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Microcontroller-Based Process Monitoring Using Petri-Nets
Nov 2008
This paper considers the development of a Petri-net-based modelling tool as a mechanism for process and system monitoring. The use of Petri-nets, which has previously been largely based in the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Accelerating Seismic Computations Using Customized Number Representations on FPGAs
Nov 2008
The oil and gas industry has an increasingly large demand for high-performance computation over huge volume of data. Compared to common processors, Field-Programable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can boost...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Selected Papers from SLA++P 07 and 08 Model-Driven High-Level Programming of Embedded Systems
Dec 2008
Model-based high-level programming of embedded systems has become a reality in the automotive and avionics industries. These industries place high demands on the efficiency and maintainability of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Embedded Systems Programming: Accessing Databases from Esterel
Nov 2008
A current limitation in embedded controller design and programming is the lack of database support in development tools such as Esterel Studio. This paper proposes a way of integrating databases...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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An SIMD Programmable Vision Chip with High-Speed Focal Plane Image Processing
Nov 2008
A high-speed analog VLSI image acquisition and low-level image processing system are presented. The architecture of the chip is based on a dynamically reconfigurable SIMD processor array. The chip...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Flexible Hardware-Based Stereo Matching
Nov 2008
To enable adaptive stereo vision for hardware-based embedded stereo vision systems, the authors propose a novel technique for implementing a flexible block size, disparity range, and frame rate....
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Design of a Real-Time Face Detection Parallel Architecture Using High-Level Synthesis
Nov 2008
The authors describe a High-Level Synthesis implementation of a parallel architecture for face detection. The chosen face detection method is the well-known Convolutional Face Finder (CFF)...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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An Evaluation of Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for Signal and Image Processing in Professional Electronics Applications
Nov 2008
Signal and image processing applications require a lot of computing resources. For low-volume applications like in professional electronics applications, FPGA are used in combination with DSP and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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High Speed 3D Tomography on CPU
Nov 2008
Back-Projection (BP) is a costly computational step in tomography image reconstruction such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET). To reduce the computation time, this paper presents a Pipelined,...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Stream Execution on Embedded Wide-Issue Clustered VLIW Architectures
Nov 2008
Very Long Instruction Word- (VLIW-) based processors have become widely adopted as a basic building block in modern Systemon-Chip designs. Advances in clustered VLIW architectures have extended...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Smart Camera Based on Embedded HW/SW Coprocessor
Sep 2008
This paper describes an image acquisition and a processing system based on a new coprocessor architecture designed for CMOS sensor imaging. The system exploits the full potential CMOS selective...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Embedded
May 2008
Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation and Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) is a graphical programming tool based on the dataflow language G. Recently, runtime support for a hard real-time environment...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Lutin: A Language for Specifying and Executing Reactive Scenarios
Jan 2008
This paper presents the language Lutin and its operational semantics. This language specifically targets the domain of reactive systems, where an execution is a (virtually) infinite sequence of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Formal Analysis Tools for the Synchronous Aspect Language Larissa
Apr 2008
The authors present two tools for the formal analysis of the aspect language Larissa, which extends the simple synchronous language Argos. The first tool concerns the combination of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Compilation and Worst-Case Reaction Time Analysis for Multi Threaded Esterel Processing
Apr 2008
The recently proposed reactive processing architectures are characterized by Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) that directly support reactive control flow including concurrency and preemption....
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Accuracy Constraint Determination in Fixed-Point System Design
Sep 2008
Most of digital signal processing applications are specified and designed with floatingpoint arithmetic but are finally implemented using fixed-point architectures. Thus, the design flow requires...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Multiple Word-Length High-Level Synthesis
Jul 2008
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications are nowadays widely used and their complexity is ever growing. The design of dedicated hardware accelerators is thus still needed in system-on-chip and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Using High-Level RTOS Models for HW/SW Embedded Architecture Exploration: Case Study on Mobile Robotic Vision
Jul 2008
The authors are interested in the design of a system-on-chip implementing the vision system of a mobile robot. Following a biologically inspired approach, this vision architecture belongs to a...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Synchronous Modeling and Analysis of Data Intensive Applications
Jun 2008
The authors present the modeling of data-intensive parallel applications following the synchronous approach. They consider the GASPARD environment, which is dedicated to high-performance...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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C-Based Design of Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
Jul 2008
With the proliferation of all kinds of electronic devices and the authors' increased dependences on electronics in every aspect of their lives from handheld PDAs, cell phones, medical and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Modelling Field Bus Communications in Mixed-Signal Embedded Systems
Jun 2008
The authors present a modelling platform using the SystemC-AMS language to simulate field bus communications for embedded systems. Their platform includes the model of an I/O controller IP that...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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System-on-Chip Environment: A SpecC-Based Framework for Heterogeneous MPSoC Design
Jun 2008
The constantly growing complexity of embedded systems is a challenge that drives the development of novel design automation techniques. C-based system-level design addresses the complexity...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Novel Methodology for Functional Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Embedded Systems
Apr 2008
A novel methodology is presented for the modeling and the simulation of wireless embedded systems. Tight interaction between the analog and the digital functionality makes the design and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Design and Performance Evaluation of an Adaptive Resource Management Framework for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Jan 2008
Achieving end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) in Distributed Real-time Embedded (DRE) systems require QoS support and enforcement from their underlying operating platforms that integrates many...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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A Real-Time Embedded Kernel for Nonvisual Robotic Sensors
Jan 2008
The authors describe a novel and flexible real-time kernel, called Yartek, with low overhead and low footprint suitable for embedded systems. The motivation of this development was due to the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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RRES: A Novel Approach to the Partitioning Problem for a Typical Subset of System Graphs
Dec 2007
The research field of system partitioning in modern electronic system design started to find strong advertence of scientists about fifteen years ago. Since a multitude of formulations for the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Reconfiguration Management in the Context of RTOS-Based HW/SW Embedded Systems
Oct 2007
This paper presents a safe and efficient solution to manage asynchronous configurations of dynamically reconfigurable systems-on-chip. The authors first define their unified RTOS-based framework...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Hard Real-Time Performances in Multiprocessor-Embedded Systems Using ASMP-Linux
Aug 2007
Multiprocessor systems, especially those based on multi-core or multi-threaded processors, and new operating system architectures can satisfy the ever increasing computational requirements of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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A SOA-Based Embedded Systems Development Environment for Industrial Automation
Jun 2007
Currently available tool-sets for the development of embedded systems adopt traditional architectural styles and do not cover the whole requirements of the development process, with extensibility...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Embedded XML DOM Parser: An Approach for XML Data Processing on Networked Embedded Systems with Real-Time Requirements
Oct 2007
Trends in control and automation show an increase in data processing and communication in embedded automation controllers. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is emerging as a dominant data...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Embedded Systems for Intelligent Vehicles
Jun 2007
There is a growing need for some kind of personal driving assistant which is likely to become more acute as the free, independent, and very mobile baby boomers continue to age. Up to 86.5% of the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Hardware Architecture of Reinforcement Learning Scheme for Dynamic Power Management in Embedded Systems
May 2007
Dynamic Power Management (DPM) is a technique to reduce power consumption of electronic systems by selectively shutting down idle components. In this paper, a novel and nontrivial enhancement of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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AADL Extension to Model Classical FPGA and FPGA Embedded within a SoC
May 2011
With the evolution of technology, the system complexity increased and the application fields of the embedded system expanded. Current applications need a high degree of performance, flexibility,...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Prime Field ECDSA Signature Processing for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems
Feb 2011
Growing ubiquity and safety relevance of embedded systems strengthen the need to protect their functionality against malicious attacks. Communication and system authentication by digital signature...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Dynamic Application Model for Scheduling with Uncertainty on Reconfigurable Architectures
Feb 2011
Applications executed on embedded systems require dynamicity and flexibility according to user and environment needs. Dynamically reconfigurable architecture could satisfy these requirements but...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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An Automatic Design Flow for Data Parallel and Pipelined Signal Processing Applications on Embedded Multiprocessor with NoC: Application to Cryptography
Sep 2009
Embedded system design is increasingly based on single chip multiprocessors because of the high performance and flexibility requirements. Embedded multiprocessors on FPGA provide the additional...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Enabling Self-Organization in Embedded Systems with Reconfigurable Hardware
Jul 2009
Increasing complexity due to rapid progress in information technology is making systems more and more difficult to integrate and control. Due to the large amount of possible configurations and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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High level modeling of Dynamic Reconfigurable FPGAs
Mar 2009
As System-on-Chip (SoC) based embedded systems have become a defacto industry standard, their overall design complexity has increased exponentially in recent years, necessitating the introduction...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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SystemC Transaction-Level Modeling of an MPSoC Platform Based on an Open Source ISS by Using Interprocess Communication
Aug 2008
Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) is a promising technique to deal with the increasing complexity of modern embedded systems. This model allows a system designer to model a complete application,...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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A Game-Theoretic Approach for Run-Time Distributed Optimization on MP-SoC
Aug 2008
With forecasted hundreds of Processing Elements (PEs), future embedded systems will be able to handle multiple applications with very diverse running constraints. Systems will integrate...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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A Computational Model to Disentangle Semantic Information Embedded in Word Association Norms
Dec 2008
Understanding the structure of semantic knowledge is an open challenge of fundamental importance in cognitive science. Along the most powerful computational probabilistic approaches to this...
Provided by Cornell University
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Metric Based Multi-Timescale Control for Reducing Power in Embedded Systems
Oct 2008
Digital control for embedded systems often requires low-power, hard real-time computation to satisfy high control-loop bandwidth, low latency, and low-power requirements. In particular, the...
Provided by University of California
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Managing Security in FPGA-Based Embedded Systems
Dec 2008
FPGAs combine the programmability of processors with the performance of custom hardware. As they become more common in critical embedded systems, new techniques are necessary to manage security in...
Provided by University of California
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Towards Understanding Architectural Tradeoffs in MEMS Closed-Loop Feedback Control
Oct 2007
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) combine lithographically formed mechanical structures with electrical elements to create physical systems that operate on the scale of microns. However, the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Efficient Remote Profiling for Resource-Constrained Devices
Jan 2011
The widespread use of ubiquitous, mobile, and continuously-connected computing agents has inspired software developers to change the way they test, debug, and optimize software. Users now play an...
Provided by University of California
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Equivalence Checking in Embedded Systems Design Verification
Oct 2010
In this paper the authors focus on some aspects related to modeling and formal verification of embedded systems. Many models have been proposed to represent embedded systems. These models...
Provided by Cornell University
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A Framework to Experiment Optimizations for Real-Time and Embedded Software
Nov 2010
Typical constraints on embedded systems include code size limits, upper bounds on energy consumption and hard or soft deadlines. To meet these requirements, it may be necessary to improve the...
Provided by Université européenne de Bretagne
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A Game-Theoretic Approach for Synthesizing Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems
Nov 2010
In this paper, the authors present an approach for fault-tolerant synthesis by combining predefined patterns for fault-tolerance with algorithmic game solving. A non-fault-tolerant system,...
Provided by Technische Universitat Munchen
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The Embedding Capacity of Information Flows Under Renewal Traffic
Mar 2011
Given two independent point processes and a certain rule for matching points between them, what is the fraction of matched points over infinitely long streams? In many application contexts, e.g.,...
Provided by Cornell University
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Fault Tolerance in Real Time Multiprocessors - Embedded Systems
Jan 2010
All real time tasks which are termed as critical tasks by nature have to complete its execution before its deadline, even in presence of faults. The most popularly used real time task assignment...
Provided by Cornell University
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Scavenger Hunt: An Embedded Wireless System Approach
Mar 2010
Recent statistics have shown the decline in the number of students choosing computer science as an undergraduate degree in the United States of America. This problem is pressing as the supply of...
Provided by Clemson University
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DESH: Overhead Reduction Algorithms for Deferrable Scheduling
Aug 2009
Although the deferrable scheduling algorithm for fixed priority transactions (DS-FP) has been shown to be a very effective approach for minimizing realtime update transaction workload, it suffers...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Using a Low-Cost SoC Computer and a Commercial RTOS in an Embedded Systems Design Course
Aug 2008
This paper describes the author's experiences using a low-cost System-on-a-Chip (SoC) embedded computer system and a commercial Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) in the laboratory component of an...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Intel Atom Pineview-Based Platforms From WIN Enterprises
Mar 2011
The Atom processor is a striking success for Intel. Without detracting from their efforts in the high-end of the microprocessor market, the company has been able to develop a significant presence...
Provided by WIN Enterprises
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Caches and Predictors for Real-Time, Unobtrusive, and Cost-Effective Program Tracing in Embedded Systems
May 2010
The increasing complexity of modern embedded computer systems makes software development and system verification the most critical steps in the system development. To expedite verification and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Offline Compression for On-Chip RAM
Jun 2007
The authors present offline RAM compression, an automated source-to-source transformation that reduces a program's data size. Statically allocated scalars, pointers, structures, and arrays are...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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T-Check: Bug Finding for Sensor Networks
Apr 2010
Sensor nodes are resource poor and failure-prone. Sensor networks are composed of many such nodes that are often hard to physically reach and that are connected by unreliable wireless links....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Correctness Proofs for Device Drivers in Embedded Systems
Aug 2010
Computer systems do not exist in isolation: they must interact with the world through I/O devices. The authors' work, which focuses on constrained embedded systems, provides a framework for...
Provided by University of Utah
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Towards Middleware for Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Jan 2008
Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems often require support for multiple simultaneous Quality of Service (QoS) properties, such as real-timeliness and fault tolerance, that operate...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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MDDPro: Model-Driven Dependability Provisioning in Enterprise Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Sep 2007
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principles are increasingly being adopted to develop Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems, such as avionics mission computing, due to the...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Modularizing Variability and Scalability Concerns in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems With Modeling Tools and Component Middleware: A Case Study
Jan 2011
Developing real-time software for large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems is hard due to variabilities that arise from integration with various subsystems based on different...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Supporting Component-Based Failover Units in Middleware for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Nov 2009
Although component middleware is increasingly used to develop Distributed, Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems, it poses new fault-tolerance challenges, such as the need for efficient...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Model-Driven QoS Provisioning for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Apr 2008
Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems are composed of applications with diverse CPU utilization requirements. These applications participate in many end-to-end application flows with...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Metaprogrammable Middleware Deployment and Configuration for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Aug 2007
Modern Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems, such as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) or smart power distribution, comprise multiple collaborating services with different...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Design-Time Optimization Techniques for Middleware QoS Configuration in Distributed Real-Time Systems
Oct 2008
In component-based Distributed, Real-time, and Embedded (DRE) systems, the deployment of application components and configuration of the middleware play an important role in determining the...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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NetQoPE: A Model-Driven Network QoS Provisioning Engine for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Oct 2007
This paper provides two contributions to the study of quality of service (QoS)-enabled middleware that supports the network QoS requirements of Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems....
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Automated Middleware QoS Configuration Techniques for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Apr 2008
Quite often the modeling tools used in the development lifecycle of Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems are middleware-specific, where they elevate middleware artifacts, such as...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Towards Improving End-to-End Performance of Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems Using Baseline Profiles
Feb 2008
Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems designed using component-based software processes must be properly deployed (i.e., the placement of components on hosts) and configured (i.e., the...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Model-Driven Specification of Component-Based Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems for Verification of Systemic QoS Properties
Jan 2008
The adage "The whole is not equal to the sum of its parts" is very appropriate in the context of verifying a range of systemic properties, such as deadlocks, correctness, and conformance to...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Type-Specialized Staged Programming With Process Separation
Jul 2009
Staging is a powerful language construct that allows a program at one stage to manipulate and specialize a program at the next. The authors propose hMLi as a new staged calculus designed with...
Provided by University of Vermont
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Maximizing Service Uptime of Smartphone-Based Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Nov 2010
Smartphones are starting to find use in mission-critical applications, such as search-and-rescue operations, wherein the mission capabilities are realized by deploying a collaborating set of...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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A Generative Middleware Specialization Process for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Jan 2011
General-purpose middleware must often be specialized for resource-constrained, real-time and embedded systems to improve their response-times, reliability, memory footprint, and even power...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Evaluating the Correctness and Effectiveness of a Middleware QoS Configuration Process in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Feb 2008
Recent advances in software processes and artifacts for automating middleware configurations in Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems are starting to address the complexities faced by...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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CaDAnCE: A Criticality-Aware Deployment and Configuration Engine
Feb 2008
Predictable Deployment and Configuration (D&C) of components in response to dynamic environmental changes or system mode changes is essential for ensuring open Distributed Real-time and Embedded...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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A Model-Driven QoS Provisioning Engine for Cyber Physical Systems
Jun 2009
Developing cyber physical systems is hard since it requires a coordinated, physics-aware allocation of CPU and network resources to satisfy their end-to-end Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements....
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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MoPED: A Model-Based Provisioning Engine for Dependability in Component-Based Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems
Nov 2010
Developing dependable Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems incurs significant complexities in the tradeoffs resulting from the different conflicting attributes of dependability, such...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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An Embedded Declarative Language for Hierarchical Object Structure Traversal
Oct 2008
A common challenge in processing large domain-specific models and in-memory object structures (e.g., complex XML documents) is writing traversals and queries on them. Object-oriented (OO) designs,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Towards High Confidence Cyber-physical Systems for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Mar 2008
The transportation sector worldwide is significantly stressed due to the inability of the infrastructure to meet the demands of ever increasing traffic volumes. Traffic congestion problems...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Towards a QoS Modeling and Modularization Framework for Component-Based Systems
Oct 2008
Current Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) frameworks for designing component-based systems provide modeling support for system's structural as well as non-functional or Quality of Service (QoS)...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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CQML: Aspect-Oriented Modeling for Modularizing and Weaving QoS Concerns in Component-Based Systems
Oct 2007
Designing large, component-based systems with multiple Quality of Service (QoS) concerns is a hard problem because these concerns crosscut the system functional composition concerns and get...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Stream Execution on Embedded Wide-Issue Clustered VLIW Architectures
Nov 2008
Very Long Instruction Word- (VLIW-) based processors have become widely adopted as a basic building block in modern Systemon-Chip designs. Advances in clustered VLIW architectures have extended...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Smart Camera Based on Embedded HW/SW Coprocessor
Sep 2008
This paper describes an image acquisition and a processing system based on a new coprocessor architecture designed for CMOS sensor imaging. The system exploits the full potential CMOS selective...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Embedded
May 2008
Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation and Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) is a graphical programming tool based on the dataflow language G. Recently, runtime support for a hard real-time environment...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Lutin: A Language for Specifying and Executing Reactive Scenarios
Jan 2008
This paper presents the language Lutin and its operational semantics. This language specifically targets the domain of reactive systems, where an execution is a (virtually) infinite sequence of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Formal Analysis Tools for the Synchronous Aspect Language Larissa
Apr 2008
The authors present two tools for the formal analysis of the aspect language Larissa, which extends the simple synchronous language Argos. The first tool concerns the combination of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Compilation and Worst-Case Reaction Time Analysis for Multi Threaded Esterel Processing
Apr 2008
The recently proposed reactive processing architectures are characterized by Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) that directly support reactive control flow including concurrency and preemption....
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Accuracy Constraint Determination in Fixed-Point System Design
Sep 2008
Most of digital signal processing applications are specified and designed with floatingpoint arithmetic but are finally implemented using fixed-point architectures. Thus, the design flow requires...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Multiple Word-Length High-Level Synthesis
Jul 2008
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications are nowadays widely used and their complexity is ever growing. The design of dedicated hardware accelerators is thus still needed in system-on-chip and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Using High-Level RTOS Models for HW/SW Embedded Architecture Exploration: Case Study on Mobile Robotic Vision
Jul 2008
The authors are interested in the design of a system-on-chip implementing the vision system of a mobile robot. Following a biologically inspired approach, this vision architecture belongs to a...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Synchronous Modeling and Analysis of Data Intensive Applications
Jun 2008
The authors present the modeling of data-intensive parallel applications following the synchronous approach. They consider the GASPARD environment, which is dedicated to high-performance...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
C-Based Design of Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
Jul 2008
With the proliferation of all kinds of electronic devices and the authors' increased dependences on electronics in every aspect of their lives from handheld PDAs, cell phones, medical and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Modelling Field Bus Communications in Mixed-Signal Embedded Systems
Jun 2008
The authors present a modelling platform using the SystemC-AMS language to simulate field bus communications for embedded systems. Their platform includes the model of an I/O controller IP that...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
System-on-Chip Environment: A SpecC-Based Framework for Heterogeneous MPSoC Design
Jun 2008
The constantly growing complexity of embedded systems is a challenge that drives the development of novel design automation techniques. C-based system-level design addresses the complexity...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Novel Methodology for Functional Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Embedded Systems
Apr 2008
A novel methodology is presented for the modeling and the simulation of wireless embedded systems. Tight interaction between the analog and the digital functionality makes the design and...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Design and Performance Evaluation of an Adaptive Resource Management Framework for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Jan 2008
Achieving end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) in Distributed Real-time Embedded (DRE) systems require QoS support and enforcement from their underlying operating platforms that integrates many...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
A Real-Time Embedded Kernel for Nonvisual Robotic Sensors
Jan 2008
The authors describe a novel and flexible real-time kernel, called Yartek, with low overhead and low footprint suitable for embedded systems. The motivation of this development was due to the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
RRES: A Novel Approach to the Partitioning Problem for a Typical Subset of System Graphs
Dec 2007
The research field of system partitioning in modern electronic system design started to find strong advertence of scientists about fifteen years ago. Since a multitude of formulations for the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Reconfiguration Management in the Context of RTOS-Based HW/SW Embedded Systems
Oct 2007
This paper presents a safe and efficient solution to manage asynchronous configurations of dynamically reconfigurable systems-on-chip. The authors first define their unified RTOS-based framework...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Hard Real-Time Performances in Multiprocessor-Embedded Systems Using ASMP-Linux
Aug 2007
Multiprocessor systems, especially those based on multi-core or multi-threaded processors, and new operating system architectures can satisfy the ever increasing computational requirements of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
A SOA-Based Embedded Systems Development Environment for Industrial Automation
Jun 2007
Currently available tool-sets for the development of embedded systems adopt traditional architectural styles and do not cover the whole requirements of the development process, with extensibility...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Embedded XML DOM Parser: An Approach for XML Data Processing on Networked Embedded Systems with Real-Time Requirements
Oct 2007
Trends in control and automation show an increase in data processing and communication in embedded automation controllers. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is emerging as a dominant data...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Embedded Systems for Intelligent Vehicles
Jun 2007
There is a growing need for some kind of personal driving assistant which is likely to become more acute as the free, independent, and very mobile baby boomers continue to age. Up to 86.5% of the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Hardware Architecture of Reinforcement Learning Scheme for Dynamic Power Management in Embedded Systems
May 2007
Dynamic Power Management (DPM) is a technique to reduce power consumption of electronic systems by selectively shutting down idle components. In this paper, a novel and nontrivial enhancement of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
AADL Extension to Model Classical FPGA and FPGA Embedded within a SoC
May 2011
With the evolution of technology, the system complexity increased and the application fields of the embedded system expanded. Current applications need a high degree of performance, flexibility,...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Prime Field ECDSA Signature Processing for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems
Feb 2011
Growing ubiquity and safety relevance of embedded systems strengthen the need to protect their functionality against malicious attacks. Communication and system authentication by digital signature...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Dynamic Application Model for Scheduling with Uncertainty on Reconfigurable Architectures
Feb 2011
Applications executed on embedded systems require dynamicity and flexibility according to user and environment needs. Dynamically reconfigurable architecture could satisfy these requirements but...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
An Automatic Design Flow for Data Parallel and Pipelined Signal Processing Applications on Embedded Multiprocessor with NoC: Application to Cryptography
Sep 2009
Embedded system design is increasingly based on single chip multiprocessors because of the high performance and flexibility requirements. Embedded multiprocessors on FPGA provide the additional...
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Enabling Self-Organization in Embedded Systems with Reconfigurable Hardware
Jul 2009
Increasing complexity due to rapid progress in information technology is making systems more and more difficult to integrate and control. Due to the large amount of possible configurations and...
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High level modeling of Dynamic Reconfigurable FPGAs
Mar 2009
As System-on-Chip (SoC) based embedded systems have become a defacto industry standard, their overall design complexity has increased exponentially in recent years, necessitating the introduction...
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SystemC Transaction-Level Modeling of an MPSoC Platform Based on an Open Source ISS by Using Interprocess Communication
Aug 2008
Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) is a promising technique to deal with the increasing complexity of modern embedded systems. This model allows a system designer to model a complete application,...
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A Game-Theoretic Approach for Run-Time Distributed Optimization on MP-SoC
Aug 2008
With forecasted hundreds of Processing Elements (PEs), future embedded systems will be able to handle multiple applications with very diverse running constraints. Systems will integrate...
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Hybrid PSO-SA Type Algorithms for Multimodal Function Optimization and Reducing Energy Consumption in Embedded Systems
Apr 2011
The paper presents a novel hybrid evolutionary algorithm that combines Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithms. When a local optimal solution is reached with PSO,...
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A Sequential Indexing Scheme for Flash-Based Embedded Systems
Mar 2009
NAND Flash has become the most popular stable storage medium for embedded systems. As on-board storage capacity increases, the need for efficient indexing techniques arises. Such techniques are...
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Design and Test Strategies for Microarchitectural Post-Fabrication Tuning
Aug 2009
Process variations are a major hurdle for continued technology scaling. Both systematic and random variations will affect the critical delay of fabricated chips, causing a wide frequency and power...
Provided by Stanford University
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The Design of a Bloom Filter Hardware Accelerator for Ultra Low Power Systems
Aug 2009
Battery-powered embedded systems require low energy usage to extend system lifetime. These systems must power many components for long periods of time and are particularly sensitive to energy use....
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Energy-And Area-Efficient Architectures Through Application Clustering and Architectural Heterogeneity
Mar 2009
Customizing architectures for particular applications is a promising approach to yield highly energy-efficient designs for embedded systems. This paper explores the benefits of architectural...
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MiBench: A Free, Commercially Representative Embedded Benchmark Suite
Jan 2011
This paper examines a set of commercially representative embedded programs and compares them to an existing benchmark suite, SPEC2000. A new version of SimpleScalar that has been adapted to the...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Optimus: Efficient Realization of Streaming Applications on FPGAs
Oct 2008
In this paper, the authors introduce Optimus: an optimizing synthesis compiler for streaming applications. Optimus compiles programs written in a high level streaming language to either software...
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The StageNet Fabric for Constructing Resilient Multicore Systems
Sep 2008
Scaling of CMOS feature size has long been a source of dramatic performance gains. However, the reduction in voltage levels has not been able to match this rate of scaling, leading to increasing...
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Reduced Computational Cost in the Calculation of Worst Case Response Time for Real Time Systems
Oct 2009
Modern Real Time Operating Systems require reducing computational costs even though the microprocessors become more powerful each day. It is usual that Real Time Operating Systems for embedded...
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