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As the complexity of the ocean environment, shape of towed array changes with time and space, so the accurate measurement shape of towed array is the key to improve the performance of signal processing. To solve this problem this paper proposes an estimation method based on genetic algorithm, firstly, established the objective function according to a known distance and azimuth of the target by beam...
Although graphics processing units (GPUs) rely on thread-level parallelism to hide long off-chip memory access latency, judicious utilization of on-chip memory resources, including register files, shared memory, and data caches, is critical to application performance. However, explicitly managing GPU on-chip memory resources is a non-trivial task for application developers. More importantly, as on-chip...
We demonstrate a novel nanoscale torsion-free photonic crystal pressure sensor array. The proposed sensor array consists of piston-type resonator array side-coupled to photonic crystal waveguide. The pressure sensitivity as high as 0.50nm/nN is observed.
This paper proposes a 55 nm CMOS 12-bit current-steering video digital-to-analog converter (DAC) directly powered by the single-inductor dual-output (SIDO) switching converter to compose a dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) system and improve the power efficiency. Dual-DVS control in both digital and analog circuits can effectively reduce power consumption. With various supply voltages, the video DAC can...
The reliability issue of a solar array deployment mechanism was analyzed with FMECA and FTA. The main failure modes, their effects and criticalities were illustrated. A fault tree was built. Both qualitative analysis and the quantitative analysis of the fault tree were performed. The probability of the top event, the structural importance and the critical importance coefficients of different basic...
High-density piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) arrays have been designed and fabricated using silicon based micromachined process. These devices are based on a novel structure called “reverse-bonding”. Experimental results show that they have excellent performance, suitable resonance frequency and high reliability. The fabricated pMUT arrays are very promising for 3-D medical...
MVDR beamformer is a robust beamforming method to enhance a desired (speech) signal in the presence of stationary noise. This paper presents a modified Subband post-filtering approach for MVDR beamformer in microphone array system. The quality of the modified Subband post-filtering is studied in simulated rooms with different noise level and is compared to wiener post-filtering proposed in the literature...
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) is a new approach to form high frequency arrays for real-time 3-D medical imaging. pMUT arrays based on SOI-Si bonding and PZT-coated membrane structures have been designed in this paper. After simulation, the 6×6 ultrasonic transducer array was fabricated and characterized. The total array area is approximately 2.0 mm by 2.0 mm. The micrograph...
The novel handwriting input system (HIS) has been designed with the ferroelectrics-based micro-acoustic array, which has been fabricated using silicon based micro-machining process. This array is composed of two acoustic dipoles. It can increase output acoustic power effectively while maintaining omni-direction.
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) is a new approach for the construction of 2-D arrays for real-time 3-D medical imaging. In this work, 6times6 pMUT arrays with element pitch down to 150 mum were successfully fabricated and characterized. The devices consist of 2 mum PZT film on a 3 mum Si/SiO2 supporting layer, and the multilayered membrane was released by a two-step process...
Vertically oriented Si nanorods (SiNRs) grown on different substrates were successfully obtained by hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) with the glancing angle incident silane flux. The organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells were fabricated by spin coating 3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) into the SiNRs array with the average length of ~200 nm and average separation of ~10 nm. The P3HT shows well penetration...
At high conversion speed, time interleaving provides a viable way of achieving analog-to-digital conversion with low power consumption, especially when combined with the successive-approximation-register (SAR) architecture that is known to scale well in CMOS technology. In this work, we showcase a digital background-equalization technique to treat the path-mismatch problem as well as individual ADC...
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