{"title":"High current short pulse generator for pulse magneto-oscillation (PMO) research","authors":"A. Shoihet, M. Shvartsas, B. Gdaliahu, I. Edry","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376977","url":null,"abstract":"Pulse magneto-oscillation (PMO) is one of the new techniques, developed for solidification structure refinement of metals and alloys, as it is was found in experimental results from the last decade. When electromagnetic pulses are applied to a molten metal during its solidification, the Lorentz forces causes to pressure waves, which change the microstructure from columnar dendrites to globular grains. PMO has a great potential in precise controlling of the solidification microstructure. The current work presents the development and the construction of a high current short pulse generator, which was required for the PMO research. The sample configuration consists of the non conductive crucible with a molten metal, which is placed coaxially inside a solenoid coil. The pulse generator is able to introduce short pulses with current amplitude of kA order into the coil. The proposed generator is based on resonance LCL circuit structure using a high current SCR switch. The fundamental idea of the power system is to convert a low-power, long-time input into a high-power, short-time output. Using resonant LC topologies, the durable resonant capacitor charging process established firstly, drawing low current from the net. Afterward, high frequency, high amplitude capacitor discharging process provides the necessary current to the work coil. The calculations and simulations of the system parameters and operation are described and the results of the experimental system behavior are shown. The theoretical considerations and the test results were found to be closely resembled.","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":"130265063","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}
G. Oren, A. Schwartz, A. Bekker, B. Levit, B. Fischer
{"title":"Multi-dimensional laser mode combs via active mode-locking","authors":"G. Oren, A. Schwartz, A. Bekker, B. Levit, B. Fischer","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376919","url":null,"abstract":"We present a realization and first experimental results of a conceptual d-dimensional laser mode lattices (mode hyper-combs). They are constructed from regular 1-dimensional combs by multi-frequency modulation in active mode-locking (AML). The hyper-comb, with near neighbor mode interaction and noise functioning as temperature, is mapped to interacting magnetic spin-lattices in the spherical-model, which is one of the few statistical-mechanics systems soluble in all dimensions. Such systems have in d>;2 dimensions, a phase-transition to a global mode-phase-ordered hyper-comb. Such lasers can have unique properties for generating short pulses compared to regular AML, by capturing very broad frequency bandwidths. Additionally, the hyper-combs can serve as a rare physical realization of the spherical-model in any dimension. We report on preliminary experimental results on the pulsation transition in \"three-dimensional\" AML.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"62 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":"129551519","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. Kapilevich, Y. Pinhasi, M. Anisimov, B. Litvak, D. Hardon
{"title":"Quasi-noise illumination in mm-wave imaging: From concept to realization","authors":"B. Kapilevich, Y. Pinhasi, M. Anisimov, B. Litvak, D. Hardon","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377104","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the W-band single-pixel imaging de tector with a pulse-noise source in the Tx-channel and the direct detecting circuitry in the Rx-channel. The detector is maintained on X-Y programmable scanner controlled by LabView interface which is integrated with MatLab used for online image reconstruction. The application of an incoherent illumination generated by the frequency-limited quasi noise source improves image quality compared with the coherent mode widely used in conventional active imagers.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"21 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":"130871739","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":"Fusion filter for hyperspectral target detection","authors":"Elad Cohen, R. Peiser, S. Rotman","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376943","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents work done using Schaum's fusion method, implemented in the CFAR (constant false alarm ratio) approach on a set of data in order to evaluate the success rate of this method with regard to common popular methods such as the GLRT, RX and a competing Projection Method created by the authors. The testing scheme involved the introduction of a free parameter in the form of a shading factor which affects similarly both the background and the target. Finally, the simulation results will be presented and discussed together with an analysis of the error regions from the fusion method implementation to outline the expected operation performance envelope for the fusion algorithm.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"110 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":"128732567","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":"Error correction based on hamming distance preserving in arithmetical and logical operations","authors":"S. Dolev, S. Frenkel, D. Tamir","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376946","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional approach to fault tolerant computing involves replicating computation units and applying a majority vote operation on individual result bits. This approach, however, has several limitations; the most severe is the resource requirement. This paper presents a new method for fault tolerant computing where for a given error rate, the hamming distance between correct inputs and faulty inputs as well as the hamming distance between a correct result and a faulty result is preserved throughout processing; thereby enabling correction of up to transient faults per computation cycle. The new method is compared and contrasted with current protection methods and its cost / performance is analyzed.","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":"122445819","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}
Y. Bar-Yosef, R. Aloni-Lavi, I. Opher, N. Lotner, E. Tetariy, V. Silber-Varod, V. Aharonson, A. Moyal
{"title":"Automatic learning of phonetic mappings for cross-language phonetic-search in keyword spotting","authors":"Y. Bar-Yosef, R. Aloni-Lavi, I. Opher, N. Lotner, E. Tetariy, V. Silber-Varod, V. Aharonson, A. Moyal","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376955","url":null,"abstract":"Phonetic-search (PS) is an extremely fast technique used for spoken keyword spotting over large amounts of audio data. PS is based on matching a desired phonetic pattern over existing phonetic lattices, avoiding heavy computations of acoustic probabilities during the search. Since PS requires substantial acoustic and language resources (LR) for training acoustic models, there is a need for reducing model training costs to support new target languages. Particular cases of under-resourced languages pose even a greater challenge for PS as the available LR are not sufficient for acoustic model training. This study examines methods for keyword search in a new target language, using existing models of another source language in the lattice generation phase. We explore methodologies for learning cross-language phonetic mappings depending on the availability of data in the target language. We describe three approaches for creating phonetic-mappings: linguistic, acoustic, and statistic, introducing an efficient way for learning a robust statistical cross-language mapping. Our cross-language PS experiments showed that learning a good cross-language mapping can alleviate acoustic mismatches between languages, to significantly improve cross-language phonetic-search.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"44 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":"121270370","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":"Five-parameter model of photovoltaic cell based on STC data and dimensionless","authors":"S. Lineykin, M. Averbukh, A. Kuperman","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377079","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a novel approach of the “singlediode” equivalent circuit model estimation, which is based on analysis of the characteristics of the solar panel supplied by the manufacturer. The method combines solution of a system of algebraic equations with optimization algorithm for extracting the seven photovoltaic module parameters of the single diode lumped circuit model. These parameters are the photocurrent, the reverse bias saturation current, the ideality factor, the series resistance, the shunt resistance, the bandgap energy, and the temperature coefficient of the photo-generating current. A minimal set of experimental data is required for parameter extraction. In many cases, the required parameters can be extracted directly from the manufacturer's data. The number of solar panels of different types of manufacturers were analyzed. All the models have been obtained from the manufacturer's data only. The precision of simulation results is about 0.1%-0.5% for STC.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"31 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":"127109758","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 constant energy constellation OFDM signal model with applications","authors":"Igal Kotzer, Smadar Har-Nevo, S. Sodin, S. Litsyn","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376994","url":null,"abstract":"A novel model for constant energy constellation (the data is drawn from equi-energy symbols) discrete time OFDM signal is presented. Based on this model the moments of the OFDM signal's envelope maximum as well as the moments of the energy of the clipped portion of the signal are computed. It is also shown that the rate at which the expected value of the maximum scales with the length of the signal coincides with Halasz' result. Simulation are presented, which show that this model gives much better results than the conventional Gaussian model in approximation of statistical properties of an OFDM signal.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"2008 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":"123808962","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. Fire, D. Kagan, Rami Puzis, L. Rokach, Y. Elovici
{"title":"Data mining opportunities in geosocial networks for improving road safety","authors":"M. Fire, D. Kagan, Rami Puzis, L. Rokach, Y. Elovici","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377049","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic measurements, road safety studies, and surveys are required for efficient road planning and ensuring the safety of transportation. Unfortunately, these methods can be cumbersome and very expensive. In this paper we point out a source of transportation information that is based on collaborative community-based navigation applications, such as Waze. Partial and anonimized information publicly exposed by Waze through their application provides valuable information that can significantly ease the future of transportation studies. Moreover, we show that Waze user reports may expose locations plagued with accidents but in lacking police coverage. This knowledge may help police departments to improve road safety by relocating the police units to these locations. Lastly, the data discussed in this paper connects transportation and road safety research to location based services and social network platforms.","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":"127727873","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":"Architectural comparison between VLIW and Vector processors","authors":"G. Yuval, A. Mendelson, S. Greenberg","doi":"10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377077","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging standards for wireless communication and multimedia involve complex digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms that require support for both typical DSP kernels and control-oriented tasks. Modern DSP processor architecture must meet the changing needs of DSP applications that target these very demanding standards. This paper considers the efficiency of selected DSP architectures and how they process the LTE software framework used in wireless communication. Three architectural approaches are compared - VLIW, Vector, and Hybrid approach - in terms of their performance, area, and power consumption. Performance analysis is based on a Performance Accurate Simulator (PAC) executing optimized code for each of the architectures. Area and power consumption estimates are based on a synthesis of an existing DSP processor employing a dedicated power simulator. The VLIW approach outperforms the other two architectures. However, results show that the Hybrid approach, which combines both VLIW and Vector processors, is the most efficient architecture in terms of performance-to-power ratio.","PeriodicalId":177385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel","volume":"65 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":"127522863","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}