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Customizing Multiprocessor Implementation of an Automated Video Surveillance System

This paper reports on the development of an automated embedded video surveillance system using two customized embedded RISC processors. The application is partitioned into object tracking and video stream enco...

Authors: Gary Wang, Zoran Salcic and Morteza Biglari-Abhari

Signal Processing with Teams of Embedded Workhorse Processors

Advanced signal processing for voice and data in wired or wireless environments can require massive computational power. Due to the complexity and continuing evolution of such systems, it is desirable to maint...

Authors: RF Hobson, AR Dyck, KL Cheung and B Ressl

Rapid Energy Estimation for Hardware-Software Codesign Using FPGAs

By allowing parts of the applications to be executed either on soft processors (as software programs) or on customized hardware peripherals attached to the processors, FPGAs have made traditional energy estima...

Authors: Jingzhao Ou and Viktor K Prasanna

An Overview of Reconfigurable Hardware in Embedded Systems

Over the past few years, the realm of embedded systems has expanded to include a wide variety of products, ranging from digital cameras, to sensor networks, to medical imaging systems. Consequently, engineers ...

Authors: Philip Garcia, Katherine Compton, Michael Schulte, Emily Blem and Wenyin Fu

FPGA Dynamic Power Minimization through Placement and Routing Constraints

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are pervasive in embedded systems requiring low-power utilization. A novel power optimization methodology for reducing the dynamic power consumed by the routing of FPGA c...

Authors: Li Wang, Matthew French, Azadeh Davoodi and Deepak Agarwal

Generation of Embedded Hardware/Software from SystemC

Designers increasingly rely on reusing intellectual property (IP) and on raising the level of abstraction to respect system-on-chip (SoC) market characteristics. However, most hardware and embedded software co...

Authors: Salim Ouadjaout and Dominique Houzet

Signal Processing with High Complexity: Prototyping and Industrial Design

Authors: Markus Rupp, Thomas Kaiser, Jean-Francois Nezan and Gerhard Schmidt

A Real-Time Wavelet-Domain Video Denoising Implementation in FPGA

The use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for digital signal processing (DSP) has increased with the introduction of dedicated multipliers, which allow the implementation of complex algorithms. This ar...

Authors: Mihajlo Katona, Aleksandra Pižurica, Nikola Teslić, Vladimir Kovačević and Wilfried Philips

Rapid Industrial Prototyping and SoC Design of 3G/4G Wireless Systems Using an HLS Methodology

Many very-high-complexity signal processing algorithms are required in future wireless systems, giving tremendous challenges to real-time implementations. In this paper, we present our industrial rapid prototy...

Authors: Yuanbin Guo, Dennis McCain, Joseph R Cavallaro and Andres Takach

Fixed-Point Configurable Hardware Components

To reduce the gap between the VLSI technology capability and the designer productivity, design reuse based on IP (intellectual properties) is commonly used. In terms of arithmetic accuracy, the generated archi...

Authors: Romuald Rocher, Daniel Menard, Nicolas Herve and Olivier Sentieys

A Visual Environment for Real-Time Image Processing in Hardware (VERTIPH)

Real-time video processing is an image-processing application that is ideally suited to implementation on FPGAs. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a number of existing languages and hardware compilers...

Authors: CT Johnston, DG Bailey and P Lyons

Modeling and Design of Fault-Tolerant and Self-Adaptive Reconfigurable Networked Embedded Systems

Automotive, avionic, or body-area networks are systems that consist of several communicating control units specialized for certain purposes. Typically, different constraints regarding fault tolerance, availabi...

Authors: Thilo Streichert, Dirk Koch, Christian Haubelt and Jürgen Teich

Efficient Design Methods for Embedded Communication Systems

Nowadays, design of embedded systems is confronted with complex signal processing algorithms and a multitude of computational intensive multimedia applications, while time to product launch has been extremely ...

Authors: M Holzer, B Knerr, P Belanović and M Rupp

Modular Inverse Algorithms Without Multiplications for Cryptographic Applications

Hardware and algorithmic optimization techniques are presented to the left-shift, right-shift, and the traditional Euclidean-modular inverse algorithms. Theoretical arguments and extensive simulations determin...

Authors: Laszlo Hars