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The importance and relevance of the development of a joint Russian-Belarusian system of machines (RBSM) for the mechanization of agricultural production within the framework of the Union State is shown. The substantiation of the structure of the RBSM and the digital software and hardware complex for its implementation and information support is given. The calculation of the main logistics structures of the RBSM was carried out, the basis for the effectiveness of which will be the rational redistribution of programs for the production of new agricultural equipment within the Union State, the improvement of the material, technical and information support of agricultural producers.

This paper presents the synthesis technique available in S/sup 3/E/sup 2/S, a CAD environment to specify, simulate, and synthesize electronic systems that can be modeled as a combination of analog parts, digital hardware, and software. S/sup 3/E/sup 2/S is based on a distributed, object-oriented system model, where abstract objects are initially used to express complex behavior and may be later refined into digital or analog hardware and software. Finally, system synthesis is targeted to a set of complex processors, which can be either custom designed or off-the-shelf components. The environment selects processors that best match the desired application by analyzing processor and application characteristics. The paper explains the architecture selection process with some examples.

7 - Analog Interfacing

This paper discusses the digital hardware and software that is required for data acquisition in a portable electronic nose (e‐nose) system. A review of current e‐nose systems is presented highlighting the methods employed by these systems to acquire the data from the sensor head.

A fuel cell‐based power systems emulator designed to test devices and loads intended to interact with real prototypes is presented. The emulator uses a digital processing device and electrical power systems, evaluating the impact of using either switching or linear power stages in the emulator capabilities. A real fuel cell prototype is emulated using a parameterized physical fuel cell model, which is computed online by a digital device. Also, several power stages not previously used specifically for this application, with different efficiencies and performances, were developed and analysed. One of the power stages was based on a two‐inductor step‐down DC/DC converter for a switching power stage instead of the classical buck structure that is more prone to duty cycle saturation in transients at low output voltages. The other ones used high‐power operational amplifiers for a linear power stage and linear regulators for a scalable linear power stage. Finally, the emulation system and the power stages were evaluated and validated using experimental data of a real fuel cell prototype. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Now that we have taken a look at some of the digital video editing software packages, let's take a look at some of the digital video editing hardware that you will need to acquire and assemble to put together a professional video editing workstation. The hardware components in a digital video editing workstation are extremely important, as digital video is quite heavy as it contains a series of high resolution imagery called Digital video hardware frames that can span hours of content, taking the data processed into the Terabytes. This can require a gaggle of fast processor cores, billions of bytes of system memory, hyper-fast data storage devices, digital signal processing GPU adapters, and external digital video editing hardware peripherals that allow you to interface with your supercomputer and software in real time, using finely tuned jog wheels, faders, and buttons.

In recent years, with the continuous progress of the new era and the continuous improvement of people’s material living standards, landscape design has entered a new stage of development. The introduction of this innovative digital art makes landscape design produce not only new sensory experience and visual effects, but also a closer combination of innovative digital technology and art with the maturity of technology and social promotion and application. At the same time, the landscape can provide leisure and recreation places for users and enrich people’s entertainment life, while the color matching in landscape design can best cause people’s visual satisfaction. Therefore, landscape architecture design should pay attention to color design, and landscape architecture should be designed on the basis of color aesthetics to meet the spiritual needs of users. With the development of contemporary digital technology, both software and hardware are improving, which can assist the transformation of landscape design research from feeling to perception, from qualitative to quantitative. For example: The use of digital modeling software to preset the color matching of the site and the use of instruments and equipment for color quantitative data analysis can objectively compare and screen the best landscape color composition scheme. At present, landscape designers can try to realize the application of different color elements in virtual digital technology. Based on the analysis of the application strategy of color in innovative digital landscape design, this paper provided feasible references and suggestions for the development of urban landscape design.

Grid synchronization is one of the most important issues of the distributed power generation system (DPGS) connected to utility network. This paper proposes a novel phase-locked loop (PLL) for synchronization of power electronic converters in unbalanced and variable-frequency environments. The method utilizes double rotating reference frames to transform the input signal and detects the positive fundamental component and negative sequence component simultaneously. It's based on a synthesis circuit which generates the orthogonal and in-phase signals to decouple input signal. This method detects the phase without distortion even in variable-frequency environment comparing with existing synchronization methods. Structural simplicity of the method greatly simplifies its implementation in digital software and/or hardware environments. This paper gives a description and derivation of the method. Its excellent performance is verified by simulation.


 As an artist I work mainly with digital drawing tools, but I also have this feeling of alienation towards digital drawing: As an artist educated around the 80s/90s, the classic analog drawing is the basis for my understanding of both analogue anddigital drawing, and my experience with the digital drawing tools is filtered through this early training. 
 
 
 In my research I have been testing various digital hardware and software to see how they work, and what kind of results they make. In my presentation I will look at the different quality of lines various hardware and software makes, show some of my line tests from different digital technology and reflect on my own drawing process. I will also reflect on my experience when working with digital tools and the experience I get from the finished works. The presentation will be illustrated with my own digital drawings made specially as part of my research.
 Drawing is an act traditionally done with a drawing tool held in the hand to make a line on a surface. Basically, the physical action - the gesture itself - is the same, whether I draw analog or digital: I hold the pen in the same way, move my hand and arm in the same way. But what exists between the hands gesture, the tip of the pen and the resulting line, is different in analog and digital drawing, and the line itself is also different. The digital drawing tools add their own qualities to the lines and the drawings. 
 
 
 I will look at some of the differences I experience between digital and analog drawing: I see digital drawing both as a sort of drawing among many others, and at the same time as something completely different, it adds something other than traditional drawing tools. 

Within the framework of the Albus research project jointly implemented by Google for Education’s official partner iCORE Mongolia, the Ministry of Education, and the General Authority for Education, the research team from the Mongolian National Institute for Educational Research conducted a pilot-study over a period of 3.5 months starting from November 2024 at the secondary school affiliated with the Mongolian National University of Education (MNUE). This study aimed to examine the impact of using Google’s educational tools on teaching and learning processes. To address this objective, a mixed-methods approach was used to examine one pilot group and one control group of 7th-grade students from a selected school. Data on implementation and outcomes were collected and analyzed, providign the foundation for the study’s conclusions and recommendations. According to the pilot study results, students’ use of mobile phones during lessons decreased from 88.6% to 42.9% in the post-survey stage, while their participation in lessons using Chromebooks increased. Also, with the help of Google tools, students became more interested in their lessons, gained more self-confidence, and felt freer to express their own ideas. 71.4% of teachers agreed that using Chromebooks and Google tools supported students in working in teams, and 64.3% of students reported that it helped their communication with classmates. At the beginning of the pilot, about 40% of teachers used digital devices and software 3–4 times a week in classroom teaching, but in the post-survey stage, 92.8% of them used Chromebooks and Google tools during some or all lessons. In addition, teachers’ digital skills improved, and students showed progress in their STEAM skills, information searching using search engines, and problem-solving skills.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0106/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

When the classical gray stretching algorithm is applied in digital low light level devices, it cannot meet the requirements of illumination environment change in large dynamic range, and the image processed under very low illumination or very high illumination is prone to the loss of target details, an adaptive gray stretching algorithm suitable for digital low light level devices is designed. The algorithm adds the variable of the brightness value of the original image information collected by the digital low light level device to the gray stretching transformation matrix, deduces the current environmental illuminance value according to the transformation of the brightness value, timely adjusts the relevant parameters in the gray stretching calculation matrix according to the environmental illuminance value, and obtains the gray stretching transformation matrix suitable for different image features under different illuminance environments, In order to meet the requirement that digital low light level devices should be suitable for the change of illumination environment in a large dynamic range. This paper also compares the adaptive algorithm with the classical algorithm, and gives the test results. At the end of the paper, the operation efficiency of the algorithm is tested to verify that the algorithm can meet the requirements of real-time image processing speed of digital low light level devices.

Large Scale Integration—an Appraisal

Recently, films created by incorporating metallic nanoparticles into organic or polymeric materials have demonstrated electrical bistability, as well as the memory effect, when subjected to an electrical bias. Organic and polymeric digital memory devices based on this bistable electronic behavior have emerged as a viable technology in the field of organic electronics. These devices exhibit fast response speeds and can form multiple‐layer stacking structures, demonstrating that organic memory devices possess a high potential to become flexible, ultrafast, and ultrahigh‐density memory devices. This behavior is believed to be related to charge storage in the organic or polymer film, where devices are able to exhibit two different states of conductivity often separated by several orders of magnitude. By defining the two states as “1” and “0”, it is now possible to create digital memory devices with this technology. This article reviews electrically bistable devices developed in our laboratory. Our research has stimulated strong interest in this area worldwide. The research by other laboratories is reviewed as well.

Recently, there has been increased use of fuzzy logic in control applications. The kernel of a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is a fuzzy inference engine which includes the knowledge base, the decision making logic, and the defuzzification unit, as shown in Figure 1. For most of the reported applications, fuzzy inference algorithms of the FLCs were implemented in software and executed on a standard Von Neumann type processor or mucrocontroller. Although software-based FLCs are in general more economical and flexible, they often have difficulty in dealing with control systems that require very high processing and I/O handling speeds. For this reason, in the recent years, a number of hardware fuzzy inference systems have been reported or proposed [1–5, 7, 9–16] that reflect the diversity in fuzzy inference methods in technoloies related to hardware design. In general, analog hardware is relatively simple but lacks accuracy and reliability; on the other hand, digital hardware is accurate and reliable but is more complex and lacks speed if an iterative algorithm is unavoidable. In recent years, rapid advances in digital technology allow system designers to design custom computing machines based on a variety of technologies: full custom application-specific IC (ASIC), standard-cell, gate array, FPGA, programmable logic device (PLD), standard IC, etc.. Among these, FPGA is especially suitable for fast implementation and quick hardware verification. Besides technology alternatives, design decisions have to be made based on tradeoffs on performance, hardware resource anf flexibility. In general, higher performance can be achieved at the expense of more hardware resource and less flexibility.

From the Publisher: * Covers the modelling and simulation of mechatronic and micromechatronic systems using HDLs. * Provides an overview of the design of digital and analog circuitry and software for mechatronic systems. * Presents practical guidance on both chip and systems design for a wide range of mechatronic applications. * Focuses on a practical approach to the design and simulation of electronic hardware and components of mechatronic systems.