• A Systematic Approach to Automated Construction of Power Emulation Models 

      Bjørnseth, Benjamin Andreassen; Djupdal, Asbjørn; Natvig, Lasse (Chapter, 2016)
      Efficient estimation of power consumption is vital when designing large digital systems. The technique called power emulation can speed up estimation by implementing power models alongside a design on an FPGA. Current ...
    • Accelerating Sparse Linear Algebra and Deep Neural Networks on Reconfigurable Platforms 

      Umuroglu, Yaman (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:1, Doctoral thesis, 2018)
      Regardless of whether the chosen figure of merit is execution time, throughput, battery life for an embedded system or total cost of ownership for a datacenter, today’s computers are fundamentally limited by their energy ...
    • Enabling Research on Energy-Efficient System Software Using the SHMAC Infrastructure 

      Bjørnseth, Benjamin (Master thesis, 2015)
      The energy efficiency of computer systems is becoming an increasingly important constraint in the design of microprocessors. Energy consumption impacts battery life and electricity bills, while power consumption is ...
    • Energy Efficiency and Performance Evaluation of Register Level Bitonic Sort: on ARM Mali Powered Exynos 5 Processor 

      Guise, Matthew (Master thesis, 2014)
      Energy is one of the most important aspects impacting the reality of reach-ing exascale computing capabilities. In order to build super computers withthis computing power new hardware needs to be considered in their de-sign. ...
    • Evolving Static Hardware Redundancy for Defect Tolerant FPGAs 

      Djupdal, Asbjørn (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:48, Doctoral thesis, 2008)
      Integrated circuits have been in constant progression since the first prototype in 1958. The semiconductor industry has maintained a constant rate of miniaturisation of transistors and wires, resulting in ever increasing ...
    • GNU Debugger for Single-ISA Heterogeneous MAny-Core System (SHMAC) 

      Seime, Bjørn Christian (Master thesis, 2014)
      Processors have historically attained performance improvements primarily by increasing frequency and the number of transistors. As the transistor density increases, keeping the power density constant gets harder. As a ...
    • Konstruksjon av maskinvare for kjøring av sblokkbaserte eksperimenter 

      Djupdal, Asbjørn (Master thesis, 2003)
      En CompactPCI datamaskin med et NallaTech BenERA FPGA-kort har blitt kjøpt inn til bruk innen forskning på evolusjonær maskinvare. Denne datamaskinen er i stand til å rekonfigurere og kjøre en vilkårlig krets på en FPGA, ...
    • Linux for SHMAC 

      Amundsen, Håkon Furre; Andersson, Joakim Erik Christopher (Master thesis, 2014)
      For several years it has been possible to improve processor performance by taking advantage of the ever increasing transistor density.Recently, the power demand of processors has exceeded their power budget, so it is no ...
    • Power Profiling: From Measurements to Simulation Models 

      Hvatum, Stian; Runde, Terje (Master thesis, 2014)
      Energy efficiency is currently one of the biggest challenges inmodern computer design. High power density limits further performancegrowth, and energy efficiency affects both the power bill for supercomputersand battery ...
    • Supporting Utilities for Heterogeneous Embedded Image Processing Platforms (STHEM): An Overview 

      Sadek, Ahmad; Muddukrishna, Ananya; Kalms, Lester; Djupdal, Asbjørn; Podlubne, Ariel; Paolillo, Antonio; Goehringer, Diana; Jahre, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The TULIPP project aims to simplify development of embedded vision applications with low-power and real-time requirements by providing a complete image processing system package called the TULIPP Starter Kit. To achieve ...