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Visser, S.M.C. (author)Analog interfacing is the only way to communicate with a quantum processor, whether it is applying qubit operations or reading their quantum states. There exist other applications where analog interfacing is abundant, e.g. sensor networks, automotive, industrial control, etc. In those applications the use of FPGAs is continuously growing,...master thesis 2015
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Gong, T. (author)The endoscopic time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) concept has many advantages compared with the traditional PET system. It improves the image quality by delivering higher spatial resolution and enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio. Implementing the endoscopic TOF PET system in an ultrasonic probe requires an ultra...master thesis 2015
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Bijwaard, M. (author)Typically in synchronous digital systems time-based tasks are synchronized using hard-wired clock distribution networks. However in the growing application of large (wireless) sensor networks it is not always feasible to connect each sensor node to a hard-wired clock distribution network. Generally in such systems the sensor nodes are only...master thesis 2015
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Padmanabharao, P.K. (author)Next Generation Sequencing technologies have had a tremendous impact on our understanding of DNA and its role in living organisms. The cost of DNA sequencing has decreased drastically over the past decade, leading the way for personalised genomics. Sequencers provide millions of fragments of DNA (termed short reads), which have to be aligned...master thesis 2014
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De Jong, M.D. (author)This thesis describes FPGA-accelerated Monte-Carlo integration using adaptive stratified sampling. Monte-Carlo integration can be used to determine the value of integrals that have no closed form solution. In this work, the FPGA-accelerated design is used to determine the price of different types of financial options. The considered options are...master thesis 2014
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Homulle, H.A.R. (author)For the master project work was carried out for the development of a fluorescence lifetime imaging probe for fluorescence guided surgery. For this project a prototype was designed. The work on the prototype was divided into three main parts, hardware, firmware / software, and system / optics. In this thesis the firmware / software of the system...master thesis 2014
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Van Eijk, M.F. (author)Neuroscientific experiments often require large amounts of computational power to achieve an efficient research process. Speeding up neuron models, used in such experiments, facilitates faster testing of scientific hypotheses and faster model refinement in order to better replicate biological-cell behavior. To be able to simulate realistic...master thesis 2014
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Van Breda, E.C.C. (author)This thesis describes the feasibility of implementing Empirical Mode Decomposition on an FPGA.master thesis 2013
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Polychronakis, O. (author)In these ages of a more and more increasing energy demand and struggle to reduce CO2 emissions, the need of robust, analytical and fast ways to introduce new alternative energy concepts into practice is imminent. Nowadays, engineers struggle to incorporate all parts of modern power electronic applications, such as new topologies, control...master thesis 2013
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Madan, R. (author)ASML is one of the world's largest suppliers of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. ASML designs and develops machines that are used to print circuits on silicon wafers, to produce IC chips. These circuits have to be printed with accuracy of up to 2nm. For this purpose, the machines incorporate several measurement systems. The...master thesis 2013
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Al-Hilli, Z.Q.K. (author)Recent trends in studying the brain activity have attracted interest in the simulation of neurons to understand the brain functionality. However, these simulations are computationally intensive and time consuming, which limits this study. High-performance FPGA-based platforms are being utilized to accelerate these simulations. However, the...master thesis 2012
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Molenaar, M. (author)Today’s production processes are more and more optimized to be competitive. The production demands are increased for speed and quality. These increased demands do not pass the roll shops in the steel industry. In the roll shop periodically the rolls from the rolling mill are checked for imperfections. The imperfections are detected by special...master thesis 2012
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Yeh, H.C. (author)In recent 3D TV market, the technologies addressing to the applications such as stereoscopic depth scaling, glass-free 3D display, and Free Viewpoint TV are getting more attentions. A low-cost solution that can synthesize intermediate views from stereoscopic input contents(left and right camera views) is strongly needed. To render the...master thesis 2011
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Splinter, J. (author)Graphics on a computer are often handled by a graphics pipeline. Rasterization is an important stage in this pipeline. It converts the basic elements of computer graphics, triangles, into the basic elements of a screen, pixels. This stage is very computation intensive and has a large memory footprint. The last decade a lot of research has been...master thesis 2011
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Nandy, A. (author)In this thesis a generic approach for integrating a dynamically reconfigurable device into a general purpose system interconnected with a high-speed interconnect, is described. The system dynamically installs and executes hardware instances implementing functions to accelerate parts of a particular workload. The hardware descriptions of the...master thesis 2011
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Van Adrichem, D.J.A. (author)In this thesis the design and FPGA implementation of the Range Trie with Longest Prefix Match and updates is completed and prototyped in an HTX reconfigurable system. The design and its implementation is an example of hardware/software co-design and supports hardware functions controlled by software using system calls. In the case of the Range...master thesis 2011
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Yi, G. (author)Stereo matching is an important computer vision technique, which extracts the depth information of the scene by matching a pair of stereo images. It has numerous applications, such as view-point interpolation, 3DTV, object detection, etc. In the past decades, many algorithms have been proposed to improve the matching quality or to increase the...master thesis 2011
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Menninga, L.H. (author)Many fields need high performance time measurements, including Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) cameras, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems, and other time-of-flight systems. These measurements are often performed by means of time-to-digital converters, that for these applications, require high resolution, accuracy, and throughput....master thesis 2011
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Kong, Q. (author)In this thesis, we present a design of interrupt system upon an extensible and reconfigurable VLIW softcore processor: r-VEX. This interrupt system is designed and implemented in four mechanisms to match different application requirements in terms of the hardware consumption and performance issues (interrupt latency). On the other hand, due to...master thesis 2011
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Escudero Martínez, M. (author)Prototyping Systems on Chip (SoC) on FPGA technology improves the time that the de- signer needs to spend in the verification stage when developing new systems or upgrading the existing ones. However, FPGA prototyping is very challenging due to the few resources available in this chips, and often the large designs do not fit into one single FPGA...master thesis 2010