{"title":"A high speed middle accuracy 9-bit SAR-ADC in 0.35-μm CMOS for sensor application in automotive industry","authors":"Zuzana Polesakova, J. Jerabek","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8075997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8075997","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a 9-bit Successive Approximation Register Analog to Digital Converter (SAR-ADC) design in CMOS technology, particularly I4T, 0.35 μm, 45 V, used in automotive industry for sensor application. There are the individual analogue components of the SAR-DAC descibed in this paper: the Comparator, the R-2R Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) and the Operational Amplifier (OPA). The functionality and the parameters of the SAR-ADC were verified in analog design environment Cadence Virtuoso. The parameters of the designed SAR-ADC are published in this paper.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115462490","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}
Sebastian Avram, Andreea-Mirela Safta, C. Căleanu, R. Vasiu
{"title":"Hardware and software implementation of an embedded metering webserver","authors":"Sebastian Avram, Andreea-Mirela Safta, C. Căleanu, R. Vasiu","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8075933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8075933","url":null,"abstract":"Our work presents an embedded webserver that can retrofit electronic electricity meters by transforming them into smart meters. The webserver receives data from up to 8 electronic electricity meters on UART and 1 meter on RS-232, then displays the information on a webpage. This device aims to update an Elster A100C electronic electricity meter in order to comply with Automatic Meter Reading requirements and any RS-232 enabled meter with Advanced Metering Infrastructure. The proposed solution is effective from the point of view of the cost and energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125560812","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":"High impedance monopole antenna for indoor terahertz wireless communication systems","authors":"A. Yazgan, J. Romeu, L. Jofre","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8076103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8076103","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a wideband terahertz antenna for indoor wireless communication systems is proposed. Antenna has high input impedance which is reasonable for terahertz systems due to the high output impedance of terahertz sources. Proposed antenna has been designed to operate in 0.67 THz which is one of the appropriate frequencies considering the atmospheric attenuation conditions for short range indoor terahertz wireless communication systems. Designed antenna has 0.8 kohm input impedance at the center of the band and approximately 100 GHz −10 dB bandwidth at 0.67 THz.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116673987","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":"Efficient and secure access control system based on programmable smart cards","authors":"L. Malina, V. Benes, J. Hajny, Petr Dzurenda","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8075931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8075931","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present our smart-card-based access control system based on modern programmable smart cards. We propose an efficient and secure authentication protocol that is based on a zero-knowledge authentication method. Only users who prove the knowledge of private keys stored in smart cards are verified successfully. Our system provides also the tracebility and linkability of user entries. Moreover, all system entities use advanced cryptographic primitives in order to keep a high security level that is required in access control systems employed in critical infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125511919","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":"TCP connection management through combined use of terrestrial and satellite IP-Based links","authors":"A. Salam, M. Luglio, C. Roseti, F. Zampognaro","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8075932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8075932","url":null,"abstract":"In the view of converged fast-wired and fast-wireless networks (5G) with a transparent multi homed point of access to the Internet, new scenarios must be considered in the near future. In particular, this paper focuses on an Internet access leveraging simultaneously on different technologies such as ADSL, cable, WiFi, 3G/4G, satellite links, to offer a combined connectivity service. Some solutions already exist and, together with specific protocols and architectural changes, they may combine all available links to offer an enhanced connectivity. In the presented study, possible architectures are described, highlighting different strategies aimed at the optimal handling of TCP connections. An accurate test campaign was performed through the NS-3 simulation software to evaluate TCP performance when multiple links are available, considering links with similar characteristics and links with very different configurations, such as terrestrial and satellite ones.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130368424","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":"Resistorless electronically tunable grounded inductance simulator design","authors":"N. Herencsar, A. Kartci","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8075987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8075987","url":null,"abstract":"A new realization of grounded lossless positive inductance simulator (PIS) using simple inverting voltage buffer and unity-gain current follower/inverter (CF±) is reported. Considering the input intrinsic resistance of CF± as useful active parameter, the proposed PIS can be considered as resistorless circuit and it only employs in total 16 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) transistors and a grounded capacitor. The resulting equivalent inductance value of the proposed simulator can be adjusted via change of input intrinsic resistance of CF± by means of its supply voltages. The behavior of the proposed simulator circuit is tested via implementation in voltage-mode 5th-order high-pass filter RLC prototype with Bessel, Butterworth, and Chebyshev I approximation. Theoretical results are verified by SPICE simulations using TSMC 0.18 μm level-7 LO EPI SCN018 CMOS process parameters with ±0.9 V supply voltages.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133927583","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}
C. Ciușdel, A. Vizitiu, F. Moldoveanu, C. Suciu, L. Itu
{"title":"Towards deep learning based estimation of fracture risk in osteoporosis patients","authors":"C. Ciușdel, A. Vizitiu, F. Moldoveanu, C. Suciu, L. Itu","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8076069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8076069","url":null,"abstract":"Osteoporosis is a skeletal disorder which leads to bone mass loss and to an increased fracture risk. Recently, physics-based models, employing finite element analysis (FEA), have shown great promise in being able to non-invasively estimate biomechanical quantities of interest in the context of osteoporosis. However, these models have high computational demand, limiting their clinical adoption. In this manuscript, we present a deep learning model based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) for predicting average strain as an alternative to physics-based approaches. The model is trained on a large database of synthetically generated cancellous bone anatomies, where the target values are computed using the physics-based FEA model. The performance of the trained model was assessed by comparing the predictions against physics-based computations on a separate test data set. Correlation between deep learning and physics-based predictions was very good (0.895, p < 0.001), and no systematic bias was found in Bland-Altman analysis. The CNN model also performed better than the previously introduced Support Vector Machine (SVM) model which relied on handcrafted features (correlation 0.847, p < 0.001). Compared to the physics based computation, average execution time was reduced by more than 1000 times, leading to real-time assessment of average strain. Average execution time went down from 32.1 ± 3.0 seconds for the FE model to around 0.03 ± 0.005 seconds for the CNN model on a workstation equipped with 3.0 GHz Intel i7 2-core processor.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128654208","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}
Jorge Sánchez-Garrido, A. M. Lopez-Antequera, M. Jiménez-López, Javier Díaz
{"title":"Sub-nanosecond Synchronization over 1G ethernet data links using white rabbit technologies on the WR-ZEN board","authors":"Jorge Sánchez-Garrido, A. M. Lopez-Antequera, M. Jiménez-López, Javier Díaz","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8076075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8076075","url":null,"abstract":"The White Rabbit (WR) technology has been introduced as an enhancement and next generation of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP, IEEE 1588), providing a boost in synchronization accuracy from the usual sub-microsecond range commonly found in PTPv2-based applications, down to the much more precise sub-nanosecond range. A number of White Rabbit-capable network nodes have been developed with the goal of allowing simultaneous deterministic time transfer and regular Ethernet data traffic to coexist on the same link without significant performance degradation over fiber links spanning tens of kilometers. The first SoC-based platform amongst these nodes is the WR-ZEN board, which implements a real-time White Rabbit stack in the Programmable Logic (PL) of the Zynq-7000 SoC; and features a hardened, ARM dual-core Processing System (PS) for running an embedded Linux environment. This paper presents the work carried out to upgrade the WR-ZEN board implementation, whose peak data throughput is limited just below 70 Mbps, so that a 1 Gbps data rate can be attained without impacting the performance of the White Rabbit synchronization. This goal is fulfilled by designing additional custom logic based on the Xilinx AXI DMA core, as well as an updated Linux network driver. This enhancement allows the widespread deployment of the WR-ZEN for major scientific infrastructure projects that require high-speed data transmission and deterministic timing transfer, as is the case of telescope arrays. Lastly, experimental results are presented comparing the synchronization performance of a baseline PTP-based setup to that achieved on the enhanced WR-ZEN board in the presence of high throughput data traffic. Conclusions are drawn and potential scientific and industrial applications that tap this increased bandwidth with deterministic timing transfer are discussed.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117160453","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. Chashchina, M. Evstigneev, Y. Litvinov, V. Mazulina
{"title":"The control system of the mobile robot over a rought terrain","authors":"M. Chashchina, M. Evstigneev, Y. Litvinov, V. Mazulina","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8075975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8075975","url":null,"abstract":"This work considers the problems of movement control of wheeled robot, which moves along a given trajectory over a rough terrain. The solution of detected issues is given in a form of algorithm. The checking of the proposed algorithm is implemented with the help of mathematical modeling and experimental research on a six-wheeled platform of the company “Odyssey” and control unit based on Arduino UNO fee. The robot operates in an autonomous regime. Identification of obstacles on the robot path is carried out by ultrasonic sensors and vision system.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122552790","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}
O. Balan, A. Moldoveanu, F. Moldoveanu, A. Morar, Silviu Ivascu
{"title":"Perceptual feedback training for improving spatial acuity and resolving front-back confusion errors in virtual auditory environments","authors":"O. Balan, A. Moldoveanu, F. Moldoveanu, A. Morar, Silviu Ivascu","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2017.8075999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2017.8075999","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to test the hypothesis that audiovisual perceptual feedback based training can improve the sound localization accuracy and the navigational skills in a virtual auditory display where 3D sounds are created using non-individualized HRTFs. In our experiment, we tested the spatial auditory localization performance of nine sighted subjects prior and consequently a series of training procedures based on audiovisual feedback. The results concluded that this cross-modal facilitation enhances spatial hearing, reduces the incidence of localization and front-back confusion errors and helps the users to navigate more accurately in the virtual auditory environments by improving their ability to detect 3D sound sources synthesized with non-individualized HRTFs.","PeriodicalId":256818,"journal":{"name":"2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114246614","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}