A 0.8-V accurately tuned linear continuous-time filter

An accurately tuned low-voltage linear continuous-time filter is presented in this paper. Accurate tuning is achieved using time-constant matched master-slave tuning combined with power-up mismatch calibration. A low-pass biquad designed for a corner frequency of 115 kHz achieves better than -80-dB total harmonic distortion with a 250-mV/sub pp/ 10-kHz input signal. The prototype implemented in 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS process occupies an area of 0.4 mm/sup 2/ and dissipates 4.6 mW (2.6 mW for the filter and 2 mW for tuning) of power.     

Effect of Annealing on the Surface Microstructure of Y-Ba-Cu-O Superconducting Ceramics

Precusors to the YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ material were prepared by both the oxalate precipitation method and conventional ceramic processing. Second-phase grains were observed to develop on the exposed fracture surface during annealing at 500° to 600°C in an ambient atmosphere. The second-phase grains were identified to be BaCO₃ using EDX and XRD. The liquid phase, which was formed because of local chemical inhomogeneity in the Y-Ba-Cu-O system, contributed to the formation of second-phase grains as a source of Ba.     

汉城旅游商务区的空间特征:以梨泰院专项旅游区为例

韩国许多城市指定了专项旅游区,通过提供若干激励政策来促进城市旅游.汉城的梨泰院1997年被指定为专项旅游区并成为CBD的一部分.本研究追溯了它作为旅游购物区的变化过程,并通过调查其土地使用找出城市空间结构的变化特征.最后,作者提出了对发展城市旅游的政策性建议,包括减少指定性区域和特殊政策.     

Preparation of aligned polyetherimide fiber by electrospinning

Fifteen to 20 wt % polyetherimide (PEI) solutions with 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP) were prepared. The electrical conductivity and surface tension of the solutions were determined. The fiber spinning technique of electrospinning was optimized in order to prepare unidirectionally aligned, structurally oriented nanofiber tows. The morphology of the PEI fibers was investigated using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The well-aligned fibers with diameters between 0.58 and 0.90 μm (FESEM) were collected by electrospinning 20 wt % PEI solutions with NMP in the range of 8–10 kV onto a target rotating with a surface velocity 9.8 m/s. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008     

A WDM-PON Employing Fabry–PÉrot Laser Diodes Without a Seed Light Injection

We propose and demonstrate a wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network by employing double-contact Fabry-Perot laser diodes (F-P LDs) without a seed light injection. To avoid the high mode partition noise at low frequency, we use a binary phase-shift keying as a modulation format at a low relative intensity noise window. An error-free transmission is achieved by compensating a lasing envelope shift due to temperature variation with the double-contact F-P LD.     

袁泉：活力天然的一泓清泉

明眸晧齿，笑容爽朗，脸部轮廓分明。看到袁泉，马上会有清冽甘甜的感觉，一如她的名字，仿佛夏日里活力天然的一泓清泉。从《春天的狂想》到娃哈哈广告中的美丽少女，袁泉给人的印象一直是青春、健康而甜美的，举手投足，一颦一笑，洋溢着独有的耀眼活力。不久前，这位活力闰女更是担任了“中国女性健康白皮书系列活动”的形象大使。作为宣传女性健康的代言人，袁泉呼吁，要让更多的女性认识到：健康的身体才是美丽人生的根基。[编者按]     

Service-oriented smart home applications: composition, code generation, deployment, and execution

A smart home usually has a variety of devices or home appliance, instead of designing software for a specific home, this paper proposes a service-oriented framework with a set of ontology systems to support service and device publishing, discovery of devices and their services, composition of control software using existing control services that wrap devices, deployment, and execution of the composed service in an computing environment, monitoring the execution, and recovery from device failure. The ontology systems specify semantic information about devices, services, and workflows used in various smart home, and users can compose and recompose services for their specific needs. New devices, workflows, and services can be added into ontology. Most of the steps in this process can be automated including code generation. For example, service composition will be carried out in three steps: abstract workflow design, function construction, and device discovery, and different codes can be generated for different computing platforms such as Java and Open Services Gateway initiative environments. In this way, a variety of smart home can be constructed rapidly using the framework by discovery and composition using existing services and workflows. This paper illustrates this framework using a media control example to illustrate the ontology, discovery, composition, deployment, execution, monitoring, and recovery.     

Simple systolic arrays for discrete cosine transform

in this paper, simple 1-D and 2-D systolic array for realizing the discrete cosine transform (DCT) based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) fo an input sequence are presented. The proposed arrays are obtained by a simple modified DFT (MDFT) and an inverse DFT (IDFT) version of the Goertzel algorithm combined with Kung's approach. The 1-D array requiresN cells, one multiplier and takesN clock cycles to produce a completeN-point DCT. The 2-D array takes N clock cycles, faster than the 1-D array, but the area complexity is larger. A continuous flow of input data is allowed and no idle time is required between the input sequences.