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This paper presents an analysis of harmonic decomposition and power quality analysis of a six-phase asynchronous motor drive model designed for traction systems, by the Fast Fourier Transform tool. The six-phase asynchronous motor is fed by a Voltage Source Inverter. The goal is to determine whether the proposed 6-phase traction system is viable to prototype and test from the standpoint of power quality and electromagnetic compatibility. The resulting power quality distortion by harmonics suggest that the proposed traction system generates acceptable distortions, through but for which the accepted FFT analysis, in the IEEE Standards 1459-2010 and 519-2014, is not an efficient tool for analysis of highly dynamic traction systems. For a good representation of power distortions, a different standard should be developed and employed

This paper demonstrates the use of new processor instructions VPMADD, intended to appear in the coming generation of Intel processors (codename "Cannon Lake"), in order to accelerate the newly proposed key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) named SIKE. SIKE is one of the submissions to the NIST standardization process on post-quantum cryptography, and is based on pseudo-random walks in supersingular isogeny graphs. While very small keys are the main advantage of SIKE, its extreme computational intensiveness makes it one of the slowest KEM proposals. Performance optimizations are needed. We address here the "Level 1" parameters that target 64-bit quantum security, and deemed sufficient for the NIST standardization effort. Thus, we focus on SIKE503 that operates over F_p^2 with a 503-bit prime p. These short operands pose a significant challenge on using VPMADD effectively. We demonstrate several optimization methods to accelerate F_p, F_p^2, and the elliptic curve arithmetic, and predict a potential speedup by a factor of 1.72x.