Implementation of high speed Viterbi detectors

The normal Viterbi architecture and a radix 4 architecture are compared with a parallel ACS version using a latch based storage element. Results obtained using an eight-state EPR4 Viterbi detector show that parallel ACS architectures can provide a high level of performance with modest area requirements     

高速总线IEEE1394的性能分析

分析了IEEE1394的性能特点和技术特点，详细分析了开放式主控制器接口、拓扑结构及IEEE1394网络特点和局限，并对其前景进行了展望。     

Performance analysis of InSb based QWFET for ultra high speed applications

An indium antimonide based QWFET (quantum well field effect transistor) with the gate length down to 50 nm has been designed and investigated for the first time for L-band radar applications at 230 GHz. QWFETs are designed at the high performance node of the International Technology Road Map for Semiconductors (ITRS) requirements of drive current (Semiconductor Industry Association 2010). The performance of the device is investigated using the SYNOPSYS CAD (TCAD) software. InSb based QWFET could be a promising device technology for very low power and ultra-high speed performance with 5-10 times low DC power dissipation.     

高速局域网的简化CRMA协议性能分析

对现有的周期预留多址接入(CRMA)协议进行了简化和改进，提出了简化的CRMA协议(S-CRMA)。S-CRMA协议对时隙结构进行了重新定义，取消了原有协议的REJECT、CONFIRM等命令，通过自适应地改变预留时隙的间隔，实现了网络在接入时延和接入速率方面的公平性。通过仿真数据和曲线，说明了基于S-CRMA协议的网络在平衡突发业务和非平衡突发业务两种条件下，均保证了各个本地节点的公平接入。     

Performance analysis of MMSE receivers for DS-CDMA in frequency-selective fading channels

The performance of the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver for the detection of direct sequence code division multiple access is considered in various fading channel models. Several modifications to the basic MMSE receiver structure which have been previously proposed for use on nonselective fading channels are reviewed and shown to represent different approximations to a single common form. The performance of this general structure is analyzed as well as various extensions suitable for frequency-selective fading channels. Particular attention is given to the performance advantage gained through knowledge of the fading parameters of the various transmission paths of each user's signal. It is shown that having this knowledge is not particularly useful on a flat fading channel unless the loading is very heavy and even then the difference in performance is only minimal. On the other hand, having this knowledge is crucial in a multipath fading channel and the inability to learn the fading channel parameters will lead to substantial degradation in capacity. A heuristic explanation to support this result based on a dimensionality argument is also presented.     

快速热电探测器

本文介绍铌酸锂、钽酸锂快速热电探测器的器件设计和工艺,包括器件响应率的计算和测定,以及四种常用材料激光损伤阈值的比较;讨论了压电谐振的产生机理和消除办法。     

Design of reduced-rank MMSE multiuser detectors using random matrix methods

Reduced-rank minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) multiuser detectors using asymptotic weights have been shown to reduce receiver complexity while maintaining good performance in long-sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems. In this paper, we consider the design of reduced-rank MMSE receivers in a general framework which includes fading, single and multiantenna receivers, as well as direct-sequence CDMA (DS-CDMA) and multicarrier CDMA (both uplink and downlink). In all these cases, random matrix results are used to obtain explicit expressions for the asymptotic eigenvalue moments of the interference autocorrelation matrix and for the asymptotic weights used in the reduced-rank receiver.     

A robust rank estimation algorithm of group-blind MMSE multiuser detectors for CDMA systems

We propose an adaptive rank-estimation method for the additive white or colored Gaussian noise model. The main contribution of this paper has three parts. (1) We investigate the rank mismatch problem in the group-blind multiuser detector of Wang and Host-Madsen (see IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol.17, p.1971-1984, Nov. 1999), and find that underestimating the rank causes significant performance degradation, whereas, rank overestimation can achieve performance gain in the low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) region. However, rank overestimation can lead to inaccurate channel estimation, which degrades the detector performance significantly in the high SNR region. (2) We propose a heuristic criterion for initial rank estimation which is robust for nonwhite noise cases. (3) In order to mitigate the rank mismatch problem, we introduce a hypothesis testing criterion for rank and signal subspace decisions, which selects the most probable rank for the group-blind detectors. Simulation results show that the performance of the group-blind detector using this adaptive rank estimation algorithm is comparable to the group-blind with perfect knowledge of the rank, and even better in the low-to-medium SNR region.     

Performance analysis of an improved MMSE multiuser receiver formismatched delay channels

Motivated by the fact that time delays in a practical direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system can never be perfectly estimated, an improved minimum-mean squared-error (MMSE)-based receiver is proposed and analyzed. Via the simple assumption of a probability distribution for the delay estimation errors, the proposed receiver can achieve a performance superior to that of the conventional MMSE (CMMSE) receiver. The performances of this improved receiver and the CMMSE receiver are compared in terms of the mean squared error (MSE), probability of error, and asymptotic multiuser efficiency (AME). As the original definition of AME does not consider mismatched channels, the behavior of three single-user receivers bearing imperfect delay estimation is also investigated. These single-user receivers are employed to define a more appropriate AME. Finally, an efficient update mechanism to accommodate dynamic channel statistics, and thus practical implementation, is proposed     

Model for accurate speed measurement using double-loop detectors

Vehicle speed is an important parameter in measurements of road traffic. At present, double-loop detectors are generally used for vehicular speed measurement. However, these detectors incur errors caused by scanning time, spacing between double loops, irregular vehicle trajectories, and the presence of multiple vehicles in the detection zone. This paper suggests a new model that uses an error-filtering algorithm to improve the accuracy of speed measurements. In the field tests, all percent errors of the vehicular speeds measured by the proposed model were within the error tolerance limit (/spl plusmn/5%). Furthermore, the variance of percent errors was reduced. Therefore, it can be concluded that the proposed model significantly improves vehicle-speed-measuring accuracy.     

Performance analysis of linear multiuser detectors for randomlyspread CDMA using Gaussian approximation

The performance of a linear decorrelating detector (LDD) and a minimum mean square error (MMSE) detector is analyzed for random spreading waveforms. The performance of the LDD and MMSE detectors is expressed in terms of the so-called near-far resistance, defined by a reciprocal of a diagonal component of inverse matrix. For random code division multiple access, which employs random spreading waveforms, the near-far resistance can be regarded as a random variable. Many papers have dealt with the analysis of multiuser detectors for random spreading sequences. In most cases, however, these analyses derived only the expectations or bounds for the near-far resistance. In this paper, we directly derive the approximate probability density function (PDF) of the near-far resistance and corresponding bit error rate expression for random spreading sequences. It is based on Gaussian approximation of the cross correlation between any two randomly generated spreading codes. The resulting PDF turned out to be a reversed-and-scaled version of chi-square distribution. The approximate expressions, both the PDF and the corresponding bit error rate expression, were verified via Monte Carlo simulations. The results showed that the approximation is quite close to the simulation results when the number of users is less than half the processing gain     

Performance analysis of modified prime-hop codes for OCDMA systems with multiuser detectors

This article presents the performance analysis of modified prime-hop codes (MPHCs) proposed by Wen et al. for optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) systems with multiuser detectors. MPHCs have many advantages over prime-hop codes (PHCs), including low complexity of hardware implementation, low power loss and better performance. The systems using MPHCs would benefit from these advantages under a heavy traffic load. To enhance the performances of MPHCs, the multiuser detectors are utilized to mitigate the negative effect of multiple access interference (MAI) in this study. With a combinatorial approach, the performances of the systems using MPHCs and PHCs are analyzed and compared with one another. The factors to be considered in degrading the system performance include MAI, additive optical intensity noise, and the Poisson characteristics of the optical direct detection process. The numeric results indicate that the systems using MPHCs perform much better than those using PHCs, especially with multiuser detectors.     

Performance analysis of space-time MMSE multiuser detection for coded DS-CDMA systems in multipath fading channels

This paper investigates the use of convolutional coding in space-time minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) multiuser-based receivers over asynchronous multipath Rayleigh fading channels. We focus on the performance gain attained through error control coding when used with binary-phase-shift-keyed modulation (BPSK) and multiuser access based on direct sequence-code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA). In our analysis, we derive an approximation for the uncoded probability of bit-error in multipath fading channels. This bit-error rate (BER) approximation is shown to be very accurate when compared to the exact performance. For a convolutionally coded system, we obtain a closed form expression for the bit-error rate upper bound. This error bound is noted to be tight as the number of quantization levels increased beyond eight. Using our theoretical results, we obtain an estimate for the achieved user-capacity that accrues due to error control coding. It is found that using convolutional coding with 3-bit soft-decision decoding, a user-capacity gain as much as 300% can easily be achieved when complete fading state information plus ideal channel interleaving are assumed.     

Interfaces for high speed fiber-optic links: analysis andexperiment

An analysis of directly and externally modulated fiber-optic links is presented. The theoretical analysis is based on the signal flow diagram of the interface circuits to the laser diode, Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator, and p-i-n photodiode. System parameters such as gain, noise figure, two-tone intermodulation distortion, and spurious free and compression dynamic range are expressed as a function of frequency and operating point of the laser and external modulator. Two directly and externally modulated fiber-optic links were designed and fabricated to verify the analytical models. The direct modulation FO link was developed at the Ku-band (11.6-12.4 GHz), whereas the external modulation link was at L-band (875-925 MHz). Spurious-free dynamic ranges of 95.8 dB Hz^2/3 and 113 dB Hz ^2/3, respectively, were achieved. The predictions based on the analytical models match the measured results     

Performance analysis for the improved linear multiuser detectors in BPSK-modulated DS-CDMA systems

Recently, a new class of linear multiuser receivers for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems employing binary phase-shift keying modulation has been introduced. Unlike classical decorrelating and minimum mean-square error linear multiuser detectors, the new receivers exploit the information contained in the pseudo-autocorrelation of the observables, and are, thus, capable of achieving much better performance. We present new results on the performance analysis of this class of new receivers. In particular, with reference to a CDMA system with deterministic spreading codes, we show that the new receivers outperform the classical ones in terms of both error probability and near-far resistance. With regard, instead, to CDMA systems with random spreading, we compute the average system near-far resistance, showing that the new receivers can accommodate twice the number of users accommodated by the classical linear multiuser receivers.     

Use of window addressable memories for high speed geometrical analysis

Many real-time problems require assessment of the location of a moving platform with respect to a fixed or time varying set of objects. Examples of such problems are robots performing precision movement in a dense object space or low flying aircraft over enemy territory. The method described in this paper permits quick assessment of relative locations to two- or three-dimensional rectangular shaped objects with respect to an arbitrary number of points and subsequently to a real or fictive line of sight. The relative location assessment can be performed at a rate of up to 5 ns/data point/object and the line intersect evaluation at 5–500 ns/line/object dependent upon the geometry.Both the relative assessment algorithm and the intersect algorithm have been implemented in a small hardware unit called the TIGER, Three-dimensional Intersect & Geometrical Evaluation in Real-time, that can be incorporated in unmanned as well as manned systems in space, under water, and avionics. All quoted performance data is based upon analysis in three dimensional Cartesian space unless otherwise stated.     

Performance analysis of a linear MMSE receiver for bandlimited random-CDMA using quadriphase spreading over multipath channels

This paper analyzes the bit-error-rate (P/sub e/) performance of a linear minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) receiver for bandlimited direct-sequence code-division multiple-access systems which use quadriphase spreading with aperiodic pseudonoise (PN) sequences. The analysis is based on the improved Gaussian approximation (IGA) with focus on chip pulse shaping. It shows that the IGA reduces to the standard Gaussian approximation (SGA) if 1) random quadriphase spreading is employed, 2) the spreading factor takes moderate to large values, and 3) the chip pulse excess bandwidth (BW) is zero. Hence, the SGA, known for its inaccuracy in low regions of P/sub e/, remains an accurate approximation even when the number of active users in the system is small as long as the aforementioned conditions are met. The analysis holds for either matched or different transmit and receive filters. Consequently, closed form conditional P/sub e/ expressions are derived for the coherent selective RAKE and the LMMSE receivers and verified with Monte Carlo simulations. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the performance improvement achieved by the LMMSE receiver which, in contrast to the coherent selective RAKE receiver, not only suppresses interference when the excess BW of chip pulse is nonzero, but also harnesses the energy of all paths of the desired user. Under the examined scenarios tailored toward current narrowband system settings, the LMMSE receiver achieves 60% gain in capacity over the selective RAKE receiver. A third of the gain is due to interference suppression capability of the receiver while the rest is credited to its ability to collect the energy of the desired user diversified to many paths. Future wideband systems will yield an ever larger gain.     

基于MMSE权重估计的超宽带加权ATR接收机性能分析

根据UWB接收信号的多径区段分布特点,采用分段加权合并的思想和最小均方误差(MMSE)估计理论,提出了一种新的超宽带加权ATR接收机.各区段有不同权重,对多径分量分布密集区段给予更大的权重,权重系数由MMSE估计得出,从而大大降低了噪声乘积项对接收性能的影响.经过理论分析和IEEE CM3多径信道仿真,结果表明该接收机的误码率性能优于一般ATR接收机.     

Performance analysis of low power high speed pipelined adders for digital /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulators

The carry skip adder (CSA) is widely assumed to outperform the carry lookahead adder (CLA) in terms of power and area. However, for pipelined adders used in digital SigmaDelta modulators (DDSM), it is shown that the CLA has similar performance to the CSA architecture when low bit blocks are used. Furthermore, the CSA outperforms the CLA in terms of glitch content and hence the CSA is more suitable for the operational frequencies of DDSMs