A 5th generation SPARC64 processor is fabricated in 130nm SOI CMOS process with 8 layers of Cu metallization. It runs at 1.3GHz with 34.7W power dissipation in the laboratory. The chip contains over 190M transistors with 19M in logic circuits. The chip size is 18.14mm x 15.99mm. The error detection and recovery mechanism is implemented for execution units and data path logic circuits in addition to on-chip arrays to detect and recover from data logic error. This processor is developed by using mostly in-house CAD tools.

The authors propose a fundamental framework for the editing facility applicable to uniform manipulation for various kinds of data. The basic principle is to separate the object scheme and the data instance from the editing data extractively. This separation method makes it possible to specify various kinds of data under explicitly structured forms and then manipulate them with the uniform access paths. The editing model has an object-oriented feature based on the relational data model. The design concept of the editing mechanism is described in detail. Integration and functionality issues are addressed.>

A method for signature description based on the human way of recognizing objects is introduced. Like humans, this method first recognizes objects globally and then recognizes finer details. The description is hierarchical: the signature is at the top level, and each lower level gives more details about the higher one. Features are extracted in a relative way (e.g. the length is measured by its ratio to the width) to make the method insensitive to the natural variations that occur in genuine signatures, and are mapped into a conceptual description. This conceptual description is then used to classify the signature images.>

This paper introduces an effective method for signature separation from nonhomogeneous noisy background. It also introduces a solution to the problem of simulated signature verification in off-line systems. Extraction of shape and density features and the effectiveness of using each and both of them are discussed in the light of experimental results.