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Associate Professor at IST/TU Lisbon (DEEC)

Coordinator of the BSc&MSc studies in ECE, IST
Chair of the Board of Directors of INESC-ID      

Publications

Prizes and Awards

2009
Leonel Sousa, Best INESC-ID Researcher, 2009
Leonel Sousa, Distinguished by the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) with an honorable mention for the number and the impact of the publications in international scientific journals in the period 2004-2008 (award UTL/Santander Totta), 2009
Leonel Sousa, Elevated to ACM Senior member, 2009
Leonel Sousa, HiPEAC Paper Award for ''Compact and Flexible Microcoded Elliptic Curve Processor for Reconfigurable Devices'', by Samuel Antão, Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa, presented at the IEEE Symposium on FCCM, March 2009., 2009
Leonel Sousa, Samuel Antão, Prémio Prof. Luís Vidigal 2008-09 com a dissertação Efficient Units for Data Processing and Cryptography, 2009
2007
Leonel Sousa, Distinguished by the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) with an honorable mention for the number and the impact of the publications in international scientific journals in the period 2002-2006 (award UTL/Santander Totta), 2007
2005
Leonel Sousa, TELECOM System Technology Award for Student, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, Japan. Co-author of the paper "On the performance of Maestro2 high performance network equipment, using new improvement techniques", In 23rd IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'04) (http://www.taf.or.jp/award/prize/21_telesys2.html) , 2005
2004
Leonel Sousa, Elevated to IEEE Senior Member, 2004

Edited Books

2010
H.-X. Lin, M. Alexander, M. Forsell, A. Knüpfer, R. Prodan, Leonel Sousa and A. Streit. Euro-Par 2009, Parallel Processing - Workshops, Springer, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), n. 6043, June 2010.

Edited Proceedings

2009
Leonel Sousa and Yves Robert. Eighth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer Society, July 2009.

Special Issues of Journals (Edited)

2007
Leonel Sousa, Noel O'Connor, Marco Mattavelli and Antonio Nunez. Embedded Systems for Portable and Mobile Video Platforms, EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Hindawi, June 2007.

Books

2009
João C. Martins and Leonel Sousa. Bioelectronic Vision: Retina Models, Evaluation Metrics and System Design, BE&BME Vol.3, World Scientific, January 2009.

Book Chapters

2010
Gabriel Falcão, Vitor Silva and Leonel Sousa. GPU Computing Gems, chapter Parallel LDPC Decoding, NVIDIA, June 2010.
Pedro Tomás, Aleksandar Ilic and Leonel Sousa. Biomedical Diagnostics and Clinical Technologies: Applying High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing, chapter Massive Data Classification of Neural Responses, IGI Global, February 2010.
2009
Gabriel Falcão, Vitor Silva, José Marinho and Leonel Sousa. WIMAX, New Developments, chapter LDPC Decoders for the WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) based on Multicore Architectures, IN-TECH, May 2009.
2008
Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. Concurrent and Parallel Computing: Theory, Implementation and Applications, chapter 1: CARAVELA: A High Performance Stream-based Concurrent Computing Platform, Nova Science Publishers, May 2008.
Moises Simões Piedade, José António Beltran Gerald, Leonel Sousa and Gonçalo Nuno Gomes Tavares. VLSI Circuits for Biomedical Applications, chapter 2: Visual Cortical Neuroprosthesis: A System Approach, Artech House, April 2008.
2007
Paulo Freitas, Hugo Ferreira, Filipe Cardoso, Susana Cardoso, Ricardo Ferreira, José Almeida, André Guedes, Virginia Chu, João Conde, Verónica Martins, Luís Fonseca, Joaquim Cabral, José Germano, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Luka Clarke and Margarida Amaral. A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon, chapter Nanotechnology and the Detection of Biomolecular Recognition using Magnetoresistive Transducers, Springer, January 2007.
2005
Leonel Sousa, Pedro Tomás, Francisco Pelayo, Antonio Martinez, Christian A. Morillas and Samuel Romero. New Algorithms, Architectures and Applications for Reconfigurable Computing, chapter 22: "Bioinspired stimulus encoder for cortical visual neuroprostheses", Springer-Verlag, January 2005.
Nuno Roma, Tiago Dias and Leonel Sousa. New Algorithms, Architectures, and Applications for Reconfigurable Computing, chapter 5: "Customizable and Reduced Hardware Motion Estimation Processors", Springer-Verlag, January 2005.
2002
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. SOC Design Methodologies, chapter "A New Efficient VLSI Architecture for Full Search Block Matching Motion Estimation", Kluwer Academic Pulishers, July 2002.

International Journals

Accepted
Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. A quantitative analysis of firing rate estimators: unveiling bias sources, Neurocomputing, Elsevier 2010.
Gabriel Falcão, Leonel Sousa and Vitor Silva. Massively LDPC Decoding on Multicore Architectures, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 2010.
2010
Verónica C. Martins, José Germano, Filipe A. Cardoso, Joana Loureiro, Susana Cardoso, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, Luís P. Fonseca and P. P. Freitas. Challenges and trends in the development of a magnetoresistive biochip portable platform, J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 322, n. 9, pp. 1655–1663, May 2010.
Svetislav Momcilovic and Leonel Sousa. Modeling and Evaluating Non-Shared Memory CELL/BE type Multi-Core Architectures for Local Image and Video Processing, The Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer, February 2010.
Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, José Germano, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, F. Cardoso, H. A. Ferreira and P. P. Freitas. Measuring and Extraction of Biological Information on new Handheld Biochip-based Microsystem, Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on , IEEE, vol. 59, n. 1, pp. 56-62, January 2010.
Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, José Germano, Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, Filipe Cardoso and Paulo Freitas. On the Modelling of New Tunnel Junction Magnetoresisitive Biosensors, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 59, n. 1, pp. 92-100, January 2010.
2009
Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. A Feature Selection Algorithm for the Regularization of Neuron Models, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, IEEE, vol. 58, n. 11, pp. 3824-3830, November 2009.
Gabriel Falcão, Shinichi Yamagiwa, Vitor Silva and Leonel Sousa. Parallel LDPC Decoding on GPUs using a Stream-based Computing Approach, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Springer, vol. 24, n. 5, September 2009.
Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. Modeling and Programming Stream-based Distributed Computing based on the Meta-Pipeline Approach, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, Taylor & Francis, vol. 24, n. 4, pp. 311-330, August 2009.
João C. Martins, Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. Neural Code Metrics: Analysis and Application to the Assessment of Neural Models, Neurocomputing, Elsevier, vol. 72, pp. 2337-2350, June 2009.
José Germano, Verónica Martins, Filipe Cardoso, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Leonel Sousa, Paulo Freitas and Moises Simões Piedade. A Portable and Autonomous Magnetic Detection Platform for Biosensing, Sensors , Molecular Diversity Preservation International, pp. 1-19, May 2009.
Verónica Martins, Filipa Cardoso, José Germano, Susana Cardoso, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, Paulo Freitas and Luís Fonseca. Femtomolar Limit of Detection with a Magnetoresistive Biochip, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Elsevier, January 2009.
2008
Gabriel Falcão, Vitor Silva, Leonel Sousa and José Marinho. High coded data rate and multicodeword WiMAX LDPC decoding on the Cell/BE, Electronics Letters, IET, vol. 44, n. 24, November 2008.
Ricardo Chaves, Georgi Kuzmanov, Leonel Sousa and Stamatis Vassiliadis. Cost-Efficient SHA Hardware Accelerators, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), IEEE, vol. 16, n. 8, pp. 999-1008, August 2008.
Svetislav Momcilovic and Leonel Sousa. Parallel Advanced Video Coding: Motion Estimation on Multi-cores, Journal of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, vol. 9, n. 3, August 2008.
Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. Statistical Analysis of a Spike Train Distance in Poisson Models, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, vol. 15, n. 2009, pp. 357-360, April 2008.
Filipe Cardoso, José Germano, Ricardo Ferreira, Susana Cardoso, Verónica Martins, Paulo Freitas, Moises Simões Piedade and Leonel Sousa. Detection of 130 nm magnetic particles by a portable electronic platform using spin valve and magnetic tunnel junction sensors, Journal of Applied Physics, American Institute of Physics, vol. 103, pp. 07A310-1-3, March 2008.
2007
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma, Leonel Sousa and Miguel Ribeiro. Reconfigurable architectures and processors for real-time video motion estimation, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing - Special issue on Field-Programmable Technology, Springer Berlin, vol. 2, n. 4, pp. 191-205, December 2007.
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Efficient hybrid DCT-domain algorithm for any arbitrary integer re-size video downscaling, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Special issue on Video Adaptation for Heterogeneous Environments, Hindawi, n. 57291, pp. 1-16, September 2007.
Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. Improving RNS multiplication with more balanced moduli sets and enhanced modular arithmetic structures, Journal Computers & Digital Techniques, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), vol. 1, n. 5, pp. 472-480, September 2007.
Tiago Dias, Svetislav Momcilovic, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Adaptive Motion Estimation Processor for Autonomous Video Devices, EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - Special Issue on Embedded Systems for Portable and Mobile Video Platforms, Hindawi, n. 57234, pp. 1-10, May 2007.
Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. Caravela: A Novel Environment for stream-based distributed computing, IEEE Computer Magazine, IEEE, vol. 40, pp. 76-83, May 2007.
F. Cardoso, R. Ferreira, S. Cardoso, J. Conde, V. Chu, P. Freitas, José Germano, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Leonel Sousa and Moises Simões Piedade. Noise Characteristics and Particle Detection Limits in Diode+MTJ Matrix Elements for Biochip Applications, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, vol. 43, n. 6, pp. 2403-2405, May 2007.
2006
Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, José Germano, Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Paulo P. Freitas, H. A. Ferreira and F. Cardoso. A New Hand-held Microsystem Architecture for Biological Analysis, IEEE Transactions on CIrcuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE, vol. 53, n. 11, pp. 2384-2395, November 2006.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Leonel Sousa, Kevin Martins Ferreira, Keiichi Aoki, Masaaki Ono and Koichi Wada. Maestro2: Experimental evaluation of communication performance improvement techniques in the link layer, Journal of Interconnection Networks, World Scientific Publishing Company, vol. 7, n. 2, pp. 295-318, June 2006.
F. A. Cardoso, H. A. Ferreira, J. P. Conde, P. P. Freitas, D. Vidal, José Germano, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa and J. M. Lemos. Diode/magnetic tunnel junction cell for fully scalable matrix-based biochip, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 99, pp. 08B307, April 2006.
Oliver Sinnen, Leonel Sousa and Frode Eika Sandnes. Towards a Realistic Task Scheduling Model, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, n. 3, pp. 263-275, March 2006.
2005
Moises Simões Piedade, José António Beltran Gerald, Leonel Sousa, Gonçalo Nuno Gomes Tavares and Pedro Tomás. Visual Neuroprosthesis: A Non-Invasive System for Stimulating the Cortex, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular papers, IEEE, vol. 6, n. 12, pp. 2648-2662, December 2005.
Leonel Sousa and Ricardo Chaves. A Universal Architecture for Designing Efficient Modulo 2^n+1 Multipliers, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, IEEE, vol. 52, n. 6, pp. 1166- 1178, June 2005.
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Communication Contention in Task Scheduling, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE, vol. 16, n. 6, pp. 503-515, June 2005.
2004
Leonel Sousa and Oliver Sinnen. On Task Schedulin Accuracy: Evaluation Methodology and Results, The Journal of Supercomputing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, n. 27, pp. 177-194, February 2004.
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Extension for Contention Awareness and Evaluation of Node Priorities for Heterogeneous Cluster Architectures, Parallel Computing, Elsevier, vol. 30, n. 1, pp. 81-101, January 2004.
2003
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling Accuracy: Implications for the Scheduling Model, Transactions on Information and Systems, IEICE, vol. 86, n. 9, pp. 96-103, September 2003.
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Fast Transcoding Architectures for Insertion of Non-Regular Shaped Objects in the compressed DCT Domain, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Elsevier, vol. 18, n. 8, pp. 659-683, September 2003.
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Automatic Synthesis of Motion Estimation Processors Based on a New Class of Hardware Architectures, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing-Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Kluwer, vol. 34, n. 3, pp. 277--290, July 2003.
Leonel Sousa. Algorithm for modulo (2^n+1) multiplication, Electronics Letters, IEE, vol. 39, n. 9, pp. 752-754, May 2003.
2002
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Efficient and Configurable Full Search Block Matching Processors, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE, vol. 12, n. 12, pp. 1160-1167, December 2002.
2000
Leonel Sousa. A General Method for Eliminating Redundant Computations in Video Coding, Electronics Letters, pp. 306-307, February 2000.

International Conferences

2010
Gabriel Falcão, Leonel Sousa and Vitor Silva. Embedded Multicore Architectures for LDPC Decoding, In International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (IC-SAMOS), IEEE, pp. 349-356, Samos, Grécia, July 2010.
Samuel Freitas Antão and Leonel Sousa. Exploiting SIMD Extensions for Linear Image Processing with OpenCL, In The 28th International Conference on Computer Design, IEEE, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2010.
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Hardware/Software co-design of H.264/AVC encoders for multi-core embedded systems, In Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP2010), Edinburgh - Scotland, July 2010.
Hector Pettenchi, Ricardo Chaves, Leonel Sousa and María Jose Avedillo. An improved RNS generator 2^n+-k based on threshold logic, In Proccedings of 18th IEEE/IFIP Intenational Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip (VLSI-soc) , June 2010.
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. H.264/AVC framework for multi-core embedded video encoders, In International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SOC2010), Tampere - Finland, June 2010.
António Manuel da Costa Rodrigues, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. p264: Open Platform for Designing Parallel H.264/AVC Video Encoders on Multi-Core Systems, In International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2010), ACM, pp. 81-86, Amsterdam - The Netherlands, June 2010.
Bruno Miguel de Oliveira Francisco, Frederico Pratas and Leonel Sousa. Unifying Stream Based and Reconfigurable Computing to Design Application Accelerators, In 18th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip (VLSI-SoC), Madrid, Spain, June 2010.
Pedro Miguel Florindo Miguens Matutino, Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. Arithmetic units for RNS moduli {2^{n}-3} and {2^{n}+3}, In 13th Euromicro Conference On Digital System Design (DSD), April 2010.
Samuel Freitas Antão, Jean Claude Bajard and Leonel Sousa. Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication on GPUs, In 21st IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), April 2010.
Rui Miguel Marmé Ramalho, Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. Efficient Independent Component Analysis on a GPU, In International Workshop on Frontier of GPU Computing (FGC 2010), March 2010.
Frederico Pratas, Ricardo Mata and Leonel Sousa. Iterative induced dipoles computation for Molecular Mechanics on GPUs, In 3rd Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units (co-located with ASPLOS), ACM, February 2010.
Kazeem Gbolagade, Ricardo Chaves, Leonel Sousa and Sorin Cotofana. An Improved Reverse Converter for the {2^{2n+1}-1, 2^{n}, 2^{n}-1} Moduli Set, In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2010), January 2010.
Aleksandar Ilic and Leonel Sousa. Collaborative Execution Environment for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems, In 12th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM/IPDPS 2010), January 2010.
Svetislav Momcilovic and Leonel Sousa. Programming Cell/BE and GPU based systems for real-time video encoding, In Real-Time Image and Video Processing Conference, SPIE, January 2010.
2009
Samuel Freitas Antão, Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. AES and ECC Cryptography Processor with Runtime Configuration, In Seventeenth International Conference on Advanced Computing and Comunications, IEEE, Bangalore, India, December 2009.
Kazeem Glolagade, Ricardo Chaves, Sorin Cotofana and Leonel Sousa. Residue-to-Binary Converter for the Moduli Set {2^{2n+1},2^{2n},2^{n}-1}, In 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology , IEEE, September 2009.
Svetislav Momcilovic and Leonel Sousa. Development and Evaluation of Scalable Video Motion Estimators on GPU, In Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), IEEE, July 2009.
Gesner Passos, Nuno Roma, Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, Leonel Sousa and J. M. Lemos. Distributed Software Platform for Automation and Control of General Anaesthesia, In 8th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2009), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 135-142, Lisboa - Portugal, July 2009.
Frederico Pratas, Pedro Trancoso, Alexandros Stamatakis and Leonel Sousa. Fine-grain Parallelism using Multi-core, Cell/BE, and GPU Systems: Accelerating the Phylogenetic Likelihood Function, In International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2009), IEEE Computer Society, May 2009.
Frederico Pratas and Leonel Sousa. Applying the Stream-Based Computing Model to Design Hardware Accelerators: A Case Study, In International Workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, Springer, April 2009.
Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. CaravelaMPI: Message Passing Interface for Parallel GPU-based Applications, In 8th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 09), March 2009.
Samuel Freitas Antão, Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. Compact and Flexible Microcoded Elliptic Curve Processor for Reconfigurable Devices, In The 17th IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), IEEE Computer Society, March 2009.
Gabriel Falcão, Vitor Silva and Leonel Sousa. How GPUs can outperform ASICs for fast LDPC decoding, In 23rd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 09), ACM, New York, USA, March 2009.
Leonel Sousa, Svetislav Momcilovic, Vitor Silva and Gabriel Falcão. MULTI-CORE PLATFORMS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING: SOURCE AND CHANNEL CODING, In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Mexico, March 2009.
José Germano, Rui Miguel Marmé Ramalho and Leonel Sousa. On the Design of Distributed Autonomous Embedded Systems for Biomedical Applications, In 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health’09), IEEE, London, February 2009.
Theja Tulabandhula, Samuel Freitas Antão and Leonel Sousa. A Class of Software-Hardware Processors for Fingerprint Matching on the Fourier Domain, In 3rd HiPEAC Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing, Paphos, Cyprus, January 2009.
Gabriel Falcão, Leonel Sousa, Vítor Silva and José Marinho. Parallel LDPC Decoding on the Cell/B.E. Processor, In The 4th International Conference on High Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC 2009), Springer, pp. 389-403, January 2009.
2008
Nuno Sebastião, Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma, Paulo Flores and Leonel Sousa. Application specific programmable IP core for motion estimation: technology comparison targeting efficient embedded co-processing units, In 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools - DSD2008, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 181-188, Parma - Italy, September 2008.
Samuel Freitas Antão, Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. FPGA Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Processor over GF(2^m) , In International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT 08), IEEE , September 2008.
Nuno Sebastião, Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma, Paulo Flores and Leonel Sousa. Specialized Motion Estimation Processor for Heterogeneous Multicore Video Coding Systems, In 4th International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems - ACACES2008, HiPEAC, pp. 63-66, LAquila - Italy, July 2008.
V. C. Martins, F. A. Cardoso, J. Loureiro, M. Mercier, José Germano, S. Cardoso, R. Ferreira, L. P. Fonseca, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade and P. P. Freitas. Integrated Spintronic Platforms for Biomolecular Recognition Detection, In AIP Conference on Biomagnetism and Magnetic Biosystems based on Molecular Recognition Processes, API, vol. 1025, pp. 150-175, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, June 2008.
Aleksandar Ilic and Leonel Sousa. A distributed platform for large scale simulation and classification, In Fourth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems - ACACES2008, HiPEAC (poster), May 2008.
Pedro Miguel Florindo Miguens Matutino and Leonel Sousa. An RNS based specific processor for Computing the Minimum, In 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools - DSD2008, IEEE Computer Society Press, May 2008.
Aleksandar Ilic, Frederico Pratas and Leonel Sousa. Distributed Web-based Platform for Computer Architecture Simulation, In 7th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2008), IEEE, May 2008.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Leonel Sousa and Koichi Wada. Heuristic Optimization Methods for Improving Performance of Recursive General Purpose Applications on GPUs, In the 7th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2008), IEEE CS, Krakow, Poland, May 2008.
Frederico Pratas, B. Mladen, G. Gaydadjiev, Leonel Sousa and S. Kaxiras. Low Power Microarchitecture with Instruction Reuse, In ACM Computing Frontiers 2008, Italy, May 2008.
Ricardo Chaves, Georgi Kuzmanov and Leonel Sousa. On-The-Fly Attestation of Reconfigurable Hardware, In International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 08), IEEE, May 2008.
Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. Design and implementation of a tool for modeling and programming deadlock free meta-pipeline applications, In 10th Workshop on Advances on Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (APDCM/IPDPS)., IEEE, April 2008.
Ricardo Chaves, Georgi Kuzmanov, Leonel Sousa and Stamatis Vassiliadis. Merged Computation for Whirlpool Hashing, In Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 08), pp. 1-4, Munich, Germany, March 2008.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Diogo Ricardo Cardoso Antão and Leonel Sousa. Design and Implementation of a Graphical User Interface for Stream-based Distributed Computing, In the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2008), February 2008.
Gabriel Falcão, Vitor Silva, Marco Gomes and Leonel Sousa. Edge Stream Oriented LDPC Decoding, In 16th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP), IEEE, pp. 237-244, February 2008.
Gabriel Falcão, Leonel Sousa and Vitor Silva. Massive Parallel LDPC Decoding on GPU, In 13th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2008), ACM, pp. 83-90, Utah, USA, February 2008.
Svetislav Momcilovic and Leonel Sousa. A Parallel Algorithm for Advanced Video Motion Estimation on Multicore Architectures, In International Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems (MuCoCoS), IEEE, January 2008.
Ricardo Chaves, Blagomir Donchev, Georgi Kuzmanov, Leonel Sousa and Stamatis Vassiliadis. BRAM-LUT tradeoff on a Polymorphic DES Design, In International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures & Compilers (HiPEAC 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4917, pp. 55-65, January 2008.
Pedro Tomás, João C. Martins and Leonel Sousa. Towards a Unified Model for the Retina: Static vs Dynamic Integrate and Fire Models, In 2008 International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2008), INSTICC PRESS, vol. 2, pp. 528-533, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 2008.
2007
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Fully Compressed Domain Transcoder for PIP/PAP video composition, In 26th Picture Coding Symposium - PCS2007, pp. CD-ROM, Lisbon - Portugal, November 2007.
Tiago Teodósio and Leonel Sousa. QCA-LG: A tool for the automatic layout generation of QCA combinational Circuits, In 25th IEEE Norchip Conference, IEEE, Denmark, November 2007.
Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. Feature Selection for the Stochastic Integrate and Fire model, In 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP 2007), IEEE, pp. 581-586, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 2007.
Sérgio Martins, Leonel Sousa and João C. Martins. Additive Logistic Regression Applied to Retina Modelling, In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2007.
Sérgio Capela, Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Model for the Retina, In 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007), EURASIP, pp. 2514-2518, Poznań, Poland, September 2007.
Gabriel Falcão, Shinichi Yamagiwa, Vitor Silva and Leonel Sousa. Stream-Based LDPC Decoding on GPUs, In First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units, September 2007.
Miguel Ribeiro and Leonel Sousa. A Run-Time Reconfigurable Processor for Video Motion Estimation, In 17th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), IEEE, pp. 726-729, The Netherlands, August 2007.
Svetislav Momcilovic and Leonel Sousa. A Multicore Motion Estimator for AVC, In Third International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems (ACACES 2007), poster, July 2007.
Svetislav Momcilovic, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Adaptive Motion Estimation Algorithm for H.264/AVC, In 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing - DSP'2007, IEEE, pp. CDROM, Cardiff - UK, July 2007.
Svetislav Momcilovic, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. An ASIP Approach For Adaptive Motion Estimation on AVC, In IEEE 3rd Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME'2007, IEEE, pp. 165-168, Bordeaux - France, July 2007.
Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. An Efficient Expectation-Maximisation Algorithm for Spike Classification, In 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2007), pp. 203-206, Cardiff, Wales, U.K., July 2007.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Leonel Sousa and Tomas Brandao. Meta-Pipeline: A new execution mechanism for distributed pipeline processing, In 6th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2007), IEEE CS, July 2007.
Leonel Sousa. Efficient Method for Magnitude Comparison in RNS based on Two Pairs of Conjugate Moduli, In IEEE International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH18), pp. 240-247, Montpellier, France, June 2007.
Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, José Germano, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, F. Cardoso, H. Ferreira and P. Freitas. A New Handheld Biochip-based Microsystem, In International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2007), IEEE, pp. 2379-2382, New Orleans, May 2007.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Leonel Sousa and Diogo Ricardo Cardoso Antão. Data Buffering optimization methods toward a uniform programming interface for GPU-based applications, In ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, pp. 205-212, Italy, May 2007.
Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. Design and implementation of a stream-based distributed computing platform using graphics processing units, In ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, pp. 197-204, Italy, May 2007.
Leonel Sousa and Shinichi Yamagiwa. Caravela: A Distributed Stream-based Computing Platform, In 3rd HiPEAC Industrial Workshop on Compilers and Architectures, (abstract), IBM Research Lab, Haifa, April 2007.
Leonel Sousa, Francisco Alegria and José Germano. Developing and integrating lab projects as important learning components in an embedded systems course, In The International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE 2007), IEEE, California, USA, April 2007.
Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, José Germano, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, Filipe Cardoso and Paulo Freitas. Generic Architecture Designed for Biomedical Embedde Systems, In International Embedded Systems Symposium, Springer, April 2007.
2006
Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Moises Simões Piedade, José Germano, Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, Leonel Sousa, Felipe Cardoso, Hugo Ferreira and Paulo Freitas. Measurements and Modelling of a Magnetoresistive Biosensor, In BIOCAS 2006- Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, IEEE, pp. 41-44, November 2006.
Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, José Germano, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Leonel Sousa, Moises Simões Piedade, F. Cardoso, H. Ferreira and P. Freitas. Techniques to the Determination of Biological Expression Signals on a New Handheld Biochip-based Microsystems, In BIOCAS 2006- Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, IEEE, pp. 57-60, November 2006.
Ricardo Chaves, Georgi Kuzmanov, Leonel Sousa and Stamatis Vassiliadis. Improving SHA-2 Hardware Implementations, In Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), Springer, pp. 298-310, Yokohama, Japan, October 2006.
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Low power distance measurement unit for real-time hardware motion estimators, In Int. workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation - PATMOS'2006, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, vol. 4148, pp. 247--255, Montpellier - France, September 2006.
Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Moises Simões Piedade, Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, Leonel Sousa, José Germano, Filipe Cardoso, Hugo Ferreira and Paulo Freitas. Magnetoresistive Biosensor Modelling For Biomolecular Recognition, In XVIII IMEKO World Congress, Brasil, September 2006.
José Germano, Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes, Filipe Cardoso, Hugo Ferreira and Paulo Freitas. Microsystem for Biological Analysis Based On Magnetoresistive Sensing, In XVIII IMEKO World Congress, Brasil, September 2006.
Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, José Germano, P. Freitas, H. Ferreira and F. Cardoso. Modeling and Evaluation of Temperature Cross-Talk in a Biochip for DNA Detection, In CONTROLO 2006 7th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Instituto Superior Técnico - Lisboa, September 2006.
Svetislav Momcilovic, Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Application Specific Instruction Set Processor for Adaptive Video Motion Estimation, In 9th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools - DSD'2006, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 160-167, Croatia, August 2006.
Ricardo Chaves, Georgi Kuzmanov, Leonel Sousa and Stamatis Vassiliadis. Rescheduling for Optimized SHA-1 Calculation, In SAMOS Workshop on Computer Systems Architectures Modelling and Simulation, Spinger, pp. 425-434, June 2006.
Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, José Germano, P. Freitas, H. Ferreira and F. Cardoso. Temperature modeiing of a biochip for DNA analysis, In MED06 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control Automation, Acona - Italy, June 2006.
Ricardo Chaves, Georgi Kuzmanov, Stamatis Vassiliadis and Leonel Sousa. Reconfigurable Memory Based AES Co-Processor, In International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, 13th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, IEEE Computer, pp. 192-, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.
Rodrigo Piedade and Leonel Sousa. Configurable Embedded Core for Controlling Electro-Mechanical Systems, In Applied Reconfigurable Computing Workshop, Springer Verlag, February 2006.
2005
Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, José Germano, J. M. Lemos, Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, Paulo Freitas, Hugo Ferreira, Filipe Cardoso and Daniel Vidal. Architecture of a Portable System Based on a Biochip for DNA Recognition, In XX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS'05), Lisbon, Portugal, November 2005.
José Germano, Ricardo Manuel Simões Baptista and Leonel Sousa. Configurable Platform for Real Time Video Processing and Vision Systems, In XX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS'05), Lisbon, Portugal, November 2005.
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Efficient Motion Vector Refinement Architecture for Sub-Pixel Motion Estimation Systems, In IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems - SiPS'2005, IEEE, pp. 313-318, Athens, Greece, November 2005.
Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. Faster Modulo 2^n + 1 Multipliers without Booth Recoding, In XX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS), Lisboa, Portugal, November 2005.
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Efficient VLSI Architecture for Real-Time Motion Estimation in Advanced Video Coding, In IEEE International SOC Conference - SOCC'2005, IEEE, pp. 91-92, Washington D.C. - E.U.A., September 2005.
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Least Squares Motion Estimation Algorithm in the Compressed DCT Domain for H.26x/MPEG-x Video Sequences, In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance - AVSS'05, IEEE, pp. 576-581, Como - Itália, September 2005.
João C. Martins and Leonel Sousa. Performance Comparison of Computational Retina Models, In The Fifth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP), pp. 156-161, Benidorm, Spain, September 2005.
Ricardo Miguel da Costa Guapo, Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. On the Implementation and Evaluation of Berkeley Sockets on Maestro2 cluster computing environment, In The 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE, Lille, France, July 2005.
Stamatis Vassiliadis, Leonel Sousa and Georgi Gaydadjiev. The Midlifekicker Microarchitecture Evaluation, In IEEE 16th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, IEEE, pp. 92-100, Samos, Greece, July 2005.
2004
Michel Leong, Pedro Vasconconcelos, Jorge Manuel dos Santos Ribeiro Fernandes and Leonel Sousa. A Programmable Cellular Neural Network Circuit, In SBCCI, September 2004.
Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. {2^n+1,2^(n+k),2^n-1}:A New RNS Moduli Set Extention, In IEEE Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 210-217, Rennes, France, September 2004.
Kevin Martins Ferreira, Shinichi Yamagiwa, Leonel Sousa, K. Aoki, K. Wada and L. Campos. Distributed Shared Memory System Based on the Maestro2 High Performance Cluster Network, In 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 91-96, Cork, Ireland, July 2004.
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Task Schedulling: Considering the Processor Involvement in Communication, In 3rd International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 328-335, Cork, Ireland, July 2004.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Kevin Martins Ferreira, Luís Miguel Campos, Keiichi Aoki, Masaaki Ono, Koichi Wada, Munehiro Fukuda and Leonel Sousa. High Speed Network Technology for High Performance Computing, In The IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE, Paris, June 2004.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Kevin Martins Ferreira, Luís Campos, K. Aoki, M. Ono, K. Wada, M. Fukuda and Leonel Sousa. On the performance of Maestro2 high performance network equipment, using new improvement techniques, In 23rd International Performance Computing and Communications, IEEE, pp. 103-110, Arizona, USA, April 2004.
2003
Leonel Sousa. Efficient Modulo 2^n+/-1 Arithmetic Units based on a Modified Representation and Postponed Correction, In Proceedings of the XVIII Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems - DCIS'03, November 2003.
Nuno Roma, Tiago Dias and Leonel Sousa. Fast Adder Architectures: Modeling and Experimental Evaluation, In XVIII Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems - DCIS'03, pp. 367-372, Ciudad Real - Spain, November 2003.
Leonel Sousa, Pedro Tomás, Francisco Pelayo, Antonio Martinez, Christian A. Morillas and Samuel Romero. A FPL Bioinspired Visual Encoding System to Stimulate Cortical Neurons in Real-Time, In 13th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2003), Springer-Verlag, pp. 691-700, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2003.
Nuno Roma, Tiago Dias and Leonel Sousa. Customisable Core-Based Architectures for Real-Time Motion Estimation on FPGAs, In 3th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'2003), pp. 745-754, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2003.
Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. RDSP: A RISC DSP based on Residue Number System, In IEEE Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods, pp. 128-135, September 2003.
Francisco Pelayo, Antonio Martínez, Christian Morillas, Samuel Romero, Leonel Sousa and Pedro Tomás. Retina-Like Processing and Coding Platform for Cortical Neuro-stimulation, In 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, vol. 2, pp. 1573-1574, Cancoon, Mexico, September 2003.
2002
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling Accuracy, In 3rd Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'02), September 2002.
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Insertion of Irregular-Shaped Logos in the Compressed DCT Domain, In 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP'2002), IEEE, vol. 1, pp. 125-128, Santorini - Greece, July 2002.
José António da Costa Salvado and Leonel Sousa. Video Coding by using the 3D Zero-tree approach in the Wavelet Transform Domain, In 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, July 2002.
2001
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. A New VLSI Architecture for Full Search Block Matching, In IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration - VLSI-SoC'2001, IFIP, pp. 213-218, Montpellier, France, December 2001.
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Comparison of Contention Aware List Scheduling Heuristics for Cluster Computing, In Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Cluster Computing, ICPP 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 382-387, Valencia, Spain, September 2001.
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Parameterizable Hardware Architectures for Automatic Synthesis of Motion Estimation Processors, In IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems - Design and Implementation - SIPS'2001, IEEE, pp. 428-439, Antwerpen, Belgium, September 2001.
Manuel Duarte Ortigueira, Leonel Sousa, José Jasnau Caeiro and João C. Martins. 2D Discrete-Time Fractional Linear Systems, In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Telecommunications, CONFTELE 2001, Aveiro, Portugal, April 2001.
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. A Platform Independent Parallelising Tool Based on Graph Theoretic Models, In Vector and Parallel Processing - VECPAR 2000, selected papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 1981, pp. 154-167 2001.
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Exploiting Unused Time Slots in List Scheduling Considering Communication Contention, In Euro-Par2001 Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, vol. 2150, pp. 166-170 2001.
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. Scheduling Task Graphs on Arbitrary Processor Architectures Considering Contention, In High Performance Computing and Networking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 2110, pp. 273-282 2001.
Leonel Sousa and Oliver Sinnen. Synchronous Non-Local Image Processing on Orthogonal Multiprocessor Systems, In Vector and Parallel Processing - VECPAR 2000, Springer Verlag, vol. 1981, pp. 453-466, selected papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2001.
2000
José Brito and Leonel Sousa. A Video CoDec Based on the TMS320C6X DSP, In third European DSP Education and Research Conference, Paris, França, September 2000.
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. In the Development and Evaluation of Specialized Processors for Computing High-Order 2-D Image Moments in Real-Time, In 5th International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception - CAMP'2000, pp. 170-179, Padova, Itália, September 2000.

National Conferences

2010
Frederico Pratas, Aleksandar Ilic, Leonel Sousa and Horácio C. Neto. Double-precision Floating-point Performance of Computational Devices: FPGAs, CPUs, and GPUs, In REC2010 - VI Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis, pp. 83-90, Aveiro, February 2010.
2008
J. M. Lemos, Nuno Roma, Teresa Mendonça, Leonel Sousa, Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, Catarina Nunes, Pedro Amorim and Luís Antunes. Developmentof an integrated control system for anaesthesia automation, In Controlo 2008, 8th Portuguese Conf. on Control Automation, UTAD, August 2008.
Tiago Dias, Nuno Sebastião, Nuno Roma, Paulo Flores and Leonel Sousa. Programmable IP core for motion estimation: comparison of FPGA and ASIC based implementations, In IV Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis - REC2008, pp. 109-116, Braga - Portugal, February 2008.
2007
Kees van der Bok, Ricardo Chaves, Georgi Kuzmanov, Leonel Sousa and Arjan van Genderen. Dynamic FPGA Reconfigurations with Run-Time Region Delimitation, In Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (ProRISC), pp. 201-207, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, November 2007.
2006
Ricardo Chaves, G.K. Kuzmanov, S. Vassiliadis and Leonel Sousa. Reconfigurable Cryptographic Processor, In Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (ProRisc), The Netherlands, November 2006.
2005
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Fully Parameterizable VLSI Architecture for Sub-Pixel Motion Estimation with Low Memory Bandwidth Requirements, In Terceiras Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores (JETC'05), DEETC-ISEL, pp. CDROM, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2005.
Ricardo Chaves, George Kuzmanov, Stamatis Vassiliadis and Leonel Sousa. Polymorphic AES Encryption Implementation, In Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (ProRisc), Netherlands, November 2005.
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Two-Level Scalable Motion Estimation Architecture with Fractional-Pixel Accuracy and Efficient Data Re-Usage, In Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis (REC'2005), Universidade do Algarve, pp. 61-68, Faro - Portugal, February 2005.
2002
M. Ribeiro, Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. MPEG-4 Natural Video Parallel Implementation on a Cluster, In 12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, APRP, June 2002.
José António da Costa Salvado and Leonel Sousa. Video Coding by applying the extension of EZW to 3D and the Lifting Scheme, In 12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, APRP, June 2002.
José António da Costa Salvado and Leonel Sousa. Codificador de Vídeo baseado na Transformada de Ôndulas 3D, In Conferência Científica e Tecnológica em Engenharia, ISEL, May 2002.
J. Gonçalves, L. Marques, José António da Costa Salvado and Leonel Sousa. Ferramentas para Síntese e Implementação de Filtros em DSPs, In Conferência Científica e Tecnológica em Engenharia, May 2002.

Technical Reports

2008
Samuel Freitas Antão, Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Processor over GF(2^m) with Coordinate Collapsing, September 2008.
2007
Pedro Tomás and Leonel Sousa. Statistical Analysis of a Spike Train Distance in Poisson models, November 2007.
2006
Shinichi Yamagiwa and Leonel Sousa. Caravela : A Novel Environment for Data-flow-based Distributed Processing, June 2006.
2005
Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Paulo Freitas, F. Cardoso and D. Vidal. Temperature simulation and control of a biochip for DNA analysis, July 2005.
José António Beltran Gerald, Leonel Sousa and Moises Simões Piedade. Wireless Communication Systems for Intracortical Prosthesis, INESC-ID 3 Month Extension Report of Project Cortivis, May 2005.
José António Beltran Gerald, Leonel Sousa and Moises Simões Piedade. Wireless Communication Systems for Intracortical Prosthesis, INESC-ID 3rd Year Report of Project Cortivis, March 2005.
Pierre-François Dutot, Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa. A note on the complexity of task scheduling with communication contention, January 2005.
2004
José Germano, Ricardo Manuel Simões Baptista and Leonel Sousa. A Visual Encoding Prototype for the Development of a Cortical Visual Prosthesis, December 2004.
Leonel Sousa, Nuno Roma and Tiago Dias. COSME: Configurable Structures for Motion Estimation: Final Report, September 2004.
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Kevin Martins Ferreira, Keiichi Aoki, Masaaki Ono, Koichi Wada and Leonel Sousa. Architecture and evaluation of Maestro2 high speed cluster network, August 2004.
2003
Leonel Sousa, Nuno Roma and Tiago Dias. COSME - Configurable Structures for Motion Estimation: First Preliminary Report, January 2003.
Leonel Sousa, Nuno Roma and Tiago Dias. Efficient Adder Architectures for High-Performance VLSI Design, January 2003.
Ricardo Chaves and Leonel Sousa. Improvement of a 2^n+1 Modulo Multiplier, January 2003.
2002
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Transcoding Architectures for Object Insertion in Compressed Video, October 2002.
2001
Nuno Roma and Leonel Sousa. Implementation Aspects of MESA processor, January 2001.

Advising of Theses

PhD Theses
2009
Pedro Tomás. Neural Code: Tunning and Assessment of Retina Models, PhD Thesis, IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, March 2009.
2008
Nuno Roma. Transform Domain Transcoding Systems for Static and Dynamic Video Composition, PhD Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), Lisboa - Portugal, May 2008.
2007
Ricardo Chaves. Secure Computing on Reconfigurable Systems, PhD Thesis, Delft University of Technology/Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2007.
2003
Oliver Sinnen. Accurate Task Scheduling for Parallel Systems, PhD Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, December 2003.
MSc Theses
2008
Rui Miguel Marmé Ramalho. Sistema Embebido para Aplicações Biométicas, MSc Thesis, September 2008.
Samuel Freitas Antão. Sistemas embebidos portáteis: unidades eficientes para processamento de dados e criptografia , MSc Thesis, September 2008.
2007
Sérgio Martins. Nonlinear Functionals for Retina Models, MSc Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, December 2007.
Sérgio Capela. Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Retina Model, MSc Thesis, IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, December 2007.
Miguel Nuno de Almeida Vasconcelos Ribeiro. A Reconfigurable Computing Platform and an Application to Video Coding, MSc Thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, October 2007.
Frederico Pratas. Low Power Microarchitecture with Instruction Reuse, MSc Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2007.
Tiago Tersa Teodósio. Computação Quântica: Arquitecturas e Simulação de Operação de Dispositivos, MSc Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, September 2007.
2006
João C. Martins. Computational Retina Models for Bioelectronic Vision, MSc Thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, December 2006.
Gustavo Rocha. Graph Generation from Software Descriptions, MSc Thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, December 2006.
Pedro Tomás. Algorithms and tools for automatic generation of DSP hardware structures, MSc Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, January 2006.
José Germano. Portable System for DNA Analysis Based on a Biochip, MSc Thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, IST 2006.
2005
Ricardo Miguel da Costa Guapo. Programming and Evaluation of the Berkeley Socket Interface on the Maestro2 Communication System, MSc Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, July 2005.
2004
Tiago Dias. High Performance VLSI Motion Estimation Processors: Data Reuse and Sub-pixel Accuracy, MSc Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL, Lisboa, October 2004.
2003
Ricardo Chaves. RDSP: Processador Digital de Sinal com Suporte para Aritmética por Resíduos, MSc Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, May 2003.
2002
Oliver Sinnen. Experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling Accuracy, MSc Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, May 2002.
José Salvado. Video Coding based on the 3D Wavelet Decomposition, MSc Thesis, IST, Lisboa 2002.
2001
Nuno Roma. Processadores Dedicados para Estimação de Movimento em Sequências de Vídeo, MSc Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), Lisboa - Portugal, May 2001.
Graduation Theses
2008
Hugo Miguel Palma Ruivo. Adaptive H.264/AVC Motion Estimation Processor for Mobile and Battery Supplied Devices, Graduation Thesis, March 2008.
2005
Rodrigo Piedade. Projector de imagens em movimento através do varrimento mecânico de um feixe laser, Graduation Thesis, October 2005.
José Jerónimo Moreira Rodrigues. Projecto Biochip, Graduation Thesis, October 2005.
Nuno Miguel Costa Rosa Barradas. Computação de Elevado Desempenho em Clusters e em Grid, Graduation Thesis, September 2005.
Sérgio Capela and Sérgio Martins. Módulo de Processamento para o Desenvolvimento de uma Retina Artificial, Graduation Thesis, July 2005.
2004
João Carlos Lucas Oliveira Castro. Embeded System for Video Surveillance over Internet, Graduation Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, October 2004.
José Germano and Ricardo Manuel Simões Baptista. Development of a Bio-Inspired Retina Model and Configurable Implementation, Graduation Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, September 2004.
2003
Pedro Tomás. Bio-Inspired processing module for the development of an artificial retina, Graduation Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, September 2003.
Pedro Vasconconcelos and Michel Leong. Cellular Neural Networks: Low Power Programmable Circuits, Graduation Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, September 2003.
Ricardo Miguel da Costa Guapo. Communication Board for Clustering: Software Debugging and Performance Evaluation, Graduation Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, September 2003.
2002
David Alexandre Jerónimo Lopo. Configurable Circuits for Real-Time Motion Estimation in Video Sequences, Graduation Thesis, IST, Lisboa 2002.
Tiago Dias. Configurable Co-processor for Signal Processing:Video Decoder, Graduation Thesis, IST, Lisboa 2002.

Prototypes

2003
Tiago Dias, Nuno Roma, Leonel Sousa and José T. de Sousa. CWdv01 - Configurable FSBM Motion Estimator Processor - Datasheet. Industrial prototype, February 2003.