Microprocessors must exploit both instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and memory parallelism for high performance. Sophisticated techniques for ILP have boosted the ability of modern-day microprocessors to exploit ILP when available. Unfortunately, improvements in memory parallelism in microprocessors have lagged behind. This thesis explains why memory parallelism is hard to exploit in micropro...

In large MP3 databases, files are typically generated with different parameter settings, i.e., bit rate and sampling rates. This is of concern for MIR applications, as encoding difference can potentially confound meta-data estimation and similarity evaluation. In this paper we will discuss the influence of MP3 coding for the Mel frequency cepstral coeficients (MFCCs). The main result is that th...

A novel method exploits the time-reversal of mirror symmetric pairs of polyphase components of a linearphase proto~pe jilter to obtain more than 25!Zo reduction in required MIPs to perform prototype windowing of either an analysis or synthesis cosine modulated jilterbank on a suitable architecture. The architecture required to obtain this MIPs reduction is only a minor modijlcation to many DSP ...

For the design of networked control systems, we employ a subband coding technique to efficiently use the available data rate. Such coding schemes have widely been used in the area of signal processing for data compression in communication and storage. Compared to conventional subband coding methods, the proposed approach is more suitable from the control perspective in that frequency characteri...

The recently introduced exponentially modulated filter bank (EMFB) is a 2M-channel uniform, orthogonal, critically sampled, and frequency-selective complex modulated filter bank that satisfies the perfect reconstruction (PR) property if the prototype filter of an M-channel PR cosine modulated filter bank (CMFB) is used. The purpose of this paper is to present various implementation structures f...

Today, a great deal of data is generated in the medical field. Acquiring useful knowledge from this raw data requires data processing and detection of meaningful patterns and this objective can be achieved through data mining. Using data mining to diagnose and prognose heart diseases has become one of the areas of interest for researchers in recent years. In this study, the literature on the ap...

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) [3] is the most important depository of protein structural information, containing more than 42,000 deposited entries today. Because of its inhomogeneous structure, its fully automated processing is almost impossible. In a previous work, we cleaned and re-structured the entries in the Protein Data Bank, and from the result we have built the RS-PDB database [11]. Usin...