Reflection-Type Artificial Dielectric Substrate Microstrip Dispersive Delay Line (DDL) for Analog Signal Processing

A reflection-type artificial dielectric substrate (ADS) microstrip dispersive delay line (DDL) for analog signal processing is presented. This DDL is realized by nonuniformly alternating conventional and ADS microstrip sections with a linearly increasing period (linear group delay or constant chirp) so that the different spectral components of a modulated signal incur different delays proportional to their frequency to be discriminated in time. Design guidelines are provided. The proposed DDL is demonstrated theoretically, numerically, and experimentally, and is fully characterized in terms of reflective level, bandwidth, group delay, and chirping coefficient for excitation at both ports. The DDL is then demonstrated in a frequency discriminator. Finally, it is compared with a stepped-impedance DDL and a sinusoidal-impedance DDL, and shown to exhibit superior symmetry along to smaller overall loss due to dramatically mitigated radiation, thereby leading to superior performances in various analog signal-processing systems such as impulse delay lines, real-time Fourier transformers, and compressive receivers.      

Experimental Demonstration and Characterization of a Tunable CRLH Delay Line System for Impulse/Continuous Wave

A new tunable delay system is presented and demonstrated experimentally in this letter. This system, which incorporates a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line, two mixers, and a low-pass filter, achieves a tunable group delay for impulse and continuous-wave signals, controlled by a local oscillator. This group delay tunability follows from the dispersion property of the CRLH transmission line and is achieved without suffering from the drawbacks of conventional delay lines in terms of matching, frequency of operation, and planar circuit implementation. The realized prototype exhibits measured group delays tunable between 5.1 and 8.54 ns over a frequency range of 2-4.5 GHz.     

31位低频声表面波可程序匹配滤波器

报道了３１位声表面波可程序匹配滤波器的结构、设计和性能参数。声表面波可程序抽头延迟线是近年来快速发展的直扩技术广泛应用的一种器件。它的强大信号处理能力和极高的运算速度，使得直扩序列信号的快速同步及匹配滤波较传统的技术大为简化。文章报道的３１位声表面波低频可程序抽头延迟线是一种用于扩频抗干扰通信系统所用的关键信号处理器件。在研制过程中，采用的ＣＯＭＳ／ＳＯＳ等新技术以及分裂抽头等新设计，使器件的时钟速率和主旁瓣比关键技术指标获得了较大的提高，完全满足系统要求     

Dispersive-frequency companding of low-frequency finite signals for objects remote control

There are noted specificities of known methods of frequency companding of radio signal by high frequency (HF) dispersive delay lines (DDL). It is proposed a principle of dispersive-frequency companding of low-frequency (LF) finite signals for remote control of physical objects and its realization system. It is shown that LF DDL of definite order can be both frequency compressor and frequency expander. The system of this principle realization at transmitting side contains LF DDL—frequency compressor and low-pass filter, and at transmitting side it contains LF DDL of the same order—frequency expander.     

Composite right/left handed transmission line phase shifter using ferroelectric varactors

A composite right/left handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) phase shifter, using ferroelectric (Ba/sub 0.25/Sr/sub 0.75/TiO/sub 3/) varactors as tunable element, is presented for the first time. It is theoretically and experimentally demonstrated how the unique features of CRLH TLs, enables a differential phase shift with flat frequency dependence around the center frequency. The experimental prototype is a coplanar design integrated on a high resistive Si substrate. It includes four CRLH T-unit cells and has a physical length of 3850/spl mu/m. The ferroelectric varactors are realized in parallel plate version. Under 15-V dc bias applied over each varactor, the differential phase shift is flat around 17GHz and has an absolute value of 50/spl deg/.     

Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line With Wire Bonded Interdigital Capacitor

An enhanced composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) is presented in this letter. This TL, designed in microstrip technology, is implemented by means of a new improved interdigital capacitor (IDC), the so-called wire bonded IDC (WBIDC). The use of the WBIDC broadens the frequency band where the CRLH TL can be considered as a TL. A conventional 70-Omega CRLH TL (using IDCs) has been compared, by full-wave simulation and measurements, with its enhanced counterpart (using WBIDCs). In addition, this enhanced CRLH TL has been used to design a CRLH diplexer which presents several advantages over standard CRLH coupled lines (using IDCs). The diplexer response has been verified by means of a full-wave electromagnetic solver     

An X-band acousto-optic variable delay line for radar targetsimulation

The design and characterization of a 54-μs, continuously-variable, acousto-optic (AO) delay line developed for radar testing applications is presented. Design goals for the delay line include over 10 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth, 1.2 GHz of tunable bandwidth operating at X-band, 45 dB of dynamic range, and electronically-controllable delay selection to simulate dynamic radar targets with radial range rates up to 500 m/s. In addition, the device was designed to have phase noise and spurious signal levels compatible with high performance radars. To achieve these goals, a 33-MHz center frequency variable delay line was constructed and coherent frequency translation was used to provide operation at S-band. Operating principles for this new intermediate frequency (IF) delay line are presented, and key component issues are discussed. A computer design and analysis tool is described that predicts delay line performance. Experimental results are presented at both the IF and at X-band     

Characteristics of the composite right/left-handed transmission lines

The composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) is presented as a general TL possessing both left-handed (LH) and right-handed (RH) natures. The dispersion diagram of the two-dimensional (2-D) CRLH-TL is obtained analytically based on the Bloch-Floquet theory, and the unique phenomenon of infinite guided-wavelength propagation, with nonzero group velocity at a nonzero frequency, is explained. It is shown analytically that when the CRLH TL is "balanced", two eigenfrequencies at the /spl Gamma/ point (/spl beta/=0) of the Brillouin zone (BZ) degenerate at /spl omega//sub /spl Gamma// and a seamless transition from the LH to the RH modes without a bandgap can be achieved. In addition, these phenomena are demonstrated experimentally in the case of a CRLH microstrip line.     

Losses in parametric delay lines used for signal processing

The use of parametric delay lines for signal processing requires them to be made up of a large number of LC sections, in order to have the required bandwidth and delay characteristics. It is shown that, for such a line, the theoretical low-pass cutoff frequency cannot be achieved in practice, and their suitability for many applications is thus greatly diminished.     

A Novel 3-dB Directional Coupler With Broad Bandwidth and Compact Size Using Composite Right/Left-Handed Coplanar Waveguides

A wideband composite right/left-handed (CRLH) coplanar waveguide (CPW) coupler with 3-dB coupling value and quadrature phase difference is presented. Compared with the conventional edge-coupled CPW coupler, this symmetrical structure, consisting of a gap capacitor, a broadside-coupled capacitor, and a meandering short-circuited stub inductor, achieves wider operating bandwidth and larger coupling level. The 3-dB CRLH CPW coupler with 0.7mm spacing between coupled lines exhibits an amplitude balance of 2dB and a phase balance of 90⁰ plusmn 5⁰ from 3.2 to 7.6GHz. The coupled-line length and the port impedance of the proposed structure are approximately lambda/4 and 50Omega, respectively, which makes it more compact than the cascaded CRLH microstrip coupled-line coupler. To characterize this structure, the equivalent circuit model including the unique coupling mechanism within CRLH CPWs is established and verified by measurement. The signal with less dispersion on output ports is demonstrated based on the standard deviation of group delay time     

A genetic approach to the synthesis of composite right/left-handed transmission line impedance matching sections

A genetic approach for the synthesis of composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line impedance matching sections is presented. Continuous parameter genetic algorithm (CPGA) is used for the synthesis. Examples for a uniform CRLH transmission line impedance matching section and a nonuniform CRLH transmission line impedance matching section are given.     

Transmission Delay Line Based ID Generation Circuit for RFID Applications

A transmission delay line based ID generation circuit is presented for radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. The ID generation circuit has been designed using microstrip transmission lines as delay lines for its operation at ultra high frequency (UHF: 915MHz). The layout has been realized on a flexible substrate using photolithography based fabrication techniques. The circuit has been tested with an on-off-key (OOK) modulated input signal and different combinations of 4bit ID code have been generated. Obtained results confirm the concept and its use in RFID applications     

The method for dispersion and dispersion-and-tracking instrumentation analysis of the active spectrum of nonstationary processes

The need for refining the known methods of dispersion analysis of radio signal spectrum has been demonstrated. A new method was proposed on the basis of using the known peculiarities of the active spectrum of nonstationary processes. This method makes it possible to enhance the accuracy of spectral analysis and its informativeness about a brief malfunction of normal continuous operation of real physical entities, perform the synthesis of measured signals, and reduce the dispersion coefficient of the stationary dispersive delay line (DDL) about two times, while that of the tracking DDL about 15 times as compared with the DDL dispersion coefficient of the known methods.     

Optimal Channel Sensing Order for Various Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, the channel sensing order is crucial for the CR users to find an available channel as fast as possible. In this paper, besides the primary user activities, the statistics of Signal-to-Noise Ratio for each channel are explored using pilot signals. Based on the fluctuating nature of heterogeneous channels as well as the QoS requirements of various applications, two channel sensing order methods are proposed. For real-time applications, a minimum delay-based channel sensing order is proposed to find an idle channel which meets the sustainable rate constraint as fast as possible. For best-effort applications, a maximum capacity-based channel sensing order is proposed to maximize the transmission rates for the CR users, and two different stopping rules are considered. One is that a CR user should stop and transmit at the first free channel, while for the other one, a q-stage look-ahead stopping problem is considered. The simulation results show that the opportunity-discovery delay is reduced for real-time applications. For best-effort applications, the second stopping method is better than the first one when the time cost of the pilot signal is small.     

UWB脉冲信号的时域波束形成方法

分析了超宽带（Ultra Wideband）脉冲信号阵列空时处理的一般原理,比较了它和传统正弦阵列的差别,给出了一种高精度的时域波束形成方法。精确的可变时延电路实现是时域波束形成的主要问题,采用数字延迟线和FIR延迟补偿滤波器相结合的办法实现UWB信号波束形成的数字化处理。设计了因果稳定的高精度的具有分数时延补偿特性的FIR滤波器,解决了UWB信号在小样本采样时时间量化对波束形成器性能影响的问题,相对于频域处理,在有效提高阵列方向图性能同时具有设计简单,运算量小等优点。     

CMOS realization of two-dimensional mixed analog-digital Hamming distance discriminator circuits for real-time imaging applications

The architecture of an integrated Hamming artificial neural network, and its use as a versatile signal/image processing circuit is presented. The circuit operation relies on the charge-based processing of sum-of-products terms, complemented with digital post-processing. The synthesis of complex functions such as winner-(loser)-take-all, k-winner-(loser)-take-all, rank ordering are demonstrated with a minimal hardware overhead. Different operation modes and corresponding hardware configurations are presented. The VLSI realization of the core two-dimensional Hamming distance discriminator, and the chip measurements are discussed. As such, the presented Hamming discriminator is uniquely suitable for real-time image processing and alignment applications.     

Utilizing the effect of relative delay on energy dissipation in low-power on-chip buses

This paper presents an analysis of how the power dissipation of on-chip buses is affected by introducing a relative delay between the switching lines. Relative delay is shown to reduce the dissipated power of oppositely switching lines while causing a power penalty for similarly switching lines. A new low-power bus scheme that uses this effect is proposed and analyzed. As the introduced delay increases, the achieved power reduction increases while decreasing the bus throughput. Thus, a tradeoff between power reduction and throughput is required when selecting the imposed relative delay. The proposed low-power scheme, dynamic delayed line bus (DDL) scheme, led to a power reduction of up to 25%, 33%, and 42% when applied to data, address, and differential buses, respectively. Simple DDL hardware is designed and implemented in a 0.18-/spl mu/m TSMC CMOS technology and applied to a 4500-/spl mu/m long Metal4 bus. Circuit simulation results for different bus widths are presented.     

通信瓶颈下的实时并行任务分配研究

提出了实时并行任务粒度划分的具体设计方法，采用了系统内通信迟延最小的约束条件进行多处理器上的任务分配，解决了高速实时信号处理中的数据通信瓶颈问题。在自行设计的超立方体结构的通用信号处理机上，实现了空时二维自适应信号处理和SAR实时成像，显著减小了数据通信迟延，提高了并行效率和性价比。     

Magnetostatic wave technology: a review

Magnetostatic wave (MSW) technology has been under investigation for more than a decade. Using ferrimagnetic films such as liquid-phase epitaxial (LPE) yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films, MSW devices and subsystems offer instantaneous bandwidths of up to 1 GHz at operating frequencies in the microwave bands (0.5-26.5 GHz). Because MSWs travel with velocities two-to-four orders of magnitude slower than electromagnetic waves, compact devices can be built using hybrid and monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) techniques. These devices include delay lines, dispersive delay lines, filters, resonators, and directional couplers. Subsystems using these devices, such as electronically tunable delay lines channelized filter banks, delay-line discriminators, oscillators, and frequency multipliers can be used for applications in signal identification, control and processing directly at microwave frequencies. An overview of the MSW technology is presented and an assessment of the various devices and subsystems that can be built using thin and thick LPE-YIG films is provided