Álvaro Bernal

A Comparison between Two Optimisation Alternatives for Mapping in Wireless Network on Chip

Network on Chip (NoC) is a well known approach that aims at improving the performance of many-core systems. The design of such systems involves the optimal mapping of tasks to nodes, and the corresponding scheduling of the tasks at every node, which results in a challenging optimisation problem considering the constraints that need to be respected. In this paper, after formalising the problem and elaborating on its complexity, we present an AI approach to solve the problem and evaluate it against a MIP approach. Our empirical evaluation shows that the AI approach is able to obtain solutions of good quality very quickly.

Integración de gestores de aprendizaje y contenidos Web en la enseñanza de los sistemas digitales: Integrating learning and Web-Content Management Systems on digital systems teaching

Blended learning was strengthened in education in recent years, because of the technological trends and developments in the Information and Communications Technology ICT. Some software platforms are required for the learning places virtualization. These platforms must be consistent with teaching models, which are suggested from each field. Experiential teaching on engineering is important and involves experiential labs, simulations and verifications between others methodological topics. This paper proposes a software platform for virtual labs in courses of digital systems. This Web tool comprises a Content Management System (CMS), a Learning Management System (LMS), two linked databases and Web 2.0 services. This tool also supports java scripts to include a communication with a hardware platform for remote experimentation.