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AHS
2007
IEEE
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Extreme Temperature Electronics - from Materials to Bio-inspired Adaptation
Biological systems have inherent mechanisms which ensure their adaptation and thus survival — preservation of functionality, despite extreme and varying environments. One such e...
Dragana Laketic, Pauline C. Haddow
AHS
2007
IEEE
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Application of Self-Configurability for Autonomous, Highly-Localized Self-Regulation
In this paper, key features of biological vs. artificial systems are identified, along with a synopsis of important consequences of those features. An artificial substrate that co...
Nicholas J. Macias, Peter M. Athanas
AHS
2007
IEEE
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Hybrid Communication Medium for Adaptive SoC Architectures
This paper proposes a hybrid communication medium for on-chip communication targeting adaptive SoC architectures. Unlike the work carried out in literature, where the term “hybr...
Balal Ahmad, Ali Ahmadinia, Tughrul Arslan
AHS
2007
IEEE
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Addressing the Metric Challenge: Evolved versus Traditional Fault Tolerant Circuits
The field of Evolvable Hardware, applying artificial evolution to the design of digital and analogue hardware is around ten years old. However, the field is far from reaching m...
Pauline C. Haddow, Morten Hartmann, Asbjørn...
AHS
2007
IEEE
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Automatic Synthesis of Fault Detection Modules for Mobile Robots
In this paper, we present a new approach for automatic synthesis of fault detection modules for autonomous mobile robots. The method relies on the fact that hardware faults typica...
Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O'Grady, Mauro Bir...
AHS
2007
IEEE
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The FPGA High-Performance Computing Alliance Parallel Toolkit
We describe the FPGA HPC Alliance’s Parallel Toolkit (PTK), an initial step towards the standardization of high-level configuration and APIs for high-performance reconfigurable ...
Robert Baxter, Stephen Booth, Mark Bull, Geoff Caw...
AHS
2007
IEEE
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Maxwell - a 64 FPGA Supercomputer
We present the initial results from the FHPCA Supercomputer project at the University of Edinburgh. The project has successfully built a general-purpose 64 FPGA computer and porte...
Robert Baxter, Stephen Booth, Mark Bull, Geoff Caw...
AHS
2007
IEEE
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High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing - the View from Edinburgh
This paper reviews the current state of the art in highperformance reconfigurable computing (HPRC) from the perspective of EPCC, the high-performance computing centre at the Unive...
Robert Baxter, Stephen Booth, Mark Bull, Geoff Caw...
AHS
2007
IEEE
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evolFIR: Evolving redundancy-free FIR structures
Finite impulse response (FIR) structures are the most commonly used digital filters and can be found in various areas of everyday life. In this paper we introduce a novel approac...
Szilvia Zvada, Gabriella Kókai, Róbe...
AHS
2007
IEEE
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A Low Power Implementation of H.264 Adaptive Deblocking Filter Algorithm
In this paper, we present a low power implementation of H.264 adaptive deblocking filter (DBF) algorithm on ARM Versatile / PB926EJ-S Development Board. The DBF hardware is implem...
Mustafa Parlak, Ilker Hamzaoglu