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The Design And Validation Of A Wireless Bat-Mounted Sonar Recording System, Jeremy Joseph Langford
The Design And Validation Of A Wireless Bat-Mounted Sonar Recording System, Jeremy Joseph Langford
Masters Theses
Scientists studying the behavior of bats monitor their echolocation calls, as their calls are important for navigation and feeding, but scientist are typically restricted to ground-based recording. Recording bat calls used for echolocation from the back of the bat as opposed to the ground offers the opportunity to study bat echolocation from a vantage otherwise only offered to the bats themselves. However, designing a bat mounted in-flight audio recording system, (bat-tag), capable of recording the ultra-sound used in bat echolocation presents a unique set of challenges. Chiefly, the bat-tag must be sufficiently light weight as to not overburden the bat, …
An Application Of The Universal Verification Methodology, Rui Ma
An Application Of The Universal Verification Methodology, Rui Ma
Masters Theses
The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) package is an open-source SystemVerilog library, which is used to set up a class-based hierarchical testbench. UVM testbenches improve the reusability of Verilog testbenches. Direct Memory Access (DMA) plays an important role in modern computer architecture. When using DMA to transfer data between a host machine and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) accelerator, a modularized DMA core on the FPGA frees the host side Central Processing Unit(CPU) during the transfer, helps to save FPGA resources, and enhances performance. Verifying the functionality of a DMA core is essential before mapping it to the FPGA. In this thesis, …
Accelerated Iterative Algorithms With Asynchronous Accumulative Updates On A Heterogeneous Cluster, Sandesh Gubbi Virupaksha
Accelerated Iterative Algorithms With Asynchronous Accumulative Updates On A Heterogeneous Cluster, Sandesh Gubbi Virupaksha
Masters Theses
In recent years with the exponential growth in web-based applications the amount of data generated has increased tremendously. Quick and accurate analysis of this 'big data' is indispensable to make better business decisions and reduce operational cost. The challenges faced by modern day data centers to process big data are multi fold: to keep up the pace of processing with increased data volume and increased data velocity, deal with system scalability and reduce energy costs. Today's data centers employ a variety of distributed computing frameworks running on a cluster of commodity hardware which include general purpose processors to process big …
Processor Temperature And Reliability Estimation Using Activity Counters, Mayank Chhablani
Processor Temperature And Reliability Estimation Using Activity Counters, Mayank Chhablani
Masters Theses
With the advent of technology scaling lifetime reliability is an emerging threat in high-performance and deadline-critical systems. High on-chip thermal gradients accelerates localised thermal elevations (hotspots) which increases the aging rate of the semiconductor devices. As a result, reliable operation of the processors has become a challenging task. Therefore, cost effective schemes for estimating temperature and reliability are crucial. In this work we present a reliability estimation scheme that is based on a light-weight temperature estimation technique that monitors hardware events. Unlike previously pro- posed hardware counter-based approaches, our approach involves a linear-temporal-feedback estimator, taking into account the effects of …