High-throughput sequencing (HTS) data are commonly stored as raw sequencing reads in FASTQ format or as reads mapped to a reference, in SAM format, both with large memory footprints. Worldwide growth of HTS data has prompted the development of compression ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

A 0.4 nJ Excitation Energy Bridge-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

This paper presents an energy-efficient, duty-cycled, and spinning excitation bridge-to-digital converter (BDC) suitable for measuring the pulmonary artery pressure of heart failure patients with an implantable system. The duty-cycled bridge uses resistanc ...

IEEE2021

Design space exploration strategies for FPGA implementation of signal processing systems using CAL dataflow program

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Simone Casale Brunet, Richard Thavot, Ab Al Hadi Bin Ab Rahman

This paper presents some strategies for design space exploration of FPGA-based signal processing systems that are specified using the CAL dataflow language. The actor- oriented, high-level of abstraction provided by CAL allows flexible exploration and cons ...

2012

TURNUS: A design exploration framework for dataflow system design

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet

While research on the design of heterogeneous concurrent systems has a long and rich history, a unified design methodology and tool support has not emerged so far, and thus the creation of such systems remains a difficult, time-consuming and error-prone pr ...

IEEE2013

Cardiovascular monitoring system

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

A cardiovascular monitoring system for measuring at least cardiac output comprises an implantable unit (2) configured for placement in a section of artery of a patient and a portable external unit (1) configured for mounting against or close to a patient's ...

2022

Evaluation of the parallelization potential for efficient multimedia implementations: Dynamics Evaluation of Algorithm Critical Path

Marco Mattavelli

2005

An Implantable Inductive Sensor for Direct and Continuous Monitoring of the Pulmonary Artery Cross-Sectional Area

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

This paper presents a novel method for the measure of the cross-sectional area (CSA) of an artery to be used for the direct and continuous (24/7) monitoring of cardiac output (CO). The method is based on the inductance change of an anchoring loop mounted o ...

IEEE2022

High Performance Embedded Co-Processor Architecture For CMOS Imaging Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Romuald Mosqueron

2007

Live demonstration: High level software and hardware synthesis of dataflow programs

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Ghislain Roquier

This paper describes and demonstrates a toolchain which enables HW-SW co-synthesis from a single high-level dataflow program. This toolchain does not only enable rapid-prototyping of complex designs, but also provides a complete system integration framewor ...

2013

Design Space Exploration of High Level Stream Programs on Parallel Architectures: A focus on the Buffer Size Minimization and Optimization Problem

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Claudio Paolo Alberti

This paper presents a dataflow design methodology and an associated co-exploration environment, focusing on the optimization of buffer sizes. The approach is applicable to dynamic dataflow designs and its performance is presented and validated by experimen ...

2013

A Computationally Efﬁcient Method for Polyphonic Pitch Estimation

Marco Mattavelli, Giorgio Zoia, Ruohua Zhou

This paper presents a computationally efficient method for polyphonic pitch estimation. The method employs the Fast Resonator Time-Frequency Image (RTFI) as the basic time-frequency analysis tool. The approach is composed of two main stages. First, a preli ...

2009

Quasi-Static Scheduling of CAL Actor Networks for Reconfigurable Video Coding

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz

The upcoming Reconﬁgurable Video Coding (RVC) standard from MPEG (ISO / IEC SC29WG11) deﬁnes a library of coding tools to specify existing or new compressed video formats and decoders. The coding tool library has been written in a dataﬂow/actor- oriented l ...

2011

Scheduling Of Dataflow Models Within The Reconfigurable Video Coding Framework

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz

The upcoming Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard from MPEG (ISO/IEC SC29WG11) defines a library of coding tools to specify existing or new compressed video formats and decoders. The coding tool library has been written in a dataflow/actor-oriented l ...

IEEE2008

Efficient error correction solutions for OFDM-based wireless video

Marco Mattavelli, Mauro Lattuada, Renzo Posega

IEEE2005

Scheduling of Dynamic Dataflow Programs with Model Checking

Marco Mattavelli, Ghislain Roquier

2011

A Multimedia Terminal Supporting Adaptation for QoS Control

Marco Mattavelli, Daniele Renzi

This paper addresses the End-to-End Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees and control for multimedia content delivery over heterogeneous networks, with a particular focus on end user terminal perspective. We design and implement a multimedia terminal which c ...

IEEE Computer Society2008