{"title":"Population count circuits for Associative Memories: A comparison study","authors":"L. Frontini, A. Stabile, V. Liberali","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937631","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel population count circuit for Associative Memories (AM)s. Currently, AM chips requires a large number of silicon area for the population count circuitry. For this reason, is necessary an optimization in terms of area for the future AM devices to have a better memory density. A population count circuit counts how many blocks of the AM are in a matching state. If the count sum is greater than a preconfigured threshold, the output wire is set to ‘1’, otherwise is set to ‘0’. In the existing circuits there are, in addition, several control signals that are used to increase the circuit flexibility, but these controls require a large number of transistors and interconnections. The purpose of the proposed circuit is to reduce the number of transistors and interconnections complexity, with the final aim to reduce the occupied silicon area.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"319 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":"133366072","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}
Stylianos-Georgios Papadopoulos, V. Gerakis, A. Hatzopoulos
{"title":"Oscillation-based technique for TSV post-bond test considerations","authors":"Stylianos-Georgios Papadopoulos, V. Gerakis, A. Hatzopoulos","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937671","url":null,"abstract":"Through Silicon VIAs (TSVs) are critical elements in three dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs). Various defects may occur during their fabrication process, the bonding stage or during their useful lifetime. In this work a testing method is suggested to detect the defects using a post-bond oscillation test scheme. Variations in the output signal's frequency are shown to detect the defects in TSVs. Simulations show the effectiveness of the method. The process and temperature variations, as well as Monte Carlo and delay analysis, provide more information about the conditions under which this method can be used for parametric defects.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"11 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":"115449906","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}
Georgios Dimitriou, Michael F. Dossis, G. Stamoulis
{"title":"Loop pipelining in high-level synthesis with CCC","authors":"Georgios Dimitriou, Michael F. Dossis, G. Stamoulis","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937663","url":null,"abstract":"High-level synthesis allows the use of high-level programming languages for hardware design. Traditional programming with the C and ADA languages can lead to efficient hardware description through recently developed high-level synthesis tools. Compilers play an important role in this process, since they can bridge differences between software programming and hardware design methodologies, thus making high-level synthesis tools better accepted by the scientific community. Furthermore, modern compiler optimizations can be employed in order to obtain optimal hardware descriptions. Loop transformations are often the focus of compiler optimizations, since they can result in significant performance improvement, for both software and hardware programming. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of loop pipelining in the front-end compiler of the CCC high-level synthesis tool, and in particular we present new optimization techniques that lead to a decreased number of states in the FSM-based output of CCC. We present several experiments conducted on the Livermore loops and the MPEG2 open-source code, which prove the claimed improvement.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"11 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":"123855780","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. Prousalis, C. Volos, I. Stouboulos, I. Kyprianidis
{"title":"A 4D Hyperjerk memristive system with hidden attractors","authors":"D. Prousalis, C. Volos, I. Stouboulos, I. Kyprianidis","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937652","url":null,"abstract":"A new 4-D memristive system is presented in this paper. The peculiarity of the model is that it displays a line of equilibrium points and it has hyperjerk dynamics in a particular range of the parameters space. The behavior of the proposed system is investigated through numerical simulations, by using phase portraits, Lyapunov exponents and bifurcation diagrams. Also, its circuital implementation confirms the memristive systems expected dynamics.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"6 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":"124144830","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}
P. Oikonomou, M. Koziri, Antonios N. Dadaliaris, Thanasis Loukopoulos, G. Stamoulis
{"title":"Domocus: Lock free parallel legalization in standard cell placement","authors":"P. Oikonomou, M. Koziri, Antonios N. Dadaliaris, Thanasis Loukopoulos, G. Stamoulis","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937644","url":null,"abstract":"In the cell placement problem a circuit's cells must be placed within a specified chip area so that they are row aligned and contain no overlaps. The problem is usually tackled in phases, whereby in the first phase a global placer performs an initial spreading of cells with regards to some optimization criterion, most commonly wire length minimization. The output of the first phase might violate alignment and overlap constraints, therefore in a second phase, called legalization, the target is to restore constraint violations while incurring minimal changes compared to global placement. Since legalization may also be a subcomponent of iterative global placers, efficient algorithms both in terms of solution quality and running time are of paramount importance. In this paper we present a framework for lock-free parallelism of legalization scheme. The framework is evaluated using Abacus, an algorithm that is well documented to achieve good solution quality but incurring high running time. We term the resulting legalization algorithm Domocus. Through experiments with commonly used benchmark circuits, we conclude on the scalability and efficiency of Domocus.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"4 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":"127848016","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. Volos, I. Stouboulos, Ioannis K. Kyprianidis, V. Pham, J. Muñoz-Pacheco, C. Psychalinos
{"title":"Circuit realization of a fractional-order chaotic jerk system","authors":"C. Volos, I. Stouboulos, Ioannis K. Kyprianidis, V. Pham, J. Muñoz-Pacheco, C. Psychalinos","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937627","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the analysis, design and circuit synthesis of a fractional-order form of a chaotic jerk system is presented. The proposed system is one of the simplest member of the jerk system's family, because it has the least number of terms, one of which is the unique nonlinear term of the system. For the first time, the hyperbolic sine term is used as a nonlinear term in this kind of jerk systems, which can be easily realized with two antiparallel diodes. Simulation results by using phase portraits and Lyapunov exponents confirm the expected system's chaotic behavior. Moreover, the electronic circuit for the evaluation of the theoretical model of the proposed fractional-order system is presented.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"93 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":"132278332","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}
E. Zambrano-Serrano, J. Muñoz-Pacheco, E. Campos-Cantón
{"title":"Circuit synthesis of an incommensurate fractional order multi-scroll PWL chaotic system","authors":"E. Zambrano-Serrano, J. Muñoz-Pacheco, E. Campos-Cantón","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937651","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis, design and circuit synthesis of a fractional order piecewise linear (PWL) system is presented in this paper. By selecting incommensurate fractional orders for the dynamical system, multi-scroll chaotic attractors are observed. The resulting fractional order PWL chaotic system satisfies the stability theorem of fractional calculus. Lyapunov exponents confirm the chaotic behavior. Moreover, a circuit synthesis is realized by considering voltage operational amplifiers. SPICE circuit simulations agree with the theoretical results.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"57 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":"130238141","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":"Implementation of a V/ƒ motor speed controller using a matrix converter and fuzzy asymmetrical PWM","authors":"Gregory Zigirkas, J. Kalomiros","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937639","url":null,"abstract":"A novel V/ƒ speed controller is proposed based on a fuzzy asymmetrical PWM modulation scheme and implemented with a low-cost microcontroller. The circuit is designed with a compact matrix converter with static free-wheeling path and achieves smooth regulation of the motor speed and high output power factor all over the dynamic range. The design is tested experimentally and is found to achieve superior speed regulation and power efficiency in comparison with other control methods.","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":"130530683","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":"Design of overlapping element direct radiating arrays for satellite communications","authors":"T. Kaifas, D. Babas, Govani Toso, J. Sahalos","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937655","url":null,"abstract":"The current work contributes a detailed design of overlapping element direct radiating arrays for satellite communications employing the elements on a planar host. Direct radiating arrays are undisputedly considered as the next step in the space sector of communication industry but their advent is not without challenge. Direct radiating arrays can provide the highly adaptive performance needed for extremely demanding terrestrial and satellite communication cases but unfortunately their cost is also high. This cost is mainly due to the number of control points, (phase shifters plus amplifiers), needed to meet the specifications. Thus the quest for this number reduction is ongoing. Currently, there is a paradigm shift towards using not non-overlapping but overlapping radiating elements. The current work addresses the problem and assesses the solution's potential.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"7 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":"129685162","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":"Closed-loop current-feedback, signal-chopped, low noise AMR sensor with high linearity","authors":"N. Hadjigeorgiou, E. Hristoforou, P. Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937679","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past twenty years' magnetic sensors have emerged as a preferred choice in many sensory systems due to their high accuracy, reliability and mechanical robustness. This has sparked the development of different types of magnetic sensors for magnetic field measurements as well as for measuring other quantities indirectly. Sensitivity, linearity, signal-to-noise ratio, measurement range and cross-talk between sensors in multi-axis / multi-sensor applications are only some of the magnetic sensor's characteristics that have been studied in the past. The aim of this paper is to present a fully analog current-feedback closed loop system for AMR (Anisotropic Magnetic Resistance) magnetic sensors. The calibration and testing were conducted in a 3D Helmholtz coil setup capable of controlling the magnetic field amplitude and direction in the AMR sensor area. The noise characterization was realized in a multilayer tube of soft magnetic material. Thorough experimental characterization and testing indicates that the proposed close loop architecture improves sensor's linearity while maintaining low noise level.","PeriodicalId":202381,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)","volume":"35 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":"125159761","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}