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This paper presents a power-efficient 10-bit SAR ADC. A novel comparator topology with a dynamic common-gate stage is proposed to increase the pre-amplification gain under a low power supply voltage, thereby reducing noise and offset. Statistical estimation and loading switching techniques are synergically combined to further improve the energy efficiency. Moreover, the SAR sequencer and clock generator...
Operating CMOS circuits at subthreshold supply voltages is an attractive solution for substantial energy reduction, at the expense of strong timing performance degradation, for a broad range of battery operated appliances. One of the challenges of this approach in current technology nodes is the reduced available noise margin when operating at low supplies. This paper evaluates the Static Noise Margin...
Inductor current in the high speed switching converters is used as a feedback signal for current mode control and over current fault protection. Sensing inductor current for the use of digital controllers require high bandwidth current sensors and also need high speed Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) to convert the sensed current into digital domain. Use of high bandwidth current sensors and high...
In Internet of Things (IoT) world, there can be many sensors deployed in a system, thus their costs must be considered during the system design and material selections, in order to support massive production and deployment. Design-To-Cost (DTC) is an effective technique for this situation. In Model-Based Design (MBD), DTC cost estimates are preferred to be generated from models as one of the parameters...
This study presents a sensorless static model based with output current estimation method for digital PWM control dc-dc converters. The static model is a feedforward type control method adopted in coordination with the standard PID control and it can improve characteristics of wide input and output range of dc-dc converter by using information of output current. The one of the drawbacks of the static...
This paper presents simple but effective cell balancing algorithm for serially connected lithium ion batteries based on the power to energy ratio balance and relative capacity estimation. Compared to simpler balancing algorithm such as voltage based cell balancing that begins balancing after cell imbalance is detected, the proposed algorithm can predict the imbalance between cells due to capacity...
Viterbi algorithm (VA) applied to time frequency (TF) distribution is a highly performed instantaneous frequency (IF) estimator, but it suffers from switch problem (SP) at the intersected points of multi-components on the TF plane. In order to suppress the SP in VA, an improved VA (IVA) in this paper assumes the IF variation trends between two adjacent IF points are not large, then a new penalty function...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) enables a centralised entity - the controller - to monitor the network’s status by collecting traffic statistics such as packets, bytes, etc. Each statistic is associated with a forwarding table entry (FTE) in a switch whose structure and format is specified by the OpenFlow standard (de-facto SDN standard). For a flow with a FTE, its statistic is easily...
The paper considers the events flow generated with the ergodic semi-Markov processes which are rather adequate formalisms to describe informational-measuring systems under the Von Neumann computer control. Pearson's regression and correlation criteria for estimation of the proximity events flow to the Poisson flow are investigated. It is shown that the procedure used for such criteria calculation...
A model of input data buffering in measuring systems is developed. The authors obtained the formulae to determine the following time intervals: between two successive transactions to signal source, two successive transactions to signal receiver, between transactions on data receiving and generation, between transactions on data generation and receiving. It is shown that an adequate model of the buffered...
A novel switching power loss estimation method for modular multilevel converters (MMCs) with the nearest level modulation (NLM) is introduced in this paper. It focuses on the switching actions caused only by change of the inserted submodule (SM) number per arm, named as the essential switching transitions. Every essential switching action can be identified under the assumption of ideal sinusoidal...
This paper focuses on an anti-disturbance problem for the switched systems subject to input saturation and disturbances. The matched and mismatched disturbances with control input are both considered. Based on the differential inclusion treatment of the saturation nonlinearity, a controller which includes state feedback control part and an extra control part is proposed to locally stabilize the system...
A new power estimation approach based on the decomposition of a digital system into basic operators is presented. This approach aims to estimate the energy consumption at early design phases of digital blocks implemented on FPGAs. Each operator has its own model which estimates the switching activity and the power consumption. By interconnecting several operators, statistical information is then propagated...
To improve the accuracy of stator flux estimator in Direct Torque Control (DTC) of Interior Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machine (IPMSM), a pulse response based rotor position estimator is proposed. The current ripples caused by active voltage vectors in DTC are utilized by the rotor position estimator. Then, the estimated rotor position serves as an input for a model-based stator flux estimator in...
This paper deals with a modeling of data by several mixtures of different distributions within a task of clustering. This issue can be required from a practical point of view, e.g., for a multi-modal system, which generates measurements described by different distributions. The approach is based on the partition of the data on several parts, the factorization of the joint probability density function...
This paper presents a method for sensorless position estimation at low speeds till standstill for an externally exited synchronous machine. The switching of the buck converter, that drives the rotor circuit is used as carrier signal. Normally the stator current controller reduces the signal that is used for the position estimation and so a filter in the current feedback is needed. A method to use...
Managing the power in highly-integrated systems on chips becomes inevitable in modern designs. Complex systems require complex power management, and it is always difficult to determine whether the designed power management is the most efficient. In our previous work, we have proposed a simplified power-management specification method at the system level of abstraction. In this paper, we propose a...
In recent research, indoor localisation systems are often based upon a recursive state estimation using particle filtering. Within this context, sample impoverishment is a crucial problem causing the position estimation to lose track or get stuck within a demarcated area. The sample impoverishment problem can therefore be described as a too small particle diversity, unable to sample enough particles...
Power management becomes an integral part of hardware-systems design. In modern complex systems, the powermanagement design is not a simple task and it is quite difficult to evaluate whether the designed strategy is the best. In this paper, we propose a new method for overhead estimation of the required power-management unit, based on system-level abstract specification. It enables a designer to explore...
Switching models possess discontinuous and nonlinear behavior rendering difficulties in simulations in terms of time consumption, computational complexity causing mathematical instability while equally vulnerable to errors. This issue can be sorted out by averaging detailed models over entire switching period. Several static as well as dynamic average models (full order and reduced order) have been...
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