Skeleton-based Synthesis Flow for Computation-In-Memory Architectures

Memristor-based Computation-in-Memory (CIM) is one of the emerging architectures for next-generation Big Data problems. Its design requires a radically new synthesis flow as the memristor is a passive device that uses resistances to encode its logic values. This article proposes a synthesis flow for mapping parallel applications on memristor...

Multi-Domain SystemC Model of a Neural Interface

Neural networks have been investigated by researchers for several decades. Microelectrodes and neural interfaces are used to obtain the information contained in the neuronal networks activity, which can be used to control neural prosthetic devices. This field has advanced rapidly and the current research is focusing on multi-channel...

Blind beamforming techniques for global tracking systems

After the development in the past 120 years since the invention of the first radio transmission, worldwide wireless communication systems are nowadays part of daily life. Behind the shining and astonishing achievement of modern communication systems, the exhaustion of existing frequency spectrum resources has been a concern. In higher frequency...

Multi-chip dataflow architecture for massive scale biophysically accurate neuron simulation

The ability to simulate brain neurons in real-time using biophysically-meaningful models is a critical pre-requisite grasping human brain behavior. By simulating neurons' behavior, it is possible, for example, to reduce the need for in-vivo experimentation, to improve artificial intelligence and to replace damaged brain parts in patients. A...

Modeling of Olivocerebellar Neurons using SystemC and High-Level Synthesis

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...

A Framework for Designing and Testing the Digital Signal Processing unit of a Pulsar Based Navigation System

Navigation systems using pulsar signals have been of great interest ever since the discovery of pulsars in 1967 and various studies were carried out ever since to determine the feasibility of such systems. The successful working of a navigation system using pulsar would mean that spacecraft can maneuver through the deep space with very little...

A Methodology for Early Exploration of TSV Interconnects in 3D Stacked ICs

Planar scaling of semiconductor ICs for achieving higher integration seems to be on the brink of saturation. As an alternative solution, three-dimensional (3D) integration follows a more than Moore strategy in which circuit layers are stacked vertically. Although, 3D integration technology has moved from Lab to Fab, a complete supply chain is...

A Fast and Accurate SystemC / SystemC-AMS Model for Super-Regenerative Radio

A new and precise mixed-signal model for a super-regenerative radio system based on the recent published language SystemC/SystemC-AMS is presented in this thesis. The simulation time of the model is dramatically reduced so that the PLL is able to be included into the model to simulate the frequency difference between the transmitter and receiver...

Extracting Behavior and Dynamically Generated Hierarchy from SystemC Models

Modern embedded systems are far to complex to describe their hardware and software at a low-level of abstraction. SystemC is a popular modeling language which can be used to specify systems at a higher abstraction level. The primary way to deal with complexity in SystemC is to apply modularization. The module hierarchy of a SystemC model is...

VHDL to SystemC: The Design of a Translator

VHDL and SystemC are both languages to describe or model circuits and systems. Reasons could exist for wanting to translate a model in VHDL to an equivalent model in SystemC. A system in SystemC can be needed for modeling a system with a software part, for a faster simulation, or because some tools only support SystemC. This thesis presents a...