The temperature control of the large-scale vertical quench furnace is very difficult due to its huge volume and complex thermal exchanges. To meet the technical requirement of the quenching process, a temperature control system which integrates temperature calibration and temperature uniformity control is developed for the thermal treatment of aluminum alloy workpieces in the large-scale vertical quench furnace. To obtain the aluminum alloy workpiece temperature, an air heat transfer model is newly established to describe the temperature gradient distribution so that the immeasurable workpiece temperature can be calibrated from the available thermocouple temperature. To satisfy the uniformity control of the furnace temperature, a second order partial differential equation(PDE) is derived to describe the thermal dynamics inside the vertical quench furnace. Based on the PDE, a decoupling matrix is constructed to solve the coupling issue and decouple the heating process into multiple independent heating subsystems. Then, using the expert control rule to find a compromise of temperature rising time and overshoot during the quenching process. The developed temperature control system has been successfully applied to a 31 m large-scale vertical quench furnace, and the industrial running results show the significant improvement of the temperature uniformity, lower overshoot and shortened processing time.
Systolic implementation of multiplication over GF(2m) is usually very efficient in area-time complexity,but its latency is usually very large.Thus,two low latency systolic multipliers over GF(2m) based on general irreducible polynomials and irreducible pentanomials are presented.First,a signal flow graph(SFG) is used to represent the algorithm for multiplication over GF(2m).Then,the two low latency systolic structures for multiplications over GF(2m) based on general irreducible polynomials and pentanomials are presented from the SFG by suitable cut-set retiming,respectively.Analysis indicates that the proposed two low latency designs involve at least one-third less area-delay product when compared with the existing designs,To the authors' knowledge,the time-complexity of the structures is the lowest found in literature for systolic GF(2m) multipliers based on general irreducible polynomials and pentanomials.The proposed low latency designs are regular and modular,and therefore they are suitable for many time critical applications.
