Analysis, Design and Implementation of Power-Efficient DC-DC Converters for Biomedical and IoT Applications

This thesis focus on improving the power efficiency of DC-DC converters for two different applications. In the field of implantable medical devices, electrical stimulation has been used as an established treatment for several diseases. It aims to deliver a well-defined amount of charge to the tissue in order to build up a specific electric field...

Power-Efficiency Analysis of Accelerated BWA-MEM Implementations on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms

Next Generation Sequencing techniques have dramatically reduced the cost of sequencing genetic material, resulting in huge amounts of data being sequenced. The processing of this data poses huge challenges, both from a performance perspective, as well as from a power-efficiency perspective. Heterogeneous computing can help on both fronts, by...