Mohd Saqib Akhoon, Abdullah G. Alharbi, Majid A. Bhat, S. A. Suandi, Javed Ashraf, S. Loan
{"title":"Design and Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Based Current Source Load Differential Amplifier","authors":"Mohd Saqib Akhoon, Abdullah G. Alharbi, Majid A. Bhat, S. A. Suandi, Javed Ashraf, S. Loan","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664923","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we design and simulate a current source load differential amplifier (CSL-DA) employing n-type carbon-nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFET). The proposed DA employs current source load and is based on 45nm technology node CNTFETs. The performance of the proposed CNTFET based DA has been compared with the conventional metal oxide semiconductor FET (MOSFET) based DA. The HSPICE simulation study has shown a substantial improvement in various important performance measuring parameters in the proposed DA in comparison to the conventional DA. The performance enhancement in the proposed device can be attributed to the unique properties of CNTs. It has been observed that the CNTFET based DA has got 2.7 times enhancement in gain, three orders increase in bandwidth, 1180 times increase in unity gain bandwidth and ~70% reduction in power consumption compared to the conventional MOS based counterpart. Further, optimizing various CNT parameters like number of CNTs (N), CNT pitch (S), CNT diameter can optimize the performance of the proposed DA further.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130131414","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}
Adham Osama, Ahmed Mostafa, Eslam Mamdouh, Mohamed Gamal, Usama Imam, Mohamed Taha, Ahmed Khalil, Islam Ahmed, H. Mostafa
{"title":"Fast RTL Implementation of A* Path Planning Algorithm","authors":"Adham Osama, Ahmed Mostafa, Eslam Mamdouh, Mohamed Gamal, Usama Imam, Mohamed Taha, Ahmed Khalil, Islam Ahmed, H. Mostafa","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664960","url":null,"abstract":"The conventional A* algorithm consumes a lot of time due to its large number of iterations. In every iteration, the memory is accessed for multiple data structures, functions are evaluated then sorted into queues which makes it sometimes not suitable for real-time applications. This paper proposes a fast implementation for the A* algorithm to meet requirements of real-time applications. The proposed implementation uses parallelism and caching to achieve better performance. We used Register Transfer Level (RTL) simulation and formal verification to do functional verification of the implemented design.The design is implemented on Xilinx Virtex-7 to be evaluated. Experiments prove that this implementation achieves 100 times enhancement for low obstacle maps and 50 times for high ones relative to software implementation. The design is suitable for real-time applications.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124605002","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}
Youssef Abdelrahman Ahmed, Hisham Othman, Mohammed Abdel-Megeed Salem
{"title":"Comparative Study of Different Activation Functions for Anomalous Sound Detection","authors":"Youssef Abdelrahman Ahmed, Hisham Othman, Mohammed Abdel-Megeed Salem","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664952","url":null,"abstract":"Anomaly detection is of great importance in our modern life as it can be very useful in many ways such as lowering costs, avoiding potential injuries, and even saving lives. The method of anomalous sound detection using the Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) approach is effective and has a relatively low training time with the use of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The use of techniques such as the pre-training and hard sample with the SSL approach led to producing very high results scoring results higher than 0.9 for the Area under the curve (AUC) score especially for the non-stationary sounds. An AutoEncoder (AE) based system developed by the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2020) competition’s organizers were used for comparative purposes to compare the results of the SSL method with the results of the baseline system. The results of the baseline system and the results of the SSL approach with different configurations and the SSL method had shown higher results in most cases.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114272910","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}
Amir R. Ali, R. Mahmoud, A. Issac, Gannah H. Abo-Youssef, H. Kandil
{"title":"Experimental and Computational Acoustic Analysis of the Pressure Distribution Inside a Mechanical Resonator Used for Implantable Medical Devices","authors":"Amir R. Ali, R. Mahmoud, A. Issac, Gannah H. Abo-Youssef, H. Kandil","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664925","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to examine the pressure distribution inside a quarter wavelength resonator tube with the aid of acoustic energy harvesting techniques. The dominant application for this study encompasses medical devices in-vivo. Eigen frequencies and Eigen modes are to be taken into consideration and accordingly, the tube dimensions will be designed in order to achieve resonance where the optimum efficiency can be reached. Examining the pressure distribution is to be carried out using experimental acoustics analysis and computational analysis. A sensor is used in the experimental analysis in order to sense the maximum pressure in each location along the circular and rectangular cross-sectional tubes.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125611493","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":"Using Machine Learning to Predict Operating Frequency During Placement in FPGA Designs","authors":"M. Fathi, T. Martin, G. Grewal, S. Areibi","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664954","url":null,"abstract":"Circuit placement is an NP-hard problem and is considered to be one of the most challenging steps in the FPGA design flow. The goal of this paper is to explore how machine-learning regression models can be used during placement to predict the maximum frequency of operation. Each model uses static features from the circuit netlist, and dynamic features from the current placement, as input. Results obtained using standard benchmarks indicate that ensemble based machine learning models are capable of accurately predicting the maximum frequency of operation with an average error of 1.72%.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124920254","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}
Nizar Zouhri, A. E. Mourabit, Alaoui Ismaili Zine El Abidine
{"title":"Faster R-CNN assessment for air bubbles detection in the conformal coating application","authors":"Nizar Zouhri, A. E. Mourabit, Alaoui Ismaili Zine El Abidine","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664962","url":null,"abstract":"The detection of defects in Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) during the assembly process is an important quality requirement for the electronic manufacturing.The present paper emphasizes the assessment of computer vision implying Faster-RCNN object detection architecture, with the aim of air bubbles defects detection in PCB following the conformal coating process.Several image configurations have been used to increase artificially the training model’s performance, such as air bubbles size, location (on a flat PCB’s surface, between components leads) and illumination, etc.Toward reaching this cap, we used a random pattern of choice regarding the images with different configurations to properly evaluate its performance, especially the accuracy, precision and sensitivity.Our results showed that Faster-RCNN delivers the lowest detection performance for the air bubbles located between components leads compared to the ones located on flat PCB surfaces.This paper shows the accuracy, precision and sensitivity performance results by applying the Faster-RCNN object detection architecture for air bubbles defect detection in the conformal coating application, with aim of providing reference for future research in the field of air bubbles detection.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128778601","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}
Sandeep Kolla, Ayesha Sk, S. Veeramachaneni, S. Mahammad
{"title":"Design and Analysis of Obfuscated Full Adders","authors":"Sandeep Kolla, Ayesha Sk, S. Veeramachaneni, S. Mahammad","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664955","url":null,"abstract":"In modern day semiconductor industry secure circuit/hardware is one of the major concern due to issues like IC piracy, Trojan insertion, IC over production and etc.,. Recently researchers has demonstrated various hardware based attacks and also expressed their concern towards the design of the obfuscated circuit. Securing the hardware circuit is one of the key concerns today. This work proposes design of the secure adders and its implementations. The objective of this work is to design minimal overhead based secure adders for secure system design. This can be achieved by encrypting the key into the hardware circuit at transistor level. The correct key ensures circuit’s correct operation, else it produces an incorrect value. The correct and incorrect operation resultant output can not be distinguished by the malicious user.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128637011","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":"Assessing Centralized and Decentralized EV Charging Schemes using PV-Grid Connected System, Case Study in Egypt","authors":"Nader M. Hassan, S. Abdellatif","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664915","url":null,"abstract":"Egypt’s vision 2030 aims to reach a diversified, balanced, and competitive economy through the sustainable development basis. Electric vehicles (EVs) as well as renewable energy have an important role to play. Both, electric vehicles, and renewable energy resources are deeply involved in the Integration of Sustainable Energy Strategy year 2035 (ISES2035), which was released in 2015 by the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable. Introducing electricity to transportation has been developed to support CO2 decrease and energy effectiveness. Consequently, electric vehicles have become more popular in the current transportation system to utilize more effective and environment-friendly energy. The energy sectors integration concept aims to use the renewable energy sources in transportation as well as in power generation. In this research a comprehensive study was made to compare the techno-economic effectiveness of centralized DC fast charging schemes, with decentralized (indoor/overnight) AC charging schemes. In both scenarios photovoltaic (PV) system is assumed to charge the battery of electric cars making use of the current net-metering scheme that applied in Egypt.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121793833","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":"Double Gate TFET with Germanium Pocket and Metal drain using Dual Oxide","authors":"Anam Khan, S. Loan","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664949","url":null,"abstract":"A detailed and thorough study has been carried out to realize the working of our proposed device which is a Germanium (Ge) pocket based Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET). The proposed device employs a germanium pocket near the source channel junction of the double-gate TFET. Germanium, being a low bandgap material, increases the transmission rate of electrons at the tunneling junction and hence improves the ON state performance of the device. The proposed TFET also uses a dual oxide, with hafnium oxide (HfO2) near the source side and silicon dioxide (SiO2) near the drain. The use of Ge pocket and the dual oxide improve the characteristics of our proposed TFET significantly. Another objective of this work is to eliminate the ambipolarity problem, which has been dealt with by using a metallic drain in place of the conventional material. Two dimensional (2D) calibrated simulations have shown a doubling of ON current (ION), two orders increase in ION/IOFF ratio, ambipolarity suppression and steep subthreshold slope (SS) of 30 mV/dec in the proposed device in comparison to the conventional TFET. The device works at an operating voltage of 0.4V with gate voltage varying from -0.6V to +0.6V. Further simulations have been carried out to improve the performance of the proposed device by optimizing various other device parameters.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115750092","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":"Prototype of a Residential Electric Power Management Apparatus","authors":"Ziad Noun, Ali Koubyssi, M. Arnaout, Rabih Rammal","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664927","url":null,"abstract":"The solution of the increase in electricity bills especially in a residential apartment is done by smart metering and power management system that controls the consumption of each appliance in the home and leads to the reduction in electricity bills. This can be done using the programmable logic controller (PLC) that facilitates our work and makes it much better. In this system, a human-machine interface (HMI) is used to control the loads where it displays the options of what the user should turn ON/OFF in order to achieve low bills. For that, the system should receive the price of the bill that the user wants to pay at the end of the month and then it will start work accordingly.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126590116","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}