Current‐mode quadrature oscillator using current differencing transconductance amplifiers

This article presents a new electronically tunable single‐element‐controlled current‐mode quadrature sinusoidal oscillator circuit using current differencing transconductance amplifiers (CDTAs). The proposed oscillator is consisted of two CDTAs, two grounded capacitors and one grounded resistor, which is beneficial to monolithic integrated circuit implementation both in CMOS and bipolar technologies. The condition of oscillation and the frequency of oscillation are independently controllable. The frequency of oscillation can also be electronically controlled by adjusting the bias current of CDTA. The circuit provides four quadrature current outputs and two quadrature voltage outputs. The current output terminals possess high impedance level. PSPICE simulation results are used to verify the performance of the proposed circuit implemented at the transistor level. The measurement results support the computer simulations.     

An improved method for the design of quadrature mirror filter banks using the Levenberg–Marquardt optimization

This paper presents an improved and efficient method for the design of a two-channel quadrature mirror filter (QMF) bank. In the proposed method, the filter bank design problem is formulated as a low-pass prototype filter design problem, whose responses in the passband and stopband are ideal and their filter coefficients value at quadrature frequency is 0.707. A new method is developed for the design of a low-pass prototype filter which minimizes the objective function by optimizing the filter taps weights using the Levenberg–Marquardt method. When compared with other existing algorithms, it significantly reduces peak reconstruction error (PRE), error in passband, stopband and transition band. Several design examples are included to show the increased efficiency and the flexibility of the proposed method over existing methods. An application of this method is considered in the area of subband coding of the ultrasound images.     

An ultra low power consumption millimeter-wave voltage controlled oscillator in a 65 nm CMOS-SOI technology

This paper presents an ultra low power consumption 65 GHz LC-VCO dedicated to wireless high data rate applications. It is designed in a 65 nm CMOS SOI process, which improves passive devices behavior. The proposed VCO achieves a frequency tuning range (FTR) of 9.7 % and a phase noise of ?110.86 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz of the carrier. All integrated passive components (including transmission lines and a transformer-based balun) are modeled using advanced electromagnetic (EM) field solvers. The power consumption of the proposed VCO is as low as 1.1 mW when biased by a 0.8-V supply voltage. The FoM of this millimeter wave circuit, whose core occupies a silicon footprint of only 0.047 mm², is ?184.07 dBc/Hz.     

An enhanced chaotic key‐based RC5 block cipher adapted to image encryption

RC5 is a block cipher that has several salient features such as adaptability to process different word lengths with a variable block size, a variable number of rounds and a variable‐length secret key. However, RC5 can be broken with various attacks such as correlation attack, timing attack, known plaintext correlation attack and differential attacks, revealing weak security. We aimed to enhance the RC5 block cipher to be more secure and efficient for real‐time applications while preserving its advantages. For this purpose, this article introduces a new approach based on strengthening both the confusion and diffusion operations by combining chaos and cryptographic primitive operations to produce round keys with better pseudo‐random sequences. Comparative security analysis and performance evaluation of the enhanced RC5 block cipher (ERC5) with RC5, RC6 and chaotic block cipher algorithm (CBCA) are addressed. Several test images are used for inspecting the validity of the encryption and decryption algorithms. The experimental results show the superiority of the suggested enhanced RC5 (ERC5) block cipher to image encryption algorithms such as RC5, RC6 and CBCA from the security analysis and performance evaluation points of view.