High-frequency ultrasonic transducer arrays are essential for efficient imaging in clinical analysis and nondestructive evaluation (NDE). However, the fabrication of piezoelectric transducers is really a great challen...
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This paper introduces a novel RRAM programming technology to improve the security arid shorten the startup time of FPGAs. A 9T2R nonvolatile SRAM (nvSRAM) cell is comprised of two 1T1R RRAM cells and a standard 6T...
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This paper introduces a novel RRAM programming technology to improve the security arid shorten the startup time of FPGAs. A 9T2R nonvolatile SRAM (nvSRAM) cell is comprised of two 1T1R RRAM cells and a standard 6T SRAM cell on a single die by integrating the RRAM technology into the standard logic process. The 9T2R cell stores the configuration bit in the two 1T1R cells in complementary style and can quicky read it into the SRAM cell in less than 300 ps at power-on. Besides, the proposed RRAM programming technology excels SRAM in dynamic reconfiguration for less interrupt time or small area overhead. A testchip of a 2-input LUT with the proposed RRAM programming technology has been demonstated in 0.13μm logic technology.
Spectrum sensing is a key technology of cognitive radio. The goal of spectrum sensing in this context is to achieve a high detection probability in order to avoid causing interference to the primary licensed users...
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Spectrum sensing is a key technology of cognitive radio. The goal of spectrum sensing in this context is to achieve a high detection probability in order to avoid causing interference to the primary licensed users: Among the methods available for spectrum sensing, energy detection has been widely applied in hardware implementations. However, since previous work has been based on the traditional FFT, the side leakage problem makes it difficult to detect a primary user adjacent to a strong signal. In this paper, we propose an all-phase FFT based wideband spectrum sensing processor. Simulation results show that it can increase the probability of detection of a primary user that is adjacent in frequency to a strong signal. It can also improve the receiver operating characteristic curve. Hardware implementation requirements are also given.
This paper presents a Whole Annealing Genetic Algorithm (WAGA) to obtain a good circuit implementation among mixed polarity Reed-Muller expressions. By combining global searching ability of genetic algorithm and l...
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This paper presents a Whole Annealing Genetic Algorithm (WAGA) to obtain a good circuit implementation among mixed polarity Reed-Muller expressions. By combining global searching ability of genetic algorithm and local searching ability of simulated annealing, WAGA could achieve fast convergence. Apart from genetic operators such as crossover operator and mutation operator are used in genetic algorithm stage, it uses annealing operator at annealing stage. At the annealing stage, WAGA forms an intermediate population by selecting 2/3 population from previous generation and 2/3 population from current generation. Annealing operator is then applied to the intermediate population. To achieve an efficient CPU utilization, the calculation of the cost function of WAGA is based on a parallel manner, in which newly generated terms are obtained at one time. The results of tested benchmark show that the algorithm is highly effective for searching the best polarity and achieves 13% improvement on average in terms of CPU time.
This paper presents the design of a sub-exponent time-to-digital converter (TDC) that amplifies a time residue to improve both the time resolution and measurement range. The sub-exponent TDC quantizes the fraction...
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This paper presents the design of a sub-exponent time-to-digital converter (TDC) that amplifies a time residue to improve both the time resolution and measurement range. The sub-exponent TDC quantizes the fractional time difference with a cascading chain of 2× time amplifiers. A digitally self-calibrated TA circuit is developed to achieve large input range and stable gain. Simulation results show that implemented in SMIC 0.13μm CMOS, the proposed TDC can achieve a minimum resolution of 0.8ps, a measurement range of 14bits, and a power dissipation of 2mW at 60MHz.
In this paper, several frame synchronization schemes is examined under the scenario of Broadband Powerline Communication (BPL) with their merits and demerits illustrated. A method, mainly based on algorithm propose...
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In this paper, several frame synchronization schemes is examined under the scenario of Broadband Powerline Communication (BPL) with their merits and demerits illustrated. A method, mainly based on algorithm proposed by Minn with modification, is proposed and simulated under channels proposed by Open PLC European Research Alliance (OPERA). Threshold is set according to simulations for frame synchronization as well as Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) identification. The proposed estimator has a RMS (Root Mean Square) of start point estimation three orders lower at least in comparison with legacy Schmidl and Cox estimator. Optimization schemes are also proposed to increase the hardware efficiency for the estimator. As much as 75% multiplications could be saved with only a slight degradation in estimation accuracy for the proposed estimator.
In this paper we propose two new design techniques for floating point arithmetic units used in DSP applications, and apply them in the design of two multi-operand units for high-radix FFTs. These two multi-operand...
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In this paper we propose two new design techniques for floating point arithmetic units used in DSP applications, and apply them in the design of two multi-operand units for high-radix FFTs. These two multi-operand arithmetic units are a Modified two term Dot Product (MDP) unit and a Multi-operand AddSub unit (MAS). A radix-4* FFT butterfly computation block is implemented efficiently with these multioperand units. Synthesis results show that the butterfly unit built with our design is about 43% faster and 9.5% smaller than a conventional implementation.
In this paper, we present a novel fabrication technique for constructing light focusing lenses, dielectric Fresnel zone plates on both flat wafers and tips of plastic optical fibers (POFs). SU-8 zone plate structures ...
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We demonstrate a new direct metal patterning method to form nanoscale patterns on irregularly shaped substrates through a reversal imprint process, called Reversal Imprint Metal Transfer (RIMT). Using commonly process...
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