It's now widely acknowledged at international level that the static transfer switch (STS) plays a crucial role in guaranteeing maximum electrical power reliability in environments that are extremely delicate and by their nature vital, for example internet data centres (IDCs).Careful evaluations are required regarding the numerous different pieces of equipment used (power sources, UPS systems, protective devices, electrical distribution, transformers, etc.) and the various closely related aspects. None of these can be considered of secondary importance.The experience has clearly shown the importance of considering every system as a whole system, in which each element must be co-ordinated with the others, in order to achieve the final objective, which has the maximum compatibility between equipment under any system operating conditions. This consideration becomes much more decisive in the choice of the STS, since very different types are available, each of which must be evaluated in context and with reference to the specific characteristics of each system, every one having features which mean that it could never be considered equivalent to another.The risk involved in dispensing with such evaluations is that a set of elements which are excellent if considered singly, are not always compatible one with another.This article is for all of those people devising, designing and building a system with STSs and aims to offer some practical suggestions.We increasingly see high quality, high reliability plant engineering power solutions exploiting the advantages offered by static transfer switches (STSs) to guarantee top level reliability, according to all of the parts which make up the system. Such solutions are particularly frequent in very delicate environments such as internet data centres (IDCs) which manage core business (banking, telephony, services, etc.), and in all the sectors where a quality, reliable power supply is crucial.
This paper presents the board-level prototype implementation of a complete speech recognition system. The recognition system is based on a chip set still under development and, in its $nul implementation, it will perform real-time isolated-word recognition of up to IO00 word templates.In this paper we show that virtual emulation is an eflective approach to high-level system prototyping and verification and achieves a smooth evolution of the prototype to its jinal implementation.Methodology guidelines are given to handle designs having subsystems whose clock speeds cannot be slowed down at the virtual emdation speed. The case of a real-time speech acquisition user interface is presented. In addition, speed-up techniques providing a threefold improvement in emulation time are discussed.The board-level prototype system has been designed, built and tested in 2 madmonths.
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