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FPGA Prototyping of a Watermarking Algorithm for MPEG-4

In the immediate future, multimedia product distribution through the Internet will become main stream. However, it can also have the side effect of unauthorized duplication and distribution of multimedia products. That effect could be a critical challenge to the legal ownership of copyright and intellectual property. Many schemes have been proposed to address these issues; one is digital watermarking which is appropriate for image and video copyright protection. Videos distributed via the Inter… more

Date: May 2007

Creator: Cai, Wei

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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FPGA Implementations of Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Tate Pairing over Binary Field

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is an alternative to traditional techniques for public key cryptography. It offers smaller key size without sacrificing security level. Tate pairing is a bilinear map used in identity based cryptography schemes. In a typical elliptic curve cryptosystem, elliptic curve point multiplication is the most computationally expensive component. Similarly, Tate pairing is also quite computationally expensive. Therefore, it is more attractive to implement the ECC and Tat… more

Date: August 2007

Creator: Huang, Jian

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Timing and Congestion Driven Algorithms for FPGA Placement

Placement is one of the most important steps in physical design for VLSI circuits. For field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), the placement step determines the location of each logic block. I present novel timing and congestion driven placement algorithms for FPGAs with minimal runtime overhead. By predicting the post-routing timing-critical edges and estimating congestion accurately, this algorithm is able to simultaneously reduce the critical path delay and the minimum number of routing trac… more

Date: December 2006

Creator: Zhuo, Yue

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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VLSI Architecture and FPGA Prototyping of a Secure Digital Camera for Biometric Application

This thesis presents a secure digital camera (SDC) that inserts biometric data into images found in forms of identification such as the newly proposed electronic passport. However, putting biometric data in passports makes the data vulnerable for theft, causing privacy related issues. An effective solution to combating unauthorized access such as skimming (obtaining data from the passport's owner who did not willingly submit the data) or eavesdropping (intercepting information as it moves from… more

Date: August 2006

Creator: Adamo, Oluwayomi Bamidele

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Verilog 8051 Soft Core for FPGA Applications

The objective of this thesis was to develop an 8051 microcontroller soft core in the Verilog hardware description language (HDL). Each functional unit of the 8051 microcontroller was developed as a separate module, and tested for functionality using the open-source VHDL Dalton model as benchmark. These modules were then integrated to operate as concurrent processes in the 8051 soft core. The Verilog 8051 soft core was then synthesized in Quartus® II simulation and synthesis environment (Altera… more

Date: August 2009

Creator: Rangoonwala, Sakina

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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FPGA Implementation of Low Density Party Check Codes Decoder

Reliable communication over the noisy channel has become one of the major concerns in the field of digital wireless communications. The low density parity check codes (LDPC) has gained lot of attention recently because of their excellent error-correcting capacity. It was first proposed by Robert G. Gallager in 1960. LDPC codes belong to the class of linear block codes. Near capacity performance is achievable on a large collection of data transmission and storage.In my thesis I have focused on h… more

Date: August 2009

Creator: Vijayakumar, Suresh

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries