R. Endres, Tillmann A. Krauss, Frank Wessely, U. Schwalke
{"title":"Damascene metal gate technology for damage-free gate-last high-k process integration","authors":"R. Endres, Tillmann A. Krauss, Frank Wessely, U. Schwalke","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5414209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5414209","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present MOS capacitors and MOS transistors with a crystalline gadolinium oxide (Gd<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf>) gate dielectric and metal gate electrode (titanium nitride) fabricated in a replacement gate process. Initial results on ALD-TiN/Gd<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf>/Si gate stacks on p- and n-substrates with equivalent oxide thicknesses (EOT) of 3.0nm and 1.5nm, respectively, are presented in this work.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124595766","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":"CMOS RF powering system for cochlear implant","authors":"M. Ghorbel, A. Hamida, J. Tomas","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412266","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a wireless RF powering system dedicated to a cochlear implant. Most current systems use discrete components to achieve the back telemetry power supply. In order to achieve an efficient power consumption and a minimum size of the implant, our RF powering system is conceived with MOS transistors in order to have an integrated system. Using the signal recovered by the inductive link, the system generates a regulated 3.3 V voltage which is used to generate power supply for the entire implanted device. The system is designed in AMS 0.35µm standard CMOS technology.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131108292","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}
B. Khaleghi, S. Razavi, A. Khamis, F. Karray, M. Kamel
{"title":"Multisensor data fusion: Antecedents and directions","authors":"B. Khaleghi, S. Razavi, A. Khamis, F. Karray, M. Kamel","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412296","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of combining redundant and complementary sensory data to achieve higher quality information has been around for long time. For example, biological systems usually rely on fusion of multimodality sensory data to perceive the surrounding environment. There has been an ever-increasing interest in multi-disciplinary research on multisensor data fusion technology driven by its versatility and diverse areas of application. This paper presents an overview of data fusion state of the art discussing advances in fusion methodologies and architectures. In addition, future directions of research in data fusion community including large-scale, hybrid, secure fusion, and importance of standard evaluation framework are highlighted and described.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129639130","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":"Extraction of open-via defects from industrial designs","authors":"A. Ladhar, M. Masmoudi","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5414144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5414144","url":null,"abstract":"As shown by previous studies, shorts and opens should be considered as the predominant cause of failures in CMOS circuits. Fault models and tools targeting the extraction of these defects focused only on the bridging faults in order to generate test patterns or to use this information for a precise fault diagnosis. However, for open defects there is no available commercial tool that performs the extraction of this defect. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to extract the location of potential open defects caused by defective vias. This information is used to generate a subnet list containing the name of disconnected segments by each defective via. Experiments on real industrial designs show the algorithm's performance. The method proposed in this paper is supported by a design flow implementing existing commercial CAD tools.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"225 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114744591","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":"Multisensor cooperation in military surveillance systems","authors":"A. Benaskeur, A. Khamis, H. Irandoust","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412286","url":null,"abstract":"Surveillance operations include the timely detection, localization, recognition and identification of objects and events, their relationships, activities, and plans, in a given Volume Of Interest (VOI). Distributed sensors when properly managed can cooperatively provide a complete, accurate, and timely information about the presence and activity of all objects or events within a VOI. This paper presents a holonic sensor management approach that can be used to handle cooperative tasks such as target cueing and handoff in military surveillance operations.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127026556","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":"Steam turbine diagnostic system based on a domain ontology implemented using J2EE technology","authors":"Klai Sihem, Khadir M. Tarek, J. Ringwood","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412694","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and the implementation of an aided diagnostic system based on a domain ontology and an expert system. A mono ontology obtained from multiple CCOs (Canonical Conceptual Ontologies) constitutes the knowledge base of the Expert System. The NCCO (Non Canonical Conceptual Ontology) are defined and used for realising inter-CCO mapping and to express the relationships between the COO. An expert system JESS (Java Expert System Shell) is integrated with the ontology. Knowledge inference is then possible to solve maintenance cases by given adequate diagnoses to given symptoms. The second aspect of the paper focuses on the possible enhancement and evolution of the developed ontology in order to take into account new maintenance cases. The complete system is developed following a J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) architecture.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129015919","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}
M. Grube, Dominik Martin, W. Weber, O. Bierwagen, L. Geelhaar, H. Riechert
{"title":"Investigation of zirconium oxide based high-k dielectrics for future memory applications","authors":"M. Grube, Dominik Martin, W. Weber, O. Bierwagen, L. Geelhaar, H. Riechert","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412231","url":null,"abstract":"Zirconium oxide based high-k dielectrics are studied for their possible future integration in Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitors. To better understand their electrical properties a combined study is presented considering both their macroscopic and mesoscopic electrical behavior. Molecular beam deposition is used to deposit thin films of ZrO2 as well as (ZrO2) x(Al2O3)1−x. Three different ZrO2 deposition methods are compared and evaluated by capacitance voltage (CV) and current voltage (IV) measurements. These deliver valuable information for benchmarking. To further understand the leakage current mechanism in nanometer thin zirconate based films conductive atomic force microscopy is performed. IV curves are taken with high spatial resolution enabling a detailed comparison between the leakage paths at crystallites and in the amorphous matrix. Through this method the evolution of the leakage path formation can be traced.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129230244","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":"Predictive approach for OFDMA resource allocation over fixed wireless channels","authors":"S. Najeh, Hichem Besbes, A. Bouallègue","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5413884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5413884","url":null,"abstract":"WiMAX is a broadband wireless technology that supports fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile access. For the fixed or portable applications, the channel can be considered as a static. In this paper, we propose to use channel prediction in order to improve the performances of resource allocation algorithms, in term of outage probability and average throughput. Moreover, for a dynamic OFDMA system, when different traffics are offered at each time slot, a good scheduling of the available resources among the users is necessarily. We propose an algorithm of resource allocation based on both the prediction of the channel and the traffic in order to overcome the buffer overflow. For a Constant Bit Rate (CBR), we show that the channel prediction yields a significant average throughput.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125469279","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}
N. Boukhennoufa, K. Benmahammed, M. Abdi, F. Djeffal
{"title":"Wavelet-based ECG signals compression using SPIHT technique and VKTP coder","authors":"N. Boukhennoufa, K. Benmahammed, M. Abdi, F. Djeffal","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412584","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an efficient Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal compression method based on wavelet transform is presented. The proposed method combines the adapted SPIHT (Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees) method with VKTP (Vector K-Tree Partitioning) coder. The SPIHT method is based on the use of wavelet transform which is very well suited to locate the energy of the signal in fewer coefficients. Using the VKTP algorithm, to encode the generated bit stream of SPIHT algorithm, we achieve high compression performances. The tests of this lossy compression/ decompression technique are performed on many ECG records from Arrhythmia Database. The obtained results illustrate the capabilities of the proposed approach to improve the compression ratio while maintaining a good signal quality.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127619582","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}
Yahya M. Omar, H. Sigiuk, H. B. Salem, Tamir T. M. Hamdan
{"title":"Improving TCP throughput stability in wireless multi-hop Ad hoc networks","authors":"Yahya M. Omar, H. Sigiuk, H. B. Salem, Tamir T. M. Hamdan","doi":"10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCS.2009.5412688","url":null,"abstract":"To enable seamless integration of ad hoc networks with other Infrastructure LANs and to the Internet, TCP seems to be the natural choice for users of ad hoc networks that want to communicate reliably with each other and with the Internet. It is well-known that due to the nature of multi-hop wireless Ad hoc network applications, TCP throughput instability can have a devastating impact on the QoS requirements and is regarded as one of the main TCP problems. In this paper, we first illustrate the TCP throughput instability simulation results for a chain-topology network that uses the IEEE 802.11 medium access control protocol and ad hoc routing protocol. We then discuss why the performance of TCP is poor in this scenario. A simple solution is proposed that enables the DSR routing protocol to reduce its trigger of unnecessary route error process due to MAC collisions which interrupts and affects the TCP link operation, and forces the TCP congestion window to enter the slow start phase leading to deteriorated and unstable TCP throughput. Our proposed solution enforces the TCP sender to recover packet losses of data by fast retransmit / fast recovery TCP mechanism without resorting to the coarse grained Retransmission Time Out (RTO), which is often detrimental to throughput. It is shown that our modification in DSR has caused significant improvement in TCP throughput stability for the chain, grid, and random mobile topologies compared to TCPs over standard DSR.","PeriodicalId":126072,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd International Conference on Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130056957","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}