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International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), Ecole Natl Ingenieurs Metz, Metz, FRANCE, NOV 03-05, 2014; International audience; The need to integrate multiple wireless communication protocols into a single low-cost flexible hardware platform is prompted by the increasing number of emerging communication protocols and applications in modern embedded systems. So the current challenge is to design of new digital architectures, in addition to its ability to take over of many functions. In this paper we have identified similarities between the despreader units in Rake receiver and the processor element in FFT-SDF (Fast Fourier Transform-Single path Delay Feedback) to propose a generic architecture shared between the two algorithms widely used. This Smart architecture is interconnected with similar modules by a 3D Network-on-Chip for implementation of Rake receiver (used in WCDMA system) and FFT receiver (in OFDM system). We present in this paper a 3D-NoC with half layer-layer connection, this architecture uses a modified XYZ routing algorithm. The proposed architectures are coded using VHDL onto a Virtex 5 Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device and results are compared with similar works. The implementation demonstrates that the proposed architectures can deliver a high reduction of the FPGA logic requirements with high maximum frequency.

International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), Ecole Natl Ingenieurs Metz, Metz, FRANCE, NOV 03-05, 2014; International audience; We present an optimization of reliable Network on Chip (NoC) structure dedicated to dynamic reconfigurable systems (DRS) based on FPGA. The originality of our approach is based on a strategic placement of router incorporating elements of dependability. The solution is a factorization of these reliable routers encompassing routers without any error detection block. This ensures the global reliability of the network and reduce the cost of area, the latency of the data packets and the power consumption. The proposed approach can be applied to the majority NoC topologies.

International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), Ecole Natl Ingenieurs Metz, Metz, FRANCE, NOV 03-05, 2014; International audience; We present and investigate, in the first part of this paper, a set of published works that may be employed to remotely quantify mental stress based on physiological signals by non-contact means. Several techniques can be used to this purpose, thermal imaging being currently the most advanced in our knowledge. Webcams correspond to a ubiquitous and to the most accessible techniques in the particular purpose of mental stress detection. After all these theoretical reminders, we present a pilot study based on a new framework that was developed to detect mental workload changes using video frames obtained from a low-cost webcam. To induce stress, we have employed a computerized Stroop color word test on twelve subjects. The results offer further support for the applicability of mental workload detection by remote and low-cost means, providing an alternative to conventional contact techniques.