{"title":"Are standalone gate size and VT optimization tools useful?","authors":"Anitha Kumari Yella, Gunturi Srivatsa, C. Sechen","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946664","url":null,"abstract":"Many algorithms for gate size and threshold voltage (VT) optimization have been proposed. The International Symposium of Physical Design (ISPD) contests for discrete gate sizing with wire loads have led to improved algorithms. However, significant changes in cell sizes require re-placement and re-routing which invalidate the wire loads upon which the sizing was performed. In turn, sizing must be re-performed with new wire loads. To best of our knowledge, it has not been shown how much leakage power reduction can be obtained for actually laid out circuits, nor whether the process even converges. In this work, we chose a gate size and VT optimization algorithm which achieves leakage reduction results comparable to best reported to date for smaller circuits and better results for the largest circuits in the ISPD set. We interfaced the tool with leading EDA tools using a 45nm multi-VT cell library. We propose an incremental placement and routing methodology for use with the EDA placement and routing tool, such that the post-sizing placement and routing converges to the solution achieved after sizing and VT optimization. The flow achieves as much as a 28% leakage reduction with an average reduction of 12% after performing the proposed incremental placement and routing compared to the leading EDA synthesis and layout tool.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116633253","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 CMOS differential DCO with amplitude stabilization for 24GHz automotive radars","authors":"I. Taha, M. Mirhassani","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946663","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 24 GHz CMOS Colpitts-Clapp Digitally Controlled Oscillator (CC-DCO) with an automatic amplitude stabilization to improves the Phase Noise (PN) performance. Amplitude stability is favorable to suppress the amplitude-to-phase conversion. The DCO is implemented in 65 nm TSMC CMOS process. The Tuning Rang (TR) is from 22 GHz to 29 GHz that is required for a 24 GHz Short Range Radar (SRR). The CC-DCO consumes a maximum of 19 mW. Oscillating at 24 GHz, the PN of −104 dBc=Hz at 1MHz offset frequency is achieved. The amplitude of oscillation varies by 4.56% across 29% TR.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131167413","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 study of capacitor element failures in high voltage Shunt Capacitor Banks","authors":"H. Jouybari-Moghaddam, T. Sidhu","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946675","url":null,"abstract":"Internal failures in Shunt Capacitor Bank (SCB) units render trips from unbalance protection to prevent from further damage to the equipment. Fuseless and internally fused capacitor cans are the dominant technologies in power capacitor design, which do not provide external indication for units with failed elements. Modeling and study of internal failures enable intelligent monitoring and reduction of SCBs unscheduled outages. Accordingly, the major part of this paper models transients generated because of element failures in SCBs. Then by applying the models, a recent fault location method is evaluated using electromagnetic transients simulation in PSCAD and fault location analysis in MATLAB. Results show immunity of the fault location outputs to the imposed transients. Finally for a more selective fault location method and further reducing SCBs outage time, the paper suggests future works on offline spectral analysis of the oscillography records that are triggered by online fault location functions.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128318509","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":"Analysis of PWM and PFM control schemes for integrated step-up DC-DC converters","authors":"Ahmed H. Shaltout, Mark Lipski, S. Gregori","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946784","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies and compares control schemes for fully-integrated step-up dc-dc converters. The paper analyzes both a pulse-width-modulated and a pulse-frequency-modulated control schemes, and discusses the differences in terms of load currents and output voltages. Both control schemes were designed and simulated in a CMOS 65-nm technology. The paper also compares the analytic models to simulation results for validation. The expected performance of dc-dc converter can be quickly assessed and the maximum achievable efficiency determined.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134039876","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":"Rössler-based chaotic communication system implemented on FPGA","authors":"Jesse Schmitz, Lei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946729","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and implementation of a simple chaotic communication system on FPGA using Rössler's chaotic system of equations. The system was simulated to insure proper operation, before being implemented on hardware using VHDL. Throughput of 2850 Mbps was obtained. The implementation results on Xilinx Zynq-7000 series FPGA show the feasibility of using digital hardware to implement a chaotic communication system using Rössler's system.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133994802","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 stochastic gamer's model for on-line games","authors":"Y. Khmelevsky, H. Mahasneh, Gaétan Hains","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946603","url":null,"abstract":"Online games are interactive competitions by players who challenge in a virtual environment. “Gamers Private Network (GPN®)”, developed by WTFast is a game network that provides client/server solutions to makes online games faster despite wide-area networks. “Response time, low latency and predictability are key features to GPN® success” [1]. To analyze the experiments we use stochastic models to investigate latencies, jittering and other delay behaviours in delivering packets between clients and game servers. Our previous analytical work used simple statistics and some Markov-models of the latency time-series [1]. They gave us black-box indications on the interaction between game parameters and latency in GPN® or non-GPN® setups. In this research paper we describe a more advanced stochastic model to connect internal random effects in the system (client, network, server) to its latency time-series. The mathematical description has previously been applied to bioelectrical signal processing in biological experiments, a happy but also realistic metaphor for game networks where players' reflexes are a key ingredient. This is another small step towards rational, quantified and service-oriented minimization/stabilization of GPN® latency.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124029911","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}
Mohammed H. Albadi, Y. M. El-Rayani, E. El-Saadany, H. Al-Riyami
{"title":"Effect of large solar power plant on locational marginal prices in Oman","authors":"Mohammed H. Albadi, Y. M. El-Rayani, E. El-Saadany, H. Al-Riyami","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946741","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript investigates the effect of new investments on the locational marginal prices in the main interconnected system of Oman. The study includes modeling the existing transmission network and simulating system performance during peak period. In addition, the effect of renewable energy projects on locational marginal prices are simulated.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115848557","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":"Disordered Speech Quality estimation using the Matching Pursuit algorithm","authors":"Y. S. E. Ali, V. Parsa, P. Doyle, S. Berkane","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946769","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel non-intrusive auditory perception-based approach for disordered speech quality estimation. An adaptive time-frequency algorithm, viz. the Matching Pursuit (MP) algorithm, is used to generate a reference signal from the disordered speech signal. Both the generated reference signal and the original degraded signal are given to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-standardized Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) estimator to obtain a quality score. Our approach is tested on two different databases consisting of tracheoesophageal speech samples. Results show that our method performs significantly better than the conventional acoustical measures of disordered speech quality.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115431729","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":"Microcontroller based supervisory control of a solar tracker","authors":"K. Searle, S. Hashtrudi-Zad","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946686","url":null,"abstract":"This paper details the implementation of a supervisory controller executing within the microcontroller of an embedded system. The plant, a dual-axis solar tracking system, is developed and modelled as a discrete event system. The events generated by the plant are monitored and controlled by the supervisor executing within the system's onboard microcontroller. An optimized, light weight Evaluation Cycle minimizes the plant to supervisor synchronization delay. Several tests show that the implemented supervisor meets the design specifications.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"460 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116234370","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 PCA based feature reduction in intracranial hypertension analysis","authors":"Parisa Naraei, Alireza Sadeghian","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946641","url":null,"abstract":"Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its complications, including intracranial hypertension, are one of the leading causes of mortality. Many proposed algorithms have attempted to overcome the invasiveness of intracranial pressure monitoring with limited clinical applications. In medical practices, changes of intracranial hypertension are perceived manually, by clinical experts, via surgical placement of intraventricular catheters in the patient's skull. However, the method is invasive, time consuming and has poor reproducibility. In this paper, a principal component analysis has been conducted to perform non-correlated feature selection. An analysis has been performed on 31 TBI patients. The result of the analysis illustrates that two components can be extracted from routinely collected physiological signals of TBI patients. The finding is evaluated using Kaiser's Criterion, Scree test and parallel analysis. The predictivity of the components has been tested and the results show a promising accuracy with a mean absolute error of 0.025.","PeriodicalId":238720,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127452171","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}