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Paquelet Wuetz, B. (author)Spin qubits in silicon have emerged as a promising candidate for a scalable quantum computer due to their small footprint, long coherence times, and their compatibility with advanced semiconductor manufacturing. However, all known spin qubit material hosts come with specific challenges, that limit the performance of quantum information...doctoral thesis 2022
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Di Mascio, S. (author)The usage of terrestrial processors in space applications is not straightforward, as processors in space face unique challenges due to the effects of the space environment, like ionizing radiation causing Single Event Effects (SEEs). In the nineties, the European Space Agency chose the Scalable Processor ARChitecture (SPARC) Instruction Set...doctoral thesis 2022
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Stroobants, S. (author), Dupeyroux, J.J.G. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author)ompelling evidence has been given for the high energy efficiency and update rates of neuromorphic processors, with performance beyond what standard Von Neumann architectures can achieve. Such promising features could be advantageous in critical embedded systems, especially in robotics. To date, the constraints inherent in robots (e.g., size and...journal article 2022
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Herrejón-Pintor, Gilberto A. (author), Melgoza-Vázquez, Enrique (author), de Jesus Chavez, Jose (author)The controls of most power electronic inverters connected to an electrical power system (EPS) rely on the precise determination of the voltage magnitude, frequency, and phase angle at the point of common coupling. One of the most widely used approaches for measuring these quantities is the phase-locked loop (PLL); however, the precision of this...journal article 2022
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Li, H. (author), Mentens, Nele (author), Picek, S. (author)This paper uses RISC-V vector extensions to speed up lattice-based operations in architectures based on HW/SW co-design. We analyze the structure of the number-theoretic transform (NTT), inverse NTT (INTT), and coefficient-wise multiplication (CWM) in CRYSTALS-Kyber, a lattice-based key encapsulation mechanism. We propose 12 vector extensions...conference paper 2022
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Stroobants, S. (author), Dupeyroux, J.J.G. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author)The great promises of neuromorphic sensing and processing for robotics have led researchers and engineers to investigate novel models for robust and reliable control of autonomous robots (navigation, obstacle detection and avoidance, etc.), especially for quadrotors in challenging contexts such as drone racing and aggressive maneuvers. Using...conference paper 2022
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Khammassi, N. (author), Ashraf, I. (author), van Someren, J. (author), Nane, R. (author), Krol, A.M. (author), Rol, M.A. (author), Lao, L. (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author), Almudever, Carmen G. (author)With the potential of quantum algorithms to solve intractable classical problems, quantum computing is rapidly evolving, and more algorithms are being developed and optimized. Expressing these quantum algorithms using a high-level language and making them executable on a quantum processor while abstracting away hardware details is a...journal article 2022
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van Dijk, J.P.G. (author)Quantum computers have gained widespread interest as they can potentially solve problems that are intractable even for today’s supercomputers, such as the simulation of quantum systems as initially proposed by Feynman. To achieve such tremendous progress, a quantum computer relies on processing the information stored in quantum bits (qubits),...doctoral thesis 2021
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Koene, Davy (author)With the increase in the amount of data being gathered, the need for data processing is also rising. Furthermore, in addition to the proprietary ISAs that have been prevalent, the free and open RISC-V ISA has seen major interest. The modularity of the RISC-V ISA allows it to be extended with many instruction set extensions. One such extension...master thesis 2021
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Vermaat, Bas (author)The ρ-VEX is a processor designed at the Computer Engineering lab at TU Delft to be reconfigurable at runtime, resulting in a processor that can combine or separate instruction lanes according to the program requirements. The current cache for the ρ-VEX processor is direct mapped and always identical to the instruction group configuration. This...master thesis 2021
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Di Mascio, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author), Furano, Gianluca (author), Monteleone, Claudio (author)This paper discusses principles and techniques to evaluate processors for dependable computing in space applications. The focus is on soft errors, which dominate the failure rate of processors in space. Error, failure and propagation models from literature are selected and employed to estimate the failure rate due to soft errors in typical...review 2021
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Lao, L. (author), van Someren, J. (author), Ashraf, I. (author), Almudever, Carmen G. (author)Quantum algorithms need to be compiled to respect the constraints imposed by quantum processors, which is known as the mapping problem. The mapping procedure will result in an increase of the number of gates and of the circuit latency, decreasing the algorithm's success rate. It is crucial to minimize mapping overhead, especially for noisy...journal article 2021
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Yu, J. (author), Abu Lebdeh, M.F.M. (author), Du Nguyen, H.A. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)A novel type of hardware accelerators called automata processors (APs) have been proposed to accelerate finite-state automata. The bone structure of an AP is a hierarchical routing matrix that connects many memory arrays. With this structure, an AP can process an input symbol every clock cycle, and hence achieve much higher performance...journal article 2021
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Alers, T.J. (author), Fennema, B.A. (author), van Breukelen, J.J. (author)Laryngectomised people (LP) have many problems with speaking in terms of intelligibility, volume and effort it takes. This thesis describes the design and simulation of a voice enhancement device which will improve the speech of LP with respect to intelligibility and volume. It only describes the chosen hardware peripherals in order to record,...bachelor thesis 2020
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Ruffino, A. (author), Peng, Yatao (author), Sebastiano, F. (author), Babaie, M. (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author)Quantum computers require classical electronics to ensure fault-tolerant operation. To address compactness and scalability, it was proposed to implement such electronics as integrated circuits operating at cryogenic temperatures close to those at which quantum bits (qubits) operate. Circulators are among the most common blocks used in the...journal article 2020
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Homulle, Harald (author)Quantum computing promises an exponential speed-up of computation compared to what is nowadays achievable with classical computers. In this way, it enables the evaluation of more complex models and the breaching of current security algorithms. For the operation of a quantum system, many questions remain to be answered. Currently, there are...doctoral thesis 2019
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Ntasios, Angelos (author)The last years, there has been a increasing trend in embedded system and FPGA im-plementations for greater flexibility and also, a rising adaptation of heterogeneous plat-forms. These platforms often include FPGAs and embedded cores side by side.ρ-VEXcore, developed and maintained by the Computer Engineering group of TU Delft, is aVLIW processor...master thesis 2019
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Brouwer, Daniël (author)Mechatronic embedded control systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and computationally demanding. These systems typically consists of multiple controllers, which coordinate the actuators and apply feedback based on data collected by sensors. Often the underlying control strategy is entirely described in a software application, which...master thesis 2018
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Kulkarni, Anurag (author)The ρ-VEX is a dynamically reconfigurable VLIW processor, developed at TU Delft, which is capable of extracting large amounts of parallelism from applications running on it. However, without a dedicated software layer to dictate the reconfigurations, the ρ-VEX has to depend on another processor to carry out its reconfigurations meaningfully....master thesis 2018
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Saleem, Muhammad Usman (author)Over the past many years, technology scaling has resulted in a continuous reduction of lateral and vertical dimensions of transistors. The technology scaling, on the one hand, has led to a commensurate performance gain for very-large-scale integration (VLSI) circuits, but on the other hand, has also made such circuits more vulnerable to ionizing...master thesis 2018