{"title":"Project-Based Learning in Robotics and Electronics in Undergraduate Engineering Program Setting","authors":"A. Price, R. Rimington, M. Chew, S. Demidenko","doi":"10.1109/DELTA.2010.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DELTA.2010.68","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming to better prepare engineering graduates for challenges of practical real-world engineering job, the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and the School of Engineering of Monash University in Robotics and Electronics have jointly introduced several teaching units (subjects) solely based on a team project learning approach. This paper presents and discusses one of them - the third-year Engineering Design unit. It is based on a team project work covering such areas as Robotics, Electrical and Electronic design, Sensing, Instrumentation and Measurement, Computing, Communications, as well as Project Management, Report Writing, Technical Presentation and Robotics Competition.","PeriodicalId":421336,"journal":{"name":"2010 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117112648","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}
R. Fonseca, L. Dilillo, A. Bosio, P. Girard, S. Pravossoudovitch, A. Virazel, N. Badereddine
{"title":"Impact of Resistive-Bridging Defects in SRAM Core-Cell","authors":"R. Fonseca, L. Dilillo, A. Bosio, P. Girard, S. Pravossoudovitch, A. Virazel, N. Badereddine","doi":"10.1109/DELTA.2010.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DELTA.2010.31","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a study on the effects of resistive-bridging defects in the SRAM core-cell. The position of the resistive-bridges has been chosen taking in account an actual industrial core-cell layout. We have performed an extensive number of simulations, varying the resistance value of the defects, supply voltage, frequency and temperature. Experimental results show malfunctions not only within the defective core-cell, but also in other core-cells (defect-free) of the memory array. Static and dynamic faults, single-cell and double-cells faults have been found.","PeriodicalId":421336,"journal":{"name":"2010 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123089464","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}
Toshinobu Matsuba, Yuko Hara-Azumi, H. Tomiyama, S. Honda, H. Takada
{"title":"Aggressive Register Unsharing Based on SSA Transformation for Clock Enhancement in High-Level Synthesis","authors":"Toshinobu Matsuba, Yuko Hara-Azumi, H. Tomiyama, S. Honda, H. Takada","doi":"10.1109/DELTA.2010.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DELTA.2010.41","url":null,"abstract":"A novel high-level synthesis (HLS) technique to improve the clock frequency is presented. Our technique aims at the reduction of the clock period by eliminating interconnections, specifically multiplexers (MUXs). MUXs are generally inserted before shared functional units and shared registers. However, MUXs are also inserted before a register even if the register is not shared by multiple variables at all. This paper proposes aggressive register unsharing to remove these MUXs and to improve the clock frequency. Our proposed technique employs static single assignment (SSA) transformation, which is mainly used as a compiler intermediate representation, to behavioral descriptions. This technique is widely applicable to a variety of HLS tools because it is completely independent of the HLS tools. We have developed a complete synthesis framework using an open source compiler, COINS, for SSA transformation, a commercial HLS tool, and an in-house converter which refines a COINS-generated code into one compatible with the HLS tool. Six sets of experiments showed the clock frequency improvement by up to 61.5% and on average 26.7% with the acceptable overhead on the circuit area by on average 10.6%.","PeriodicalId":421336,"journal":{"name":"2010 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134183418","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}
Y. Bornat, M. Raoux, Youssef Boutaib, F. Morin, G. Charpentier, J. Lang, S. Renaud
{"title":"Detection of Electrical Activity of Pancreatic Beta-cells Using Micro-electrode Arrays","authors":"Y. Bornat, M. Raoux, Youssef Boutaib, F. Morin, G. Charpentier, J. Lang, S. Renaud","doi":"10.1109/DELTA.2010.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DELTA.2010.60","url":null,"abstract":"In this position paper we propose a new approach to provide online in-vivo recordings of organ activity in real time and to overcome three major shortcuts of currently used invasive glucose sensors. In the context of diabetes, standard glucosensors recognize only glucose, whereas circulating lipids as well as amino acids are known to increase the demand in insulin and, under physiological circumstances, its secretion. Furthermore, the integration of other relevant signals such as hormones provides a clear advantage. Consequently, using the β-cell as a signal integrator combined with ASIC technology ensures a physiological signal and its read-out in real time thus avoiding complex algorithms. We describe a closed-loop architecture for exploiting those bio-sensors and potentially able to provide a control feedback for real-time insulin delivery.","PeriodicalId":421336,"journal":{"name":"2010 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134361401","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":"Reconfigurable multivariable MEMS sensor array","authors":"S. V. D. Velden, J. Singh","doi":"10.1117/12.849013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849013","url":null,"abstract":"Research into operational aspects of mini unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and structural health monitoring systems (SHM) is being conducted at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and La Trobe University. A fundamental area of interest is investigating the problems associated with miniaturization of the control and health monitoring sensors for such systems. While many technologies for UAV and SHM systems can be, and have been, adapted from those currently available in large manned aircraft; cost, weight, and size constraints have prevented mini UAVs from including many of the robustness mechanisms common to larger aircraft. Moreover, the ubiquitous nature of the sensing requirements for SHM systems has limited their uptake, due mainly to the same issues of cost, weight and size. This paper details the design of a reconfigurable multivariable MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) sensor array to address these issues. This array is comprised of multiple instances of identical sensors, which can be dynamically reconfigured to achieve the desired measurand(s) with tradeoffs against accuracy. The available measurands include such items as; accelerations, rotational rates, magnetic fields (all in X, Y and Z directions), temperature and pressure. This paper presents the design of a reconfigurable multivariable MEMS sensor array together with simulation results.","PeriodicalId":421336,"journal":{"name":"2010 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131121342","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":"Channel Auto-Correlation and Doppler Spectrum of MIMO Systems Using Circular Array","authors":"H. Bui, Le Khoa Dang, A. V. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/DELTA.2010.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DELTA.2010.55","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper, channel auto-correlation and Doppler spectrum of MIMO systems using the circular array are considered based on measured data conducted at the 5.2 GHz frequency band in an indoor fading environment. The results show that these fading properties are much dependent not only on the direction of the RX motion, but also on the array orientation. In the NLOS environment, observed Doppler spectrum is quite different from the theoretical –shaped Jakes’ one.","PeriodicalId":421336,"journal":{"name":"2010 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124173882","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":"Development of Quantum Device Simulator, NEMO-VN2","authors":"Dinh Sy Hien","doi":"10.1109/DELTA.2010.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DELTA.2010.44","url":null,"abstract":"We develop some versions of quantum devices simulators such as NEMO-VN, NEMO-VN1 and NEMO-VN2. The quantum device simulator – NEMO-VN2 focuses on carbon nanotube FET (CNTFET). CNTFETs have been studied in recent years as potential alternatives to CMOS devices because of their compelling properties. Studies of phonon scattering in CNTs and its influence in CNTFET have focused on metallic tubes or on long semiconducting tubes. Phonon scattering in short channel CNTFETs, which is important for nanoelectronic applications, remains unexplored. In this work the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) is used to perform a comprehensive study of CNT transistors. The program has been written by using graphic user interface (GUI) of Matlab. We find that the effect of scattering on current-voltage characteristics of CNTFET is significant. The degradation of drain current due to scattering has been observed. Some typical simulation results have been presented for illustration.","PeriodicalId":421336,"journal":{"name":"2010 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121924069","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}