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DEUCON: Decentralized End-to-End Utilization Control for Distributed Real-Time Systems
Jul 2007
Many real-time systems must control their CPU utilizations in order to meet end-to-end deadlines and prevent overload. Utilization control is particularly challenging in distributed real-time...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Parallel Genetic Algorithms for DVS Scheduling of Distributed Embedded Systems
Sep 2007
Many of today's embedded systems, such as wireless and portable devices rely heavily on the limited power supply. Therefore, energy efficiency becomes one of the major design concerns for embedded...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Implementation of Real-Time Network Extension on Embedded Linux
Jul 2009
Linux over the past few years has gained in popularity as the operating system for embedded networking equipment. Its reliability, low cost and undisputed networking capabilities made it one of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Grouping-Based Dynamic Power Management for Multi-Threaded Programs in Chip-Multiprocessors
May 2009
In the embedded systems field, the research focus has shifted from performance to considering both performance and power consumption. Previous research has investigated methods to forecast the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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RaPTEX: Rapid Prototyping Tool for Embedded Communication Systems
Aug 2010
Advances in microprocessors, memory, and radio technology have enabled the emergence of embedded systems that rely on communication systems to exchange information and coordinate their activities...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Evaluation of Two-Electron Repulsion Integrals Over Gaussian Basis Functions on SRC-6 Reconfigurable Computer
Oct 2008
The authors demonstrate an implementation of the two-electron repulsion integrals code for the direct self-consistent field calculations on a reconfigurable computer. They analyze different...
Provided by University of Illinois
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Cache Vulnerability Equations for Protecting Data in Embedded Processor Caches From Soft Errors
Apr 2010
Continuous technology scaling has brought one to a point, where transistors have become extremely susceptible to cosmic radiation strikes, or soft errors. Inside the processor, caches are most...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Code Transformations for TLB Power Reduction
Dec 2009
The Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB) is a very important part in the hardware support for virtual memory management implementation of high performance embedded systems. The TLB though small is...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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B2P2: Bounds Based Procedure Placement for Instruction TLB Power Reduction in Embedded Systems
Jun 2010
High performance embedded processors are equipped with the Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB) which forms the key ingredient to efficient and speedy virtual memory management. The TLB though...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Compiler Optimization to Reduce Soft Errors in Register Files
Jun 2009
Register File (RF) is extremely vulnerable to soft errors, and traditional redundancy based schemes to protect the RF are prohibitive not only because RF is often in the timing critical path of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Compiler-Managed Register File Protection for Energy-Efficient Soft Error Reduction
Nov 2008
For embedded systems where neither energy nor reliability can be easily sacrificed, The authors present an energy efficient soft error protection scheme for Register Files (RF). Unlike previous...
Provided by Arizona State University
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NWSLite: A General-Purpose, 32 Nonparametric Prediction Utility for Embedded Systems
Apr 2008
Time series-based prediction methods have a wide range of uses in embedded systems. Many OS algorithms and applications require accurate prediction of demand and supply of resources. However,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Dynamic Software Updates for Real-Time Systems
Oct 2009
Seamlessly updating software in running systems has recently gained momentum. Dynamically updating the software of real-time embedded systems, however, still poses numerous challenges: such...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Exploiting the Interplay Between Memory and Flash Storage in Embedded Sensor Devices
Jun 2010
Although memory is an important constraint in embedded sensor nodes, existing embedded applications and systems are typically designed to work under the memory constraints of a single platform and...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Pre-Analyzed Resource and Time Provisioning in Distributed Real-Time Systems: An Application to Mobile Robotics
Jan 2011
The work is motivated by mobile robotic applications where a team of autonomous robots cooperate in achieving a goal, e.g., using sensor feeds to locate trapped humans in a building on fire. To...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Coordinated Allocation and Scheduling of Multiple Resources in Real-Time Operating Systems
Aug 2007
Distributed Real-time Embedded (DRE) systems are key components of critical infrastructure including surveillance, target tracking, electric grid management, traffic control, avionics, and...
Provided by State University of New York
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Quanto: Tracking Energy in Networked Embedded Systems
Oct 2008
This paper presents Quanto, a network-wide time and energy profiler for embedded network devices. By combining well-defined interfaces for hardware power states, fast high-resolution energy...
Provided by Stanford University
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Effective Embedded Systems Software Design Methodologies
Jul 2012
This paper gives universities needs to improve their curriculum for technology students to meet the industry standards which will be helpful for their career. In the current improving technologies...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Challenges in Embedded Database System Administration
Jan 2011
Embedded systems provide a combination of opportunities and challenges in application and system configuration and management. As an embedded system is most often dedicated to a single application...
Provided by Harvard University
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The Standard of Embedded World by Studying of OSEK/VDX
Feb 2011
This paper will describe the concept of a real-time operating system, capable of multitasking, which can be used for motor vehicles. Embedded systems are characterized by stringent real-time...
Provided by Kyungpook National University
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Tuning the WCET of Embedded Applications
Jan 2011
It is advantageous to not only calculate the WCET of an application, but to also perform transformations to reduce the WCET since an application with a lower WCET will be less likely to violate...
Provided by Florida State University
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IDEA: Integrated Distributed Energy Awareness for Wireless Sensor Networks
Jun 2010
Energy in sensor networks is a distributed, non-transferable resource. Over time, differences in energy availability are likely to arise. Protocols like routing trees may concentrate energy usage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Pixie: An Operating System for Resource-Aware Programming of Embedded Sensors
Jun 2008
A growing class of sensor network applications requires high data rates and computationally-intensive node-level processing. When deployed into environments where resources are limited and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Resource Aware Programming in the Pixie OS
Nov 2008
This paper presents Pixie, a new sensor node operating system designed to support the needs of data-intensive applications. These applications, which include high-resolution monitoring of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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White Papers
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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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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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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White Papers
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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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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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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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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Techniques for Reducing Power in Multipliers
Jun 2012
In this paper, a new topology was proposed to optimize the power dissipation of Multipliers. Low power digital Multiplier Design based on bypassing technique mainly used to reduce the switching...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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VLSI Implementation of Pipelined Fast Fourier Transform
Jun 2012
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) has become a very important and dynamic research area. Now a day's many integrated circuits dedicated to DSP functions. Unfortunately Existing designs are...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Low-Power Full Adder Array-Based Multiplier With Domino Logic
Jun 2012
A circuit design for a low-power full adder array-based multiplier in domino logic is proposed. It is based on Wallace tree technique. Clocked architecture results in lower power dissipation and...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Tools & Templates
Intel® Laptop Processor Comparison Tool
Aug 2012
Use this laptop processor benefits and specifications comparison tool to find the right Intel® Core™ processor for your business needs.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Presentations
Intel® Desktop Processor Comparison Tool
Aug 2012
Use this desktop processor benefits and specifications comparison tool to find the right Intel® Core™ processor for your business needs.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor: Comparison Guide
Aug 2012
Comparison Guide: Find the best Intel® Core™ processor for your business, whether you need better security, higher performance or lower cost.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Whitepapers - Video
Windows 7* Security with Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processors
Aug 2012
Adapt to the speed of business and enhance Windows 7* security with the Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Podcasts
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Overview Animation
Aug 2012
See how world-class performance meets built-in security for today's business PC in the 3rd generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor overview animation.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Crimeware Protection: 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processors
Aug 2012
White Paper: Embedded technology in 3rd gen Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors enable greater protection against crimeware for stronger threat management.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Information Assurance Aspects of Rapid Software Reprogramming
Aug 2008
Anyone who administers a personal computer, either on the job or at home, is familiar with the concept of Rapid Software Reprogramming (RSR). Operating system and many application software vendors...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Embedded Programmable Web-Based ECG Monitoring & Detection System Using a Fast Algorithm
Jul 2012
The physicians have to interpret this large amount of ECG data to search for only a few abnormal beats in the ECG. Physicians may overlook some abnormal cycles due to fatigue and human error in...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Implementation of Memory Less Based Low-Complexity CODECS
Jul 2012
In this paper, the authors present a CODEC design for two classes of Crosstalk Avoidance Codes (CACs), Forbidden Pattern Codes (FPCs) and Forbidden Transition Codes (FTCs). Their mapping and...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Basic Concept of Embedded 'C': Review
Feb 2012
The use of C language to program micro controllers is becoming too common. And most of the time its not easy to build an application in assembly which instead one can make easily in C. So, its...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Generation of Transconductance Grounded Capacitor Filters From LC Ladder Prototypes Based on Multi-Terminal Gyrator Principles
Jul 2008
A simple novel procedure for the generation of continuous time Transconductance Grounded Capacitor (TGC) filters from LC ladder prototype is introduced. This method results in circuits where all...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Automated Fault Diagnosis in Embedded Systems
Jan 2012
Automated fault diagnosis is emerging as an important factor in achieving an acceptable and competitive cost/dependability ratio for embedded systems. In this paper, the authors introduce...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
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A Case Study on Controller Synthesis for Data-Intensive Embedded Systems
Apr 2009
This paper presents an approach for the safe design of data-intensive embedded systems. A multimedia application module of last generation cellular phones is considered as a case study. The OMG...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Model-Based Design of Embedded Control Systems by Means of a Synchronous Intermediate Model
Apr 2009
Model-Based Design (MBD) involves designing a model of a control system, simulating and debugging it with dedicated tools, and finally generating automatically code corresponding to this model. In...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Think: View-Based Support of Non-Functional Properties in Embedded Systems
Apr 2009
Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) does not yet fully address non-functional requirements of embedded systems. The authors show how to extend a component model like FRACTAL with relevant...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Design and Implementation of an Improved C Source-Code Level Program Energy Model
Apr 2009
In embedded systems, the frequent execution of software drives the activities of hardware, which causes the energy consumption of systems. In this paper, the authors first propose an improved C...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Model Driven High-Level Power Estimation of Embedded Operating Systems Communication Services
Apr 2009
This paper presents a System level Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach for power estimation of Real Time Operating System (RTOS) communication and synchronization services at early design...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Semiformal Verification of Embedded Software in Medical Devices Considering Stringent Hardware Constraints
Apr 2009
In recent days, the complexity of software has increased significantly in embedded products in such a way that the verification of Embedded SoftWare (ESW) now plays an important role to ensure the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Lightweight Dynamic Performance Monitoring Framework for Embedded Systems
Apr 2009
Traditional monitoring techniques are not suitable for embedded systems because they could incur significant overhead. This paper proposes a lightweight dynamic performance monitoring framework...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Energy Consumption Optimization in Real-Time Embedded Systems
Apr 2009
Minimizing energy consumption with guaranteeing real-time constraints in low-power embedded systems is gaining more importance as real-time applications become more widely used in embedded...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach for Event Synchronization Analysis in Real-Time Embedded Systems
Apr 2009
In real-time embedded systems, due to race conditions, synchronization order between events may be different from one execution to another. This behavior is permissible as in concurrent systems,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Mixed Timing System-Level Embedded Software Modelling and Simulation Approach
Apr 2009
System-level software modelling and simulation have become important techniques for real-time embedded system early design space exploration. However, the timing accuracy issues have not been...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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The Design and Implementation of Hardware Task Configuration Management Unit on Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC
Apr 2009
The advantages and the flexibility introduced into the hardware implementation by partial dynamic reconfiguration have rapidly changed the design flow of embedded systems. Configuration management...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Processor Architecture Design Practices: Survey & Issues
Jun 2010
The paper explores the recent architecture evaluations and related issues and compares NISC (No Instruction Set Computer) features to those of CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) and RISC...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Efficient Non Symmetric Pairing Groups on Ordinary Pairing Friendly Curve of Embedding Degree 1
Apr 2011
Recently, ordinary pairing - friendly elliptic curves whose embedding degree is 1 have been often focused on, for example some composite order pairing - based cryptographies do. In the case of non...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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UbiFOS: A Small Real-Time Operating System for Embedded Systems
Jun 2007
The Ubiquitous Flexible Operating System (UbiFOS) is a real-time operating system designed for cost-conscious, low-power, small to medium-sized embedded systems such as cellular phones, MP3...
Provided by Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
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A New Scan Partition Scheme for Low-Power Embedded Systems
Jun 2008
A new scan partition architecture to reduce both the average and peak power dissipation during scan testing is proposed for low-power embedded systems. In scan-based testing, due to the extremely...
Provided by Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
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Whitepapers
Design and Implementation of Smartphone Edition Based on Embedded Linux
Feb 2008
The paper describes the design and implementation of Qplus Smartphone Edition based on embedded Linux. Existing Smartphone platforms entailed royalty expenses and had customization difficulties...
Provided by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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Disguised-Face Discriminator for Embedded Systems
Oct 2010
In this paper, the authors introduce an improved Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) classifier and its application, a disguised-face discriminator that discriminates between bare and disguised faces....
Provided by Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
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Whitepapers
An Analysis of the Compact XSL Attack on BES and Embedded SMS4
Aug 2009
The eXtended Sparse Linearization method, introduced in 2002 by Courtois and Pieprzyk, is a refinement of the XL algorithm and is supposed to work on special types of ciphers such as AES. One main...
Provided by DSO National Laboratories
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A Comparitive Analysis on Nanowire Based MEMS Pressure Sensor
Apr 2012
This paper compares a MEMS Piezoresistive pressure sensor which utilizes a circular and square shaped polysilicon diaphragm with a nanowire to enhance the sensitivity of the pressure sensor. The...
Provided by SRM University
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R-Kernel: An Operating System Foundation for Highly Reliable Networked Embedded Systems
Dec 2010
In this paper, the authors present r-kernel, an operating system kernel enhancement specifically designed to improve software reliability in networked embedded systems. The key novelty of r-kernel...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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Whitepapers
Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization of a Distributed Voltage Controlled Oscillator for Cognitive Radio
Mar 2010
Nonlinear design and optimization of a Distributed Voltage Controlled Oscillator (DVCO) suitable for Cognitive Radio is presented. Harmonic Balance (HB) based optimization techniques have been...
Provided by Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
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Optimized Design of Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Based Oscillators
Feb 2010
This paper presents a study of the use of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) cavities in the design of microwave oscillators and their effect on phase noise performance. Harmonic Balance (HB)...
Provided by Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
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Whitepapers
SCM: The "Blocking and Tackling" of IT Security
Jun 2012
In IT security, obvious weaknesses like weak configurations often get overlooked. Yet for hackers, they're an open door into networks and systems. Learn how security configuration management...
Provided by Tripwire
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Calibrated Space-Mapping Approach for the Design of SIW Filters
Sep 2010
An efficient approach for the design of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) filters is presented in this paper. The proposed design approach is based on the combined use of equivalent circuit...
Provided by EUMA - European Management Assistants
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A Service-Oriented Operating System and an Application Development Infrastructure for Distributed Embedded Systems
Feb 2011
The paradigm of service-orientation promises a significant ease of use in creating and managing distributed software systems. A very important aspect here is that also application domain experts...
Provided by Schloss Dagstuhl
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White Papers
The Standard of Embedded World by Studying of OSEK/VDX
Feb 2011
This paper will describe the concept of a real-time operating system, capable of multitasking, which can be used for motor vehicles. Embedded systems are characterized by stringent real-time...
Provided by Kyungpook National University
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White Papers
Tuning the WCET of Embedded Applications
Jan 2011
It is advantageous to not only calculate the WCET of an application, but to also perform transformations to reduce the WCET since an application with a lower WCET will be less likely to violate...
Provided by Florida State University
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White Papers
IDEA: Integrated Distributed Energy Awareness for Wireless Sensor Networks
Jun 2010
Energy in sensor networks is a distributed, non-transferable resource. Over time, differences in energy availability are likely to arise. Protocols like routing trees may concentrate energy usage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Pixie: An Operating System for Resource-Aware Programming of Embedded Sensors
Jun 2008
A growing class of sensor network applications requires high data rates and computationally-intensive node-level processing. When deployed into environments where resources are limited and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Resource Aware Programming in the Pixie OS
Nov 2008
This paper presents Pixie, a new sensor node operating system designed to support the needs of data-intensive applications. These applications, which include high-resolution monitoring of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
