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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Firmware"”.
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Moduly a firmware pro IR komunikaci
Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá návrhem modulů komunikujících v infračervené oblasti. Rozebírá strukturu protokolu NEC, SIRC, RC5 a standardu IrDA. Dále popisuje návrh hardwarových modulů řízených mikroprocesory rodiny HC08, které komunikují těmito protokoly. Jádrem práce jsou obslužné podprogramy …
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Automated gateware discovery using open firmware
This dissertation describes the design and implementation of a mechanism that automates gateware device detection for reconfigurable hardware. The research facilitates the process of identifying and operating on gateware images by extending the existing infrastructure of probing devices in …
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Adaptive Firmware Framework for Microcontroller Development
Firmware development for Low-Level Controllers is an extremely complex task. Single-threaded microcontrollers are most commonly used for these controllers and thus are only capable of executing a single task at a time. Microcontroller software tends to be designed for an extremely specific task …
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Automated Rehosting and Instrumentation of Embedded Firmware
… analysis of these devices by separating embedded firmware from its host hardware, allowing the firmware to be run and inspected in virtual environments. I present a system to perform automated rehosting and instrumentation of embedded firmware: ARI. ARI improves upon previous methods by performing …
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Analysis of Firmware Security in Embedded ARM Environments
… can be fully controlled with this technique. Firmware code is pre-loaded into a ROM on Tiva microcontrollers which can be subverted to erase and rewrite the flash memory where the program resides. That same firmware is searched for a Turing-complete gadget set which allows for arbitrary …
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ZigBee-based Firmware Updating Algorithms in Smart Home Environment
… Therefore, updating the smart home ZigBee firmware is essential in the practice. Since the ZigBee network contains massive nodes and many sensors are battery powered,resource-efficiency, multi-node concurrent congestion and other ZigBee nodes’ interference become challenges during the …
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Firmware and gateway for the ACE1 reconfigurable accelerator card
… The aim: to create an ecosystem incorporating firmware, bootstrapping code, drivers and a development environment to create a seamless environment. Challenges in setting up and debugging the interface that connects the coprocessor daughtercard to the host server include: problems with the power …
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Firmware Development of the LAICE Instrument Interface Board (LIIB)
… describes the design and development of the LIIB firmware, to ensure proper functioning of the LAICE. The firmware design is presented first, by initially defining the architecture based on the system requirements and progressing eventually to its development at the system level. End-to-end …
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Hardware, software, firmware allocation of functions in systems development
… undefined topic is the hardware, software, and firmware allocation of functions. This research addresses this deficiency in top-down system development. The key objective is the restructuring of the hardware, software, and firmware process from a subjective, qualitative decision process to a …
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Binary lifting and formal verification of control algorithms in embedded firmware
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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A stimulus/recording system for optogenetics: circuit, firmware, and software design and implementation
An efficient and precise stimulus light delivery and signal readout system is the crucial component in studying optogenetics in a living animal model. In this study, a lightweight, low-cost stimulus/readout system is proposed, designed, fabricated, and tested for optogenetics study of neural …
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An improved medium access control protocol for real-time applications in WLANs and its firmware development
… to address symmetric traffic scenario and ii) firmware development of this newly devised MAC protocol for real WLAN hardware. The proposed solution shows signifocant improvements over existing standards by supporting higher number of stations with strict QoS criteria. The proposed hardware …
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Firmware Design and Testing for Data Handling and Control of Time Delay Integration Image Sensors in an Earth Observation Payload
… Functional analysis and requirements of firmware design will be analyzed based on previous works addressing a similar problem. Based on that, requirements will be proposed. The firmware design of the FPGA is proposed, which drives firmware architecture. This architecture serves as a …
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SHARC Buoy: Robust firmware design for a novel, low-cost autonomous platform for the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone in the Southern Ocean
… Ocean (MISO). This thesis focuses on the firmware development for the device and the design process taken to obtain key measurements for understanding sea ice dynamics and increasing sensing capabilities in the Southern Ocean. The buoy was required to survive the Antarctic climate and …
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Reference Design of an Online Emulation and Hot-Patching Approach for Power Electronic Controller Validation
… in case of a malicious or accidental controller firmware malfunction. </p> <p>The online security system is embedded in a controller board consisting of three main hardware components described in this thesis: Serial Communication Interface, Digital Signal Processors, and Field Programmable Gate …
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Penware Panther: An embedded computer system for real-time applications
… The emphasis of the thesis is on design of the firmware module of Panther. Instead of using the traditional flow chart and state machine approaches, an Object Orientation (OO) modeling approach is taken, which improves problem domain abstraction as well as system's stability in the presence of …
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A decision support tool for preliminary system design
… the system’s functions to hardware, software, or firmware implementations. This research investigates methods to automate the decision making process during preliminary design. These decisions include the hardware, software, and firmware allocation process and the reduction of the preliminary …
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Cybersecurity Methods for Grid-Connected Power Electronics
… controller security are investigated to evaluate firmware security techniques. The prototype's ability to mitigate, respond to, and recover from firmware integrity degradation is examined. The prototype shows many working security techniques within the context of a grid-connected, distributed …
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Design of an improved electronics platform for the EyeRing wearable device
… printed circuit boards (PCBs), peripherals, and firmware, was designed to make the device more usable and functional. Firmware was developed to ameliorate the communication capabilities, microcontroller functionality, and system power use. Improved features allow the pursual of previously …
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Angular distributions of high-mass dilepton production in hadron collisions
… implementing the trigger decision logic in FPGA firmware, it is more adaptable to changing experimental conditions. Additionally, the peripheral tasks of timing alignment, ""trigger matrix"" generation, and firmware uploading have been mostly automated, reducing the likelihood of user error in …
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