Over the past few years, the realm of embedded systems has expanded to include a wide
variety of products, ranging from digital cameras, to sensor networks, to medical imaging …

Hardware/software codesign investigates the concurrent design of hardware and software
components of complex electronic systems. It tries to exploit the synergy of hardware and …

Reconfigurable architectures can bring unique capabilities to computational tasks. They
offer the performance and energy efficiency of hardware with the flexibility of software. In …

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a pervasive presence of interconnected and uniquely
identifiable physical devices. These devices' goal is to gather data and drive actions in order …

The speedup over a microprocessor that can be achieved by implementing some programs
on an FPGA has been extensively reported. This paper presents an analysis, both …

We describe a new processing architecture, known as a warp processor, that utilizes a field-
programmable gate array (FPGA) to improve the speed and energy consumption of a …

One of the most crucial steps in the design of embedded systems is hardware/software
partitioning, that is, deciding which components of the system should be implemented in …

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide designers with the ability to create
hardware circuits quickly. Increases in FPGA configurable logic capacity and decreasing …

Abstract Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) represents a principal statistical method for tracking
objects in video sequences by on-line estimation of the state of a non-linear dynamic …

Al2O3/SiC ceramic nanocomposites were fabricated from nanocrystalline Al2O3 (10 nm in
diameter) and SiC (15 nm in diameter) powders, and a theoretical model of intragranular …