Uncertain Matters: Material to Form Curricula for Digital Design and Fabrication

Abstract A systemic analysis was chosen to evaluate a real case Bluetooth (BT) radio failure in the aspects of RF communication, digital design, firmware, application software, semiconductor device physics and processing, and failure analysis. This paper explores the range of testing, including customer application testing, required to confirm and localize a BT RF communication failure. It shows that the radio communication failure was not, as expected, caused by faulty radio hardware; it was rather linked to problematic encryption hardware at the assistance of the Synergy BT to mobile application. The paper also explores that the digital fault can only be detected by the timing sensitive transition fault scan patterns and how to obtain the physical failure location. Thus, the combination of ATPG and application testing provides a consistency between electrical diagnostics which yields a higher success rate at subsequent physical failure analysis of complex modern RF System on a Chip.

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CYBERCHONDRIA INFORMATION CLINIC: Internet's Impact on your Health (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.14507 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Valentina Escotet Espinoza

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Brain Regions ◽

Physical Symptoms ◽

Digital Design ◽

Somatization Disorder ◽

The Internet ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Right ◽

The Relationship

UNSTRUCTURED Over half of Americans report looking up health-related questions on the internet, including questions regarding their own ailments. The internet, in its vastness of information, provides a platform for patients to understand how to seek help and understand their condition. In most cases, this search for knowledge serves as a starting point to gather evidence that leads to a doctor’s appointment. However, in some cases, the person looking for information ends up tangled in an information web that perpetuates anxiety and further searches, without leading to a doctor’s appointment. The Internet can provide helpful and useful information; however, it can also be a tool for self-misdiagnosis. Said person craves the instant gratification the Internet provides when ‘googling’ – something one does not receive when having to wait for a doctor’s appointment or test results. Nevertheless, the Internet gives that instant response we demand in those moments of desperation. Cyberchondria, a term that has entered the medical lexicon in the 21st century after the advent of the internet, refers to the unfounded escalation of people’s concerns about their symptomatology based on search results and literature online. ‘Cyberchondriacs’ experience mistrust of medical experts, compulsion, reassurance seeking, and excessiveness. Their excessive online research about health can also be associated with unnecessary medical expenses, which primarily arise from anxiety, increased psychological distress, and worry. This vicious cycle of searching information and trying to explain current ailments derives into a quest for associating symptoms to diseases and further experiencing the other symptoms of said disease. This psychiatric disorder, known as somatization, was first introduced to the DSM-III in the 1980s. Somatization is a psycho-biological disorder where physical symptoms occur without any palpable organic cause. It is a disorder that has been renamed, discounted, and misdiagnosed from the beginning of the DSMs. Somatization triggers span many mental, emotional, and cultural aspects of human life. Our environment and social experiences can lay the blueprint for disorders to develop over time; an idea that is widely accepted for underlying psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety. The research is going in the right direction by exploring brain regions but needs to be expanded on from a sociocultural perspective. In this work, we explore the relationship between somatization disorder and the condition known as cyberchondria. First, we provide a background on each of the disorders, including their history and psychological perspective. Second, we proceed to explain the relationship between the two disorders, followed by a discussion on how this relationship has been studied in the scientific literature. Thirdly, we explain the problem that the relationship between these two disorders creates in society. Lastly, we propose a set of intervention aids and helpful resource prototypes that aim at resolving the problem. The proposed solutions ranged from a site-specific clinic teaching about cyberchondria to a digital design-coded chrome extension available to the public.

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Digital canopy: high-end computation/low-tech construction

Architectural Research Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s1359135503001738 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 230-245

Author(s):

Kristina Shea

Keyword(s):

Digital Design ◽

Lecture Hall ◽

Design Team ◽

Midsummer Night's Dream ◽

A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽

Design And Construction

The design and construction of this canopy and landscape for a small courtyard [1] took the form of an adventure in digital design and low-tech construction. The installation was for the end of year party in June 2002 at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. The courtyard occupies a central space in the school adjacent to the main lecture hall and contains a historic cobblestone court [2]. One of the design team, Neil Leach, proposed that it should be transformed into an enchanted garden suggestive of Dutch greenhouses and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Research on Quality Surveillance in Digital Design Environment

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1757-899x/1043/5/052048 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1043 (5) ◽

pp. 052048

Author(s):

Bo Duan ◽

Shuo Yuan

Keyword(s):

Digital Design ◽

Design Environment

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Evaluation of Moisture and Decay Models for a New Design Framework for Decay Prediction of Wood

Forests ◽

10.3390/f12060721 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 721

Author(s):

Jonas Niklewski ◽

Philip Bester van Niekerk ◽

Christian Brischke ◽

Eva Frühwald Hansson

Keyword(s):

Service Life ◽

Wood Decay ◽

Element Model ◽

Digital Design ◽

Design Guideline ◽

Digital Performance ◽

Detail Design ◽

Non Linear ◽

Service Life Design ◽

Life Design

Performance-based, service-life design of wood has been the focus of much research in recent decades. Previous works have been synthesized in various factorized design frameworks presented in the form of technical reports. Factorization does not consider the non-linear dependency between decay-influencing effects, such as between detail design and climate variables. The CLICKdesign project is a joint European effort targeting digital, performance-based specification for service-life design (SLD) of wood. This study evaluates the feasibility of using a semi-empirical moisture model (SMM) as a basis for a digital SLD framework. The performance of the SMM is assessed by comparison against a finite element model (FEM). In addition, two different wood decay models (a logistic, LM, and simplified logistic model (SLM)) are compared. While discrepancies between the SMM and FEM were detected particularly at high wood moisture content, the overall performance of the SMM was deemed sufficient for the application. The main source of uncertainty instead stems from the choice of wood decay model. Based on the results, a new method based on pre-calculated time series, empirical equations, and interpolation is proposed for predicting the service life of wood. The method is fast and simple yet able to deal with non-linear effects between weather variables and the design of details. As such, it can easily be implemented as part of a digital design guideline to provide decision support for architects and engineers, with less uncertainty than existing factorized guidelines.

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Skyrmion Logic-In-Memory Architecture for Maximum/Minimum Search

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics10020155 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 155

Author(s):

Luca Gnoli ◽

Fabrizio Riente ◽

Marco Vacca ◽

Massimo Ruo Roch ◽

Mariagrazia Graziano

Keyword(s):

High Efficiency ◽

Digital Design ◽

Control Logic ◽

Minimum Number ◽

Physical Simulations ◽

Good Energy ◽

Logic Functions ◽

Time And Energy ◽

Cmos Implementation ◽

Maximum Minimum

In modern computing systems there is the need to utilize a large amount of data in maintaining high efficiency. Limited memory bandwidth, coupled with the performance gap between memory and logic, impacts heavily on algorithms performance, increasing the overall time and energy required for computation. A possible approach to overcome such limitations is Logic-In-Memory (LIM). In this paper, we propose a LIM architecture based on a non-volatile skyrmion-based recetrack memory. The architecture can be used as a memory or can perform advanced logic functions on the stored data, for example searching for the maximum/minimum number. The circuit has been designed and validated using physical simulations for the memory array together with digital design tools for the control logic. The results highlight the small area of the proposed architecture and its good energy efficiency compared with a reference CMOS implementation.

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BIM based decision-support tool for automating design to fabrication process of freeform lattice space structure

International Journal of Space Structures ◽

10.1177/09560599211033867 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095605992110338

Author(s):

Saeid Haghir ◽

Ramtin Haghnazar ◽

Sara Saghafi Moghaddam ◽

Danial Keramat ◽

Mohammad Reza Matini ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Computer Aided Design ◽

Decision Support Tool ◽

Computational Design ◽

Space Structure ◽

Digital Design ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Freeform Surfaces ◽

Geometric Problem ◽

Support Tool ◽

Lattice Space

Complex freeform surfaces and structures are increasingly designed and used in the product and building industry due to the advances in mathematics and digital design tools. However, there is still a gap between designing freeform surfaces and fabricating them. The process of preparing freeform surfaces’ shop drawings is complicated, time-consuming, and lacks the mutual understanding among the stakeholders. Computational design and Building Information Modeling (BIM) can serve as a mediator agent for the integration of design goals with the geometric logic of constructability. They can also facilitate creating platforms for designing and evaluating freeform structures. This open-ended qualitative research attempts to develop a systematic methodology for automating the design and construction drafting process of freeform lattice space structure. Solving this complex geometric problem aims to benefit the design for construction and manufacturers and shrink the cost and time of the process. The study employs a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) tool and introduces an algorithm that generates a BIM model. The BIM model contains shop drawings and suggests the specifications of the main elements, such as beams, glass panels, and nodes.

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