{"title":"Software integration and verification process and quality improvements on CPP system","authors":"Ž. Antolić, S. Golubić","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper gives an overview of few initiatives regarding process and quality improvements taken within software development projects for CPP (connectivity packet platform) system in order to minimize development time, reduce development cost and improve the software product quality. Some changes in development and verification process toward integration centric engineering are described and discusses, as well as software quality rank model, and fault-slip-through measurements. In addition, some proposals and future directions in the area of software integration and verification are given","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130393124","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}
J. Muñoz-Ferreras, F. Pérez-Martínez, J. Calvo-Gallego, A. Blanco-del-Campo, A. Asensio-López, B. Dorta-Naranjo
{"title":"Focused ISAR images of maritime targets using a high resolution LFMCW millimeter-wave radar","authors":"J. Muñoz-Ferreras, F. Pérez-Martínez, J. Calvo-Gallego, A. Blanco-del-Campo, A. Asensio-López, B. Dorta-Naranjo","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653153","url":null,"abstract":"The generation of high resolution ISAR (inverse synthetic aperture radar) images is reaching protagonism at the present time. A major application is coast surveillance. The recognition and the identification of maritime targets are important tasks. In this paper experimental results of ISAR images of maritime targets are reported. The data were captured with an LFMCW (linear frequency modulated continuous wave) millimeter-wave radar. High resolution ISAR images are obtained, since a great bandwidth (1 GHz) is transmitted. In ISAR the target motion can degrade the quality of the final images and motion compensation algorithms are necessary to improve the focus of these images. An autofocusing technique based on the shift-and-convolution algorithm is used to compensate the translational target motion and a two-phase algorithm (slant range rotation compensation (SRRC) and cross range rotation compensation (CRRC)) is used to correct the migration through resolution cells (MTRC) associated with the target rotation. The effectiveness of the focusing techniques is verified with simulated and real (maritime targets) radar data and compared with the standard range-Doppler algorithm (RDA)","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130488168","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":"RF-MEMS from DC to Millimeter-wave","authors":"T. Nishino, M. Miyazaki, Y. Yoshida, M. Taguchi","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653097","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a hollow cavity structure and two types of RF-MEMS switches. The one has less parasitic capacitance to be used in high frequency band with the hollow structure. The other has compact structure with a common bias electrode to a signal line. This type suits for the cellular phone frequencies. In this paper, we introduce both of the switches, and discuss on the future applications of the RF-MEMS","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"19 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116687500","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. Fernández, C. Escudero, D. Iglesia, M. Rodriguez, E. Marcote
{"title":"MOVILTOOTH: a Bluetooth context-aware system with push technology","authors":"C. Fernández, C. Escudero, D. Iglesia, M. Rodriguez, E. Marcote","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653210","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, due to the popularization of the mobile devices and the enhancement of this kind of technologies, a new computing paradigm where the users interact with an intelligent environment is emerging. Context-aware information systems is an arising topic with a great demand in the field of the new technologies. The scientific community has realized of the relevance of the context-aware information and has developed new kinds of services and applications. This paper presents a novel context-aware information system for mobile devices based on Bluetooth wireless technology. Some of its features are: it provides a delivering information service using a push action, it doesn't require to install any client in the users' device and it supports a great variety of multimedia contents","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132451432","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}
A. Garrigós, J. A. Carrasco, J. Blanes, E. Sanchis-Kilders
{"title":"A power conditioning unit for high power GEO satellites based on the sequential switching shunt series regulator","authors":"A. Garrigós, J. A. Carrasco, J. Blanes, E. Sanchis-Kilders","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653313","url":null,"abstract":"This work describes the principles of the sequential switching shunt series regulator, S4R, an innovative solution proposed by the European Space Agency and other partners to power the next generation of high power telecommunications satellites. A comparative study between, the S4R regulated bus vs. the traditional option, the sequential switching shunt regulator regulated bus -S3R regulated bus- is performed to obtain the pros and cons of both topologies in high power (>15 kW) Geosynchronous satellites","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132485975","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":"Design and Optimization of Self-Biased Complementary Folded Cascode","authors":"Cascode Vladimir Ceperic, Z. Butkovic, A. Barić","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653057","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents design and optimization procedure of a self-biased complementary folded cascade. A self-biased scheme is chosen as a technique that saves power and circuit area, and is less sensitive to process variations. The gain of basic folded cascode is enhanced using a gain boosting approach based on common source self-biased amplifiers. The circuits are optimized using the global optimization approach with the cost function calculated by circuit simulations. The hybrid approach to optimization is used combining the global search strategy using particle swarm optimization (PSO) and direct pattern search (DPS) method used as local search strategy. A complementary folded cascode operational amplifier is designed in the 0.35 mum CMOS technology with the 3.3 V power supply voltage","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131855412","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}
J. F. Paris, M. Aguayo-Torres, J. T. Entrambasaguas, E. Martos-Naya
{"title":"Zero-Outage Delay-Aware Adaptive Modulation for Flat Fading Channels","authors":"J. F. Paris, M. Aguayo-Torres, J. T. Entrambasaguas, E. Martos-Naya","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653177","url":null,"abstract":"We present an adaptive modulation policy that provides delay-throughput balance for data packet transmission over flat fading channels. The proposed policy is based on uninterrupted data transmission (zero-outage) and achieves low packet-delay while satisfies certain average BER constraints. Such delay and BER control is not an obstacle to achieve an average spectral efficiency close to that obtained by maximum spectral efficiency adaptation policies. Both continuous and discrete rate adaptation are considered","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134064008","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. Navarro, F. Falcone, T. Lopetegi, M.A. Gomez-Laso, M. Beruete, I. Arnedo, E. Jarauta, J. A. Marcotegui, M. Sorolla
{"title":"Interaction effects between electromagnetic bandgap structures and split ring resonators in microstrip technology","authors":"M. Navarro, F. Falcone, T. Lopetegi, M.A. Gomez-Laso, M. Beruete, I. Arnedo, E. Jarauta, J. A. Marcotegui, M. Sorolla","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653089","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper interaction effects between electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) and an array of split ring resonators are analyzed in planar microstrip technology. Due to the equivalent negative epsi behavior of the EBG structure and the effective negative mu value when the SRR particles are operating in the vicinity of the quasi-static resonance frequency, a passband response is expected, as already seen in left-handed devices. Full wave simulations as well as measurement results from fabricated prototypes are presented, confirming initial predictions","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134314050","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":"Automatic synthesis of data-flow systems using high level codesign tool. Application to vision processors","authors":"A. M. Alvarez, L. Reyneri, F.J.P. Valle","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653045","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a tool devised for the automatic design and optimization of bioinspired visual processing models using reconfigurable hardware. We have focused on the simulation and optimization characteristics of our system. We also present a retina-like processing system based on a PCI-based FPGA board as an example. The whole system is intended for the design and analysis of real-time vision processing schemes. The top-down design path of our system involves a high level synthesis scheme while allowing different strategies for optimizing the system via the CodeSimulink codesign tool","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133122435","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}
J. Valenzuela-Valdés, M. A. García-Fernández, A. Martinez-Gonzalez, D. Sánchez-Hernández
{"title":"Tunable dual-band printed tab monopole antennas for wireless communications","authors":"J. Valenzuela-Valdés, M. A. García-Fernández, A. Martinez-Gonzalez, D. Sánchez-Hernández","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653102","url":null,"abstract":"The advance of communication systems requires new antenna designs to comply with the ever-increasing demands of the wireless market. The antenna designs are being conditioned by miniaturization and migration to new frequencies (IEEE 802.11a/g), while keeping compatibility with other systems poses yet additional constrains. This contribution presents a novel monopole multi-band printed antenna design for WiFi systems, featuring the use of a spur-line filter to obtain dual-frequency operation. Design constrains are discussed, along with simulated and measured results","PeriodicalId":299928,"journal":{"name":"MELECON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133485644","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}