chanical specification for a backplane bus
through which a number of circuit boards
may be interconnected. A full range of de-
vices may be involved, including computers,
memory boards, I/O devices, and other pe-
ripherals.
multichannel acousto-optic device
acous-
to-optic device with multiple independent
transducers bonded to the acousto-optic
medium to introduce multiple independent
acoustic signals in the device.
multigrid
an efficient numerical algo-
rithm for solving large sets of linear equa-
tions
Ax = b, particularly for “stiff” (nearly
singular)
A. The algorithm defines a hierar-
chy of grids, with interpolation and decima-
tion operations defined between successive
grids in the hierarchy. A system of equations
A
g
x
g
= b
g
is defined on each grid
g: the
systems on finer grids yield higher resolution
solutions, however coarser grids yield much
faster convergence times. Various empirical
strategies have been devised which dictate
the order in which different grids are used
to contribute to the final solution. See also
interpolation
,
decimation
,
multiscale
.
multigrid block matching
a block match-
ing technique that is carried out with a hierar-
chical structure, known as a multigrid struc-
ture. In the highest hierarchical level an im-
age may be decomposed into large blocks
each with equal size. Each block in a higher
level is further equally decomposed into sub-
blocks, forming the next level. The block
matching is first applied to the highest level.
The matching results obtained are then prop-
agated to the next hierarchical level. That
is, the matching results obtained in the high-
est level are utilized as initial estimates and
refined in the second highest level.
This
process continues until the last hierarchical
level.
It is noted that the term multigrid
block matching is sometimes intermixed with
multiresolution block matching in the litera-
ture. In the strict sense they are different. In
the former, different levels in the hierarchical
structure have the same resolution, while in
the latter, different levels have different res-
olutions.
multilayer control
operation or structure
of the control system with the (multilayer)
controller decomposed into two or more con-
trol layers; usually in case of the controller
with two control layers one uses the terms
two-layer control and two-layer controller.
Typically within the multilayer control hier-
archy the frequency of interventions made by
control layers decreases as one moves up the
hierarchy.
multilayer perceptron
an artificial neu-
ral network consisting of an input layer, pos-
sibly one or more hidden layers of neurons
(perceptrons), and an output layer of neurons.
Each layer receives input from the previous
layer and the outputs of the neurons feed into
the next layer.
multilayer resist (MLR)
a resist scheme
by which the resist is made up of more than
one layer, typically a thick conformal bot-
tom layer under a thin imaging layer, possi-
bly with a barrier layer in between.
multilayered medium
a medium com-
posed by several different layers of dielectric
materials. Such media find wide application
for both microwave and optical integrated cir-
cuits.
multilevel cache
a cache consisting of
two or more levels, (typically) of different
speeds and capacities. See also
hierarchical
memory
.
multilevel code
in this scheme each bit
(level) of a signal is encoded with different
error correction codes of same block length.
It has inherent unequal error protection capa-
bility.
multilevel control
operation or structure
of the control system, where the controller, or
the given control layer, is composed of sev-
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