only in a particular context.
