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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"digital hardware"”.
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Physical Unclonable Function Techniques Applied for Digital Hardware Protection
… data stolen. To take advantage of the external hardware, a physical unclonable function can be used to generate private keys without the need for storing them in memory. In this report, a design of a physical unclonable function is detailed and designed for use on an FPGA. Two different types of …
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Digital Hardware Design Decisions and Trade-offs for Software Radio Systems
… a combination of various circuit elements and digital hardware. By implementing radio functions in software, a flexible radio can be created that is capable of performing a variety of functions at different times. Numerous digital hardware devices are available to perform the required signal …
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Digital Hardware Architectures for Exact and Approximate DCT Computation Using Number Theoretic Techniques
… utilizing minimum resources in terms of hardware, at acceptable accuracy. This thesis explores the use of number theoretic techniques such as algebraic integer (AI) encoding and expansion factor methods for exact and approximate DCT computation. Novel digital hardware architectures that …
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Efficient Deep Learning Inference: A Digital Hardware Perspective - Evaluating and improving performance and efficiency of artificial and spiking neural networks hardware accelerators
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Delta modulation techniques for low bit-rate digital speech encoding
… the new codecs offer simpler implementation in digital hardware than the HCDM. A Computer Aided Test (CAT) system has been developed to simplify the design and test processes for speech codecs.
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PHDL : a Python Hardware Design framework
is thesis presents PHDL, a new hardware design language (HDL). In PHDL digital hardware components can vary in input/output widths, target platform, and have optional inputs and outputs. PHDL enables developers to write software to make intelligent compile time decisions far beyond the capabilities …
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Detection of Coreferences in Automatic Specifications Analysis
Specifications on digital hardware systems typically contain descriptions and requirements expressed in natural language and diagrams of various types. The objective of the research reported here is the automatic detection of common references ("coreferences") to objects in natural language …
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A multiple polarization plane ZDR radar data acquisition system
… polarization. A dedicated microcomputer and a digital hardware system collect the reflectivity data in any of four pairs of orthogonal polarization planes, i.e. data to calculate four ZDR values. This design permits the operator to change many of the important radar parameters, including the …
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A High Performance DSP Based System Architecture for Motor Drive Control
This paper presents a high speed digital signal processor (DSP) based system architecture for motor drive control. The system achieves fast speed performance by using the 50 MHz TMS320C25 DSP and specialized digital hardware to perform data acquisition and output control tasks usually performed in …
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Power efficient machine learning-based hardware architectures for biomedical applications
… requiring low-power, energy-efficient hardware platforms. Various machine learning models, such as deep learning architectures, have been employed to design intelligent healthcare systems. However, deploying these sophisticated and intelligent devices in real-time embedded systems with …
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A strategic method to establish sustainable platform businesses for next-generation home-network environments
… has become severe due to the rapid growth of digital hardware technology, and sophisticated open source technology. Every product of this industry has become commoditized very rapidly due to the emergence of those technologies, and many firms have been suffering from very thin profitability. …
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Manta: An In-Situ Debugging Tool for Programmable Hardware
Designing and debugging digital hardware has traditionally used vendor-provided tools, which are large and platform-constrained. Designers expend considerable effort accommodating toolchains for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development, which include utilities for debugging logic on the …
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Enhancing Productivity with Back-End Similarity Matching of Digital Circuits for IP Reuse
Productivity for digital circuit design is being outpaced currently by the rate at which<br />silicon is growing such as FPGAs. Complex designs take a large amount of engineering<br />hours to complete. Reuse of existing design can potentially decrease this cost and increase<br />design …
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Pattern-placement-error detection for spatial-phase-locked e-beam lithography (SPLEBL)
… subsystem will need to be upgraded with a custom hardware solution. The work presented in this thesis describes the design of an efficient error detection and correction mechanism for SPLEBL and how it could be implemented as a digital circuit. An error-detection algorithm, well suited for digital …
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Digital pulse processing
… be converted back into an analog or fixed-point digital representation through a filter-based reconstruction. Integrate-and-fire is shown to be equivalent to the first-order sigma-delta modulation used in oversampled noise-shaping converters. The encoder circuits are well known and have simple …
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Phrasal Document Analysis for Modeling
Specifications of digital hardware systems are typically written in a natural language. The objective of this research is automatic information extraction from specifications to aid model generation for system level design automation. This is done by automatic extraction of the noun phrases and the …
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An investigation into the performance of a power-of-two coefficient transversal equalizer in a 34Mbit/s QPSK digital radio during frequency-selective fading conditions
… a severe degradation in the performance of a digital radio system. As the total power in the received bandwidth may be unaffected, the Automatic Gain Control is not able to correct for this distortion, and so other methods are required. The dissertation commences with a summary of the …
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Efficient Implementation of Stochastic Inference on Heterogeneous Clusters and Spiking Neural Networks
… mixed neuron model networks. An accompanying digital hardware neuron RTL is also proposed for efficient real time implementation of SNNs capable of online learning. Finally, a methodology for mapping probabilistic graphical model to off-the-shelf neurosynaptic processor (IBM TrueNorth) as a …
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Synthesis of stochastic learning automata.
… At the same time, research has progressed in digital stochastic computing, in which variables are represented by random pulse trains, enabling analogue functions, effectively transformed into Boolean logic operations, to be performed at high speed by conventional digital hardware. These …
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Advancing Autonomous Structural Health Monitoring
… here describes efforts to miniaturize the hardware necessary for damage detection. A prototype impedance-based structural health monitoring system, incorporating wireless based communications, is fabricated and validated with experimental testing. The first steps towards a completely …
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