Malak Yaghi, Haydar El-Fouani, A. Assi, Ziad Noun, Rabih Rammal, I. Assi
{"title":"Toward Green LIU campuses using PV systems","authors":"Malak Yaghi, Haydar El-Fouani, A. Assi, Ziad Noun, Rabih Rammal, I. Assi","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268840","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the potential of implementing solar panels in two campuses of the Lebanese International University (LIU) to harvest solar energy. The design is conducted using HelioScope simulation tool, specifying all the mechanical parameters and the electrical components used in the proposed PV system. The expected system power is estimated to be at least 5 times the campus energy demand. The payback time of the project is calculated, showing the economic benefits of such project.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115561418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hossein Teimoori, N. Ravanshad, H. Rezaee-Dehsorkh
{"title":"Ultra-low-power fully-synchronous level-crossing analog-to-digital converter for biomedical signal acquisition","authors":"Hossein Teimoori, N. Ravanshad, H. Rezaee-Dehsorkh","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268875","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an ultra-low power analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is proposed which is working based on level-crossing sampling. Level-crossing sampling is a data-compression technique utilizing specially for low-power implementation of biomedical signal acquisition systems. Despite the non-uniform nature of level-crossing sampling, the proposed ADC is implemented synchronously which leads to much lower power consumption and improved reliability. Accuracy of the ADC is improved by using a modified structure for dynamic comparators. A low-cost tuning circuit is also proposed for canceling a great portion of the background noise, which leads to a more efficient compression. The ADC is designed for ECG signal acquisition and implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS technology which consumes an ultra low power of 28 nW for 1.8 V supply voltage.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123049045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Saadaoui, M. Tabaa, F. Monteiro, Mouhamad Chehaitly, A. Dandache, A. Oukaira
{"title":"IWSN under an industrial wireless channel in the context of Industry 4.0","authors":"S. Saadaoui, M. Tabaa, F. Monteiro, Mouhamad Chehaitly, A. Dandache, A. Oukaira","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268861","url":null,"abstract":"In the coming next years, the industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN), witch constitutes the main part of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), plays a crucial role in transforming industrial world by opening up a new era of economic growth and competitiveness in digital Industry 4.0. The IWSN is able to help organizations to gain greater profits in industrial manufacturing markets by increasing productivity, reducing the costs, and developing new services and products. However, requirements in the industrial systems differ from the general WSN requirements due to the complex environment propagation. In this work, performance for an architecture of wide-band wireless sensor network under an industrial channel is proposed. Transceiver for IWSN is based on IDWPT and DWPT for transmitter and receiver respectively for multi user applications. A model of industrial channel is described and performance are presented compared with AWGN channel.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129268963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hazem M. Fahmy, Gerd Baumann, M. A. E. Ghany, H. Mostafa
{"title":"V2V-based vehicle risk assessment and control for lane-keeping and collision avoidance","authors":"Hazem M. Fahmy, Gerd Baumann, M. A. E. Ghany, H. Mostafa","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268891","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes a typical numerical method to deal with maintaining vehicle's track for self-governed (autonomous) driving and obstacle avoidance. The new approach utilizes the established cost function definition consolidating the basic aspect of the dynamic conditions of the vehicle as position, orientation, and maximum allowed speed on road. The optimization processes minimize the cost function while determining the ideal track by fluctuating steering-angle and braking-ratio amplitudes. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication framework is viably used through providing data on maximal road speed and road's obstacle dimensions. The parametric definition of obstacles creates an adaptable domain for low and high-speed simulations. The minimal number of influential optimization variables ensures a steady and direct generation of ideal results. By the current novel approach, we are independently able to move the vehicle on an arbitrary track approximated by low-order polynomials. Simulation tests are performed under vehicle's speeds of 10m/s, 18 m/s whilst utilizing most important features of Vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125009333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BPSK modulation based exact BER computation for network intra-chip RF interconnect","authors":"M. S. Ullah, Abdullah G. Alharbi, M. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268809","url":null,"abstract":"The rapidly increase of integration density, operating frequency, thermal stress and other complexities are pushing the conventional metal interconnects based IC technology to its material and physical limits. Radical alternative like on-chip radio frequency (RF) and wireless communication is being explored to replace the hard-wired metal interconnect. Currently for inter-chip and intra-chip RF/wireless communication, various single-input-single-output (SISO) schemes like BPSK, OQPSK, MSK and GMSK are being investigated. Therefore, this paper investigates the bit error rate (BER) by utilizing a Gaussian and Rayleigh multipath fading channel environment for the SISO system for network intra-chip RF interconnect.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130779090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Duha Yasser, Mohamed A. Elgamal, M. Atef, O. Hamada, Ali H. Hassan, H. Mostafa
{"title":"A comparative analysis of optimized low-power comparators for biomedical-ADCs","authors":"Duha Yasser, Mohamed A. Elgamal, M. Atef, O. Hamada, Ali H. Hassan, H. Mostafa","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268879","url":null,"abstract":"Comparators are essential blocks in implementing analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). An energy-efficient ADC such as successive approximation register (SAR) ADC or dual-slope ADC requires at least one comparator, where the power consumption mainly depends on the comparator design. This paper investigates various implementation techniques of low-power comparators emphasizing on their design performance metrics, and trade-offs such as sampling frequency, resolution, and power consumption. The proposed comparative analysis covers a recently published low power comparators for bio-signals monitoring and proposes a basic optimization method for these comparators. These comparators are redesigned using UMC 130nm CMOS technology for a fair comparison to present a good reference for proper choosing of a low power comparator that serves low-power bio-medical applications.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131275316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Programmable signal generator for neural network application","authors":"H. Jouni, A. Harb, G. Jacquemod, Y. Leduc","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268881","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a programmable signal generator to produce the inputs and the desired outputs to test an integrated circuit IC dedicated for neural network application (on chip learning). The main blocks for this design are a microcontroller PIC18F2680, a multiplexer 4067, and an LCD LM032L. The outputs of the programmable signal generator have an amplitude up to 1 V at a frequency up to 5 KHz, which is sufficient for our application, i.e. the breast cancer detection.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121538569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-step and high-resolution vernier-based TDC architecture","authors":"M. Rashdan","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268819","url":null,"abstract":"A multi-step time-to-digital converter (TDC) architecture, based on a Vernier delay line, that achieves single-cycle latency and high time resolution for high-data-rate applications is presented. The architecture uses multiple TDC stages to reduce the used number of flip-flops and delay elements, which reduces the power consumption. The design details of the two step, three-step TDC architectures have been introduced using the proposed design. A 4-bit TDC has been designed and simulated in 65nm CMOS and compared to a conventional Vernier-based 4-bit TDC circuit. The power consumption is reduced by 50% due to using less circuit components. The design details for a 6-bit TDC that achieves single-cycle latency and high time resolution are also presented.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127680365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A PFM-regulated switched-capacitor DC-DC converter with enhanced-ripples technique","authors":"M. Bahry, M. El-Nozahi, E. Hegazi","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268817","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an all-digital switched-capacitor DC-DC converter with an Enhanced Ripples Technique (ERT) which enhances the ripples values by a factor of up to 2.5X without affecting the efficiency. The SC converter converts the battery voltage (3.6 V nominally) into an output voltage of 1V. The SC converter is implemented in 0.13 μm CMOS technology using thick oxide I/O devices and achieves a maximum efficiency of 71%. The SC converter regulates up to 12 mA load current using PFM technique. Output voltage ripples is less than 50 mV.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129006709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maroun Geryes, J. Charara, A. Skaiky, Ali Mcheick, J. Girault
{"title":"A novel biomedical application for the Myo gesture control armband","authors":"Maroun Geryes, J. Charara, A. Skaiky, Ali Mcheick, J. Girault","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2017.8268823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2017.8268823","url":null,"abstract":"The Myo gesture control armband, by Thalmic Labs, allows taking control of several digital technologies from a distance. The Myo uses Electromyography (EMG) sensors to read electrical activity in muscles. Departing from this fact, in this paper we focus on the Myo as a biomedical equipment that could be used for medical purposes. Limited contribution has been made by Myo developers in this area. To prove this, we used the Myo armband to continuously flip slides of a PowerPoint presentation using two arm data-sets; 6 normal arms and 1 injured arm. The energy and rms performances of the normal and injured arms were compared at the first 10 seconds and after 40 and 80 seconds. For the normal arms flipping the presentation, the energy and rms values remained nearly the same (for the energy; 23 dB at 10s to 21 dB at 80s and for rms; 16 dB at 10s to 14.5 dB at 80s). However, for the injured arm the performance deteriorated as time elapsed (for the energy; 22 dB at 10s to 15 dB at 80s and for rms; 15 dB at 10s to 10.5 dB at 80s), as a result that the injured muscles were getting tired and their electrical activity was reduced.","PeriodicalId":115975,"journal":{"name":"2017 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129016879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}