PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
J. Sturtz, X. Fu, C. D. Hingu and L. Qingge, "A Novel Weight Dropout Approach to Accelerate the Neural Network Controller Embedded Implementation on FPGA for a Solar Inverter," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Nashville, TN, USA, 2023, pp. 157-163, doi: 10.1109/SMARTCOMP58114.2023.00037.
C. Hingu, X. Fu, S. Smith, T. Saliyu and L. Qingge, "FPGA Acceleration of a Real-time Neural Network Controller for Solar Inverter," 2022 IEEE 13th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), New York, NY, NY, USA, 2022, pp. 0413-0420, doi: 10.1109/UEMCON54665.2022.9965651.
T. Saliyu, X. Fu and C. Hingu, "VHDL Schematic Design and FPGA Simulation of Neural Network Activation Function using Continued Fractions," 2022 IEEE 13th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), New York, NY, NY, USA, 2022, pp. 0469-0474, doi: 10.1109/UEMCON54665.2022.9965710.
C. Hingu, X. Fu, R. Challoo, J. Lu, X. Yang and L. Qingge, "Accelerating FPGA Implementation of Neural Network Controllers via 32-bit Fixed-Point Design for Real-Time Control," 2023 IEEE 14th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), New York, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 0445-0450, doi: 10.1109/UEMCON59035.2023.10316098. keywords: {Memory management;Logic gates;Mobile communication;Real-time systems;Hardware;Cyclones;Table lookup;neural network controller;32-bit fixed-point number;FPGA;real-time controller;CORDIC;LUT},
R.Mishan, M.Egan, X.Fu, C.Hingu, P. Fajri, M. Ben-Idris, "Assessing power profile characteristics in solar PV-storage integrated electricity markets: A quantitative study," e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, Volume 9 2024, 100684, ISSN 2772-6711, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prime.2024.100684.
C. Hingu, X. Fu, P. Vangala, R. Mishan, and P. Fajri, "32-bit Fixed and Floating-Point Hardware Implementation for Enhanced Inverter Control: Leveraging FPGA in Recurrent Neural Network Applications," in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3441512.
J. Sturtz, K. K. D. Surendranath, M. Sam, X. Fu, C. D. Hingu, R. Challoo, and L. Qingge, "Accelerating the neural network controller embedded implementation on FPGA with novel dropout techniques for a solar inverter," Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 104, p. 101975, 2024. doi: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2024.101975
Hingu, C., Fu, X., Saliyu, T., Hu, R., & Mishan, R. (2024). Power-optimized field-programmable Gate Array Implementation of Neural Activation Functions Using Continued Fractions for AI/ML Workloads. Electronics, 13(24), 5026. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13245026.
C. Hingu, X. Fu, R. Mishan and T. Kim, "PWM-Based Hardware Authentication for Smart Inverters: Detecting Counterfeit Inverter through Transient Response Analysis," 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2024, pp. 1648-1652, doi: 10.1109/ECCE55643.2024.10861192. keywords: {Transient response;Statistical analysis;Printed circuits;Authentication;Pulse width modulation;Inverters;Hardware;Power systems;Security;Transient analysis;Cyber-security;PWM-based authentication;solar inverter;transient analysis;duty cycle generation},
R. Mishan, X. Fu, C. Hingu, and P. Fajri, "Analyzing frequency spectrum and Total Harmonic Distortion for high switching frequency operation of GaN-based filter-less multilevel cascaded H-bridge inverter," e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, vol. 11, p. 100906, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.prime.2025.100906.
Under Review
C. Hingu, X. Fu, “High Accuracy FPGA Implementation of Non – Linear Function using Chebyshev Approximation for ViT Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing.
C.Hingu, X.Fu, “Power Efficient Tanh for Inverter based RNN Structure using Complex Polynomialbased Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing.
P. Vangala, X.Fu, C.Hingu, “32-bit SPI DSP - FPGA Communication for RNN Architecture”, MDPI Electronics