An algorithm that remains in use at the core of many partitioning systems is the Kernighan-Lin algorithm and a variant the Fidducia-Matheysses (FM) algorithm. To understand the FM...
Wray L. Buntine, Lixin Su, A. Richard Newton, Andr...
A built-in self-test (BIST) methodology to test system backplanes by using BIST functionality in each of its constituent boards is presented. Since the configurations of systems ...
We present a new output encoding problem as follows: Given a specification table, such as a truth table or a finite state machine state table, where some of the outputs are specif...
Subhasish Mitra, LaNae J. Avra, Edward J. McCluske...
Conventional software engineering tends to focus on a small part of the software life cycle: the design and implementation of a product. The bulk of the lifetime cost is in the ma...
Legacy software systems present a high level of entropy combined with imprecise documentation. This makes their maintenance more difficult, more time consuming, and costlier. In o...