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    A Field Programmable Sequencer and Memory with Middle Grained Programmability Optimized for MCU Peripherals

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    A Field Programmable Sequencer and Memory with Middle Grained Programmability Optimized for MCU Peripherals

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    A Field Programmable Sequencer and Memory (FPSM), which is a programmable unit exclusively optimized for peripherals on a micro controller unit, is proposed. The FPSM functions as not only the peripherals but also the standard built-in memory. The FPSM provides easier programmability with a smaller area overhead, especially when compared with the FPGA. The FPSM is implemented on the FPGA and the programmability and performance for basic peripherals such as the 8 bit counter and 8 bit accuracy Pulse Width Modulation are emulated on the FPGA. Furthermore, the FPSM core with a 4K bit SRAM is fabricated in 0.18µm 5 metal CMOS process technology. The FPSM is an half the area of FPGA, its power consumption is less than one-fifth.Embargo Period 6 month

    Integrated Programmable-Array accelerator to design heterogeneous ultra-low power manycore architectures

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    There is an ever-increasing demand for energy efficiency (EE) in rapidly evolving Internet-of-Things end nodes. This pushes researchers and engineers to develop solutions that provide both Application-Specific Integrated Circuit-like EE and Field-Programmable Gate Array-like flexibility. One such solution is Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Array (CGRA). Over the past decades, CGRAs have evolved and are competing to become mainstream hardware accelerators, especially for accelerating Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications. Due to the over-specialization of computing architectures, the focus is shifting towards fitting an extensive data representation range into fewer bits, e.g., a 32-bit space can represent a more extensive data range with floating-point (FP) representation than an integer representation. Computation using FP representation requires numerous encodings and leads to complex circuits for the FP operators, decreasing the EE of the entire system. This thesis presents the design of an EE ultra-low-power CGRA with native support for FP computation by leveraging an emerging paradigm of approximate computing called transprecision computing. We also present the contributions in the compilation toolchain and system-level integration of CGRA in a System-on-Chip, to envision the proposed CGRA as an EE hardware accelerator. Finally, an extensive set of experiments using real-world algorithms employed in near-sensor processing applications are performed, and results are compared with state-of-the-art (SoA) architectures. It is empirically shown that our proposed CGRA provides better results w.r.t. SoA architectures in terms of power, performance, and area

    メモリをベースとしたマイコン用再構成可能デバイスとその応用に関する研究

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    13301甲第4625号博士(工学)金沢大学博士論文本文Ful

    Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics

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    Molecular phylogeny of horseshoe crab using mitochondrial Cox1 gene as a benchmark sequence

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    An effort to assess the utility of 650 bp Cytochrome C oxidase subunit I (DNA barcode) gene in delineating the members horseshoe crabs (Family: xiphosura) with closely related sister taxa was made. A total of 33 sequences were extracted from National Center for Biotechnological Information (NCBI) which include horseshoe crabs, beetles, common crabs and scorpion sequences. Constructed phylogram showed beetles are closely related with horseshoe crabs than common crabs. Scorpion spp were distantly related to xiphosurans. Phylogram and observed genetic distance (GD) date were also revealed that Limulus polyphemus was closely related with Tachypleus tridentatus than with T.gigas. Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda was distantly related with L.polyphemus. The observed mean Genetic Distance (GD) value was higher in 3rd codon position in all the selected group of organisms. Among the horseshoe crabs high GC content was observed in L.polyphemus (38.32%) and lowest was observed in T.tridentatus (32.35%). We conclude that COI sequencing (barcoding) could be used in identifying and delineating evolutionary relatedness with closely related specie

    Crab and cockle shells as heterogeneous catalysts in the production of biodiesel

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    In the present study, the waste crab and cockle shells were utilized as source of calcium oxide to transesterify palm olein into methyl esters (biodiesel). Characterization results revealed that the main component of the shells are calcium carbonate which transformed into calcium oxide upon activated above 700 °C for 2 h. Parametric studies have been investigated and optimal conditions were found to be catalyst amount, 5 wt.% and methanol/oil mass ratio, 0.5:1. The waste catalysts perform equally well as laboratory CaO, thus creating another low-cost catalyst source for producing biodiesel. Reusability results confirmed that the prepared catalyst is able to be reemployed up to five times. Statistical analysis has been performed using a Central Composite Design to evaluate the contribution and performance of the parameters on biodiesel purity

    Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference

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    Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference - June 5-12, 2022 - Saint-Étienne (France). https://smc22.grame.f
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