HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES FOR ENERGY- AND RESOURCE-EFFICIENT SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS

dc.contributor.advisorBhattacharyya, Shuvra S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCho, Inkeunen_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-26T05:46:37Z
dc.date.available2014-06-26T05:46:37Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractFor a large class of digital signal processing (DSP) systems, design and implementation of hardware and software is challenging due to stringent constraints on energy and resource requirements. In this thesis, we develop methods to address this challenge by proposing new constraint-aware system design methods for DSP systems, and energy- and resource-optimized designs of key DSP subsystems that are relevant across various application areas. In addition to general methods for optimizing energy consumption and resource utilization, we present streamlined designs that are specialized to efficiently address platform-dependent constraints. We focus on two specific aspects in development of energy- and resource-optimized design techniques: (1) Application-specific systems and architectures for energy- and resource- efficient design. First, we address challenges in efficient implementation of wireless sensor network building energy monitoring systems (WSNBEMSs). We develop new energy management schemes in order to maximize system lifetime for WSNBEMSs, and demonstrate that system lifetime can be improved significantly without affecting monitoring accuracy. We also present resource efficient, field programmable gate array (FPGA) architecture for implementation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. We have demonstrated that our design provides at least 8.8% enhancement in terms of resource efficiency compared to Xilinx FFT v7.1 within the same OFDM configuration. (2) Dataflow-based methods for structured design and implementation of energy- and resource- efficient DSP systems. First, we introduce a dataflow-based design approach based on integrating interrupt-based signal acquisition in context of parameterized synchronous dataflow (PSDF) modeling. We demonstrate that by applying our approach, energy- and resource-efficient embedded software can be derived systematically from high level models of dynamic, data-driven applications systems (DDDASs) functional structure. Also, we present an in-depth development of lightweight dataflow-Verilog (LWDF-V), which is an integration of the LWDF programming model with the Verilog hardware description language (HDL), and we demonstrate the utility of LWDF-V for design and implementation of digital systems for signal processing. We emphasize efficient of LWDF with HDLs, and emphasize the application of LWDF-V to design DSP systems with dynamic parameters on FPGA platforms.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15501
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledElectrical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledComputer engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDataflow Graphen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEnergy Efficiencyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFPGAen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOFDMen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledResource Efficiencyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWSNen_US
dc.titleHARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES FOR ENERGY- AND RESOURCE-EFFICIENT SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMSen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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