Vassilis Alimisis, Georgios Gennis, Christos Dimas, P. Sotiriadis
{"title":"An Analog Bayesian Classifier Implementation, for Thyroid Disease Detection, based on a Low-Power, Current-Mode Gaussian Function Circuit","authors":"Vassilis Alimisis, Georgios Gennis, Christos Dimas, P. Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664939","url":null,"abstract":"The thyroid gland is a small organ that’s located in the front of the neck, wrapped around the windpipe. Τhyroid releases and controls hormones that help the metabolism work correctly. Metabolism plays a main role in many different systems throughout the human body. Thyroid disorder involves the abnormal production of thyroid hormones. In this regard, if a thyroid disease could be detected, patients could take a specific treatment and greatly reduce the symptoms. This work proposes a novel low power, low voltage (0.6V) analog architecture of a Bayesian classifier for thyroid disease detection. The architecture is based on a new Gaussian function circuit and the Lazzaro Winner-Take-All circuit. The proper operation of the analog classifier is verified using a real-world dataset. The proposed architecture is realized in TSMC 90nm CMOS process and was simulated using the Cadence IC Suite.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"41 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":"124483464","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}
Abdelrahman Adel, Dina Saad, Mahmoud Abd El Mawgoed, Mohamed Sharshar, Zyad Ahmed, Hala Ibrahim, H. Mostafa
{"title":"Implementation and Functional Verification of RISC-V Core for Secure IoT Applications","authors":"Abdelrahman Adel, Dina Saad, Mahmoud Abd El Mawgoed, Mohamed Sharshar, Zyad Ahmed, Hala Ibrahim, H. Mostafa","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664926","url":null,"abstract":"In the world of technology we live in, there is a huge increase in the number of internet of things (IoT) devices leading to a tremendous amount of data being sent. This wireless data is prone to eavesdropping and being hacked. The contribution of this work is the design of a System on Chip (SoC) with a processor based on the instruction set architecture (ISA) of reduced instruction-set computer (RISC-V). The system focuses on the security of data between IoT end-nodes. For SoC verification, a Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) environment is used for covering most of the functionality and security aspects to guarantee a sufficient level of trust in the implemented SoC.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"96 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":"126715055","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 Protective Structure for Electronic Systems Facing Artillery Launching Process","authors":"Tianfang Peng, Zheng You","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664944","url":null,"abstract":"Artillery launching is one of the extremely harsh environments faced by electronic systems. The commonly used potting protection will transmit the high-frequency vibration of the launching process to the electronic components, interfere with their internal structures (such as MEMS), and increase the probability of failure of the ammunition. This paper proposes a protective structure for electronic system facing artillery launching process. The structure can withstand the high-g acceleration, while filtering the high-frequency vibrations, so as to protect the electronic components in the ammunition. Firstly, we established a shock/vibration isolation model for the artillery launching process, and determined the ideal stiffness and damping ratio of the structure. Secondly, we designed the structure with a shock-resistant, low-rigidity spring and an adjustable liquid damper. The experimental result showed that the structure remained intact under the shock of about 35000g, and could filter the mechanical vibration above 500Hz. In addition, the damping ratio of the device could be adjusted between 0.04-0.26. Finally, we carried out shock experiments on several types of commercial chips with the protection of the structure. All of the chips had survived the shock of about 18000g without potting protection.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"283 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":"134193660","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":"Hardware Implementation of Yolov4-tiny for Object Detection","authors":"Omar Eid, M. M. A. E. Ghany","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664943","url":null,"abstract":"The high computational power of GPUs allowed for larger networks to be used in object detection applications. However, due to the huge power consumption and inefficiency when it comes to memory access and the number of bits used to represent the data, it is difficult to use them in embedded applications. Therefore, extensive research has been conducted to use FPGAs as a highly efficient substitute for GPUs to implement deep learning algorithms. As the scale and complexity of the algorithms keep increasing each year to improve their performance, it becomes even harder to implement such algorithms on an FPGA without reusing hardware resources. In this work, we implement Yolov4-tiny on a single FPGA by applying several resource sharing and optimization techniques. Our implementation shows a decrease in power consumption that ranges from 66% to 93.5% less power when compared to software. Moreover, less hardware resources and faster inference time is achieved. When comparing with the hardware implementation of networks with similar size, our design is 6.67 times faster and uses 62.5% less energy per image.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"193 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":"114227628","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}
Mohamed Chentouf, Chaimaa Naimy, Zine El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili
{"title":"Machine Learning Application for Early Power Analysis Accuracy Improvement: A Case Study for Cells Switching Power","authors":"Mohamed Chentouf, Chaimaa Naimy, Zine El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664921","url":null,"abstract":"Power Analysis (PA) is an important task performed repeatedly throughout the flow to ensure the design closure within the power budget. One of the challenges of the state-of-art PA tools is the low accuracy at high abstraction levels such as gate and RTL. This accuracy gap can be reduced by feeding-back physical information such as Standard Parasitic Extraction File (SPEF) to higher abstraction level to have an estimate of the RC components of the nets. Unfortunately, with current design methodologies, the SPEF file is only available at a very late stage of the circuit development after passing the physical design stage. In this paper, we introduce a machine learning application that estimates accurately the switching power of the cells without needing the SPEF file (SPEF less PA flow). Three ML models (Multi-linear Regression, Random Forest, and Decision Tree) were trained and tested on different industrial designs at 7nm technology. They are trained using different cells' properties available, SPEF, and SPEF-less power numbers to accurately predict the Switching power and eliminate the need for the SPEF file. With this new ML approach, we were able to reduce the SPEF less flow average cell switching power error from 34% to 8%.","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":"123514082","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}
Yassine Attaoui, Mohamed Chentouf, Zine El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili, A. E. Mourabit
{"title":"Clock Gating Efficiency and Impact on Power Optimization During Synthesis Flow","authors":"Yassine Attaoui, Mohamed Chentouf, Zine El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili, A. E. Mourabit","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664896","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, power optimization has become an important factor in VLSI design and various low power optimization techniques are being developed. Clock-Gating is considered one of the widely used techniques in VLSI power optimization. Gating the Clock path results in saving power by reducing wasted capacitances switching due to unnecessary activity in logic module paths, thus resulting in more wasted Switching power. Clock gating is not always beneficial, it presents some pitfalls and fallacies within its implementation in various VLSI designs, as well as it doesn't suit all kinds of VLSI logic circuits. In this paper, we measure the impact of the Clock-Gating technique on power as well as on design's performance. We have performed two separate trials, using 112 industrial designs from different technologies, the former trial enables Clock Gate insertion, and the latter does not insert Clock Gate cells in the design's circuitry. We intend to measure the impact of Clock Gating on power by measuring the Power variation and comparing metrics such Instance number Buffer & Inverter, Combinational blocks as well as QoR metrics such Runtime, wire-length, TNS, and Area. Results of this experiment showed that design circuits having Memories (SRAM, DFF, FIFO…) as dominant RTL modules, have the most impact on power when CG cells are inserted. Vice-versa power is less impacted by CG cells insertion for designs that contain microprocessors and Datapath blocks as dominant RTL instances.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"21 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":"121785234","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":"Optoelectronic Modelling and Analysis of Transparency against Efficiency in Perovskites/Dye-based Solar Cells","authors":"Abdelrahman M. Mahran, S. Abdellatif","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664924","url":null,"abstract":"Solar cells have been in an evolution process day by day, which opens the door for brand new technologies and applications. One of the most promising technologies that is offered nowadays is the semi-transparent solar cells. Semi-transparent cells can offer light harvesting solutions in a wide band of applications, for instance electrical vehicle glass window and smart buildings. As this technology just walking its first steps, we introduce a new optimization attempt in terms of the trade-off between transparency and efficiency. Study has been conducted on six different third generation solar cells which include four perovskite solar cells (PSC) and two dye sanitized solar cells (DSSC). Results showed that organic lead-free PSC is the most appropriate candidate for semi-transparent technology with efficiency reaching 29.97% and transparency of 85.59%.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"7 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":"125447707","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 5 dBm BiCMOS 90° Phase Shifter with Single-Voltage Tuning for mm-Wave Beam Steering","authors":"Luca Steinweg, P. V. Testa, C. Carta, F. Ellinger","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664900","url":null,"abstract":"This work studies a concept for a 90° vector-sum phase shifter operating at 54.6GHz, which delivers a high output power over a wide bandwidth of 20GHz, corresponding to a relative bandwidth of 37.2%. The circuit was designed to control the phase in a local-oscillator chain and was realized in a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. A root mean square (RMS) magnitude error of only 0.23dB is paired with an RMS phase error of 0.89dB, achieving linear control with only one un-calibrated analog voltage. An output-referred 1dB-compression point oP1dB of 5.0dBm is achieved at 60GHz with 11.3dB gain and a power-added efficiency of 6.3%. The high output power qualifies this circuit to directly drive state-of-the-art frequency multipliers and leverage their multiplication factor to reach mm-wave bands with 360° of available phase control. To the best knowledge of the authors, this circuit demonstrates the highest output power and power-added efficiency reported for phase shifters operating at about 60GHz or above, while still providing high power gain.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"36 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":"122250851","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}
Mohamed M. El-Barbary, George S. Maximous, Shehab Tarek, H. A. Bastawrous
{"title":"Validation of Driver Drowsiness Detection Based on Humantenna Effect Using Facial Features","authors":"Mohamed M. El-Barbary, George S. Maximous, Shehab Tarek, H. A. Bastawrous","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664899","url":null,"abstract":"Along with the continued use of vehicles such as cars, trains, motorbikes, planes and other transportation methods came the need to research automotive safety to avoid accidents that may be caused by reckless, sleepy or drowsy drivers. By utilizing current technological advancements, it could be possible to rapidly improve and create new safety measures and features in these vehicles. This research presents validated results for a proposed driver drowsiness detection system based on the humantenna touch sensor that is simple, cost efficient, accurate and has a lot of room for improvement. The use of this said is further validated by collecting simultaneous data obtained from processing the images capturing the facial features of the driver through facial landmark detection and eye aspect ratio calculation. The results obtained were based on the strong correlation between driver drowsiness and both phenomena, the steering wheel grip pattern and eye closure. The superposed data showed the different states possible for a driver in terms of humantenna effect and eye aspect ratio (EAR) calculations. These results also showed the potential for more research and improvement of the humantenna touch sensor.","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":"121813475","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. Arnaout, Ahmad Ghizzawi, Ali Al-Hajj Hassan, Ali Koubayssi, M. Kafal, Ziad Noun
{"title":"The Detection and Classification of Faults by the Use of Machine Learning Technique","authors":"M. Arnaout, Ahmad Ghizzawi, Ali Al-Hajj Hassan, Ali Koubayssi, M. Kafal, Ziad Noun","doi":"10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM52667.2021.9664906","url":null,"abstract":"In order to follow the technological evolution in the 21st century, and to detect the fault with the minimal effort spent, this paper was developed to identify the open and short circuit faults that may occur in the lighting and socket grids used in residential area while using machine learning algorithms. In this research, two cable networks were formed (the first one has a short circuit fault, and the second with an open circuit fault), then a neural network was used in order to detect these faults. Finally, several results will be shown that lead to verify the adequacy of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":212613,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)","volume":"31 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":"125308333","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}