Gaurav Singh

Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Human lives are getting increasingly entangled with technology, especially comp- ing and electronics. At each step we take, especially in a developing world, we are dependent on various gadgets such as cell phones, handheld PDAs, netbooks, me- cal prosthetic devices, and medical measurement devices (e.g., blood pressure m- itors, glucometers). Two important design constraints for such consumer electronics are their form factor and battery life. This translates to the requirements of reduction in the die area and reduced power consumption for the semiconductor chips that go inside these gadgets. Performance is also important, as increasingly sophisticated applications run on these devices, and many of them require fast response time. The form factor of such electronics goods depends not only on the overall area of the chips inside them but also on the packaging, which depends on thermal ch- acteristics. Thermal characteristics in turn depend on peak power signature of the chips. As a result, while the overall energy usage reduction increases battery life, peak power reduction in?uences the form factor. One more important aspect of these electronic equipments is that every 6 months or so, a newer feature needs to be added to keep ahead of the market competition, and hence new designs have to be completed with these new features, better form factor, battery life, and performance every few months. This extreme pressure on the time to market is another force that drives the innovations in design automation of semiconductor chips.

Low Power Hardware Synthesis from Concurrent Action-Oriented Specifications

Have you wondered why happiness doesn't last? ​Does your experience of life reflect the 'normal' ups and downs, heightened only by your desires? Is it simply your lot as a human being to live this transitory existence, of being bounced around in a perpetual cycle of happiness, sorrow and apathy? Or is there a way out of this cycle? Drawing upon timeless wisdom, Anand: Living Blissfully shows that a way out of this cycle is not only possible, but that it is eminently feasible. Through an enlightened, disciplined and inspired living, Anand (a blissful life) is possible. However, it requires courage to leave what you already know. Have you had enough of happiness? Are you ready for bliss?

Living Blissfully

Anand

'A Million Dreams', as the name suggests, is a story about the dreams which people see about their future. Although the act of dreaming cannot be related precisely to any particular age group but the habit of dreaming is most pronounced in adolescence, when we dream of anything and everything. This story is also about a group a people who are studying in the tenth grade and have various dreams and ambitions for themselves. However, to dream is just the beginning of the story. The most important course of events follows when they start chasing these dreams. It works smoothly for a while but as each of them meet with their share of hurdles and the minutest of failures, they go through an emotional scrimmage which takes a heavy toll on them but at the same time teaches them important lessons about life which one can only learn through experience. But this experience is not very easily digested and the way they undergo all these shapes the story to a larger extent.

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