This paper presents an introduction to oversampling techniques a nd the theory and advantages of sigma-delta (Sigma Delta) devices for digital-to-analogue conversion (DAC) and analogue-to-digital conversion (ADC) in d...
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This paper presents an introduction to oversampling techniques a nd the theory and advantages of sigma-delta (Sigma Delta) devices for digital-to-analogue conversion (DAC) and analogue-to-digital conversion (ADC) in digital signal processing (DSP) systems. It begins with a discussion of conventional Nyquist-sampling-rate DSP, which is followed by an overview of oversampling and decimation/interpolation techniques to reduce the anti-alias and reconstruction filter specifications. Oversampling strategies to increase the resolution of an N-bit ADC or DAC by reducing the baseband quantisation noise are then presented, and this is followed by a description of the use of Sigma Delta noise-shaping techniques and the design of Sigma Delta converters. The paper concludes with comments on a few of the application and research areas where Sigma Delta devices are having a major impact.
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Spezio, AEUSN
Res Lab Tactical Elect Warfare Div Elect Warfare Support Measures Branch Washington DC 20375 USA
Electronic warfare (EW) is an important capability that can advance desired military, diplomatic, and economic objectives or, conversely, impede undesired ones. In a military application, EW provides the means to coun...
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Electronic warfare (EW) is an important capability that can advance desired military, diplomatic, and economic objectives or, conversely, impede undesired ones. In a military application, EW provides the means to counter, in all battle phases, hostile actions that involve the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum-from the beginning when enemy forces are mobilized for an attack, through to the final engagement. EW exploits the EM environment by sensing and analyzing an adversary's application of the spectrum and imposing appropriate countermeasures (CMs) to hostile spectrum use. EW sensors are one means by which the military gathers tactical intelligence from noncooperative forces. EW sensors, together with EW CMs, mitigate the effectiveness of an adversary's electrooptic/infrared, and radio frequency-controlled weapons. EW enhances the survivability of the host force through control and manipulation of the EM environment and denies or limits its use by an adversary. EM spectrum CMs to threat systems can be selectively applied on a time- and/or frequency-multiplexed basis so that host force use of the EM spectrum is uninhibited.
In this study, the performance of a PEM fuel cell is investigated experimentally and numerically by changing the geometry of the channels. At first an experimental setup is used and three different fuel cells with rec...
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In this study, the performance of a PEM fuel cell is investigated experimentally and numerically by changing the geometry of the channels. At first an experimental setup is used and three different fuel cells with rectangular, elliptical and triangular serpentine channels are constructed. The active area of each cell is 25 cm(2) that its weight is 1,300 g. The material of the gas diffusion layer is carbon clothes, the membrane is nafion 117 and the catalyst layer is a plane with 0.004 g cm(-2) platinum. Then a complete three-dimensional model for fuel cell is used to investigate the effect of using this channels geometry on the performance. The proposed model is a full cell model, which includes all the parts of the PEM fuel cell, flow channels, gas diffusion electrodes, catalyst layers and the membrane. Coupled transport and electrochemical kinetics equations are solved in a single domain;therefore no interfacial boundary condition is required at the internal boundaries between cell components. The results show that the predicted polarization curves by using this model are in good agreement with the experimental results. Also the results show that when the geometry of channel is rectangular the performance of the cell is better than the triangular and elliptical channel.
Acid resistant proton exchange membranes (PEMs) are synthesized from aliphatic highly hydrophobic polyvinylidene-co-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-co-HFP) and aromatic hydrophilic sodium-p-styrene sulfonate at nanostructur...
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Acid resistant proton exchange membranes (PEMs) are synthesized from aliphatic highly hydrophobic polyvinylidene-co-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-co-HFP) and aromatic hydrophilic sodium-p-styrene sulfonate at nanostructure level modification. Synthesized copolymer PEMs are analyzed for their chemical structure to confirm the presence of functional groups. Electrochemical characterizations are carried out in terms ion-exchange capacity, ionic conductivity and water content. Maximum IEC value 1.91 meq/gm is observed for PDSt-40 copolymer PEM with 1.58x10(-2) S/cm proton conductivity and 29.1% of water content. Vanadium ion permeability is also checked for copolymer membranes in terms of applicability for vanadium redox flow batteries. PDSt-40 copolymer PEM shows lowest value of VO2+ ion permeability 2.87x10(-7) cm(2) min(-1), which is about 40% less compared to Nafion membrane. Further all synthesized PEMs are checked for charging-discharging performance for single cell VRFB. PDSt-40 PEM shows better performance in term of columbic and voltage efficiency. Copolymer membranes found to be stable thermally and mechanically and also in harass condition with 18M H2SO4 for 24 h. Results indicate that synthesized copolymer PEMs can be a good candidate for electrochemical energy systems as well as high temperature applications.
The quality of the aberration compensation provided by phase-conjugating mirrors (PCMs) is important for applications in lensless imaging or interferometry. In many cases an accuracy of a tenth of the wavelength for t...
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The quality of the aberration compensation provided by phase-conjugating mirrors (PCMs) is important for applications in lensless imaging or interferometry. In many cases an accuracy of a tenth of the wavelength for the phase reversal is sufficient. It will be shown that both the Fourier fringe evaluation method and a lensless image projection technique are useful to characterize the fidelity of phase conjugation with BaTiO3. A quantitative evaluation of the fidelity is given for four-wave mixing in Bi12TiO20 and self-pumped PCM with BaTiO3.
The paper deals with an investigation that was carried out to determine whether simple data-compression techniques could be applied successfully to an experimental 9.6 kbit/s adaptive p.c.m. digital speech system: The...
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The paper deals with an investigation that was carried out to determine whether simple data-compression techniques could be applied successfully to an experimental 9.6 kbit/s adaptive p.c.m. digital speech system: The main aim of the investigation was to ascertain whether compression factors of two or four could be achieved. In the paper, the results of the investigation are presented and it is shown that the adaptive p.c.m. system is converting speech into a 9.6 kbit/s digital form that appears to possess very little redundancy. The results of a statistical analysis of the data are given, and it is shown that a compression factor of two is unlikely to result in a speech quality that is commercially acceptable. The results of an experimental investigation that was carried out in support of the theoretical investigation are presented. The results of the experimental investigation show that although compression by a factor of two results in a speech quality that is commercially unacceptable, a 4/3 compression can be achieved without any serious degradation of the speech quality.
A scheme is described for a logarithmic pulse-amplitude to code converter with a dynamic range of 50 dB. The sensitivity of the converter is 250 uv and its conversion frequency is 1 MHz. The temperature instability of...
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A scheme is described for a logarithmic pulse-amplitude to code converter with a dynamic range of 50 dB. The sensitivity of the converter is 250 uv and its conversion frequency is 1 MHz. The temperature instability of the threshold is less than equivalent to 0. 1% over the temperature range plus 15 to plus 50 degree C. The differential nonlinearity of the converter is 3%. A method is given for measuring the differential nonlinearity of logarithmic converters.
Al-doped Ge55Te45 materials are proposed for phase change memory application. Al incorporated in Ge55Te45 increases the crystallization temperature, band gap and 10-year data retention significantly. However, the crys...
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Al-doped Ge55Te45 materials are proposed for phase change memory application. Al incorporated in Ge55Te45 increases the crystallization temperature, band gap and 10-year data retention significantly. However, the crystallization speed of the Al-doped Ge55Te45 material will be lowered by excessive Al doping. The crystallization of the Al-doped Ge55Te45 film is observed to be growth-dominant, beginning with a random formation of spherical crystalline clusters. The 10-year data retention and crystallization speed of Al1Ge55Te45 are 117 degrees C and 5 ns, respectively, which makes the Al1Ge55Te45 a promising candidate for high speed PCM application. The 10-year data retention of 132 degrees C and good cyclic ability of similar to 2 x 10(3) cycles of the Al2Ge55Te45 based PCM have shown its application potential in automotive fields. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
The problem of optimum energy allocation for a seven-digit PCM system and DPSK signaling is solved for two different cases: (1) For white noise, Rayleigh fading channel, and occurrence of only errors in a character an...
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The problem of optimum energy allocation for a seven-digit PCM system and DPSK signaling is solved for two different cases: (1) For white noise, Rayleigh fading channel, and occurrence of only errors in a character and (2) for white noise and nonfading Gaussian channel for the case of the occurrence of doublet errors in a character.
An analysis of the rate-distortion performance of differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) schemes operating on discrete-time auto-regressive processes is presented. The approach uses an iterative algorithm for the d...
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An analysis of the rate-distortion performance of differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) schemes operating on discrete-time auto-regressive processes is presented. The approach uses an iterative algorithm for the design of the predictive quantizer subject to an entropy constraint on the output sequence. At each stage the iterative algorithm optimizes the quantizer structure, given the probability distribution of the prediction error, while simultaneously updating the distribution of the resulting prediction error. Different orthogonal expansions specifically matched to the source are used to express the prediction error density. A complete description of the algorithm, including convergence and uniqueness properties, is given. Results are presented for rate-distortion performance of the optimum DPCM scheme for first-order Gauss-Markov and Laplace-Markov sources, including comparisons with the corresponding rate-distortion bounds. Furthermore, asymptotic formulas indicating the high-rate performance of these schemes are developed for both first-order Gaussian and Laplacian autoregressive sources.
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