Browse

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) is a promising research direction to their ability to imitate certain functions of brain. Hardware acceleration of SNN can offer orders of magnitude increase in performance and power efficiency. However, traditional hardware description languages have a barrier for rapid development and prototyping of custom internal hardware mechanisms that affect hardware construction throughout the entire processor structure. Mainstream high-level design methods also have disadvantages, e.g. poor ...

The area of underwater seismic and geophysical exploration is now rapidly growing with increasing complexity of the employed equipment. At present, more reliable data are gathered by Ocean Bottom Seismometers - autonomous instruments used in long duration seismic surveys. The general idea behind this equipment is that autonomous devices are unable to transmit data in real-time and require offshore operations for periodical deployment. However, the task of a permanent underwater monitoring for seismic events with o...

Approbation of software design technique in hardware field nowadays is an obvious trend. However, hardware cores with complex microarchitecture are not sufficiently supported by modern design tools. This happens because of remaining focus on structural design rather than designing abstract mechanisms of micro-operations scheduling inside the hardware and their explicit mapping on EDA components. In the article, original formulation of gap between the needed and currently available hardware design methods and tools...

Raising abstraction level of designing of custom digital circuits is a major scientific and practical problem that attracts a lot of academic and industrial efforts nowadays. However, existing approaches to handling of this problem typically do not provide sufficient means of defining individual domain- and project-specific custom-level microarchitectural decisions being directed by custom user specification that coordinates their application via specialized controls embedded in this specification. In the article,...