The techniques of Network-on-Chip become more and more mature and useful recently years. With this trend, DSP applications such as audio/video, encoding/decoding, image processing can usually be modeled as data-flow process networks (PNs). A JPEG encoder can be a very useful application on Network-on-Chip. In this project, we use a JPEG encoding program at the Application Layer as our applicati...

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ii To my beloved parents Mr. Aswath Narayana and Mrs. Shubha, and my precious brother Aryan Rajeev. iii Acknowledgements I take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and deep regards to my primary advisor Dr. Amlan Ganguly for his exemplary guidance, monitoring and constant encouragement throughout this thesis. Dr. Amlan dedicated his valuable time to review my work constantly and p...

Tiling arrays make possible a large-scale exploration of the genome thanks to probes which cover the whole genome with very high density, up to 2,000,000 probes. Biological questions usually addressed are either the expression difference between two conditions or the detection of transcribed regions. In this work, we propose to consider both questions simultaneously as an unsupervised classific...

Genome-wide ChIP-chip assays of protein-DNA interactions yield large volumes of data requiring effective statistical analysis to obtain reliable results. Successful analysis methods need to be tailored to platform specific characteristics such as probe density, genome coverage, and the nature of the controls. We describe the use of the respective software packages MAT and MA2C for the analysis ...

Balanced asynchronous circuits have been touted as a superior replacement for conventional synchronous circuits. To assess these claims, we have designed, manufactured and tested an experimental asynchronous smart-card style device. In this paper we describe the tests performed and show that asynchronous circuits can provide better tamperresistance. However, we have also discovered weaknesses w...

The goal of this end of term work is to evaluate the impact of the Network-on-Chip (NoC) parameters over the performance of applications on Multiprocessors Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). Nowadays, MPSoCs have so many constraints of performance that bus-based communications are not able to achieve the full potential of MPSoCs. Therefore, the adoption of networks-on-chip (NoCs) is a trend for the comm...