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It Blinked! Empowering Students with an Improved Microprocessors Course (with Arlen Planting), 119th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2012)

Empowering students in understanding microprocessors involves teaching them how a processor works so that they...

 

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A Unified Wireless Sensor Network Framework (with Joshua Kiepert), 2012 IEEE InternationalSystems Conference (SysCon) (2012)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been a significant area of research over the past decade....

 

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A Miniature Inductively Coupled Plasma Source for Ion Thrusters (with Jim Browning, D. Plumlee, Sonya Shawver, Mallory Yates, and Jesse Taff), IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2011)

A small inductively coupled plasma source has been developed for use in an ion thruster....

 

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From Scratch to System: A Hands-On Introductory Embedded Systems Course (with Josh Kiepert, Michael Pook, Jim Hall, Derek Klein, Vikram Patel, Carl Lee, and Arlen Planting), WESE '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Embedded Systems Education (2010)

This paper describes a hands-on introductory embedded systems course, which continues from the first microprocessor...

 

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Case Study of Finite Resource Optimization in FPGA Using Genetic Algorithm (with JingXia Wang), International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (2010)

Modem Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are becoming very popular in embedded systems and high performance...

 

Coding Practices for Embedded Systems (with Michael Pook, A. Planting, J. Kiepert, and D. Klein), ASEE Annual ConferĀ­ence (2010)
 

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Optimizing Reconfigurable Hardware Resource Usage in System-on-a-Programmable-Chip with Location-Aware Genetic Algorithm (with JingXia Wang), International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (2010)

This paper presents static task scheduling using location-aware genetic algorithm techniques to schedule task systems...

 

Synergies of Teaching Assembly and C in a Junior Microprocessors Course (with Arlen Planting), Computers in Education Journal (2009)

As part of an effort to update its core computer engineering courses, Boise State University...

 

Case Study of Finite Resource Optimization in FPGA Using Genetic Algorithm (with JingXia Wang), World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (2009)

Modern Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are becoming very popular in embedded systems and high-performance applications....

 

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A Wireless Sensor Data Fusion Framework for Contaminant Detection (with Joshua Kiepert), Technologies for Homeland Security (2009)

In recent years, much research has been done on wireless sensor networks and sensor data...

 

A Wireless Sensor Data Fusion Framework for Contaminant Detection (with Josh Kiepert), IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (2009)

In recent years, much research has been done on wireless sensor networks and sensor data...

 

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Modular, Portable, Reconfigurable, and Wireless Sensing System for the Aircraft Cabin (with Michael Owen, Josh Kiepert, and Arlen Planting), Journal of ASTM International (2008)

This paper describes the design and prototyping of a modular, portable, reconfigurable, and wireless multi-purpose...

 

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Hardware/Software Codesign in a Compact Ion Mobility Spectrometer Sensor Systemfor Subsurface Contaminant Detection (with Jonathan P. Cole and Molly M. Gribb), EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems (2008)

A field-programmable-gate-array-(FPGA-) based data acquisition and control system was designed in a hardware/software codesign environment...

 

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Task Scheduling in a Finite-Resource, Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Codesign Environment (with B. Earl Wells), INFORMS Journal on Computing (2006)

This paper describes how static task-scheduling methods using stochastic search techniques can be applied to...