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Fall 2023
With the increasing complexity and capacity of modern Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), there is a growing demand for efficient FPGA computer-aided design (CAD) tools, particularly at the placement stage. While some previous works, such as RLPlace, have explored the efficacy of single-state...
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Design of FPGA-based Accelerators for Deflate Compression and Decompression using High-Level Synthesis
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As the volumes of data that are transmitted over the internet continue to increase, data compression is becoming increasingly necessary in order to efficiently utilize fixed data storage space and bandwidth. The Deflate compression algorithm is one of the most widely used lossless data...
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Real-Time Electromagnetic Transient Hardware Emulation of Multi-Terminal High Voltage DC Grid
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New high voltage DC (HVDC) transmission projects are being increasingly operated globally, which can be developed into multi-terminal DC (MTDC) grid interconnecting the conventional AC grid and the off-shore renewable energy power plants. Among various power converter topologies, modular...
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Design and Optimization of Decoders for Low-Denisty Parity Check Codes Synthesized from the OpenCL Specifications
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Open Computing Language (OpenCL) is a high-level language that allows developers to produce portable software for heterogeneous parallel computing platforms. OpenCL is available for a variety of hardware platforms, with compiler support being recently expanded to include Field-Programmable Gate...
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Needle Shape Visualization, Tracking and Steering Control for Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy Applications
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Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancers in North American males, afflicting one in eight men over the course of their lifetime. Fortunately, early-stage prostate cancer has a wide variety of treatment options. One such option, permanent prostate brachytherapy, has been...
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Real-Time Nonlinear Frequency-Dependent Electromagnetic Transient Power Transformer Model Hardware Emulation
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A transformer is a vital piece of transmission and distribution infrastructure in a power system which is used to transfer energy from one circuit to another. Real-time electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation plays an important role in the design and testing of protection and control systems...
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Accelerated Verification of Integrated Circuits Against the Effects of Process, Voltage and Temperature Variations
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As Moore's Law continues to drive the advancement of new complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology generations toward feature sizes in the sub 10 nm regime, the role of process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations have become increasingly important when designing integrated...
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Spring 2015
Fault detection methods have become an important tool in the prevention of safety and reliability issues for industrial rotating machines. Faults in these machines often develop progressively and are not easily observed under operating conditions until severe damage has occurred and further...
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Design and Microfabrication of Robust and Highly Integrated Thermal Lab-On-A-Chip Polymeric Systems for Genetic Diagnosis
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The lab-on-chip (LOC) technology could transform and greatly enhance the health care system by making genetic diagnosis tests fast, accurate and readily accessible. However, most LOC systems are not prepared to resist variations of their external environment, as they depend upon many...
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Fall 2012
Over the past decade improvements in semiconductor technology have led to faster power electronic switches with higher ratings. These devices have been used to improve the performance of various power converter systems. In particular, the Voltage Source Converter (VSC) has been widely used in...