The emergence of programmable logic devices as processing platforms for digital signal processing applications poses challenges concerning rapid implementation and high level optimization of algorithms on these platforms. This paper describes Abhainn, a rapid implementation methodology and toolsuite for translating an algorithmic expression of the system to a working implementation on a heterog...

The system on chip paradigm consists of one or more instruction set processors integrated with custom hardware on a single integrated circuit. A uni-processor real-time kernel is presented that integrates hardware coprocessors by viewing them as system resources to be scheduled in conjunction with the processor. The kernel implements the earliest-deadline first scheduling policy. To demonstrate...

A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is a computer based search optimization technique that uses the Darwinian “Theory of Evolution” as a model for finding exact and approximate solutions. GAs belong to a large family of heuristic algorithms called Evolutionary algorithms (EA) which are being increasingly utilized for solving complex optimization and search problems. The large computation time consumed by ...

A kind of hot spots detection alarm device and method is proposed in the paper about infrared thermal imaging, including the hardware design, algorithm, software realization. The hardware mainly includes the infrared thermal imaging camera and intelligent analysis board; the algorithm uses connected component detection method based on run length to extract target rectangle coordinates. This des...

CHE based architecture for GA, on a single COTS FPGA, designed to perform optimization of single variable functions is presented in this chapter. The presented architecture’s ability to optimize is tested and validated with three different single variable functions. They are, a linear function, a quadratic function with only one global maximum, and a cubic function with one global maxima and lo...

The real-time hardware application is developed around a FPGA hardware architecture that includes embedded processor MicroBlaze on the field programmable gate array (FPGA).This paper introduces a design of a Micro Blaze soft-core processor system that can be running the output pins (XGI Expansion Headers Protocol) as such as clock generator to feed external circuits. The designed processor syst...

As functional integration has increased in hand-held consumer devices features such as Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers have been embedded in increasingly more devices in recent years. For example, the train positioning system based on GPS provides an integrated positioning solution which can be used in many rail applications without a cost intensive infrastructure. The network built i...