We present the effect of several standard speech coders on speech recognition in adverse communication environments such as tandem, frame erasure, and noisy conditions. These environments were chosen to simulate the o...
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(纸本)0780351231
We present the effect of several standard speech coders on speech recognition in adverse communication environments such as tandem, frame erasure, and noisy conditions. These environments were chosen to simulate the operational condition of IMT-2000. The comparative results can provide a guideline for selecting a speech coder when a speech recognition service is needed in digital communication networks.
The line spectral frequencies (LSFs) extracted from successive analysis orders are interlaced with each other. This intermodel interlacing property gives a new relationship between the closeness of LSFs and their spec...
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The line spectral frequencies (LSFs) extracted from successive analysis orders are interlaced with each other. This intermodel interlacing property gives a new relationship between the closeness of LSFs and their spectral sensitivities, which enables us to propose a weighting function for LSF distortion measurement. By applying the proposed weighting function to an LSF quantizer, we can achieve better performance than when using the conventional heuristic functions. Moreover, the complexity of the proposed weighting function is much lower than that of the optimal weighting function, while their performances are almost the same.
Advanced process technology will require more detailed understanding and tighter control of variation in devices and interconnects. The purpose of statistical metrology is to provide methods to measure and characteriz...
Advanced process technology will require more detailed understanding and tighter control of variation in devices and interconnects. The purpose of statistical metrology is to provide methods to measure and characterize variation, to model systematic and random components of that variation, and to understand the impact of variation on both yield and performance of advanced circuits. Of particular concern are spatial or pattern-dependencies within individual chips; such systematic variation within the chip can have a much larger impact on performance than wafer-level random variation. Statistical metrology methods will play an important role in the creation of design rules for advanced technologies. For example, a key issue in multilayer interconnect is the uniformity of interlevel dielectric (ILD) thickness within the chip. For the case of ILD thickness, we describe phases of statistical metrology development and application to understanding and modeling thickness variation arising from chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP). These phases include screening experiments including design of test structures and test masks to gather electrical or optical data, techniques for statistical decomposition and analysis of the data, and approaches to calibrating empirical and physical variation models. These models can be integrated with circuit CAD tools to evaluate different process integration or design rule strategies. One focus for the generation of interconnect design rules are guidelines for the use of “dummy fill” or “metal fill” to improve the uniformity of underlying metal density and thus improve the uniformity of oxide thickness within the die. Trade-offs that can be evaluated via statistical metrology include the improvements to uniformity possible versus the effect of increased capacitance due to additional metal.
We have used admittance spectroscopy and deep-level transient spectroscopy to characterize electronic properties of Si/Si1−x−yGexCy heterostructures. Band offsets measured by admittance spectroscopy for compressively ...
We have used admittance spectroscopy and deep-level transient spectroscopy to characterize electronic properties of Si/Si1−x−yGexCy heterostructures. Band offsets measured by admittance spectroscopy for compressively strained Si/Si1−x−yGexCy heterojunctions indicate that incorporation of C into Si1−x−yGexCy lowers both the valence- and conduction-band edges compared to those in Si1−xGex by an average of 107±6 meV/% C and 75±6 meV/% C, respectively. Combining these measurements indicates that the band alignment is type I for the compositions we have studied, and that these results are consistent with previously reported results on the energy band gap of Si1−x−yGexCy and with measurements of conduction band offsets in Si/Si1−yCy heterojunctions. Several electron traps were observed using deep-level transient spectroscopy on two n-type heterostructures. Despite the presence of a significant amount of nonsubstitutional C (0.29–1.6 at. %), none of the peaks appear attributable to previously reported interstitial C levels. Possible sources for these levels are discussed.
We have proposed a wideband CELP coder, called MGC-CELP, which provides high quality speech by utilizing mel-generalized cepstral (MGC) analysis instead of linear prediction (LP). In this paper, we investigate the per...
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Emission mechanisms of a device-quality quantum well (QW) structure and bulk three dimensional (3D) InGaN materials grown on sapphire substrates without any epitaxial lateral overgrown GaN base layers were investigate...
Emission mechanisms of a device-quality quantum well (QW) structure and bulk three dimensional (3D) InGaN materials grown on sapphire substrates without any epitaxial lateral overgrown GaN base layers were investigated. The InxGa1−xN layers showed various degrees of in-plane spatial potential (band gap) inhomogeneity, which is due to a compositional fluctuation or a few monolayers thickness fluctuation. The degree of fluctuation changed remarkably around a nominal InN molar fraction x=0.2, which changes to nearly 0.08–0.1 for the strained InxGa1−xN. This potential fluctuation induces localized energy states both in the QW and 3D InGaN, showing a large Stokes-like shift. The spontaneous emission from undoped InGaN single QW light-emitting diodes (LEDs), undoped 3D LEDs, and multiple QW (MQW) laser diode (LD) wafers was assigned as being due to the recombination of excitons localized at the potential minima, whose lateral size was determined by cathodoluminescence mapping to vary from less than 60 to 300 nm in QWs. Those structures are referred to as quantum disks (Q disks) or segmented QWs depending on the lateral size. Blueshift of the emission peak by an increase of the driving current was explained to be combined effects of band filling of the localized states by excitons and Coulomb screening of the quantum confined Stark effect induced by the piezoelectric field. The lasing mechanisms of the continuous wave In0.15Ga0.85N MQW LDs having small potential fluctuations can be described by the well-known electron-hole-plasma (EHP) picture. However, the inhomogeneous MQW LDs are considered to lase by EHP in segmented QWs or Q disks. It is desirable to use entire QW planes with small potential inhomogeneity as gain media for higher performance LD operation.
As VLSI circuit speeds have increased, reliable chip and system design can no longer be performed without accurate three-dimensional interconnect models. In this paper, we describe an integral equation approach to mod...
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As VLSI circuit speeds have increased, reliable chip and system design can no longer be performed without accurate three-dimensional interconnect models. In this paper, we describe an integral equation approach to modeling the impedance of interconnect structures accounting for both the charge accumulation on the surface of conductors and the current traveling in their interior. Our formulation, based on a combination of nodal and mesh analysis, has the required properties to be combined with Model Order Reduction techniques to generate accurate and guaranteed passive low order interconnect models for efficient inclusion in standard circuit simulators. Furthermore, the formulation is shown to be more flexible and efficient than previously reported methods.
Industry trends aimed at integrating higher levels of circuit functionality have triggered a proliferation of mixed analog-digital systems. Magnified noise coupling through the common chip substrate has made the desig...
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(纸本)9780818683596
Industry trends aimed at integrating higher levels of circuit functionality have triggered a proliferation of mixed analog-digital systems. Magnified noise coupling through the common chip substrate has made the design and verification of such systems an increasingly difficult task. In this paper we present a fast eigen-decomposition technique that accelerates operator application in BEM methods and avoids the dense-matrix storage while taking all of the substrate boundary effects into account explicitly. This technique can be used for accurate and efficient modeling of substrate coupling effects in mixed-signal integrated circuits.
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