ABSTRACT
As the virtual centre of excellence in mobile and personal communications (Mobile VCE) moves into its second core research programme it has been decided to set up a fourth generation (4G) visions group aimed at harmonising the research work across the work areas and amongst the numerous researchers working on the programme. This paper outlines the initial work of the group and provides a start to what will become an evolving vision of 4G. A short history of ....etc

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Introduction

Pick up any newspaper today and it is a safe bet that you will find an article somewhere relating to mobile communications. If it is not in the technology section it will almost certainly be in the business section and relate to the increasing share prices of operators or equipment manufacturers, or acquisitions and take-overs thereof. Such is the pervasiveness of mobile communications that it is affecting virtually everyoneâ„¢s life and has become a major political topic and a significant contributor t ....etc

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INTRODUCTION

Today's microprocessors sport a general-purpose design which has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Adv: One chip can run a range of programs. That's why you don't need separate computers for different jobs, such as crunching spreadsheets or editing digital photos
Disadv: For any one application, much of the chip's circuitry isn't needed, and the presence of those wasted circuits slows things down.

Suppose, instead, that the chip's circuits could be tailored specifically for the problem at hand--say, computer-ai ....etc

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Modular VLIW Processor Based on FPGA
Modern FPGA chips, with their larger memory capacity and reconfigurability potential, are opening new frontiers in rapid prototyping of embedded systems. With the coming of high density FPGAs, it is now possible to implement a high performance VLIW processor core on an FPGA. Very Long Instruction Word(VLIW) processors are often used in the embedded systems design domain to obtain high performance. The compilers must provide sufficient level parallelism(ILP) in program code so that the performance ....etc

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FPAA for Analog Circuit Design

Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA) have ability to:

Ø Translate complex analog circuits to a simple set of low-level functions giving the analog equivalent of a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), providing a basis for the development of dynamically reconfigurable analog/digital hardware.

Ø Place analog functions under real-time software control within the system.

Ø By providing the analog equivalent of logic gates, FPAAs give designers the ability to describe analog func ....etc

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Introduction
In the past few years, there has been a boom in the computer industry. The processor speed has jumped from 500 MHz to 4 GHz and is still increasing. High speed rams and hard disks are becoming available. But people are always greedy and they always want more. Experts are beginning to look for ways to accelerate the speed-up. Every other day an expert wakes up and shouts something like DNA computing, stream computing, just so computing etc. This seminar introduces Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing which, unlike the above-mention ....etc

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ABSTRACT
Chameleon chips are chips whose circuitry can be tailored specifically for the problem at hand. Chameleon chips would be an extension of what can already be done with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAS). An FPGA is covered with a grid of wires. At each crossover, there's a switch that can be semipermanently opened or closed by sending it a special signal. Usually the chip must first be inserted in a little box that sends the programming signals. But now, labs in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. are developing techniq ....etc

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WHAT IS A SMART DUST?

Autonomous sensing and communication in a cubic millimeter

Berkeleyâ„¢s Smart Dust project, led by Professors Pister and Kahn, explores the limits on size and power consumption in autonomous sensor nodes. Size reduction is paramount, to make the nodes as inexpensive and easy-to-deploy as possible. The research team is confident that they can incorporate the requisite sensing, communication, and computing hardware, along with a power supply, in a volume no more than a few cubic millimeters, while still achieving ....etc

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INTRODUCTION

Today's microprocessors sport a general-purpose design which has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Adv: One chip can run a range of programs. That's why you don't need separate computers for different jobs, such as crunching spreadsheets or editing digital photos
Disadv: For any one application, much of the chip's circuitry isn't needed, and the presence of those wasted circuits slows things down.

Suppose, instead, that the chip's circuits could be tailored specifically for the problem at hand--say, computer-ai ....etc

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Introduction

Pick up any newspaper today and it is a safe bet that you will find an article somewhere relating to mobile communications. If it is not in the technology section it will almost certainly be in the business section and relate to the increasing share prices of operators or equipment manufacturers, or acquisitions and take-overs thereof. Such is the pervasiveness of mobile communications that it is affecting virtually everyoneâ„¢s life and has become a major political topic and a significant contributor t ....etc

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Advances in hardware technology has enabled very compact, autonomous and mobile nodes each having one or more sensors, computation and communication capabilities ,and a power supply. The Smart Dust project is exploring whether an autonomous sensing, computing, and communication system can be packed into a cubic-millimeter mote to form the basis of integrated, massively distributed sensor networks. It focuses on reduction of power consumption, size and cost. To build these small sensors, processors, communication de ....etc

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ntroduction

In the past few years, there has been a boom in the computer industry. The processor speed has jumped from 500 MHz to 4 GHz and is still increasing. High speed rams and hard disks are becoming available. But people are always greedy and they always want more. Experts are beginning to look for ways to accelerate the speed-up. Every other day an expert wakes up and shouts something like DNA computing, stream computing, just so computing etc. This seminar introduces Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing which, unlike the above-mentio ....etc

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