In this paper we have developed a data logging and monitoring system, we validated the system by comparing the result from it with the existing one and found that the system performs slightly better than the existing ...In this paper we have developed a data logging and monitoring system, we validated the system by comparing the result from it with the existing one and found that the system performs slightly better than the existing work in the same area. This implies that the data logger and monitoring system is good and can be used to monitor solar energy variables even at the comfort of our homes. We fitted a model to the generated data and found that the meteorological variables considered accounted for 99.88% of the power output in the rainy seasons while 0.12% of the variation was not explained due to other factors. Solar panels inclined at an angle of 5° (Tilt) and facing South Pole perform optimally.展开更多
For the non-stop demands for a better and smarter society, the number of electronic devices keeps increasing exponentially;and the computation power, communication data rate, smart sensing capability and intelligence ...For the non-stop demands for a better and smarter society, the number of electronic devices keeps increasing exponentially;and the computation power, communication data rate, smart sensing capability and intelligence are always not enough. Hardware supports software, while the integrated circuit(IC) is the core of hardware. In this long review paper, we summarize and discuss recent trending IC design directions and challenges, and try to give the readers big/cool pictures on each selected small/hot topics. We divide the trends into the following six categories, namely, 1) machine learning and artificial intelligence(AI) chips, 2) communication ICs, 3) data converters, 4) power converters, 5) imagers and range sensors, 6) emerging directions. Hope you find this paper useful for your future research and works.展开更多
System-on-a-chips with intellectual property cores need a large volume of data for testing. The large volume of test data requires a large testing time and test data memory. Therefore new techniques are needed to opti...System-on-a-chips with intellectual property cores need a large volume of data for testing. The large volume of test data requires a large testing time and test data memory. Therefore new techniques are needed to optimize the test data volume, decrease the testing time, and conquer the ATE memory limitation for SOC designs. This paper presents a new compression method of testing for intellectual property core-based system-on-chip. The proposed method is based on new split- data variable length (SDV) codes that are designed using the split-options along with identification bits in a string of test data. This paper analyses the reduction of test data volume, testing time, run time, size of memory required in ATE and improvement of compression ratio. Experimental results for ISCAS 85 and ISCAS 89 Benchmark circuits show that SDV codes outperform other compression methods with the best compression ratio for test data compression. The decompression architecture for SDV codes is also presented for decoding the implementations of compressed bits. The proposed scheme shows that SDV codes are accessible to any of the variations in the input test data stream.展开更多
A memory and driving clock efficient design scheme to achieve WCDMA high-speed channel decoder on a single XILINX’ XVC1000E FPGA chip is presented. Using a modified MAP algorithm, say parallel Sliding Window logarith...A memory and driving clock efficient design scheme to achieve WCDMA high-speed channel decoder on a single XILINX’ XVC1000E FPGA chip is presented. Using a modified MAP algorithm, say parallel Sliding Window logarithmic Maximum A Posterior (PSW-log-MAP), the on-chip turbo decoder can decode an information bit by only an average of two clocks per iteration. On the other hand, a high-parallel pipeline Viterbi algorithm is adopted to realize the 256-state convolutional code decoding. The final decoder with an 8×chip-clock (30 72MHz) driving can concurrently process a data rate up to 2 5Mbps of turbo coded sequences and a data rate over 400kbps of convolutional codes. There is no extern memory needed. Test results show that the decoding performance is only 0 2～0 3dB or less lost comparing to float simulation.展开更多
为解决里所(Reed-solomon,RS)编码的低功耗设计,从系统架构、RTL级、门级等不同设计层级进行分析,并在专用集成电路(Application specific integrated circuit,ASIC)设计中加以实践。基于低功耗设计将前端RTL级设计与后端IC设计结合起来...为解决里所(Reed-solomon,RS)编码的低功耗设计,从系统架构、RTL级、门级等不同设计层级进行分析,并在专用集成电路(Application specific integrated circuit,ASIC)设计中加以实践。基于低功耗设计将前端RTL级设计与后端IC设计结合起来,研究能实现RS编码功能的芯片。在系统架构层,针对RS编码算法中伽罗华域的乘法运算在硬件实现时存在数据运算量大、消耗功耗大等问题,提出基于乘法器因子矩阵的方法对RS编码算法进行优化,通过将乘法运算转化为减法运算等方式减少数据运算量,从而降低功耗。在RTL级和门级层面,分别在逻辑综合和后端实现中加以约束来实现低功耗设计,总体功耗可以降低60%左右。解决了因IC芯片功耗过高导致芯片性能下降,从而影响芯片正常工作等问题,为集成电路工艺提供了新的发展方向。展开更多
文摘In this paper we have developed a data logging and monitoring system, we validated the system by comparing the result from it with the existing one and found that the system performs slightly better than the existing work in the same area. This implies that the data logger and monitoring system is good and can be used to monitor solar energy variables even at the comfort of our homes. We fitted a model to the generated data and found that the meteorological variables considered accounted for 99.88% of the power output in the rainy seasons while 0.12% of the variation was not explained due to other factors. Solar panels inclined at an angle of 5° (Tilt) and facing South Pole perform optimally.
文摘For the non-stop demands for a better and smarter society, the number of electronic devices keeps increasing exponentially;and the computation power, communication data rate, smart sensing capability and intelligence are always not enough. Hardware supports software, while the integrated circuit(IC) is the core of hardware. In this long review paper, we summarize and discuss recent trending IC design directions and challenges, and try to give the readers big/cool pictures on each selected small/hot topics. We divide the trends into the following six categories, namely, 1) machine learning and artificial intelligence(AI) chips, 2) communication ICs, 3) data converters, 4) power converters, 5) imagers and range sensors, 6) emerging directions. Hope you find this paper useful for your future research and works.
文摘System-on-a-chips with intellectual property cores need a large volume of data for testing. The large volume of test data requires a large testing time and test data memory. Therefore new techniques are needed to optimize the test data volume, decrease the testing time, and conquer the ATE memory limitation for SOC designs. This paper presents a new compression method of testing for intellectual property core-based system-on-chip. The proposed method is based on new split- data variable length (SDV) codes that are designed using the split-options along with identification bits in a string of test data. This paper analyses the reduction of test data volume, testing time, run time, size of memory required in ATE and improvement of compression ratio. Experimental results for ISCAS 85 and ISCAS 89 Benchmark circuits show that SDV codes outperform other compression methods with the best compression ratio for test data compression. The decompression architecture for SDV codes is also presented for decoding the implementations of compressed bits. The proposed scheme shows that SDV codes are accessible to any of the variations in the input test data stream.
文摘A memory and driving clock efficient design scheme to achieve WCDMA high-speed channel decoder on a single XILINX’ XVC1000E FPGA chip is presented. Using a modified MAP algorithm, say parallel Sliding Window logarithmic Maximum A Posterior (PSW-log-MAP), the on-chip turbo decoder can decode an information bit by only an average of two clocks per iteration. On the other hand, a high-parallel pipeline Viterbi algorithm is adopted to realize the 256-state convolutional code decoding. The final decoder with an 8×chip-clock (30 72MHz) driving can concurrently process a data rate up to 2 5Mbps of turbo coded sequences and a data rate over 400kbps of convolutional codes. There is no extern memory needed. Test results show that the decoding performance is only 0 2～0 3dB or less lost comparing to float simulation.
文摘为解决里所(Reed-solomon,RS)编码的低功耗设计,从系统架构、RTL级、门级等不同设计层级进行分析,并在专用集成电路(Application specific integrated circuit,ASIC)设计中加以实践。基于低功耗设计将前端RTL级设计与后端IC设计结合起来,研究能实现RS编码功能的芯片。在系统架构层,针对RS编码算法中伽罗华域的乘法运算在硬件实现时存在数据运算量大、消耗功耗大等问题,提出基于乘法器因子矩阵的方法对RS编码算法进行优化,通过将乘法运算转化为减法运算等方式减少数据运算量,从而降低功耗。在RTL级和门级层面,分别在逻辑综合和后端实现中加以约束来实现低功耗设计,总体功耗可以降低60%左右。解决了因IC芯片功耗过高导致芯片性能下降,从而影响芯片正常工作等问题,为集成电路工艺提供了新的发展方向。
