Streaming FPGA Based Multiprocessor Architecture for Low latency Medical Image Processing

In this work a fast and efficient implementation of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based, fixed hardware, streaming multiprocessor architecture for low latency medical image processing is introduced. The design of this computation fabric is based on the ρ-VEX Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) softcore processor and is in influenced by...

Feed velocity feedback for high speed fused deposition modelling machines

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a manufacturing method with two distinct advantages over traditional subtractive methods. First, it allows for much higher form freedom, allowing for shapes that are unobtainable by conventional techniques. Second, this method is also referred to 'rapid prototyping' given the fact that objects, and mainly prototype...

Opportunities for peak shaving electricity consumption at container terminals

The throughput of containers is growing yearly (World Shipping Council, 2011). At the same time the capacity of containerships has grown from several hundreds of containers in the 1960s towards today’s 19,000 TEU carriers. In order to achieve efficient operations of these large containerships, container carriers require high handling speeds and...

Low-Cost Smith-Waterman Acceleration

Due to advancing technology, genetic sequencing has become cheaper over the years. This has caused the demand for computational power to grow even faster than Moore's law. To remedy this problem, we analyzed low-cost hardware solutions to parallelize the computational part of the genetic sequencing. We proposed a novel method for calculating the...