This paper used a Vanadium Redox flow Battery (VRB) as the storage battery and designed a two-stage topology of a VRB energy storage system in which a phase-shifted full bridge dc-dc converter and three-phase inverter were used, considering the low t...
The main problem in current energy management is the ability of practical application. To address the problem, this paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL)-based energy management by combining Tubule Q-learning and Pontryagin’s Minimum Pri...
The increasing complexity of algorithms in embedded applications has amplified the demand for high-performance computing. Heterogeneous embedded systems, particularly FPGA-based systems-on-chip (SoCs), enhance execution speed by integrating hardware...
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“Whence the strength?” This compelling question, posed by Aaron Antonovsky in 1979, sets the stage for understanding the role of sense of coherence (SOC), a human-focused psychosocial concept, in fostering resilience amidst escalating cli...
Electric bicycles (E-Bikes) are gaining popularity as a sustainable mode of transportation due to their energy efficiency and zero-emission operation. However, challenges such as battery overcharging, overheating, and degradation from improper use ca...
This paper presents a method for use in estimating the state of charge (SOC) of lithium-ion batteries which is based on an electrochemical impedance equivalent circuit model with a controlled source. Considering that the open-circuit voltage of a bat...
Low power, low cost inductively powered passive biotelemetry system involving fully customized RFID/NFC interface base SoC has gained popularity in the last decades. However, most of the SoCs developed are application specific and lacks either on-chi...
In this paper, a power regulated circuit (PRC) is proposed for system-on-a-chip (SoC) applications. The proposed PRC is composed of a limiter, a bandgap reference (BGR), three low-dropout regulators (LDOs), and a bias generator. A high output voltage...
The multi-axis servo control system has been extensively used in industrial control. However, the applications of traditional MCU and DSP chips in high-performance multi-axis servo control systems are becoming increasingly difficult due to their lack...
This work presents a configurable architecture for an artificial neural network implemented with a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in a System on Chip (SoC) environment. This architecture can reproduce the transfer function of different Multilay...
This paper presents a compact analog system-on-chip (SoC) implementation of a spiking neural network (SNN) for low-power Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The low-power implementation of an SNN SoC requires the optimization of not only the SNN m...
This paper reviews the evolution of methodologies and tools for modeling, simulation, and design of digital electronic system-on-chip (SoC) implementations, with a focus on industrial electronics applications. Key technological, economic, and geopoli...
The rapid growth of artificial-intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing workloads has reshaped the power-delivery requirements of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), neural processing units (NPUs), and advanced systems-on-chip (SoCs). These platform...
In the sensorless control algorithm of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs), there is a significant research focus on developing a high-performance position observer and a cost-effective, high-performance processor specifically designed for PM...
High-Level Synthesis (HLS) dramatically accelerates the design and verification of individual components within larger VLSI systems. With most complex Integrated Circuits (ICs) being now heterogeneous Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), HLS has been traditionall...
Tree crown detection of high-resolution UAV forest remote sensing images using computer technology has been widely performed in the last ten years. In forest resource inventory management based on remote sensing data, crown detection is the most impo...
Smart labels are emerging as a key enabling technology for product traceability, environmental monitoring, and user interaction within Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. This work presents the design and experimental validation of a low-power smart...
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is reshaping semiconductor design across architecture, interconnect, memory hierarchy, packaging, timing, and design automation. Rather than converging on a single hardware solution, the fiel...
There exist image processing applications, such as tracking or pattern recognition, that are not necessarily precise enough to maintain the same resolution across the whole image sensor. In fact, they must only keep it as high as possible in a relati...
To address the issues of high customization, long development cycles, and excessive power/volume in radio frequency (RF) transceiver modules for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and radar systems, this paper presents an ultra-compact universal RF trans...
The convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a computation and memory demanding class of deep neural networks. The field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are often used to accelerate the networks deployed in embedded platforms due to the high computa...
The latest convolutional neural network (CNN) models for object detection include complex layered connections to process inference data. Each layer utilizes different types of kernel modes, so the hardware needs to support all kernel modes at an opti...
Li-Ion batteries are widely preferred in electric vehicles. The charge status of batteries is a critical evaluation issue, and many researchers are studying in this area. State of charge gives information about how much longer the battery can be used...
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) rely on Level 1 analysts to triage increasing alert volumes amid alert fatigue and tool fragmentation. LLM-based multi-agent systems using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are being adopted to automate these tasks,...
Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM)-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are increasingly being used in many application domains due to their higher logic density and reconfiguration capabilities. However, with state-of-the-art FPGAs being man...
Hardware/software co-simulation is a technique that can help design and validate digital circuits controlled by embedded processors. Co-simulation has largely been applied to system-level models, and tools for SystemC or SystemVerilog are readily ava...
The security of Internet of Things (IoTs) devices in recent years has created interest in developing implementations of lightweight cryptographic algorithms for such systems. Additionally, open-source hardware and field-programable gate arrays (FPGAs...
Core mapping, in which a core graph is mapped to a network graph to minimize communication, is a common design problem for Systems-on-Chip interconnected by a Network-on-Chip. In conventional multiprocessors, this mapping is area-agnostic as the core...
This paper presents an energy management integrated circuit for multiple energy harvesters in wireless body area network applications. The electrical power acquired from a single energy harvester around a human body is limited to micro watts, which i...
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become an important platform for accelerating real-time communication systems, and System-on-Chip (SoC) devices provide the flexibility to design and optimize architectures that support high data rates, dif...
A technology for low-power high data-rate digital capsule endoscopy with human body communication (CEHBC) is presented in this paper. To transfer the image data stably with low power consumption, the proposed system uses three major schemes: Frequenc...
Acoustic cameras allow the visualization of sound sources using microphone arrays and beamforming techniques. The required computational power increases with the number of microphones in the array, the acoustic images resolution, and in particular, w...
Battery operating data of electric vehicles is becoming increasingly quantified and complicated. A data analysis platform is necessary to excavate high-value battery status information for more efficient battery management. This paper proposes a Flas...
Research on the safety and impact of lithium-ion battery failure has focused on individual cells as lithium-ion batteries began to be used in small devices. However, large and complex battery packs need to be considered, and how the failure of a sing...
In hardware/software (HW/SW) partitioning, the most commonly established objectives are execution time, power consumption, and hardware area. Surprisingly, memory usage, a critical resource in embedded systems, has received limited attention as a pri...
Voltage stacking is a technique in which multiple integrated circuits are stacked in series between the supply voltage instead of in parallel, thus improving the energy efficiency of the power distribution network. Unfortunately, voltage stacking pre...
We present a novel remote test system, an integrated remote testing system requiring minimal technology support overhead, enabled by configurable analog–digital Integrated Circuits (IC) to create a simple interface for a wide range of experiments. Ou...
As the number of parallel battery connections in an energy storage system is increased to extend the energy capacity and second-life batteries are actively adopted, the battery is more prone to cell inconsistency issues. The difference in the interna...
Wearable devices used for personal monitoring applications have been improved over the last decades. However, these devices are limited in terms of size, processing capability and power consumption. This paper proposes an efficient hardware/software...
Vibration monitoring increasingly classifies on the sensing node. We ask where the cost of running and securely updating a small classifier on an FPGA system-on-chip node lies. One Q4.12 multilayer perceptron for bearing-fault detection, trained on 4...
High-efficiency power transfer at a long distance can be efficiently established using resonance-based wireless techniques. In contrast to the conventional two-coil-based inductive links, this paper presents a magnetically coupled fully planar four-c...
As one of the core technologies of electric vehicles (EVs), the state of charge (SOC) estimation algorithm of lithium-ion batteries is directly related to the performance of the battery management system (BMS). Before EVs are put into the market, the...
The multiple frequency driving method (MFDM) capacitive touch system (CTS), which drives transmit (TX) electrodes in parallel, has been developed to improve the touch-sensitivity of large touch screens at high speed. However, when driving multiple TX...
The state-of-charge (SOC) is a fundamental indicator representing the remaining capacity of lithium-ion batteries, which plays an important role in the battery’s optimized operation. In this paper, the model-based SOC estimation strategy is stu...
To scale down semiconductor devices to a size less than the design rule of 10 nm, lithography using a carbon polymer hard-mask was applied, e.g., spin-on-carbon (SOC) film. Spin coating of the SOC film produces a high surface topography induced by pa...
The thermal runaway of lithium-ion batteries is a critical factor influencing their safety. Investigating the thermal runaway characteristics is essential for battery safety design. In this study, the thermal runaway characteristics of 18650 lithium-...
Due to its accuracy, simplicity, and other advantages, the Kalman filter method is one of the common algorithms to estimate the state-of-charge (SOC) of batteries. However, this method still has its shortcomings. The Kalman filter method is an algori...
Solid oxide cells (SOCs) can operate efficiently in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and/or solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) modes, and are one of the most promising electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage, facilitating the integrat...
Battery energy storage systems are widely used in energy storage microgrids. As the index of stored energy level of a battery, balancing the State-of-Charge (SoC) can effectively restrain the circulating current between battery cells. Compared with p...
The impacts of global warming on the grassland carbon cycle are increasingly severe. To explore the spatiotemporal variation in grassland soil organic carbon (SOC) and its response to climate change in Gansu Province, in this study, we designed five...
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