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Title: HARDWARE DESIGN OF MESSAGE PASSING ARCHITECTURE ON HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM
Author: Gao, Shanyuan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Heterogeneous multi/many-core chips are commonly used in today's top tier supercomputers. Similar heterogeneous processing elements --- or, computation accelerators --- are commonly found in FPGA systems. Within both multi/many-core chips and FPGA...

Title: Human-Centric Computer Vision for the Artificial Intelligence of Things
Author: Neff, Christopher
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Computer engineering
Description: This dissertation presents a comprehensive exploration of innovative approaches and systems at the intersection of edge computing, deep learning, and real-time video analytics, with a focus on real-world computer vision for the Artificial Intellig...

Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF A DISTRIBUTED MIDDLEWARE FRAMEWORK TO SPAN THE EDGE - FOG - CLOUD TIERS OF A MOBILE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IoE PLATFORM REQUIRING REAL-TIME AND NEAR-REAL-TIME RESPONSE
Author: Seal, Arindrajit
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: This report motivates the roles of Cloud computing, Edge computing, and thehierarchically distributed cooperative Fog computing, for the real-time analysis ofbig-data in Internets-of-Everything (IoEs). IoEs are enhanced Internets of Things (IoTs)w...

Title: IMPROVING FAIRNESS AND THROUGHPUT OF A CMP PROCESSOR BY OPTIMIZING THE UTILIZATION OF THE LAST LEVEL SHARED CACHE IN REAL-TIME USING A CONSTRAINED-EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER
Author: Panday, Ashish
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Cache Partitioning is a technique which maps the data pertaining to each core to acorresponding partition in the cache memory exclusively. Cache partitioning has beenshown to improve performance metrics like fairness and throughput in most cases b...

Title: Integration of the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots with Robotics Middleware
Author: Harris, Adam
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Robotic simulators have long been used to test code and designs before any actual hardware is tested to ensure safety and efficiency. Many current robotics simulators are either closed source (calling into question the fidelity of their simulation...

Title: LOGIC LOCKING FRAMEWORK AND ITS APPLICATION FOR SECURE BOOT IN FPGAs
Author: Reji Joseph, Sam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The semiconductor industry faces a major issue with the rise of counterfeit ICs in the global supply chain. Due to globalisation, the majority of the IC design companies have become fabless. This can be credited to major production costs and the n...

Title: Leveraging LLVM IR for Design Space Exploration and Modeling of Application and Domain-Specific Hardware
Author: Rogers, Samuel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The limitations of transistor scaling and the rise of power-constrained compute environments have driven a new renaissance in hardware design through hardware acceleration. Application and domain-specific hardware accelerators offer fantastic effi...

Title: Memory Efficiency Implications on Sparse Matrix Operations
Author: Jain, Shweta
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Sparse Matrices are very large matrices with very few nonzero elements and operations on sparse matrices are central to many numerical and graph algorithms. The fundamental bottleneck in these operations is the usage of specialized storage formats...

Title: Multi-destination rendezvous in cognitive radio networks
Author: Samak, Tamer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The radio spectrum is a limited natural resource and the increase of wireless devices operating in the unlicensed bands of the spectrum has led to its overcrowding resulting in poor performance of those radio devices. Moreover, the static spectrum...

Title: OPTIMIZATION OF COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC IN HAMMER PROTOCOL USING 3D ELECTRONIC MESH NETWORK ON CHIP
Author: Suresh, Harishankar
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: In 1980s a processor had only one core, whose performance was improved by increasing the processor frequency. But this caused overheating and thus improvement in performance was halted. To get more performance multi core processor was introduced t...

Title: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF LATENCY UNDER MEMORY PRESSURE IN THE LINUX KERNEL FOR EDGE COMPUTING
Author: Koralahalli Channabasappa, Smita
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The Edge computing paradigm seeks to bring Cloud-like compute capabilities close to the Edge of the network, next to where the data is generated, so as to minimize the data communication latency. Edge applications such as autonomous driving, surve...

Title: Productively scaling hardware designs over increasing resources using a systematic design analysis approach
Author: Schmidt, Andrew
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: As processor development shifts from strict single core frequency scaling to het- erogeneous resource scaling two important considerations require evaluation. First, how to design systems with an increasing amount of heterogeneous resources, and s...

Title: PyDac: a distributed runtime system and programming model for a heterogeneous many-core architecture
Author: Huang, Bin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Heterogeneous many-core architectures that consist of big, fast cores and small, energy-efficient cores are very promising for future high-performance computing (HPC) systems. These architectures offer a good balance between single-threaded perfor...

Title: Real-Time Vision Methods for Deployable Pedestrian Detection, Re-Identification and Path Prediction Systems
Author: Mendieta, Matias
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence
Description: This article presents two methods, REVAMPT and CARPe Posterum. REVAMPT, or Real-time Edge Video Analytics for Multi-person Privacy-aware Tracking, is an integrated system for privacy-built-in pedestrian re-identification. REVAMPT presents novel al...

Title: Real-time Vehicle Detection and Tracking for Work Zone Safety
Author: Parks, Colin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence
Description: Computer vision and deep learning are rapidly evolving fields being implemented for a variety of different applications, including object detection and tracking for autonomous vehicles. While today's technology is not at the level of full automati...

Title: Representing and Reasoning with Clinical Knowledge in Radiation Therapy Publications: A Step Towards Evidence-Based Medicine
Author: Zhen, Yi
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Information technology
Description: To improve the quality and consistency of health care, evidence-based medicine (EBM) was proposed to promote the wide adoption of current best evidence to make decisions about care of individual patients. The practice of EBM in Radiation Oncology ...

Title: Revisiting the Memory Hierarchy in the Many-Core Era: Computation is Cheap, Bandwidth is Everything
Author: Rajasekhar, Yamuna
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Integrated Circuits (ICs) for logic (computation) have dramatically increased in both capacity and speed since their introduction in 1958. However, memory technology has had only modest improvements in speed. Moreover, to increase capacity and low...

Title: SCAN-BIM-FEA A STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY INVESTIGATION IN A CURTAIN WALL
Author: Patil, Gouree Prakash
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Computer engineering, Agricultural engineering
Description: Evaluating the structural integrity of curtain walls during the life cycle of a building project can assist architects in developing better designs, inform manufacturers on the needs to produce stronger building elements, help contractors establis...

Title: SENSOR FUSION FRAMEWORK AND SIMULATION ON A TURTLEBOT ROBOTIC VEHICLE
Author: Gangadhar, Shruti
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Autonomous robots are being designed and used in a wide variety of environments and unforeseen ways. Intelligent interpretation of sensor data is the key factor in a robot’s decision making ability while operating in such environments. Current day...

Title: SYSTEM INTEGRATION OVER A CAN BUS FOR A SELF-CONTROLLED, LOW-COST AUTONOMOUS ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE
Author: Erian, Karim
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: This thesis presents research for making an All-terrain Vehicle (ATV) autonomous. The objective of this research is to have a standardized platform for autonomous ATV modules having the basic controllers integrated and working. This research inclu...