Ankita Deo, S. Pandey, A. Joshi, S. Sharma, H. Shrimali
{"title":"Design of a Third Order Butterworth Gm-C Filter for EEG Signal Detection Application","authors":"Ankita Deo, S. Pandey, A. Joshi, S. Sharma, H. Shrimali","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436689","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a fully differential low pass $G_{m}$ -C filter including the preamplifier circuit as an input stage. The design is targeted for a biomedical application such as electroencephalogram signal detection. The complete circuit including supporting circuitry has been designed and implemented in a standard 180 nm CMOS technology with the supply voltage of 1.8 V. The post-layout simulation results show 21.8 dB closed loop gain, 206 Hz 3-dB bandwidth, and 689 nW power consumption. The designed filter gives effectively third order butterworth response including the preamplier circuit. The filter shows a transconductance of 2.8 nS at 200 Hz frequency. The filter shows satisfactory performance from −20°C to 80°C with varying process corners. The statistical mismatch analysis shows 724 ndB standard deviation of gain from the mean value of 21.8 dB. Input referred noise (IRN) shows $pmb{94.6}mathbf{aV}/sqrt{Hz}$ standard deviation from the mean value of $pmb{81.7}umathbf{V}/sqrt{Hz}$.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124130079","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}
Daniel Pietron, Igor Butryn, Lukasz Wiechowski, W. Pleskacz
{"title":"Design of a Wideband Low Noise Amplifier for a FMCW Synthetic Aperture Radar in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology","authors":"Daniel Pietron, Igor Butryn, Lukasz Wiechowski, W. Pleskacz","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436905","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, design of a wideband low noise amplifier for a FMCW synthetic aperture radar is discussed. In the first part, the paper describes the fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technique and Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) modulation. The solutions of wideband low-noise amplifiers are described subsequently. It is found that a two-stage common-emitter (CE) Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) allows the most satisfactory parameters to be achieved among the investigated solutions. The simulations of the LNA predict a 4.5 dB noise figure, 16.2 dB conversion gain, operating band from 30 GHz to 40 GHz, reflection coefficients below −10 dB and power consumption equal to 9.3 mW. The LNA was designed in IHP − 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology and the simulations were performed with Cadence SpectreRF.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132099012","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}
Michal Basiuras, D. Makowski, P. Perek, A. Mielczarek, A. Napieralski
{"title":"Device Support for Giga-sampling Digitizers","authors":"Michal Basiuras, D. Makowski, P. Perek, A. Mielczarek, A. Napieralski","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8443602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8443602","url":null,"abstract":"In many Large-Scale Physics Experiments (LSPE), such as ITER, an efficient data acquisition and processing is required. The system uses fast Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) to acquire data with performance of gigabits or tens of gigabits per second. Software provided by a manufacturer demonstrates basic capabilities of the hardware but it cannot be used for the demanding applications of LSPE. Therefore, the need arises to create custom software for data acquisition, communication and processing. In the process of development of such software dedicated Control System Frameworks (CSF) are commonly used. The ultimate goal is to create a universal framework for high-speed ADCs that will be easily scalable to wide range of devices and will offer high performance that is needed in LSPE. Such framework needs to support a scalable architecture that allows processing data from many channels distributed among complex machine and offer human-friendly operator panel for device configuration. The paper presents data acquisition software developed for 5 GS/s pulse digitizer based on the DRS4 ASIC. The software is based on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS). Operator Panels were created with the use of the Best OPI Yet (BOY). The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of development of such software highlighting highperformance problems.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125360906","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":"Towards a World of More Functions in Integrated Sustainable Systems","authors":"S. Deleonibus","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436773","url":null,"abstract":"Major power consumption reduction will drive future design of technologies and architectures that will request less greedy devices and interconnect systems. The electronic market will be able to face an exponential growth thanks to the availability and feasibility of autonomous and mobile systems necessary to societal needs. The linear scaling of CMOS has encountered, since its beginning, many hurdles which request new process modules, driven mainly by the maximization of energy efficiency [1].","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"64 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114046625","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":"Investigation of the Influence of Thermal Phenomena on Dynamic Parameters of the IGBT","authors":"P. Górecki","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436757","url":null,"abstract":"The paper concerns the study on an influence of thermal phenomena on dynamic parameters of the IGBT. The used measurement set-up and the results of measurements of waveforms of the selected transistor obtained under different operating conditions are presented. The influence of the ambient temperature and the self-heating phenomenon on the shape of these waveforms is discussed.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115407368","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. Szubert, D. Makowski, G. Jablonski, A. Napieralski
{"title":"Optimization of Class-D Amplifier Output Stage for Piezoelectric Actuator Control","authors":"A. Szubert, D. Makowski, G. Jablonski, A. Napieralski","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8444558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8444558","url":null,"abstract":"Design of a high power piezoelectric actuator driver in a small form factor such as Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture (MicroTCA) introduces a number of challenges due to its size and power limitations. Because of relatively small dimensions and a maximum dissipated heat of only 30 W for the Micro Rear Transmission Module $pmb{(mu mathrm{RTM})}$, low efficiency of a linear amplifier becomes a major drawback. Switching Class-D amplifiers provide exceptional efficiency compared to non-switching solutions, which allows for higher output power without additional heat dissipation. The efficiency, however, comes at a price of high frequency harmonics introducing high Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). Driving a capacitive load, such as a piezoelectric actuator, at a high voltage and frequency with a LC Low Pass Filter (LPF) output stage is susceptible to signal distortions caused by the resonant frequency of the filter or the parasitic inductance of the cabling connecting the load to the driver. The inductance of the connection together with the capacitance of the load creates a resonant circuit, which must be designed as an integral part of the driver module. This article presents the effects of the connection inductance on the LC LPF output stage and the influence of the parameters of the filter on the signal. The measurements were performed on a custom made driver module for piezoelectric stack actuators with 180 V peak-to-peak voltage, 600 kHz switching frequency and a range of capacitive load from $pmb{2.2 mumathrm{F}}$ to $pmb{40 mu mathrm{F}}$.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116096152","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":"Nonlinear Activation Functions for Artificial Neural Networks Realized in Hardware","authors":"Z. Dlugosz, R. Dlugosz","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436869","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a hardware efficient implementation of selected nonlinear activation functions of the neuron for the application in various artificial neural networks, including wavelet neural network (WNNs). Similar solutions may also be used in fuzzy neural networks. A software implementation of the activation function is relatively simple, however in hardware the realization is more complex. For this reason, we performed investigations, in which the training process was completed with simplified activation function. The comparison with the results obtained for an ideal function have shown that such a simplification is acceptable. The realized WNN has been successfully verified with selected signals composed of trigonometric functions, accompanied by the Gaussian noise.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122488374","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":"Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Object Rotation Estimation","authors":"A. Napieralski, W. Tylman","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436640","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of the work presented in this article was to develop a set of algorithms in order to fuse data from sensors equipped with 3-axis gyroscope and 3-axis accelerometer. Gathered data was used to obtain information about the rotation of the given object. The rotation of an object was calculated using the rotation matrix.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115739071","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}
Taher Aspokeh, A. Amini, Ali Baradaranrezaeii, M. Yazdani
{"title":"Low-Power 13-Bit DAC with a Novel Architecture in SA-ADC","authors":"Taher Aspokeh, A. Amini, Ali Baradaranrezaeii, M. Yazdani","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436764","url":null,"abstract":"A novel capacitive digital to analog convertor (DAC) is presented, suitable for low-power data conversion applications like portable stuffs as well. A 5-bit resistor string decreases the capacitor sizes and consequently the power consumption and the chip die size. The idea is applied to a 13-bit successive approximation analog to digital convertor (SA-ADC) where the bottom plate sampling and holding is performed in the same capacitors of the DAC. Moreover, no return to zero occurs during the quantization procedure. All these advantages reduce the power consumption more and more where the simulation results through HSPICE software level 49 parameters in $pmb{0.18mu mathrm{m}}$ standard CMOS process prove the precise operation and the great improvements. The proposed SA-ADC works with 1.8V power supply and it has the power consumption of $pmb{100mu mathrm{W}}$.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"94 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126248994","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":"Computer-aided Diagnosis in Lungs Radiography","authors":"A. Lis, P. Sniatala, M. Konkol","doi":"10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8436863","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a computer tool dedicated for analysis of correlation between the applied dose density and the pulmonary fibrosis. The input data, in DICOM format, is provided from CT images and dose density scheme of patients. The results of analysis are visualized in graphical format and also in numerical parameters calculated based on the images analysis.","PeriodicalId":349007,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference \"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System\" (MIXDES)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126460725","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}