V. Milusheva, M. Georgieva, B. Tzaneva, M. Petrova
{"title":"Electroless Copper Deposition into Anodic Aluminium Oxide on Aluminum Substrate","authors":"V. Milusheva, M. Georgieva, B. Tzaneva, M. Petrova","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549651","url":null,"abstract":"In this work a technology for electroless copper deposition into nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide on copper metalized aluminium substrate was realized. The immersion copper layer on AI/AAO interface was used to catalyse the electroless plating. The characterization of the obtained copper layers was accomplished by optical and scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray and X-ray diffraction analysis.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115775220","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":"Automated experimental setup for the study of vortices in optical fibers","authors":"D. Kiesewetter, V. Malyugin, N. Ilyin","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549675","url":null,"abstract":"The description of the experimental setup for creation of optical vortices in multimode fibers and automated research of intensity distribution of the output radiation in order to identify the presence of optical vortices is given. The input device is assembled on the basis of the optical microscope, the output device is based on using of the moving television camera. The focus of the laser beam and the spatial position of the television camera are controlled by the microcontroller and the personal computer with the possibility of remote control via the Internet. Using the device confirmed the hypothesis about the rotation of the speckle spots at the longitudinal offset of the plane of observation relative to the axis of the fiber.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116040010","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":"High Voltage Power Supply for Photomultipliers with Extended Functionality","authors":"M. Miteva, L. Tsankov, C. Dutsov, K. Mitev","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549670","url":null,"abstract":"A HV power supply module with extended functionality has been developed in this work. It is designed for use with a group of photomultiplier tubes acting as a composite scintillation detector.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124340536","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":"Paced electrocardiogram simulation","authors":"I. Iliev, S. Tabakov, I. Jekova","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549612","url":null,"abstract":"The simulation of various types of bio-signals is used to assess the functional parameters and reliability of the embedded algorithms for automated signal processing in medical systems. Identification of the pacing stimulus (artefacts superimposed on the electrocardiogram (ECG)) is very important because they indicate the presence of the pacemaker and help in evaluating its interaction with the heart. The aim of this paper is to present a simple approach for paced ECG simulation by superimposing pulses with adjustable parameters on electrocardiographic signals from different sources.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126438619","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}
G. Georgiev, S. Ivanov, V. Kozhuharov, M. Mitev, R. Simeonov, L. Tsankov
{"title":"Performance of the Front-End Electronics of the PADME charged particle detector system","authors":"G. Georgiev, S. Ivanov, V. Kozhuharov, M. Mitev, R. Simeonov, L. Tsankov","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549581","url":null,"abstract":"The PADME charged particle detector system should detect positrons and electrons with efficiency better than 99 {%} and time resolution below 1 ns. The system hosts about 200 readout electronics channels whose operation has to be verified and commissioned. A custom based test system allowing to perform qualitative check of the produced frontend electronics has been developed and was used to test a total of 256 channels. The obtained time resolution was found to be consistent with the requirements and better than 500 ps for all the channels.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131723373","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 Resonant Converters Parallel Operation to a Common Load","authors":"Dimitar D. Arnaudov, S. Vuchev","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549661","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents investigation of resonant converters operating to a common load. The parallel stages are realized on the base of resonant inverters with reverse diodes and clamped resonant tank capacitor voltage. The matching converter between the modules and the load is a multi-phase rectifier. The investigation is performed for imbalanced topology operation due to asymmetry in the supply voltages. The mutual influence between the separate stages is presented. The parallel operation is considered for charging of a supercapacitor battery pack. The basic conduction circuits are pointed. The obtained dependencies are presented with graphics.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116492001","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":"Examination of an FPGA-based Sinc Filter for High Precision Current Sensing Signals","authors":"I. Gochev","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549655","url":null,"abstract":"The most popular solution to high-speed current sensing involves the usage of a shunt resistor combined with a SAR ADC module. However, as the need for higher sampling speeds and larger bandwidth increase, the typical SAR ADC module is replaced with a Sigma Delta one. The method of using this type of ADC chip with conventional design elements is described in this paper. The required sinc filter necessary for the ADC data to be correctly is implemented in programmable logic.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128892161","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":"An Extremely Massive High-Quality True-Random Binary Data Stream Generator","authors":"J. Genoff","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549664","url":null,"abstract":"The design and the operation of a hardware uniform-distribution true-random binary data generator are presented. This device implements a recent idea to utilize parallel interface EPROM ICs that are already considered obsolete, but when brought into an abnormal state by specific programming, tend to behave as a physical true-randomness generating core. The proposal in this paper aims to derive the most of productivity and quality from this approach, by further violating the EPROM’s normal operation rules and by surrounding the core with a latest technology control unit. The latter provides also a high-speed PCI Express computer interface to the device.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128683936","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}
Venu Babu Thati, J. Vankeirsbilck, D. Pissoort, J. Boydens
{"title":"Instruction Level Duplication and Comparison for Data Error Detection: a First Experiment","authors":"Venu Babu Thati, J. Vankeirsbilck, D. Pissoort, J. Boydens","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549589","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a new software approach Instruction Level Duplication and Comparison (ILDC) for data error detection. We implemented ILDC in five different case studies. To validate our proposed technique, we measured its fault detection ratio and execution time overhead. Next, we compare it to the following two existing techniques: overhead reduction (VAR3+) and software-implemented fault tolerance (SWIFT), respectively. The results show that ILDC detects more errors than VAR3+ and SWIFT at a lower overhead.","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128704716","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":"Fisheye Camera Calibration and Distortion Correction for Ground Based Sky Imagery","authors":"Stefan Hensel, M. Marinov, Raphael Schwarz","doi":"10.1109/ET.2018.8549649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ET.2018.8549649","url":null,"abstract":"The fisheye camera has been widely studied in the field of ground based sky imagery and robot vision since it can capture a wide view of the scene at one time. However, serious image distortion is a major drawback hindering its wider use. To remedy this, this paperproposes a lens calibration and distortion correction method for detecting clouds and forecasting solar radiation. Finally, the radial distortion of the fisheye image can be corrected by incorporating the estimated calibration parameters. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method","PeriodicalId":374877,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133281595","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}