{"title":"A CMOS digitally programmable OTA based instrumentation amplifier for EEG detection system","authors":"S. Mahmoud, Aisha A. Alhammadi","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440374","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the instrumentation amplifier (IA) based on digitally programmable operational transconductance amplifier (DPOTA) is designed for EEG detection system. The proposed IA consists of DPOTA cascaded with a digitally programmable gyrator. The digital control circuit of DPOTA is done using current division network (CDN) for 4-bit code word. PSpice results are done using 0.25μm IBM CMOS process. The IA provides moderate gain (6.43dB-29.78dB), and consumes power by 13.57μW with input referred noise. Higher gain is achieved by two cascaded stages of this IA providing more programmable gain (13.81dB-60.15dB), input referred noise of and power dissipation of 27.4μW. These results show the ability of this IA to be used as first stage in EEG system.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127431640","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":"Review of the missing mechanical element: Memdamper","authors":"M. Fouda, A. Radwan, A. Elwakil, N. Nawayseh","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440283","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the analogy between electrical and mechanical quantities is reviewed. Based on this analogy, there is a missing link between displacement and momentum. This missing link corresponds to the link between the charge and flux which represents the memristor. This link is still missing between the mechanical quantities. In this work, we shed the light on this missing mechanical element. We introduce the mathematical relation which links displacement and momentum. Two main types of missing relations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129131240","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 fast analytical approach for static power-down mode analysis","authors":"M. Zwerger, Pantelis R. Vlachas, H. Graeb","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440234","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new method for static analysis of the power-down mode of analog circuits is presented. Floating nodes are detected. The static node voltages are estimated. It can be verified that no current is flowing. The method is based on circuit structure. No numerical simulation is needed. The presented approach solves an integer constraint program. Experimental results show a speed-up of factor 2.5 compared a state-of-the-art voltage propagation algorithm. Furthermore, the presented analytical problem formulation enables fast implementation of the method using a constraint programming solver.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131394215","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":"Improved low power scheduler for OSS-7: An open source DASH7 stack","authors":"Mohammad Hassan Shahid, S. Masud","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440399","url":null,"abstract":"Our aim in this paper is to use the freely available OSS-7 implementation stack of DASH7 RFID based WSN protocol and improve its existing software scheduler for better energy consumption. We have proposed substantial changes in the scheduler for OSS-7 v1.0 in terms of insertion, sorting and search algorithms. This scheduler fulfils the functionality and at the same time it is extremely light weight to cater to the memory constraints on the target Texas Instruments Wizzimote platform. This gives us performance improvements up to 75%, on average, in terms of execution time thus leading to reduced dynamic power consumption.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131528954","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}
Hossam Khalil, Dongkyu Kim, Joonsik Nam, Kyihwan Park
{"title":"Operational deflection shape of rotating object using tracking laser Doppler vibrometer","authors":"Hossam Khalil, Dongkyu Kim, Joonsik Nam, Kyihwan Park","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440411","url":null,"abstract":"A method for tracking laser Doppler vibrometer (TLDV) is introduced for operational deflection shape (ODS) vibration measurement of a rotating object to take the advantage of tracking while an encoder is attached to the object. A digital signal processor (DSP) is used to capture the encoder angular position and calculating the signals required for Galvano motors. To verify the performance of the proposed method, comparison with the traditional method is carried out. Finally, the experimental results of ODS vibration measurements of the object without and with rotation are validated and compared to each other to see the effect of rotation on the measured ODS.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131675285","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":"Floating-point adaptive filter architectures for the cancelling of harmonics power line interference","authors":"Vagner Guidotti, E. Costa, S. Almeida, M. Fonseca","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440390","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents floating-point dedicated architectures of LMS (Least Mean Square) and NLMS (Normalized Least Mean Square) adaptive filtering algorithms for the harmonics power line interference cancelling. Among the various algorithms of adaptation, the (LMS is surely the most popular, mainly due to its low computational cost, robustness and tracking ability. On the other hand, the normalized version of the LMS algorithm, named NLMS presents as main characteristics the increase of speed of adaptation and small sensitivity to the power reference signal. This work explores these tradeoffs by developing floating-point dedicated architectures for both algorithms, and applying them to the harmonics cancelling structure. The developed architectures were described in hardware description language, and synthesized to 45 nm Nangate Open Cell using Cadence RTL Compiler. The main results show that the interference canceller with NLMS filters presents faster convergence at the cost of an increased area and power consumption as compared with the structure with LMS filters.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131866136","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":"Modeling and minimization of energy consumption in wireless sensor networks","authors":"M. Abo-Zahhad, M. Farrag, Abdelhay Ali","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440412","url":null,"abstract":"Design of energy-efficient wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has become an important area of scientific research. In this regard, modeling and minimizing of energy consumption are the main objectives for designing WSNs. In this paper, an energy consumption model for WSNs based on physical layer parameters is proposed by calculating the total energy that is required for successfully received one bit over Rayleigh fading channels. The proposed energy consumption model is validated with real measurements. Results show a good agreement between proposed model and experimental measurements with a mean absolute percentage error less than 5.5%. The validated model is used to optimize transmitted power to achieve minimum energy consumption. Finally, a closed-form expression for optimum transmitted power is derived for M-QAM modulation scheme.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"144 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114006863","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":"Performance evaluation of wavelength exchanging in optical interconnect","authors":"Tawfik Ismail, H. Mostafa, Y. Ismail","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440408","url":null,"abstract":"Wavelength exchanging enables data swapping between two different wavelengths simultaneously. These phenomena have been used in many applications in Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks such as, wavelength conversion, wavelength sampling, optical 3R, optical interconnects and optical add-drop multiplexing. One of the attractive point of research is to measure the performance of wavelength exchanging in optical interconnect. In this paper, an experimental setup of the exchanging process is presented for performance evaluation of wavelength exchanging in High NonLinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF) for efficient utilization in WDM optical inter-connect.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114055535","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 low-power high-speed charge-steering ADC-based equalizer for serial links","authors":"Mostafa M. Ayesh, S. Ibrahim, H. Ragai, M. Rizk","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440360","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 20-GSps low-power ADC-based equalizer for high speed serial links receiver. Digital receivers are recently adopted to overcome the challenges of power, delay and mismatches facing circuits in the analog domain besides utilizing benefits of the digital domain of scaling, adaptation algorithms, calibration and noise immunity. The ADC-based equalizer is designed and simulated in a 65-nm CMOS technology and dissipates 15.5 mW in the ADC and 0.45 mW in the discrete-time linear equalizer from 1-V supply. Low power consumption is achieved by using interleaving in ADC architecture, utilizing charge-steering concept, sharing single reference ladder across the four interleaved branches of ADC, and using a novel proposed design for the comparator itself in the Flash ADC besides using the novel Discrete Time Linear Equalizer-DTLE-circuit.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122930003","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":"Comparative analysis of the robustness of master-slave flip-flops against variations","authors":"M. Alioto, Elio Consoli, G. Palumbo","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440263","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the variation of performance and robustness against hold time violations are investigated for various representative Master-Slave flip-flops. The analysis explicitly considers process, voltage, temperature, clock slope variations. Their relative contribution to the overall variability budget is also studied. Results in 65-nm CMOS technology provide a quantitative understanding of the importance of each contribution, while including the very important impact of layout parasitics. From a design perspective, results are useful to preliminarily define the variability budget for min/max-delay violations (e.g., to preliminarily set the corresponding clock uncertainty in automated design flows), identify the most critical variability contributions, and select the most suitable flip-flop for a targeted application.","PeriodicalId":215448,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127670055","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}