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Parallelizing the Chambolle Algorithm for Performance Optimized Mapping on FPGA devices

David Atienza Alonso, Abdulkadir Akin, Ivan Beretta, Alessandro Antonio Nacci

The performance and the efficiency of recent computing platforms have been deeply influenced by the widespread adoption of hardware accelerators, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) or Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), which are often employed t ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Efficient Hardware Design Of Iterative Stencil Loops

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta, Alessandro Antonio Nacci

A large number of algorithms for multidimensional signals processing and scientific computation come in the form of iterative stencil loops (ISLs), whose data dependencies span across multiple iterations. Because of their complex inner structure, automatic ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Hardware/Software Approach for Code Synchronization in Low-Power Multi-Core Sensor Nodes

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Ruben Braojos Lopez, Ivan Beretta

Latest embedded bio-signal analysis applications, targeting low-power Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSNs), present conflicting requirements. On one hand, bio-signal analysis applications are continuously increasing their demand for high computing capabiliti ...

IEEE/ACM Press2014

Early Classification of Pathological Heartbeats on Wireless Body Sensor Nodes

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Ruben Braojos Lopez, Ivan Beretta

Smart Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSNs) are a novel class of unobtrusive, battery-powered devices allowing the continuous monitoring and real-time interpretation of a subject's bio-signals, such as the electrocardiogram (ECG). These low-power platforms, w ...

MDPI2014

A Mapping-Scheduling Algorithm for Hardware Acceleration on Reconfigurable Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta, Juan Antonio Clemente Barreira

Reconfigurable platforms are a promising technology that offers an interesting trade-off between flexibility and performance, which many recent embedded system applications demand, especially in fields such as multimedia processing. These applications typi ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

Design Methodologies for Application-Oriented Embedded Systems Under Variable Performance/Constraints Tradeoffs

Ivan Beretta

EPFL2014

A High-Level Synthesis Flow for the Implementation of Iterative Stencil Loop Algorithms on FPGA Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta, Alessandro Antonio Nacci

The automatic generation of hardware implementations for a given algorithm is generally a difficult task, especially when data dependencies span across multiple iterations such as in iterative stencil loops (ISLs). In this paper, we introduce an automatic ...

IEEE/ACM Press2013

Design Methods for Parallel Hardware Implementation of Multimedia Iterative Algorithms

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta, Alessandro Antonio Nacci

Traditionally, parallel implementations of multimedia algorithms are carried out manually, since the automation of this task is very difficult due to the complex dependencies that generally exist between different elements of the data set. Moreover, there ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Design Exploration of Energy-Performance Trade-offs for Wireless Sensor Networks

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Ivan Beretta, Nadia Khaled

Wireless sensor networks (WNSs) are gradually evolving from a promising technology to a well-established reality in a large set of different domains. In order to fulfill the requirements of the specific scenario, a WSN must provide the right tradeoffs betw ...

IEEE2012

Knowledge-based design space exploration of wireless sensor networks

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta

The complexity of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been constantly increasing over the last decade, and the necessity of efficient CAD tools has been growing accordingly. In fact, the size of the design space of a WSN has become large, and an exploratio ...

ACM Press2012