In this paper, CMOS RF down-conversion mixer circuit hot-carrier (HC) and soft breakdown (SBD) reliability estimation and redesign is presented. First of all, MOS transistor reliability under analog operation was eval...
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In this paper, CMOS RF down-conversion mixer circuit hot-carrier (HC) and soft breakdown (SBD) reliability estimation and redesign is presented. First of all, MOS transistor reliability under analog operation was evaluated by experiment. The mixer circuit operation conditions for the occurrence of HC and SBD are analyzed, and circuit performance model are presented to relate the device degradation to circuit performance degradation. Finally, we propose mixer circuit redesign strategies, which reduce the HC and SBD problem. Simulation shows improved noise performance with the similar gain, IIP3 and power consumption.
As system integration evolves and tighter design constraints must be met, it becomes necessary to account for the non-ideal behavior of all the elements in a system. For high-speed digital, and microwave systems, it i...
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(纸本)0769514715
As system integration evolves and tighter design constraints must be met, it becomes necessary to account for the non-ideal behavior of all the elements in a system. For high-speed digital, and microwave systems, it is increasingly important to model previously neglected frequency domain effects. In this paper, results from Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation theory are used to develop a bounded real matrix rational approximation algorithm. A method is presented that allows for the generation of guaranteed passive rational function models of passive systems by approximating their scattering parameter matrices. Since the order of the models may in some cases be high, an incremental fitting strategy is also proposed that allows for the generation of smaller models while still meeting the required passivity and accuracy requirements. Results of the application of the proposed method to several real-world examples are also shown.
We define two words in a language to be connected if they express similar concepts. The network of connections among the many thousands of words that make up a language is important not only for the study of the struc...
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We define two words in a language to be connected if they express similar concepts. The network of connections among the many thousands of words that make up a language is important not only for the study of the structure and evolution of languages, but also for cognitive science. We study this issue quantitatively, by mapping out the conceptual network of the English language, with the connections being defined by the entries in a Thesaurus dictionary. We find that this network presents a small-world structure, with an amazingly small average shortest path, and appears to exhibit an asymptotic scale-free feature with algebraic connectivity distribution.
In this paper, CMOS RF down-conversion mixer circuit hot-carrier (HC) and soft breakdown (SBD) reliability estimation and redesign is presented. First of all, MOS transistor reliability under analog operation was eval...
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In this paper, CMOS RF down-conversion mixer circuit hot-carrier (HC) and soft breakdown (SBD) reliability estimation and redesign is presented. First of all, MOS transistor reliability under analog operation was evaluated by experiment. The mixer circuit operation conditions for the occurrence of HC and SBD are analyzed, and a circuit performance model is presented to relate device degradation to circuit performance degradation. Finally, we propose mixer circuit redesign strategies, which reduce the HC and SBD problem. Simulation shows improved noise performance with similar gain, IIP3 and power consumption.
Locality principles are becoming paramount in controlling advancement of data through pipelined systems. Achieving fine grained power down and progressive pipeline stalls at the local stage level is therefore becoming...
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Locality principles are becoming paramount in controlling advancement of data through pipelined systems. Achieving fine grained power down and progressive pipeline stalls at the local stage level is therefore becoming increasingly, important to enable lower dynamic power consumption while keeping introduced switching noise under control as well as avoiding global distribution of timing critical stall signals. It has long been known that the interlocking properties of as asynchronous pipelined systems have a potential to provide such benefits. However it has not been understood how such interlocking can be achieved in synchronous pipelines. This paper presents a novel technique based on local clock gating and synchronous handshake protocols that achieves stage level interlocking characteristics in synchronous pipelines similar to that of asynchronous pipelines. The presented technique is directly applicable to traditional synchronous pipelines and works equally well for two-phase clocked pipelines based on transparent latches, as well as one-phase clocked pipelines based on master-slave latches.
A modular neural network classifier design is presented. The objective behind the design is to enhance the classification performance of conventional neural classifiers according to two criteria, namely, reducing the ...
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Recent advances in computer arithmetic offer interesting alternative solutions for low-power design. Depending on an assortment of factors that need to be considered, it is worth evaluating the logarithmic number syst...
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Recent advances in computer arithmetic offer interesting alternative solutions for low-power design. Depending on an assortment of factors that need to be considered, it is worth evaluating the logarithmic number system (LNS) or the residue number system (RNS) for hardware implementations of computationally intensive tasks. As such, the choice of arithmetic can lead to substantial power savings.
Time-interleaved architectures are frequently employed in high-speed data converters and signal processing channels in order to achieve the highest possible speed. However, the performance of the combined channels is ...
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Resource management has become an important issue for computersystems as QoS-sensitive multimedia applications and hostile acts such as denial of service (DoS) attacks become widespread. Since applications access the...
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(纸本)0769511341
Resource management has become an important issue for computersystems as QoS-sensitive multimedia applications and hostile acts such as denial of service (DoS) attacks become widespread. Since applications access the processor, network and other subsystems, attacks on any of these subsystems can lead to undesirable behavior. To maintain system integrity even under such attacks, an unprivileged application must not be allowed to intentionally or unintentionally affect the progress of others. The authors present a first-class abstraction called Resource Control Lists (RCLs) to specify and enforce protection policies on time multiplexed resources, similar to access control on files. RCLs put access control on time multiplexed resources such as CPU time and network and disk bandwidth. RCLs are practical, flexible and provide several benefits. Protection policies specified by RCLs can be under administrator control, customized to a site, and can be dynamically adapted. We have built support for RCLs into Linux/RK, a real-time version of Linux that provides resource reservations where applications receive a promised amount of resources by making reservations. Quantitative measurements with limited forms of DoS attacks show that our new features provide flexible functionality while imposing acceptable overhead without modifying the applications. We also demonstrate that resources are protected even in the face of malicious activities. Finally, we show how RCLs can be used to deliver resource protection on multiple Web server configurations including the hosting of multiple logical sites by an ISP and preferential treatment of buyers on e-commerce sites.
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