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Space missions are becoming increasingly ambitious, necessitating high-performance onboard spacecraft computing systems. In response, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have garnered significant interest due to their flexibility,…

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Practical application of the harmonic summing technique in the power-spectrum analysis for searching pulsars has exhibited the technique's effectiveness. In this paper, theoretical verification of harmonic summing considering power's…

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This paper investigates the usage of FPGA devices for energy-efficient exact kNN search in high-dimension latent spaces. This work intercepts a relevant trend that tries to support the increasing popularity of learned representations based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Patrizio Dazzi , William Guglielmo , Franco Maria Nardini , Raffaele Perego , Salvatore Trani

Memory bandwidth is known to be a performance bottleneck for FPGA accelerators, especially when they deal with large multi-dimensional data-sets. A large body of work focuses on reducing of off-chip transfers, but few authors try to improve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Corentin Ferry , Nicolas Derumigny , Steven Derrien , Sanjay Rajopadhye

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an integral part of the next-generation observatories that will survey the Universe across the electromagnetic spectrum, and beyond, revolutionizing our view of fundamental physics, astrophysics and…

Scientific computing is at the core of many High-Performance Computing applications, including computational flow dynamics. Because of the uttermost importance to simulate increasingly larger computational models, hardware acceleration is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Tom Hogervorst , Tong Dong Qiu , Giacomo Marchiori , Alf Birger , Markus Blatt , Razvan Nane

It has been widely acknowledged that Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in the submillimeter wavelengths can make imaging observations of super massive black holes possible. The Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) along with the James Clerk…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 Vinayak Nagpal

The effective use of computer vision and machine learning for on-orbit applications has been hampered by limited computing capabilities, and therefore limited performance. While embedded systems utilizing ARM processors have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Andrew Ekblad , Trupti Mahendrakar , Ryan T. White , Markus Wilde , Isaac Silver , Brooke Wheeler

Pulsar search is always the basis of pulsar navigation, gravitational wave detection and other research topics. Currently, the volume of pulsar candidates collected by Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) shows an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Zi-Yi You , Yun-Rong Pan , Zhi Ma , Li Zhang , Shuo Xiao , Dan-Dan Zhang , Shi-Jun Dang , Ru-Shuang Zhao , Pei Wang , Ai-Jun Dong , Jia-Tao Jiang , Ji-Bing Leng , Wei-An Li , Si-Yao Li

Feature detection is a common yet time-consuming module in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) implementations, which are increasingly deployed on power-constrained platforms, such as drones. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ruiqi Ye , Mikel Luján

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao

PUMA is a proposal for an ultra-wideband, low-resolution and transit interferometric radio telescope operating at $200-1100\,\mathrm{MHz}$. Its design is driven by six science goals which span three science themes: the physics of dark…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be both the largest radio telescope ever constructed and the largest Big Data project in the known Universe. The first phase of the project will generate on the order of 5 zettabytes of data per year. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 Jamie Farnes , Ben Mort , Fred Dulwich , Stef Salvini , Wes Armour

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have made a significant impact on various domains. However, LLMs' efficiency suffers from both heavy computation and memory overheads. Compression techniques like sparsification and…

This thesis develops signal-processing algorithms and implementation schemes under constraints of minimal parallelism and memory space, with the goal of improving energy efficiency of low-power computing hardware. We propose (i) a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Sergey Salishev

New and upcoming radio interferometers will produce unprecedented amounts of data that demand extremely powerful computers for processing. This is a limiting factor due to the large computational power and energy costs involved. Such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Sarod Yatawatta , Faruk Diblen , Hanno Spreeuw , L. V. E. Koopmans

We investigate the capabilities of various stages of the SKA to perform world-leading weak gravitational lensing surveys. We outline a way forward to develop the tools needed for pursuing weak lensing in the radio band. We identify the key…

Using the Fourier Domain Acceleration Search (FDAS) method to search for binary pulsars is a computationally costly process. Next generation radio telescopes will have to perform FDAS in real time, as data volumes are too large to store.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-28 Jack White , Karel Adamek , Wes Armour

The short-spacing problem describes the inherent inability of radio-interferometric arrays to measure the integrated flux and structure of diffuse emission associated with extended sources. New interferometric arrays, such as SKA, require…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 S. Faridani , F. Bigiel , L. Floeer , J. Kerp , S. Stanimirovic

Convolutional neural network (CNN) dataflow inference accelerators implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have demonstrated increased energy efficiency and lower latency compared to CNN execution on CPUs or GPUs. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mairin Kroes , Lucian Petrica , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott