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AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Face Recognition Using a Gabor Filter Bank Approach
Face recognition is a challenging field of research not only because of the complexity of this subject, but also because of its numerous practical applications. Much progress has ...
Walid Riad Boukabou, Lahouari Ghouti, Ahmed Bourid...
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Evolutionary Design of Digital Circuits: Where Are Current Limits?
The objective of this paper is to classify the approaches proposed to the evolutionary digital circuit design in the recent years and to identify the levels of complexity and inno...
Lukás Sekanina
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
A Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for On-Chip Real-time Adaptation of a Multi-Carrier Based Telecommunications Receiver
This paper presents a multi-objective algorithm for on-line adaptation of a multi-carrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) receiver. A specially tailored Genetic Algorithm ...
Nasri Sulaiman, Ahmet T. Erdogan
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Finite State Machine IP Watermarking: A Tutorial
Sharing Intellectual Property (IP) blocks in today's competitive market poses significant high security risks. In this paper, we present a tutorial for a watermarking approach...
Amr T. Abdel-Hamid, Sofiène Tahar, El Mosta...
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
A Honeycomb Development Architecture for Robust Fault-Tolerant Design
A new hardware developmental model that shows strong robust transient fault-tolerant abilities and is motivated by embryonic development and a honeycomb structure is presented. Ca...
Andy M. Tyrrell, Hong Sun
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
A Modular Framework for the Evolution of Circuits on Configurable Transistor Array Architectures
This paper gives an overview over the progress that has been made by the Heidelberg FPTA group within the field of analog evolvable hardware. Achievements are the design of a CMOS...
Martin Trefzer, Jörg Langeheine, Karlheinz Me...
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
The Gannet Service-Based SoC: A Service-level Reconfigurable Architecture
We propose a novel type of dynamically reconfigurable System-on-Chip architecture, the Gannet service-based architecture. This novel concept addresses the issue of systemlevel rec...
Wim Vanderbauwhede
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Using Hardware-Based Particle Swarm Method for Dynamic Optimization of Adaptive Array Antennas
The following article describes and discusses the suitability of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) for the employment with blind adaptation of the directional characteristic o...
Gabriella Kókai, Tonia Christ, Hans Holm Fr...
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Particle Swarm Optimization with Discrete Recombination: An Online Optimizer for Evolvable Hardware
Self-reconfigurable adaptive systems have the possibility of adapting their own hardware configuration. This feature provides enhanced performance and flexibility, reflected i...
Jorge Peña, Andres Upegui, Eduardo Sanchez