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Embedded Systems and FPGA Design

Embedded Systems and FPGA Design is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1952. 9.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on embedded systems, data acquisition, and control applications, including FPGA-based solutions, Internet of Things (IoT), remote monitoring, web servers, and real-time applications. It covers topics such as sensor networks, high-speed data transmission, and the development of systems for industrial parameters monitoring.

  • Embedded Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • FPGA
  • Internet of Things
  • Remote Monitoring
  • Web Server
  • Real-Time Applications
  • Sensor Network
  • High-Speed Data Transmission
  • Control System
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Embedded Systems and FPGA Design research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (638 and 225 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 638 works
  2. 2 India 225 works
  3. 3 United States 76 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 47 works
  5. 5 ?? 30 works
  6. 6 South Korea 27 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 21 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 20 works
  9. 9 Japan 20 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 18 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 56.9%India: 20.1%United States: 6.8%Indonesia: 4.2%6 others listed: 12.0%57%largest
China638 · 56.9%India225 · 20.1%United States76 · 6.8%Indonesia47 · 4.2%6 others listed135 · 12.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Embedded Systems and FPGA Design research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Embedded Systems and FPGA Design research, followed by NARI Group (China) and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.

Who are the leading researchers in Embedded Systems and FPGA Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Embedded Systems and FPGA Design include Stephen M. Smith.

  1. 1 Stephen M. Smith United Kingdom 214k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Embedded Systems and FPGA Design?

The most cited paper in Embedded Systems and FPGA Design is "A mathematical model for lead-acid batteries" (Z.M. Salameh, M.A. Casacca, William A. Lynch, 1992), with 638 citations. Next come "Design and implementation of home automation system" (314) and "LED Driver With Self-Adaptive Drive Voltage" (306).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A mathematical model for lead-acid batteries Z.M. Salameh, M.A. Casacca, William A. Lynch · IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion Mar 1992 638
2 Design and implementation of home automation system Abdulmohsen Alheraish · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Nov 2004 314
3 LED Driver With Self-Adaptive Drive Voltage Yuequan Hu, Milan M. Jovanović · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Nov 2008 306
4 A Review of LED Drivers and Related Technologies Yijie Wang, Jose Marcos Alonso, Xinbo Ruan · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Open access 2 Mar 2017 286
5 Process migration in DEMOS/MP Michael Powell, Barton P. Miller · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Open access 10 Oct 1983 282
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Embedded Systems and FPGA Design research done?

The largest centres of Embedded Systems and FPGA Design research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coimbatore, Xi'an and Tianjin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 134 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 51 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 44 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 37 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 33 works
  6. 6 ChennaiIndia 24 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 24 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 24 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 23 works
  10. 10 CoimbatoreIndia 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CoimbatoreIN · 20.7 works9.0×
  2. Xi'anCN · 50.5 works4.9×
  3. TianjinCN · 23.6 works3.9×
  4. ChennaiIN · 24.2 works3.7×
  5. WuhanCN · 33.0 works3.2×
  6. BeijingCN · 133.9 works3.0×
  7. NanjingCN · 37.5 works2.9×
  8. ChengduCN · 23.8 works2.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Embedded Systems and FPGA Design than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Embedded Systems and FPGA Design?

Among universities, judged by research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications and Wuhan University of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 98.322.6%18.3×11 +162.9%
2Xi’an University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 50.03.7%47.0×11 +611.9%
3Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 23.29.7%9.9×9 -4.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Embedded Systems and FPGA Design, country by country

Is Embedded Systems and FPGA Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010. The fastest-growing topics are Embedded Systems and FPGA Design.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Embedded Systems and FPGA Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0085% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Embedded Systems and FPGA Design0.0064% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Embedded Systems and FPGA Design over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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