• An FPGA-based implementation of the Conjugate Gradient Method used to solve Large Dense Systems of Linear Equations 

      Habbestad, Torstein (Master thesis, 2011)
      To find the solution to large dense systems have always been a very time consuming problem, this thesis tries to accelerate this problem by implementing an highly pipelined conjugate gradient method on an FPGA, it has been ...
    • Analysis and Implementation of the Asynchronous 2-Phase Single-Rail Protocol in the Balsa Synthesis System 

      Drotninghaug, Bjarne (Master thesis, 2011)
      This thesis documents the design, verification and benchmarking of a new set of handshake components for the Balsa synthesis system. The handshake components employ the 2-phase single-rail asynchronous communication protocol. ...
    • Application of asynchronous design to microcontroller startup logic 

      Henninen, Svein Rypdal (Master thesis, 2011)
      Digital circuits designed today are almost exclusively clocked. As designs grow in size it becomes harder to effectively distribute the various clock signals over the circuit. The clock is also a big contribution to the ...
    • Asynchronous design of CPU elements 

      Koch, Kristoffer Ellersgaard (Master thesis, 2010)
      The clock in digital circuits often cause large portions of the power consumption. Designing circuits without clocks, asynchronous circuits, has been proposed as a method to save power. It is also important to study ...
    • Automatic synchronous-to-asynchronous circuit conversion 

      Mandt, Erik Arne (Master thesis, 2010)
      One of the major challenges with today s ASIC designs is not necessarily the performance in terms of speed, but rather their power consumption. This is becoming increasingly important as the demands for mobile devices are ...
    • Built-in Self-Test (BIST) for SRAM in Deep Sub-Micron 

      Jensen, Erlend Furuset (Master thesis, 2010)
      This thesis is a study of the fault mechanisms in static random access memories (SRAMs) and an implementation of a built-in self-test (BIST) module for these memories. Special emphasis has been put on the state-of-the-art ...
    • Compiling Regular Expressions into Non-Deterministic State Machines for Simulation in SystemC 

      Volden, Kjetil (Master thesis, 2011)
      With Moore s law exponentially increasing the number of transistors on inte-grated circuits, developers fail to keep up. This makes chip area an increasinglycheap resource. At the same time, researchers and developers are ...
    • Concurrent operation of Bluetooth low energy and ANT wireless protocols with an embedded controller 

      Østhus, Per Magnus (Master thesis, 2011)
      With the introduction of low-power wireless technologies, new applicationsin the healthcare, fitness and home entertainment markets emergethrough the use of ultra low-power sensors. These devices are designed torun for ...
    • Defect Pixel Correction 

      Næs, Eirik Skogestad (Master thesis, 2010)
      A problem with image sensors today, is that they contain defect pixels. By utilizing an image processing algorithm for defect pixel correction, image quality can be increased and costs per produced sensor can be reduced.This ...
    • Defective Pixel Correction 

      Backe-Hansen, Henrik (Master thesis, 2010)
      When using CMOS technology for image sensors, there is a possibility that any givenpixel is defective and will thus produce a value that does not correlate to the amount oflight it was subject to. As such, the processing ...
    • Design of a fractal generator for on-the-fly generation of textures for Mali GPU 

      Corneliussen, Per Christian (Master thesis, 2011)
      The Mandelbrot set, shown on the front page of this report, is perhaps themost well-known example of a fractal. Fractals is a certain familyof shapes with a very distinctive, interesting shape. The term was coined byBenoit ...
    • Hardware Based LDLT Decomposition For Large Matrices 

      Øybø, Espen Drivenes (Master thesis, 2010)
      Market demands forces designers and engineers to develop more advanced products quicker and at lower prices. Computer simulations is one way of increasing development speed, thereby lowering the time spent verifying and ...
    • HDMI Transmitter 

      Nystøyl, Bjarte Løken (Master thesis, 2012)
      HDMI is the de facto global standard for connecting HD components and bridging the gap between consumer electronics and personal computer products, making it a priority to develop efficient hand-held, battery-powered units ...
    • Modellering av en hardware ray tracer 

      Brataas, Erlend (Master thesis, 2011)
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