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A novel power model for future heterogeneous 3D chip-multiprocessors in the dark silicon age

Dark silicon has recently emerged as a new problem in VLSI technology. Maximizing performance of chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) under power and thermal constraints is very challenging in the dark silicon era. Pro...

Authors: Arghavan Asad, Aniseh Dorostkar and Farah Mohammadi

Efficient embedded architectures for fast-charge model predictive controller for battery cell management in electric vehicles

With the ever-growing concerns about carbon emissions and air pollution throughout the world, electric vehicles (EVs) are one of the most viable options for clean transportation. EVs are typically powered by a...

Authors: Anne K. Madsen and Darshika G. Perera

A new test set compression scheme for circular scan

A new test data compression scheme for circular scan is proposed in this paper. For circular scan, the response of the previous test vector is used as the next test vector’s template, and only the conflicting ...

Authors: Ling Zhang, Junjin Mei and Bowu Yan

ARM-FPGA-based platform for reconfigurable wireless communication systems using partial reconfiguration

Today, wireless devices generally feature multiple radio access technologies (LTE, WIFI, WIMAX,...) to handle a rich variety of standards or technologies.These devices should be intelligent and autonomous enou...

Authors: Mohamad-Al-Fadl Rihani, Mohamad Mroue, Jean-Christophe Prévotet, Fabienne Nouvel and Yasser Mohanna

Generation of fault-tolerant state-based communication schedules for real-time systems

State-based schedules use a time division multiple access (TDMA) mechanism that supports executing conditional semantics and making on-the-fly decisions at runtime in each communication cycle. Until now, state...

Authors: Akramul Azim

Efficient quantization and fixed-point representation for MIMO turbo-detection and turbo-demapping

In the domain of wireless digital communication, floating-point arithmetic is generally used to conduct performance evaluation studies of algorithms. This is typically limited to theoretical performance evalua...

Authors: Mostafa Rizk, Amer Baghdadi, Michel Jézéquel, Yasser Mohanna and Youssef Atat

AMBER: Advanced Mother Board for Embedded systems pRototyping

The proliferation of low-cost embedded system platforms has allowed the creation of large communities of developers, as well as the development of new advanced applications. Even though some of these applicati...

Authors: Matteo Petracca, Pierluigi Passaro and Egidio Gioia

Real-time semi-partitioned scheduling of fork-join tasks using work-stealing

This paper extends the work presented in Maia et al. (Semi-partitioned scheduling of fork-join tasks using work-stealing, 2015) where we address the semi-partitioned scheduling of real-time fork-join tasks on ...

Authors: Cláudio Maia, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Luís Nogueira and Luis Miguel Pinho

Multi-criteria resource allocation in modal hard real-time systems

In this paper, a novel resource allocation approach dedicated to hard real-time systems with distinctive operational modes is proposed. The aim of this approach is to reduce the energy dissipation of the compu...

Authors: Piotr Dziurzanski, Amit Kumar Singh and Leandro Soares Indrusiak

A Pareto-based scheduler for exploring cost-performance trade-offs for MapReduce workloads

In recent years, we are observing an increased demand for processing large amounts of data. The MapReduce programming model has been utilized by major computing companies and has been integrated by novel cyber...

Authors: Nikos Zacheilas and Vana Kalogeraki

On the assessment of probabilistic WCET estimates reliability for arbitrary programs

Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA) has been shown to be an industrially viable method to estimate the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) of real-time programs running on processors including...

Authors: Suzana Milutinovic, Jaume Abella and Francisco J. Cazorla

An intelligible implementation of FastSLAM2.0 on a low-power embedded architecture

The simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithm has drawn increasing interests in autonomous robotic systems. However, SLAM has not been widely explored in embedded system design spaces yet due to t...

Authors: Albert A. Jiménez Serrata, Shufan Yang and Renfa Li

Heart rate spectrum analysis for sleep quality detection

To evaluate the quality of sleep, it is important to determine how much time was spent in each sleep stage during the night. The gold standard in this domain is an overnight polysomnography (PSG). But the reco...

Authors: Wilhelm Daniel Scherz, Daniel Fritz, Oana Ramona Velicu, Ralf Seepold and Natividad Martínez Madrid

Dynamic partial reconfigurable hardware architecture for principal component analysis on mobile and embedded devices

With the advancement of mobile and embedded devices, many applications such as data mining have found their way into these devices. These devices consist of various design constraints including stringent area ...

Authors: S. Navid Shahrouzi and Darshika G. Perera

Mobile multimedia crowd service cooperation control protocol based on opportunistic wavelet

In order to improve the quality of multimedia communication and experience, we proposed a crowd service cooperation control protocol based on the opportunistic wavelet model. Firstly, in order to provide real-...

Authors: Wei-hang Shi and Wei-ping Li

Prototypic implementation and evaluation of an artificial DNA for self-descripting and self-building embedded systems

Embedded systems are growing more and more complex because of the increasing chip integration density, larger number of chips in distributed applications, and demanding application fields (e.g., in cars and in...

Authors: Uwe Brinkschulte

Modeling of smartphones’ power using neural networks

In the work presented in this paper, we use data collected from mobile users over several weeks to develop a neural network-based prediction model for the power consumed by a smartphone. Battery life is critic...

Authors: Sameer Alawnah and Assim Sagahyroon

Energy consumption optimization management mechanism based on drug green crowd data in biological pharmaceutical cloud environment

For satisfying the network trend and intelligent demand of biopharmaceutical, we proposed the energy optimization consumption and management scheme of the drug green crowd data in the biological pharmaceutical...

Authors: Shujuan Wang, Long He and Guiru Cheng

Linear precoding design for massive MIMO based on the minimum mean square error algorithm

Compared with the traditional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the large number of the transmit antennas of massive MIMO makes it more dependent on the limited feedback in practical systems. In t...

Authors: Zhou Ge and Wu Haiyan

Low-level trace correlation on heterogeneous embedded systems

Tracing is a common method used to debug, analyze, and monitor various systems. Even though standard tools and tracing methodologies exist for standard and distributed environments, it is not the case for hete...

Authors: Thomas Bertauld and Michel R. Dagenais

Design and evaluation of medical ultrasonic adaptive beamforming algorithm implementation on heterogeneous embedded computing platform

Medical ultrasonic imaging has been utilized in a variety of clinical diagnoses for many years. Recently, because of the needs of portable and mobile medical ultrasonic diagnoses, the development of real-time ...

Authors: Junying Chen, Jinhui Chen and Huaqing Min

Embedded protocols based on the crowd Petri networks and opportunistic bandwidth allocation

In order to improve the bandwidth utilization of embedded system and the working efficiency of mobile system, we propose a crowd Petri network and bandwidth allocation scheme. These research results are suitab...

Authors: Shu-yi Guo and Qi Si

Signal hole repair strategy based on sensor deployment density for mobile crowd network

In order to reduce the signal holes in wireless sensor networks, we proposed a sensor deployment density-aware signal hole repair strategy of mobile crowd network. On the one hand, based on the multi-dimension...

Authors: Yong-qiang He

Optimization strategy of mobile data transmission based on optimal crowd feedback

In order to eliminate the factors that restrict the performance of wireless network data transmission, we proposed the optimal control mechanism of wireless network data transmission. The proposed mechanism so...

Authors: Yang Zhang

Crowd cloud routing protocol based on opportunistic computing for wireless sensor networks

We proposed a crowd cloud routing protocol based on opportunistic computing to improve the data transmission efficiency, reliability, and reduce routing overhead in wireless sensor networks. Based on the analy...

Authors: Shengli Mao

A low cost and fast controller architecture for multimedia data storage and retrieval to flash-based storage device

Real-time multimedia data access plays an important role in electronic systems; as time goes by, with decrease in data processing speed and increase in communication time, storage time, and retrieval time, the...

Authors: Samiran Banerjee and Sumitra Mukhopadhyay

Mobile adaptive crowd optimization scheme based on distance field

For complexity and efficiency of the multi-objective optimization, we proposed the mobile distance field-driven adaptive crowd optimization algorithm. In space, we modify the surface parameters based on the co...

Authors: Ya-chun Tang, Xiao-bo Guo and Xiang-dong Yin

Vehicle networking data-upload strategy based on mobile cloud services

While traditional vehicle network communication architecture is based on special short-range communication, it is difficult to meet the demand for quality of service of vehicle networking data transmission. Th...

Authors: Jie Yang, Jin Wang, Li Wan and Xiaobing Liu

Network overhead crowd management mechanism of virtual mobile Internet

It has become the hot research issue that solves the bottleneck of resource management in the development of Internet through virtualization. However, there are the challenges of mobility management, resource ...

Authors: Hai-yan Wu, Wei-ping Li and Jin Wang

Editorial to special issue on energy efficient architectures for embedded systems

Authors: Nuno Roma and Jose Nunez-Yanez

Image crowd fusion mechanism based on optical embedded system

Optical principle embedded image analysis can effectively improve the accuracy of image recognition, but there is a problem of low efficiency and high computational complexity. In view of the above problems, w...

Authors: Xue-liang Ma and Ming-min Lv

A fast and accurate energy source emulator for wireless sensor networks

The capability to either minimize energy consumption in battery-operated devices, or to adequately exploit energy harvesting from various ambient sources, is central to the development and engineering of energ...

Authors: Emanuele Lattanzi, Valerio Freschi, Matteo Dromedari, Luca Salvatore Lorello, Roberto Peruzzini and Alessandro Bogliolo

Distributed crowd filtering mechanism based on heterogeneous network delay and data packet loss constraint

The differences among heterogeneous networks, network delay, and data packet error could decline network performance. In order to solve the above problems, we study a kind of distributed crowd-filtering mechan...

Authors: Xiang-jun Zhou

Embedded tracking algorithm based on multi-feature crowd fusion and visual object compression

The accuracy and poor real-time performance of moving objects in a dynamic range complex environment become the bottleneck problem of the target location and tracking. In order to improve the positioning accur...

Authors: Zheng Wenyi and Dong Decun

A design methodology for soft-core platforms on FPGA with SMP Linux, OpenMP support, and distributed hardware profiling system

In recent years, the use of multiprocessor systems has become increasingly common. Even in the embedded domain, the development of platforms based on multiprocessor systems or the porting of legacy single-core...

Authors: Vittoriano Muttillo, Giacomo Valente, Fabio Federici, Luigi Pomante, Marco Faccio, Carlo Tieri and Serenella Ferri

Hard macrocells for DC/DC converter in automotive embedded mechatronic systems

A novel configurable DC/DC converter architecture, to be integrated as hard macrocell in automotive embedded systems, is proposed in the paper. It aims at realizing an intelligent voltage regulator. With respe...

Authors: Sergio Saponara, Luca Fanucci, Edoardo Biagi and Riccardo Serventi

Research on the fusion mechanism of cooperative embedded filtering and crowd content recommendation

Internet simultaneous services of large-scale users will lead to server overload and information failure. Static content recommendation system cannot adapt to the dynamic similarity characteristics of users. S...

Authors: Chen Yu-yun

Mechanical hydraulic characteristic analysis scheme based on lightweight crowd data in mobile embedded devices

In order to improve the efficiency of mechanical and hydraulic control of the mechanical equipment, the analysis scheme of mechanical hydraulic characteristics based on lightweight crowd data was proposed in m...

Authors: Shu-yi Guo and Qi Si

Comparison of smart grid architectures for monitoring and analyzing power grid data via Modbus and REST

Smart grid, smart metering, electromobility, and the regulation of the power network are keywords of the transition in energy politics. In the future, the power grid will be smart. Based on different works, th...

Authors: Susanne Kenner, Raphael Thaler, Markus Kucera, Klaus Volbert and Thomas Waas

FPGA implementation of JPEG encoder architectures for wireless networks

Due to its relative simplicity, the JPEG compression algorithm requires less hardware or software resources with respect to new compression algorithms, for example the JPEG2000 and the JPEG XR. This makes it s...

Authors: C. Scavongelli and M. Conti

Embedded acoustic emission system based on rock sound source crowd location

Rock acoustic emission is often used to study the evolution of brittle materials. The cause of rock internal damage can be monitored continuously and real-timely by sensing rock acoustic wave. However, the key...

Authors: Zhang Qing

Embedded solutions for a class of highly unstable, underactuated and self-balancing robotic systems

This paper presents a didactic framework in embedded electronics systems that is used to elicit awareness into students and engineers on the design issues arising in the realization of a class of underactuated...

Authors: Andrea Bonci, Massimiliano Pirani and Sauro Longhi

A low-power wireless system for energy consumption analysis at mains sockets

Improving energy efficiency and reducing energy wastage is an important topic of our time. But it is quite difficult to figure out how much of our total electricity bill can be mapped to which device or at wha...

Authors: Matthias Altmann, Peter Schlegl and Klaus Volbert

Optimizing linear routing in the ToLHnet protocol to improve performance over long RS-485 buses

As the adoption of sensing and control networks rises to encompass the most diverse fields, the need for simple, efficient interconnection between many different devices will become ever more pressing. Though ...

Authors: Michele Alessandrini, Giorgio Biagetti, Paolo Crippa, Laura Falaschetti, Simone Orcioni and Claudio Turchetti

Energy-aware memory management for embedded multidimensional signal processing applications

In real-time data-intensive multimedia processing applications, data transfer and storage significantly influence, if not dominate, all the major cost parameters of the design space—namely energy consumption, ...

Authors: Florin Balasa, Noha Abuaesh, Cristian V. Gingu, Ilie I. Luican and Hongwei Zhu

Feedback recurrent neural network-based embedded vector and its application in topic model

While mining topics in a document collection, in order to capture the relationships between words and further improve the effectiveness of discovered topics, this paper proposed a feedback recurrent neural net...

Authors: Lian-sheng Li, Sheng-jiang Gan and Xiang-dong Yin

Sensing user context and habits for run-time energy optimization

Optimizing energy consumption in modern mobile handheld devices plays a very important role as lowering energy consumption impacts battery life and system reliability. With next-generation smartphones and tabl...

Authors: Ismat Chaib Draa, Smail Niar, Jamel Tayeb, Emmanuelle Grislin and Mikael Desertot

Low power memory allocation and mapping for area-constrained systems-on-chips

Large fractions of today’s embedded systems’ power consumption can be attributed to the memory subsystem. In order to reduce this fraction, we propose a mathematical model to optimize on-chip memory configurat...

Authors: Manuel Strobel, Marcus Eggenberger and Martin Radetzki

Can embedded space system development benefit from agile practices?

We study in this work piloting agile practices in embedded space system development projects. The case involves three companies acting as last or next to last subcontractors in a space project.

Authors: Kaisa Könnölä, Samuli Suomi, Tuomas Mäkilä, Ville Rantala and Teijo Lehtonen

A hybrid fixed-function and microprocessor solution for high-throughput broad-phase collision detection

We present a hybrid system spanning a fixed-function microarchitecture and a general-purpose microprocessor, designed to amplify the throughput and decrease the power dissipation of collision detection relativ...

Authors: Muiris Woulfe and Michael Manzke