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Electronics, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2020 - 124 articles

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Cover Story: This paper presents a new Marchand balun featuring the hybrid broadside and edge coupled structure. The current standalone broadside and edge coupled structures have reached the foundry process limitation. Their coupling coefficients are constrained by the vertical distance between metal layers for the broadside coupled structure and the minimum metal spacing between two adjacent metal strips for the edge coupled structure. The proposed hybrid structure maximizes the coupling coefficient and hence minimizes the balun insertion loss. Mathematical expressions are derived and supported by on-wafer measurements to verify the balun’s performance. View this paper.

Articles (124)

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,726 Views
16 Pages

Object Detection in Sonar Images

  • Divas Karimanzira,
  • Helge Renkewitz,
  • David Shea and
  • Jan Albiez

The scope of the project described in this paper is the development of a generalized underwater object detection solution based on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) principles. Multiple scales, dual priorities, speed, limited data, and class imbala...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,605 Views
12 Pages

Application of Wireless Sensor Network Based on Hierarchical Edge Computing Structure in Rapid Response System

  • Yuechun Wang,
  • Ka Lok Man,
  • Kevin Lee,
  • Danny Hughes,
  • Sheng-Uei Guan and
  • Prudence Wong

This paper presents a rapid response system architecture for the distributed management of warehouses in logistics by applying the concept of tiered edge computing. A tiered edge node architecture is proposed for the system to process computing tasks...

  • Review
  • Open Access
276 Citations
31,716 Views
45 Pages

The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to impact several aspects of our lives with its fast proliferation in many areas such as wearable devices, smart sensors and home appliances. IoT devices are characterized by their connectivity, pervasiveness an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,333 Views
15 Pages

Beat classification and denoising are two challenging and fundamental operations when processing digital electrocardiograms (ECG). This paper proposes the extended segmented beat modulation method (ESBMM) as a tool for automatic beat classification a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,786 Views
17 Pages

Mitigating Self-Heating in Solid State Drives for Industrial Internet-of-Things Edge Gateways

  • Cristian Zambelli,
  • Lorenzo Zuolo,
  • Luca Crippa,
  • Rino Micheloni and
  • Piero Olivo

Data storage in the Industrial Internet-of-Things scenario presents critical aspects related to the necessity of bringing storage devices closer to the point where data are captured. Concerns on storage temperature are to be considered especially whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,723 Views
39 Pages

Proactive Forensics in IoT: Privacy-Aware Log-Preservation Architecture in Fog-Enabled-Cloud Using Holochain and Containerization Technologies

  • Kanwal Janjua,
  • Munam Ali Shah,
  • Ahmad Almogren,
  • Hasan Ali Khattak,
  • Carsten Maple and
  • Ikram Ud Din

Collecting and preserving the smart environment logs connected to cloud storage is challenging due to the black-box nature and the multi-tenant cloud models which can pervade log secrecy and privacy. The existing work for log secrecy and confidential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,144 Views
18 Pages

The home environment is a typical dynamic environment with moveable obstacles. The social robots working in home need to search for feasible paths in this complex dynamic environment. In this work, we propose an improved RRT algorithm to plan feasibl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
17,745 Views
22 Pages

Junctionless Transistors: State-of-the-Art

  • Arian Nowbahari,
  • Avisek Roy and
  • Luca Marchetti

Recent advances in semiconductor technology provide us with the resources to explore alternative methods for fabricating transistors with the goal of further reducing their sizes to increase transistor density and enhance performance. Conventional tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,345 Views
18 Pages

An Embedded Platform for Positioning and Obstacle Detection for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Salvatore Ponte,
  • Gennaro Ariante,
  • Umberto Papa and
  • Giuseppe Del Core

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with on-board augmentation systems (UAS, Unmanned Aircraft System) have penetrated into civil and general-purpose applications, due to advances in battery technology, control components, avionics and rapidly falling pri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,496 Views
25 Pages

Two-Stage Checkpoint Based Security Monitoring and Fault Recovery Architecture for Embedded Processor

  • Xiang Wang,
  • Zongmin Zhao,
  • Dongdong Xu,
  • Zhun Zhang,
  • Qiang Hao,
  • Mengchen Liu and
  • Yu Si

Nowadays, the secure program execution of embedded processor has attracted considerable research attention, since more and more code tampering attacks and transient faults are seriously affecting the security of embedded processors. The program monit...

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