Like most doctoral students, I started my studies by reviewing the existing, most prominent
approaches in the field. A couple of months later I thought I had acquired a sufficient …

Customized processor performance generally increases as additional custom instructions
are added. However, performance is not the only metric that modern systems must take into …

Computer vision applications have a large disparity in operations, data representation and
memory access patterns from the early vision stages to the final classification and …

The automatic generation of instruction set extensions (ISEs) to provide application-specific
acceleration for embedded processors has been a productive area of research in recent …

This paper proposes a quantum multiply-accumulator circuit (QMAC), which can perform the
calculation on conventional integers faster than its classical counterpart. Whereas classically …

RISC-V is a modern open source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and designed in a very
extendable manner, which allows for highly application specific solutions. However, the …

Image and video processing algorithms are becoming more and more sophisticated. An
efficient hardware architecture is a requirement in order to address effectively the increasing …

Hardware specialization has received renewed interest recently as chips are hitting power
limits. Chip designers of traditional processor architectures have primarily focused on …

Instruction set extension of FPGA based reconfigurable processors provides an effective
means to meet the increasingly strict design constraints of embedded systems. We have …

Massively multiplayer online role playing games feature huge maps that can be partitioned
into smaller components called zones to achieve scalability. In peer-to-peer (P2P) systems …