Tag: Modification

In the Flesh The Cultural Politics of Body Modification


Free Download V. Pitts, "In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification"
English | 2003 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1349387363, 0312293100 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies – not only tattooing, but piercing, cyberpunk and such ‘neotribal’ practices as scarification. She interprets the stories of sixteen body modifiers (as well as some subcultural magazines and films) using the tools of feminist and queer theory. Pitts not only covers a hot topic but also situates it in a theoretical context.

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Automatic Layout Modification Including design reuse of the Alpha CPU in 0.13 micron SOI technology


Free Download Automatic Layout Modification: Including design reuse of the Alpha CPU in 0.13 micron SOI technology by Michael Reinhardt , RUBICAD Corporation
English | PDF (True) | 2002 | 234 Pages | ISBN : 1402070918 | 12.5 MB
Design reuse techniques have become the subject of books, conferences, and podium discussions over the last few years. However, most discussions focus on higher-level abstraction like RTL descriptions, which can be synthesized. Design reuse is often seen as an add-on to normal design activity, or a special design task that is not an integrated part of the existing design flow. This may all be true for the ASIC world, but not for high-speed, high-performance microprocessors.

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