R. Gillon, G. Gangemi, M. Grosso, F. Fummi, M. Poncino
{"title":"Multi-domain simulation as a foundation for the engineering of smart systems: Challenges and the SMAC vision","authors":"R. Gillon, G. Gangemi, M. Grosso, F. Fummi, M. Poncino","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050121","url":null,"abstract":"Technology and market evolutions in smart-systems call for a new design paradigm which is focused on the integration of the development processes in the various engineering disciplines through timely exchange of models, tuned to the specific needs of the different users. According to the vision of the SMAC consortium, these models should be generated automatically through appropriate abstraction flows. The present paper reviews the challenges related to the design of smart-systems and in particular multi-domain simulation and presents the solutions being experimented in the project.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123086462","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":"Comparison study between single and differential miniature UWB antenna","authors":"Olivier Clauzier, S. Bories, C. Delaveaud","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050118","url":null,"abstract":"A comparison study between single and differential - UWB - antenna approach for body area network (BAN) applications is proposed in this paper. For compactness reasons, the antennas are studied in order to be integrated on a chip packaging (QFN64 package). In addition, a special attention has been given to design antennas with main polarization normal to the human head. Two antennas structure has been developed taking into account these strong requirements. These antennas provide broadband characteristics and omnidirectional radiation patterns over the whole 7-9 GHz frequency band. Antennas performances obtained by simulation and measurement are compared in order to open a discussion on the advantages and drawbacks of each structure.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117111150","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. Delgado-Restituto, A. Rodríguez-Pérez, Angela A. Darie, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, C. Soto-Sánchez, E. Fernández-Jover
{"title":"In vivo measurements with a 64-channel extracellular neural recording integrated circuit","authors":"M. Delgado-Restituto, A. Rodríguez-Pérez, Angela A. Darie, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, C. Soto-Sánchez, E. Fernández-Jover","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050028","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents in vivo measurements obtained from an implantable 64-channel neural recording Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) developed at IMSE and gives details of the computer interface used for real-time data acquisition. This interface connects the ASIC to a conventional 2.0 USB port by means of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Communications are bidirectional and employ custom protocols both for delivering commands to the ASIC and for recording neural information under different channel selection and operation modes. The link is controlled by a user-friendly programming interface written in C++ which includes a built-in routine to efficiently index and store the captured data. Measurements demonstrate the suitability of the ASIC for capturing local field and action potentials with two different microelectrode array platforms.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115519648","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":"Blind calibration of nonlinearity mismatch errors in two-channel time-interleaved ADCs","authors":"Yinan Wang, H. Johansson, Hui Xu, Z. Sun","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050052","url":null,"abstract":"To preserve the effective resolution of the individual converters in time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TIADCs), channel mismatches should be carefully corrected. In this paper, the proposed method is concentrated on achieving adaptive blind calibration for nonlinearity mismatches in two-channel TIADCs. It utilizes a least-mean square (LMS) algorithm as well as a polynomial-represented nonlinearity model. We assume a certain degree of oversampling for the overall converter to estimate and compensate for the mismatch errors. The calibration accuracy and convergence rate are investigated and evaluated through behavioral-level simulations.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128474393","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":"Ultra-wideband antenna integrated with dual-band dielectric resonator","authors":"I. Messaoudene, T. Denidni, A. Benghalia","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049943","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we proposed a novel integrated ultra-wideband (UWB) monopole antenna with dual-band antenna. The antenna consists of planar rectangular with semi-elliptical base and a rectangular dielectric resonator (DRA) with dual-band operation. Both of them are excited via coplanar waveguide (CPW) lines. The numerical results show that the planar monopole provides a -10dB impedance bandwidth between 2GHz and 12 GHz which largely covers the entire UWB spectrum, and the rectangular DRA operates at two bands; 5.7-6.2 GHz and 8.2-9.7 GHz. The electromagnetic analysis is carried out using CST microwave studio and HFSS software. The numerical results, obtained from simulation, are given and compared in terms of S parameters and radiation patterns.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114359832","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}
D. Tassis, I. Messaris, N. Fasarakis, A. Tsormpatzoglou, S. Nikolaidis, C. Dimitriadis
{"title":"Variability of nanoscale triple gate FinFETs: Prediction and analysis method","authors":"D. Tassis, I. Messaris, N. Fasarakis, A. Tsormpatzoglou, S. Nikolaidis, C. Dimitriadis","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050084","url":null,"abstract":"Our analytical compact drain current model for undoped or lightly doped nanoscale FinFETs has been successfully used to predict variability in the electrical characteristics of FinFETs. A simplified version of the model behaves almost as good as the analytical model but is more computational time efficient. Implementation of the models in verilog-A can be used to predict variability in circuits such as the inverter.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121729888","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}
Rachid Hamani, C. Andrei, B. Jarry, Mien Lintignat
{"title":"LNA circuit design counting the interconnect line parasitics","authors":"Rachid Hamani, C. Andrei, B. Jarry, Mien Lintignat","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049994","url":null,"abstract":"This paper, presents a 24GHz Amplifier circuit demonstrator designed and fabricated in 0.25μm BiCMOS mature technology from NXP Semiconductors in order to evaluate the effect of the interconnect lines on impedance matching. It features 11 dB of gain, 7.6 dB of noise figure (NF) at the working frequency. The input/output impedances are matched close to 50 Ohm with an input return loss of-12 dB and output return loss of about -13 dB. The matching methodology is improved by considering the interconnect lines (from the Layout view) in the matching networks. Schematic circuit simulations and measurements are used to evaluate the amplifier circuit performances. The results are presented here and show a good agreement between both, measurements and simulations.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116820211","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":"Impulse-radio ultra-wideband modulation and detection techniques for body area networks","authors":"I. Dotlic, R. Miura","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050113","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyses several modulation and detection pairs for Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) Body Area Networks (BANs). First, transceiver architectures with and without chirp pulse compression are described. After that, exact expressions for the bit error probabilities in noise are given. At the end, numerical analysis is performed that includes performances in noise and performances in multiple access interference, which are especially critical for medical IR-UWB BANs.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115246267","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":"An energy-efficient dynamic-integrator-based ΔΣ modulator","authors":"Ryo Matsushiba, Kazuma Ohara, T. Waho","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7050023","url":null,"abstract":"An energy-efficient second-order ΔΣ modulator for low-power, low-frequency applications has been demonstrated. It uses a dynamic common-source integrator, where a MOSFET turns off after charge redistribution is completed. Thus, there are virtually no static current flows in the present integrator, reducing the power consumed by the ΔΣ modulator. A chip was fabricated as a proof of concept. A peak signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 70dB was obtained at a sampling frequency of 0.5 MHz with an oversampling ratio (OSR) of 128. We proved that power consumption was proportional to the sampling frequency and that low figure-of-merit (FOM) values were obtained for a relatively wide range of the sampling frequencies, which agrees well with predictions obtained from circuit simulations.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"269 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115565323","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}
Taufique Z. Redhwan, M. Chowdhury, Hafiz Abdur Rahman
{"title":"A Neyman-Pearson approach to the development of low cost earthquake detection and damage mitigation system using sensor fusion","authors":"Taufique Z. Redhwan, M. Chowdhury, Hafiz Abdur Rahman","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049954","url":null,"abstract":"Damage mitigation of critical infrastructures onset of an earthquake is a very important matter. In our work, we developed an earthquake warning and protection system through P-wave sensing that detects earliest onset of an earthquake before damaging ground shaking occurs. Our approach captures P-wave using redundant channels (dual sensors) and minimizes the possibilities of false triggers from harmless, momentary ground shaking. The system comprises a piezoelectric detector and a digital three-axis silicon accelerometer. The core of this study focuses on the detection algorithm using the collected data to decide if an earthquake is occurring. The algorithm is adaptive and is based on a probabilistic approach over a sliding window to maximize the detection of events, keeping the probability of false alarms under a fixed rate. Finally experimental results are provided showing the system meets the expected performance with both artificial and real seismic stimuli. One possible extension of our approach could be implementing geological wireless sensor networks using contemporary smartphones for data acquisition.","PeriodicalId":133747,"journal":{"name":"2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123670820","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}