M. Ramalatha, A. Karthick, S. Karthick, K. Muralikrishnan
{"title":"A high speed 12-bit pipelined ADC using Switched Capacitor and fat tree encoder","authors":"M. Ramalatha, A. Karthick, S. Karthick, K. Muralikrishnan","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227844","url":null,"abstract":"The parameters like speed and resolution of an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) characterizes the performance of any control system in the real world. Among available ADC architectures Flash, Pipeline, Sigma-Delta and Successive Approximation Register (SAR) have been frequently used to satisfy different requirements like speed, resolution and power. A flash architecture is conceptually the simplest and the easiest to design, but requires a large number of transistors and significant power because, an n-bit ADC requires 2n-1 comparators (one comparator for each threshold), which also present a significant capacitive load to the circuitry driving the ADC. Though Flash ADC is preferred for its high speed, this speed decreases with increase in resolution. In order to achieve higher resolution, SAR ADC is preferred, but the speed of the ADC is very limited. Therefore for better trade-off between resolution and speed, the pipeline architecture is used. The concurrent operation of the pipelined stages is responsible for its increased efficiency. Each stage processes a new sample as soon as its residue is sampled by the following stage, which leads to a high throughput of one sample per clock cycle. The Pipeline ADC is constructed by using Switched Capacitor (SC) circuit, which exploits the charge storing abilities of CMOS to achieve precision signal processing and is preferred in mixed-signal, A/D interfaces. A Fat Tree Encoder (FTE) used in Flash ADC of each pipeline stage improves speed, reduces the latency, power consumption and area.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125128310","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 low-cost microstrip antenna for 3G/WLAN/WiMAX and UWB applications","authors":"M. Al‐Husseini, Y. Tawk, A. El-Hajj, K. Kabalan","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227857","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a low-cost ultra-wideband microstrip antenna for wireless communications. Printed on a 40×50×1.83 mm3 Isola Gigaver 210 substrate, the antenna features a microstrip feed line with two 45° bends and a tapered section for size reduction and matching, respectively. The ground plane is partial and comprises a rectangular part and a trapezoidal part. The patch is a half ellipse, where the cut is made along the minor axis. Several slots are incorporated into the patch. The placement and sizes of the slots are assisted by the knowledge of fractal geometries. The return loss, input impedance, gain, efficiency and radiation characteristics of the antenna are presented. It is shown that the antenna can operate in the bands used for UMTS, WLAN, WiMAX, and UWB applications.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125587637","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}
R. Kianinezhad, S. G. Seyfossadat, V. Talaeizadeh, A. Hasani
{"title":"A new DTC of six phase induction machines using matrix converter","authors":"R. Kianinezhad, S. G. Seyfossadat, V. Talaeizadeh, A. Hasani","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227862","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new configuration for direct torque control (DTC) of six-phase induction motor (SPIM). In the proposed method, direct torque and flux control are applied to the SPIM using matrix converter with the conventional three-phase source as its input. The new DTC scheme for SPIM benefits the advantages of both DTC and matrix converter. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method in both dynamic and steady state response.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122810357","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":"Visualizing the underlying trends of component latencies affecting Service Operation Performance","authors":"Sid Kargupta, S. Black","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227946","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a technology agnostic method for extracting the underlying distinct patterns of variations in the overall Performance of a Service Operation for changes to different application components supporting the Service Operation in a computer based Service Provider-Consumer contract. This short paper advocates that visualizing these patterns would help in early projection of the operation's performance due to modification of the application components/processing catering to the operation, without the need of repetitive performance and load testing of the whole service. Lookup datasets against different component configurations are created to associate the variability of component processing impedances to the service operation's Performance and best fit regression types are applied to enable trend extrapolation and interpolation.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128566544","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":"Phoneme-viseme mapping for Modern, Classical Arabic language","authors":"Pascal Damien, Nagi Wakim, Marcel Egea","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227875","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a classification of visemes of the Modern, Classical Arabic (MCA) language and establishes its phoneme-viseme mapping. The study is based on the analysis of geometrical features of the face extracted from the front lip movement of four speakers pronouncing predefined sequences of words which have been recorded in a controlled environment.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128570072","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}
Md. Saiful Islam, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman, Zerina Begum, M. Hafiz
{"title":"Fault tolerant reversible logic synthesis: Carry look-ahead and carry-skip adders","authors":"Md. Saiful Islam, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman, Zerina Begum, M. Hafiz","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227871","url":null,"abstract":"Irreversible logic circuits dissipate heat for every bit of information that is lost. Information is lost when the input vector cannot be recovered from its corresponding output vector. Reversible logic circuit naturally takes care of heating because it implements only the functions that have one-to-one mapping between its input and output vectors. Therefore reversible logic design becomes one of the promising research directions in low power dissipating circuit design in the past few years and has found its application in low power CMOS design, digital signal processing and nanotechnology. This paper presents the efficient approaches for designing reversible fast adders that implement carry look-ahead and carry-skip logic. The proposed 16-bit high speed reversible adder will include IG gates for the realization of its basic building block. The IG gate is universal in the sense that it can be used to synthesize any arbitrary Boolean-functions. The IG gate is parity preserving, that is, the parity of the inputs matches the parity of the outputs. It allows any fault that affects no more than a single signal readily detectable at the circuit's primary outputs. Therefore, the proposed high speed adders will have the inherent opportunity of detecting errors in its output side. It has also been demonstrated that the proposed design offers less hardware complexity and is efficient in terms of gate count, garbage outputs and constant inputs than the existing counterparts.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131387232","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":"Building simulation tools and their role in improving existing building designs","authors":"Sylvie Melki, Michael Hayek","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227889","url":null,"abstract":"Computational tools have proven without a doubt to be valuable assets in all engineering fields. EnergyPlus is one of several tools available to perform simulation and analysis of building energy performance. This paper deals with a case study of a simulation based energy audit of a section of Notre Dame University campus (Lebanon). Several scenarios for energy performance improvement are proposed and backed up by a detailed payback period analysis.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131604024","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":"Electromagnetic Time-Reversal for reverberation chamber applications using FDTD","authors":"I. El Baba, S. Lalléchère, P. Bonnet","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227872","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the use of Time-Reversal (TR) method in electromagnetism and its applications in ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) in a reverberating environment. The proposed study leans on Mode Stirred Reverberation Chamber (MSRC) of the EMC team, LASMEA (LAboratoire des Sciences et Matériaux pour l'Électronique et d'Automatique, Clermont University), France. Based upon the equivalence between backward propagation and reversibility of the wave equation, many TR experiments were led successfully in acoustics [1]. In this paper, an original way of using TR in electromagnetics is detailed (principally concerning the ability of the technique to focus a signal in time and space). First, the theoretical principles of TR are described and illustrated using Finite Difference in Time Domain (FDTD, [2]) computing of Maxwell's equations. Then, the aim is to accurately describe the influence of various parameters (from FDTD numerical experiments) above focusing. Thus, particular interests rely on the numbers and locations of TR sensors, directivity of source, presence of scatterers, impact of MSRC. Finally, considering characteristics of EMC applications in MSRC, a closer look will be set to the advantages of TR numerical tools for innovating studies in reverberation chambers.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131741951","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":"SIFT-based ear recognition by fusion of detected keypoints from color similarity slice regions","authors":"D. Kisku, H. Mehrotra, Phalguni Gupta, J. Sing","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227958","url":null,"abstract":"Ear biometric is considered as one of the most reliable and invariant biometrics characteristics in line with iris and fingerprint characteristics. In many cases, ear biometrics can be compared with face biometrics regarding many physiological and texture characteristics. In this paper, a robust and efficient ear recognition system is presented, which uses Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) as feature descriptor for structural representation of ear images. In order to make it more robust to user authentication, only the regions having color probabilities in a certain ranges are considered for invariant SIFT feature extraction, where the K-L divergence is used for keeping color consistency. Ear skin color model is formed by Gaussian mixture model and clustering the ear color pattern using vector quantization. Finally, K-L divergence is applied to the GMM framework for recording the color similarity in the specified ranges by comparing color similarity between a pair of reference model and probe ear images. After segmentation of ear images in some color slice regions, SIFT keypoints are extracted and an augmented vector of extracted SIFT features are created for matching, which is accomplished between a pair of reference model and probe ear images. The proposed technique has been tested on the IITK Ear database and the experimental results show improvements in recognition accuracy while invariant features are extracted from color slice regions to maintain the robustness of the system.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114447622","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":"Study analysis on the excitation of a switched reluctance generator for wind energy conversion","authors":"M. Nassereddine, J. Rizk, M. Nagrial, A. Hellany","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227943","url":null,"abstract":"Switched reluctance generator is a new technology to convert the wind energy into electrical power, The concept behind the excitations for the switched reluctance generator will be discussed in this paper with simulation assistance using Ansoft and Multisim software, tested results for the proposed method will be discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123991518","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}