We describe our first efforts to develop a set of off-the-shelf hardware components that ordinary people could connect to build a simple but useful class of embedded systems. The ...
Susan Cotterell, Frank Vahid, Walid A. Najjar, Har...
—We describe the development of a set of embedded system building blocks, known as eBlocks. An eBlock network can be viewed as a basic form of sensor network that can be develope...
Susan Cotterell, Ryan Mannion, Frank Vahid, Harry ...
Although CMOS feature size scaling has been the source of dramatic performance gains, it has lead to mounting reliability concerns due to increasing power densities and on-chip te...
Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Amin Ansari, Jason ...
Recent years have seen the evolution of networks of tiny low power computing blocks, known as sensor networks. In one class of sensor networks, a non-expert user, who has little o...
: Shape-matching toys are popular items for infants, and consist of boxes with many holes in different shapes along with corresponding blocks of the same shapes. To play with the t...