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With continuous technology downscaling, the rate of radiation induced soft errors is rapidly increasing. Fast and accurate soft error vulnerability analysis in early design stages plays an important role in cost-effective reliability improvement. However, existing solutions are suitable for either regular (a.k.a address-based such as memory hierarchy) or irregular (random logic such as functional units and control logic) structures, failing to provide an accurate system-level analysis. In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach integrating architecture-level and logic-level techniques to accurately estimate the vulnerability of all regular and irregular structures within a microprocessor.... 

The level and character of noise emitted by exhaust system has significant effect on the overall acoustic performance of vehicle powertrain and sound quality which is received by occupants. In addition to meeting aforementioned objective, the exhaust system must meet exterior noise regulation which is ordered by governments. In this study, acoustic performance of the vehicle exhaust system is investigated. Numerical simulation is applied for this aim that is the fastest and the most economical method in early design stages of vehicle development process. Thickness optimum design is performed in order to improve acoustic performance of exhaust system. Robust parameter design, based on Taguchi... 

The growth in number of data centers and its power consumption costs in recent years, along with ever increasing process variation in nanometer technologies emphasizes the need to incorporate variation-aware power reduction strategies in early design stages. Moreover, since the power characteristics of identically manufactured servers vary in the presence of process variation, their position in the data center should be optimally determined. In this paper, we introduce two heuristic variation-aware server placement algorithm based on power characteristic of servers and heat recirculation model of data center. In the next step, we utilize an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) based...