星载大容量固态存储控制器的级联编码设计

航天器大容量数据存储设备主要采用基于NAND Flash的固态存储器,但由于空间环境中单粒子翻转效应的影响,以及存储器芯片在操作过程中因为阈值电压偏移导致的位比特错误等原因,存储设备的可靠性降低。为提高数据存储设备的数据容错性,依据NAND Flash芯片物理结构和数据存储结构,具有针对性地提出RS(256,252)码+LDPC(8192,7154)码级联的纠检错并行编码设计,并优化编码算法的电路实现方法。建模仿真和地面测试系统测试结果表明:该设计具有低硬件开销、低功耗和高可靠性的优点。存储系统的数据总容量达512 Gb,有效数据吞吐率为700 Mb/s,能够满足航天器固态存储控制器对大容量数据控制和高数据吞吐量的设计需求。     

65 nm工艺双层三维静态存储器的软错误分析与评估

新兴的三维静态存储器将代替二维静态存储器被广泛用于高性能微处理器中,但它依然会受到软错误的危害。为了能够快速、自动分析多层管芯堆叠结构的三维静态存储器软错误特性,搭建了三维静态存储器软错误分析平台。利用该平台对以字线划分设计的三维静态存储器和同等规模的二维静态存储器分别进行软错误分析,并对分析结果进行对比。研究结果表明二维和三维静态存储器的翻转截面几乎相同,但三维静态存储器单个字中发生的软错误要比二维静态存储器更严重,导致难以使用纠检错技术对其进行加固。静态模式下二维和三维静态存储器敏感节点均分布于存储阵列中,表明静态模式下逻辑电路不会引发软错误。     

智能1553B接口软核实现技术

为了提高计算机系统数据处理能力,防止数据丢失现象,减小接口板空间,同时方便接口模块的修改、扩展和升级,提出了一种基于Nios II软核处理器的智能1553B接口软核实现技术。系统设计以软硬件协同工作的形式实现。硬件设计是通过在一片Altera公司Cyclone II系列的FPGA芯片上配置Nios II软核处理器、PCI接口、存储器接口、自定义接口逻辑等来生成SOPC,最后在FPGA外添加外围总线控制器芯片来实现。以硬件设计为基础,以软件设计完成1553B数据传输功能。由于采用了软核设计技术,使得系统具有了设计灵活、集成度高、低成本等优点。     

潜艇指控系统输入输出通道故障诊断与分析

某潜艇指控系统采用微诊断原理,实现对指控系统各组成部件的测试与诊断,系统故障检测采用预防性检测和在线检测两种方式.当输入输出通道发生故障时,检测时存在多故障代码及代码重叠等不易定位故障.根据通道检测流程,利用在检测时所生成的故障代码,结合在随机存储器生成的数据块的信息,能够较好地为通道部件中存在的故障进行定位.     

面向SDR应用的向量存储器的设计与优化

针对面向SDR应用的SIMD数字信号处理器高带宽数据访存需求,提出并实现了一种新型的向量存储结构.该向量存储器由16路向量存储块构成,每路采用两组多体低位地址交叉编址存储结构,减少了访存体冲突,充分利用多存储体带宽,以较小的功耗代价实现并行访问多个向量数据.在此基础上,还设计了一种向量访存重整理单元,使向量存储器可灵活支持多路SIMD结构向量处理单元的非对齐访问,实现了其对向量存储器的共享.测试结果表明,该向量存储器能有效减少或消除向量处理单元之间的数据混洗操作,加速相关应用算法.     

面向访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法

多核处理器架构已经成为当前处理器的主流趋势,应用程序中访问模式的多样性给多核处理器的末级Cache带来了许多挑战。提出了访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法,它包含"可配置的共享私有Cache划分"、"可配置的旁路Cache策略"和"优先权替换策略"三个协同递进的层次。通过使用该方法,程序员能够灵活地改变末级Cache执行行为,从而高效地适应应用程序访问模式的变化。实验结果表明,提出的方法能够显著降低末级Cache的缺失率,进而提高系统的整体性能。     

基于镜像的高可用数据对象布局算法

镜像是提高数据可用性的流行方法。借鉴RAID的方法,在算法一级实现数据的冗余分布,提出基于镜像的高可用数据对象布局算法。在数据对象和存储节点失效时,利用冗余数据重构数据对象和存储节点,有效保证存储系统的高可用性。采用马尔可夫激励模型对存储系统进行定量的可用性分析,计算结果表明该方法是有效的。     

同时拥有公用资源的多总线多处理机系统的吞吐量分析

为了回答在通常情况下多总线多处理机系统的性能问题,研制了一个离散事件仿真模型。在随机变量A(处理机处理次数)和B(处理机的存储器存取次数)的不同类型概率分布情况下分析了这个模型。对于变量A和B,利用了下列几种分布类型:指数、厄兰格(Erlang)、亚指数、超指数、正态和常数分布。仿真试验证明:变量B的系数C_B对系统性能有很大的影响,尤其是当C_B>1时。但如果A是亚指数或超指数分布,那么C_A的影响可以忽略不计。但正态分布不是这种情况。 处理能力、存储器利用率和等候处理机的百分率是我们仿真模型中使用的某些性能变量。我们已仿真了几种多处理机配置并得出结论:如果总线数等于处理机数和存储器模块数最小值的一半,则对应的总线不足系统表现为总线充足系统。很清楚,在不降低系统性能的情况下,对于需要的总线数这是一个重要的节约。     

基于访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法*

多核处理器架构已经成为当前处理器的主流趋势,应用程序中访问模式的多样性给多核处理器的末级Cache带来了许多挑战。提出了一种基于访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法,它包含“可配置的共享私有Cache划分”、“可配置的旁路Cache策略”和“优先权替换策略”三个协同递进的层次。通过使用该方法,程序员能够灵活地改变末级Cache执行行为,从而高效地适应应用程序访问模式的变化。实验结果表明,提出的方法能够显著降低末级Cache的缺失率,进而提高系统的整体性能。     

面向大尺寸滑动窗口应用的并行计算模型

大尺寸滑动窗口的应用在数据输入速度与处理速度之间存在较大差距.为了缩短差距,提出了一种并行计算模型,使用尽可能少的存储资源与尽可能简单的存储器读写控制逻辑实现了尽可能高的数据重用性与并行性.该模型将不同滑动窗口之间的并行处理与单个窗口内不同数据之间的并行处理结合起来:对于不同窗口,按列进行分组并映射到多个处理单元上并行...     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

SIM—LISP:一个通信网络管理专家系统外壳的设计与实现

本文介绍了笔者为开发名为OONMES的网络管理专家系统所实现的一个简单专家系统工具SIM-LISP。SIM-LISP是一个用C/C++语言来实现的模拟LISP语言的可调用函数集,它短小精巧,速度快,可以完成针对网管专家系统的事实或规则知识的表示、匹配、合一和推理等基本操作,并有与知识对象的连接功能,是网管专家系统内核实现的支撑环境。     

Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words

This article consists of selected translations from captured interviews and dairies of Al Qaida members. The time period covered is from mid-2001 to early 2002 and concerns their operations in Afghanistan. The material clearly conveys a range of emotion, from confident to despondent, as well as efforts to contest the US actions. The first several pages give the reader context and some possible “lessons learned,” but the story(ies) are best told by the Al Qaida members themselves. All names are pseudonyms.     

Does Intent equal Capability? Al-Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction

The prospect of terrorists deploying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is often referred to as the foremost danger to American national security. This danger has become more realistic because of al-Qaeda's expanding global network and the expressed willingness to kill thousands of civilians. In the past four years, numerous media reports have documented the group's ongoing quest for WMD capabilities; many reports have detailed al-Qaeda members’ attempts to manufacture or obtain certain chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents to use in WMD against targets in the West and the Middle East. Yet the question remains: Does al-Qaeda's current WMD capability match its actual intent? While most studies of the group have focused on its explicit desire for WMD, allegations of CBRN acquisition, and the killing potential of specific CBRN agents, few open-source studies have closely examined the evolution of al-Qaeda's consideration of WMD and, most notably, the merit of actual CBRN production instructions as depicted and disseminated in the group's own literature and manuals. The following report will examine the history of al-Qaeda's interest in CBRN agents, the evolution of the network's attitude toward these weapons, and the internal debate within the organization concerning acquisition and use of WMD. More so, the following research will assess the validity of actual CBRN production instructions and capabilities as displayed and disseminated in al-Qaeda's own literature and websites.     

Late Medieval Lance Use: Mounted Combat and Martial Arts in Western Europe from the 14th to the 16th Century

Despite the lance’s status and the amount of attention the couched lance has received in historiography, study of its martial art has been neglected. The various lance types and techniques used by western European cavalry have only recently begun to receive scholarly attention. Additionally, Medieval European lance use has too often been studied in isolation, without an adequate understanding of the idiosyncratic and asymmetrical dynamics of mounted combat. Although the charge with the couched lance was a valid tactic, it was only one of many. Light and heavy lances were used in one hand or two to trip, block, unhorse, and wrestle. These techniques were governed by the harsh laws of distance, speed, impact, iron, and asymmetry. By utilizing the surviving Fechtbücher and several Peninsular and Near Eastern sources, a brief foray into the diverse techniques of lance use and their purposes has been attempted here.     

A model for geographically distributed combat interactions of swarming naval and air forces

This article describes the Distributed Interaction Campaign Model (DICM), an exploratory campaign analysis tool and asset allocation decision‐aid for managing geographically distributed and swarming naval and air forces. The model is capable of fast operation, while accounting for uncertainty in an opponent's plan. It is intended for use by commanders and analysts who have limited time for model runs, or a finite budget. The model is purpose‐built for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and supports analysis of the following questions: What happens when swarms of geographically distributed naval and air forces engage each other and what are the key elements of the opponents’ force to attack? Are there changes to force structure that make a force more effective, and what impacts will disruptions in enemy command and control and wide‐area surveillance have? Which insights are to be gained by fast exploratory mathematical/computational campaign analysis to augment and replace expensive and time‐consuming simulations? An illustrative example of model use is described in a simple test scenario. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 562–576, 2016     

Thomas Firth and Sons – Steelmakers to the Arms Industries. Part 2: Heavy Armaments

Firth’s were the first of the Sheffield steel makers to enter the field armaments. Their involvement with Colt has been outlined in an article in the journal of the Colt Collectors Association in America and their activities as steelmakers to the small-arms industries has been covered in a previous issue of this Journal. This article gives a brief overview of their involvement as manufacturers in the field of heavy armaments, being the first to make all-steel guns and their evolving role in the use of steel for ordnance, culminating in the displacement of wrought iron by the adoption of steel for ordnance manufacture by the Royal Gun Factory in the 1880s. It also highlights their development of stainless steel in this context.     

Putin – the masked nemesis of the strategy of ambiguity

Recent events demonstrate the complex and adaptive approach employed by Russia to reassert influence in Europe. The changing face of Russia’s strategy commenced in 2007 when it launched a crippling cyber-attack against Estonia. This was followed by a large Russian conventional attack against Georgia in 2008, occupying two large areas of the nation. 2014 witnessed the Russian annexation of Crimea where in just a week, Russia seized control of Crimea “without firing a shot.” The annexation of Crimea was rapidly followed by a Russian inspired and led subversive war in eastern Ukraine. The common thread among these diverse Russian operations is its use of ambiguity to confound and confuse decision makers in the West.     

Information Is Not a Weapons System

ABSTRACT

While many militaries have tried to capitalize on the potential of information operations in internal war, few have succeeded. I argue that military information campaigns fall short of expectations for two reasons. First, the theory of influence militaries generally embrace – communications as a non-lethal weapons system – is largely invalid. While treating information as a weapons system makes it easier to integrate it into the existing military planning system, this overstates the independent effects of communications on behavior and understates the importance of interactive effects of what commercial marketing theory refers to as the “marketing mix” – product, price, promotion, and placement. It would be more appropriate to treat military information operations as a form of marketing: a composite effort to induce a specific behavior in a target audience by applying a combination of material and ideational instruments. The marketing model suggests that the efficacy of information operations will depend not simply on the message and its delivery (promotion) but on the behavior the sender seeks to induce (the product), the costs of that behavior (the price), and the opportunities available for such behavior (the placement).