A large body of work has been produced in the area of productivity enhancers for the design of both Software-Defined Radio and Field Programmable Gate Arrays systems. These tool are created with the goal of aiding the user ...

The need for hardware-based software protection stems primarily from the increasing value of software coupled with the inability to trust software that utilizes or manages shared resources. By correctly utilizing security ...

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is a problem that holds great theoretical significance along with effective formulations that benefit many real-world applications. While the general problem is NP-complete, advanced solver algorithms ...

The configurable computing research community has provided a wealth of evidence that computational platforms based on FPGA technology are capable of cost-effectively accelerating certain kinds of computations. One actively ...

Multiple research projects are proposed that utilize low-level knowledge of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design processes to enable additional research avenues. ...

In the past, various approaches to the high performance numerical computing problem have been explored. Recently, researchers have begun to explore the possibilities of using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to solve ...

Digital signal processing systems demand higher computational performance and more operations per second than ever before, and this trend is not expected to end any time soon. Processing architectures must adapt in order ...

Simulators are important tools for analyzing and evaluating different design options for wireless sensor networks (sensornets) and hence, have been intensively studied in the past decades. However, existing simulators only ...

The growth of high performance computing to date can largely be attributed to continuing breakthroughs in materials and manufacturing.In order to increase computing capacity beyond these physical bounds, new computing ...

Turbo codes are a new class of codes that can achieve exceptional error performance and energy efficiency at low signal-to-noise ratios. Decoding turbo codes is a complicated procedure that often requires custom hardware ...