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Title: AN EFFICIENT DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMIZE POWER-EFFICIENT HETEROGENEOUS MANY-CORE MULTI-THREADING EMBEDDED PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
Author: Datta, Kushal
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: By the middle of this decade, uniprocessor architecture performance had hit a roadblock due to a combination of factors, such as excessive power dissipation due to high operating frequencies, growing memory access latencies, diminishing returns on...

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: Cross-Stack Predictive Control Framework for Multicore Real-Time Applications
Author: Cao, Guangyi
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Many of the next generation applications in entertainment, human computer interaction, infrastructure, security and medical systems are computationally intensive, always-on, and have soft real time (SRT) requirements. While failure to meet deadlin...

Title: Design of a vision-based control system for quadrotor swarm autonomy
Author: Wesley, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Robotics
Description: Recently, small radio-controllable aircraft known as quadrotors, or quadcopters, have become very popular. These aircraft have the ability to vertically takeoff and move in any direction with great stability. They are also capable of carrying smal...

Title: Effective Data Parallel Computing on Multicore Processors
Author: Byun, Jong-Ho
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The rise of chip multiprocessing or the integration of multiple general purpose processing cores on a single chip (multicores), has impacted all computing platforms including high performance, servers, desktops, mobile, and embedded processors. Pr...

Title: Geometric methods for control of nonholonomic mechanical systems with applications to the control moment gyroscope and wheeled mobile robots
Author: Amengonu, Yawo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The advantage of geometric dynamics analysis over the classical analysis method is that geometric method is independent of the choice of coordinates. The work, presented here, applies differential geometry for analysis and control of underactuated...

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: 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: 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: STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS
Author: Bai, Libin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Network control systems (NCSs), as one of the most active research areas, are arousing comprehensive concerns along with the rapid development of network. This dissertation mainly discusses the stability and performance of NCSs into the following ...

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: Statistical Machine Learning based Modeling Framework for Design Space Exploration and Run-time Cross-stack Energy Optimization for Many-core Processors
Author: Zhang, Changshu
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The complexity of many-core processors continues to grow as a larger number of heterogeneous cores are integrated on a single chip. Such systems-on-chip contains computing structures ranging from complex out-of-order cores, simple in-order cores, ...

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...