{"title":"A brief review of wave union TDCs","authors":"P. Kwiatkowski, Dominik Sondej, R. Szplet","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502360","url":null,"abstract":"The wave union is a one of the most popular method implemented recently in programable devices for precise measurements of time intervals. Due to the excellent metrological parameters provided by this method, it is used in different variants in both FPGA and ASIC devices. In this paper we present an in-depth analysis focused exclusively to this method. Various implementations are compared and general conclusions are formulated.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"67 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128684517","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}
Junchen Wang, C. Feng, W. Dong, Z. Shen, Shubin Liu
{"title":"A High Precision Time-to-Digital Converter based on Multi-chain Interpolation with a Low Cost Artix-7 FPGA","authors":"Junchen Wang, C. Feng, W. Dong, Z. Shen, Shubin Liu","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502368","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a high precision Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) implemented in a low-end, low power Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It applies the interpolation method for fine time measurement, and a multi-chain tapped-delay line (TDL) structure is used to achieve high precision. To avoid bubble error and to decrease dead time, a Wallace-tree encoder with pipeline structure is utilized in each chain, for encoding the 234-bit thermometer code from the delay taps. A double-channel TDC with different numbers of chains is implemented in a Xilinx Artix-7 100T FPGA to verify the design concept and to study the performances in detail. Test results show that with eight chains implemented for each channel, the best precision of leading-edge measurement (channel to channel) can reach 6.4 ps in root mean square (RMS). The LUT resource occupancy of the double-channel TDC (together with auxiliary circuits) is about 9.77%, which shows good potential for expanding the channel numbers for high density, low cost applications.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126506811","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}
E. Bogdanov, Alexander Bozhnyuk, Stanislav Sartasov, O. Granichin
{"title":"On Application of Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation for Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling in Android OS","authors":"E. Bogdanov, Alexander Bozhnyuk, Stanislav Sartasov, O. Granichin","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502396","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation was previously shown to provide good results for optimizing resource consumption under dynamically changing workload. We employ this approach to develop dynamic voltage-frequency scaling (DVFS) governor for Android OS. We design experimental methodology and show our algorithm performance compared to common Android DVFS governors. A link to the source code is also provided.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125821994","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}
Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet, N. Meslem, Fairouz Zobiri
{"title":"Event-Based Set-point Tracking Based on a State Observer","authors":"Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet, N. Meslem, Fairouz Zobiri","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502361","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an event-based framework for set-point tracking involving three linear time invariant systems, a real, a reference and an observer system. To be actually event-based using only the knowledge of the output of the real system, we show that the two systems (reference and observer) involved in the event generator have to take into account the output observation error. The resulting setup is proved to be able to follow a Lipschitz predefined set-point trajectory with no Zeno phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123660776","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":"Comparison between an ASK Event-Based Demodulation and a Digital IQ Demodulation","authors":"Alexis Rodrigo Iga Jadue, S. Engels, L. Fesquet","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502367","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a comparison between two ASK demodulation techniques. The first one is a digital implementation of a traditional IQ demodulation, while the second is a novel digital demodulation algorithm connected to an EB-ADC (Event-Based ADC) for minimizing the number of processed events. The EB-ADC has been designed using a reduced LCSS (Level Crossing Sample Scheme) with only 2 levels, connected to two strong-arm comparators for the digitalization process. Electrical simulations were used to characterize these comparators for integrating them in a full digital SystemVerilog (SV) simulation. An adaptation of python’s library has been modeled in SV for simulating the RF input signal and its amplitude noise. This implemented algorithm benefits from the measurement of the time elapsed between two adjacent events improving the demodulator performance and noise resiliency, reaching, for instance, a BER=$3.33cdot 10^{-7}$ for a modulation index (MI) of 10%, a SNR of 16 dB and a bitrate of 6.78 Mbps. This proposal was recently sent to fabrication in FDSOI 28nm STMicroelectronics technology.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123767778","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":"4.3ps rms jitter time to amplitude converter in 350nm Si-Ge technology","authors":"G. Acconcia, M. Ghioni, I. Rech","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502398","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, many applications require the measurement of a time interval: while a coarse timing information down to the nanoseconds range can be easily obtained with a counter, achieving a precision in the order of few picoseconds require more complex circuits, especially if high linearity and operating rates up to tens of Mcps are also necessary. In this paper, we show preliminary results on a new fully integrated time to amplitude converter designed in 350nm Si-Ge technology. The circuit is able to provide a timing precision as low as 4.3ps rms on a 12.5ns full scale range and a linearity better than 1% rms.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129753807","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}
Felix Kreutz, Pascal Gerhards, B. Vogginger, Klaus Knobloch, C. Mayr
{"title":"Applied Spiking Neural Networks for Radar-based Gesture Recognition","authors":"Felix Kreutz, Pascal Gerhards, B. Vogginger, Klaus Knobloch, C. Mayr","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502357","url":null,"abstract":"Spiking neural networks offer a promising approach for low power edge applications, especially when run on neuromorphic hardware. However, there are no well established approaches to setup such networks for real world applications. We demonstrate the use of spiking neural networks on the basis of radar data-based gesture recognition, while taking three different angle-encoding schemes into account, considering a two antenna based angle estimation. The surrogate gradient approach is used for direct training, while achieving a reasonable accuracy on all proposed encoding schemes. This work proposes a baseline approach for spiking networks and the corresponding encoding for the use in radar-based gesture classification.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126771674","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}
Mojtaba Parsakordasiabi, I. Vornicu, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, R. Carmona-Galán
{"title":"A Novel Approach for Measurement Throughput Maximization in FPGA-based TDCs","authors":"Mojtaba Parsakordasiabi, I. Vornicu, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, R. Carmona-Galán","doi":"10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EBCCSP53293.2021.9502401","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new approach for dead-time minimization while preserving low resource usage and high resolution in FPGA-based time-to-digital (TDC) converters. The proposed TDC architecture can be employed in applications in which many events need to be detected in a short time, such as time-of-flight positron emission tomography (ToF-PET) applications. The presented architecture consists of a toggling input stage, a tapped delay line (TDL), a dual-mode counter-based encoder, a coarse counter, and a bin width calibration stage. The minimum dead-time of TDL TDCs is two clock cycles. The proposed architecture reduced dead-time to one clock cycle. The measurement results of the proposed low-resources TDC in an Artix-7 FPGA show [-0.80, 1.34] LSB differential nonlinearity (DNL) and [-0.73, 1.97] LSB integral non-linearity (INL). The measured LSB size and single-shot precision (SSP) are 22.1 ps and 28.43 ps, respectively.","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128935000","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}
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{"title":"Committees and Reviewers","authors":"A. T. Lopes","doi":"10.1109/mobilesoft.2015.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mobilesoft.2015.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291826,"journal":{"name":"2021 7th International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128799290","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}