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The TULIPP project aims to simplify development of embedded vision applications with low-power and real-time requirements by providing a complete image processing system package called the TULIPP Starter Kit. To achieve this, the chosen high-performance embedded vision platform needs to be extended with performance analysis and power measurement features. The lack of such features plagues most embedded vision platforms in general and practitioners have adopted ad-hoc methods to circumvent the problem. In this paper, we describe four generic utilities that complement and refine the capabilities of existing platforms for embedded vision applications. Concretely, we describe a novel power measurement and analysis utility, a platform-optimized image processing library, a dynamic partial reconfiguration utility, and an utility providing support for using the real-time OS HIPPEROS within Xilinx SDSoC. Collectively, these utilities enable efficient development of image processing applications on the TULIPP hardware platform. In future work, we will evaluate the relative benefit of these utilities on key embedded image processing metrics such as frame rate and power consumption.

Software Defined Radios (SDRs) require architectures with a high flexibility to support multi-mode and multi-standard receivers and transmitters. In addition, these architectures need to fulfill the contradicting requirements of high performance for processing high data rates and low power consumption to be deployable in mobile devices. As the market for SDR is evolving, a scalable and adaptive architecture is desired to be able to upgrade the architecture to provide the needed computing performance for future use cases. This chapter highlights the requirements of high flexibility, high performance, low power, and high scalability and presents a solution to fulfill these requirements using runtime reconfigurable Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern networks design, from specifications and modeling to implementations and test procedures, including the design and implementation of modern networks on chip, in both wireless and mobile applications. Topical coverage includes algorithms and methodologies, telecommunications, hardware (including networks on chip), security and privacy, wireless and mobile networks and a variety of modern applications, such as VoLTE and the internet of things.