SIL's (Safety Integrity Levels) are used by IEC 61508:1998 [1] to characterise the required functional safety of computer control systems. For example, SIL 4, the highest rat...
The design of complex Systems-on-Chips implies to take into account communication and memory access constraints for the integration of dedicated hardware accelerator. In this paper...
Wang et al. presented a remote password authentication scheme using IC (Integrated Circuit) cards in 2004. Unfortunately, we discovered that their scheme is unable to withstand th...
Selective attention is a process widely used by biological sensory systems to overcome the problem of limited parallel processing capacity: salient subregions of the input stimuli...
The number of gates on a chip is quickly growing toward and beyond the one billion mark. Keeping all the gates running at the beat of a single or a few rationally related clocks i...
Alexander Taubin, Jordi Cortadella, Luciano Lavagn...