This Thesis considers the design of application-specific parallel structures for digital signal processing. Due to wideness of the subject, the discussion has been restricted to the studies of the discrete cosine transform ...
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) have developed to widely utilized technologies for short-range telecommunications. While the technologies enable various new services, the wireless environment and the constraints of ...
Parallel processing is continually concerned about how to supply all the processing nodes with data. Many of the applications favor special data patterns that could be accessed in parallel. This is utilized in parallel ...
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) operating on unlicensed radio frequency bands are emerging in a number of application areas. They both extend and replace traditional wired LANs. Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) ...
Personal positioning repeatedly occurs in severely degraded signal conditions, which sets a challenge for all error detection methods. Compared to ideal positioning conditions, the average signal condition is weaker and ...
Satellite-based radionavigation systems provide accurate and reliable positioning and navigation whenever the satellite-to-receiver path is free from obstacles. In personal navigation this condition cannot always be ...
The System-on-Chip (SoC) circuits contain already today a large number of processors and other blocks, which sets several hard requirements to their communication infrastructures implemented with Networks-On-Chip (NOC). ...
Most of the current processor architectures have word-addressable internal memories and wide data paths that are efficiently utilized whenever data is aligned according to word locations. However, in video coding the ...
Modern day embedded systems set high requirements for the processing hardware to minimize the area, and more importantly, the power consumption. Moreover, the ever increasing complexity of embedded applications requires ...
This thesis considers the design of a programmable baseband receiver platform for WCDMA and OFDM mobile terminals. The design challenges introduced by the evolution of wireless systems are highlighted and design methodologies ...
This Thesis considers systematic methods for designing stride permutation interconnections, which are common in several digital signal processing algorithms. Managing such interconnections becomes important especially in ...
Although high sensitivity receiver technology is necessary to ensure sufficient observation availability of satellite navigation in degraded signal environments, processing of high sensitivity data observed in deteriorated ...