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White Papers
High-Performance Embedded Applications: The SUMIT Standard
Dec 2009
Stackable Unified Module Interconnect Technology (SUMIT) has garnered a ground breaking technology in the form of a new interconnect standard which makes it applicable in the medical, aerospace...
Provided by VersaLogic
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White Papers
Enabling Greener Embedded Control Systems With Floating-Point DSCs
Mar 2008
Energy efficient equipments are the need of the hour. This is especially true for large industrial motors that consume huge amounts of power, which amounts to almost two-thirds of all the...
Provided by Texas Instruments
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White Papers
Automatic Level Controller for Speech Signals Using PID Controllers
Jul 2008
Digital Still Camera (DSC) records both sound and video frames for the movie capture application. This is done with the intention of capturing the speech associated with the video. The problem in...
Provided by Texas Instruments
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Case Studies
A Case Study for Transitioning Class a Server Motherboards to Lead-Free
Nov 2008
The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) legislation was formed in 2006. One, out of the many, exemptions that it had was developing of lead based solders in Class A servers, storage array...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
How to Select a New PC Motherboard
Jan 2010
The sheer thought of replacing the motherboard of a personal computer can be confusing. Choosing the right mother board for one's PC is not as difficult a task as one thinks if they keep a few...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Vertex Processing Selection Capability
Dec 2007
It is essential to make the most of your processor along with having a better 3D experience. With the introduction of 15.6 and 14.31 Windows Vista and Windows XP graphic drivers with compatible...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel Atom Processor 300ä Series
Sep 2008
The efficiency of any person tends to decrease outside its thermal comfort level. Exactly is the case with machines. In a processor, every individual component has its own functional temperature...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
An Area Efficient 32-Bit Carry-Select Adder for Low Power Applications
Jul 2012
CSLA is used in many computational systems to alleviate the problem of carry propagation delay by independently generating multiple carries and then select a carry to generate the sum. However,...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Edge-Triggered Pulsed Sequential Elements With SoC Applications
Jul 2012
The System-On-Chip (SoC) design is integrating hundreds of millions of transistors on one chip, whereas packaging and cooling only have a limited ability to remove the excess heat. In this paper,...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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White Papers
Locating Cache Performance Bottlenecks Using Data Profiling
Feb 2010
Every organization understands the need of effective use of CPU data caches to ensure good performance. Yet, this is made difficult due to the fact that it is extremely tough to spot poor cache...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Case Studies
Case Study: QLogic Automates Feature Upgrades in Embedded Systems With Orion
Jan 2010
QLogic's NX3031 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers and 3100-Series of Intelligent 10 Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet Adapters offer the industry's highest performance for next-generation, mainstream...
Provided by Agilis Software
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Case Studies
AMD Gives Big Quad to Big Animation's Creative Core
Jan 2010
The animation industry in India is at its exponential growth, set to reach $1 billion by 2010 and so its need for a robust processing technology that can ensure meeting international production...
Provided by Indian Express
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Whitepapers
An Evaluation of New Processor Instructions for Accelerating Selected Cryptographic Algorithms
Jun 2010
While there are a plethora of cryptographic techniques, the cost to implement them in terms of wall clock execution time and cost has prevented some adoptions from being practical. Up to date,...
Provided by VeriSign
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White Papers
Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage
Feb 2009
Reducing the energy consumption of PCs is becoming increasingly important with rising energy costs and environmental concerns. Sleep states such as S3 (suspend to RAM) save energy, but are often...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage
May 2008
Reducing the energy consumption of PCs is becoming increasingly important with rising energy costs and environmental concerns. Sleep states such as S3 (suspend to RAM) save energy but prevent the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Remote Power Control of Wireless Network Interfaces
Jan 2010
This paper presents a new power management technique aimed at increasing the energy efficiency of client-server multimedia applications running on wireless portable devices. Authors focus on...
Provided by University of Urbino
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White Papers
Fast and Optimal Scheduling Over Multiple Network Interfaces
Oct 2007
Today's mobile phones already contain two or more network interfaces (NICs) and future devices are likely to have several more, each with different energy costs, dollar costs, and data...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
A Network Interface Card Architecture for I/O Virtualization in Embedded Systems
Mar 2010
In this paper authors present an architectural concept for network interface cards (NIC) targeting embedded systems and supporting I/O virtualization. Current solutions for high performance...
Provided by Technischen Universitat Munchen
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White Papers
First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem)
Apr 2008
Next generation Intel micro architecture (Nehalem) has been designed from the ground up to capitalize on all the advantages of Intel's industry-leading 45-nanometer (nm) Hi-k metal gate silicon...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
An Optimization Based Design for Integrated Dependable Real-Time Embedded Systems
May 2009
Moving from the traditional federated design paradigm, integration of mixed-criticality software components onto common computing platforms is increasingly being adopted by automotive, avionics...
Provided by Technische Universitat Darmstadt
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Whitepapers
Using Underutilized CPU Resources to Enhance Its Reliability
Dec 2008
Soft errors (or transient faults) are temporary faults that arise in a circuit due to a variety of internal noise and external sources such as cosmic particle hits. Though soft errors still occur...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Multi Variable Optimization Approach for the Design of Integrated Dependable Real-Time Embedded Systems
Oct 2007
Embedded systems increasingly encompass both dependability and responsiveness requirements. While sophisticated techniques exist, on a discrete basis, for both dependability/Fault-Tolerance (FT)...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
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Whitepapers
On Software Design for Stochastic Processors
Jun 2012
Much recent research suggests significant power and energy benefits of relaxing correctness constraints in future processors. Such processors with relaxed constraints have often been referred to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Stochastic Computing: Embracing Errors in Architecture and Design of Processors and Applications
Oct 2011
As device sizes shrink, device-level manufacturing challenges have led to increased variability in physical circuit characteristics. Exponentially increasing circuit density has not only brought...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Specifying and Characterizing Tactile Performances for Multi-Touch Panels: Toward a User-Centric Metrology
Jul 2010
Whereas Vision Human Factor (VHF) studies provide an abundant literature to characterize display modules, building a specification for touch sensitive systems - and more noticeably for multi-touch...
Provided by Stantum
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White Papers
SCOC3: A Space Computer on a Chip - An Example of Successful Development of a Highly Integrated Innovative ASIC
Feb 2010
This paper presents the definition of an integrated processor core ASIC named SCOC3 which is designed for space computers. It also presents the validation method that has led to a successful ASIC...
Provided by Economic Development Association of Alabama
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White Papers
Respec: Efficient Online Multiprocessor Replay Via Speculation and External Determinism
Mar 2010
Deterministic replay systems record and reproduce the execution of a hardware or software system. While it is well known how to replay uniprocessor systems, replaying shared memory multiprocessor...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Opportunities for Concurrent Dynamic Analysis With Explicit Inter-Core Communication
Jun 2010
Multicore is now the dominant processor trend, and the number of cores is rapidly increasing. The paradigm shift to multicore forces the redesign of the software stack, which includes dynamic...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
OneBusAway: Results From Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit
Apr 2010
Public transit systems play an important role in combating traffic congestion, reducing carbon emissions, and promoting compact, sustainable urban communities. The usability of public transit can...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
What Is the Difference Between a Cellular Modem and a Cellular IP Modem?
Aug 2008
Cellular modems and cellular IP modems are vital components in industrial cellular Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networking. However, it may be difficult to differentiate between these two devices...
Provided by Moxa
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Case Studies
Oracle Uses Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series - Based Systems With Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager to Increase Rack Density and Propel Business Growth
Sep 2009
Oracle was intent on increasing the computing density of its data centers so it could serve more customers at a lower cost and be in a strong competitive position when the economy improves. The...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Postal Service Extends Reach to the Rural Masses With Multilingual Information Kiosks
Aug 2010
India Post provides mail, financial services and premium offerings including courier and e-banking to its customers throughout India. To extend its reach to the rural masses, the company turned to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Intel Xeon Processor-Based SGI Altix Systems Deliver Dense, Energy-Efficient Performance for Oxford Supercomputing Centre
Mar 2010
Building on its success in meeting the needs of campus researchers, the OSC received funds to expand its HPC resources and extend its services to commercial users. The center needed a flexible...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
PCOUNT: A Power Aware Fetch Policy in Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
Jun 2011
The Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) architecture improves the resource efficiency via scheduling and executing concurrent threads in the same core. Moreover, fetch policies are proposed to...
Provided by Florida International University
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Whitepapers
Resource Sharing Control in Simultaneous MultiThreading Microarchitectures
Mar 2008
Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) achieves improved system resource utilization and accordingly higher instruction throughput because it exploits Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP) in addition to...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Intel Itanium Processor 9300 Series: A Technical Overview for IT Decision-Makers
Feb 2010
The lntel ltanium processor family provides the foundation for mainframe-class computing systems that offers greater flexibility and better cost models than traditional mainframe and high-end RISC...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Mission-Critical Data Applications Reveal Global Reach and Impact of Itanium-Based Systems
Dec 2009
Enterprise applications that deliver mission-critical data must assure flawless transactions and reliable access to information. This IT imperative is becoming more challenging with data volumes...
Provided by Itanium Solutions Alliance
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White Papers
Achieving One TeraFLOPS With 28-nm FPGAs
Sep 2010
Due to recent technological developments, high-performance floating-point signal processing can, for the first time, be easily achieved using FPGAs. To date, virtually all FPGA-based signal...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Fulfilling Technology Needs for 40G-100G Network-Centric Operations and Warfare
Sep 2010
The development and deployment of Network-Centric Operations and Warfare (NCOW) to integrate and connect the military's many separate networks relies on high-speed packet transport and optical...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Board Design Guidelines for LVDS Systems
Sep 2010
LVDS is a high-speed, low-voltage, low-power, and low-noise general-purpose I/O interface standard. The low-voltage swing and differential current mode outputs significantly reduce Electromagnetic...
Provided by Altera
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Whitepapers
Implementation of Digital PID Feedback Controller for a Buck Converter
Mar 2012
The design of a digital controller is presented for a dc-dc converter. Digital control of dc-dc converter using DSP is becoming more and more common in industry today. Starting with a dc-dc buck...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Whitepapers
Is Co-Scheduling Too Expensive for SMP VMs?
Apr 2011
Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) Virtual Machines (VMs) allow users to take advantage of a multiprocessor infrastructure. Despite the advantage, SMP VMs can cause synchronization latency to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Efficient External Sorting on Flash Memory Embedded Devices
Feb 2013
Many embedded system applications involve storing and querying large datasets. Existing research in this area has focused on adapting and applying conventional database algorithms to embedded...
Provided by AIRCC
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Whitepapers
Concurrent Differential Evolution Based on MapReduce
Sep 2010
Multi-core processors, which have more than one Central Processing Unit (CPU), have been introduced widely into personal computers. Therefore, in order to utilize the additional cores, or CPUs, to...
Provided by NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Whitepapers
A Compact Colored Petri Net Model for Fault Diagnosis and Recovery in Embedded and Control Systems
Mar 2009
In this paper, the authors describes the modeling and use of a reduced colored petri net for fault diagnosis and recovery in embedded and control systems. The reduced or compact colored petri net...
Provided by University of Malaya
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Whitepapers
Directory-Oblivious Capacity Sharing in Tiled CMPs
Feb 2013
In bus-based CMPs with private caches, Capacity Sharing is applied by spilling victim cache blocks from over-utilized caches to under-utilized ones. If a spilled block is needed, it can be...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Whitepapers
Prefetching With Helper Threads for Loosely Coupled Multiprocessor Systems
Jun 2009
This paper presents a helper thread pre-fetching scheme that is designed to work on loosely coupled processors, such as in a standard Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) system or an intelligent memory...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Understanding the Limits of Capacity Sharing in CMP Private Caches
May 2012
Chip Multi Processor (CMP) systems present interesting design challenges at the lower levels of the cache hierarchy. Private L2 caches allow easier processor-cache design reuse, thus scaling...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Whitepapers
Energy-Efficient Interconnect Via Router Parking
Dec 2012
The increase in on-chip core counts in Chip MultiProcessors (CMPs) has led to the adoption of interconnects such as Mesh and Torus, which consume an increasing fraction of the chip power....
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
FPGA Realization of Open/Short Test on IC
Feb 2008
IC (Integrated Circuitry) testing requires the very advanced and sophisticated Advance Test Equipment (ATE) that costs multimillion USD. The cost of IC testing is increasing yearly and it will...
Provided by NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Podcasts
Railscasts #256: I18n Backends
Oct 2011
Internationalization is easy to add in Rails, but the YAML files can be difficult to manage. In this podcast, the speaker will show how to use Redis for managing the translations through a web...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Webcasts
Nate Koechley: A Taxonomy of Touch
Apr 2012
The presenter breaks down the elements of touch primitives, gestures and semantics, laying a foundation for the broader language of touch interactions that drive the emerging class of portable...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Whitepapers
Embedded System Design for a Multi Variable Input Operations
Aug 2012
There are several multivariable input systems with one or more outputs exist in nature or designed and implemented successfully artificially. The input parameters of the system may or may not bear...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Design of Real Time Data Acquisition with Multi Node Embedded Systems
Mar 2012
This paper is about the application of data acquisition systems in industrial requirements for real time execution of events with industrial process control and automation. Multiple embedded nodes...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Embedded Home Automation for Visually Impaired
Mar 2012
This paper aims to develop an embedded system which is used to control the home appliances through voice and mobile for the visually impaired people and also for the physically challenged people....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Implementation of Register Files in the Processor of Hard Real Time Systems for Context Switching
Sep 2012
Real time systems like Flight control systems require very precise timing; multi threading itself becomes an overhead cost mainly due to context switching of the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)....
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Floating Point Unit Implementation on FPGA
Jun 2012
As densities of FPGA are increasing day by day, the feasibility of doing floating point calculations on FPGAs has improved. Moreover, recent works in FPGA architecture have changed the design...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Implementation of AMBA AHB Protocol for Wide Narrow BUS-SLAVE Combination Using VHDL
Apr 2012
The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is an open System-on-Chip bus protocol for high-performance buses on low-power devices. In this paper, the authors implement a simple model of...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Robustness of Resource Allocation in Uniprocessor Real Time System
Feb 2012
Real Time Systems (RTS) operate in an unpredictable changing environment that causing certain system performance features to degrade. Such systems need robustness to guarantee limited degradation...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Implementations Approches of Neural Networks Lane Following System
Feb 2012
Nowadays, the techniques based on the use of artificial neural networks are instigating increasing interest in the fields of control and robotics. The rapidity of processing, the ability to learn...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Directional Based Watermarking Scheme Using a Novel Data Embedding Approach
Sep 2012
Image watermarking has come to wide use in the recent past. It is by the authentication problems and limitation means that the setting accuracy of the image watermarking operation is minimized....
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Stagnant Timing Investigation of Embedded Software on Advanced Processor Architectures
Jan 2012
The accuracy of the prediction results and the applicability of the under laying algorithms are influenced by several parameters. In addition, both issues are interdependent. Thus, the first part...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Whitepapers
Software Energy Optimization Through Fine-Grained Function-Level Voltage and Frequency Scaling
Oct 2012
This paper presents a methodology and a tool-chain to perform estimation and optimization of the energy consumption associated to software execution on tiny embedded systems. The estimation phase...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
ASIC Implementation of Modified Faster Carry Save Adder
Nov 2010
Digital adders are the core block of DSP processors. The final Carry Propagation Adder (CPA) structure of many adders constitutes high carry propagation delay and this delay reduces the overall...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
The Case for a Factored Operating System (fos)
Oct 2008
The next decade will afford the computer chips with 1,000 - 10,000 cores on a single piece of silicon. Contemporary operating systems have been designed to operate on a single core or small number...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Performance Study of Various Processors Using Multithreaded Benchmark Suite
Aug 2011
Benchmarking plays an important role in performance measure. There are various standard benchmarks available. How can the authors measure the performance of different processors for multithreaded...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Transient Enhancement of Real Time System Using SVC
Oct 2011
The rapid development of power electronics technology provides exciting opportunities to develop new power system equipment for better utilization of existing systems. During the last two decades,...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
An Improved Design of ALU Targeted to State-of-the-Art FPGAs
Nov 2011
Even the simplest microprocessors or Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a computer has an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). ALU is a digital circuit that performs arithmetic and logic operations. An...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Reliability Estimation of Embedded Systems - An Approach
Feb 2012
For estimating the reliability of the hardware systems, various life time distribution models with parameters specific to Environment, electrical stresses, quality factor etc., are developed and...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Webcasts
Google I/O 2012 - Building Android Applications That Use Web APIs
Aug 2012
Google offers a large and growing set of back-end services, from AdSense to Tasks to Calendar to Google+, that can enrich their app, and increasingly they have a uniform set of APIs. In this...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Webcasts
Google Faculty Summit 2009: Education - Young Android (App Inventor), CS4HS, YouTubeEDU
Aug 2012
Each year Google hosts leading academics from universities across the globe though the user faculty summit program. In this webcast, the presenter will about the education along with the Young...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Webcasts
Google I/O 2012 - Writing Efficient Drive Apps for Android
Aug 2012
In this webcast, the presenter will explain about how to write Drive apps that synchronize files with Android devices. The presenter will also explains about how to open files on Android devices,...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Whitepapers
Using the Hilbert Transform in Modem Designing Based on DSP Processor for PLC
Nov 2009
One of the most important parts of the data transmission systems is processing of the signals. In the primary models of this system, all these processes were done in an analog format. Because of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Dynamic Context-Aware and Limited Resources-Aware Service Adaptation for Pervasive Computing
Nov 2011
A Pervasive Computing System (PCS) requires that devices be context aware in order to provide proactively adapted services according to the current context. Because of the highly dynamic...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Whitepapers
How to Safely Integrate Multiple Applications on Embedded Many-Core Systems by Applying the "Correctness by Construction" Principle
Apr 2012
Software-intensive embedded systems, especially cyber-physical systems, benefit from the additional performance and the small power envelope offered by many-core processors. Nevertheless, the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Whitepapers
A Multi-Layered Control Approach for Self-Adaptation in Automotive Embedded Systems
Aug 2012
In this paper, the authors present an approach for self-adaptation in automotive embedded systems using a hierarchical, multi-layered control approach. They model automotive systems as a set of...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Voltage Islands in CMPs under Process Variations
Jul 2011
Parameter variations are a major factor causing power-performance asymmetry in chip multiprocessors. In this paper, the authors analyze the effects of With-In-Die (WID) process variations on chip...
Provided by Northwestern University
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Whitepapers
Temperature-Aware Test Scheduling for Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip
Nov 2008
Increasing power densities due to process scaling, combined with high switching activity and poor cooling environments during testing, have the potential to result in high Integrated Circuit (IC)...
Provided by Northwestern University
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Whitepapers
Dynamic Directories: A Mechanism for Reducing On-Chip Interconnect Power in Multicores
Jul 2012
On-chip interconnection networks consume a significant fraction of the chip's power, and the rapidly increasing core counts in future technologies is going to further aggravate their impact on the...
Provided by Northwestern University
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Whitepapers
Power Aware Computing on GPUs
Jul 2012
Energy and power density concerns in modern processors have led to significant computer architecture research efforts in power-aware and temperature-aware computing. With power dissipation...
Provided by University of Tehran
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White Papers
Automatic Level Controller for Speech Signals Using PID Controllers
Jul 2008
Digital Still Camera (DSC) records both sound and video frames for the movie capture application. This is done with the intention of capturing the speech associated with the video. The problem in...
Provided by Texas Instruments
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Case Studies
A Case Study for Transitioning Class a Server Motherboards to Lead-Free
Nov 2008
The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) legislation was formed in 2006. One, out of the many, exemptions that it had was developing of lead based solders in Class A servers, storage array...
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
How to Select a New PC Motherboard
Jan 2010
The sheer thought of replacing the motherboard of a personal computer can be confusing. Choosing the right mother board for one's PC is not as difficult a task as one thinks if they keep a few...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
-
White Papers
Vertex Processing Selection Capability
Dec 2007
It is essential to make the most of your processor along with having a better 3D experience. With the introduction of 15.6 and 14.31 Windows Vista and Windows XP graphic drivers with compatible...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Intel Atom Processor 300ä Series
Sep 2008
The efficiency of any person tends to decrease outside its thermal comfort level. Exactly is the case with machines. In a processor, every individual component has its own functional temperature...
Provided by Intel
-
Whitepapers
An Area Efficient 32-Bit Carry-Select Adder for Low Power Applications
Jul 2012
CSLA is used in many computational systems to alleviate the problem of carry propagation delay by independently generating multiple carries and then select a carry to generate the sum. However,...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
-
Whitepapers
Edge-Triggered Pulsed Sequential Elements With SoC Applications
Jul 2012
The System-On-Chip (SoC) design is integrating hundreds of millions of transistors on one chip, whereas packaging and cooling only have a limited ability to remove the excess heat. In this paper,...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
-
White Papers
Locating Cache Performance Bottlenecks Using Data Profiling
Feb 2010
Every organization understands the need of effective use of CPU data caches to ensure good performance. Yet, this is made difficult due to the fact that it is extremely tough to spot poor cache...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Case Studies
Case Study: QLogic Automates Feature Upgrades in Embedded Systems With Orion
Jan 2010
QLogic's NX3031 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers and 3100-Series of Intelligent 10 Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet Adapters offer the industry's highest performance for next-generation, mainstream...
Provided by Agilis Software
-
Case Studies
AMD Gives Big Quad to Big Animation's Creative Core
Jan 2010
The animation industry in India is at its exponential growth, set to reach $1 billion by 2010 and so its need for a robust processing technology that can ensure meeting international production...
Provided by Indian Express
-
Whitepapers
An Evaluation of New Processor Instructions for Accelerating Selected Cryptographic Algorithms
Jun 2010
While there are a plethora of cryptographic techniques, the cost to implement them in terms of wall clock execution time and cost has prevented some adoptions from being practical. Up to date,...
Provided by VeriSign
-
White Papers
Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage
Feb 2009
Reducing the energy consumption of PCs is becoming increasingly important with rising energy costs and environmental concerns. Sleep states such as S3 (suspend to RAM) save energy, but are often...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage
May 2008
Reducing the energy consumption of PCs is becoming increasingly important with rising energy costs and environmental concerns. Sleep states such as S3 (suspend to RAM) save energy but prevent the...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Remote Power Control of Wireless Network Interfaces
Jan 2010
This paper presents a new power management technique aimed at increasing the energy efficiency of client-server multimedia applications running on wireless portable devices. Authors focus on...
Provided by University of Urbino
-
White Papers
Fast and Optimal Scheduling Over Multiple Network Interfaces
Oct 2007
Today's mobile phones already contain two or more network interfaces (NICs) and future devices are likely to have several more, each with different energy costs, dollar costs, and data...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
A Network Interface Card Architecture for I/O Virtualization in Embedded Systems
Mar 2010
In this paper authors present an architectural concept for network interface cards (NIC) targeting embedded systems and supporting I/O virtualization. Current solutions for high performance...
Provided by Technischen Universitat Munchen
-
White Papers
First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem)
Apr 2008
Next generation Intel micro architecture (Nehalem) has been designed from the ground up to capitalize on all the advantages of Intel's industry-leading 45-nanometer (nm) Hi-k metal gate silicon...
Provided by Intel
-
Whitepapers
An Optimization Based Design for Integrated Dependable Real-Time Embedded Systems
May 2009
Moving from the traditional federated design paradigm, integration of mixed-criticality software components onto common computing platforms is increasingly being adopted by automotive, avionics...
Provided by Technische Universitat Darmstadt
-
Whitepapers
Using Underutilized CPU Resources to Enhance Its Reliability
Dec 2008
Soft errors (or transient faults) are temporary faults that arise in a circuit due to a variety of internal noise and external sources such as cosmic particle hits. Though soft errors still occur...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
Whitepapers
A Multi Variable Optimization Approach for the Design of Integrated Dependable Real-Time Embedded Systems
Oct 2007
Embedded systems increasingly encompass both dependability and responsiveness requirements. While sophisticated techniques exist, on a discrete basis, for both dependability/Fault-Tolerance (FT)...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
-
Whitepapers
On Software Design for Stochastic Processors
Jun 2012
Much recent research suggests significant power and energy benefits of relaxing correctness constraints in future processors. Such processors with relaxed constraints have often been referred to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
Stochastic Computing: Embracing Errors in Architecture and Design of Processors and Applications
Oct 2011
As device sizes shrink, device-level manufacturing challenges have led to increased variability in physical circuit characteristics. Exponentially increasing circuit density has not only brought...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Specifying and Characterizing Tactile Performances for Multi-Touch Panels: Toward a User-Centric Metrology
Jul 2010
Whereas Vision Human Factor (VHF) studies provide an abundant literature to characterize display modules, building a specification for touch sensitive systems - and more noticeably for multi-touch...
Provided by Stantum
-
White Papers
SCOC3: A Space Computer on a Chip - An Example of Successful Development of a Highly Integrated Innovative ASIC
Feb 2010
This paper presents the definition of an integrated processor core ASIC named SCOC3 which is designed for space computers. It also presents the validation method that has led to a successful ASIC...
Provided by Economic Development Association of Alabama
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White Papers
Respec: Efficient Online Multiprocessor Replay Via Speculation and External Determinism
Mar 2010
Deterministic replay systems record and reproduce the execution of a hardware or software system. While it is well known how to replay uniprocessor systems, replaying shared memory multiprocessor...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Opportunities for Concurrent Dynamic Analysis With Explicit Inter-Core Communication
Jun 2010
Multicore is now the dominant processor trend, and the number of cores is rapidly increasing. The paradigm shift to multicore forces the redesign of the software stack, which includes dynamic...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
OneBusAway: Results From Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit
Apr 2010
Public transit systems play an important role in combating traffic congestion, reducing carbon emissions, and promoting compact, sustainable urban communities. The usability of public transit can...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
What Is the Difference Between a Cellular Modem and a Cellular IP Modem?
Aug 2008
Cellular modems and cellular IP modems are vital components in industrial cellular Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networking. However, it may be difficult to differentiate between these two devices...
Provided by Moxa
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Case Studies
Oracle Uses Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series - Based Systems With Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager to Increase Rack Density and Propel Business Growth
Sep 2009
Oracle was intent on increasing the computing density of its data centers so it could serve more customers at a lower cost and be in a strong competitive position when the economy improves. The...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Postal Service Extends Reach to the Rural Masses With Multilingual Information Kiosks
Aug 2010
India Post provides mail, financial services and premium offerings including courier and e-banking to its customers throughout India. To extend its reach to the rural masses, the company turned to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Intel Xeon Processor-Based SGI Altix Systems Deliver Dense, Energy-Efficient Performance for Oxford Supercomputing Centre
Mar 2010
Building on its success in meeting the needs of campus researchers, the OSC received funds to expand its HPC resources and extend its services to commercial users. The center needed a flexible...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
PCOUNT: A Power Aware Fetch Policy in Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
Jun 2011
The Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) architecture improves the resource efficiency via scheduling and executing concurrent threads in the same core. Moreover, fetch policies are proposed to...
Provided by Florida International University
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Whitepapers
Resource Sharing Control in Simultaneous MultiThreading Microarchitectures
Mar 2008
Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) achieves improved system resource utilization and accordingly higher instruction throughput because it exploits Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP) in addition to...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Intel Itanium Processor 9300 Series: A Technical Overview for IT Decision-Makers
Feb 2010
The lntel ltanium processor family provides the foundation for mainframe-class computing systems that offers greater flexibility and better cost models than traditional mainframe and high-end RISC...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Mission-Critical Data Applications Reveal Global Reach and Impact of Itanium-Based Systems
Dec 2009
Enterprise applications that deliver mission-critical data must assure flawless transactions and reliable access to information. This IT imperative is becoming more challenging with data volumes...
Provided by Itanium Solutions Alliance
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White Papers
Achieving One TeraFLOPS With 28-nm FPGAs
Sep 2010
Due to recent technological developments, high-performance floating-point signal processing can, for the first time, be easily achieved using FPGAs. To date, virtually all FPGA-based signal...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Fulfilling Technology Needs for 40G-100G Network-Centric Operations and Warfare
Sep 2010
The development and deployment of Network-Centric Operations and Warfare (NCOW) to integrate and connect the military's many separate networks relies on high-speed packet transport and optical...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Board Design Guidelines for LVDS Systems
Sep 2010
LVDS is a high-speed, low-voltage, low-power, and low-noise general-purpose I/O interface standard. The low-voltage swing and differential current mode outputs significantly reduce Electromagnetic...
Provided by Altera
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Implementing FIR Filters and FFTs With 28-nm Variable-Precision DSP Architecture
Sep 2010
Across a range of applications, the two most common functions implemented in FPGA-based high-performance signal processing are Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters and fast Fourier transforms...
Provided by Altera
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Guaranteeing Silicon Performance With FPGA Timing Models
Aug 2010
How can a designer accurately predict the time delays of a fully customizable integrated circuit? The answer to this question is "Not very easily." There are many factors that limit and increase...
Provided by Altera
