Precision livestock farming consists of technological tools and techniques to improve
livestock management. Proper detection and classification of jaw movement (JM) events are …

The System-on-Chip (SoC) development process is needed to manage SoC projects in
terms of quality and schedule. At the same time design complexity has grown to a level …

The integration of large-scale systems-on-chip warrants thorough verification both at the
level of the individual component and at the system level. In this article, we address the …

Chips have become the critical asset of the technology, and increasing effort is put to design
System-on-Chips (SoC) faster and more affordable. Typically the focus of the research has …

OpenCL functions as a portability layer for diverse heterogeneous hardware platforms
including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and hardware accelerators. However, OpenCL programs …

Application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) are interesting for improving
performance or energy-efficiency for a set of applications of interest while supporting …

Hardware specialization is a well-known means to significantly improve the performance
and energy efficiency of various application domains. Modern computing systems consist of …

Microcontrollers to be used in harsh environmental conditions, eg, at high temperatures or
radiation exposition, need to be fabricated in robust technology nodes in order to operate …

Emerging data-driven applications in the embedded, e-Health, and internet of things (IoT)
domain require complex on-device signal analysis and data reduction to maximize energy …

In this paper, a heterogeneous controller system and its first-silicon ASIC implementation are
presented, where the use of a programmable NanoController next to a general-purpose …