Heterogeneous and configurable multicore systems provide hardware specialization to meet disparate application hardware requirements. However, effective multicore system specialization can require a priori knowledge of the applications, application p...
Configurable process models are frequently used to represent business workflows and other discrete event systems among different branches of large organizations: they unify commonalities shared by all branches and describe their differences, at the s...
To meet the evolving demands of programmable networks and address the limitations of traditional fixed-type protocol parsers, we propose a dynamic and configurable low-latency parser implemented on an FPGA. The architecture consists of three protocol...
Modular self-configurable robot (MSR) systems have been investigated for decades, and their applications have been widely explored to meet emerging automation needs in various applications, such as space exploration, manufacturing, defense, medical i...
Data Distribution Service (DDS) has emerged as a potential solution for data communication challenges in smart grids. DDS is designed to support quality communication for large scale real-time systems through a wide range of QoS policies. However, a...
Sensor models provide the required environmental perception information for the development and testing of automated driving systems in virtual vehicle environments. In this article, a configurable sensor model architecture is introduced. Based on me...
Designers can reduce design space exploration time and efforts using the design space subsetting method that removes energy-redundant configurations. However, the subsetting method requires a priori knowledge of all applications. We analyze the impac...
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) allows for arbitrary computation of encrypted data, offering a method for preserving privacy in cloud computations. However, efficiency remains a significant obstacle, particularly with the polynomial multiplication of lar...
We present a system that allows cultural organizations to configure their own exhibitions using artefacts from multiple collections. Those might include their own private collections, public collections, for example indexed in Europeana, or private c...
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are hardware-based security primitives that can produce unique digital identifiers from electronic devices. They are particularly useful for Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to their low cost and ability...
In configuration design, the task is to compose a system out of a set of predefined, modu-lar building blocks assembled by defined interfaces. Product configuration systems, both with or without integration of geometric models, implement reasoning te...
Hospital billing event logs combine shared administrative routines with context-specific behavior, making a single global process model difficult to interpret. This study proposes a configurable process mining framework that complements a hospital-wi...
Speculative execution attacks are serious security problems that cause information leakage in computer systems by building speculative covert channels. Hardware defenses mitigate speculative covert channels through microarchitectural changes. However...
Handwriting recognition refers to recognizing a handwritten input that includes character(s) or digit(s) based on an image. Because most applications of handwriting recognition in real life contain sequential text in various languages, there is a nee...
An integrated QR-based identification and multi-participant quiz system is developed for classroom and competition scenarios. It reduces the check-in latency, removes fixed buzz-in timing, and lifts hardware-imposed limits on the participant count. O...
This study addresses the growing demand for efficient customization in industrial design by proposing a structured approach to automate Computer Aided Design (CAD) assembly generation and documentation. The objective is to reduce repetitive engineeri...
Surface water monitoring often requires frequent and reliable sampling at locations that are difficult or unsafe to access using conventional methods. To address these constraints, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increasingly been used as platfo...
Convolutional neural network (CNN) hardware acceleration is critical to improve the performance and facilitate the deployment of CNNs in edge applications. Due to its efficiency and simplicity, channel group parallelism has become a popular method fo...
Environmental conditions in Laboratory Animal Resource Centers (LARCs), including ammonia, air quality, temperature, humidity, light intensity, and sound level, directly affect animal welfare and experimental reproducibility. Most LARC facilities rel...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an emerging technology employed in some crucial applications. However, limited resources and physical exposure to attackers make security a challenging issue for a WSN. Ring oscillator-based physical unclonable fun...
CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium are representative lattice-based post-quantum cryptographic schemes, where number theoretic transform (NTT), inverse NTT (INTT), and point-wise multiplication (PWM) dominate polynomial arithmetic. Existing hardwa...
The designs of lossless data compression architectures create a natural trade-off between throughput, power consumption, and compression efficiency, making it difficult for designers to identify an optimal configuration that satisfies all three crite...
Energy efficiency has become a primary bottleneck in hardware platforms supporting machine learning workloads, particularly as modern inference and training tasks demand sustained high-throughput computation. This challenge is further amplified in en...
In this study, we propose an implementation method of the Encoder Data (EnDat) interface master for slave encoders using only a configurable logic block (CLB) and a serial peripheral interface (SPI) integrated into microcontroller units. By programmi...
Digitally configurable DC/DC converters provide built-in telemetry signals that offer new opportunities for operational data-driven monitoring in embedded energy systems. However, exploiting these signals for intelligent condition monitoring remains...
Floating-point division is indispensable and becoming increasingly important in many modern applications. To improve speed performance of floating-point division in actual microprocessors, this paper proposes a low-latency architecture with a multi-p...
This paper presents an on-load programmable configuration of individual dual active bridge modules on a single-core transformer for wide voltage range and multi-port DC-DC power conversion. The mathematical models of power delivery and control transf...
The configurable and multi-articulated urban bus is a new type of urban vehicle with the advantages of road vehicles and urban rail trains. However, its articulated and long body structure will bring about difficulties in steering control and traject...
Keyword spotting (KWS) plays a crucial role in human–machine interactions involving smart devices. In recent years, temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) have performed outstandingly with less computational complexity, in comparison with class...
Shaded resting zones in rotational grazing systems are prone to thermal stress due to limited ventilation and the congregation of animals during peak heat periods. Addressing these challenges requires sensing solutions that are not only accurate but...
‘Frame blocking’ or ‘Framing’ is a technique that divides a time-sampled speech or audio signal into consecutive and equi-sized short-time frames, either overlapped or non-overlapped, for analysis. The framing hardware archite...
The increasing complexity and digitization of scientific research require Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) that are adaptable, sustainable, and compliant across heterogeneous laboratory environments. In response to the limitations of proprietar...
Intrusion detection systems for 5G networks are typically reported at a single operating point, obscuring the trade-off between missed attacks and false alarms that governs real deployments. Building on a lightweight conditional counter-inspection pi...
To design Product–Service System (PSS) schemes that meet individual customer requirements, the configuration of technology systems is commonly used to select and assemble preferable modules from a predefined product and service library under ce...
A quasi-configuration is a point–line incidence structure in which each point is incident with at least three lines and each line is incident with at least three points. We investigate derived quasi-configurations that arise both by duality and...
The precise monitoring of insect pest populations is the foundation of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for pests of plants, humans, and animals. Digital technologies can be employed to address one of the main challenges, such as reducing the IPM wor...
Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics are fundamental concepts that underlie all natural processes and patterns. Recent research has shown how the entropy of a landscape mosaic can be calculated using the Boltzmann equation, with the entropy o...
The paper studies finite and infinite periodic point-circle configurations in ordinary Euclidean 3-space associated with regular skeletal polyhedra or related structures. The configurations preserve all the symmetries of the underlying polyhedron and...
Along with global climate change and the worldwide heat island phenomenon, developing climatic methods and planning practices for the benefit of thermal comfort is of increasing interest. Studies have focused on urban streets, studying the aspect rat...
Hosting networking applications typically involves a server publicly accessible over the Internet. However, preparing a server requires excessive time and effort, particularly for non-expert users. This is because users configure multiple elements in...
Concerned about the noise pollution in urban environments, the European Commission (EC) has created an Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) requiring Member states to publish noise maps and noise management plans every five years for cities...
Computer networks constitute a critical component of contemporary digital infrastructure, and their secure and reliable operation is strongly dependent on the correctness, consistency, and accountability of the configurations of the network devices....
A simple and efficient bottom-roller axle intersections approach for judging the omnidirectional mobility of the Mecanum wheel configuration is proposed and proved theoretically. Based on this approach, a sub-configuration judgment method is derived....
A numerical study was performed for a T-shaped microchannel to enhance mixing performance through a baffle configuration. The mixing performance was analyzed in terms of the DOM (degree of mixing) and the pressure load between the two inlets and outl...
To solve the configuration issue when using International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 for distributed intelligence in Distribution Automation Systems (DAS), this paper proposes the configuration solution in terms of semantic models and pr...
Current quantum computers are still error-prone, with measurement errors being one of the factors limiting the scalability of quantum devices. To reduce their impact, a variety of readout error mitigation methods, mostly relying on classical post-pro...
The TCP/IP protocol allows the different nodes in a network to communicate by associating a different IP address to each node. In wired or wireless networks with infrastructure, we have a server or node acting as such which correctly assigns IP addre...
Existing design methods for hybrid power system configurations obtain new solutions based on experience, structure improvement or optimization, exhaustive searching, and the screening of schemes at the expense of less innovation and less efficiency....
Robotic manipulators inevitably encounter singular configurations in the process of movement, which seriously affects their performance. Therefore, the identification of singular configurations is extremely important. However, serial manipulators tha...
In this study, a micromachined chip in Otto configuration with multiple air-gaps (1.86 μm, 2.42 μm, 3.01 μm, 3.43 μm) was fabricated, and the resonance characteristics for each air-gap was measured with a 980 nm laser source. To verify the variabilit...
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