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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Application-Specific Integrated Circuits"”.
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An emulation-based methodology for integrating design, testing and diagnosis of application-specific integrated circuits
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Logic synthesis and optimization algorithms
… be automated. The increasing demand for ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) also needs design efficiency and cost effectiveness which can only be achieved by effective automatic logic synthesis tools. In this thesis, two important network realization means, PLA's and multi-level …
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A Reconfigurable FPGA Overlay Architecture for Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
… for matrix-matrix multiplication. Both application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and field-programmable arrays (FPGAs) are used for this purpose. However, a trade-off between the two platforms is that ASICs provide little flexibility after they are manufactured while designs on …
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Digital Hardware Architectures for Exact and Approximate DCT Computation Using Number Theoretic Techniques
… is a key tool in many image and video coding applications. Therefore significant effort is been made to realize DCT computation utilizing minimum resources in terms of hardware, at acceptable accuracy. This thesis explores the use of number theoretic techniques such as algebraic integer (AI) …
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Modeling and Synthesis with SystemC
With the increasing complexity of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), System-On-a-Chip (SoC) design seems to be the current chip design paradigm. Unlike ASICs, SoCs are a potpourri of diverse components, including general-purpose or special-purpose processors. Designing and testing …
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A data servicing subsystem for the Chidi reconfigurable processor
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are often used to enhance system performance, especially when a General Purpose Processor (GPP) is too inefficient or ill suited to perform a specialized task. However, the time and hardware costs inherent in the development and implementation of …
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Logical Representation of FPGAs and FPGA Circuits within the SCA
… Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) all provide a designer with choices along the performance versus flexibility spectrum. The designer must choose a combination of GPP, DSP, FPGA and ASIC devices to balance the needs of performance …
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The VAT tool : automatic transformation of VHDL to timed automata
… (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) as operational platforms for embedded software, has resulted in the system developer having to verify both the hardware and the software components. The stringent processes used over the system development …
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Configurable Architecture for System-Level Prototyping of High-Speed Embedded Wireless Communication Systems
… technologies have the potential to provide integrated data and multimedia services in several niche areas. There is a growing need to develop high-performance communication systems that can satisfy high-end data processing requirements inherent in these technologies. The speed and complexity …
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Design and Implementation of an FPGA-based Partially Reconfigurable Network Controller
… using micro controllers. However there are many applications where a hardware-oriented approach using Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) or Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is more suitable. One of the features of FPGAs that cannot be integrated into ASICs is runtime …
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The Design, Simulation and Synthesis of Pipelined Floating-Point Radix-4 Fast Fourier Transform Data Path in VHDL
… (DSP) algorithms. DSPs are used in a number of applications from communication and controls to speech and image processing. DSPs have also found their way into toys, music synthesizers and in most digital instruments. Many applications have relied on Digital Signal Processors and Application …
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Adaptive multilevel quadrature amplitude radio implementation in programmable logic
… defined radios (SDRs) and broadband wireless applications. The modem operates in “burst” mode, and can reliably synchronize to different QAM constellations “burst-by-burst”. Two main improvements exploit commonality in the M-QAM constellations to minimize the redundant hardware required. …
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Towards Automation of ASIC TSMC 0.18 um Standard Cell Library Development
… is a widely adopted design approach in current Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and System-on-Chip (SOC) designs. A standard cell library is a collection of basic building blocks that can be used in cell-based design. The use of a standard cell library offers shorter design time, …
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A hardware-embedded, delay-based PUF engine designed for use in cryptographic and authentication applications
Cryptographic and authentication applications in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), as well as codes for the activation of on-chip features, require the use of embedded secret information. The generation of secret bitstrings using physical …
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Analoge Auslese- und Triggerelektronik für Mikrostreifen-Gaszähler
… with custom made readout electronics. These application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are designed in cooperation with the ``Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik''. This thesis documents the development and testing of a fast comparator circuit to be integrated in the readout chip HELIX. …
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EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION METHODOLOGY FOR MANY-CORES ON CHIP BASED APPLICATIONS
<p>Modern high performance computing applications such as personal computing, gaming, numerical simulations require application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that comprises of many cores. Performance for these applications depends mainly on latency of interconnects which transfer data …
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FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE MICROFLUIDIC TEST PLATFORM FOR POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTICS
… using a process similar to the development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). A field-programmable lab-on-a-chip (FPLOC), which allows designers to electrically program the prefabricated chip into EWOD applications, was fabricated and demonstrated based on novel microelectrode …
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Seeing through Space and Time: Asynchronous Event Processing for Robots
… sensors. These sensors are ideal for robotics applications due to several advantages: continuous output with microsecond resolution, High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging, less motion blur, real-time response without frame rate limitations and low power consumption. Despite their widespread use in …
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Seeing through Space and Time: Asynchronous Event Processing for Robots
… sensors. These sensors are ideal for robotics applications due to several advantages: continuous output with microsecond resolution, High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging, less motion blur, real-time response without frame rate limitations and low power consumption. Despite their widespread use in …
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