Trilla Rodríguez, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES) are the subset of embedded systems with timing constraints whose miss behavior can endanger human lives or expensive equipment. To provide evidence of ...
Liu, Qixiao (Date of defense: 2016-05-26)
Chip multi-core processors (CMPs) are the preferred processing platform across different domains such as data centers, real-time systems and mobile devices. In all those domains, energy is arguably the ...
Mekikis, Prodromos-Vasileios (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Undeniably, the progress in wireless networks during the last two decades is extraordinary. However, the ever-increasing upward trend in the numbers of wireless devices that will overwhelm every field ...
Pérez, Hugo (Date of defense: 2019-05-09)
Large-scale simulation and visualization are essential topics in areas as different as sociology, physics, urbanism, training, entertainment among others. This kind of systems requires a vast computational ...
Borrell Sanz, Angel (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)
The multiphase synchronous buck converter is universally used today for powering low voltage, high current and high slew-rate loads, such as CPUs and other high performance digital ICs. This converter ...
Cusmin, Paul (Date of defense: 2009-03-11)
The work presented here has been focused, basically, on the study of the SmA-N and N-I phase transitions of a group of liquid crystals, the alkyloxycyanobiphenyls (nOCB), in which, for some of them, as ...
De la Cruz, Raúl (Date of defense: 2015-11-30)
Gone are the days when engineers and scientists conducted most of their experiments empirically. During these decades, actual tests were carried out in order to assess the robustness and reliability of ...
Casamitjana Díaz, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that constitutes the most common dementia pathology. It represents a global epidemic that expands exponentially as the life expectancy increases ...
Carandell Widmer, Matias (Date of defense: 2022-04-28)
Oceanographic sensor platforms provide biological and meteorological data to help understand changes in marine environment and help to preserve it. Lagrangian drifters are autonomous passive floating ...
Serrano, Maria A. (Date of defense: 2019-03-13)
The recent technological advancements and market trends are causing an interesting phenomenon towards the convergence of the high-performance and the embedded computing domains. Critical real-time ...