Analog design productivity remains a challenge in the digitally driven semiconductor chip design field. Knowledge-based and simulation-based analog automation approaches have not achieved widespread acceptance in the analog design community. Systemat...
Analog design is an inherently intricate process comprising many trade-offs; as a result, it is an iterative time-consuming operation. A low dropout voltage regulator (LDO) is an example of such analog blocks that involve a myriad of trade-offs. In t...
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is one of the most promising public-key techniques in terms of short key size and various crypto protocols. For this reason, many studies on the implementation of ECC on resource-constrained devices within a practica...
An optimized AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) implementation of Galois Counter Mode of operation (GCM) on low-end microcontrollers is presented in this paper. Two optimization methods are applied to proposed implementations. First, the AES counter...
Accurate computations of the radiance in the gaseous absorption bands typically require fine wavelength steps. In this paper, a fast technique for computing a radiance spectrum in the wavelength region of 400–2500 nm is proposed. Our approach d...
In the context of autonomous vehicles, proper lane merging is critical as it can reduce the traffic bottleneck and lead to safer road transportation. To obtain a collision-free and efficient lane merging, advanced control algorithms need to be design...
The maglev planar motor is one of the most promising industrial applications. The planar motor can increase flexibility in modern manufacturing with the multidirectional motion of the mover. In levitation control, the decoupling matrix is used to dec...
ECC is a popular public-key cryptographic algorithm, but it lacks an effective solution to multiple-point multiplication. This paper proposes a novel JSF-based fast implementation method for multiple-point multiplication. The proposed method requires...
Discrete Gaussian sampling is one of the fundamental mathematical tools for lattice-based cryptography. In this paper, we revisit the Bernoulli(-type) sampling for centered discrete Gaussian distributions over the integers, which was proposed by Duca...
The Generalized Hough Transform (GHT) is a powerful method for rigid shape detection under rotation, scaling, translation, and partial occlusion conditions, but its four-dimensional accumulator incurs prohibitive computational and memory demands that...
In this paper, a machine learning-based approach for the automation of topology selection of integrated analog amplifier circuits is presented. A dataset of 480,000 circuits for 30 different amplifier topologies is generated for the prediction algori...
Multiplication by a constant is a common operation for many signal, image, and video processing applications that are implemented in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Constant-coefficient multipliers (KCMs) are often implemented in the logic fa...
Magnetic levitation technology has promising applications in modern manufacturing, especially for fine-motion stage and long-range omnidirectional planar motors. This paper presents the development of a compact planar maglev prototype with the potent...
Tree diameter at breast height (DBH) is a fundamental metric in forest inventory and management. This paper presents a novel method for DBH estimation using the built-in light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and red, green and blue (RGB) sensors of an...
Optimizing the positions of decoupling capacitors (decaps) is critical for the design of power delivery networks (PDNs). Conventional methods typically employ fixed via positions, limiting design flexibility and often yielding suboptimal impedance pe...
As the development of Internet of Things (IoT), the data exchanged through the network has significantly increased. To secure the sensitive data with user’s personal information, it is necessary to encrypt the transmitted data. Since resource-c...
To improve the decoding performance of multi-edge type low-density parity-check (MET-LDPC) codes, this paper proposes an edge-type differentiated parameter coupling offset min-sum (EDPC-OMS) decoding algorithm. The contributions are threefold. First,...
Embedded structured light cameras have been widely applied in various fields. However, due to constraints such as insufficient computing resources, it remains difficult to achieve high-speed structured light point cloud computation. To address this i...
Modern processors have improved performance but still face challenges such as power consumption, storage limitations, and the need for faster processing. The 16-bit Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) accelerate DSP applications by significantly enhanci...
Analog integrated circuit sizing is notoriously difficult to automate due to its complexity and scale; thus, it continues to heavily rely on human expert knowledge. This work presents a machine learning-based design automation methodology comprising...
Multibeam backscatter data are important for marine resource exploration and benthic habitat mapping. However, accurate estimation of absorption loss without concurrent CTD measurements can be challenging. This paper proposes an inversion method that...
Division remains one of the most computationally demanding operations in digital arithmetic. Traditional algorithms, such as restoring, non-restoring, and SRT (Sweeney–Robertson–Tocher) division, are limited by sequential dependencies tha...
A Principal Component-Based Spectral Standardization (PCSS) method was developed to standardize hyperspectral radiance spectra onto a fixed wavelength grid. This enables the direct comparison of radiance or reflectance spectra across different spatia...
Design optimization of RF low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) remains a time-consuming and complex process. Iterations are needed to adjust impedance matching, gain, and noise figure (NF) simultaneously. The process can involve more iterations to adjust the...
Currently, floating offshore wind is experiencing rapid development towards a commercial scale. However, the research to design new control strategies requires numerical models of low computational cost accounting for the most relevant dynamics. In t...
Secure Shell (SSH) intrusions against Linux servers remain a dominant vector of opportunistic and targeted cyber incidents, yet operational honeypots treat attacker commands either as isolated lookup keys for static templates or as input to a single...
Positron range (PR) degrades spatial resolution in positron emission tomography (PET), with its effect being radionuclide- and medium-dependent. Current accurate PR simulators are computationally intensive and cannot be used in clinical time frames....
In high-throughput, high-concurrency, low-latency cryptographic scenarios, the throughput of public-key cryptography is a decisive performance metric. As China’s national elliptic curve cryptography standard, the SM2 signature algorithm has bee...
In this paper, we propose the first ARIA block cipher on both MSP430 and Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) microcontrollers. To achieve the optimized ARIA implementation on target embedded processors, core operations of ARIA, such as substitute and diffus...