Browsing by Contributor "González Colás, Antonio María"
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A hardware accelerator for ORB-SLAM
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-10-17)
Master thesis
Open AccessSimultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a key component of self-driving cars. We study ORB-SLAM, a SLAM state-of-the-art solution, and develop a hardware accelerator for a critical part of it: ORB feature extraction. ... -
Adapting deep neural networks to a low-power environment
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessThese days, working with deep neural networks goes hand in hand with the use of GPUs. Once a deep neural network has been trained for hours, days, or even weeks on a desktop GPU, it is deployed in the field where it runs ... -
An enegy-efficient FPGA accelerator for convolutional neural networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-10-25)
Master thesis
Open AccessThis project focuses on a state-of-the-art DNN specifically build for image clas sification. We develop a new architecture design that will run on an experimental Intel accelerator platform called HARP. We obtain low-power ... -
Architectural support for high-performing hardware transactional memory systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-12-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessParallel programming presents an efficient solution to exploit future multicore processors. Unfortunately, traditional programming models depend on programmer’s skills for synchronizing concurrent threads, which makes ... -
Architecture support for intrusion detection systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-10-30)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessSystem security is a prerequisite for efficient day-to-day transactions. As a consequence, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are commonly used to provide an effective security ring to systems in a network. An IDS operates ... -
Characterization of Speech Recognition Systems on GPU Architectures
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-07-04)
Master thesis
Open AccessThis master thesis characterizes the performance and energy bottlenecks of speech recognition systems when running on modern GPU, with the aim of providing useful information for designing future GPU architectures, as well ... -
Co-designed solutions for overhead removal in dynamically typed languages
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-07-26)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessDynamically typed languages are ubiquitous in today's applications. These languages ease the task of programmers but introduce significant runtime overheads since variables are neither declared nor bound to a particular ... -
Code optimizations for narrow bitwidth architectures
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-02-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis thesis takes a HW/SW collaborative approach to tackle the problem of computational inefficiency in a holistic manner. The hardware is redesigned by restraining the datapath to merely 16-bit datawidth (integer datapath ... -
Comparative Study of Prefetching Mechanisms
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-09-23)
Master thesis
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Design of a distributed memory unit for clustered microarchitectures
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-06-20)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessPower constraints led to the end of exponential growth in single–processor performance, which characterized the semiconductor industry for many years. Single–chip multiprocessors allowed the performance growth to continue ... -
Design of Clustered Superscalar Microarchitectures
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2004-06-17)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessL'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és proposar noves tècniques per al disseny de microarquitectures clúster superescalars eficients. Les microarquitectures clúster particionen el disseny de diversos components crítics del hardware ... -
Energy Efficient Accelerator for Self Driving Cars
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-10-15)
Master thesis
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Exploiting frame coherence in real-time rendering for energy-efficient GPUs
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06-09)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe computation capabilities of mobile GPUs have greatly evolved in the last generations, allowing real-time rendering of realistic scenes. However, the desire for processing complex environments clashes with the ... -
Fòrum d'Informàtica Universitat Empresa : 4 i 5 de maig : microprocessadores actuales
(1994-05)
Audiovisual
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HW/SW mechanisms for instruction fusion, issue and commit in modern u-processors
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-05-03)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn this thesis we have explored the co-designed paradigm to show alternative processor design points. Specifically, we have provided HW/SW mechanisms for instruction fusion, issue and commit for modern processors. We have ... -
Low-power accelerators for cognitive computing
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-10-09)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessDeep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success for cognitive applications, and are especially efficient in classification and decision making problems such as speech recognition or machine translation. Mobile ... -
Low-power architectures for automatic speech recognition
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-02-21)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is one of the most important applications in the area of cognitive computing. Fast and accurate ASR is emerging as a key application for mobile and wearable devices. These devices, such ... -
Managing dynamic non-uiform cache architectures
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-11-25)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessResearchers from both academia and industry agree that future CMPs will accommodate large shared on-chip last-level caches. However, the exponential increase in multicore processor cache sizes accompanied by growing on-chip ... -
Microarchitectural simulator for shader cores in a modern GPU simulation infrastructure
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-07-05)
Master thesis
Open AccessThe objective of this project is to redesign the shader cores in TEAPOT, a cycle-accurate simulator for mobile-GPU systems, validate it's functionality and accuracy and then explore the new microarchitecture by performing ... -
Microarchitectural Techniques to Exploit Repetitive Computations and Values
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2005-07-10)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessLa dependencia de datos es una de las principales razones que limitan el rendimiento de los procesadores actuales. Algunos estudios han demostrado, que las aplicaciones no pueden alcanzar más de una decena de instrucciones ...
