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Sigurbergsson, Bjorn (author)The trend of computing faster and more efficiently has been a driver for the computing industry since its beginning. However, it is increasingly difficult to continue this trend because current CMOS technology cannot be down-scaled anymore due to physical restrictions. Consequently, to obtain the next major performance improvement, the focus is...master thesis 2018
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Hesam, Ahmad (author)Life scientists are faced with the tough challenge of developing high-performance computer simulations of their increasingly complex models. BioDynaMo is an open-source biological simulation platform that aims to alleviate them from the intricacies that go into development. Life scientists are able to base their models on top of BioDynaMo’s...master thesis 2018
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Hilmarsson, Saevar (author)Image processing is found in many fields and in many domains. Advances inmaster thesis 2018
digital image capturing technology allows for faster video rates, of higher quality, than has been seen before and that trend continues. With greater resolution and increased data flow there is also a need for faster and better hardware for image processing. As the...
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Zeng, Xianwei (author)As database systems have shifted from disk-based to in-memory, and the scale of the database in big data analysis increases significantly, the workloads analyzing huge datasets are growing. Adopting FPGAs as hardware accelerators improves the flexibility, parallelism and power consumption versus CPU-only systems. The accelerators are also...master thesis 2018
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Qiao, Yang (author)New interfaces to interconnect CPUs and accelerators at memory-class bandwidth pose new opportunities and challenges for the design of accelerators. This thesis studies one such accelerator, a decompressor for Parquet files compressed with the Snappy library. Our design targets reconfigurable logic (FPGAs) attached via the open coherent...master thesis 2018
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Mulder, Y.T.B. (author)A new class of accelerator interfaces has signi cant implications on system architecture. An order of magnitude more bandwidth forces us to reconsider FPGA design. OpenCAPI is a new interconnect standard that enables attaching FPGAs coherently to a high-bandwidth, low- latency interface. Keeping up with this bandwidth poses new challenges for...master thesis 2018
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Joshi, Ayush (author)Partial Discharges(PD) are commonly produced in defects within the insulation systems of high voltage equipment. These discharges are typically nanosecond current pulses in the amplitude range of milli-amperes. A long term exposure of the insulation system to these partial discharges accelerate the aging mechanisms that eventually lead to the...master thesis 2017
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Verhage, A.A. (author)Technolution B.V. is developing a custom Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)-V based softcore for implementation on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Previously, the softcore used the memory residing on the FPGA only, which is very limited in capacity and limits scaling. To solve this problem, a connection is made from the softcore to...master thesis 2016
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Yanik, K.I.M. (author)The trend of increasing performance by parallelism is followed by the adoption of heterogeneous systems. In order to allow more fine-tuned balancing between used thread- and instruction level parallelism, the heterogeneous ρ-VEX platform was developed. Pipelining has been a part of microprocessor development for decades to increase throughput of...master thesis 2016
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Heij, R.W. (author)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...master thesis 2016
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Voicu, T.A. (author)The digital era's requirements pose many challenges related to deployment, implementation and efficient resource utilization in modern hybrid computing infrastructures. In light of the recent improvements in computing units, the defacto structure of a high-performance computing cluster, ordinarily consisted of CPUs only, is superseeded by...master thesis 2016
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Versluis, N.J. (author), Lau, C. (author)This thesis covers part of the development of the project "Augmented Reality in a Virtual Reality Setup". The covered part is about the communication between a Personal Computer (PC), and an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) and vice-versa. This communication is crucial for transfer of a camera stream from the FPGA to the PC and applying...bachelor thesis 2016
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Stekas, N. (author)The ability to recognize faces is highly important in many areas of development. Though the years, the evolving technologies, enabled this process to be adapted in modern computer systems. These systems can be found in a wide variety of areas that yield significant impact. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for fast and accurate systems,...master thesis 2016
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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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Omidi, P. (author), Lew, D.W.O. (author)This thesis elaborates on the implementation of the FPGA board in order to drive the LED system. The goal of this project is to make every part of the design regarding the control of the electronics as customizable as possible. This project consists of 3 main parts to drive the LED system. The first part is called the “Collector”. The collector...bachelor thesis 2014