General Research and Topic Areas:
Parallel Systems; modeling, performance analysis and code restructuring.
Instrumentation; application of measurement techniques with microprocessor based control, correction and linearisation.
Computer system; analysis, performance evaluation and enhancement, high performance systems, I/O subsystems, etc.
Software Engineer; design methodologies and evaluation,
parallelising compiler techniques, program analysis, re-engineering and
testing.
Specific Projects:
1. Disk sub-system performance analysis and scheduling for SCSI-2 and SCSI-3.
2. Feasibility study of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance non-invasive flow measurment using Phase Locked Loops.
3. Two way optical data link for data-acquisition and remote control.
4. Temperature compensation and linearisation of solid state pressure transducers.
5. Economical gas flow measurement using temperature sensitive devices.
6. Simple Nuclear Quadrupole spectrometer for accurate temperature sensing.
7. Laser guided alignment gauge with sound and digital read-out, using CCD’s.
8. Investigation of two-phase motor control for constant pump flow.
9. Feasibility study of an economical network for control and data sensing (i.e. using mains, ultrasonic, etc.)
10. Simulator for investigating super-scalar and super-pipelined processor architectures.
11. Queuing Network analyser and simulator.
12. Program analyser for metrics and structure evaluation.
13. Investigating the capture and storage of PC screen output for on-line animation and/or video output.
14. Information storage and retrieval of Ceefax and Teletext
data, by using adaptive text filtering and data mining.