{"title":"Auto-generation of ams behavioral models in different languages from hybrid automata","authors":"Antara Ain, P. Dasgupta","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469218","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a methodology for automatic generation of behavioral models of analog and mixed signal circuits in different languages from hybrid system based specification. The proposed approach captures the design specification of a class of circuits into a language independent high level library of models. Taking the user input, and the domain knowledge from the specification, and by parsing the library of models, the model generator automatically generates the behavioral models in different languages. In this work, the behavioral models are developed in Verilog-A and SPICE languages, which are often used in industrial applications and are also structurally different. The methodology is explained with a synthetic example of programmable gain amplifier with automatic gain control circuit.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123084474","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}
S. Ram, Rohit Kumar Sureka, P. Sharma, N. Laxman Rao
{"title":"Integrating bioinformatics information resources: Management of information through clustering","authors":"S. Ram, Rohit Kumar Sureka, P. Sharma, N. Laxman Rao","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469176","url":null,"abstract":"Human Genome Project completed in 2003 undertaken by National Institute of Health (NIH), USA and US Department of Energy to determine the sequence of chemical base pair which make up Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA). This mega project generated huge amount of Data and Information. The Enormous amount of data generated through whole-genome sequencing efforts, microarray technologies, and mapping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), proteomics, and many other efforts, have created chasm of knowledge for most traditionally trained biologists on how to interpret and utilize wealth of information. The storage and management of the data and its processing posed challenges to the information scientists too, which resulted in the birth of bioinformatics. The discipline, Bioinformatics is drawing concepts from various subject areas such as biological sciences, computer science, genetics, mathematics and statistics. Various related resources also emerged in the form of published literature, specialized centers for bioinformatics, organism specific databases and software tools to analyze data. Database driven technology emerged as one of the solution to maintain and sustain the information. Bioinformatics being a novice subject field and it utilizes multidimensional approach for analysis of data. There are various problems related to generation, communication and interaction of biological information due to heterogeneity. The Users of bioinformatics information often find it a challenge to get awareness and access to the relevant information. Information literacy, creation of databases, consolidation of information resources and presenting them in helpful manner for coherent access are some of solutions for enhanced access. This paper is deals with design and development of a single tool for providing access to variety of resources in bioinformatics.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123641593","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":"Double negative metamaterial design using open split ring resonator","authors":"S. S. Karthikeyan, M. Arulvani","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469222","url":null,"abstract":"Metamaterials are artificially designed materials having electromagnetic properties which are not generally found in nature. Various resonators exhibiting metamaterial characteristics are split ring resonator (SRR), spiral resonator (SR), omega and fractal resonator. This paper presents a new type of resonator called as an open split ring resonator (OSRR) exhibiting negative permeability. OSRR is modified structure of split ring resonator (SRR). A metamaterial cell is constructed by the OSRR and wire arrangement. The complex permittivity and permeability of the cell is retrieved from the scattering parameters. As compared to the split ring resonator, open split ring resonator is smaller in size for the same resonance frequency and hence this leads to a size miniaturization in various metamaterial applications.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125775298","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 framework for mobile based geospatial public health management","authors":"A. Dasgupta","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469202","url":null,"abstract":"With the advancement of communication technology, it is possible to integrate heterogeneous data repositories form the diverse data source. At present most of current public health information systems are lacking the support of on spot dynamic data uploading, visualization, analyzing and decision making. It is essential to integrate public health information system with the geospatial data repositories for on time integrated public health monitoring. GIS plays an important role in public health care for epidemiologic studies. But visualization of integrated public health information on the desktop environment is not sufficient to control emergency situation. With the availability of high quality mobile communication infrastructure it is possible to visualize public health geospatial the mobile device for taking decision at any time from any where. Moreover with the help of mobile device the public data repositories can be updated timely from any location. In this work, a framework has been proposed for efficient management of public health information by integrating geospatial map data with the use of mobile device.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130874122","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}
Falguni Pati, Pallab Datta, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, S. Dhara, B. Adhikari
{"title":"Development of chitosan-tripolyphosphate fiber for biomedical application","authors":"Falguni Pati, Pallab Datta, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, S. Dhara, B. Adhikari","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469196","url":null,"abstract":"Chitosan, a glycosaminoglycan, is the second most abundant naturally occurring polysaccharides. It has been extensively exploited in biomaterials research due to its easy tailorable structure and function. Chitosan fibers are being produced through wet-spinning route for different purposes. But, chitosan fibers produced in conventional alkaline bath generally suffers from quick dissolution in acidic media and high degradation rate in vivo. Crosslinking of the fibers with chemical agents is usually preferred to avoid that problem of instability. The crosslinking agents are highly toxic in nature and not suitable for biomedical use. Crosslinking of chitosan fibers with any non-toxic agent could make it better biocompatible and may find potential biomedical application. Present study focuses on production of chitosan-tripolyphosphate fibers through wetspinning technique. STPP was used as an in situ coagulant cum crosslinking agent for chitosan fibers. The fibers were produced by injecting homogeneous chitosan solution through a spinneret into sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) coagulation bath. Viscosity of the chitosan solutions was measured for evaluation of flow behavior at different shear rate. FTIR analysis revealed presence of ionic cross-linking between tripolyphosphates (TPP) and chitosan molecules in chitosan-TPP fibers. Swelling behavior and water retention capacity of the chitosan-TPP fibers were also evaluated. Scanning electron micrographs showed fine chitosan fibers with diameters ∼ 40 µm. These chitosan-TPP fibers may have potential biomedical applications due to their non-toxic in nature and enhanced stability.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131512455","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":"Continuous digit recognition in mobile environment","authors":"Sabin Kafley, A. Vuppala, Arun Chauhan, K. S. Rao","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469151","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the recognition of digits uttered in continuous manner in mobile environment (i.e uttering a telephonic data like phone number). In mobile environment, the major issues are background noise, coding and channel impairments. Most of the existing works deal only with the recognition of noisy speech, but in this paper, we have explored about the recognition of speech under noisy coded condition, and it is shown that the performance of recognition is improved by spectral processing techniques. Finally, in this paper, we have shown that speech coding does not significantly affect on the performance of digit recognition. Also, we have compared the results of spectral methods used here for preprocessing, and concluded that Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) [1] method produces better result than spectral subtraction method [2].","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131881123","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":"Shruti-II: A vernacular speech recognition system in Bengali and an application for visually impaired community","authors":"S. Mandal, B. Das, Pabitra Mitra","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469156","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce the SPHINX3-based Bengali Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) system Shruti-II and an E-mail application based on it. This ASR system converts standard Bengali continuous speech to Bengali Unicode. Due to the limited availability of access to computer, visually impaired community can use speech as an input method for various computer-based application. This paper also demonstrates an application based on Shruti-II which is made for the visually challenged people. Those people can send E-mail by using this system.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131365654","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":"The solar cell — A novel static transducer","authors":"S. Mishra, Vandana Neha Tigga, S. Singh","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469224","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a study has been carried out to use solar cell as a simple static transducer for measurement of linear and angular displacement of a moving object as a primary parameter and also it can be extended for its derivative parameter like velocity, acceleration etc. The working principle of solar cell and its scope of working as a transducer have been discussed. Experimental investigation through software simulation using MULTISIM 10.1 as well hardware implementation has been carried out. Software and hardware simulation show a good conformity in their result.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131075173","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. Nanda, J. Mukhopadhyay, Debashis Mandal, S. Chakrabarti
{"title":"1 V CMOS instrumentation amplifier with high DC electrode offset cancellation for ECG acquisition systems","authors":"C. Nanda, J. Mukhopadhyay, Debashis Mandal, S. Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469187","url":null,"abstract":"A new circuit topology for a low voltage, low noise instrumentation amplifier (IA) applicable for electrocardiogram signal acquisition system is designed. This circuit is based on the current feedback topology, which is implemented using folded cascode structure at both input and output stages. This helps to sense very low common mode voltage. Achieved input common mode range (ICMR) is 71.43 – 700 mV. DC electrode offset cancellation circuit is realized to remove DC electrode offset along with the low frequency noise. The IA can withstand a high DC electrode offset of ±18 mV. It also has a wide input dynamic range of ±1 µV to ±1 mV. The voltage gain is around 38 dB. It consumes 110 µW power with a supply voltage of 1 V. A high common mode rejection ratio (CMRR) of 80 dB is achieved. The integrated input referred noise is 1.64 µVrms (0.1 Hz – 150 Hz). This design is implemented in 0.18 µm standard CMOS process.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131037339","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":"Development of MEMS based universal gate for signal processing circuit in low frequency sensor applications","authors":"S. Chakraborty, Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469285","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of surface micro-machined universal gate for MEMS based digital logic implementation. The micro-cantilever switch, which is the fundamental building block of the design, has been optimized with analytical method and finite element method based simulation for three different specifications followed by system level simulation for performance analysis. The logic implementation of the simulated universal gates has been verified using different input combinations. It has also been shown that the same universal gate can be used as NOR as well as NAND gate by interchanging power supply and ground. The structures have been fabricated using standard surface micro-machining process.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134378285","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}