{"title":"Hybrid BiST solution for Analog to Digital Converters with low-cost Automatic Test Equipment compatibility","authors":"S. Dasnurkar, J. Abraham","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117672","url":null,"abstract":"The cost of testing mixed signal circuitry with conventional analog-stimulus is significantly higher than digital circuitry due to higher cost Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) required for generation of analog stimulus. Multiple variants of low cost testers have been developed for digital testing which rely on relaxed timing, power or tester channel requirements to lower hardware cost. Systems containing mixed-signal/RF components can thus not be tested on such ATE due to the cost and limitations of analog/RF stimulus and measurement modules. This paper proposes a hybrid BIST scheme for Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) to enable full production-quality testing with low cost ATE. The two major challenges addressed are generating the input stimulus, and a fully functional at-speed test to maintain the test quality of a pure analog ATE solution.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126093694","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}
Heng Tze Cheng, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Yu-Ching Lin, Homer H. Chen
{"title":"Multimodal structure segmentation and analysis of music using audio and textual information","authors":"Heng Tze Cheng, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Yu-Ching Lin, Homer H. Chen","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118096","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to structure segmentation of music with applications to audio content analysis and music information retrieval. In particular, since lyrics contain rich information about the semantic structure of a song, our approach incorporates lyrics to overcome the existing difficulties associated with large acoustic variation in music. We further design a constrained clustering algorithm for music segmentation and evaluate its performance on commercial recordings. Experimental results show that our method can effectively detect the boundaries and the types of semantic structure of music segments.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123256760","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":"Analysis of time-varying collusion attacks in fingerprinting systems: Capacity and throughput","authors":"Byung-Ho Cha, C.-C. Jay Kuo","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117793","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze time-varying collusion attacks for a fingerprinting system using concepts of capacity and throughput in this work. Continuous media provide a limited resource for data embedding, which is analogous to the capacity of a wireless communication channel. Here, we characterize the capacity of a host media using the just-noticeable-distortion (JND) of the human visual system (HVS). Furthermore, the collusion attack can be interpreted as a channel shared by multiple users. Based on this analogy, the colluder detection performance can be understood from the viewpoint of throughput. Specifically, we show how to determine instantaneous throughput using the fingerprint-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (FINR), and extend it to the total throughput and the averaged throughput over a time interval. Our analysis provides a good framework to the understanding of collusion attacks and ways to enhance the traitor tracing performance of a fingerprinting system.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"88 3-4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123431437","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 an optimal trade-off of Viterbi Decoder Design","authors":"Jinjin He, Zhongfeng Wang, Zhiqiang Cui, Li Li","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118441","url":null,"abstract":"Viterbi Decoder (VD) is widely used in modern communication systems. For low power applications, trace-back approach (TBA) is usually employed for the Survivor Memory Unit (SMU) of VD. However, TBA suffers from long latency and low throughput. Employing multiple memory banks can resolve the throughput issue on a great extent. In this paper, we present efficient schemes to improve the latency issue of conventional TBA by exploiting pre-trace-back method. In the meantime, we adopt buffer-based TBA method to reduce memory access times, thus reduce power assumption significantly. Simulation results show that the proposed decoding schemes cause either zero or negligible performance loss.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114952603","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 digital calibration technique for DAC mismatches in delta-sigma modulators","authors":"Wenhuan Yu, G. Temes","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118011","url":null,"abstract":"A digital calibration technique is proposed for DAC mismatches in delta-sigma (ΔΣ) modulators. The delta-sigma modulator works as an incremental ADC in the calibration mode. The DAC mismatches are found by solving linear equations and are compensated digitally. The technique can be used in double-sampling delta-sigma modulators as well.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115518169","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 adaptive front-end readout system for radiation detection","authors":"X. Yun, M. Stanaćević","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117812","url":null,"abstract":"A design of adaptive front-end preamplifier for measurement of optical response of epitaxial photodiode, registering light produced by semiconductor scintillator, is presented. A time constant of continuous-time based pulse shaping filter is adaptively determined to achieve optimal sensitivity for variable parameters of photodetector and readout electronics. Experimental prototype was designed in 0.5µm CMOS process.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122864573","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":"Live demonstration: Computing spike-based convolutions on GPUs","authors":"J. Nageswaran, N. Dutt, Yingxue Wang, T. Delbrück","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118158","url":null,"abstract":"This demonstration shows the first implementation of a real-time spike-based convolution processing system which combines a spike based dynamic vision sensor (DVS) with parallel graphics processor unit (GPU) computation. Moving objects with different features (shape and size) are presented to the system. In the first demo, the system responses in real time to recognize and keep track of one user specified object and ignore the others. In the second one, the system concurrently extracts several features, and labels the outputs with different colors. Users will enjoy the real-time response and learn about using spike-based sensors combined with conventional procedural processing.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123001731","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":"Dickson charge pump circuit design with parasitic resistance in power lines","authors":"T. Tanzawa","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118117","url":null,"abstract":"Parasitic resistance in power and ground lines is considered for Dickson charge pump circuit designs, and its equivalent model is modified for low voltage IC designs. When the optimization is done for maximized output current or for minimized rise time, it is not necessary to increase the number of stages, but it is necessary to increase the pumping capacitors. The impact of the parasitic resistance in addition to the parasitic capacitance on charge pump circuit performances is discussed. The analytical results are compared with the SPICE simulation and the model has a sufficient accuracy within a typical error of 10%.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114407523","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":"Dynamic precision scaling for low power WCDMA receiver","authors":"Hai-Nam Nguyen, D. Ménard, O. Sentieys","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117721","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important applications of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is wireless communication. This kind of application requires low power implementation of DSP, which generally uses fixed-point arithmetic. The fixed-point architectures should be developed to maintain the energy consumption power at a reasonable level. In this paper, an approach which adapts the fixed-point specification according to the input receiver Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is proposed. To underline our approach interest, the rake receiver of a WCDMA receiver is examined. Results show about 25% — 40% energy savings with our dynamic precision approach.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114457440","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 novel tunable UWB pulse design for narrowband interference suppression implemented in BiCMOS technology","authors":"H. Hedayati, A. Fotowat-Ahmady","doi":"10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117771","url":null,"abstract":"The unique properties of modified Hermite pulses is utilized to develop a novel pulse technique for Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications. The proposed method increases the bandwidth of the pulse up to 10 GHz and overcomes the coexistence problem of UWB and vulnerable narrowband systems through suppressing narrowband interference. Consequently it improves the range of UWB communications by increasing the power, without disturbing the narrowband systems. The pulse technique is implemented in high frequency pulse generation circuits and could be fully integrated in BiCMOS process. The nulls of the frequency response are tuned to be located in a definite narrowband system with the number of the nulls being adjustable too. The prototype has been designed and simulated in 0.18 µm BiCMOS technology. The simulation results are in close agreement with mathematical derivations.","PeriodicalId":388394,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121890419","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}