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Voicu, T.A. (author)The digital era's requirements pose many challenges related to deployment, implementation and efficient resource utilization in modern hybrid computing infrastructures. In light of the recent improvements in computing units, the defacto structure of a high-performance computing cluster, ordinarily consisted of CPUs only, is superseeded by...master thesis 2016
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Versluis, N.J. (author), Lau, C. (author)This thesis covers part of the development of the project "Augmented Reality in a Virtual Reality Setup". The covered part is about the communication between a Personal Computer (PC), and an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) and vice-versa. This communication is crucial for transfer of a camera stream from the FPGA to the PC and applying...bachelor thesis 2016
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Stekas, N. (author)The ability to recognize faces is highly important in many areas of development. Though the years, the evolving technologies, enabled this process to be adapted in modern computer systems. These systems can be found in a wide variety of areas that yield significant impact. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for fast and accurate systems,...master thesis 2016
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Visser, S.M.C. (author)Analog interfacing is the only way to communicate with a quantum processor, whether it is applying qubit operations or reading their quantum states. There exist other applications where analog interfacing is abundant, e.g. sensor networks, automotive, industrial control, etc. In those applications the use of FPGAs is continuously growing,...master thesis 2015
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Gong, T. (author)The endoscopic time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) concept has many advantages compared with the traditional PET system. It improves the image quality by delivering higher spatial resolution and enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio. Implementing the endoscopic TOF PET system in an ultrasonic probe requires an ultra...master thesis 2015
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Bijwaard, M. (author)Typically in synchronous digital systems time-based tasks are synchronized using hard-wired clock distribution networks. However in the growing application of large (wireless) sensor networks it is not always feasible to connect each sensor node to a hard-wired clock distribution network. Generally in such systems the sensor nodes are only...master thesis 2015
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Padmanabharao, P.K. (author)Next Generation Sequencing technologies have had a tremendous impact on our understanding of DNA and its role in living organisms. The cost of DNA sequencing has decreased drastically over the past decade, leading the way for personalised genomics. Sequencers provide millions of fragments of DNA (termed short reads), which have to be aligned...master thesis 2014
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De Jong, M.D. (author)This thesis describes FPGA-accelerated Monte-Carlo integration using adaptive stratified sampling. Monte-Carlo integration can be used to determine the value of integrals that have no closed form solution. In this work, the FPGA-accelerated design is used to determine the price of different types of financial options. The considered options are...master thesis 2014
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Homulle, H.A.R. (author)For the master project work was carried out for the development of a fluorescence lifetime imaging probe for fluorescence guided surgery. For this project a prototype was designed. The work on the prototype was divided into three main parts, hardware, firmware / software, and system / optics. In this thesis the firmware / software of the system...master thesis 2014
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Omidi, P. (author), Lew, D.W.O. (author)This thesis elaborates on the implementation of the FPGA board in order to drive the LED system. The goal of this project is to make every part of the design regarding the control of the electronics as customizable as possible. This project consists of 3 main parts to drive the LED system. The first part is called the “Collector”. The collector...bachelor thesis 2014
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Van Eijk, M.F. (author)Neuroscientific experiments often require large amounts of computational power to achieve an efficient research process. Speeding up neuron models, used in such experiments, facilitates faster testing of scientific hypotheses and faster model refinement in order to better replicate biological-cell behavior. To be able to simulate realistic...master thesis 2014
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Van Breda, E.C.C. (author)This thesis describes the feasibility of implementing Empirical Mode Decomposition on an FPGA.master thesis 2013
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Polychronakis, O. (author)In these ages of a more and more increasing energy demand and struggle to reduce CO2 emissions, the need of robust, analytical and fast ways to introduce new alternative energy concepts into practice is imminent. Nowadays, engineers struggle to incorporate all parts of modern power electronic applications, such as new topologies, control...master thesis 2013
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Madan, R. (author)ASML is one of the world's largest suppliers of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. ASML designs and develops machines that are used to print circuits on silicon wafers, to produce IC chips. These circuits have to be printed with accuracy of up to 2nm. For this purpose, the machines incorporate several measurement systems. The...master thesis 2013
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Ça?layan, F.H. (author), Heij, R.W. (author), Geers, M. (author)Due to advancing technology, genetic sequencing has become cheaper over the years. This has caused the demand for computational power to grow even faster than Moore's law. To remedy this problem, we analyzed low-cost hardware solutions to parallelize the computational part of the genetic sequencing. We proposed a novel method for calculating the...bachelor thesis 2013
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Al-Hilli, Z.Q.K. (author)Recent trends in studying the brain activity have attracted interest in the simulation of neurons to understand the brain functionality. However, these simulations are computationally intensive and time consuming, which limits this study. High-performance FPGA-based platforms are being utilized to accelerate these simulations. However, the...master thesis 2012
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Molenaar, M. (author)Today’s production processes are more and more optimized to be competitive. The production demands are increased for speed and quality. These increased demands do not pass the roll shops in the steel industry. In the roll shop periodically the rolls from the rolling mill are checked for imperfections. The imperfections are detected by special...master thesis 2012
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Yeh, H.C. (author)In recent 3D TV market, the technologies addressing to the applications such as stereoscopic depth scaling, glass-free 3D display, and Free Viewpoint TV are getting more attentions. A low-cost solution that can synthesize intermediate views from stereoscopic input contents(left and right camera views) is strongly needed. To render the...master thesis 2011
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Splinter, J. (author)Graphics on a computer are often handled by a graphics pipeline. Rasterization is an important stage in this pipeline. It converts the basic elements of computer graphics, triangles, into the basic elements of a screen, pixels. This stage is very computation intensive and has a large memory footprint. The last decade a lot of research has been...master thesis 2011
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Nandy, A. (author)In this thesis a generic approach for integrating a dynamically reconfigurable device into a general purpose system interconnected with a high-speed interconnect, is described. The system dynamically installs and executes hardware instances implementing functions to accelerate parts of a particular workload. The hardware descriptions of the...master thesis 2011