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  1. The use of wireless sensor networks in home automation (WSNHA) is attractive due to their characteristics of self-organization, high sensing fidelity, low cost, and potential for rapid deployment. Although the...

    Authors: XiaoHui Li, SeungHo Hong and KangLing Fang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2011 2011:484690
  2. HD video applications can be represented with multiple tasks consisting of tightly coupled multiple threads. Each task requires massive computation, and their communication can be categorized as asynchronous d...

    Authors: Daewoong Kim, Kilhyung Cha, Do-Sun Hong, Soonwoo Choi and Soo-Ik Chae
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2011 2011:373509
  3. Energy modeling is an important issue for designing and dimensioning low power wireless sensor networks (WSN). In order to help the developers to optimize the energy spent by WSN nodes, a pragmatic and precise...

    Authors: MuhammadMahtab Alam, Olivier Berder, Daniel Menard, Thomas Anger and Olivier Sentieys
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2011 2011:307079
  4. QAM is a widely used multilevel modulation technique, with a variety of applications in data radio communication systems. Most existing implementations of QAM-based systems use high levels of modulation in ord...

    Authors: Christos Ttofis, Agathoklis Papadopoulos, Theocharis Theocharides, MariaK Michael and Demosthenes Doumenis
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2011 2011:790265
  5. Automation systems strongly depend on the amount, quality, and richness of their sensor information. For decades, scientists have investigated towards more accurate and cheaper sensors as well as new sensors f...

    Authors: Dietmar Bruckner, Rosemarie Velik and Yoseba Penya
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2011 2011:608423
  6. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to cooperatively monitor physical conditions. Thus, the node battery autonomy is critical. To outperform it, most WSNs rely o...

    Authors: Nicolas Ferry, Sylvain Ducloyer, Nathalie Julien and Dominique Jutel
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2011 2011:242386
  7. The ongoing penetration of building automation by information technology is by far not saturated. Today's systems need not only be reliable and fault tolerant, they also have to regard energy efficiency and fl...

    Authors: Rosemarie Velik, Gerhard Zucker and Dietmar Dietrich
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2011:707410
  8. Manycore architectures are expected to dominate future general-purpose and application-specific computing systems. The ever-increasing number of on-chip processor cores and the associated interconnect complexi...

    Authors: Theocharis Theocharides, MariaK Michael, Marios Polycarpou and Ajit Dingankar
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:261434
  9. HIFSuite ia a set of tools and application programming interfaces (APIs) that provide support for modeling and verification of HW/SW systems. The core of HIFSuite is the HDL Intermediate Format (HIF) language ...

    Authors: Nicola Bombieri, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Michele Ferrari, Franco Fummi, Graziano Pravadelli, Francesco Stefanni and Alessandro Venturelli
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:436328
  10. The wide utilisation of information and communication technologies is hoped to enable a more efficient and sustainable operation of electric power grids. This paper analyses the benefits of smart power grids f...

    Authors: Friederich Kupzog, Thilo Sauter and Klaus Pollhammer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2011:737543
  11. Modern high-end embedded systems require both predictable real-time scheduling and high-level abstraction interface to their OS kernels. Since these features are difficult to be balanced by a single OS, some m...

    Authors: Yuki Kinebuchi, Kazuo Makijima, Takushi Morita, Alexandre Courbot and Tatsuo Nakajima
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:458085
  12. Embedded systems designers need to verify their design choices to find the proper platform and software that satisfy a given set of requirements. In this context, it is essential to adopt formal-based techniqu...

    Authors: Bruno Nogueira, Paulo Maciel, Eduardo Tavares, Ermeson Andrade, Ricardo Massa, Gustavo Callou and Rodolfo Ferraz
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2011:316510
  13. Smart homes have been viewed with increasing interest by both home owners and the research community in the past few years. One reason for this development is that the use of modern automation technology in th...

    Authors: Christian Reinisch, MarioJ Kofler, Félix Iglesias and Wolfgang Kastner
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2011:104617
  14. Tuning cache hierarchies in platforms for embedded systems can significantly reduce energy consumption. In this paper we combined two optimization methods for tuning both instruction and data cache configurati...

    Authors: AbelGuilhermino Silva-Filho and FilipeRolim Cordeiro
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2011:620578
  15. Distributed estimation algorithms have attracted a lot of attention in the past few years, particularly in the framework of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Distributed Kalman Filter (DKF) is one of the most fun...

    Authors: A Abdelgawad, M Bayoumi and Xiaorui Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2011:693150
  16. This paper presents a word length selection method for the implementation of digital controllers in both fixed-point and floating-point hardware on FPGAs. This method uses the new types defined in the VHDL-200...

    Authors: I Urriza, LA Barragán, D Navarro, JI Artigas and O Lucia
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:593264
  17. To overcome system latency and network delay is essential for intervehicle communication (IVC) applications such as hazard alarming and cooperative driving. This paper proposes a low-cost embedded software sys...

    Authors: Xunxing Diao, Haiying Zhou, Kun-Mean Hou and Jian-Jin Li
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:601343
  18. As more processing cores are added to embedded systems processors, the relationships between cores and memories have more influence on the energy consumption of the processor. In this paper, we conduct fundame...

    Authors: Wei-Che Tseng, Jingtong Hu, Qingfeng Zhuge, Yi He and EdwinH-M Sha
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:871510
  19. Executable specifications and simulations are cornerstone to system design flows. Complex-mixed-signal embedded systems can be specified with SystemC AMS which supports abstraction and extensible models of com...

    Authors: Yaseen Zaidi, Christoph Grimm and Jan Haase
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:489365
  20. A power driver has been developed to control piezoelectric stack actuators used in automotive application. An FEM model of the actuator has been implemented starting from experimental characterization of the s...

    Authors: M Chiaberge, A Tonoli, G Botto, M De Giuseppe, S Carabelli and F Maddaleno
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:578591
  21. The complexity of today's embedded electronic systems as well as their demanding performance and reliability requirements are such that their design can no longer be tackled with ad hoc techniques while still ...

    Authors: Pierluigi Nuzzo, Xuening Sun, Chang-Ching Wu, Fernando De Bernardinis and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:261583
  22. This paper presents the design of an FPGA-based multiprocessor-system-on-chip (MPSoC) architecture optimized for Multiple Target Tracking (MTT) in automotive applications. An MTT system uses an automotive rada...

    Authors: Jehangir Khan, Smail Niar, MazenAR Saghir, Yassin El-Hillali and Atika Rivenq-Menhaj
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2009:175043
  23. This is a comment article on the publication "Techniques and Architectures for Hazard-Free Semi-Parallel Decoding of LDPC Codes" Rovini et al. (2009). We mention that there has been similar work reported in th...

    Authors: KiranK Gunnam, GwanS Choi and MarkB Yeary
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2009:704174
  24. This is a reply to the comments by Gunnam et al. "Comments on 'Techniques and architectures for hazard-free semi-parallel decoding of LDPC codes'", EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, vol. 2009, Article ID 70417...

    Authors: Massimo Rovini, Giuseppe Gentile, Francesco Rossi and Luca Fanucci
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2009:635895
  25. A mixed-signal embedded system called Intelligent Sensor InterFace (ISIF) suited to fast identify, trim, and verify an architecture to interface a given sensor is presented. This system has been developed acco...

    Authors: Emilio Volpi, Luca Fanucci, Adolfo Giambastiani, Alessandro Rocchi, Francesco D'Ascoli, Marco Tonarelli, Massimiliano Melani and Corrado Marino
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2010 2010:945646
  26. The aim of this paper is to present an adaptable Fat Tree NoC architecture for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) designed for image analysis applications. Traditional Network on Chip (NoC) is not optimal fo...

    Authors: Linlin Zhang, Virginie Fresse, Mohammed Khalid, Dominique Houzet and Anne-Claire Legrand
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:542035
  27. The rising demands for safety, power-weight reduction, and comfort make the in-vehicle network of embedded electronic systems very complex. In particular system reliability is essential, especially because of ...

    Authors: Candice Muller, Maurizio Valle, William Prodanov and Roman Buzas
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2010:726286
  28. This paper presents a very low-memory wavelet compression architecture for implementation in severely constrained hardware environments such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The approach employs a strip-bas...

    Authors: LiWern Chew, WaiChong Chia, Li-minn Ang and KahPhooi Seng
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:479281
  29. Embedded real-time applications in communication systems have significant timing constraints, thus requiring multiple computation units. Manually exploring the potential parallelism of an application deployed ...

    Authors: Maxime Pelcat, Jonathan Piat, Matthieu Wipliez, Slaheddine Aridhi and Jean-François Nezan
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:598529
  30. Most modern 16-bit and 32-bit embedded processors contain cache memories to further increase instruction throughput of the device. Embedded processors that contain cache memories open an opportunity for the lo...

    Authors: MuhammadYasir Qadri and KlausD McDonald-Maier
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:725438
  31. Since few years, the gastroenterologic examinations could have been realised by wireless video capsules. Although the images make it possible to analyse some diseases, the diagnosis could be improved by the us...

    Authors: Anthony Kolar, Olivier Romain, Jade Ayoub, David Faura, Sylvain Viateur, Bertrand Granado and Tarik Graba
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:716317
  32. This paper presents an efficient dynamic and run-time Hardware/Software scheduling approach. This scheduling heuristic consists in mapping online the different tasks of a highly dynamic application in such a w...

    Authors: Fakhreddine Ghaffari, Benoit Miramond and François Verdier
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:976296
  33. A novel event detector algorithm, which points out in-door acoustic human activities, for constrained wireless sensor node hardware is proposed in the present paper. In our approach, event detections are compu...

    Authors: MarcoAntonio López Trinidad and Maurizio Valle
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:474903
  34. This paper describes the design of an All-Digital Phase Locked Loop (AD-PLL) for wireless applications in the WiMAX 3.3–3.8 GHz bandwidth. The time/digital converter (TDC) sets the in-band noise and it may be ...

    Authors: Salvatore Levantino, Marco Zanuso, Paolo Madoglio, Davide Tasca, Carlo Samori and AndreaL Lacaita
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2010:175764
  35. The paper addresses the algorithmic and architectural design of digital input power audio amplifiers. A modelling platform, based on a meet-in-the-middle approach between top-down and bottom-up design strategi...

    Authors: Sergio Saponara and Pierangelo Terreni
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2010:394070
  36. This paper describes a hardware architecture to implement the watershed algorithm using rainfall simulation. The speed of the architecture is increased by utilizing a multiple memory bank approach to allow par...

    Authors: LeeSeng Yeong, ChristopherWingHong Ngau, Li-Minn Ang and KahPhooi Seng
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:318654
  37. Wavelet-based automated global image registration (WAGIR) is fundamental for most remote sensing image processing algorithms and extremely computation-intensive. With more and more algorithms migrating from gr...

    Authors: Baofeng Li, Yong Dou, Haifang Zhou and Xingming Zhou
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:162078
  38. H.264 delivers the streaming video in high quality for various applications. The coding tools involved in H.264, however, make its video codec implementation very complicated, raising the need for algorithm op...

    Authors: Yifeng Qiu and Wael Badawy
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:105979
  39. The layered decoding algorithm has recently been proposed as an efficient means for the decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, thanks to the remarkable improvement in the convergence speed (2x) of ...

    Authors: Massimo Rovini, Giuseppe Gentile, Francesco Rossi and Luca Fanucci
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:723465
  40. This article presents an efficient method to capture abstract performance model of streaming data real-time embedded systems (RTESs). Unified Modeling Language version 2 (UML2) is used for the performance mode...

    Authors: Tero Arpinen, Erno Salminen, Timo D Hämäläinen and Marko Hännikäinen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:826296