Software-defined Radio (SDR) is a programmable transceiver with the capability of
operating various wireless communication protocols without the need to change or update …

Software Defined Radio makes wireless communications easier, more efficient, and more
reliable. This book bridges the gap between academic research and practical …

FPGAs have been used in many applications to achieve orders-of-magnitude improvement
in absolute performance and energy efficiency relative to conventional microprocessors …

Floating-point computing with more than one TFLOP of peak performance is already a reality
in recent Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). General-Purpose Graphics Processing …

The pairing of traditional multicore processors with accelerators of various forms (eg,
graphics engines, reconfigurable logic) can be referred to generally as architecturally …

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a common operation in numerical linear
algebra and is the computational kernel of many scientific applications. It is one of the …

Even though chitin is one of the most abundant biopolymers in nature, current knowledge on
chitin formation is largely based only on data from fungi and insects. This study reveals …

Abstract General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) combined to
cloud computing is already a commercial success. However, there is little literature that …

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools are aimed at enabling performant FPGA designs that are
authored in a high-level language. While commercial HLS tools are available today, there is …

Numerous studies have shown significant performance and power benefits of field-
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Despite these benefits, FPGA usage has been limited …