Safety is the most important requirement for autonomous vehicles; hence, the ultimate
challenge of designing an edge computing ecosystem for autonomous vehicles is to deliver …

Recent researches on robotics have shown significant improvement, spanning from
algorithms, mechanics to hardware architectures. Robotics, including manipulators, legged …

To enable autonomous driving, a computing stack must simultaneously ensure high
performance, consume minimal power, and have low thermal dissipation-all at an …

This paper presents the computing system design in our commercial autonomous vehicles,
and provides a detailed performance, energy, and cost analyses. Drawing from our …

We present the Cost-Distance problem: finding a Steiner tree which optimizes the sum of
edge costs along one metric and the sum of source-sink distances along an unrelated …

Among various competing designs targeting similar functionality, the key differentiator
typically consists of a small amount of custom Intellectual Property (IP). To protect this IP …

The protection of Intellectual Property (IP) has emerged as one of the most serious areas of
concern in the semiconductor industry. To address this issue, we present a method and …

We describe the computing tasks involved in autonomous driving, examine existing
autonomous driving computing platform implementations. To enable autonomous driving …

In the era of IoT, embedded systems are becoming the cornerstone of many IoT related
applications, such as smart cars and wearable devices. However, embedded devices have …

Partial reconfiguration in FPGAs increases the flexibility of a system due to dynamic
replacement of hardware modules. However, more memory is needed to store all partial …