A pulsed simulation approach is demonstrated for prediction of duty-cycle dependent thermal effects in transistors. Also a novel method is shown for fitting and/or validating electro-thermal models using pulsed IV mea...
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(纸本)9781424457137
A pulsed simulation approach is demonstrated for prediction of duty-cycle dependent thermal effects in transistors. Also a novel method is shown for fitting and/or validating electro-thermal models using pulsed IV measurements and pulsed IV simulations. A commercial LDMOS device is used to demonstrate the new methods. After extracting the thermal time constant, good agreement is achieved between measured and simulated pulsed IV results under a wide range of different pulse conditions including DC, very short (
The technical literature regarding model-based testing (MBT) has several techniques with different characteristics and goals available to be applied in software projects. Besides the lack of information regarding thes...
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The technical literature regarding model-based testing (MBT) has several techniques with different characteristics and goals available to be applied in software projects. Besides the lack of information regarding these techniques, they could be applied together in a software project aiming at improving the testing coverage. However, this decision needs to be carefully analyzed to avoid loss of resources in a software project. Based on this scenario, this paper proposes an approach with the purpose of supporting the unique or combined selection of MBT techniques for a given software project considering two aspects: the adequacy level between MBT techniques and the software project characteristics and impact of more than one MBT technique in some testing process variables. At the end, preliminary results of an experimental evaluation are presented.
In previous work we showed that Collocated Wireless Access Points coupled with appropriate management of their non-overlapping channels could be used for building Scalable Wireless Video-On-Demand (SWVoD) systems with...
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(纸本)9781605587752
In previous work we showed that Collocated Wireless Access Points coupled with appropriate management of their non-overlapping channels could be used for building Scalable Wireless Video-On-Demand (SWVoD) systems within a limited covered area. In this paper, we introduce the Grid of collocated Access Points or simply GAPS, a novel approach that uses clusters of Collocated Access Points as the basic blocks to efficiently build SWVoD systems for a wider covered area. In GAPS, each basic block is responsible for a distinct part of the covered area and the amount of APs per block can be set either statically or dynamically depending on the client concentration pattern (CCP). We present in details the framework of GAPS and report simulated performance results that indicated that GAPS could significantly decrease the blocking rate of video requests in comparison with previous design based on fixed distribution of basic blocks. In addition, GAPS had the advantage of sustaining the lower blockage rate over larger covered areas. Also, we showed that the higher setup cost of dynamic grids was fully compensated by handling changes on CCP much better than the static scheme so that GAPS could generate a higher monthly net income according to our cost metric. Copyright 2009 ACM.
The head direction (HD) cell system in the brain of mammals is thought to be part of the neural circuitry supporting their spatial navigation capabilities. In this paper we present a neuromorphic VLSI system that mimi...
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(纸本)9781424438273
The head direction (HD) cell system in the brain of mammals is thought to be part of the neural circuitry supporting their spatial navigation capabilities. In this paper we present a neuromorphic VLSI system that mimics the operation of the HD system. Relying on spiking neurons and attractor dynamics, this system can be used to represent and retain the current estimate of head orientation in the environment and integrate angular velocity to update this estimate. The presented system is a first step towards more general odometry systems that could be used for modeling biological navigation systems.
In a previous ARFTG paper, we presented the measurement of the thermally-induced transient drain voltage response of a power Si MOSFET to a step excitation in gate voltage. The data was fit by assuming the drain volta...
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In a previous ARFTG paper, we presented the measurement of the thermally-induced transient drain voltage response of a power Si MOSFET to a step excitation in gate voltage. The data was fit by assuming the drain voltage takes an exponential shape. This relies on the assumption that the drain current is a step function, which is actually only approximate due to the dependence of the drain current on temperature. In this work, we show that the exponential approximation actually possesses the same asymptotic behavior of a more accurate, model-based solution we have obtained that incorporates thermal feedback. We show that the more theoretically accurate solution and exponential approximation of the solution both provide excellent fits to measured data for the Si MOSFET.
Background. Network and clustering analyses of microarray co-expression correlation data often require application of a threshold to discard small correlations, thus reducing computational demands and decreasing the n...
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In this paper, we propose an architecture, which we call GridRT, capable of dealing with the main features, such as shadows and reflections effects, of Ray Tracing used for rendering three-dimensional scenes. This arc...
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In this paper, we propose an architecture, which we call GridRT, capable of dealing with the main features, such as shadows and reflections effects, of Ray Tracing used for rendering three-dimensional scenes. This architecture achieves an efficient overall performance yet using a simple and compact massively parallel design. The design exploits the usage of Xilinx ® Floating Point Operator IP Core and the spatial data structure of Regular Grids.
The success of simulation-based design of power amplifiers for wireless communications is limited by the accuracy of nonlinear models that are used to represent the transistors. This paper provides some considerations...
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The success of simulation-based design of power amplifiers for wireless communications is limited by the accuracy of nonlinear models that are used to represent the transistors. This paper provides some considerations that should be taken into account in measurement-based modeling of GaN transistors. With GaN modeling, particular attention needs to be paid to thermal and trapping issues. The use of pulsed measurements as part of the modeling process is critical to obtaining reliable GaN models. Established models such as EEHEMT, Angelov, and CFET can be successfully used in representing GaN devices.
A pulsed simulation approach is demonstrated for prediction of duty-cycle dependent thermal effects in transistors. Also a novel method is shown for fitting and/or validating electro-thermal models using pulsed IV mea...
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A pulsed simulation approach is demonstrated for prediction of duty-cycle dependent thermal effects in transistors. Also a novel method is shown for fitting and/or validating electro-thermal models using pulsed IV measurements and pulsed IV simulations. A commercial LDMOS device is used to demonstrate the new methods. After extracting the thermal time constant, good agreement is achieved between measured and simulated pulsed IV results under a wide range of different pulse conditions including DC, very short (<0.1%) duty cycles, and varied pulse widths between these extremes. A three-pole electro-thermal equivalent circuit model was shown to improve the model data fitting for intermediate pulse widths.
High computational cost for solving large engineering optimization problems point out the design of parallel optimization algorithms. Population based optimization algorithms provide parallel capabilities that can be ...
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High computational cost for solving large engineering optimization problems point out the design of parallel optimization algorithms. Population based optimization algorithms provide parallel capabilities that can be explored by their implementations done directly in hardware. This paper presents a hardware implementation of particle swarm optimization algorithms using an efficient floating-point arithmetic which performs the computations with high precision. All the architectures are parameterizable by bit-width, allowing the designer to choose the suitable format according to the requirements of the optimization problem. Synthesis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed architecture achieves satisfactory results obtaining a better performance in therms of elapsed time than conventional software implementations.
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