The different areas of instrumentation currently used for engineering measurements and process control are treated comprehensively in this book. The text is designed for undergraduates specialising in agricultural, aerospace, chemical, civil, mechanical, or nuclear engineering. It covers the instrumentation systems generally, experimental error, voltage measuring instruments, sensors for transducers, time, count, frequency measurements, and signal conditioning circuits. It also describes the methods used to measure specific quantities. Emphasis throughout is on electronic methods of measurement.

Instrumentation for Engineering Measurements

Engineering & Transportation

Riley, W.F.

Dally, J.W.

McConnell, K.G.

Engineering

John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

<p>Concurrent data structures simplify the development of concurrent programs by encapsulating commonly used mechanisms for synchronization and commu nication into data structures. This thesis develops a notation for describing concurrent data structures, presents examples of concurrent data structures, and describes an architecture to support concurrent data structures. Concurrent Smalltalk (CST), a derivative of Smalltalk-80 with extensions for concurrency, is developed to describe concurrent data structures. CST allows the programmer to specify objects that are distributed over the nodes of a concurrent computer. These distributed objects have many constituent objects and thus can process many messages simultaneously. They are the foundation upon which concurrent data structures are built. The balanced cube is a concurrent data structure for ordered sets. The set is distributed by a balanced recursive partition that maps to the subcubes of a binary 7lrcube using a Gray code. A search algorithm, VW search, based on the distance properties of the Gray code, searches a balanced cube in O(log N) time. Because it does not have the root bottleneck that limits all tree-based data structures to 0(1) concurrency, the balanced cube achieves 0C.:N) con currency. Considering graphs as concurrent data structures, graph algorithms are pre sented for the shortest path problem, the max-flow problem, and graph parti tioning. These algorithms introduce new synchronization techniques to achieve better performance than existing algorithms.</p>

A VLSI Architecture for Concurrent Data Structures (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 27)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Springer

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