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Day by day, more and more people use smartphones or tablets during work and at home. Most of smartphones operates from the popular Google's Android OS. Due to the ever increasing market requirements, these mobile devices evolving very rapidly, they have quite a large display or strong enough processor to visualize and evaluate measurement data on their screen, and they have enough computing capacity...
Within the later stages of many Electronics or Computer Science degree programmes it is common to cover the programming of real-time systems, sometimes with an embedded orientation, instructing students in the fundamentals and application of multitasking and multithreading. Within this paper we detail the approach taken at Glasgow Caledonian University in the design of such a module as part of a programme...
The welfare of elderly people living alone or in rest homes can be significantly improved with the introduction of technological solutions. However, before start the development of a new commercial product, new ideas and concepts must be quickly validated. The existence of a platform to enable the rapid verification of a solution will be an asset to support the development of a commercial product...
Wearable electronics is increasingly attracting researchers and manufacturers for the application opportunities it opens. Chip makers are responding to the hot wearable-computer trend with new components, microcontrollers and sensors. The most critical challenge is the autonomy of the systems. Even if battery management can help in extending the lifetime, the trade-off between features given by a...
Wearable Monitoring Systems recording vital signs as the Electrocardiogram (ECG) or the Photoplethysmogram (PPG) have become very popular and are widely spread since the last decade. Numerous heart rate monitors, pulseoximeters, step counters or activity recorders are commercially available and already play an important role in common everyday lives. However, synchronicity among multiple devices,...
Asthma is a widespread chronic respiratory disease with rising prevalence. Current state-of-the-art in practice of long-term asthma management at best comes down to usage of smartphone-based asthma-diary for manual entry of subjectively perceived symptoms, and provision of medication reminders and alerts on environmental asthma-triggers. Nevertheless, by interfacing smartphone to low power, minimally...
Complexity of modern applications, the performance requirements and the power constraints are the major driving forces that motivate the use of Multiprocessor Systems on Chip (MPSoCs). Programming these platforms is still a big challenge, posing a multitude of software design issues: What is the right MPSoC programming model to capture parallelism?, How to parallelize legacy C code?, How to achieve...
The high performance Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) currently manufactured by Texas Instruments are heterogeneous multiprocessor architectures. Programming these architectures is a complex task often reserved to specialized engineers because the bottlenecks of both the algorithm and the architecture need to be deeply understood in order to obtain a fairly parallel execution. The PREESM framework...
The early generations of TI's multi-core DSPs had limited support for multi-core programming. Programmers typically looked at those DSPs as “multiple single-core DSPs in a single package”. The integration effectively allowed achieving more revenue for a given area and power budget and SW reuse allowed keeping the development cost low.
Fast Fourier transform (FFT) implementation on the TMS320C66x multicore digital signal processor (DSP) from Texas Instruments is considered in this paper. A FFT parallelization strategy is chosen and an expected performance gain is estimated. The algorithm is implemented in software for a four-core DSP architecture with interactions between cores based on inter-processor communication (IPC) and open...
Remotely Operated Vehicles have been used in underwater exploration for many years. At the same time, 3D video and photo technology has been improving, allowing the user to better perceive the third dimension. This work presents the hardware development of a 3D video system integrated in a commercial ROV, able to bring to the surface the stereo vision in real time. An opportune interface has been...
In this paper we present a fast implementation of an automatic non-photorealistic image processing technique which transforms an input image frame of a video stream into a non-photorealistic abstracted cartoon stylised render. The approach presented utilises a fast cosine integral image method to create a separable bilateral filtering stage which operates in constant time. This is subsequently put...
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