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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Reconfigurable Hardware"”.
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Reconfigurable hardware for control applications
… project investigated the use and development of reconfigurable hardware for control applications. This first involved a detailed analysis of the current state of the art in the reconfigurable field as well as some selected applications where it is thought this technology may be of benefit. The …
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Enhancing Trust in Reconfigurable Hardware Systems
… chips resulting in leakage of keystroke data and hardware backdoors crippling anti-aircraft guns during an attack demonstrate the need to protect all system functions. With more focus on securing a system, trust in untrusted components at the integration stage is of a higher priority. This work …
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Dynamically reconfigurable hardware for embedded control systems
This thesis explores the use of dynamically reconfigurable hardware for the realisation of embedded control systems, using the most well-known example of this kind of technology: Field Programmable Gate array (FPGA). The focus of the first part of the thesis is on assessing the resource utilisation …
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Tao--an architecturally balanced reconfigurable hardware processor
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
… for software-defined radio applications. Their reconfigurable nature allows many digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to be highly parallelised within the FPGA fabric, while their customisable I/O interfaces allow simple interfacing to analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) and …
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A timeshared, runtime reconfigurable hardware co-processing architecture
… systems has led to the need for specialized hardware cores to accelerate specific computational tasks. In this thesis, we explore the potential of using FPGA partial reconfiguration to create a platform for customized hardware cores that may be loaded on demand, at runtime, and replaced when …
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Loop Transformations for the Optimized Generation of Reconfigurable Hardware
… but also the control complexity we present a hardware loop controller architecture which supports hardware generation from the polyhedral representation used for loop transformations. The techniques are demonstrated by the semi-automatic generation of an FPGA implementation of an inverse …
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Reconfigurable Hardware-Based Simulation Modeling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
This dissertation research explores a reconfigurable hardware-based parallel simulation mechanism that can dramatically improve the speed of simulating the operations of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Here reconfigurable hardware-based simulation refers to running simulation on a …
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Obtaining performance and programmability using reconfigurable hardware for media processing
An imperative requirement in the design of a reconfigurable computing system or in the development of a new application on such a system is performance gains. However, such developments suffer from long-and-difficult programming process, hard-to-predict performance gains, and limited scope of …
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Efficient design and implementation of image processing algorithms on reconfigurable hardware using Handel-C
… in software but may use special purpose hardware for speed. With advances in the VLSI technology hardware implementation has become an attractive alternative. Assigning complex computation tasks to hardware and exploiting the parallelism and pipelining in algorithms yield significant …
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Real Time Signal Processing for Multi-Antenna Systems and experimental Verification on a reconfigurable Hardware Test-bed
… zeigt, daß eine Umsetzung bereits auf heutiger Hardware möglich ist. Eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für die Umsetzung der entwickelten MIMO-Übertragungstechniken ist eine sorgfältige Anforderungsanalyse und Algorithmenoptimierung der notwendigen Basisbandalgorithmen beson-ders bezüglich einer …
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The Effects of Caching on Reconfigurable Adaptive Computing Systems
… systems is the relatively small amount of reconfigurable hardware resources. Many algorithms require more hardware resources than are available. One solution to this problem is runtime reconfiguration (RTR). Using RTR techniques, a large algorithm is implemented as a collection of …
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A Reconfigurable Implementation of Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference
… time-consuming parts of the algorithm on custom hardware. The goal of this thesis is to investigate a reconfigurable hardware implementation of the popular phylogenetic inference software MrBayes. This work details the development of an FPGA design that works with the MrBayes software to perform …
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It is I: An Authentication System for a Reconfigurable Radio
… and the weaknesses of the implementation in reconfigurable hardware are identified. The capabilities of the scheme are put into perspective by comparing it to a high-end authentication system and by evaluating the use of standardized APIs and low-end authentication devices. Modifications to …
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Design and Implementation of a Soft Radio Architecture for Reconfigurable Platforms
… radios using a combination of various hardware elements and structures. In this dissertation a {em{soft radio}} refers to a completely configurable radio that can be programmed through software, to change the radio behavior including the hardware functionality. Conventional software …
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Automated gateware discovery using open firmware
… 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 traditional software by using the chosen technology.
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Rapid Prototyping of Software Defined Radios using Model Based Design for FPGAs
… gate arrays (FPGAs) has promoted the concept of reconfigurable hardware for software defined radio (SDR). It enables the designer to create high speed radios with flexibility, low latency and high throughput. Generally, the traditional method of designing FPGA based radios limits productivity. …
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Control and in-situ measurement of adaptive and reconfigurable RF systems.
… systems that coordinate real-time sharing and reconfigurable hardware that can be optimized to improve performance in different operating conditions, enabling additional flexibility in spectrum assignments. This dissertation examines a spatial-spectral brokering system that can coordinate …
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Accelerating software radio astronomy FX correlation with GPU and FPGA co-processors
… were made independently with one using reconfigurable hardware (Xilinx Virtex 4LXlOO) and the other uses a graphics processor (Nvidia 9800GT). The objective of a radio astronomy correlator is to compute the complex valued correlation products for each baseline which can be used to …
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