{"title":"Application of approximate trigonometric expansions to multiresolution signal representation","authors":"Q. Memon, T. Kasparis","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535085","url":null,"abstract":"Signal representation and data coding for multidimensional signals have received considerable attention due to their importance to several modern technologies. Many useful contributions have been reported that employ wavelets and transform methods. Transform techniques have been generally applied for waveform coding, where constrained representation has been widely used. There is tradeoff between transform efficiency and ease of its implementation and the application depends upon the criterion applicable in any particular case. There exists an approximate Fourier expansion (AFE) with theoretically uncorrelated coefficients. Approximate trigonometric expansions have the capability of fast implementation as well as relatively better decorrelation efficiency than the discrete cosine transform. Some properties of these expansions along with their application to images has already been explored. We apply approximate trigonometric expansions to 1-D signals. Signal decomposition of the signal has been widely used with the discrete cosine transform for signal compression. Here, 1-D signals are decomposed using approximate Fourier expansion (AFE) and later these decomposed signals are represented using an approximate cosine expansion (ACE) for purposes of coding. Computer simulation results are presented.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127380523","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":"Brushless DC motor positioning system","authors":"C. Melear","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535111","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to describe a brushless DC motor control circuit based on the MC68332 microcontroller and its unique time processing unit or TPU. This timer has preprogrammed algorithms that are developed specifically for the brushless DC motor. The function of monitoring the shaft position and generating the necessary waveforms to drive the motor are automatically created by the time processor unit. The main central processor on the MC68332 can devote itself to calculating the control algorithm used to drive the motor instead of being concerned with reading data from external elements to find out the shaft position and then creating the appropriate response.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133464847","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":"Efficient electric vehicle lighting using LEDs","authors":"W. Young, W. Wilson","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535078","url":null,"abstract":"Electric vehicles are very energy conscience. Replacing the inefficient incandescent lights with more efficient lights, such as light emitting diodes (LED), would conserve energy and help increase the vehicle's range. Because LEDs produce light at the needed wavelength for automotive use, less energy is consumed by the lighting fixture when compared to the white light generated by incandescent bulbs. One development is super-bright LEDs that produce light at greater efficiency. This paper discusses the performance of new super-bright LEDs, their use and design consideration for automotive lighting applications.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121568321","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}
C. Yeh, J. Luo, L. Lewicki, K.W. Hwang, C. Huang, H. Chen, C. Kao, R. Mendel
{"title":"Compact MOSFET modeling for mixed-signal design","authors":"C. Yeh, J. Luo, L. Lewicki, K.W. Hwang, C. Huang, H. Chen, C. Kao, R. Mendel","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535096","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the requirements of a good compact MOSFET model for mixed-signal design are discussed. The model accuracy criteria based on the circuit designer's perspective are given. The issues of statistical modeling, model implementation in a circuit simulator and mixed-signal process characterization are also addressed.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115319979","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":"Rapid prototyping for communications design validation","authors":"M. Courtoy","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535042","url":null,"abstract":"System emulation technology enables users to rapidly prototype HDL-based designs on programmable hardware before committing their designs to production. In this paper, we show that this methodology is particularly viable for at-speed verification of communications designs. We show how complimentary tools can be used to generate HDL code for a digital wireless communications system. Then we consider how this design can be implemented and evaluated using a rapid prototyping methodology. Synthesis produces a gate-level specification for implementation in FPGAs which are combined with other components in the Aptix rapid prototyping environment. Issues discussed include: software tool flows, prototype hardware assembly, system performance, and debugging.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125589385","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":"Teaching electrical safety in engineering (or how to avoid electrocution)","authors":"J. R. Story","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535069","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps the most dangerous, life threatening situations are those that are invisible, and emit no warning signs; yet we live and work around these every day. In many engineering programs, this subject is assumed to be \"covered somewhere\", or at least understood based on covered theory. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Through surveying many engineering seniors and graduate students on topics in electrical safety, it was found that most have little to no knowledge of a relatively simple, but extremely important topic, i.e., electrical safety. This is especially true in disciplines other than electrical engineering, e.g., mechanical, civil, industrial, etc. There is a basic set of life saving questions that everyone (even nonengineers) should be able to answer, both theoretically and practically. The purpose of this paper is to answer some key questions, present some theory, and introduce some practical interactive demos that teachers can use in their class to drive home this most important aspect of electrical safety.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116108525","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":"Electromagnetic fields: can't live without them, can't live with them","authors":"R. Desai, D.T. Shah","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535070","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this paper is to show that we are surrounded by the electromagnetic fields (EMF) at home, work, and play. It also discusses some major epidemiological and laboratory studies showing the dangerous effects of EMF. Some safety measures that can be implemented to minimize these exposures are discussed.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126972922","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}
Yi Luo, Wen Wang, Tong-ning Li, Bin He, Xiaohang Du
{"title":"Fabrication of 1.3 /spl mu/m InGaAsP/InP gain-coupled DFB lasers with absorptive grating using LPE technique","authors":"Yi Luo, Wen Wang, Tong-ning Li, Bin He, Xiaohang Du","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535095","url":null,"abstract":"Research on a 1.3 /spl mu/m InGaAsP/InP gain-coupled DFB laser with loss gratings, which is made using LPE, is reported for the first time, and some initial results on the device characteristics are also presented.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125934996","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 simulation and genetic algorithm approach to stochastic research constrained project scheduling","authors":"J. Pet-Edwards, M. Mollaghesemi","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535089","url":null,"abstract":"Resource constrained project scheduling problems are very difficult to solve to optimality. Because of the computational complexity, scheduling heuristics have been found useful for large deterministic problems. However, these scheduling heuristics have not been applied to problems with stochastic task durations. Heuristics are often combined to try to achieve better performance. When this is done, a search over all possible combinations is generally required. This is again a very computationally intensive task, especially for stochastic problems. We demonstrate how a genetic algorithm can be used to determine the best linear combination of scheduling heuristics. A simulation model is used to evaluate the performance of each combination of the heuristics selected by the genetic algorithm, and this performance information is used by the genetic algorithm to select the next combinations to evaluate. The genetic algorithm and simulation based approach is demonstrated using a multiple resource constrained project scheduling problem with stochastic task durations.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"16 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125626956","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":"Subsampling digital IF receiver implementations","authors":"J. Fakatselis, D. Chester","doi":"10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOUTHC.1996.535049","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the concept of direct digital down-conversion via subsampling and digital quadrature tuning. In theory, a bandpass filtered intermediate frequency (IF) signal can be sampled by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a sampling rate consistent with the pass band width and center frequency of the signal of interest. During the sampling process, the bandpass signal is constructively aliased to baseband. The practical limits of such an implementation are that the bandwidth and timing accuracy of the ADC's track and hold circuitry must be consistent with the IF location of the signal of interest. The subsampling ADC can be immediately followed by a quadrature digital tuner to provide fine tuning and produce a baseband quadrature signal ready for baseband processing. The combination of the subsampling ADC and digital quadrature tuner forms a complete digital IF processing chain.","PeriodicalId":199600,"journal":{"name":"Southcon/96 Conference Record","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131279087","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}