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Secure Microkernels, State Monads and Scalable Refinement
May 2008
The authors present a scalable, practical Hoare Logic and refinement calculus for the nondeterministic state monad with exceptions and failure in Isabelle/HOL. The emphasis of this formalisation...
Provided by NICTA
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Kernel Design for Isolation and Assurance of Physical Memory
Apr 2008
Embedded systems are evolving into increasingly complex software systems. One approach to managing this software complexity is to divide the system into smaller, tractable components and provide...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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On-Line Arithmetic Based Reprogrammable Hardware Implementation of LVQ Neural Network for Alertness Classification
Mar 2008
The current study presents the hard implementation of a Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) neural network. Starting from the spectral EEG analysis, the authors suggest an LVQ serial on-line...
Provided by INRIA
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The Software Structure and Principles of Main Tasks Scheduling in an Executive System
Apr 2009
The paper describes a practical way of design and realization of one simple real time software, better say: executive system. It is applied on an own programmable logic controller - Microprocessor...
Provided by JATIT
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Optimization of Function Partition Between Hardware and Software Based on United Evolutionary Algorithm
Dec 2009
Partition between hardware and software is a key problem in hardware-software co-design, and global optimums detection of the objective function is of vital importance in hardware/software...
Provided by Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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Efficient Runtime Performance Monitoring of FPGA-based Applications
May 2009
Embedded computing platforms have long incorporated non-traditional architectures (e.g., FPGAs, ASICs) to combat the diminishing returns of Moore's Law as applied to traditional processors. These...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Virtualizing Embedded Systems - Why Bother?
Jun 2011
Platform virtualization, which supports the co-existence of multiple operating-system environments on a single physical platform, is now commonplace in server computing, as it can provide similar...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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On the Application of Meta-Design Techniques in Hardware Design Domain
Aug 2010
System-level design based on high-level abstractions is becoming increasingly important in hardware and embedded system design. This paper analyzes meta-design techniques oriented at developing...
Provided by Kaunas University of Technology
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Test Scheduling Optimization for Embedded Core Testing
May 2010
Test scheduling is crucially important for optimal SoC test automation in allocating the limited available test resources. To assign test resource, this paper introduces a fuzzy based engine. Test...
Provided by JATIT
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A Methodology for Estimation of Performance in Real Time Distributed Embedded Systems
May 2010
As embedded systems become increasingly networked, and interact with the physical world, Real Time Distributed Embedded Systems are emerging. This paper mainly focuses on the performance...
Provided by JATIT
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ìSETL: A Set Based Programming Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2011
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are poised to play a pivotal role in engineering new solutions to a variety of societal-scale problems, such as energy conservation, climate change, healthcare,...
Provided by Purdue University
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Energy-Aware Compilation and Hardware Design for VLIW Embedded Systems
Oct 2007
Tomorrow's embedded devices need to run multimedia applications demanding high computational power with low energy consumption constraints. In this context, the register file is a key source of...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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Exploring Temperature-Aware Design of Memory Architectures in VLIW Systems
Nov 2008
This paper presents a thermal model to analyze the temperature evolution in the shared register files found on VLIW systems. The use of this model allows the analysis of several factors that have...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Flagging Critical Components to Prevent Transient Faults in Real-Time Systems
Jun 2009
This paper proposes the use of metrics in design space exploration that highlight where in the structure of the model and at what point in the behaviour, prevention is needed against transient...
Provided by Curtin University of Technology
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Multi-View Description of Real-Time Systems' Architecture
Jun 2009
Real-time embedded systems should benefit from component-based software engineering to handle complexity and deal with dependability. In these systems, applications should not only be logically...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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The Emergence of a Networking Primitive in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2008
The wireless sensor network community approached networking abstractions as an open question, allowing answers to emerge with time and experience. The Trickle algorithm has become a basic...
Provided by Stanford University
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Efficient Embedded Software Development Using QEMU
Sep 2009
Software based processor emulators have been around for a long time and predominantly used by developers of Operating Systems. With virtualization technology becoming more common and gaining...
Provided by ABB
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XtratuM: A Hypervisor for Safety Critical Embedded Systems
Sep 2009
XtratuM is a hypervisor designed to meet safety critical requirements. Initially designed for x86 architectures (version 2.0), it has been strongly redesigned for SPARC v8 architecture and...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Investigating Latency Effects of the Linux Real-Time Preemption Patches (PREEMPT RT) on AMD's GEODE LX Platform
Sep 2009
When it comes to embedded systems, real-time characteristics like low-latency, deterministic behavior and guaranteed calculations are of utmost importance and there has been an increasing market...
Provided by VersaLogic
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On the Design and Control of Wireless Networked Embedded Systems
Jan 2011
Wireless networked embedded systems are becoming increasingly important in a wide area of technical fields. In this paper, the authors present recent results on the design of these systems and...
Provided by Lund University
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A Hyper-Domain Image Watermarking Method Based on Macro Edge Block and Wavelet Transform for Digital Signal Processor
Jun 2009
In order to protect original data, watermarking is first consideration direction for digital information copyright. In addition, to achieve high quality image, the algorithm maybe cannot run on...
Provided by National Chiao Tung University
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Research on the Survivability of Embedded Real-Time System
Jan 2011
Introducing survivability into Embedded Real-Time System (ERTS) can improve the survivability power of the system. This paper mainly discusses about the survivability of ERTS. The first is the...
Provided by Zhejiang Normal University
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Performance Analysis and Design Space Exploration for High-End Biomedical Applications: Challenges and Solutions
Oct 2007
High-end biomedical applications are a good target for specific-purpose System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations. Human heart ElectroCardioGram (ECG) real-time monitoring and analysis is an immediate...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Modelling Adaptive Systems in ForSyDe
Mar 2008
Emerging architectures such as partially reconfigurable FPGAs provide a huge potential for adaptivity in the area of embedded systems. Since many system functions are only executed at particular...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Custom Microcoded Dynamic Memory Management for Distributed On-Chip Memory Organizations
Feb 2011
Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoCs) have attracted significant attention since they are recognized as a scalable paradigm to interconnect and organize a high number of cores. Current...
Provided by National Technical University of Athens
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ANDRES - ANalysis and Design of Run-Time REconfigurable, Heterogeneous Systems
Jun 2007
In this paper the authors will present the ANDRES project. The main objective of ANDRES is the development of a seamless design flow for adaptive heterogeneous embedded systems based on the...
Provided by Technical University of Vienna
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Adaptively Reconfigurable Controller for the Flash Memory
Apr 2011
As the continuous development on the capacity and work frequency, Programmable Logic Devices (PLD) especially Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is playing an increasingly important role in...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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The Andres Project: Analysis and Design of Run-Time Reconfigurable, Heterogeneous Systems
Jul 2007
Today's heterogeneous embedded systems combine components from different domains, such as software, analogue hardware and digital hardware. The design and implementation of these systems is still...
Provided by Technical University of Vienna
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Performance Analysis of Reconfigurations in Adaptive Real-Time Streaming Applications
Dec 2009
The authors propose a performance analysis framework for adaptive real-time synchronous data flow streaming applications on run-time reconfigurable FPGAs. As the main contribution, they present a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Buffer Minimization of Real-Time Streaming Applications Scheduling on Hybrid CPU/FPGA Architectures
Jan 2009
The authors address the problem of real-time streaming applications scheduling on hybrid CPU/FPGA architectures. The main contribution is a two-step approach to minimize the buffer requirement for...
Provided by KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
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High-Level Estimation and Trade-Off Analysis for Adaptive Real-Time Systems
Feb 2009
The authors propose a novel design estimation method for adaptive streaming applications to be implemented on a partially reconfigurable FPGA. Based on experimental results they enable accurate...
Provided by KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
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Thermal Balancing Policy for Multiprocessor Stream Computing Platforms
Oct 2009
Die-temperature control to avoid hotspots is increasingly critical in MultiProcessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) for stream computing. In this paper, thermal balancing policies based on task...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Analysis of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms to Optimize Dynamic Data Types in Embedded Systems
Jul 2008
New multimedia embedded applications are increasingly dynamic, and rely on Dynamically-allocated Data Types (DDTs) to store their data. The optimization of DDTs for each target embedded system is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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EWD: A Metamodeling Driven Customizable Multi-MoC System Modeling Framework
Aug 2007
The authors present the EWD design environment and methodology, a modeling and simulation framework suited for complex and heterogeneous embedded systems with varying degrees of expressibility and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Island-Based Adaptable Embedded System Design
Feb 2011
Nowadays, hardware devices are meant to host the execution of many complex, multi-core applications, whose functional and non-functional requirements vary according to the specific working domain....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Exploration of Memory Hierarchy Configurations for Efficient Garbage Collection on High-Performance Embedded Systems
May 2009
Modern embedded devices (e.g., PDAs, mobile phones) are now incorporating Java as a very popular implementation language in their designs. These new embedded systems include multiple applications...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Mapping Flow for Dynamically Reconfigurable Multi-Core System-on-Chip Design
Mar 2011
Nowadays, multi-core Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) are typically required to execute multiple complex applications, which demand a large set of heterogeneous hardware cores with different sizes. In this...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Simulation of High-Performance Memory Allocators
Sep 2010
Current general-purpose memory allocators do not provide sufficient speed or flexibility for modern high-performance applications. To optimize metrics like performance, memory usage and energy...
Provided by Complutense University of Madrid
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Thermal-Aware Compilation for Register Window-Based Embedded Processors
Sep 2010
The development of compiler-based mechanisms to optimize the thermal profile of large register files to improve the processor reliability has become an important issue. Thermal hotspots have been...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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A Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm to Optimize Dynamic Memory Managers in Embedded Systems
Jul 2010
For the last 30 years, several Dynamic Memory Managers (DMMs) have been proposed. Such DMMs include first fit, best fit, segregated fit and buddy systems. Since the performance, memory usage and...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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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...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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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....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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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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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...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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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,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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On the Design and Control of Wireless Networked Embedded Systems
Jan 2011
Wireless networked embedded systems are becoming increasingly important in a wide area of technical fields. In this paper, the authors present recent results on the design of these systems and...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
A Hyper-Domain Image Watermarking Method Based on Macro Edge Block and Wavelet Transform for Digital Signal Processor
Jun 2009
In order to protect original data, watermarking is first consideration direction for digital information copyright. In addition, to achieve high quality image, the algorithm maybe cannot run on...
Provided by National Chiao Tung University
-
White Papers
Research on the Survivability of Embedded Real-Time System
Jan 2011
Introducing survivability into Embedded Real-Time System (ERTS) can improve the survivability power of the system. This paper mainly discusses about the survivability of ERTS. The first is the...
Provided by Zhejiang Normal University
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White Papers
Performance Analysis and Design Space Exploration for High-End Biomedical Applications: Challenges and Solutions
Oct 2007
High-end biomedical applications are a good target for specific-purpose System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations. Human heart ElectroCardioGram (ECG) real-time monitoring and analysis is an immediate...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Modelling Adaptive Systems in ForSyDe
Mar 2008
Emerging architectures such as partially reconfigurable FPGAs provide a huge potential for adaptivity in the area of embedded systems. Since many system functions are only executed at particular...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Custom Microcoded Dynamic Memory Management for Distributed On-Chip Memory Organizations
Feb 2011
Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoCs) have attracted significant attention since they are recognized as a scalable paradigm to interconnect and organize a high number of cores. Current...
Provided by National Technical University of Athens
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White Papers
ANDRES - ANalysis and Design of Run-Time REconfigurable, Heterogeneous Systems
Jun 2007
In this paper the authors will present the ANDRES project. The main objective of ANDRES is the development of a seamless design flow for adaptive heterogeneous embedded systems based on the...
Provided by Technical University of Vienna
-
White Papers
Adaptively Reconfigurable Controller for the Flash Memory
Apr 2011
As the continuous development on the capacity and work frequency, Programmable Logic Devices (PLD) especially Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is playing an increasingly important role in...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
The Andres Project: Analysis and Design of Run-Time Reconfigurable, Heterogeneous Systems
Jul 2007
Today's heterogeneous embedded systems combine components from different domains, such as software, analogue hardware and digital hardware. The design and implementation of these systems is still...
Provided by Technical University of Vienna
-
White Papers
Performance Analysis of Reconfigurations in Adaptive Real-Time Streaming Applications
Dec 2009
The authors propose a performance analysis framework for adaptive real-time synchronous data flow streaming applications on run-time reconfigurable FPGAs. As the main contribution, they present a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Buffer Minimization of Real-Time Streaming Applications Scheduling on Hybrid CPU/FPGA Architectures
Jan 2009
The authors address the problem of real-time streaming applications scheduling on hybrid CPU/FPGA architectures. The main contribution is a two-step approach to minimize the buffer requirement for...
Provided by KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
High-Level Estimation and Trade-Off Analysis for Adaptive Real-Time Systems
Feb 2009
The authors propose a novel design estimation method for adaptive streaming applications to be implemented on a partially reconfigurable FPGA. Based on experimental results they enable accurate...
Provided by KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Thermal Balancing Policy for Multiprocessor Stream Computing Platforms
Oct 2009
Die-temperature control to avoid hotspots is increasingly critical in MultiProcessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) for stream computing. In this paper, thermal balancing policies based on task...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Analysis of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms to Optimize Dynamic Data Types in Embedded Systems
Jul 2008
New multimedia embedded applications are increasingly dynamic, and rely on Dynamically-allocated Data Types (DDTs) to store their data. The optimization of DDTs for each target embedded system is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
EWD: A Metamodeling Driven Customizable Multi-MoC System Modeling Framework
Aug 2007
The authors present the EWD design environment and methodology, a modeling and simulation framework suited for complex and heterogeneous embedded systems with varying degrees of expressibility and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Island-Based Adaptable Embedded System Design
Feb 2011
Nowadays, hardware devices are meant to host the execution of many complex, multi-core applications, whose functional and non-functional requirements vary according to the specific working domain....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Exploration of Memory Hierarchy Configurations for Efficient Garbage Collection on High-Performance Embedded Systems
May 2009
Modern embedded devices (e.g., PDAs, mobile phones) are now incorporating Java as a very popular implementation language in their designs. These new embedded systems include multiple applications...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Mapping Flow for Dynamically Reconfigurable Multi-Core System-on-Chip Design
Mar 2011
Nowadays, multi-core Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) are typically required to execute multiple complex applications, which demand a large set of heterogeneous hardware cores with different sizes. In this...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Simulation of High-Performance Memory Allocators
Sep 2010
Current general-purpose memory allocators do not provide sufficient speed or flexibility for modern high-performance applications. To optimize metrics like performance, memory usage and energy...
Provided by Complutense University of Madrid
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White Papers
Thermal-Aware Compilation for Register Window-Based Embedded Processors
Sep 2010
The development of compiler-based mechanisms to optimize the thermal profile of large register files to improve the processor reliability has become an important issue. Thermal hotspots have been...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
A Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm to Optimize Dynamic Memory Managers in Embedded Systems
Jul 2010
For the last 30 years, several Dynamic Memory Managers (DMMs) have been proposed. Such DMMs include first fit, best fit, segregated fit and buddy systems. Since the performance, memory usage and...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
HOLLOWS: A Power-Aware Task Scheduler for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes
Sep 2010
Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes (EHSNs) have stringent low-energy consumption requirements, but they need to concurrently execute several types of tasks (processing, sensing, actuation, etc.)....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Adaptive Task Migration Policies for Thermal Control in MPSoCs
Apr 2010
In deep submicron circuits, high temperatures have created critical issues in reliability, timing, performance, coolings costs and leakage power. Task migration techniques have been proposed to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Execution Times and Execution Jitter Analysis of Real-Time Tasks Under Fixed-Priority Pre-Emptive Scheduling
Oct 2008
In this paper, the authors present worst-case and best-case execution times and (absolute) execution jitter analysis of independent, periodically activated, hard real-time tasks that are executed...
Provided by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Improving Reliability of Embedded Systems Through Dynamic Memory Manager Optimization Using Grammatical Evolution
Jul 2010
Technology scaling has offered advantages to embedded systems, such as increased performance, more available memory and reduced energy consumption. However, scaling also brings a number of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Mixed Heuristic and Mathematical Programming Using Reference Points for Dynamic Data Types Optimization in Multimedia Embedded Systems
Jul 2009
New multimedia embedded applications are becoming increasingly dynamic. Thus, they cannot only rely on static data allocation, and must employ Dynamically-allocated Data Types (DDTs) to store...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Optimization of Dynamic Memory Managers for Embedded Systems Using Grammatical Evolution
Jul 2009
New portable consumer embedded devices must execute multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.) that demand extensive memory accesses and memory...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Optimization of Dynamic Data Types in Embedded Systems Using DEVS/SOA-Based Modeling and Simulation
May 2008
Latest multimedia embedded devices are enhancing its capabilities and are currently able to run applications reserved to powerful desktop computers few years ago (e.g., 3D games, video players)....
Provided by University of Arizona
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A Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm to Optimize Dynamic Data Types in Embedded Systems
Jul 2008
New multimedia embedded applications are increasingly dynamic, and rely on Dynamically-allocated Data Types (DDTs) to store their data. The optimization of DDTs for each target embedded system is...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Analysis and Research of Two-Level Scheduling Profile for Open Real-Time System
Jan 2011
In an open real-time system environment, the coexistence of different kinds of real-time and non real-time applications makes the system scheduling mechanism face new requirements and challenges....
Provided by Zhejiang Normal University
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Extending an Open-Source Real-Time Operating System With Hierarchical Scheduling
Oct 2010
Hierarchical Scheduling Frameworks (HSFs) have been devised to support the integration of independently developed and analyzed subsystems. This paper presents an efficient, modular and extendible...
Provided by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
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ORUIES: Object Oriented User Interface for Embedded Systems
May 2008
This paper introduces the Object Oriented User Interface for Embedded Systems (ORUIES), which is based on the Architecture Description Language concept, specifically the Simulation Architecture...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Topological Relationships Among Folded Hypercubes, Even Graphs and Odd Graphs
May 2008
Study of the properties of an interconnection network is an important part of the study of any parallel processing or distributed system. The hypercube is widely used and well-known...
Provided by Sunchon National University
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Embedding Analysis Among the Matrix-Star, Pancake, and RFM Graphs
May 2008
The Matrix-star, Pancake and RFM graphs also have such a good property of the Star and have a low network cost than the Hypercube. The Matrix-star graph which has the Star graph as a basic module...
Provided by Sunchon National University
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Firm Firmware and Apps for the Internet of Things
May 2011
Among the challenges for the Internet of Things, two stand out: a scalable application layer with wide interoperability and a common, reliable programming model. The authors propose to strip all...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Design and Implementation of a Gateway for Web-Based Interaction and Management of Embedded Devices
Apr 2009
Wireless Sensor Networks provide unprecedented possibilities for monitoring and interacting with the real-world. Unfortunately, the lack of open and simple standards for ad-hoc collaboration...
Provided by SAP Research
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Reliable Execution of Business Processes on Dynamic Networks of Service-Enabled Devices
Aug 2009
It is expected that future shop-floors will be populated by thousands of networked embedded devices. Those will not only communicate using IP (as in TCP/IP), but also feature some autonomy,...
Provided by SAP Research
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Quality Validation for Mobile Embedded Software
Nov 2008
Many mobile applications have evolved from simple HTML pages to complex service-oriented applications that have high maintenance cost. This high maintenance cost is due to the heterogeneity of...
Provided by CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF DAEGU
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Stepwise Refinement in Executable-UML for Embedded System Design: A Preliminary Study
Jul 2009
The fast growth in complexity coupled with requests for shorter development periods for embedded systems are bringing demands towards a more effective, i.e. higher-abstract, design process for...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers - Video
IBM Rapid Deployment Services - Ahead Of The Pack
Jul 2011
Today's complex middleware solutions require faster speed to value and higher levels of quality. This brief video explains the role IBM Rapid Deployment Services (RDS) can play in helping today's...
Provided by IBM
