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  • Open Access
1,885 Views
19 Pages

Research on Multiplication Routine Based on Reconfigurable Four-Valued Logic Processor

  • Shanchuan Liao,
  • Shuang Li,
  • Luqun Li,
  • Xiaofeng Li,
  • Xingquan Gu and
  • Sulan Zhang

19 September 2024

Despite the indispensable role of traditional electronic computers in modern society, their limitations in parallel processing capabilities, bit-width constraints, and processor bit-width are becoming increasingly apparent, especially when handling l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,040 Views
15 Pages

ACE: ARIA-CTR Encryption for Low-End Embedded Processors

  • Hwajeong Seo,
  • Hyeokdong Kwon,
  • Hyunji Kim and
  • Jaehoon Park

6 July 2020

In this paper, we present the first optimized implementation of ARIA block cipher on low-end 8-bit Alf and Vegard’s RISC processor (AVR) microcontrollers. To achieve high-speed implementation, primitive operations, including rotation operation,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,911 Views
29 Pages

Optimizing Thermal Performance of Mini Heat Exchangers: An Experimental Analysis Using a Full Factorial Design

  • Sergio da Silva Franco,
  • Álvaro Augusto Soares Lima,
  • Alvaro Antonio Villa Ochoa,
  • José Ângelo Peixoto da Costa,
  • Gustavo de Novaes Pires Leite,
  • Márcio Vilar,
  • Kilvio Alessandro Ferraz and
  • Paula Suemy Arruda Michima

7 April 2025

This study seeks to investigate the heat dissipation process in a minichannel heat exchanger, commonly employed for cooling electronic components. The analysis centers on two key factors: global thermal resistance (GTR) and the heat transfer coeffici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,303 Views
12 Pages

3 February 2022

A thermal network will be presented to model a multi-layer structure consisting of a semiconductor structure, integrated Peltier heat pump and a cooling fin. A criterion will be set up to determine the optimal Peltier current to minimise the chip tem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,391 Views
26 Pages

Assessment of Methods for the Real-Time Simulation of Electronic and Thermal Circuits

  • Borja Rodríguez,
  • Francisco González,
  • Miguel Ángel Naya and
  • Javier Cuadrado

14 March 2020

Time–domain simulation of electronic and thermal circuits is required by a large array of applications, such as the design and optimization of electric vehicle powertrain components. While efficient execution is always a desirable feature of si...

  • Review
  • Open Access
256 Citations
84,111 Views
47 Pages

Position and Speed Control of Brushless DC Motors Using Sensorless Techniques and Application Trends

  • José Carlos Gamazo-Real,
  • Ernesto Vázquez-Sánchez and
  • Jaime Gómez-Gil

19 July 2010

This paper provides a technical review of position and speed sensorless methods for controlling Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motor drives, including the background analysis using sensors, limitations and advances. The performance and reliability o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,913 Views
46 Pages

Quantum Gates for Electronics Engineers

  • Mattia Borgarino and
  • Alessandro Badiali

15 November 2023

The design of a solid-state quantum processor is nowadays a hot research topic in microelectronics. Like the logic gates in a classical processor, quantum gates serve as the fundamental building blocks for quantum processors. The main goal of the pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,364 Views
11 Pages

Paraffin-Multilayer Graphene Composite for Thermal Management in Electronics

  • Adriana Elena Balan,
  • Ali AL-Sharea,
  • Esmaeil Jalali Lavasani,
  • Eugenia Tanasa,
  • Sanda Voinea,
  • Bogdan Dobrica and
  • Ioan Stamatin

13 March 2023

Multilayer graphene–paraffin composites with different contents of graphene (0–10 wt.%) were prepared using an ultra-high shear mixer. The aim is to improve the heat transfer in paraffin wax, which will lead to more-efficient thermal buff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,592 Views
15 Pages

Low-Cost FPGA-Based Electronic Control Unit for Vehicle Control Systems

  • Javier Pérez Fernández,
  • Manuel Alcázar Vargas,
  • Juan M. Velasco García,
  • Juan A. Cabrera Carrillo and
  • Juan J. Castillo Aguilar

17 April 2019

The development of new control algorithms in vehicles requires high economic resources, mainly due to the use of generic real-time instrumentation and control systems. In this work, we proposed a low-cost electronic control unit (ECU) that could be u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,730 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2017

An integrated script control unit (ISCU) is invented to work as the digital controller in power electronics educations. The ISCU mainly consists of two parts, a control board and computer software. The computer software enables college students to wr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,526 Views
10 Pages

CPU Performance Improvement Using Novel Thermally Conductive Carbon Nano Grease

  • Travis Grablander,
  • Greg Christensen,
  • Craig Bailey,
  • Ding Lou,
  • Haiping Hong and
  • Hammad Younes

Electronics depend on their ability to shed operational heat to maintain operating temperature. Inferior grease can create preventable problems in electronics. This is typically achieved through a thermal grease or paste. If this grease fails to diss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,226 Views
19 Pages

Towards a Multiqudit Quantum Processor Based on a 171Yb+ Ion String: Realizing Basic Quantum Algorithms

  • Ilia V. Zalivako,
  • Anastasiia S. Nikolaeva,
  • Alexander S. Borisenko,
  • Andrei E. Korolkov,
  • Pavel L. Sidorov,
  • Kristina P. Galstyan,
  • Nikita V. Semenin,
  • Vasilii N. Smirnov,
  • Mikhail A. Aksenov and
  • Nikolay N. Kolachevsky
  • + 5 authors

We demonstrate a quantum processor based on a 3D linear Paul trap that uses Yb+171 ions with eight individually controllable four-level qudits (ququarts), which is computationally equivalent to a sixteen-qubit quantum processor. The design of the dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,451 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing Fault Awareness and Reliability of a Fault-Tolerant RISC-V System-on-Chip

  • Douglas A. Santos,
  • André M. P. Mattos,
  • Douglas R. Melo and
  • Luigi Dilillo

Recent research has shown interest in adopting the RISC-V processors for high-reliability electronics, such as aerospace applications. The openness of this architecture enables the implementation and customization of the processor features to increas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,059 Views
12 Pages

Accelerating DSP Applications on a 16-Bit Processor: Block RAM Integration and Distributed Arithmetic Approach

  • Bharathi M,
  • Krithikaa Mohanarangam,
  • Yasha Jyothi M Shirur and
  • Jun Rim Choi

13 October 2023

Modern processors have improved performance but still face challenges such as power consumption, storage limitations, and the need for faster processing. The 16-bit Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) accelerate DSP applications by significantly enhanci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,498 Views
14 Pages

Design of a Configurable Five-Stage Pipeline Processor Core Based on RV32IM

  • Yiyang Chang,
  • Yiming Liu,
  • Chong Peng,
  • Jiarui Guo and
  • Yi Zhao

28 December 2023

With the rapid development of the electronics industry, the scale of the global Internet of Things (IoT) industry has shown an exponential growth trend in recent years. The huge demand for IoT equipment makes low cost an important indicator for the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,425 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2024

A long-standing research goal is to develop computing technologies that mimic the brain’s capabilities by implementing computation in electronic systems directly inspired by its structure, function, and operational mechanisms, using low-power,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,336 Views
12 Pages

Integrated Photonic Processor Implementing Digital Image Convolution

  • Chensheng Wang,
  • Wenhao Wu,
  • Zhenhua Wang,
  • Zhijie Zhang,
  • Wei Xiong and
  • Leimin Deng

12 February 2025

Upon the advent of the big data era, information processing hardware platforms have undergone explosive development, facilitating unprecedented computational capabilities while significantly reducing energy consumption. However, conventional electron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,416 Views
25 Pages

Benchmarking Object Detection Deep Learning Models in Embedded Devices

  • David Cantero,
  • Iker Esnaola-Gonzalez,
  • Jose Miguel-Alonso and
  • Ekaitz Jauregi

31 May 2022

Object detection is an essential capability for performing complex tasks in robotic applications. Today, deep learning (DL) approaches are the basis of state-of-the-art solutions in computer vision, where they provide very high accuracy albeit with h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,564 Views
19 Pages

RISC-V Virtual Platform-Based Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator Implemented in SystemC

  • Seung-Ho Lim,
  • WoonSik William Suh,
  • Jin-Young Kim and
  • Sang-Young Cho

The optimization for hardware processor and system for performing deep learning operations such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in resource limited embedded devices are recent active research area. In order to perform an optimized deep neural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,324 Views
19 Pages

In the past, low-frequency analog control circuits were largely used in analog control systems. With the rapid development of modern digital electronic technology, the digitization of traditional low-frequency analog control circuits while retaining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,316 Views
17 Pages

8 April 2024

This paper investigates optimizing the power exchange between electric vehicles (EVs) and the grid, with a specific focus on the DC-DC converters utilized in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems. It specifically explores using model predictive control (MPC)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,929 Views
19 Pages

20 July 2022

Along with deep scaling transistors and complex electronics information exchange networks, very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) circuits require high performance and ultra-low power consumption. In order to meet the demand of data-abundant workloads an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,351 Views
15 Pages

High-Speed Implementation of PRESENT on AVR Microcontroller

  • Hyeokdong Kwon,
  • Young Beom Kim,
  • Seog Chung Seo and
  • Hwajeong Seo

13 February 2021

We propose the compact PRESENT on embedded processors. To obtain high-performance, PRESENT operations, including an add-round-key, a substitute layer and permutation layer operations are efficiently implemented on target embedded processors. Novel PR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,954 Views
25 Pages

Development of Power-Delay Product Optimized ASIC-Based Computational Unit for Medical Image Compression

  • Tanya Mendez,
  • Tejasvi Parupudi,
  • Vishnumurthy Kedlaya K and
  • Subramanya G. Nayak

The proliferation of battery-operated end-user electronic devices due to technological advancements, especially in medical image processing applications, demands low power consumption, high-speed operation, and efficient coding. The design of these d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,641 Views
15 Pages

SAluMC: Thwarting Side-Channel Attacks via Random Number Injection in RISC-V

  • Shibo Dang,
  • Yunlong Shao,
  • Zhida Li,
  • Adetokunbo Makanju and
  • Thomas Aaron Gulliver

14 February 2025

As processor performance advances, the cache has become an essential component of computer architecture. Moreover, the rapid digital transformation of daily life has resulted in electronic devices storing greater amounts of sensitive information. Thu...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,296 Views
10 Pages

A Study on the Performance of a Silicon Photodiode Sensor for a Particle Dosimeter and Spectrometer

  • Bobae Kim,
  • Uk-Won Nam,
  • Sunghwan Kim,
  • Sukwon Youn,
  • Won-Kee Park,
  • Jongdae Sohn,
  • Hong Joo Kim,
  • Seh-Wook Lee,
  • Junga Hwang and
  • Young-Jun Choi
  • + 2 authors

1 December 2021

A lunar vehicle radiation dosimeter (LVRAD) has been proposed for studying the radiation environment on the lunar surface and evaluating its impact on human health. The LVRAD payload comprises four systems: a particle dosimeter and spectrometer (PDS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,371 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2020

The present work addresses the development of a test-bench for the embedded implementation, validity, and testing of the recently proposed Improved Elephant Herding Optimization (iEHO) algorithm, applied to the acoustic localization problem. The impl...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,686 Views
18 Pages

Coincidence Detection of EELS and EDX Spectral Events in the Electron Microscope

  • Daen Jannis,
  • Knut Müller-Caspary,
  • Armand Béché and
  • Jo Verbeeck

28 September 2021

Recent advances in the development of electron and X-ray detectors have opened up the possibility to detect single events from which its time of arrival can be determined with nanosecond resolution. This allows observing time correlations between ele...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,262 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of the Critical Bits of a RISC-V Processor Implemented in an SRAM-Based FPGA for Space Applications

  • Luis Alberto Aranda,
  • Nils-Johan Wessman,
  • Lucana Santos,
  • Alfonso Sánchez-Macián,
  • Jan Andersson,
  • Roland Weigand and
  • Juan Antonio Maestro

One of the traditional issues in space missions is the reliability of the electronic components on board spacecraft. There are numerous techniques to deal with this, from shielding and rad-hard fabrication to ad-hoc fault-tolerant designs. Although m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,314 Views
12 Pages

Exploring the Impact of Soft Errors on the Reliability of Real-Time Embedded Operating Systems

  • Sarah Azimi,
  • Corrado De Sio,
  • Andrea Portaluri,
  • Daniele Rizzieri,
  • Eleonora Vacca,
  • Luca Sterpone and
  • David Merodio Codinachs

30 December 2022

The continuous scaling of electronic components has led to the development of high-performance microprocessors that are suitable even for safety-critical applications where radiation-induced errors such as Single Event Effects (SEEs) can have a signi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,352 Views
20 Pages

4 February 2022

The paper concerns research on electronics-embedded safety systems. The authors focus on the optimization of the energy consumed by multitasking real-time systems. A new flexible and reconfigurable multi-core architecture based on pipeline processing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,274 Views
16 Pages

Power Function Algorithms Implemented in Microcontrollers and FPGAs

  • Leonid Moroz,
  • Volodymyr Samotyy,
  • Paweł Gepner,
  • Mariusz Węgrzyn and
  • Grzegorz Nowakowski

10 August 2023

The exponential function ax is widespread in many fields of science. Its calculation is a complicated issue for Central Processing Units (CPUs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), as well as for specialised Digital Signal Processing (DSP) processor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,949 Views
14 Pages

Thermal and Electrical Properties of Additively Manufactured Polymer–Boron Nitride Composite

  • Julia V. Bondareva,
  • Daniil A. Chernodoubov,
  • Oleg N. Dubinin,
  • Andrey A. Tikhonov,
  • Alexey P. Simonov,
  • Nikolay V. Suetin,
  • Mikhail A. Tarkhov,
  • Zakhar I. Popov,
  • Dmitry G. Kvashnin and
  • Alexander A. Safonov
  • + 1 author

28 February 2023

The efficiency of electronic microchip-based devices increases with advancements in technology, while their size decreases. This miniaturization leads to significant overheating of various electronic components, such as power transistors, processors,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
17,098 Views
15 Pages

Photonic Matrix Computing: From Fundamentals to Applications

  • Junwei Cheng,
  • Hailong Zhou and
  • Jianji Dong

26 June 2021

In emerging artificial intelligence applications, massive matrix operations require high computing speed and energy efficiency. Optical computing can realize high-speed parallel information processing with ultra-low energy consumption on photonic int...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,355 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2024

Analog computing had its prime in the years from 1960 to 1970. With the rise of powerful digital computers, analog computing using transistor and Operational Amplififer (OPAMP) circuits vanished nearly completely but gained an increasing interest in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,439 Views
15 Pages

Path Planning for Highly Automated Driving on Embedded GPUs

  • Jörg Fickenscher,
  • Sandra Schmidt,
  • Frank Hannig,
  • Mohamed Essayed Bouzouraa and
  • Jürgen Teich

The sector of autonomous driving gains more and more importance for the car makers. A key enabler of such systems is the planning of the path the vehicle should take, but it can be very computationally burdensome finding a good one. Here, new archite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
13,240 Views
18 Pages

Linking Informal and Formal Electronics Recycling via an Interface Organization

  • Eric Williams,
  • Ramzy Kahhat,
  • Magnus Bengtsson,
  • Shiko Hayashi,
  • Yasuhiko Hotta and
  • Yoshiaki Totoki

23 July 2013

Informal recycling of electronics in the developing world has emerged as a new global environmental concern. The primary approach to address this problem has been command-and-control policies that ban informal recycling and international trade in ele...

  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
11,692 Views
31 Pages

Mesoporous Silica-Based Materials for Electronics-Oriented Applications

  • Łukasz Laskowski,
  • Magdalena Laskowska,
  • Neus Vila,
  • Mateusz Schabikowski and
  • Alain Walcarius

28 June 2019

Electronics, and nanoelectronics in particular, represent one of the most promising branches of technology. The search for novel and more efficient materials seems to be natural here. Thus far, silicon-based devices have been monopolizing this domain...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,961 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2017

Implantable electronic devices have been evolving at an astonishing pace, due to the development of fabrication techniques and consequent miniaturization, and a higher efficiency of sensors, actuators, processors and packaging. Implantable devices, w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
111 Citations
14,614 Views
18 Pages

A Structural View of miRNA Biogenesis and Function

  • Ana Lúcia Leitão and
  • Francisco J. Enguita

Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that act as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. Since their discovery in 1993, they have been the subject of deep study due to their involvement in many important biological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,520 Views
21 Pages

13 April 2023

In this paper, we describe a passivity-based control (PBC) approach for in-wheel permanent magnet synchronous machines that expands on the conventional passivity-based controller. We derive the controller and observer parameter constraints in order t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,240 Views
14 Pages

27 December 2022

Sustainable development and environmental pollution have become valuable stimulating factors for the resource recovery of end-of-life products through reverse logistics. E-waste is considered in reverse logistics. Electronic waste is solely responsib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,424 Views
18 Pages

A New 4D Hyperchaotic System and Its Analog and Digital Implementation

  • Rodrigo Daniel Méndez-Ramírez,
  • Adrian Arellano-Delgado,
  • Miguel Angel Murillo-Escobar and
  • César Cruz-Hernández

This work presents a new four-dimensional autonomous hyperchaotic system based on Méndez-Arellano-Cruz-Martínez (MACM) 3D chaotic system. Analytical and numerical studies of the dynamic properties are conducted for the new hyperchaotic system (NHS) i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,168 Views
12 Pages

Microwave Photonic Signal Processing and Sensing Based on Optical Filtering

  • Liwei Li,
  • Xiaoke Yi,
  • Shijie Song,
  • Suen Xin Chew,
  • Robert Minasian and
  • Linh Nguyen

4 January 2019

Microwave photonics, based on optical filtering techniques, are attractive for wideband signal processing and high-performance sensing applications, since it brings significant benefits to the fields by overcoming inherent limitations in electronic a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,565 Views
29 Pages

2 December 2021

The matrix converter-based IPMSM drive has 360 Hz virtual DC-bus voltage variations which produce severe stator harmonic currents. To solve this problem, a speed-loop classical periodic controller and two current-loop periodic controllers, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,651 Views
17 Pages

30 January 2019

Current computers are made of semiconductors. Semiconductor technology enables realization of microscopic quantum bits based on electron spins of individual electrons localized by gates in field effect transistors. This results in very fragile quantu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
13,202 Views
18 Pages

27 November 2013

A proof-of-concept of the use of a fully digital radiofrequency (RF) electronics for the design of dedicated Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) systems at low-field (0.1 T) is presented. This digital electronics is based on the use of three key element...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,838 Views
13 Pages

8 April 2021

High precision atomic data are indispensable for studies of fundamental symmetries, tests of fundamental physics postulates, developments of atomic clocks, ultracold atom experiments, astrophysics, plasma science, and many other fields of research. W...

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