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FPGAs Enable Energy-Efficient Motor Control in Next-Generation Smart Home Appliances
Nov 2008
Home appliances are at the heart of the modern lifestyle. Consumers want them "Smart," "Green," and, of course, always cheaper. All those diverging requirements have pushed today's home-appliance...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Voltage Regulator Selection for FPGAs
Nov 2008
As FPGAs increase in sophistication to provide additional features such as Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs), memory interfaces, and transceiver functionality, the power requirements and designs for FPGAs...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
A Flexible Architecture for Fisheye Correction in Automotive Rear-View Cameras
Oct 2008
Fisheye cameras are finding an increasing number of applications in automobile rear-view imaging systems due to their ultra-wide-angle properties and cost-effectiveness. However, while fisheye...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Applying Graphics to FPGA-Based Solutions
Sep 2008
Like it or not, the Apple iPhone has changed the game. Every device imaginable is getting a revamp with colorful displays and easy-to-use interfaces. Companies are racing frantically to be first...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Creating Low-Cost Intelligent Display Modules With an FPGA and Embedded Processor
Sep 2008
LCDs are fast becoming a standard part of the automotive interior. As demand for LCD technology increases, so do methodologies for controlling and creating the displayed graphical content....
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Hardware/Software Co-Verification Using FPGA Platforms
Aug 2008
The problem of hardware and software co-design is as old as systems design and the integration of systems composed of multiple elements. Systems built using electrical and electronic subsystems,...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
40-nm FPGAs and the Defense Electronic Design Organization
Jul 2008
With Altera's introduction of 40-nm FPGAs, the design domains of military electronics that can be addressed with Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) are growing. This growth is a response to...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
DO-254 Support for FPGA Design Flows
Jul 2008
For most defense engineers, the first time they hear about the DO-254 Design Assurance Standard is in a request from their customer beginning with the words "Thou shalt comply with?" This leaves...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Military Productivity Factors in Large FPGA Designs
Jul 2008
Changes in technology and requirements are leading to FPGAs playing larger roles in defense electronics designs, and consequently are creating both opportunities and risks. The opportunities...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
DPA Circuitry and rx_dpa_locked Signal Behavior in Stratix III Devices
Jun 2008
The receiver PLL provides eight clock phases to the DPA circuitry. The eight clock phases are separated by 45° and at a frequency equal to the serial data rate. After power up or reset, the DPA...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Altera at 40 nm: Jitter-, Signal Integrity-, Power-, and Process-Optimized Transceivers
May 2008
Technology advancement for the semiconductor industry is largely driven by Moore's Law in that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years, as well as...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Increasing Productivity With Quartus II Incremental Compilation
May 2008
Designers are creating FPGAs that continue to increase in logic density and performance, yet their time-to-market pressures are becoming even more demanding. Computing power is not increasing as...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Supporting Unknown FREF Video Applications With PLLs
Mar 2008
Cyclone III Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) are feature rich, supporting advanced capabilities such as clock switchover, dynamic phase shifting, and PLL reconfiguration. Previously, PLLs in Altera...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
FPGA Run-Time Reconfiguration: Two Approaches
Mar 2008
Run-time reconfiguration for FPGA designs is an increasingly important requirement for many user markets, particularly military users who must adapt quickly to different threats and evolving...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Increase Performance in Imaging Applications by Integrating DSP Functions With FPGAs
Mar 2008
Intevac is a leading developer of photonics products for commercial and military markets. This white paper describes the development of the embedded electronic systems for their NightVista...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Increase Performance in Video and Image Processing Applications With FPGA Integration
Mar 2008
The JPEG2000 standard was developed to address a wide range of video and imaging applications, including medical imaging, military and security systems, and digital cinema. To enable these...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Low-Cost Integration of Serial EEPROMs and Flash Memory Devices
Mar 2008
In many applications, non-volatile memory needs are addressed by general-purpose serial-interface Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EEPROMs) or flash memory devices,...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Reduce System Costs By Integrating PCI Interface Functions Into CPLDs
Mar 2008
Many of today's PCI bus interfaces are implemented using ASSPs. However, the most common functions of PCI target interfaces can be implemented at lower costs using CPLDs, resulting in cost savings...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Using FPGA-Based Channel Bonding for HDTV Over DSL
Feb 2008
This white paper examines the market opportunities for channel bonding technology and the threat from fiber-based networks and protocol details of the channel bonding process, as well as...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Enabling New Infotainment-Equipment Cost Structures With Open-System Architectures
Feb 2008
The infotainment systems of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) recently have been subjected to increasing competition from the retrofitting solutions on the so-called aftermarket, for which...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Developing MSAN Equipment Using Low-Cost FPGAs
Jan 2008
This paper looks at the trends in the Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) equipment market that are forcing developers to re-examine the architectures they have used in the past, as well as driving...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Electronic Warfare Design With PLDs and High-Speed Transceivers
Dec 2007
Electronic warfare has become part of the strategic landscape for all warfighters on the ground, at sea, and in the air. Threats change quickly, so fast characterization of the electromagnetic...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Basic Principles of Signal Integrity
Dec 2007
Digital designs have not traditionally suffered by issues associated with transmission line effects. At lower frequencies the signals remain within data characterization and the system performs as...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Performing Equivalent Timing Analysis Between Altera TimeQuest and Xilinx Trace
Nov 2007
Most hardware designers who are qualifying FPGA performance normally run software benchmark comparisons of FPGAs from different vendors to determine which vendor provides the largest margin for...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Floating-Point Compiler: Increasing Performance With Fewer Resources
Nov 2007
Showing new levels of high-performance, high-density, IEEE754-compliant floating-point applications in FPGAs is the focus of this white paper. A new tool is introduced that will allow 100 percent...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
FPGA Power Management and Modeling Techniques
Nov 2007
As designs get larger and add more system functions implemented on FPGAs, and as the advanced silicon process technology moves into smaller geometries, power consumption is increasingly a concern...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Intel Power Management Technologies for Processor Graphics, Display, and Memory
Aug 2010
Intel has been the leader in process technology and, innovations and technologies that create both speed and efficiency. This provides Intel with the ability to provide the marketplace with low...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel HD Graphics Dynamic Frequency Technology
Feb 2010
With the upcoming launch of Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i3 processor family of products, Intel will include both Intel Turbo Boost Technology and Intel HD Graphics with dynamic frequency. This...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
AMD Opteron Processors Deliver Outstanding Performance for Telecommunications Business Support Systems (BSS)
May 2007
Increasing challenges in billing systems demand reliable and scalable standard computing server technology with increasing performance to handle the increasing complexity and number of subscriber,...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
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White Papers
DSP Implementation of SISO and MIMO OFDM Acoustic Modems
Mar 2010
Significant progress has been made recently on the use of multicarrier modulation in the form of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for high data rate underwater acoustic...
Provided by University of Connecticut
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White Papers
Adapting the USRP as an Underwater Acoustic Modem
May 2009
This paper describes how the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) coupled with GNU Radio can be adapted for use as a configurable UnderWater Acoustic (UWA) modem. The USRP contains an Altera...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
Acoustic Communication Performance of the WHOI Micro-Modem in Sea Trials of the Nereus Vehicle to 11,000 m Depth
Aug 2009
The new, unmanned, deep-diving Nereus hybrid vehicle can be configured as a tethered Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) using a fiber-optic cable and it can operate un-tethered as an Autonomous...
Provided by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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White Papers
Design of a Low-Cost, Underwater Acoustic Modem for Short-Range Sensor Networks
Apr 2010
A fundamental impediment to the use of dense underwater sensor networks is an inexpensive acoustic modem. Commercial underwater modems that do exist were designed for sparse, long range,...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
3dtv - Taking the TV Experience to a New Dimension
Jul 2010
Still in its infancy, 3D TV is forecasted to be the next big revenue generator for the digital television industry. Several broadcasters, service providers and operators, including BSkyB in the...
Provided by Adblockforchrome
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Whitepapers
FPGA and ASIC Implementation of Vedic Multiplier
Jul 2012
The ever increasing demand in enhancing the ability of processors to handle the complex and challenging processes has resulted in the integration of a number of processor cores into one chip....
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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Whitepapers
Implementation of GALS Chip Multiprocessor With Flexibly Configurable Low Latency Interconnect
Oct 2011
Chip Multiprocessors with flexible configuration capability and with reduced latency is implemented in FPGA with reduced area utilization. Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) design...
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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White Papers
Achieving Long-Term Business Value With Intel vPro Technology
Oct 2010
Recognizing Intel vPro technology's significant business value, Intel IT made a strategic decision three years ago to standardize the computing platform on PCs - both laptop and desktop - with...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Using Graphics Processors for High Performance IR Query Processing
Apr 2009
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over tens of billions...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Multiscalar Processors
Jan 2010
Multiscalar processors use a new, aggressive implementation paradigm for extracting large quantities of instruction level parallelism from ordinary high level language programs. A single program...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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White Papers
Runtime Adaptive Extensible Embedded Processors - A Survey
Jun 2009
Current generation embedded applications demand the computation engine to offer high performance similar to custom hardware circuits while preserving the flexibility of software solutions....
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Whitepapers
Improving Digital Signal Processing Performance and Lowering Costs
Oct 2011
Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), with their specialized architectures optimized for heavy math computation, have been a mainstay of the real-time digital signal processing market place as a...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Improving Throughput of RC4 Algorithm Using Multithreading Techniques in Multicore Processors
Dec 2012
RC4 is the most widely used stream cipher around. So, it is important that it runs cost effectively, with minimum encryption time. In other words, it should give higher throughput. In this paper,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Simulation and Implementation of Grid-connected Inverters
Dec 2012
Solar, wind and hydro are renewable energy sources that are seen as reliable alternatives to conventional energy sources such as oil or natural gas. However, the efficiency and the performance of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Algorithms for Temperature-Aware Task Scheduling in Microprocessor Systems
Jan 2008
The authors study scheduling problems motivated by recently developed techniques for microprocessor thermal management at the operating systems level. The general scenario can be described as...
Provided by University of Calgary
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Whitepapers
Analysis of Microprocessor Based Protective Relay's (MBPR) Differential Equation Algorithms
Jun 2010
This paper analyses and explains from the systems point of view, Microprocessor Based Protective Relay (MBPR) systems with emphasis on differential equation algorithms. Presently, the application...
Provided by California State University
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Whitepapers
A Handy Systematic Method for Data Hazards Detection in an Instruction Set of a Pipelined Microprocessor
Mar 2012
In this paper, the author introduced a handy systematic method for enumerating all possible data dependency cases that could occur between any two instructions that might happen to be processed at...
Provided by Alexandria University
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Whitepapers
Clown: A Microprocessor Simulator for Operating System Studies
Jul 2012
In this paper, the author present the design and implementation of Clown - a simulator of a microprocessor-based computer system specifically optimized for teaching operating system courses at...
Provided by Suffolk Software
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Whitepapers
Efficient Transmission of Measurement Data from FPGA to Embedded System Via Ethernet Link
Oct 2012
This paper presents a system consisting of the FPGA IP core, the simple network protocol and the Linux device driver, capable of efficient and reliable data transmission from a low resources FPGA...
Provided by Warsaw University
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Whitepapers
Torus Embedded Hypercube Interconnection Network: A Comparative Study
Oct 2010
A design analysis and comparison of a product network generated from torus and hypercube networks known as torus embedded hypercube scalable interconnection network suitable for parallel computers...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Feedback Thermal Control for Real-Time Systems
Jan 2010
Thermal control is crucial to real-time systems as excessive processor temperature can cause system failure or unacceptable performance degradation due to hardware throttling. Real-time systems...
Provided by Washington Trust Bank
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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
Automated Verification of Termination Certificates
Dec 2012
In order to increase user confidence, many automated theorem proverbs provide certificates that can be independently verified. In this paper, the authors report on their progress in developing a...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Topologically Adaptive Parallel Breadth-First Search on Multicore Processors
Feb 2010
Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a fundamental graph theory algorithm that is extensively used to abstract various challenging computational problems. Due to the fine-grained irregular memory...
Provided by University of Southampton
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Whitepapers
Energy-Aware Scheduling for Frame-Based Tasks on Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Platforms
Jun 2012
Modern computational systems have adopted heterogeneous multiprocessors to increase their computation capability. As the performance increases, the energy consumption in these systems also...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Webcasts
Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS): Architecture, Configuration, and Troubleshooting
Sep 2012
In this webcast, the presenter going to provides an overview about the Cisco Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) platforms and the uBR product family. The presenter also explains about the Cable...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
Speech Watermarking Using Adaptive Vector Quantization Index Modulation
Aug 2012
Conventional Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) methods employ a fixed quantization step-size that results in poor robustness of watermarking schemes. In this paper, the quantization step-size in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Dynamic Task Mapping in Network Processor Runtime Systems
Nov 2007
Modern network processor systems require the ability to adapt their processing capabilities at runtime to changes in network traffic. Traditionally, network processor applications have been...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Methodological Framework for Software Safety in Safety Critical Computer Systems
Aug 2012
Software safety must deal with the principles of safety management, safety engineering and software engineering for developing safety-critical computer systems, with the target of making the...
Provided by Science Productions
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Whitepapers
FPGA-Based Verification Methodology of SOC-Type CMOS Image Signal Processor
Oct 2009
This paper describes a FPGA-based verification methodology for the Image Signal Processor (ISP) of System-on-Chip (SoC) type CMOS image sensor. To make a verification environment, the complete...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
An Advanced BIRA Using Parallel Sub-Analyzers for Embedded Memories
Nov 2009
Although many Built-In Redundancy Analysis (BIRA) algorithms which use parallel sub-analyzers have optimal repair rate and a fast analysis speed, they suffer from a large area overhead. To reduce...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
FiX-Compact : A New X-Tolerant Response Compaction Scheme for Fixed Unknown Logic Values
Nov 2010
This paper proposes a new X-tolerant response compaction scheme with a practical assumption where the unknown values are generated on fixed scan chains. The proposed scheme guarantees fault...
Provided by YONOS
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Whitepapers
Mapping Embedded Applications on MPSoCs: The MNEMEE Approach
Sep 2010
As embedded systems are becoming the center of the people digital life, system design becomes progressively harder. The integration of multiple features on devices with limited resources requires...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Automatic Parallelization of Embedded Software Using Hierarchical Task Graphs and Integer Linear Programming
Oct 2010
The last years have shown that there is no way to disregard the advantages provided by MultiProcessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) architectures in the embedded systems domain. Using multiple cores in a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
PAXES - Parallelism Extraction for Embedded Systems Three Approaches - One Tool
Mar 2012
Now-a-days, complexity and performance requirements of embedded software are continuously increasing, making Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) architectures more and more important in the...
Provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Whitepapers
Online Adaptive Fault Tolerant Based Feedback Control Scheduling Algorithm for Multiprocessor Embedded Systems
May 2012
Since some years ago, use of Feedback Control Scheduling Algorithm (FCSA) in the control scheduling co-design of multiprocessor embedded system has increased. FCSA provides Quality of Service...
Provided by University of Warsaw
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Whitepapers
Design and Analysis of Finite Impulse Response Using G Ate Diffusion Input (GDI) Circuits
Jul 2011
Integrated Circuits technology advancements have consistently migrated to smaller feature sizes over the last four decades years, forcing more functional circuits to be placed on each chip. The...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Whitepapers
Repair Analysis for Embedded Memories Using Block-Based Redundancy Architecture
Jul 2012
Capacity and density of embedded memories have rapidly increased therefore they have higher probability of faults. As a result, yield of system-on-a-chip designs with embedded memories drops....
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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Whitepapers
VLSI Design of a 16-Bit Pipelined RISC Processor
Jul 2012
In this paper, the authors have described the design of a 16-bit pipelined RISC processor for applications in real-time embedded systems. The processor executes most of the instructions in single...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering
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Whitepapers
A Novel Approach for Troubleshooting Microprocessor Based Systems Using an Object Oriented Expert System
Jun 2012
The paper presents an object oriented fault diagnostic expert system framework which analyses observations from the unit under test when fault occurs and infers the causes of failures. The frame...
Provided by The Schwa
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Whitepapers
Flip-Flop Circuit Families: Comparison of Layout and Topology for Low Power VLSI Circuits
Nov 2011
The pertinent choice of flip-flop topologies is an essential importance in the design of VLSI integrated circuits for high speed and high performance CMOS circuits. Understanding the suitability...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
Module Based and Difference Based Implementation of Partial Reconfiguration on FPGA: A Review
Nov 2011
Dynamically adaptable computing systems are promising research area at developing systems which can adapt to changes in their environment while executing. The premisses for such systems are...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
Performance Evaluation of USB WiFi Bridge Based on Embedded System
Aug 2012
Data transfer between two devices, one with USB port but no WiFi connectivity and another device with WiFi connectivity but no USB port, is not possible as two devices cannot be connected...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS)
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Whitepapers
Voltage Stability Enhancement in a Wind Generator Connected Electrical Network Using FACTS Devices
Sep 2012
This paper presents voltage stability in an electrical network when connected by wind generators. Due to several advantages wind energy is the growing renewable energy. Nowadays, wind energy is...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)
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Whitepapers
Counting Bloom Filter Architecture in VLSI Network Systems
Oct 2012
The Counting Bloom Filter (CBF) is useful for real time applications where the time and space efficiency is the main consideration in performing a set membership tests. The CBF estimates whether...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Digital Clock Frequency Multiplier Using Floating Point Arithmetic
Aug 2012
A digital clock frequency multiplier using floating point arithmetic, which generates the output clock with zero frequency error has been presented. The circuit has an unbounded multiplication...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)
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Whitepapers
Research Method to Optimize Logger for a Telecom Application Running on Embedded System
Jun 2012
Most of the embedded telecom applications running on customized processor boards are needed to record their activities in the form of log messages. These messages help telecom application...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)
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Whitepapers
A Review Paper on Microprocessor Based Controller Programming
Aug 2012
Designing of microprocessor based controllers requires specific hardware as well as software programming. Programming depends upon type of the software whether operating software or application...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Comparison of Processor Scheduling Algorithms Using Genetic Approach
Aug 2012
Operating system efficiency is affected by several factors. Scheduling of CPU is one of the critical factors that affects the efficiency. In case of process scheduling the authors allocate...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Verilog Implementation of FPGA Based DSP Design Like FFT Processors
Sep 2012
Implementing hardware design in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a formidable task. There is more than one way to implement the DSP design for FFT processor and digital FIR filter. Based...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Performance Comparison of ADRS and PCA as a Preprocessor to ANN for Data Mining
Jul 2008
In this paper, the authors compared the performance of the Automatic Data Reduction System (ADRS) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as a preprocessor to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). ADRS...
Provided by California State University
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White Papers
A Flexible Architecture for Fisheye Correction in Automotive Rear-View Cameras
Oct 2008
Fisheye cameras are finding an increasing number of applications in automobile rear-view imaging systems due to their ultra-wide-angle properties and cost-effectiveness. However, while fisheye...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Applying Graphics to FPGA-Based Solutions
Sep 2008
Like it or not, the Apple iPhone has changed the game. Every device imaginable is getting a revamp with colorful displays and easy-to-use interfaces. Companies are racing frantically to be first...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Creating Low-Cost Intelligent Display Modules With an FPGA and Embedded Processor
Sep 2008
LCDs are fast becoming a standard part of the automotive interior. As demand for LCD technology increases, so do methodologies for controlling and creating the displayed graphical content....
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Hardware/Software Co-Verification Using FPGA Platforms
Aug 2008
The problem of hardware and software co-design is as old as systems design and the integration of systems composed of multiple elements. Systems built using electrical and electronic subsystems,...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
40-nm FPGAs and the Defense Electronic Design Organization
Jul 2008
With Altera's introduction of 40-nm FPGAs, the design domains of military electronics that can be addressed with Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) are growing. This growth is a response to...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
DO-254 Support for FPGA Design Flows
Jul 2008
For most defense engineers, the first time they hear about the DO-254 Design Assurance Standard is in a request from their customer beginning with the words "Thou shalt comply with?" This leaves...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Military Productivity Factors in Large FPGA Designs
Jul 2008
Changes in technology and requirements are leading to FPGAs playing larger roles in defense electronics designs, and consequently are creating both opportunities and risks. The opportunities...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
DPA Circuitry and rx_dpa_locked Signal Behavior in Stratix III Devices
Jun 2008
The receiver PLL provides eight clock phases to the DPA circuitry. The eight clock phases are separated by 45° and at a frequency equal to the serial data rate. After power up or reset, the DPA...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Altera at 40 nm: Jitter-, Signal Integrity-, Power-, and Process-Optimized Transceivers
May 2008
Technology advancement for the semiconductor industry is largely driven by Moore's Law in that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years, as well as...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Increasing Productivity With Quartus II Incremental Compilation
May 2008
Designers are creating FPGAs that continue to increase in logic density and performance, yet their time-to-market pressures are becoming even more demanding. Computing power is not increasing as...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Supporting Unknown FREF Video Applications With PLLs
Mar 2008
Cyclone III Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) are feature rich, supporting advanced capabilities such as clock switchover, dynamic phase shifting, and PLL reconfiguration. Previously, PLLs in Altera...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
FPGA Run-Time Reconfiguration: Two Approaches
Mar 2008
Run-time reconfiguration for FPGA designs is an increasingly important requirement for many user markets, particularly military users who must adapt quickly to different threats and evolving...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Increase Performance in Imaging Applications by Integrating DSP Functions With FPGAs
Mar 2008
Intevac is a leading developer of photonics products for commercial and military markets. This white paper describes the development of the embedded electronic systems for their NightVista...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Increase Performance in Video and Image Processing Applications With FPGA Integration
Mar 2008
The JPEG2000 standard was developed to address a wide range of video and imaging applications, including medical imaging, military and security systems, and digital cinema. To enable these...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Low-Cost Integration of Serial EEPROMs and Flash Memory Devices
Mar 2008
In many applications, non-volatile memory needs are addressed by general-purpose serial-interface Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EEPROMs) or flash memory devices,...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Reduce System Costs By Integrating PCI Interface Functions Into CPLDs
Mar 2008
Many of today's PCI bus interfaces are implemented using ASSPs. However, the most common functions of PCI target interfaces can be implemented at lower costs using CPLDs, resulting in cost savings...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Using FPGA-Based Channel Bonding for HDTV Over DSL
Feb 2008
This white paper examines the market opportunities for channel bonding technology and the threat from fiber-based networks and protocol details of the channel bonding process, as well as...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Enabling New Infotainment-Equipment Cost Structures With Open-System Architectures
Feb 2008
The infotainment systems of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) recently have been subjected to increasing competition from the retrofitting solutions on the so-called aftermarket, for which...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Developing MSAN Equipment Using Low-Cost FPGAs
Jan 2008
This paper looks at the trends in the Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) equipment market that are forcing developers to re-examine the architectures they have used in the past, as well as driving...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Electronic Warfare Design With PLDs and High-Speed Transceivers
Dec 2007
Electronic warfare has become part of the strategic landscape for all warfighters on the ground, at sea, and in the air. Threats change quickly, so fast characterization of the electromagnetic...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Basic Principles of Signal Integrity
Dec 2007
Digital designs have not traditionally suffered by issues associated with transmission line effects. At lower frequencies the signals remain within data characterization and the system performs as...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Performing Equivalent Timing Analysis Between Altera TimeQuest and Xilinx Trace
Nov 2007
Most hardware designers who are qualifying FPGA performance normally run software benchmark comparisons of FPGAs from different vendors to determine which vendor provides the largest margin for...
Provided by Altera
-
White Papers
Floating-Point Compiler: Increasing Performance With Fewer Resources
Nov 2007
Showing new levels of high-performance, high-density, IEEE754-compliant floating-point applications in FPGAs is the focus of this white paper. A new tool is introduced that will allow 100 percent...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
FPGA Power Management and Modeling Techniques
Nov 2007
As designs get larger and add more system functions implemented on FPGAs, and as the advanced silicon process technology moves into smaller geometries, power consumption is increasingly a concern...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Intel Power Management Technologies for Processor Graphics, Display, and Memory
Aug 2010
Intel has been the leader in process technology and, innovations and technologies that create both speed and efficiency. This provides Intel with the ability to provide the marketplace with low...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel HD Graphics Dynamic Frequency Technology
Feb 2010
With the upcoming launch of Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i3 processor family of products, Intel will include both Intel Turbo Boost Technology and Intel HD Graphics with dynamic frequency. This...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
AMD Opteron Processors Deliver Outstanding Performance for Telecommunications Business Support Systems (BSS)
May 2007
Increasing challenges in billing systems demand reliable and scalable standard computing server technology with increasing performance to handle the increasing complexity and number of subscriber,...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
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DSP Implementation of SISO and MIMO OFDM Acoustic Modems
Mar 2010
Significant progress has been made recently on the use of multicarrier modulation in the form of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for high data rate underwater acoustic...
Provided by University of Connecticut
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Adapting the USRP as an Underwater Acoustic Modem
May 2009
This paper describes how the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) coupled with GNU Radio can be adapted for use as a configurable UnderWater Acoustic (UWA) modem. The USRP contains an Altera...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Acoustic Communication Performance of the WHOI Micro-Modem in Sea Trials of the Nereus Vehicle to 11,000 m Depth
Aug 2009
The new, unmanned, deep-diving Nereus hybrid vehicle can be configured as a tethered Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) using a fiber-optic cable and it can operate un-tethered as an Autonomous...
Provided by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Design of a Low-Cost, Underwater Acoustic Modem for Short-Range Sensor Networks
Apr 2010
A fundamental impediment to the use of dense underwater sensor networks is an inexpensive acoustic modem. Commercial underwater modems that do exist were designed for sparse, long range,...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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3dtv - Taking the TV Experience to a New Dimension
Jul 2010
Still in its infancy, 3D TV is forecasted to be the next big revenue generator for the digital television industry. Several broadcasters, service providers and operators, including BSkyB in the...
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FPGA and ASIC Implementation of Vedic Multiplier
Jul 2012
The ever increasing demand in enhancing the ability of processors to handle the complex and challenging processes has resulted in the integration of a number of processor cores into one chip....
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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Implementation of GALS Chip Multiprocessor With Flexibly Configurable Low Latency Interconnect
Oct 2011
Chip Multiprocessors with flexible configuration capability and with reduced latency is implemented in FPGA with reduced area utilization. Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) design...
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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Achieving Long-Term Business Value With Intel vPro Technology
Oct 2010
Recognizing Intel vPro technology's significant business value, Intel IT made a strategic decision three years ago to standardize the computing platform on PCs - both laptop and desktop - with...
Provided by Intel
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Using Graphics Processors for High Performance IR Query Processing
Apr 2009
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over tens of billions...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Multiscalar Processors
Jan 2010
Multiscalar processors use a new, aggressive implementation paradigm for extracting large quantities of instruction level parallelism from ordinary high level language programs. A single program...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Runtime Adaptive Extensible Embedded Processors - A Survey
Jun 2009
Current generation embedded applications demand the computation engine to offer high performance similar to custom hardware circuits while preserving the flexibility of software solutions....
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Multi-Threading Performance on Commodity Multi-Core Processors
Jun 2007
Multi-core processors based commodity servers recently become building blocks for high performance computing Linux clusters. The multi-core processors deliver better performance-to-cost ratios...
Provided by Jefferson Lab
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WCET Analysis for Multi-Core Processors With Shared L2 Instruction Caches
Feb 2008
Multi-core chips have been increasingly adopted by microprocessor industry. For real-time systems to safely harness the potential of multi-core computing, designers must be able to accurately...
Provided by Southern Illinois University Carbondale
