{"title":"Synthesis and physical design of DLX RISC processor","authors":"I.H. Al-Mohandes, A. Rashed, H. Ragaie, M. Elsaid","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760910","url":null,"abstract":"A VHDL synthesizable model for AutoLogic II is developed for an unpipelined version of the 32-bit DLX RISC processor, called DLXS. The VHDL RTL model is synthesized, optimized, simulated, and laid out using Mentor Graphics EDA tools. The designed ASIC is based on the CMOSN standard cell library with 0.8 /spl mu/m technology. The processor clock frequency is 33 MHz and the chip area is 8.7/spl times/9.2 mm/sup 2/.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"250 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123263446","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":"Measurement of low enriched uranium fuel pellets","authors":"I. Badawy, W. El-Gammal","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760955","url":null,"abstract":"Fresh low enriched uranium fuel pellets for a nuclear reactor have been measured by a passive non destructive assay technique. It is based on the measurement of a certain characteristic gamma-rays peak of the U-235 in the pellets at energy of about 185.7 keV. The technique does not require nuclear material standards for the measurement of U-235 enrichment. The measurement employs a high resolution Ge detector gamma-ray spectrometer. The obtained values of U-235 enrichment are comparable in accuracy with results by the relative methods which require nuclear material standards. The present work may be applied as a method of control of nuclear material at the production level. Also, it can be used for nuclear material safeguards and inventory verification purposes.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"70 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123331069","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 novel method for the design of maximally decimated pairwise FIR filter banks","authors":"M. Fahmy, G. El-Raheem, H.M.Z. Badr","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760923","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new method for the design of maximally decimated perfect reconstruction M-bank FIR filters with symmetrical response around /spl pi//2, where m is even. The method is based on the construction of a new unitary transformation matrix from which the different filter banks are derived. Unlike the commonly used unitary matrices where every matrix section is constructed using only two parameters, the proposed new transformation has the flexibility of assigning three parameters to every section. These parameters are optimally determined to minimize the magnitude deviation of each filter bank from its ideal response. As a result, better stopband attenuation is achieved for the same filter complexity. Illustrative examples are given to show that for the same filter complexity, the proposed method offers significant improvement over already published results, as well as over realizations that relax the pairwise properly.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124536960","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":"Roundoff error analysis of the tracking performance of the block LMS algorithm","authors":"E. Eweda, W. Younis, S. El-Ramly","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760914","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is concerned with analyzing the roundoff error effect on the tracking performance of the block least mean square (BLMS) algorithm when used in the adaptive identification of a time-varying plant. Rounding quantization is assumed. Expressions are derived for the steady state mean square error, steady state mean square weight deviation, and the corresponding optimum step sizes. It is found that the mean square error and the mean square weight deviation are decreasing functions of both the filter coefficients wordlength and the algorithm block size. Expressions for minimum and maximum block lengths are derived. The performance of the BLMS is compared to that of the conventional LMS algorithm. It is found that the BLMS possesses a higher resistance to roundoff errors than the LMS algorithm. The theoretical results of the paper are validated by computer simulations.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"16 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114201105","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":"Noise immune speech recognition system","authors":"M. Gadallah, E. Soleit, A. Mahran","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760905","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance of an isolated word recognition (IWR) system in a noisy environment. Two approaches have been demonstrated to overcome the effect of the noise on the recognition accuracy. These approaches are, using noise immune features and reference model contamination. The performance is evaluated in a noisy environment at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), with different feature extraction techniques including linear predictive coding (LPC), cepstrum analysis, weighted cepstrum analysis, and perceptual linear predictive coding (PLP). The performance of these features is compared based on the recognition accuracy. The results have shown that the PLP features exhibits the best noise immunity and recognition accuracy among the studied features.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114742366","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":"Speech based automatic lie detection","authors":"M. Gadallah, M. Matar, A.F. Algezawi","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760917","url":null,"abstract":"This work studies the effect of the emotions that is experienced due to a guilt situation on different vocal parameters in an attempt to identify whether or not the suspect is lying. The homomorphic speech processing is applied to extract the vocal parameters related to the source excitation such as: pitch, pitch power and vowel duration and those related to the vocal tract such as: formant frequencies and its gain. Also the energy, as a global vocal parameter, is computed. The vocal parameters are extracted from normal speech utterances and from stressed utterances for the same suspect in order to determine the most significant vocal parameters that can be affected by emotional stress. The correlation coefficients were investigated between the pitch power and the digitized smoothed output of the psychological stress evaluator (PSE). More than a 0.8 correlation coefficient has been found. Six cases of real time criminal suspects cases were investigated throughout this work. Traditional lie detection questioning techniques were used to develop questionnaires for these criminal cases. Moreover, a case for an actor simulating different emotional states (downloaded from the Internet) was investigated for the effect of different emotions on the vocal parameters. Speech vocal parameters and the PSE Hirch & Wiegele (1981) scoring method were investigated for stress (due to anxiety or guilt). The pitch contour exhibits the most significant sensitivity for speech-based stressed/unstressed classification.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121577883","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":"Adaptive integrated thermal imaging system","authors":"K. M. Hassan, I. Elfallal, A. Mokhtar","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760901","url":null,"abstract":"Simple adaptive integrated system has been designed for thermal imaging. Depending on the real situation of the atmospheric channels, the appropriate operating spectral infrared band is chosen for efficient thermal imaging processes. The measured data of the atmospheric channel (atmospheric temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, visibility range, aerosol size distribution and number density,... etc.) are supplied to a special purpose computer, where the transmittance of the channel is estimated and consequently the correct decision is taken. The designed software has been checked, and reliable results have been obtained.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122850684","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":"Novel design of priority arbiter","authors":"H. T. Bahbouh, A. Khalil, A. Salama","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760897","url":null,"abstract":"Many digital circuits with asynchronous inputs are susceptible to failure even when all their components are fault-free. They may fail as a result of metastable operation when their inputs have critical timing combinations. This paper addresses a novel priority arbiter architecture to solve the metastability problem. SPICE simulation is used to verify its performance and correctness. In contrast to other arbiters, the results showed that this new design has better immunity against metastable operation.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116615398","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":"Optimization of X-ray parameters in radiography nondestructive evaluation","authors":"Ibrahim Elshafiey, Joseph N. Gray","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760957","url":null,"abstract":"A new tool is being developed which automates the optimization process of X-ray NDE. The tool incorporates an adaptive simulated annealing model for exploring the large dimensional parameter space and determining the globally optimum state. The problem is cast in the form of minimizing a cost function, defined in terms of film density contrast values corresponding to a specified set of flaws in the object. The XRSIM model is invoked to calculate film contrast values. The object flaw set can be determined using finite element analysis techniques, if the object loading is known. The centers of the flaw set are chosen to coincide with the centers of elements with highest stress values. A probability of detection (POD) model is used to test the obtained optimization values. If POD values are found to be unsatisfactory, the optimization process proceeds to obtain, two, or more, parameter sets, which can be used for an optimal inspection of the object.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"619 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116077834","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":"PC-1D analysis of anomalous current-voltage characteristics of silicon solar cells","authors":"R. Abdelrassoul","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760937","url":null,"abstract":"The current-voltage characteristics of solar cells, under illumination and in the dark, represent a very important tool for characterizing the performance of the solar cell. The PC-ID computer program has been used to analyze the deviation of the dark current-voltage characteristics of p-n junction silicon solar cells from the ideal two-diode model behavior of the cell, namely the appearance of \"humps\" in the I-V characteristics. The effects of the surface recombination velocity, the minority carrier lifetimes in the base and emitter regions of the solar cell, as well as the temperature dependence of the I-V characteristics have been modeled using PC-ID. It is shown that the \"humps\" in the I-V characteristics arise as a result of recombination within the space-charge region of the solar cell, and occur when conditions for recombination are different from the simple assumptions of the Shockley-Read-Hall theory.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115442748","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}