{"title":"Soft DT-CNN core implementation","authors":"S. Malki, L. Spaanenburg","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675070","url":null,"abstract":"Digital implementations of discrete-time cellular neural networks have steadily been improved, gradually gaining capacity and therefore applicability. It is required that CNN operations can be freely sequenced and iterated to keep the memory bandwidth limited. Therefore the paper introduces a CNN Instruction set architecture. It is shown that this turns a 400 frames per second CNN network into a conventional stream-processing peripheral at a mere 1 - 5% area overhead.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131902066","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 exact, high-efficiency PFM DC-DC boost converter with dynamic stored energy","authors":"Hou-Ming Chen, R. Chang, Pui-Sun Lei","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674930","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an exact and high-efficiency PFM dc-dc boost converter designed with a standard TSMC 3.3/5 V 0.35-mum CMOS technology. The proposed boost converter utilizes a dynamic stored energy technique to reduce output voltage variation and raise power conversion efficiency. This result is realized using a dynamic stored energy controller and a load current detector that accurately generates different energy according to various load conditions. The output up-ripple voltage variation and steady-state accuracy was 2.6 mV (5.7 mV-8.3 mV) and 0.15% whereas its fixed energy counterpart was 11.1 mV (8.1 mV-19.2 mV) and 0.35%, respectively. The proposed circuit has 6.91% higher power-conversion efficiency than conventional fixed energy technique at a 1 mA current. The maximum power-conversion efficiency is 91.75% for 50 mA output current with a 1.5 V supply.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134097386","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":"Common mode voltage in DTC drives using matrix converters","authors":"C. Ortega, A. Arias, C. Caruana, M. Apap","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674959","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes the common mode voltage at the output of matrix converters. Based on the theoretical analysis, an approach to reduce the common mode voltage for direct torque control drives using matrix converter is then proposed. The proposed method can be easily implemented without increasing computational requirements and it has been shown to achieve a reduction of 42% in the peak value of the common mode voltage. The functionality of the proposed method is validated by experimental results and compared to the conventional direct torque control.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123199613","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":"Verification of a MEMS based adaptive cruise control system using simulation and semi-formal approaches","authors":"S. Jairam, K. Lata, S. Roy, Navakanta Bhat","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675002","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a verification approach for a MEMS based hybrid system. The hybrid system is an adaptive cruise controller (ACC) involving a MEMS based gyroscope for speed measurement, for the motion control of a platoon of cars. A transformation based approach to obtain a continuous time solution of the states of the hybrid system is presented. This is then integrated into the Simulink/Stateflow (SS) tool framework from MathWorks Inc., where the validation of the ACC is carried out using simulation on the differential equation based and analytical function based continuous time domain dynamic behavior. We also show how this approach and the framework is amenable to verification using formal and semi-formal approaches.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"285 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123375955","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 design-oriented mathematical model for DC/DC buck converters with PFM control","authors":"A. Facen, M. Tonelli, A. Boni","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674888","url":null,"abstract":"A design-oriented mathematical model for integrated DC/DC buck converters is presented in this paper. The analysis takes into account the main conduction power loss due to the switches channel resistance in on-state and, starting from the efficiency specification and other constraints, sets the guidelines for the sizing of the output power stage of the DC/DC converter. The model also considers the design of the driver stages, calculates the switching power loss and adjusts the efficiency to obtain the effective value. A CMOS DC/DC converter with Pulse Frequency Modulation (PFM) control in Discontinuous Conduction Mode (DCM) has been designed following such a criteria, validating the accuracy of the model in different loading conditions.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124662375","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}
J. Zaragoza, J. Pou, S. Ceballos, A. Arias, P. Ibañez
{"title":"Tracking method for the hybrid modulation to minimize neutral-point voltage oscillations in the three-level converter","authors":"J. Zaragoza, J. Pou, S. Ceballos, A. Arias, P. Ibañez","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675048","url":null,"abstract":"The hybrid modulation is a carrier-based PWM technique that can be applied to the neutral-point-clamped converter. It makes use of two modulation signals per phase. The hybrid modulation is based on combining two modulation strategies; double-signal PWM and sinusoidal PWM. The main characteristic of the hybrid modulation is the capacity to reduce switching losses at the cost of having some low-frequency voltage oscillations on the neutral point. The amplitude of these oscillations can be controlled by varying the combination of the two strategies. The tracking method proposed in this paper defines the intervals in which sinusoidal PWM should be used to achieve the maximum reduction of the voltage oscillation amplitudes. Consequently, the low-frequency neutral-point voltage oscillation is further minimized. Some simulation results are presented to show good performance of the proposed strategy and are compared with the nontracking method.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121719063","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":"Optimization of a piezoelectric energy harvester for environmental broadband vibrations","authors":"D. Paci, M. Schipani, V. Bottarel, D. Miatton","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674820","url":null,"abstract":"Energy scavenging systems (ESS) can be important, theoretically endless, sources of energy. In the future, they could recharge or even replace batteries. In this paper a design methodology is presented in order to maximize the harvested energy and the transduction efficiency of a cantilever-like piezoelectric scavenger. The role of geometrical parameters is investigated through a theoretical analysis based on an equivalent lumped-parameter circuit, while their optimum value is chosen by means of FEM simulations.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122622819","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":"On the probability distribution of fixed-point multiplication","authors":"A. Ahmadi, Mark Zwolinski","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674782","url":null,"abstract":"The area, delay and power consumption of functional units all are dependent on the word-length of the processed data. Since choosing an optimum word-length is a tradeoff between design costs and accuracy, it is essential to have an accurate model of computational errors for each operation. Errors resulting from the output rounding or truncation of the functional units is generally considered as uniformly distributed over the error limits regardless to the functionality of the unit. This work presents an analysis of the probability distribution of a fixed-point multiplier and its output truncation error. Simulations show that the uniform distribution assumption is violated in the case of truncation of a multiplication result of less than 8 bits.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126498058","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":"The method of a fast electrothermal transient analysis of a buck converter","authors":"K. Górecki, J. Zarebski","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674932","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper a new method of the fast estimation of characteristics of a buck converter in the steady state with selfheating taken into account is proposed. The theoretical considerations are illustrated by simulation results of a buck converter.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125851021","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":"On the higher efficiency of parallel Reed-Solomon turbo-decoding","authors":"Camille Leroux, C. Jégo, P. Adde, M. Jézéquel","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675100","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we demonstrate the higher hardware efficiency of Reed-Solomon (RS) parallel turbo decoding compared with BCH parallel turbo decoding. Based on an innovative architecture, this is the first implementation of fully parallel RS turbo decoder. A performance analysis is performed showing that RS block turbo codes (RS-BTC) have decoding performance equivalent to Bose Ray-Chaudhuri Hocquenghem-block turbo codes (BCH-BTC). A ratio between the decoder throughput and the decoder area is used to show the higher efficiency of the RS full parallel turbo decoder. Finally an implementation of a (31,29)2 RS block turbo decoder on a high performance board including 6 Xilinx Virtex5 FPGAs is detailed. The resulting turbo decoder has an information throughput above 6 Gb/s while the working frequency is only 45 MHz. It shows that RS BTC are an attractive solution for low cost Gb/s fiber optical communications.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129983942","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}