J. Lapalme, E. Aboulhamid, G. Nicolescu, F. Rousseau
{"title":"Separating Modeling and Simulation Aspects in Hardware/Software System Design","authors":"J. Lapalme, E. Aboulhamid, G. Nicolescu, F. Rousseau","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373302","url":null,"abstract":"Many are working on the productivity gap problem affecting the Electronic Design Automation. None of the current paths seems to be a silver bullet but object-oriented framework-based solutions such as SystemC are gaining a great deal of momentum and acceptance. Despite all the efforts which have been spent one the development of these types of solutions, as well as the numerous satellite tools which add a lot of value to the approach; very few efforts have been spent on the cornerstone task of investigating which software design techniques and technologies should be used to develop effective framework-based solutions. The main objective of the article is to present how new software engineering technologies may be used to create better framework-based modeling solutions by promoting separation of concerns between modeling and simulation aspects.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115489919","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":"Smooth Boundary Point Adaptive Quantizer for on-chip Image Compression","authors":"C. Shoushun, A. Bermak, Wang Yan, D. Martinez","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373305","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed a smooth boundary point adaptive quantization scheme used for image compression. The proposed algorithm is first validated through Matlab simulation then implemented together with a CMOS image sensor. Simulation and experimental results show that compression figures corresponding to 0.6-0.8 bit-per-pixel are achieved while maintaining reasonable image quality.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127102669","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":"Artificial Neural Network Based Modeling of GaAs HBT and Power Amplifier Design for Wireless Communication System","authors":"M. Alam, Omar Farooq, Izharuddin, G. A. Armstrong","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373277","url":null,"abstract":"The power amplifier (PA) used in modern wireless system needs to perform better from point of view linearity and efficiency. A crucial perquisite for the design of PA is the availability of suitable device models. Artificial neural networks (ANN) recently gained attention as a fast and flexible way to develop HBT device model when compared to the conventional modeling approach based on empirical equations and can demonstrate better accuracy. The framework for this ANN based model is a common-emitter large-signal equivalent circuit model, which has been implemented in Agilent Advance Design System (ADS) simulation environment. An excellent agreement between modeled and bias dependent DC and S -parameters and harmonic power in non-linear mode of operation was obtained. Using developed ANN based HBT model PA design was carried out. At collector voltage Vc of 3.4 V, the power amplifier shows an excellent linearity (first ACPR <-42.2 dBc) up to 28 dBm of rated output power for CDMA applications. At the rated output power level, PAE was found to be more than 35%. All the CDMA wireless PA specifications like gain, power-added efficiency (PAE) and adjacent channel power rejection (ACPR) are achieved over nominal and extreme temperature conditions.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"334 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120980070","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":"Electronic conception of a programmable hearing aid","authors":"N. Ben Amor, M. Lahiani, H. Ghariani, M. Samet","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373262","url":null,"abstract":"Hearing is the feeling thanks to which, the external world is perceived by the intermediary of specialized sensors, sensitive to the sound vibrations of the air (sound waves). These waves must pass by a whole perception and transmission chain including the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear, to arrive finally at the auditive nerve. At each level of this chain, an embarrassment or a rupture generating a situation whose severity can go from light auditive deficiency to major deficiency can be produced. So in the most cases, the port of a hearing aid becomes required. In this paper we are interested in the electronic design of a programmable hearing aid in 0.35 mum MOS technology.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129419939","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":"Experimental Evaluation of Three Concurrent Error Detection Mechanisms","authors":"A. Vahdatpour, M. Fazeli, S. Miremadi","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373268","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the effectiveness of three hardware-based control flow checking mechanisms, using software-implemented fault injection (SWIFI) method. The fault detection technique uses reconfigurable of the shelf FPGAs to concurrently check the execution flow of the target program. The technique assigns signatures to the target program in the compile time and verifies the signatures using a FPGA as a watchdog processor to detect possible violation caused by the transient faults. A total of 3000 faults were injected in the experimental embedded system, which is based on an 8051 microcontroller, to measure the error detection coverage. The experimental results show that these mechanisms detect about 90% of transient errors, injected by software implemented method.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125811647","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}
K. S. Sainarayanan, J. Ravindra, K.T. Nath, M. Srinivas
{"title":"Coding for Minimizing Energy in VLSI Interconnects","authors":"K. S. Sainarayanan, J. Ravindra, K.T. Nath, M. Srinivas","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373293","url":null,"abstract":"In CMOS VLSI circuits, the dynamic power dissipation contributes a significant fraction in the overall power dissipation. Hence, the main target of VLSI designers is to minimize the switching activity on the on-chip bus lines. In this paper, the authors propose a novel bus encoding technique which minimizes both self and coupling transition activity to curtail the global power dissipation. The performance of the proposed coding scheme has been tested on various SPEC'95 benchmarks and found that with respect to unencoded data, an average reduction of 28% and 26% with respect to self and coupling energies in the total power dissipation is achieved. The hardware, used for encoding and decoding purposes, has been designed using Magmacopytools.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"415 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133227539","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 Mesochronous Technique for Communication in Network on Chips","authors":"M. Saneei, A. Afzali-Kusha, Z. Navabi","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373260","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a mesochronous scheme for communication over serial buses in network on chips (NoC). The technique, which removes metastability errors in mesochronous communications, makes use of only one strobe line with the bus. The strobe line toggles once with every frame of the data. In the suggested method, the frequencies of the transmitter and the receiver are independent with some tolerable difference. The results of HSPICE simulations in a 0.13 mum standard CMOS technology show a 3.65 Gbps as the maximum transmission bandwidth of the technique. The idea can be applied to parallel buses without any change in the control circuit.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116521725","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 Fully Integrated Range-Finder Based on the Line-Stripe Method","authors":"A. Saberkari, S. B. Shokouhi","doi":"10.1109/ICM.2006.373645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM.2006.373645","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an imaging chip for acquiring range information with 0.35 mum CMOS technology and 5 V power supply has been described. The system can extract range information without any mechanical movement and all the signal processing is done on the chip. All of the image sensors and mixed-signal processors are integrated in the chip. The design range is 1.5 m-10 m with 18 scales.","PeriodicalId":284717,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Microelectronics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129273378","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}