{"title":"Modelling of sleeve monopole antenna in a coupling medium for breast imaging application","authors":"Savita Mahajan, Anand Mane, B. Naik","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806261","url":null,"abstract":"Breast Imaging is a beneficial method of detecting the abnormalities in the breast compared to current modalities. It consist of an array of antennas illuminates the breast, to be used both as signal source radiating elements and the receiver of scattered waves. In order to enhance the detection process, breast imaging employs a coupling medium between an antenna and the breast. Therefore, it is essential to understand the behavior of the antenna in the coupling medium. In this paper, a sleeve monopole antenna with a top load is taken to cover the frequency band from 500 MHz to 3000 MHz. Corn syrup as a coupling media is used to achieve best matching with the real tissue. The proposed antenna is simulated in coupling media and results are presented in comparison with that of free space with the help of High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS). The selected antenna then optimized to radiate inside the coupling medium.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115019858","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}
P. Sudheesh, M. Magarini, P. Muthuchidambaranathan
{"title":"Interference alignment for the K-user MIMO X network using time division multiple access","authors":"P. Sudheesh, M. Magarini, P. Muthuchidambaranathan","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806255","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates an interference alignment (IA) scheme suitable for a K-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless X network. The K-user MIMO X-network is a communication architecture where each transmitter, equipped with multiple antennas, has independent messages for each of the receivers, also equipped with multiple antennas. Earlier only 2 × N or M × 2 X networks were considered to be achievable. In this paper we remove this restriction by employing time division multiple access scheme. The proposed IA scheme allows each user to achieve a degree of freedom of KA/2K-1 a particular time slot, where A is the number of antennas at each transmitter and receiver. The capacity and bit error-rate (BER) performance of the proposed scheme is compared to that of another scheme recently proposed by Park and Ko. Simulation results are reported to show the BER performance for K-user (for a toy example, K is set equal to 3) and two-user X channel IA in case of transmission over flat-fading Rayleigh channels.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115039482","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}
Shashank V. Upadhyaya, Dippal Israni, Karan Jasani, Arpita Shah
{"title":"A novel approach to precisely control linear movement of sensor by motor using microstepping","authors":"Shashank V. Upadhyaya, Dippal Israni, Karan Jasani, Arpita Shah","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806244","url":null,"abstract":"These days electrical motors are generally utilized as a part of our everyday life, no matter as small as in our laptop's hard disc till as large as in other electrical machines, for example, fan, refrigerator, washing machine and many more. Electric motors are the sources to drive or direct any equipment with mechanical perspective. This paper mainly focuses on the application of linear motion motors for the linear movement of image sensor. From the various electrical motors, stepper motor has advantage of micro stepping ability to manoeuvre it as per needed steps. Stepper motor miniaturized scale venturing is finished by pulse width modulation of a varying current. Considering the accuracy of every step is 3% to 5% and error inside the last step can't be collected into ensuing step, the stepper motor has higher position preciseness and sensible repetitive motion make them increasingly attractive for the image sensor applications. In this paper, diverse electric motors are examined and compared to see the benefits of each motor and identify the one that is more suitable to be utilized as a part of the movement of sensor/lens.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122054642","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":"All optical reversible design of Mach-Zehnder interferometer based Carry-Skip Adder","authors":"Rakesh Das, Chandan Bandyopadhyay, H. Rahaman","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806228","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the design of optical circuits and devices is receiving wide attention among the researchers due to ultra-high speed and low-power consumption properties in the optical devices and interconnects. Chip level implementation of such optical circuits is under intense investigation by the research community. This work proposes an optical implementation of functionally reversible Carry-Skip Adder (CSA) circuit. Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) based Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI) have been used to design the CSA circuit. Two separate designs of CSA are demonstrated. In the first design, a n-bit optical CSA is designed by considering 2-bit CSA module as a basic building block, whereas in the second design, multiple 4-bit CSA blocks are integrated to design the same n-bit optical CSA circuit. Comparative analysis with existing optical adder circuits shows that both the designs are cost and delay efficient compared to the existing designs.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"42 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131936904","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 comparative study of classifiers for music genre classification based on feature extractors","authors":"P. Kumar, Chetan, K. Srinivasa","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806258","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper is to do a comparative study to detect and classify music files automatically based on its genre by using various classification algorithms. Music genre classification is a popular problem in the domain of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) used in many music streaming platforms such as Pandora which is a automated music recommendation service based on the Music Genome Project, that suggests songs to users based on similarity of songs that the user is interested in. In this paper we have done a comparative study using various machine learning classification algorithms to classify music file based on its genre. We have used both Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) to featurize our data, the latter out of which was recommended in a previous study.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"95-98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131057818","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 simulation of NFC printed antenna in near field wireless communication for SDC","authors":"Khan Sohel Rana, D Sayyad Ajij","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806249","url":null,"abstract":"Near Field Communication (NFC) is emerged in the last decade. NFC is a short range high frequency and low bandwidth wireless communication technology. Passive Radio Frequency identification (RFID) tags are usually used with a system where one end of communication is isolated and powerless in nature. There are several applications of RFID-NFC systems despite of its drawback such as communication can happen between only two devices at a time and, its short range (0-20 cm). In this paper, the simulation results of a novel antenna at 13.56 MHz are presented. NFC works on both active and passive devices using various modes of operation. Its short-range property is utilized here for authentication of degree certificate awarded by universities. The antenna is flexible, robust and light weight so that it can be easily sandwiched inside the paper. In this paper a NFC antenna is designed which is ideal for manufacturing and assembling into the thin layers of degree certificate paper issued by examining authority. Calculations are done to select antenna dimensions before the final process. An antenna design is achieved using simulations and parameter optimization with simple method without making it complicated.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115778663","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":"Fault identification and isolation in pneumatic valve using image processing","authors":"K. Santhosh, Vignesh Shenoy, Bhagya R. Navada","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806219","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a technique for analysis of fault in pneumatic control valve. The objective of the paper is to develop a non-contact process for detection of faults in control valve if any, using a camera. The proposed design is designed to identify the faults in valve. Once the fault is identified, the next step is to isolate the fault by indicating the type of fault so that necessary action can be taken. The proposed technique is programmed to identify stiction, and stem alignment faults. Video of the process captured from camera is acquired on to the system for processing, identifying and isolating the faults by analyzing the fault signature. The process once designed is tested under real life situation. Results obtained show that the proposed technique was able to identify the faulty control valve, along with indicating the type of fault.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115891538","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":"Saturation throughput analysis of IEEE 802.11ad wireless LAN in the contention based access period(CBAP)","authors":"Upama Rajan, A. Babu","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806241","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE 802.11ad millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless LAN (WLAN) standard specifies the use of a hybrid MAC protocol consisting of CSMA/CA during the contention based access periods (CBAPs) and TDMA during the service periods (SPs). To mitigate the effects of higher attenuation in the mmWave band, the standard advocates the use of directional antennas. To provide channel access during CBAP, the coverage area around the AP can be divided into several quasi omni (QO) levels. In this paper, our focus is on uplink channel access during CBAP in which every multi-gigabit station (DMG STA) under a QO level contend for channel access using CSMA/CA protocol. We develop an accurate analytical model to compute the saturation throughput of each QO level and that of the network in the CBAP, by closely following the 802.11ad MAC specifications. We demonstrate the effectiveness of directional communication in 802.11ad WLANs.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117239035","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":"1.5°C accurate CMOS temperature sensor with a single point trim at 85°C","authors":"P. Hareesh, T. Laxmindhi","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806222","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a temperature sensor with an accuracy of 1.5°C. The paper analyzes inaccuracy of the existing temperature sensors and outlines the techinques to overcome them. The sensor is based on a CMOS current reference which is almost constant over process/corner and voltage variation. Most of the techniques known today for generating a process and voltage independent current source have very stringent constraints on sizing of the transistors. The current source proposed in the paper relaxes such constraints thus easing the portability across various technology nodes. The sensor designed in TSMC 28 nm CMOS process offers the accuracy of 1.5°C over a temperature range of −40°C to 125°C with a single point trim at 85°C. The sensor consumes a power of 90 μW of power when operating on 1.8 V supply.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129630195","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-energy area-efficient dual channel SAR ADC using common capacitor array technique","authors":"N. Reddy, D. Jagadish, M. S. Bhat","doi":"10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806240","url":null,"abstract":"A novel low energy and area efficient Dual-Channel Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is presented. To achieve area efficiency, a common Capacitor Array (CA) technique is proposed wherein we use only N+1 CAs instead of 2N for N-channels in a differential architecture. In the present design we use three CAs instead of four for two channels. This reduction in CA count not only reduces the capacitance area but also the total energy required to charge and discharge the CAs. A 7-bit dual channel SAR ADC using the proposed technique is implemented in UMC 0.18μm CMOS technology. At a sampling rate of 4 MS/s and a supply voltage of 1.8 V, each channel consumes 43.85 μW and exhibits a FOM of 101.14 fJ/conversion step.","PeriodicalId":383554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121111440","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}