High-Level Synthesis Users: Productivity Gains Beckon, But Learning Curve Comes First, by Richard Goering in the blog of Cadence. It summaries the panel discussion in DAC 2012, titled “High-Level Synthesis Production Deployment: Are We Ready?“. The short answer is “NO”.

Performance improvement of professional printing systems : from theory to practice, PhD thesis of Mohamed Ezzeldin Mahdy Abdelmonem, with TU Eindhoven, in 2012.

Switching Control in Vibration Isolation Systems, by Marcel Heertjes, et al., to appear in Transactions on Control Systems Technology. Marcel is chairing an invited session on “Control of High-Precision Motion Stages” in ACC 2012.

The Proceedings of IEEE May 2012 is a Special Centennial Issue. A personal list of interesting articles:

• Cyber–Physical Systems: A Perspective at the Centennial
• Prolog to the Section on Cyber–Physical Systems
• A Cyber–Physical Future
• Five Major Shifts in 100 Years of Engineering Education
• Beyond 2020: Preparing Engineers for the Future
• A Brief History of Entertainment Technologies
• Entertainment in the Age of Big Data
• Hardware/Software Codesign: The Past, the Present, and Predicting the Future
• The History of Storage Systems
• The History of Information Retrieval Research
• Silicon Crystal Growth and Wafer Technologies
• Flexible Electronics: The Next Ubiquitous Platform
• History, Evolution, and Future Status of Energy Storage
• Advances in Medical Devices and Medical Electronics
• Evolving Signal Processing for Brain–Computer Interfaces
• Brain–Computer Interface Technologies in the Coming Decades
• Optics and Photonics: Key Enabling Technologies
• Spectrum Access Technologies: The Past, the Present, and the Future
• Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s Law
• Wireless Myths, Realities, and Futures: From 3G/4G to Optical and Quantum Wireless

Some interesting articles in TPAMI Aug. 2012:

• Fast Rotation Invariant 3D Feature Computation Utilizing Efficient Local Neighborhood Operators
• Pushing the Envelope of Modern Methods for Bundle Adjustment
• Unsupervised Image Matching Based on Manifold Alignment
• Learning Sparse Representations for Human Action Recognition
• A Closed-Form Solution to Tensor Voting: Theory and Applications
• Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition by Integrating Multiple Contexts

A simultaneous multithreading heterogeneous object recognition processor with machine learning based dynamic resource management (doi), from KAIST, in Cool Chips 2012.

Review of ladar: a historic, yet emerging, sensor technology with rich phenomenology, in Journal of Optical Engineering (JOE) June 2012.

Image processing for three-dimensional scans generated by time-of-flight range cameras, in Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI) May 2012.

Two survey papers in Journal of Imaging and Vision Computing June 2012:

• Advances in matrix manifolds for computer vision
• On advances in differential-geometric approaches for 2D and 3D shape analyses and activity recognition

An Overview of Static Pipelining, in Computer Architecture Letters Jan.-June 2012.

Considerations for Ultimate CMOS Scaling, by Kelin J. Kuhn with Intel, in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED) July 2012.

Performance of Industrial Communication Systems: Real Application Contexts, in Industrial Electronics Magazine (MIE) June 2012.

Some interesting articles in Solid-State Circuits Magazine June 2012:

• Signal Core: A Short History of the Digital Signal Processor, from Texas Instruments.
• Algorithm Kings: The Birth of Digital Signal Processing
• Eye, Robot: Embedded Vision, the Next Big Thing in Digital Signal Processing
• Calling All Phones: From a Single-Chip Mobile Communicator to the Smart Phone of the Future, from Texas Instruments.
• Out of Darkness: Helping the Blind See with Artificial Vision
• Out of Thin Air: Energy Scavenging and the Path to Ultralow-Voltage Operation

Some interesting articles in Signal Processing Magazines June 2012:

• The Geometry of Bandpass Sampling: A Simple and Safe Approach [Lecture Notes]
• Robust Estimation in Signal Processing: A Tutorial-Style Treatment of Fundamental Concepts
• Data Reconstruction via Sparse Double Focal Transformation: An Overview

Some interesting papers in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) June 2012:

• Integer affine transformations of parametric ℤ-polytopes and applications to loop nest optimization (doi)
• A unified optimizing compiler framework for different GPGPU architectures (doi)

Balancing Programmability and Silicon Efficiency of Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures, from NXP, in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) June 2012.

Robotica July 2012:

• Modeling and control of a spherical rolling robot: a decoupled dynamics approach
• Joint stiffness identification of industrial serial robots

A Fast Wavelet-Based Algorithm for Global and Local Image Sharpness Estimation, in Signal Processing Letters July 2012.

Co-Design Tradeoffs for High-Performance, Low-Power Linear Algebra Architectures, to appear in Transactions on Computers.

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC 2012) is available in the ACM digital library.

Personal selection of some papers from DAC 2012:

• Accelerating neuromorphic vision algorithms for recognition
• SALSA: systematic logic synthesis of approximate circuits
• Architecture support for accelerator-rich CMPs, by Jason Cong, et al..
• Optimizing memory hierarchy allocation with loop transformations for high-level synthesis, by Jason Cong, et al.
• What to do about the end of Moore’s law, probably!
• Platform 2012, a many-core computing accelerator for embedded SoCs: performance evaluation of visual analytics applications, from STMicroelectronics and CEA-LETI in Grenoble.
• Process variation in near-threshold wide SIMD architectures, from U. Mich and Arizona State U.
• Run-time power-down strategies for real-time SDRAM memory controllers, from TU Eindhoven and TU Delft.
• Near-threshold voltage (NTV) design: opportunities and challenges, from Intel.
• Near-threshold operation for power-efficient computing?: it depends…, from IBM.
• Assessing the performance limits of parallelized near-threshold computing, from U. Mich.
• Standard cell sizing for subthreshold operation, from TU Eindhoven.