{"title":"Adaptive blind compensation of gain and timing mismatches in M-channel time-interleaved ADCs","authors":"Christian Vogel, S. Saleem, S. Mendel","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674788","url":null,"abstract":"Gain and timing mismatches among sub-converters limit the performance of time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TIADCs). In this paper we present a blind adaptive method, based on the least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm, to compensate gain and timing mismatches in TIADCs. Similar to other methods in the literature, we assume a slightly oversampled input signal, but, contrary to them, we can apply our method to an arbitrary number of channels in a straightforward way. We give a detailed description of the compensation and the identification part of the method and demonstrate its effectiveness through numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"5 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":"130333700","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}
A. Belbachir, M. Hofstätter, K. Reisinger, M. Litzenberger, P. Schön
{"title":"High-precision timestamping and ultra high-speed arbitration of transient pixels’ events","authors":"A. Belbachir, M. Hofstätter, K. Reisinger, M. Litzenberger, P. Schön","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674996","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, an ultra high-speed arbitration process for transient pixelspsila data is presented. Enabling a high-precision timestamping, this system demonstrates its uniqueness for handling high peak rates and preserving the main advantage of the neuromorphic electronic systems, that is high and accurate temporal resolution. Based on synchronous arbitration concept, the timestamping has accuracy better than 1 mus. The performance analysis in several tests and concept advantages over asynchronous arbitration are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"51 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":"131527229","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":"Monolithic buck converter for CMOS process technologies","authors":"T. Brusev, M. Hristov","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675008","url":null,"abstract":"Monolithic switching buck (step-down) converter is designed on standard 0.35-mum CMOS process. Different control techniques such as Pulse-Width Modulations (PWM) and Pulse-Frequency Modulations (PFM) are investigated. The received results show that PFM control indicates higher efficiency at light-loads compare to standard constant frequency PWM control. Efficiency of about 76% is achieved for the PWM control at switching frequency of 150 MHz for voltage conversion from 3.6 down to 1.2 V.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"122 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":"132440963","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":"Cosmic ray detection from electromagnetic wave reflection using a matched filter","authors":"L. M. D. A. Filho, J. Seixas, T. C. Xavier","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674807","url":null,"abstract":"A new technique for detecting high-energy cosmic rays by using the front scattering of electromagnetic waves has been introduced recently. The reflected signals are captured by antennas and demodulated. The present work makes use of optimal filtering for detecting cosmic rays and removing the huge background noise. The detecting system achieves 98% of the detection efficiency for a false alarm probability as low as 1%.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"189 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":"134115757","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}
Pekka Miettinen, M. Honkala, J. Roos, Carsten Neff, A. Basermann
{"title":"Study and development of an efficient RC-in-RC-out MOR method","authors":"Pekka Miettinen, M. Honkala, J. Roos, Carsten Neff, A. Basermann","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675093","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the study and development of an efficient RC-in-RC-out model-order reduction (MOR) method suitable for reduction of very large sized RC circuits or the RC circuit parts of a non-RC circuit. The MOR is carried out on a partitioned circuit, which enables the use of low-order moments and macromodels of few elements. This benefit translates to a typical 10-100 times faster simulation with only a minimal error. The performance of the MOR method is evaluated with simulations and compared with other MOR algorithms.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"41 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":"134177395","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":"Fast wire length estimation in obstructive block placement","authors":"Shuting Li, Tan Yan, Y. Takashima, H. Murata","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674938","url":null,"abstract":"IP-reuse can enhance the design productivity only if the design methodology treats the IPs in a proper way. Especially in the floor-planning phase, sensitive IPs should be treated as routing obstacles, which is impossible when the conventional HPWL-based method is used for routing estimation. This paper proposes an obstacle-aware minimum wiring length (MWL) estimation algorithm, based on the theoretical result in [5], through algorithmic improvements and practical approximation. The experimental results suggests that MWL-based estimation is now possible with only few times larger computational cost comparing to the HPWL-based estimation.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"119 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":"134237058","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 nonlinear-by-singularity systems","authors":"E. Gluskin","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675083","url":null,"abstract":"The present work focuses on singularities, in terms of time functions, which are met in description of switching or sampling electronics systems, and on understanding of some basic nonlinear physical systems. The state-form dx/dt = [A(x,t)]x + [B(x,t)]u(t), and not the normal-form dx/dt = Phi(x,u,t), is preferred for use. The possibility of the state-variables appearing in the matrices in a singular system is considered in parallel with the possibility that the nonlinearity of a system will be directly seen by a designer.","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":"134326030","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 of transient second-order IIR filters with optimum dynamic frequency responses","authors":"J. Jeedella, H. Al-Ahmad, M. Al-Mualla, J. Noras","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675067","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new design method for clutter IIR filters that maximize the 3 dB bandwidth of the dynamic frequency response. The designed filters offer better dynamic frequency responses for a given number of samples when compared to zero and projection initialization. Fine-tuning the positions of the poles to maximize the 3 dB bandwidth of the dynamic frequency response for a given number of samples achieves the improvement. Second-order filters were successfully designed for processing different numbers of samples and their performances were studied by considering their dynamic frequency responses.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"11 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":"134637818","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":"Crosstalk-avoidance coding for low-power on-chip bus","authors":"Kuang-Chin Cheng, Jing-Yang Jou","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675037","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a crosstalk-avoidance (CA) bus coding approach is developed to produce area-efficient, low-power codes for global data busses. Proposed codes are codes without memory using shielding boundary strategy. Related code generation algorithm is also developed. The probabilistic distribution of input data could be included to reduce the power consumption. The performance improvement of CA codes is nearly 2x for heavily coupled busses based on theoretical analysis. As compared to uncoded datawords, proposed codes show 16.1% to 21.5% power-reduction on bus for an equiprobable 32-bit bus design.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"118 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":"134417460","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 tunable active filter in CMOS for RF applications","authors":"H. Çetinkaya, N. Tarim","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674806","url":null,"abstract":"An active radio frequency (RF) filter based on floating active inductor circuits is presented in this work. For demonstration purposes, a third-order Chebyshev lowpass filter with an LC ladder structure has been designed for GSM applications. The filter has a cutoff frequency of 900 MHz and 0.4 dB ripple, and is tunable between 890 MHz and 960 MHz, consumes 10.5 mW power, and occupies an area of 96 mumtimes135 mum when laid out using the UMC 0.13 mum CMOS process which provides an area reduction of 80% compared to its passive filter counterpart.","PeriodicalId":404629,"journal":{"name":"2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems","volume":"25 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":"134532486","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}