{"title":"Post optimization of a clock tree for power supply noise reduction","authors":"Y. Kaplan, S. Wimer","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377136","url":null,"abstract":"The voltage drop incurred in the power supply in today's VLSI chips to is a major concern known as power-supply noise. In sub one-volt supply voltage, noise of very few hundreds millivolts causes circuit malfunction. The reason for power supply noise is the fast and simultaneous transistor switching. While the logic signal switching is spread across the entire clock cycle, the switching of the clock tree and the sequential circuits are occurring simultaneously, causing high local current peaks. The clock related transistor switching is the primary contributor to power supply noise. This paper proposes to spread the switching of clock tree drivers in an attempt to reduce the peak-current, while maintaining the clock signal quality and low skew at the far end tree's leaves where the sequential circuits are connected. A methodology of cell switching characterization was developed for fast computation of peak-current and other signals parameters. This computation is embedded in a branch and bound tree traversal. We propose a novel optimization algorithm based on clock tree delay-invariant branch transformation, replacing low-threshold by high-threshold and smaller size drivers. The algorithm was implemented in 40 nanometers design. We achieved a reduction of 50% of clock-tree peak-current.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116560110","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":"Adaptive spectral filtering for Nyquist-WDM generation with an LCoS-based photonic spectral processor","authors":"D. Sinefeld, D. Marom, S. Ben-Ezra","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376985","url":null,"abstract":"We employ a photonic spectral processor for modulating the spectral components of an optical signal at high resolution and shaping the channel response of a Gaussian filter to square-like shape, compatible with Nyquist WDM requirements.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123835604","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":"Effect of latency time in high frequencies on sound localization","authors":"V. Evelkin, I. Cohen","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376949","url":null,"abstract":"Tactical military headsets allow hearing protection and communication between soldiers using surround technology. In this paper, we investigate the effect of latency time between low and high frequencies on the ability of a person to correctly identify an external sound source direction with tactical military headsets. The latency time between low and high frequencies results from a digital processing unit. Low frequencies from an external sound source are not processed; therefore, they are received in the ear canal before the digitally processed higher frequencies. Two experiments were conducted using non-individualized Head Related Transfer Function and headphones for trained and untrained volunteers. The experiments were done for two types of sources: human speech and white Gaussian noise, and were performed with latency times of zero, 20msec, and 40msec applied to frequencies below 20Hz. The experimental results show that the errors in sound localization accuracy in both experiments are fewer for signals without latency time, compared to processed signals with latency times between low and high frequencies.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125037912","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":"Integration of LDA into a telephone conversation speaker diarization system","authors":"I. Lapidot, J. Bonastre","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376948","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we examine whether linear discriminant analysis (LDA) can improve the diarization performance, when used as an additional phase in a telephone conversation diarization system. We first apply a classical diarization system. Using systems output (to define the classes of interest) an LDA transformation on the mel-cepstrum features is performed. Then, the final diarization process is applied onto the transformed features. A relative improvement of 14.8% was obtained on LDC America CallHome database. The LDA seemed sensible to both segment duration and amount of data available for training, as shown by the results obtained on NIST SRE-05 database where no significative improvement was observed.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125093417","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":"Review and classification of gain cell eDRAM implementations","authors":"A. Teman, P. Meinerzhagen, A. Burg, A. Fish","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377022","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing requirement of a high-density, high-performance, low-power alternative to traditional SRAM, Gain Cell (GC) embedded DRAMs have gained a renewed interest in recent years. Several industrial and academic publications have presented GC memory implementations for various target applications, including high-performance processor caches, wireless communication memories, and biomedical system storage. In this paper, we review and compare the recent publications, examining the design requirements and the implementation techniques that lead to achievement of the required design metrics of these applications.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125903144","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. Ben Moshe, N. Shvalb, J. Baadani, I. Nagar, H. Levy
{"title":"Indoor positioning and navigation for micro UAV drones — Work in progress","authors":"B. Ben Moshe, N. Shvalb, J. Baadani, I. Nagar, H. Levy","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377021","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are used for various purposes, such as search and rescue, various military missions and aerial photography. This work focuses on positioning and navigation methods for micro UAV drones operating in indoor environments, which are probably the most challenging environments for UAVs. We present a new virtual sensor comprised of an optical-flow sensor, an orientation sensor, a range sensor and a geometric camera. The components we have used to construct this sensor are very small and lightweight, and therefore suitable for micro UAVs. We discuss the specifics of this fusion sensor and explain why its capabilities are equivalent and occasionally superior to the capabilities of alternative solutions that are typically larger, more expensive and require significantly more computing resources. Our experimental results include a demonstration of a semi-autonomous micro UAV drone that succeeds to navigate in an unfamiliar indoor environment.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126150729","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. Sinefeld, D. Shayovitz, O. Golani, Y. Fattoi, D. Marom
{"title":"Adaptive rate and bandwidth WDM optical sampling pulse streams with an LCoS-based biased pulse shaper","authors":"D. Sinefeld, D. Shayovitz, O. Golani, Y. Fattoi, D. Marom","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376998","url":null,"abstract":"We generate transform-limited WDM optical sampling pulse streams, as an alternative to time-stretched optical sampling in photonically-assisted analog-to-digital conversion applications. A single LCoS processor used as a biased pulse shaper arrangement compresses and retimes user-selectable bandwidths from an optical short pulse source.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130066417","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":"Real-time simultaneous state estimation and parameters identification of linear drive system with the SPOC based algorithm","authors":"I. Rusnak, R. Mainer, O. Rosenberg","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376938","url":null,"abstract":"The State and Parameters Observability Canonical (SPOC) form based estimator is a nonparametric identification algorithm. It simultaneously estimates the plant's state and identifies the parameters of the plant. The algorithm has been implemented in SIMULINK® within the dSPACE® Real-Time Control Environment to identify in real-time a real linear drive system. The performance in real-time shows the ability of the SPOC based algorithm to perform on real hardware in noisy environment. The presented results demonstrate the ability of the SPOC based algorithm to simultaneously estimate the states and the parameters in real-time of linear motion system.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128849304","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":"Source coding with composite side information at the decoder","authors":"A. Khina, U. Erez","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377016","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a source-coding scenario in which composite side information is available at the decoder, viz. part of it is known non-causally, whereas the other part is available only causally - by this combining the treatment of Wyner and Ziv with that of Weissman and El Gamal. We then consider the joint source-channel coding problem of transmitting a source with composite side information at the decoder over a channel with composite side information at the encoder. We show that the separation principle between source coding with composite side information and its dual channel problem holds, thus extending the result of Merhav and Shamai to the case of composite side informations. These results provide a unified framework for treating the causal side information case, the non-causal stateinformation case, as well as a mixture of the two.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129518116","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":"On sparse sensing of coded signals at Sub-Landau sampling rates","authors":"M. Peleg, S. Shamai","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376921","url":null,"abstract":"Sparse sampling is examined jointly with encoding the transmitted signal. It is shown that with coding the Landau condition may be relaxed and the sampling rate can be lower than the effective bandwidth. Equivalently, the number of measurements can be smaller than the support size. Tight bounds on information rates and on support detection performance are derived for the Gaussian sparsely sampled channel using the context of state dependent channels. Support detection results are verified by a simulation.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129888179","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}