Mohamed F. Tolba, A. M. Abdelaty, L. Said, A. Elwakil, A. Azar, A. Madian, A. Ouannas, A. Radwan
{"title":"FPGA realization of Caputo and Grünwald-Letnikov operators","authors":"Mohamed F. Tolba, A. M. Abdelaty, L. Said, A. Elwakil, A. Azar, A. Madian, A. Ouannas, A. Radwan","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937659","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a hardware platform implementation on FPGA for two fractional-order derivative operators. The Grünwald-Letnikov and Caputo definitions are realized for different fractional orders. The realization is based on non-uniform segmentation algorithm with a variable lookup table. A generic implementation for Grünwald-Letnikov is proposed and a 32 bit Fixed Point Booth multiplier radix-4 is used for Caputo implementation. Carry look-ahead adder, multi-operand adder and booth multiplier are used to improve the performance and other techniques for area and delay minimization have been employed. A comparison between the two presented architectures is introduced. The proposed designs have been simulated using Xilinx ISE and realized on FPGA Xilinx virtex-5 XC5VLX50T. The total area of 2515 look up tables is achieved for Caputo implementation, and maximum frequency of 54.11 MHz and 1498 slices are achieved for Grünwald-Letnikov architecture.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134363732","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}
George N. Solidakis, Fanourios M. Tsokas, Michael C. Batistatos, N. Sagias, G. Tsoulos, D. Zarbouti, G. Athanasiadou
{"title":"An Arduino-based subsystem for controlling UAVs through GSM","authors":"George N. Solidakis, Fanourios M. Tsokas, Michael C. Batistatos, N. Sagias, G. Tsoulos, D. Zarbouti, G. Athanasiadou","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937656","url":null,"abstract":"Long distance and beyond sight of view communication between a ground control station and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is mainly achieved using high-gain antennas, antenna trackers or satellites. These implementations demand expensive, heavy and not easily deployed equipment, while in many cases cannot provide a sufficient communication range. The current work proposes and demonstrates a lightweight and low-cost Arduino-based telecommunication subsystem that is capable of sending control commands to the UAV based on GSM or GPRS the most widely deployed cellular networks standard. During field trials control commands successfully transferred from a mobile phone as well as a laptop to the UAV autopilot, with an average time of 2.6 sec and 0.5 sec respectively. The proposed subsystem can be embedded independently or coexist with other control systems, contributing to a ubiquitous UAVs management system.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134412002","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 the design of the FFT Butterfly Units","authors":"Fotis Douskas, K. Pekmestzi","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937635","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, efficient designs of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Decimation-in-Time (DIT), radix-2, Butterfly Unit are proposed. Several techniques are incorporated in order to achieve higher performance. The operations are fused by keeping the intermediate variables in Carry-Save format. Besides of the conventional, the Gauss complex multiplication algorithm is also explored. Considered that the twiddle factors cosϕ, sinϕ used in FFT algorithm are constant numbers, we apply to them a special NR4SD encoding scheme with the following sets of digit values: {−2, −1, 0, +1}. Finally, to increase the operation speed, one level of pipelining is introduced in all designs. We implement four designs: one conventional and three new Butterfly Units. In all cases, the proposed three schemes are superior in terms of operation speed, area and power, compared to the conventional.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128486687","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":"Modular supervisory control for mining process elevator systems","authors":"F. Koumboulis, D. Fragkoulis, V. C. Michalainas","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937614","url":null,"abstract":"Underground mining process elevator systems are modelled using the discrete event system approach. A parametric model of the system for n gallery levels is developed in the form of a finite deterministic automaton. The desired performance of the system is expressed in the form of a set of desired languages where their properties have been investigated. A bank of supervisors satisfying the desired performance requirements is designed using the modular supervisor control approach.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115568420","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":"The class of 1-bit Multi-Step Look-Ahead ΣΔ modulators and their applications","authors":"Charis Basetas, P. Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937677","url":null,"abstract":"The class of 1-bit Multi-Step Look-Ahead (MSLA) ΣΔ modulators is presented. They take into account current and future quantization errors improving upon the stability and noise shaping characteristics of conventional 1-bit ΣΔ modulators. The MSLA modulator system is found to be equivalent to a number of parallel conventional ΣΔ modulators sharing a multi-input 1-bit quantizer. The number of look-ahead steps along with other design parameters enable fine-tuning of performance vs. hardware complexity according to the application. The performance of MSLA modulators for various design parameter values is investigated, highlighting their advantages in a multitude of applications like digital transmitters, class-D power amplifiers and DACs.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116056502","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":"Generalized family of fractional-order oscillators based on single CFOA and RC network","authors":"L. Said, A. Radwan, A. Madian, A. Soliman","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937641","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a generalized family of fractional-order oscillators based on single CFOA and RC network. Five RC networks are investigated with their general state matrix, and design equations. The general oscillation frequency, condition and the phase difference between the oscillatory outputs are introduced in terms of the fractional order parameters. They add extra degrees of freedom which in turn increase the design flexibility and controllability that is proved numerically. Spice simulations are introduced to validate the theoretical findings.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126635462","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. Marantos, I. Paraskevas, K. Siozios, J. Mothe, C. Menou, D. Soudris
{"title":"FabSpace 2.0: A platform for application and service development based on Earth Observation data","authors":"C. Marantos, I. Paraskevas, K. Siozios, J. Mothe, C. Menou, D. Soudris","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937657","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of FabSpace 2.0 project is to transform Universities to Open Innovation Centers for their corresponding region and improve their societal contribution to the socio-economic and environmental performance. For this purpose, the project provides to students, researchers, as well as to citizens or even companies, with a framework and a digital platform which gives open access to a range of geodata, i.e. Earth Observation data, but also computing and visualization tools. By this way, it is expected that the participants can work in an open co-working space, where they can interact with each other. Additionally, the participants will be assisted to assess the business aspects of any potential idea. The outcome of such an activity is the increase of possibility for participants to find a revolutionary concept, which can result to new and sustainable applications and/or services. Moreover the target group exceeds the usual Earth Observation professionals, and focuses also in professionals of other disciplines, where the use of Earth Observation data can create novel technologies.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125219562","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}
Eudoxia Magganopoulou, T. Zygiridis, P. Sarigiannidis, N. Kantartzis
{"title":"Performance improvement of various antennas using inclusions of split-ring resonators","authors":"Eudoxia Magganopoulou, T. Zygiridis, P. Sarigiannidis, N. Kantartzis","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937681","url":null,"abstract":"Split-ring resonators (SRRs) are fundamental elements of metamaterials, which exhibit attractive properties and find various electromagnetic applications. In this paper, we consider the inclusion of SRRs for improving the performance of various antennas, with respect to their radiation patterns, electrical size or wideband response. The provided results verify that incorporating SRRs in the radiator design provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for upgrading the characteristics of standard antenna elements, without resorting to more complex or costly alternative solutions.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121679547","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":"Multi-operand logarithmic addition/subtraction based on Fractional Normalization","authors":"Giorgos Tsiaras, Vassilis Paliouras","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937686","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method for adding several numbers represented in the Logarithmic Number System (LNS). The proposed technique is based on the normalization towards the largest input number. The distinct steps of the original two-input addition/subtraction using Fractional Normalization method (FN) [1] are modified in order to achieve performance and reduce hardware requirements. Three multi-operand adders are analyzed and compared: The first architecture uses the original FN method, the second one uses an introduced two-step modified FN (MFN) method, and the third architecture uses full MFN method. The proposed multi-operand adders are synthesized and evaluated for complexity and performance using a 65-nm 0.9V UMC CMOS library, for the cases of 4, 8, 16 inputs and an 11-bit word length.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130668203","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 of amplitude detection techniques for passive receivers in molecular communications","authors":"Georgia D. Ntouni, G. Karagiannidis","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937650","url":null,"abstract":"Amplitude detection is based on observations of the information carrying molecules made at the receiver and can be enhanced by optimizing the timing and the number of them. In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communications system with a passive receiver is analysed under two different amplitude based detection techniques. In particular, low complexity detectors utilizing a single or multiple observations are evaluated and compared in terms of the achievable mean error probability, when external noise and interference are considered.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129434113","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}