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Title: Advancing Highway Safety: Embedded-Edge AI for Real-Time Applications
Author: Katariya, Vinit Amrutlal
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Transportation
Description: This dissertation presents the systematic design and development of datasets, algorithms, and an AI pipeline specifically curated for real-time trajectory prediction and anomaly detection in highway environments. These innovations are meticulously...

Title: Algorithmic Optimization of First Convolution Layer in CNNs for Hardware Accelerator Design
Author: Chamarthi, Ramachandra Vikas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: This thesis proposes "1D Convolution replacement layer ", a novel optimization for first convolution layer in CNN. This optimization enables edge friendly streaming accelerator design with a minimum drop in accuracy. This optimization reduces the ...

Title: Best Practices for Building Hardware Designs for Living Computational Science Applications
Author: Pottathuparambil, Robin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Scientific computing or Computational science, is a field of study where engineers and scientists use computer simulations to solve equations that model the physical world. In some cases, these equations come from the first principles of physics. ...

Title: Bridging the gap between heterogeneous computing and next generation memory architecture using high level synthesis
Author: Rajagopala, Abhilash
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The impact of transistor scaling on FPGAs is changing the role of FPGA from accelerators to a major role as processors. With this rapid development and the ability to implement complex systems on FPGAs, the conventional hardware language design fl...

Title: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: Design and validation of a scalable digital wireless channel emulator using an FPGA computing cluster
Author: Buscemi, Anthony
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: A Digital Wireless Channel Emulator (DWCE) is a system that is capable of emulating the RF environment for a group of wireless devices. The use of digital wireless channel emulators with networking radios is hampered by the inability to efficientl...

Title: Enabling Architecture Research on GPU Simulator for Deep Learning Applications
Author: Nikam, Abhishek
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Deep learning uses stacks of multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with different levels of abstraction. It enables machines to have the understanding of outer environment just like the human body, opening a path for diverse ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Software memory controller design: Issues and Challenges
Author: Gaur, Aditi
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: As the memory wall becomes an obstacle in the multi-core architecture, many hardware solutions have been proposed to utilize the available memory bandwidth more efficiently. One such implementation uses a B-tree based controller implemented in har...

Title: Software-defined networking based testbed for evaluating cyber-attacks and defense strategies using FPGA
Author: KUMAR, ARJUN
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Networks inherently facilitate interconnections of resources and people, even if they are remotely located. While this easily facilitates the communication between physically separated devices, it poses a huge vulnerability. Any remotely connected...

Title: The Case for a Hardware Filesystem
Author: Mendon, Ashwin
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: As secondary storage devices get faster with flash based solid statedrives (SSDs) and emerging technologies like phase change memories (PCM), overheads in system software like operating system (OS) and filesystem become prominent and may limit the...