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This paper presents the design of a low-pass microwave filter based on the EBG (Electromagnetic Bandgap) concept. The structure is composed of a microstrip line in one of the layers and two different periodic superimposed EBG structures in the ground plane. The first structure defines the characteristics of the filter in the pass-band whereas the second periodic structure is used to reduce the second harmonic spurious response. The filter exhibits a flat pass-band response and a cut-off rate better than 380 dB/octave. © 2007 IEEE.

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Consider a communication medium shared among a set of computer nodes;. these computer nodes issue messages that are requested to be transmitted and they must finish their transmission before their respective deadlines. TDMA/SS is, a protocol that solves this problem; it is a specific type of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) where. a computer node is allowed to skip its time slot and then this time slot can be used by another computer node.. We present an algorithm that computes exact queuing times for TDMA/SS in conjunction with Rate-Monotonic (RM) or Earliest-Deadline-First (EDF).

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We propose dynamic compilation for Prolog, in the style of Just-In-Time compilers. Our approach adapts to the actual characteristics of the target program by (i) compiling only the parts of the program that are executed frequently, and (ii) adapting to actual call patterns. This allows aggressive optimization of the parts of the program that are really executed, and better informed heuristics to drive these optimizations. Our compiler does need to support all features in the language, only what is deemed important to performance. Complex execution patterns, such as the ones caused by error handling, may be left to the interpreter. On the other hand, compilation is now part of the run-time, and thus incurs run-time overheads. We have implemented dynamic compilation for YAP system. Our initial results suggest that dynamic compilation achieves very substantial performance improvements over the original interpreter, and that it can approach and even out-perform state-of-the-art native code systems. We believe that we have shown that dynamic compilation is worthwhile and fits naturally with Prolog execution.

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