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2003
IEEE
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Figure of Merit Based Selection of A/D Converters
A new method for selecting analog to digital (A/D) converters based on a generic figure of merit is described. First a figure of merit is introduced that includes both specific...
Martin Vogels, Georges G. E. Gielen
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2003
IEEE
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Parallel Processing Architectures for Reconfigurable Systems
Novel reconfigurable computing architectures exploit the inherent parallelism available in many signalprocessing problems. These architectures often consist of networks of compute...
Kees A. Vissers
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2003
IEEE
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HW/SW Partitioned Optimization and VLSI-FPGA Implementation of the MPEG-2 Video Decoder
In this paper, we propose an optimized real-time MPEG-2 video decoder. The decoder has been implemented in one FPGA device as a HW/SW partitioned system. We made time/power-consum...
Matjaz Verderber, Andrej Zemva, Damjan Lampret
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Reduced Delay Uncertainty in High Performance Clock Distribution Networks
The design of clock distribution networks in synchronous digital systems presents enormous challenges. Controlling the clock signal delay in the presence of various noise sources,...
Dimitrios Velenis, Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Eby G....
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Design Space Exploration for a Wireless Protocol on a Reconfigurable Platform
This paper describes a design space exploration experiment for a real application from the embedded networking domain - the physical layer of a wireless protocol. The application ...
Laura Vanzago, Bishnupriya Bhattacharya, Joel Camb...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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SystemC-AMS Requirements, Design Objectives and Rationale
SystemC is emerging as a de-facto standard for system design but it still lacks support for continuous-time models of computation and multi-domain systems. This becomes an issue a...
Alain Vachoux, Christoph Grimm, Karsten Einwich
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Safe Automotive Software Development
Automotive systems engineering has made significant progress in using formal methods to design safe hardware-software systems. The architectures and design methods could become a ...
Ken Tindell, Hermann Kopetz, Fabian Wolf, Rolf Ern...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Self-Testing Embedded Checkers for Bose-Lin, Bose, and a Class of Borden Codes
—A new approach for designing t-UED and BUED code checkers is presented. In particular we consider Borden codes for t = 2k − 1, Bose and Bose-Lin codes. The design technique fo...
Steffen Tarnick
DATE
2003
IEEE
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A Novel, Low-Cost Algorithm for Sequentially Untestable Fault Identification
This paper presents a new and low-cost approach for identifying sequentially untestable faults. Unlike the single fault theorem, where the stuck-at fault is injected only in the r...
Manan Syal, Michael S. Hsiao