{"title":"A Fractional Momentum Enhanced Fractional Filter for the Memristor-Based Volume Controller","authors":"Xuetao Xie;Yi-Fei Pu;Jian Wang","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3589991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3589991","url":null,"abstract":"This brief proposes a memristor-based volume controller, thus providing a practical application scenario of system identification. In order to identify the parameter in this system, we propose a fractional momentum enhanced fractional least mean square (FM-EFLMS) algorithm by combining the enhanced fractional derivative and the fractional momentum term. We analyze the stability condition of the FM-EFLMS algorithm. The resource consumption of the FM-EFLMS algorithm is also analyzed. Simulation experiments demonstrate the potential advantage of the memristor-based volume controller. Moreover, the experimental results show that the convergence performance of the FM-EFLMS algorithm exhibits obvious advantages compared to the competing filter algorithms.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1333-1337"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruonan Lu;Da Zheng;Chengyuan Zhu;Weiwei Cao;Qinmin Yang
{"title":"Contrastive Learning-Based Dual Autoencoder for Anomaly Detection in Loader Gearboxes","authors":"Ruonan Lu;Da Zheng;Chengyuan Zhu;Weiwei Cao;Qinmin Yang","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3590139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3590139","url":null,"abstract":"Anomaly detection (AD) of gearboxes is essential for ensuring the operational safety and reliability of the loader. However, identifying anomalies in non-stationary signals remains challenging as anomalies often emerge within the normal fluctuation, especially when normal and abnormal samples exhibit high similarity. This brief proposes a contrastive learning-based dual autoencoder (AE) AD method for loader gearboxes. Specifically, the continuous wavelet transform is employed to capture dynamic characteristics of non-stationary signals. A compound scaling network is then designed into the unified encoder to extract complex features while maintaining a lightweight architecture. Subsequently, a sparse representation channel is integrated into the second AE framework, complementing the basis for contrastive mechanisms and promoting the learning of consistency across normal samples with the reconstruction channel. By minimizing the contrastive loss between two samples from different channels, the model learns the inherent consistency of normal samples. Finally, the contrastive loss of the second AE and the reconstruction error of the first AE serve as indicators for detecting abnormalities. Experimental results on real-world loader gearbox data demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a high fault detection rate, a low false alarm rate, and robust reliability, validating its effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1223-1227"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Swing- and Gain-Enhanced Mirrored Dynamic Amplifier","authors":"Ali Rezapour;Omid Shoaei","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3590144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3590144","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a Mirrored Dynamic Amplifier (MDA) to enhance the swing and gain of prior art dynamic amplifiers (DAs). Instead of compensating the charge loss in the load capacitors due to the common-mode current, this technique resolves the dependency between common-mode and differential-mode currents. The differential and regulated common-mode currents are mirrored to the output branch for integration on the load capacitors. Furthermore, the output branch is made of only one transistor, which makes the proposed architecture to benefit from large output swing. An output swing of 1.272Vppdiff can be achieved with a supply voltage of 1.2V. In addition, a pre-discharge linearization technique is presented to compensate for nonlinearity induced by the current regulation mechanism, that results in an average improvement of 6 dB in THD. The proposed DA is designed and verified in a 65nm CMOS process. Post-layout simulation results show that gains of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$16times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math>$32times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> can be achieved, along with output swings of 640 mVppdiff and 800 mVppdiff, respectively, while maintaining THDs better than −62 dB. A noise analysis and a detailed comparison of the proposed MDA with a few state-of-the-art designs are also elaborated.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1158-1162"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Energy-Efficient CPU–FPGA Heterogeneous Acceleration System for Third-Generation Genomic Sequencing Based on Minimap2","authors":"Jialei Sun;Lingyi Liu;Kunyue Li;Shuaipeng Li;Sai Gao;Zizheng Dong;Jianfei Jiang;Fangzhen Wu","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3588409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3588409","url":null,"abstract":"Minimap2 has become a widely used software for third-generation long-read genomic sequencing. Due to the increasing complexity of data processing with long-read sequences, the analysis is computationally intensive and energy-consuming. This brief presents an end-to-end CPU-FPGA heterogeneous acceleration system for Minimap2 focusing on chaining operation, in which multi-threaded software is on the CPU, and a multi-kernel accelerator for chaining operation is on the FPGA. This brief can hold the high thread number of modern CPUs to maximize performance and energy efficiency. Hardware-efficient kernel design, software-hardware co-optimization, and memory access fusion techniques have been applied to achieve higher computational performance with less power consumption. This brief achieves at most <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.01times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> acceleration against software and <inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.65times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> against the baseline, and EDP reduction of 72% against software and 59% against the baseline, outperforming state-of-the-art designs. The code of our acceleration system is available on GitHub, together with FPGA bitstream.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1278-1282"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144918378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An 8.1 dB SNRMIN, 17.8 pJ/Conv-Step, Code-Domain Noise Suppression Baseband Scheme for Ultra-Low-Power Receiver","authors":"Jianhang Yang;Rong Zhou;Hongjian Lan;Zhen Li;Xianlong Xiong;Bowen Wang;Zhangming Zhu","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3588918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3588918","url":null,"abstract":"This brief investigates the minimum signal-to-noise-ratio requirement (<inline-formula> <tex-math>${SNR} {_{text {MIN}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) for reliable baseband decoding as a function of code length and oversampling rate. Based on this analysis, we propose a baseband processing scheme for code-domain noise suppression that leverages a level-crossing ADC (LC-ADC) front end. Compared with conventional comparator-based architectures, the proposed design significantly reduces the <inline-formula> <tex-math>${SNR} {_{text {MIN}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, thereby improving receiver sensitivity. A prototype circuit was fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process to validate the proposed approach. Measurement results at 100 bps with a 10-bit wake-up code demonstrate an <inline-formula> <tex-math>${SNR} {_{text {MIN}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of only 8.1 dB and an energy efficiency of 17.8 pJ per conversion step. Beyond ultra-low-power radios, this proposed technique is applicable to a broad range of low-power, weak-signal detection systems.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1153-1157"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 2-MHz BW 64.5-dB SNDR 0.45-1.05 GHz Direct IF/RF Digitization Subsampling Bandpass DSM Utilizing a Capacitive-Stacking N-Path Filter","authors":"Xiao Wang;Runkun Li;Xin Sun;Kong-Pang Pun","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3587662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3587662","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents a novel subsampling bandpass Delta-Sigma modulator (BPDSM) based on transconductor (Gm) - N-path filters (NPF) for direct radio-frequency (RF) / intermediate-frequency (IF) digitization. The proposed architecture introduces two key innovations. First, a subsampling technique is applied that places the input center frequency at <inline-formula> <tex-math>$(3/4) f_{S}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> (versus conventional <inline-formula> <tex-math>$f_{S}/4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> operation), where <inline-formula> <tex-math>$f_{S}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is the sampling frequency. Second, a capacitive-stacking NPF that provides 6-dB passive gain is utilized for: (1) suppressing the amplifier’s thermal noise when referred to the modulator’s input; (2) improving the quantization noise shaping by eliminating redundant notches at even multiples of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$f_{S}/4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in the modulator’s noise transfer function. Fabricated in 65-nm CMOS, the modulator prototype occupies 0.11 mm2 and achieves 0.45 - 1.05 GHz tunability, the highest upper frequency reported for Gm-NPF BPDSMs to the best of the authors’ knowledge. When clocked at 800-MHz, it demonstrates a 64.5-dB peak SNDR over 2-MHz bandwidth centered at 601-MHz, consuming 0.37 mW from a 1.2-V supply. The design records state-of-the-art figure of merit (FoM) values of 161.8 dB Schreier’s FoM and 67.4 fJ/conversion-step Walden’s FoM for BPDSMs operating above 450 MHz.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1138-1142"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A High-Speed Dual Feedback Loop Column Buffer for Ultra Large Pixel Array CMOS Image Sensors","authors":"Liu Suiyang;Guo Zhongjie;Xu Ruiming;Yu Ningmei","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3587906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3587906","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of stitching processes, the resolution of CMOS image sensors has significantly improved, especially in applications such as earth observation and deep space exploration. Although the column-parallel, row-serial readout has numerous advantages and is considered the ideal sensor architecture, it still has frame rate issues caused by the long length of the serial output bus, which leads to large parasitic parameters of the metal lines. Therefore, this brief proposes a dual feedback loop column buffer that implements parallel-serial conversion while introducing the switching on-resistance within the loop to reduce the settling time of the output signal and stabilize the phase margin. A chip containing <inline-formula> <tex-math>$12288{times }12288$ </tex-math></inline-formula> pixels was fabricated using CMOS 55nm 1P4M technology. With a 48-channel output, the chip achieves a frame rate of 10.36 fps. Compared to the single feedback loop column buffer, the risetime of the output signal is reduced by 23.4%, the falltime by 21.9%, and the overall frame rate is improved by 29.6%.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1143-1147"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simon Ooghe;Brendan Saux;Tobias Cromheecke;Johan Raman;Pieter Rombouts
{"title":"A Bit-Level Double Counter Enabling Power-Efficient High-Bandwidth VCO-ADCs","authors":"Simon Ooghe;Brendan Saux;Tobias Cromheecke;Johan Raman;Pieter Rombouts","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3587495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3587495","url":null,"abstract":"In this brief, a counter structure which facilitates the design of a coarse-fine voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at high bandwidths is presented. A key challenge is the asynchrony between the coarse and fine counters for which it is quantitatively proven that effective ambiguity resolution is necessary to obtain a sufficient performance. To achieve this, a latch-based, bit-level redundant coarse counter featuring fast ambiguity resolution and operating at high VCO frequencies is presented. Using this novel counter structure a power-efficient VCO-ADC with a core area of 0.007 mm2 and a post-layout simulated figure-of-merit of 168 dB at a bandwidth of 100 MHz is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1133-1137"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11075872","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seunghoon Lee;Sungbeom Kim;Donghun Lee;Inho Choi;Ho-Jin Song
{"title":"An I/Q Imbalance Calibration Scheme for 5G Direct-Conversion Transmitter","authors":"Seunghoon Lee;Sungbeom Kim;Donghun Lee;Inho Choi;Ho-Jin Song","doi":"10.1109/TCSII.2025.3586873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2025.3586873","url":null,"abstract":"This brief presents an I/Q imbalance calibration scheme for a 5G direct-conversion transmitter (TX). By utilizing a simple 1-bit phase-to-digital converter and 9-bit digital-to-analog converter, a quadrature phase error associated with fabrication tolerances can be minimized effectively using a binary search algorithm. This approach implements a continuous, real-time calibration that adaptively adjusts the resistive components of the type-I polyphase filter in response to detected phase errors, thereby ensuring precise phase alignment by dynamically compensating for I/Q imbalance without interrupting the primary signal path. The proposed idea is demonstrated in the LO path of a 5G direct-conversion transmitter in a 65-nm bulk CMOS technology. The measured image rejection ratio and LO feedthrough suppression ratio are maintained less than −52 dBc and −37 dBc, respectively, in the range of 27.5-29.5 GHz. The TX can support a peak data rate of 4.8 Gb/s at 28.5 GHz using 64-QAM and an error vector magnitude of −27.3 dB.","PeriodicalId":13101,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs","volume":"72 9","pages":"1198-1202"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}