{"title":"New ISFET catheters encapsulation techniques for brain pH in-vivo monitoring","authors":"L. Sudakov-Boreysha, U. Dinnar, Y. Nemirovsky","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399708","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents new concepts of ISFET encapsulations for catheters in brain in-vivo monitoring. Plain-chip and flip-chip bonding techniques are introduced. In both techniques, a pseudo-reference electrode is implemented.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"41 1","pages":"424-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88568776","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":"Challenges in CMOS imager design","authors":"O. Yadid-Pecht","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399661","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. In the last decade, active pixel sensors (APS), which are fabricated in a commonly used CMOS process, enabled the design of image sensors with integrated \"intelligence\". Current state of the art CMOS imagers allow integration of all functions required for timing, exposure control, color processing, image enhancement, image compression and ADC on the same die. Moreover, systems with wide dynamic range, motion detection and non-standard readout can be designed. CMOS imagers also offer significant advantages in terms of low-power, low-voltage and monolithic integration, rivaling traditional charge coupled devices (CCD). This paper covers state of the art CMOS imager systems and design challenges with the advanced CMOS technologies available. Specifically, ways to improve power consumption in such \"smart\" sensors, required to cope with the current demand for portable systems are reviewed. In addition, pixel optimization is revisited as more advanced processes are used and pixel pitch is reduced.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"1 1","pages":"240-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78187617","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":"Global exponential stability of Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with multiple time-varying delays","authors":"Jin Deng, Daoyi Xu, Zhichun Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399657","url":null,"abstract":"Exponential stability of the Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with multiple time-varying delays is analyzed. Sufficient conditions for the existence and exponential stability of an equilibrium of the networks are obtained. These conditions are less restrictive than previously known criteria and can be easily verified.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"23 1","pages":"230-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73413138","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":"Techniques for formal transformations of binary decision diagrams","authors":"G. Kolotov, I. Levin, V. Ostrovsky","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399730","url":null,"abstract":"Binary decision diagrams (BDDs), when used for the representation of discrete functions, permit the direct technology mapping into multi-level logic networks. Complexity of a network derived from a BDD is expressed by its number of non-terminal nodes. The paper discusses the problem of reducing the BDDs. It makes two main contributions: (a) the bounds of the potential complexity of the BDD are determined and proven; (b) a formal technique is presented for simplification of Boolean operations on a set of BDDs.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"15 1","pages":"511-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74021377","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. D. Galanis, G. Theodoridis, S. Tragoudas, D. Soudris, C. Goutis
{"title":"A high performance data-path to accelerate DSP kernels","authors":"M. D. Galanis, G. Theodoridis, S. Tragoudas, D. Soudris, C. Goutis","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399726","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a high-performance data-path for accelerating DSP kernels is proposed. The data-path is based on a flexible, universal, and regular component that allows one to optimally exploiting both inter- and intra-component chaining of operations. The component is implemented as a combinational circuit and the steering logic existing inside the component allows one to easily realizing any desirable complex hardware unit - called a template - so that the data-path's performance benefits from the chaining of operations. Due to the universal structure of the component, the synthesis of an application is accomplished by unsophisticated, yet efficient, algorithms. An average reduction of 20% in latency is achieved when a comparison with a template-based data-path is performed.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"27 1","pages":"495-498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73746048","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":"Numerical algorithm for measurement of angle phase shift for sines signal","authors":"A. Akšamović, S. Konjicija","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399715","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents one method for measurement of phase shift between signals in electric power systems (EPS), such as voltages or currents. The presented algorithm is very simple and efficient, and it can be used for purposes of protection, control and measurement in EPS, as well. The algorithm is based on mathematically simple expressions, which do not require high processing power, so it is convenient for single chip applications. This algorithm is considered with high and low sampling rate, and proper pre-processing of signal in integrated data acquisition and control systems in EPS is proposed. It is shown that the achieved accuracy can satisfy requests of the intended application.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"3 1","pages":"451-454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81699154","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 new method to analyse the unique steady state of nonlinear nonautonomous circuits","authors":"Feng Ping, Erzhi Wang, P.A. Cooke, Yuanchun Shi","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399716","url":null,"abstract":"A new method to prove the unique steady state of nonlinear nonautonomous circuits by vector comparison is introduced. The main results obtained in this paper show that the unique steady state of nonlinear nonautonomous circuits can be determined by Hurwitz conditions of a constant matrix. The restriction to the elements of the matrix is just that the slope of the constitutive relation is bounded, which is a much looser condition than the demands put forward by previously published papers. The new criteria in this paper have much wider applicability than the results already known.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"11 1","pages":"455-458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87530265","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}
E. Bormashenko, R. Pogreb, Oleg Stanevsky, Y. Biton, Y. Bormashenko, V. Streltsov, Y. Socol
{"title":"2D photonic crystals deposited on polymer piezoelectric substrates - new kind of MOEMS","authors":"E. Bormashenko, R. Pogreb, Oleg Stanevsky, Y. Biton, Y. Bormashenko, V. Streltsov, Y. Socol","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399717","url":null,"abstract":"Self-assembled polycarbonate films were deposited on polymer piezoelectric substrates under a fast dip-coating process. Ordered structures with micro- and nano-scaled holes dispersed in the polycarbonate matrix were obtained, demonstrating 2D hexagonal packaging. The process allows control of the hole size. Fabricated structures have a potential as 2D tunable photonic crystals. Bandgap formation in the near IR band was studied with a FTIR spectrometer. A distinct bandgap located in the vicinity of 1 /spl mu/m was revealed. Integration of photonic bandgap structure with MOEMS was achieved.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"59 4 1","pages":"459-462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90060926","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 spike-based adaptive filter","authors":"Xiaoxiang Gong, J. Harris","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399683","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a spike-based adaptive filter with supervised learning. Unlike standard adaptive filters, here the optimal MSE solution is not unique for the spike-based system identification problem. The simplex method is introduced to select one of the many possible optimal solutions. In simulations, an LMS-based learning procedure is designed and, for faster convergence, we introduce a credit assignment method which penalizes all the weights contributing to the current error signal. Finally, we discuss issues regarding the implementation of the spike-based adaptive filter in an analog VLSI circuit.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"10 1","pages":"322-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80884833","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. Chu, S. Shekhar, D. Allstot, T. K. Bhattacharyya
{"title":"Design considerations for anti-phase injected quadrature voltage controlled oscillators","authors":"M. Chu, S. Shekhar, D. Allstot, T. K. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2004.1399605","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of the series cascode-injected quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (CI-QVCO) topology is compared against its degeneration-injected counterpart (DI-QVCO) based on analyses of start-up loop gain, oscillation frequency, phase noise, tuning range, and quadrature phase error. Detailed analyses and extensive simulations show that in addition to offering comparable quadrature phase error performance, the DI-QVCO configuration exhibits superior phase noise performance, more robust start-up characteristics, and greater suitability for high frequency applications that require a relatively large tuning range.","PeriodicalId":38467,"journal":{"name":"Giornale di Storia Costituzionale","volume":"20 1","pages":"25-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79271887","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}