Artificial Intelligence Applications and Reconfigurable Architectures


Book Description

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS and RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES The primary goal of this book is to present the design, implementation, and performance issues of AI applications and the suitability of the FPGA platform. This book covers the features of modern Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devices, design techniques, and successful implementations pertaining to AI applications. It describes various hardware options available for AI applications, key advantages of FPGAs, and contemporary FPGA ICs with software support. The focus is on exploiting parallelism offered by FPGA to meet heavy computation requirements of AI as complete hardware implementation or customized hardware accelerators. This is a comprehensive textbook on the subject covering a broad array of topics like technological platforms for the implementation of AI, capabilities of FPGA, suppliers’ software tools and hardware boards, and discussion of implementations done by researchers to encourage the AI community to use and experiment with FPGA. Readers will benefit from reading this book because It serves all levels of students and researcher’s as it deals with the basics and minute details of Ecosystem Development Requirements for Intelligent applications with reconfigurable architectures whereas current competitors’ books are more suitable for understanding only reconfigurable architectures. It focuses on all aspects of machine learning accelerators for the design and development of intelligent applications and not on a single perspective such as only on reconfigurable architectures for IoT applications. It is the best solution for researchers to understand how to design and develop various AI, deep learning, and machine learning applications on the FPGA platform. It is the best solution for all types of learners to get complete knowledge of why reconfigurable architectures are important for implementing AI-ML applications with heavy computations. Audience Researchers, industrial experts, scientists, and postgraduate students who are working in the fields of computer engineering, electronics, and electrical engineering, especially those specializing in VLSI and embedded systems, FPGA, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and related multidisciplinary projects.




Frontier Computing


Book Description

This book gathers the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Frontier Computing, held in Tokyo, Japan, on July 12–15, 2022, and provides comprehensive coverage of the latest advances and trends in information technology, science, and engineering. It addresses a number of broad themes, including communication networks, business intelligence and knowledge management, Web intelligence, and related fields that inspire the development of information technology. The respective contributions cover a wide range of topics: database and data mining, networking and communications, Web and Internet of things, embedded systems, soft computing, social network analysis, security and privacy, optical communication, and ubiquitous/pervasive computing. Many of the papers outline promising future research directions, and the book benefits students, researchers, and professionals alike. Further, it offers a useful reference guide for newcomers to the field.




Sdn And Nfv: A New Dimension To Virtualization


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Software-defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are two technology trends that have revolutionized network management, particularly in highly distributed networks that are used in public, private, or hybrid cloud services. SDN and NFV technologies, when combined, simplify the deployment of network resources, lower capital and operating expenses, and offer greater network flexibility. The increasing usage of NFV is one of the primary factors that make SDN adoption attractive. The integration of these two technologies; SDN and NFV, offer a complementary service, with NFV delivering many of the real services controlled in an SDN. While SDN is focused on the control plane, NFV optimizes the actual network services that manage the data flows. Devices such as routers, firewalls, and VPN terminators are replaced with virtual devices that run on commodity hardware in NFV physical networking. This resembles the 'as-a-service' typical model of cloud services in many aspects. These virtual devices can be accessed on-demand by communication, network, or data center providers.This book illustrates the fundamentals and evolution of SDN and NFV and highlights how these two technologies can be integrated to solve traditional networking problems. In addition, it will focus on the utilization of SDN and NFV to enhance network security, which will open ways to integrate them with current technologies such as IoT, edge computing and blockchain, SDN-based network programmability, and current network orchestration technologies. The basics of SDN and NFV and associated issues, challenges, technological advancements along with advantages and risks of shifting networking paradigm towards SDN are also discussed. Detailed exercises within the book and corresponding solutions are available online as accompanying supplementary material.







Hybrid Information Systems


Book Description

The book provides comprehensive and cognitive approach to building and deploying sophisticated information systems. The book utilizes non-linear optimization techniques, fuzzy logic, and rough sets to model various real-world use cases for the digital era. The hybrid information system modeling handles both qualitative and quantitative data and can effectively handle uncertainty and imprecision in the data. The combination of non-linear optimization mechanisms, fuzzy logic, and rough sets provides a robust foundation for next-generation information systems that can fulfill the demands of adaptive, aware, and adroit software applications for the knowledge era. The book emphasizes the importance of the hybrid approach, which combines the strengths of both mathematical and AI techniques, to achieve a more comprehensive and effective modeling process. Hybrid information system modeling techniques combine different approaches, such as fuzzy logic, rough sets, and neural networks, to create models that can handle the complexity and uncertainty of real-world problems. These techniques provide a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing complex systems, and the applications of hybrid information system modeling demonstrate their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields.




Integrated Time-Based Signal Processing Circuits for Harsh Radiation Environments


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This book covers the most recent, advanced methods for designing mixed-signal integrated circuits, for radiation-hardened sensor readouts (capacitive) and frequency synthesizers (quadrature, digitally controlled oscillators and all-digital PLL etc.). The authors discuss the ionizing radiation sources, complex failure mechanisms as well as several mitigation strategies for avoiding such failures. Readers will benefit from an introduction to the essential theory and fundamentals of ionizing radiation and time-based signal processing, with the details of the implementation of several radiation-hardened IC prototypes. The radiation-hardening methods and solutions described are supported by theory and experimental data with, underlying tradeoffs. Discusses the basics of time-based signal processing and its effectiveness in mitigating ionizing radiation Provides mitigation strategies and recommendations for reducing radiation induced effects in Integrated Circuits Includes coverage of devices used in measuring radiation, focusing on semiconductor-based radiation sensors




Applied Reconfigurable Computing. Architectures, Tools, and Applications


Book Description

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, ARC 2023, which was held in Cottbus, Germany, in September 2023. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The proceedings also contain 4 short PhD papers. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Design methods and tools; applications; architectures; special session: near and in-memory computing; and PhD forum papers.




Approximate Computing


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This book explores the technological developments at various levels of abstraction, of the new paradigm of approximate computing. The authors describe in a single-source the state-of-the-art, covering the entire spectrum of research activities in approximate computing, bridging device, circuit, architecture, and system levels. Content includes tutorials, reviews and surveys of current theoretical/experimental results, design methodologies and applications developed in approximate computing for a wide scope of readership and specialists. Serves as a single-source reference to state-of-the-art of approximate computing; Covers broad range of topics, from circuits to applications; Includes contributions by leading researchers, from academia and industry.




Neural Information Processing


Book Description

The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 1274 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. The ICONIP conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements.