Spectral constraints placed upon radar systems by regulatory agencies require the design of highly linear amplifiers. Spectral spreading in power amplifiers is a result of transistors operated in the nonlinear regime ...
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In this paper,an equivalency condition of nonsingularity in nonlinear semidefinite programming,which can be viewed as a generalization of the equivalency condition of nonsingularity for linearsemidefinite programming,...
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In this paper,an equivalency condition of nonsingularity in nonlinear semidefinite programming,which can be viewed as a generalization of the equivalency condition of nonsingularity for linearsemidefinite programming,is established under certain conditions of convexity.
Complexity and dynamism of day-to-day activities in organizations are inextricably linked, one impacting the other, increasing the challenges for constant adaptation of the way to organize work to address emerging dem...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789898425065
Complexity and dynamism of day-to-day activities in organizations are inextricably linked, one impacting the other, increasing the challenges for constant adaptation of the way to organize work to address emerging demands. In this scenario, there are a variety of information, insight and reasoning being processed between people and systems, during process execution. We argue that process variations could be decided in real time, using context information collected. This paper presents a proposal for a business process line cycle, with a set of activities encapsulated in the form of components as central artefact. We explain how composition and adaptation of work may occur in real time and discuss a scenario for this proposal.
The effort of "Smart Grid" is to modernize grid infrastructure and build-in intelligence to power grids and delivery systems, and their interfaces to customer premises. However, the perspectives range from a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781457710001
The effort of "Smart Grid" is to modernize grid infrastructure and build-in intelligence to power grids and delivery systems, and their interfaces to customer premises. However, the perspectives range from an emphasis on infrastructure to an emphasis on new paradigm-shifting applications. Alternatively, the smart grid can be thought of as the advanced information technologies that enable the desired analytical applications. As a general understanding, we believe that Smart Grid needs to integrate power system analysis, computing and economics to enhance grid reliability, efficiency, and security, and contributes to the climate change strategic goal. In this Supersession, the analytics that empowers smart grid applications is discussed;and the practical implementation and integration challenges will be presented.
In recent years, the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) technique has been at the center of some of very exciting developments in the area of signal processing and communications, and it has shown great significance and re...
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Power consumption can be significantly reduced in systems-on-Chip (SoC) by scaling down the voltage levels of the Processing Elements (PEs). The power efficiency of this Voltage Islanding technique comes at the cost o...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783981080162
Power consumption can be significantly reduced in systems-on-Chip (SoC) by scaling down the voltage levels of the Processing Elements (PEs). The power efficiency of this Voltage Islanding technique comes at the cost of energy and area overhead due to the level shifters between voltage islands. Moreover, from the physical design perspective it is not desirable to have an excessive number of voltage islands on the chip. Considering voltage islanding at an early phase of design as during floorplanning of the PEs can address various of these issues. In this paper, we propose a new cost function for the floorplanning objective different from the traditional floorplanning objective. The new cost function not only includes the overall area requirement, but also incorporates the overall power consumption and the design constraint imposed on the maximum number of voltage islands. We propose a greedy heuristic based on the proposed cost function for the floorplanning of the PEs with several voltage islands. Experimental results using benchmark data study the effect of several parameters on the outcome of the heuristic. It is evident from the results that power consumption can be significantly reduced using our algorithm without significant area overhead. The area obtained from the heuristic is also compared with the optimal, and found to be within 4% of the optimal on average, when area minimization is given the priority.
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms have been proposed to solve engineering problems that require to find an optimal point of operation. However, the PSO algorithm suffers from premature convergence and high ...
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Computational energy consumption of the processing elements (PEs) of a NoC can be significantly reduced by scaling down their voltage levels. This creates clusters of adjacent PEs operating at the same voltage level, ...
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With the widespread use of high-voltage GaN devices and other high-power transistors, understanding the heating of a device during large-signal excitation and measurement is critical, both to ensure efficient operatio...
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With the widespread use of high-voltage GaN devices and other high-power transistors, understanding the heating of a device during large-signal excitation and measurement is critical, both to ensure efficient operation and to prevent destruction of devices during measurement. Device self-heating during RF excitation is directly dependent upon the power-added efficiency of operation. All DC and RF power that is not converted to output RF power is dissipated in the device as heat. When properly applied, the traditional electrothermal model used in circuit simulators adequately calculates this self heating and yields some interesting results. In this paper, it is demonstrated that the load impedance providing maximum power-added efficiency also results in the lowest average dissipated power, and hence the lowest channel temperature, of the device. The variation in average dissipated power (and hence channel temperature) is also examined for different loading conditions; it is shown that some loading conditions produce a dissipated power that is actually higher than the DC power, a situation which often can lead to device failure during load-pull measurements.
The Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components (LINC) power amplifier structure combiner implementation has an effect on the linearity and efficiency of the design. Understanding and using this tradeoff is helpful...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424466887;9781424466890
The Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components (LINC) power amplifier structure combiner implementation has an effect on the linearity and efficiency of the design. Understanding and using this tradeoff is helpful to radar and communication designers and can be used to assist in operating with optimum efficiency while meeting spectral mask requirements instituted by regulatory agencies. In this paper, a simulation-based investigation is performed into implementations with a 180-degree coupler and with a Chireix outphasing network. In general, the overall efficiency in both designs is a function of the amplitude modulation of the message signal in the LINC configuration; however, the 180-degree coupler has a potential to obtain higher linearity in many cases due to the isolation of its two input ports. In certain cases of amplitude modulation, however, much of the output power in the 180-degree coupler design is delivered to an unused termination rather than to the network output.
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