众核处理器访存链路接口的FPGA验证

面向众核处理器提出一种访存链路接口的现场可编程门阵列(Field-Programmable Gate Array,FPGA)验证平台,用于对处理器访存链路关键部件进行功能及可靠性测试。提出片上读写激励自动产生与检查机制、以太网接口硬件用户数据报协议(User Datagram Protocol,UDP)协议栈和FPGA芯片间多通道并行链路三项关键技术并进行设计实现。实验结果表明提出的各项关键技术功能正确,不仅丰富了功能验证中随机激励产生及结果验证的手段,而且实现了对链路数据检错和多lane间延迟偏斜纠正逻辑的可靠性测试与评估。经过该平台验证的访存链路接口在实际芯片中通过了功能正确性测试,证明了验证的有效性。     

雷诺应力模型的初步应用

针对SSG/LRR-ω雷诺应力模型,选取NASA湍流资源网站上的四个典型算例,即湍流平板边界层流动、带凸起管道流动、翼型尾迹区流动和NACA0012不同攻角绕流,开展初步的验证与确认工作,将部分结果和CFL3D进行对比。对于NACA0012翼型绕流,对比雷诺应力模型和SA模型的升力系数,结果表明:在失速攻角附近,雷诺应力模型明显优于SA模型。在此基础上,将该模型应用于DLR-F6翼身组合体的数值模拟,计算得到的机翼表面典型站位压力分布和实验值吻合良好,同时该模型捕捉到翼身交汇位置的小范围分离。     

可执行体系结构研究

体系结构是系统设计与实施的蓝图,它能否正确、合理地指导实践在很大程度上依赖于体系结构的验证与评估.可执行体系结构研究为体系结构验证与评估开辟了新的途径.为了使各体系结构产品在整体上形成一个执行体,提出了可执行体系结构执行规则描述这一个概念.执行规则描述体系结构产品的执行、调用与数据流关系,为体系结构的执行提供了特定的背景信息.它通过标准的动态可执行模型接口分别调用该模型的执行引擎,从而达到体系结构在整体上执行的目的.体系结构的正确执行为体系结构验证提供依据,同时其运行结果为体系结构的评估提供依据.     

The value of losing control: Competition in markets for complements

When selling complementary products, manufacturers can often benefit from considering the resulting cross‐market interdependencies. Although using independent retailers makes it difficult to internalize these positive externalities, the ensuing double marginalization can mitigate within‐market competition. We use standard game theoretic analysis to determine optimal distribution channel strategies (through independent retailers or integrated) for competing manufacturers who participate in markets for complements. Our results suggest that a firm's optimal channel choice is highly dependent on its competitive positioning. A firm with a competitive advantage in terms of product characteristics (customer preferences) or production capabilities (cost) might benefit from selling through company‐controlled stores, allowing coordinated pricing across the two markets, whereas a less competitive firm might be better off using independent channel intermediaries to mitigate price competition. We consider two scenarios depending on whether the two firms make their distribution channel decisions sequentially or simultaneously. Although firms are unlikely to make such decisions at exactly the same instant, the simultaneous model also serves as a proxy for the scenario where firms decide sequentially, but where they cannot observe each other's strategic channel choices. For the sequential case, we find that the sequence of entry can have tremendous impact on the two firms'profits; whereas in some cases, the first mover can achieve substantially higher profits, we find that when the two markets are of sufficiently different size and only loosely related, a firm with a competitive advantage might be better off as a follower. Interestingly, our results suggest that, when the markets are of rather similar size, both firms are better off if they enter the industry sequentially. In those cases, the first entrant has incentive to reveal its planned channel strategies, and the follower has incentive to seek out and consider this information. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

YHFT-DX处理器全定制EDA技术的开发与应用

在YHFT-DX处理器的研制中,研究并实现了多项支撑全定制设计的EDA技术。针对全定制设计的功能验证,研究并实现了层次式功能模型自动提取技术,能够将晶体管级网表转化为等效的RTL级网表。研究并实现了晶体管级混合时序分析方法,可自动分析全定制设计的延时,并采用多线程并行的方法获得了约10倍左右的速度提升。为提高模拟结果分析的效率,开发了一个延时提取的工具Aimeasure。开发了两个信号完整性分析工具PNVisual和NoiseSpy,分别用于全定制设计的IR-Drop分析和噪声分析。上述技术已在YHFT-DX处理器的设计中得到了广泛应用,有效提高了全定制设计的效率与质量。     

FACILITATING NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: Verified Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks and Production

Unprecedented interest in seeking progress toward nuclear disarmament exists today; even some nuclear weapon states are looking for new ways to strengthen this process. National declarations of fissile material holdings—highly enriched uranium and plutonium—could play an important role in supporting this effort, facilitating not only transparency but also the irreversibility of the process. This article discusses what kind of content such declarations could have in order to be meaningful and effective, the sequence of data on fissile material holdings that states might release, and some of the challenges to be expected in reconstructing historic fissile material production; it also summarizes current attitudes of weapon states toward making such declarations. Initial declarations can be valuable as confidence-building measures, but better and more background data are necessary if declarations are to serve as the groundwork for deeper cuts in the nuclear arsenals. A robust verification approach would ultimately require inspectors to have access to fissile material production and storage sites. The methods and tools of nuclear forensic analysis—in this context also dubbed nuclear archaeology—would be a key element of this process. This article discusses the capabilities and limitations of potential approaches to verifying declarations of historic production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium; it also identifies and discusses opportunities for further research and development.     

GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME

Detect and Deter: Can Countries Verify the Nuclear Test Ban?, by Ola Dahlman, Jenifer Mackby, Svein Mykkeltveit, and Hein Haak. Springer, 2011. 279 pages, $129.     

Should firms conceal information when dealing with common suppliers?

A firm making quantity decision under uncertainty loses profit if its private information is leaked to competitors. Outsourcing increases this risk as a third party supplier may leak information for its own benefit. The firm may choose to conceal information from the competitors by entering in a confidentiality agreement with the supplier. This, however, diminishes the firm's ability to dampen competition by signaling a higher quantity commitment. We examine this trade‐off in a stylized supply chain in which two firms, endowed with private demand information, order sequentially from a common supplier, and engage in differentiated quantity competition. In our model, the supplier can set different wholesale prices for firms, and the second‐mover firm could be better informed. Contrary to what is expected, information concealment is not always beneficial to the first mover. We characterize conditions under which the first mover firm will not prefer concealing information. We show that this depends on the relative informativeness of the second mover and is moderated by competition intensity. We examine the supplier's incentive in participating in information concealment, and develop a contract that enables it for wider set of parameter values. We extend our analysis to examine firms' incentive to improve information. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 62:1–15, 2015     

求解布尔不可满足子式的消解悖论算法

求解布尔不可满足子式在超大规模集成电路设计与验证领域都具有非常重要的理论与应用价值,帮助EDA工具迅速定位错误与不一致。针对求解不可满足子式的非完全方法,提出了消解悖论与悖论解析树的概念,在此基础上提出一种启发式局部搜索算法。该算法根据公式的消解规则,采用局部搜索过程直接构造证明不可满足性的悖论解析树,而后递归搜索得到不可满足子式;算法中融合了布尔推理技术、动态剪枝方法及蕴含消除方法以提高搜索效率。基于随机测试集进行了实验对比,结果表明提出的算法优于同类算法。     

空间引力波探测无拖曳技术现状与趋势

航天器无拖曳控制是实现引力波空间探测科学平台超静超稳运行的核心关键技术之一。目前,国内外各研究机构对航天器系统的动力学与控制进行了深入研究,并针对不同的探测频段需求提出了不同的探测任务。根据探测任务进行了航天器编队设计与控制的详细介绍和分析,对涉及的无拖曳与姿态控制、高精度惯性传感器与执行机构等原理和理论方法进行了深入的剖析。针对现已开展的空间引力波探测无拖曳航天器在轨飞行的演示验证整体情况进行详述和分析。在此基础上,提出后续开展相关研究中亟待解决的关键问题,指出未来无拖曳航天器系统动力学与控制的研究热点和趋势。