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Showing 1 to 20 of 329 for “"Co-design"”.
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Hardware/Software Co-Design via Specification Refinement
System-level design is an engineering discipline focused on producing methods, technologies, and tools that enable the specification, design, and implementation of complex, multi-discipline, and multi-domain systems. System-level specifications are as abstract as possible, defining required system …
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Compiler-Hardware Co-Design for Pervasive Parallelization
Modern computer systems have hundreds of processor cores, so highly parallel programs are critical to achieve high performance. But parallel programming remains difficult on current systems, so many programs are still sequential. This dissertation presents new compilers and hardware architectures …
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Cyber-Physical Co-Design of Wireless Control Systems
… in lowering deployment and maintenance cost in challenging environments. While early success of industrial WSANs has been recognized, significant potential remains in exploring WSANs as unified networks for industrial plants.</p><p>This thesis research explores a cyber-physical co-design …
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Optimal control co-design of attitude control systems
Attitude control is the process of orienting a spacecraft toward a desired point in space. Conventional systems for attitude control have been designed without considering the compliant response of the spacecraft. This leads to complex control algorithms that avoid exciting vibrational modes of the …
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Digitalized and gamified reading for children through Co-design
… for future education. Children today are becoming digital learners and traditional print-based reading no longer captures their attention. There needs to be some sort of middle ground between reading a book and playing a video game. The problem could be the lack of solutions which utilize …
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Software-Hardware Co-design For Deep Learning Model Acceleration
… sizes and numbers of operations. However, it becomes a great challenge to deploy modern DNNs on mobile and edge devices because of their limited memory, computation resources and battery energy. This dissertation seeks to address these challenges by advancing and integrating techniques from both …
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HW-SW co-design techniques for modern programming languages
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Software and Hardware Co-design for Efficient Neural Networks
… performance in many domains but this success comes at the cost of high computational and memory resources. Since DNN inference is now a popular workload on both edge and cloud systems, there is an urgent need to improve its energy efficiency. The improved efficiency enables the use of DNNs in …
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Analog and Digital Co-design Methods for Future Wireless Transmitters
… purity sets high standards for future mobile communication systems. Future wireless communication transmitters are challenged to improve their performance with reduced power consumption. Work performed in this thesis aims at improving several key areas of a wireless transmitter architecture to …
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Active suspension co-design for lateral stability of rail vehicles
Railroad transportation is one of the most cost-effective and energy-efficient modes of land transportation. With an eye toward improving these efficiencies, many efforts have focused on developing high speed railways. Traditionally railways have utilized passive suspension systems, but maintaining …
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Hardware-Software Co-Design for Sensor Nodes in Wireless Networks
… tools for analyzing and evaluating different design options for wireless sensor networks (sensornets) and hence, have been intensively studied in the past decades. However, existing simulators only support evaluations of protocols and software aspects of sensornet design. They cannot …
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Hardware software co-design of machine learning accelerators using univariate functions
As neural networks grow in complexity, efficient hardware-software co-design is crucial for balancing performance and resource constraints, especially for edge devices and FPGA accelerators. This thesis investigates optimization techniques for hardware-awaretraining and model compression using …
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Algorithm-circuit co-design for detecting symptomatic patterns in biological signals
<p>The advancement in scaled Silicon technology has accelerated the development of a wide range of applications in various fields including medical technology. It has immensely contributed to finding solutions for monitoring general health as well as alleviating intractable disorders in the form of …
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Design coupling analysis in multidisciplinary design optimization and control co-design
The design of complex engineering systems involves multiple interconnected, or coupled, disciplines. The relationships between these disciplines are not always well-known, especially for emerging technologies. Optimizing these systems can be a challenging task, especially if the designer has …
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Multi-Objective Bilevel Bayesian optimization for robot and behavior co-design
Traditionally, the robot design process is based on the trial-and-error approach that involves repeated cycles of design, prototyping, and evaluation. During the process, the robot designer should tackle multiple objectives, which are commonly in conflicting relationships. Furthermore, the robot …
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Automated communication and floorplan-aware hardware/software co-design for SoC
The main objective of modern SoC (system-on-chip) designs is to achieve high-performance while maintaining low power consumption and resource usage. However, achieving such a goal is a difficult and time-consuming engineering task due to the vast design space of hardware accelerators and HW/SW task …
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Model-Architecture Co-design of Deep Neural Networks for Embedded Systems
In deep learning, a convolutional neural network (ConvNet or CNN) is a powerful tool for building interesting embedded applications that use data to make predictions. An application running on an embedded system typically has limited access to memory resources, processing power, and storage. …
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Efficient computing for autonomous navigation using algorithm-and-hardware co-design
… autonomous navigation algorithms are computationally expensive, requiring powerful CPUs and GPUs to enable them to run in real time. As a result, it is prohibitive to deploy them on miniature robots with limited computational resources onboard. To tackle this challenge, this thesis …
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Practical Cryptographically Private and Verifiable Computation through Hardware-Software Co-Design
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Verifiable Computation (VC) enable offloading computation to untrusted servers with cryptographic privacy and integrity guarantees. Despite their attractive security properties, FHE and VC are not widely adopted because (1) they suffer prohibitive performance …
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Toward Practical Quantum Computing Systems with Intelligent Cross-Stack Co-Design
Quantum Computing (QC) has the potential to solve classically hard problems with greater speed and efficiency, and recent years have seen exciting advancements in this field. However, significant gaps remain between application requirements and the capabilities of current devices, particularly in …
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