Electronics, Volume 8, Issue 5

Content-addressable memory (CAM) is a type of associative memory, which returns the address of a given search input in one clock cycle. Many designs are available to emulate the CAM functionality inside the re-configurable hardware, field-programmabl...

The internet protocol television service (IPTV) has become a key product for internet service providers (ISP), offering several benefits to both ISP and end-users. Because packet networks based on internet protocol have not been prepared for time-sen...

As the core of electronic system, the switched-mode power supply (SMPS) will lead to serious accidents and catastrophes if it suddenly fails. According to the related research, the monitoring of ripple can acquire the health degree of SMPS indirectly...

We investigate the problem of source detection in information spreading throughout a densely-connected network. Previous works have been developed mostly for tree networks or applied the tree-network results to non-tree networks assuming that the inf...

This paper explores a set of learned convolutional kernels which we call Jet Features. Jet Features are efficient to compute in software, easy to implement in hardware and perform well on visual inspection tasks. Because Jet Features can be learned,...

A high-speed, low-power divide-by-3/4 prescaler based on an extended true single-phase clock D-flip flop (E-TSPC DFF) is presented. We added two more transistors and a mode control signal to the conventional E-TSPC based divide-by-4 divider to achiev...

As cloud service providers are not completely trusted, people are increasingly concerned about security issues such as data confidentiality and user privacy. In many existing schemes, the private key generator (PKG) generates a full private key for e...

In this paper, the dynamics-based high-performance robot motion control technology has been mainly studied, and the overall structure is controlled via dynamics forward, given the nonlinearity, strong coupling and time-variability of robots. Consider...

The k-nearest neighbor (kNN) rule is one of the most popular classification algorithms applied in many fields because it is very simple to understand and easy to design. However, one of the major problems encountered in using the kNN rule is that all...

A broadband receiver front-end with low noise figure and flat conversion gain response is presented in this paper. The receiver front-end is a part of the broadband spectrum sensing receiver and processes 30–40 GHz of broad input spectrum follo...

An accelerometer-based gyro drift compensation approach in a dual-axial stabilization platform is introduced in this paper. The stabilization platform consists of platform framework, drive motor, gyro and accelerometer module and contorl board. Gyro...

Relay technology application becomes prevalent nowadays, as it can effectively extend the communication distance, especially for vehicular networks with a limited communication range. Combined with vehicular cloud (VC), transmission efficiency can be...

In cognitive electronic warfare, when a typical combat vehicle, such as an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), uses radar sensors to explore an unknown space, the target-searching fails due to an inefficient servoing/tracking system. Thus, to solve t...

This paper presents a risk-constrained scheduling optimization model for a grid-connected hybrid microgrid including demand response (DR), electric vehicles (EVs), variable wind power generation and dispatchable generation units. The proposed model d...

Community Networks have been around us for decades being initially deployed in the USA and Europe. They were designed by individuals to provide open and free “do it yourself” Internet access to other individuals in the same community and...

Machine learning algorithms have been widely used to deal with a variety of practical problems such as computer vision and speech processing. But the performance of machine learning algorithms is primarily affected by their hyper-parameters, as witho...

A novel and compact dual-polarized (DP) chipless radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag is presented in this paper. This tag can read both vertical and horizontal orientations within its frequency band, which improves the robustness and detection...

A novel quad-state coupled-line microstrip resonator is proposed for compact chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The proposed resonator can be reconfigured to present one of four possible states: 00, 01, 10, and 11, representing, no...

This paper proposes a control method to improve the energy efficiency and performance of cooling fans used for cooling. In Industry 4.0, a large number of digital data are used, and a large number of data centers are created to handle these data. The...

In this paper, a novel doping-less tunneling field-effect transistor with Si_0.6Ge_0.4 heterojunction (H-DLTFET) is proposed using TCAD simulation. Unlike conventional doping-less tunneling field-effect transistors (DLTFETs), in H-DLTFETs, germanium an...

Gallium nitride (GaN)-based vertical power Schottky barrier diode (SBD) has demonstrated outstanding features in high-frequency and high-power applications. This paper reviews recent progress on GaN-based vertical power SBDs, including the following...

Intelligent utilization of resources and improved mission performance in an autonomous agent require consideration of cyber and physical resources. The allocation of these resources becomes more complex when the system expands from one agent to multi...

Despite technical advances in efficiency, devices in standby continue to consume up to 16% of residential electricity. Finding practical, cost-effective reductions is difficult. While the per-unit power consumption has fallen, the number of units con...

The characteristic impedance of a power line is an important parameter in power line communication (PLC) technologies. This parameter is helpful for understanding power line impedance characteristics and achieving impedance matching. In this study, w...

This paper presents a new frequency compensation approach for three-stage amplifiers driving a pF-to-nF capacitive load. Thanks to the cascode Miller compensation, the non-dominant complex pole frequency is extended effectively, and the physical size...

Knowledge of the subsurface structure not only provides useful information on lunar geology, but it also can quantify the potential lunar resources for human beings. The dual-frequency lunar penetrating radar (LPR) aboard the Yutu rover offers a Spec...

This paper proposes a restricted coulomb energy neural network (RCE-NN) with an improved learning algorithm and presents the hardware architecture design and VLSI implementation results. The learning algorithm of the existing RCE-NN applies an ineffi...

As CMOS scaling is approaching the fundamental physical limits, a wide range of new nanoelectronic materials and devices have been proposed and explored to extend and/or replace the current electronic devices and circuits so as to maintain progress i...

This paper presents the fabrication and implementation of novel resistive sensors that were implemented for strain-sensing applications. Some of the critical factors for the development of resistive sensors are addressed in this paper, such as the co...

This paper introduces the near-field detection system of an underwater robot based on the fish lateral line. Inspired by the perception mechanism of fish’s lateral line, the aim is to add near-field detection functionality to an underwater vehi...

The purpose of this study was to develop a photovoltaic system that stores energy for use in direct current micro-grid systems or to supply electric power to consumers living in remote areas. If the photovoltaic module array is shaded, the signals of...

This paper introduces new integrated analog cells fabricated in a C035 I3T25 0.35-μm ON Semiconductor process suitable for a modular design of advanced active elements with multiple terminals and controllable features. We developed and realized fi...

The radiation tolerance of subthreshold reference circuits for space microelectronics is presented. The assessment is supported by measured results of total ionization dose and single event transient radiation-induced effects under $\gamma$ -rays...

With the development of wireless technology, indoor localization has gained wide attention. The fingerprint localization method is proposed in this paper, which is divided into two phases: offline training and online positioning. In offline training...

The linear geometry distortion caused by time variant bistatic angles induces the sheared shape of the bistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (bistatic-ISAR) image. A linear geometry distortion alleviation algorithm for space targets in bistatic-I...

A miniaturized continuous-wave Doppler radar sensor operating at 915 MHz to remotely detect both respiration and heart rate (beats per minute) is presented. The proposed radar sensor comprises a front-end module including an implemented complementary...

This article presents a radiation tolerant single-shot time-to-digital converter (TDC) with a resolution of 15.6 ps, fabricated in a 65 nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The TDC is based on a multipath pseudo differential...

The last few decades have witnessed the rapid development of networked control systems due to their significant advantages and they have been applied to variant industrial areas such as unmanned surface vehicles, unmanned space vehicles, smart grids,...

We propose a scale-invariant deep neural network model based on wavelets for single image super-resolution (SISR). The wavelet approximation images and their corresponding wavelet sub-bands across all predefined scale factors are combined to form a b...

In this paper, we propose two data augmentation schemes for deep learning architecture that can be used to directly estimate user location in an indoor environment using mobile phone tracking and electronic fingerprints based on reference points and...

Traditional bandgap reference (BGR) is sensitive to process variation and is not suitable for mass production. Consequently, a stacked piece-wise compensated bandgap reference (SPWBGR) with low beta bipolar is proposed, designed and fabricated in the...

Digital holography represents a novel media which promises to revolutionize the way the users interacts with content. This paper presents an in-depth review of the state-of-the-art algorithms for advanced processing and rendering of computer-generate...

In practical array systems, the gain-phase errors among antennas degrade the performance of direction finding significantly. In this paper, a novel sparse system model for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in the scenario with gain-phase errors i...

For multiple-antenna systems, the technologies of joint symbol and channel parameter estimation have been developed in recent works. However, existing technologies have a number of problems, such as performance degradation and the large cost of prior...

The protection of sensitive loads against voltage drop is a concern for the power system. A fast fault current limiter and circuit breaker can be a solution for rapid voltage recovery of sensitive loads. This paper proposes a compound type of current...

The original user relay (UR) selection scheme of non-orthogonal multiple access-based cooperative opportunistic multicast scheme, which realizes inter-group cooperation between two multicast groups, ignores the distribution trend of candidate UR in t...

This work presents fence shaping for dipole antenna operating at 5G high-band frequencies. A via fence is employed around the dipole to suppress back radiation. By varying the geometric shape of the fence, the dipole’s radiation characteristics...

As digital data have increased exponentially due to an increasing number of information channels that create and distribute the data, distributed in-memory systems were introduced to process big data in real-time. However, when the load is concentrat...

In this paper, an efficient implementation of the four-step current commutation technique for controlling bidirectional power switches in a Matrix Converter (MC) is proposed. This strategy is based on the enhanced pulse width modulation peripheral in...

Cloud computing is becoming a powerful parallel data processing method, and it can be adopted by many network service providers to build a service framework. Although cloud computing is able to efficiently process a large amount of data, it can be at...