ble-chip (SOPC) design becomes the norm, hardware, software, and systems designers grapple with new verification challenges in addition to the urgency of the usual time to market, cost, and performance goals. Verification is historically the longest and most critical portion of system-level design. To ease those verification blues, engineers can now power up with a comprehensive, multi-faceted ...

The subcellular localization of the SopB protein, which is encoded by the Escherichia coli F plasmid and is involved in the partition of the single-copy plasmid, was directly visualized through the expression of the protein fused to the jellyfish green fluorescent protein (GFP). The fusion protein, but not GFP itself, was found to localize to positions close but not at the poles of exponentiall...

The paper presents an implementation of a custom extension of commercially available NIOS processor embedded into Altera reconfigurable hardware. Added true random number generator uses recently proposed principle based on reconfigurable on-chip analog PLLs that are embedded in all modern Altera devices. Proposed solution significantly improves security of System on a Programmable Chip (SOPC) e...

<p>This paper presents an FPGA image segmentation-binarization system based on<em> </em>Iterative Self Organizing DATA <em>(ISODATA)</em> threshold using histogram analysis for embedded systems. The module computes pixels levels statistics which are used by the ISODATA algorithm to determine segmentation threshold. In our case, this binarizes a gray-scale into two ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) for multiprocessor systems built on a single FPGA should be configurable to a wide rage of architecture. Because the configuration of RTOS depends on hardware architecture, it is advantageous to co-configure multiprocessor architecture and RTOS simultaneously. This paper is a work-in-progress report of our research on configurable RTOS and co-configuration

In this work we present a survey of different papers about reconfigurable computing and its applications. These papers treat very different reconfigurable-computing applications: cryptography, computer vision, SOPC, microprocessor architecture, self-timed circuits, sensor systems, detection of ultrasonic emissions, FPGA compilation aspects (like data-dependent loops), and motion estimation. As ...

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) provides flexible and powerful patient surveillance through wearable devices at anytime and anywhere. This can be achieved by using a Body Sensor Network (BSN), which is deployed on a human body for monitoring the healthcare. The mobile healthcare management with increased feasibility and handiness introduced several noteworthy challenges for the provider, policy...

Molecular computers (also called DNA computers), as an alternative to traditional electronic computers, are smaller in size but more energy efficient, and have massive parallel processing capacity. However, DNA computers may not outperform electronic computers owing to their higher error rates and some limitations of the biological laboratory. The stickers model, as a typical DNA-based computer...