Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Western Australia, 2006.

Thesis (doctoral)--Tampere University of Technology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-133). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S. in computer science)--Washington State University. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2005. / Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 70 pages. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-94).

Thesis (M.S. in computer science)--Washington State University, May 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 36).

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1998 / Town & Country Resort Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / The advent of adaptive computers built from re-programmable logic devices presents a potential solution for meeting the data processing requirements of the new era of Earth monitoring satellites to be launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Enterprise project. The Earth Observing System (EOS) AM-1 spacecraft, the first satellite of this new era, will produce in only six months as much data as NASA has collected to this date. As a consequence, the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project is building high performance and highly costly parallel processing systems to address the real-time data production requirements. Together with the high performance front-end ingest and level 0 processing microcircuits developed in-house at the Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Data Systems Technology Division (DSTD), adaptive computers present a possible alternative to traditional CPU-based systems to increase the performance while reducing the cost of satellite telemetry processing systems. The Adaptive Scientific Data Processing (ASDP) project has been investigating the use of adaptive computers in the implementation of space borne scientific data processing systems. An order of magnitude processing speed acceleration over high-end workstations has been demonstrated for both level 1 and level 3 algorithms. This paper discusses the use of adaptive computing in satellite telemetry processing systems, level 1 and beyond. Primarily, it describes the efforts and presents the results of two prototypes developed by the ASDP project. The limitations of the current state of the technology are discussed and the expected improvements to facilitate the adoption of adaptive computers are presented. Finally, future work of the ASDP project is discussed.

Thesis (M.S. in Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation and M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003. / "This thesis is done in cooperation with the MOVES Institute"--Cover. Thesis advisor(s): Eugene Paulo, John Hiles. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49). Also available online.

Many complex natural and man made systems are inherently concurrent in nature, consisting of many autonomous parts that interact with each other. Cellular automata allow the concurrency and interactions of these complex systems to be modelled. Using a reconfigurable a computing platform for running cellular automata models allows the natural concurrency of digital electronics to be directly exploited by the system being modelled. This thesis investigates methods and philosophies for developing cellular automata models on a reconfigurable computing platform, the SPACE machine. Modelling and verification techniques are developed using a process algebra, Circal. These techniques allow the desired behaviour of a system to be specified and simulated. The model is then translated into a digital design, which can be verified as correct against the behavioural model using the Circal system. Three cellular automata system are used to develop the methods and philosophies. The Game of Life is used to investigate how to model and implement CA on the SPACE machine. The Philosophies and techniques that are developed for the Game of Life are used in the following systems. More complex cellular automata models of road traffic are used to further develop the modelling techniques developed in the Game a Life. A user interface, which was created for viewing the outputs from the Game a Life, is extended to allow cellular automata cells to be dynamically placed and moved about on the computing surface, allowing the user to observe and modify experiment in real time. A cellular automata based cryptography system is then used to further enhance the techniques developed, and particularly to explore the area of producing dynamically reconfigured circuits as the inputs to the system change. The thesis concludes that there are many real life complex systems, such as road traffic simulation and cryptography, which require high performs systems to run on. The methods and philosophies developed in this thesis allow CA systems to be modelled using process algebra and run directly in digital hardware, allowing the natural concurrency of the hardware to be fully exploited.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. / Additional advisors: Dale W. Callahan, Gary J. Grimes, Ian K. Knowles, B. Earl Wells. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 13, 2009; title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143).