{"title":"A frequency-domain detection and estimation scheme for single-tone interference suppression","authors":"Hung-Chin Wang","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834920","url":null,"abstract":"For wideband communication systems, the ability against relatively narrowband interference, which is commonly modeled as single-tone interference, is of great importance. Without proper mitigation, i.e., interference suppression, the system performance can degrade significantly as the interference power increases. To cope with this problem, this paper develops an efficient frequency-domain single-tone interference detection and estimation scheme for interference suppression. After transforming the received signal to frequency domain via fast Fourier transform, and with possible power accumulation of consecutive fast Fourier transform windows for successful detection of relatively weak interference (e.g., at a signal-to-interference ratio around 24dB), we derive the probability density function of the received power within each tone and develop a threshold-based detection scheme, where the theoretical probabilities of false alarm and missed detection given a chosen threshold are also derived and confirmed by simulations. Based on the theoretical analyses, we further propose a high-accuracy and low-complexity scheme that estimates the frequency of single-tone interference.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125079152","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":"C3Map and ARPSO based mapping algorithms for energy-efficient regular 3-D NoC architectures","authors":"Kartikeya Bhardwaj, P. Mane","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834909","url":null,"abstract":"Mapping of Intellectual Property (IP) cores onto Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures is a key step in NoC-based designs. Energy, bandwidth, and latency are the key parameters that need to be optimized in such designs. In this paper, we propose Centralized 3-D Mapping (C3Map) using a new octahedral traversal technique and Attractive-Repulsive Particle Swarm Optimization (ARPSO) based algorithms for mapping IP cores onto 3-D NoC architectures. These algorithms efficiently and accurately explore the multi-objective NoC design space. We formulate the IP mapping as minimization of a cost function in order to obtain Pareto optimal IP mappings. We also propose hybridization of ARPSO with known deterministic techniques. We evaluate the proposed C3Map and ARPSO based hybrid algorithms for real-life applications and E3S benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of C3Map as we achieved significant reduction in communication energy and latency, i.e. 19.51% to 25.81% and 24.15% to 31.21% respectively w.r.t. the known techniques.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128838340","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":"Low-complexity architecture for Chase soft-decision Reed-Solomon decoding","authors":"Y. Lu, Shen-Ming Chung, Ming-Der Shieh","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834896","url":null,"abstract":"Soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes can achieve good coding gain by using the probability information from the channel. Among various soft-decision algorithms, the Chase algorithm has moderate performance and rational complexity and hence is usually designed for hardware implementation. Chase-type decoders, however, still have much higher complexity than that of conventional hard-decision decoders. This paper proposes a reduced-complexity Chase (RCC) algorithm and its corresponding high-speed VLSI architecture. With the developed fast and efficient decision-making scheme, the resulting hardware complexity is greatly reduced while keeping the error correction performance comparable to that of the Chase decoders. For a (255, 239) RS code, experimental results show that the proposed decoder design has at least 44.6% improvement in area-time complexity as compared to the related works.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126322486","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}
Shang-Lin Wu, Po-Tsang Huang, Teng-Chieh Huang, Kuan-Neng Chen, J. Chiou, Kuo-Hua Chen, C. Chiu, H. Tong, C. Chuang, W. Hwang
{"title":"Energy-efficient low-noise 16-channel analog-front-end circuit for bio-potential acquisition","authors":"Shang-Lin Wu, Po-Tsang Huang, Teng-Chieh Huang, Kuan-Neng Chen, J. Chiou, Kuo-Hua Chen, C. Chiu, H. Tong, C. Chuang, W. Hwang","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834893","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an energy-efficient and low-noise 16-channel analog front-end (AFE) circuitry is proposed for acquisition of electrophysiological signals. This fully integrated front-end circuit comprises two differential difference amplifiers (DDAs) and DC offset rejection components. Additionally, the DDA is designed using a double input Gm-stage and a class-AB output for achieving high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR), low-noise and energy efficiency. The 16-channel AFE with analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is implemented in TSMC 0.18μm CMOS process. The measurement results show that the AFE can realize 60.3dB gain with only 20.67μW for each channel. The bandwidth of the AFE is from 2.32Hz to 6.61kHz. Furthermore, the total input referred noise and noise efficiency factor (NEF) are 0.826μVrms and 2.78 only within the target frequency range of 0.1Hz to kHz, respectively.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127208622","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}
Shyue-Kung Lu, Huai-Min Li, M. Hashizume, Jin-Hua Hong, Zheng-Ru Tsai
{"title":"Efficient test length reduction techniques for interposer-based 2.5D ICs","authors":"Shyue-Kung Lu, Huai-Min Li, M. Hashizume, Jin-Hua Hong, Zheng-Ru Tsai","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834878","url":null,"abstract":"Three-dimensional integration is considered a promising solution to cure the challenges of performance, power consumption, quality, and reliability issues. The feature of 2.5D ICs is that the dies are stacked on a passive silicon interposer and the dies communicate with each other by means of TSV-based interconnects and re-Distribution layers (RDL) within the silicon interposer. This paper aims to investigate the efficient post-bond test technique for the 2.5D ICs with silicon interposer. In order to efficiently reuse the functional interconnects as the parallel TAM (test access mechanism) for testing dies, a novel macro-die-based interconnect reuse strategy and its corresponding design-for-test (DFT) architecture are proposed in this paper. The proposed strategy merges several dies to form a macro die and then connected to other dies to form a daisy chain for testing. Experimental results show that the proposed techniques have higher success rates for the required TAM width constraints. Moreover, since we can get wider TAMs, the test length then can be reduced significantly.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131058880","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}
W. Shen, Yibo Fan, Leilei Huang, Jiali Li, Xiaoyang Zeng
{"title":"A hardware-friendly method for rate-distortion optimization of HEVC intra coding","authors":"W. Shen, Yibo Fan, Leilei Huang, Jiali Li, Xiaoyang Zeng","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834898","url":null,"abstract":"The next generation standard of coding, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) aims to provide significantly improved compression performance in comparison with all existing video coding standards, such as MPEG-4, H.263, and H.264/AVC. The tool of rate-distortion optimization (RDO) mode decision has proven to be extremely important. Due to the increase in the number of intra prediction directions and large size of coding unit (CU), prediction unit (PU) and transform unit (TU), the number involved in RDO process rises dramatically, which is an extremely timing-and-computation-consuming process. In this paper, we propose a four-pixel-strip based ESAD and quantized TU coefficients based linear model to estimate the distortion and rate part of the RD cost function respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed RD cost function provides 85.8% area reduction and 1260% throughput improvement in hardware design, with negligible loss of bitrate and PSNR.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129786469","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":"Smart feature detection device for cloud based video recognition system","authors":"T. Ikenaga, Takahiro Suzuki","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834914","url":null,"abstract":"Potential of a cloud system combining a smart device and cloud servers is increasing. One of the representative examples is \"Siri\" which offers a friendly web knowledge navigator based on natural language user interface. Since latest portable devices equip not only a microphone but also a high resolution camera, this kind of cloud based framework is also promising to create various kinds of video based recognition systems. There are two essential components for it: a smart device with a high-resolution camera which is responsible for detecting feature from input video and cloud servers which execute recognition or data search using big data as shown in Fig. 1. This paper describes some key technologies of implementing a smart device for a cloud based recognition system. First, a low complexity SIFT (Scale-invariant feature transform) [1] based key point extraction algorithm and its hardware engine capable of operating at full-HD 60fps video [2] are described. As a technique to reduce network bandwidth, a keypoint of interest (KOI) detection algorithm based on spatio-temporal feature considering mutual dependency and camera motion [3] is also discussed. Finally, some promising application examples are shown.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130155315","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":"Precision material engineering — An equipment point of view","authors":"Mei Chang","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834926","url":null,"abstract":"Novel materials and specialty processes are expanding rapidly. Low power high performance devices 3D transistor, packaging and memory drove the demands. Innovation in new manufacturing methods/hardware and new chemistries are required to meet the challenges. Several examples in the past such as Cu metallization evolution and interface cleaning illustrate the efforts how the equipment vendor overcame the more demanding requirements by introducing more hardware control knobs (such as power, RF frequency, B field distribution, temperature zoning), introducing new chemicals (fine control chemical reaction pathway), new physical/chemistry methods (alternative energy form and source) and tempering with new elements. A proper implementation of advanced capabilities heavily depends on the applications. Better understanding of device integration and close working relationship with customers and suppliers can allow more targeted optimization with less iteration time.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123629859","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":"An all-digital delay-locked loop for high-speed memory interface applications","authors":"Shih-Lun Chen, Ming-Jing Ho, Yuxiu Sun, Maung Wai Lin, Jung-Chin Lai","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834900","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an all-digital delay-locked loop with the novel digital delay line for high-speed memory interface applications. The proposed digital delay line has smaller tuning step and better tuning linearity than the prior arts. The proposed ADDLL inside the DDR3 PHY for the purpose of the 90-degree phase shift and read leveling is fabricated in a 40nm low-power CMOS process. The testchip is successfully verified at the data rate of 800~1600Mbps. The measured peak-to-peak and rms jitter of the write DQS are 60ps and 10ps at the data rate of 1600Mbps, respectively.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121390096","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":"Complexity-effective implementation of programmable FIR filters using simplified canonic signed digit multiplier","authors":"Kuo-Chiang Chang, C. Lin, Chih-Wei Liu","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2014.6834886","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an energy-efficient FIR filter architecture which applies CSD multiplication to satisfy the design considerations of power consumption, flexibility and area cost. The proposed architecture reduces number of partial product rows and shift range of each coefficient multiplication to reduce energy consumption. However, the simplification restricts the use of filter coefficients. To mitigate this problem, this paper also presents a coefficient pre-processing flow to transform the original coefficients into applicable ones at design time to meet the restriction of the proposed multiplier. The simulation result reveals this technique can be applied for the computation of 97-tap filter. The design reduces up to 21.5% energy consumption per sample when compared with conventional Booth multiplier.","PeriodicalId":267124,"journal":{"name":"Technical Papers of 2014 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115735490","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}