Error Detecting Dual Basis Bit Parallel Systolic Multiplication Architecture over GF（2^m）

An error tolerant hardware efficient verylarge scale integration （VLSI） architecture for bitparallel systolic multiplication over dual base, which canbe pipelined, is presented. Since this architecture has thefeatures of regularity, modularity and unidirectionaldata flow, this structure is well suited to VLSIimplementations. The length of the largest delay pathand area of this architecture are less compared to the bitparallel systolic multiplication architectures reportedearlier. The architecture is implemented using Austria Micro System＇s 0.35 μm CMOS （complementary metaloxide semiconductor） technology. This architecture canalso operate over both the dual-base and polynomialbase.     

High-Gain Chemically Gated Organic Electrochemical Transistor

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have exhibited promising performance as transducers and amplifiers of low potentials due to their exceptional transconductance, enabled by the volumetric charging of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) employed as the channel material. OECT performance in aqueous electrolytes as well as the OMIECs’ redox activity has spurred a myriad of studies employing OECTs as chemical transducers. However, the OECT's large (potentiometrically derived) transconductance is not fully leveraged in common approaches that directly conduct chemical reactions amperometrically within the OECT electrolyte with direct charge transfer between the analyte and the OMIEC, which results in sub-unity transduction of gate to drain current. Hence, amperometric OECTs do not truly display current gains in the traditional sense, falling short of the expected transistor performance. This study demonstrates an alternative device architecture that separates chemical transduction and amplification processes on two different electrochemical cells. This approach fully utilizes the OECT's large transconductance to achieve current gains of 10³ and current modulations of four orders of magnitude. This transduction mechanism represents a general approach enabling high-gain chemical OECT transducers.     

Channel and Data Estimation for Ad Hoc Networks and Cognitive Radio

Estimation of channel and data characteristics by the receiver is important in adaptive wireless transmission protocols and in cognitive radio. This paper formulates the estimation problem with the help of an illustrative example from the IEEE 802.11a OFDM standard. The problem reduces to the estimation of the common component variance and mixing probabilities in a finite Gaussian mixture, with known values for component means. Using the known component means, μ₁, ... , μ _M , a set of non-linear transformations, and of the data (mixture random variable X) are used to develop convergent and computationally efficient estimators for both the noise variance and the vector of symbol probabilities. The estimation equations can be implemented recursively or with a batch processing algorithm. Asymptotic variances of the estimates and the Cramer–Rao minimum variance bounds are derived. The estimates converge to true unknowns even when the sequences of noise and data symbols are dependent sequences. The OFDM example is simulated with parameters corresponding to the highest acceptable error rate. For a time-varying channel model chosen from the literature, it is shown that our estimator receives considerably more than adequate amount of data during an average time interval of unchanging channel characteristics. Analytical results, numerical results and related issues are discussed.     

Thermoelectric Properties of Na<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript>CoO<Subscript>2</Subscript> and Prospects for Other Oxide Thermoelectrics

We discuss the thermoelectric properties of Na _x CoO₂ using the electronic structure, as determined in first principles calculations, and Boltzmann kinetic transport theory. The Fermi energy lies near the top of a manifold of Co t _2g bands. These t _2g bands are separated by a large gap from the higher-lying e _g states. Although the large crystal-field splitting implies substantial Co–O hybridization, the bands are narrow. Application of standard Boltzmann transport theory to such a narrow band structure yields high thermopowers in accord with experimental observations, even for high metallic carrier densities. The high thermopowers observed for Na _x CoO₂ can therefore be explained by standard band theory and do not rely on low dimensionality or correlation effects specific to Co. We also present results for the cubic spinel structure ZnRh₂O₄. Like Na _x CoO₂, this compound has very narrow valence bands. We find that if it could be doped with mobile carriers, it would also have a high thermopower, comparable with that of Na _x CoO₂.     

A Novel T-Connected Autotransformer-Based 18-Pulse AC–DC Converter for Harmonic Mitigation in Adjustable-Speed Induction-Motor Drives

This paper presents the design, analysis, and development of a novel autotransformer-based 18-pulse AC-DC converter with reduced kilovoltampere rating, feeding vector-controlled induction-motor drives (VCIMDs) for power-quality improvement at the point of common coupling (PCC). The proposed autotransformer consists of only two single-phase transformers for its realization against three single-phase transformers required in other configurations. The proposed 18-pulse AC-DC converter is suitable for retrofit applications, where, presently, a six-pulse diode bridge rectifier is being used. A set of power-quality parameters, such as total harmonic distortion (THD) and crest factor of AC mains current, power factor, displacement factor, and distortion factor at AC mains, THD of supply voltage at PCC, and DC-bus-voltage ripple factor for a VCIMD fed from an 18-pulse AC-DC converter, are computed to observe its performance. The presented design technique provides flexibility to give an average DC output from the proposed converter, which is the same as that of a conventional three-phase diode bridge rectifier. However, it is also possible to step-up or step-down the output voltage as required. The effect of load variation on VCIMD is also studied to observe the effectiveness of the proposed harmonic mitigator. A laboratory prototype of the proposed autotransformer-based 18-pulse AC-DC converter is developed to validate the design and simulation model.     

MobileNAT: A New Technique for Mobility Across Heterogeneous Address Spaces

We propose a new network layer mobility architecture called Mobile NAT to efficiently support micro and macro-mobility in and across heterogeneous address spaces common in emerging public networks. The key ideas in this architecture are as follows: (1) Use of two IP addresses – an invariant virtual IP address for host identification at the application layer and an actual routable address at the network layer that changes due to mobility. Since physical address has routing significance only within a domain, it can be a private address and therefore, does not deplete the public IP address resource. (2) New DHCP enhancements to distribute the two addresses. (3) A new signaling element called Mobility Manager (MM) that uses Middlebox Communication (MIDCOM) framework to signal the changes in packet processing rules to the Network Address Translators (NATs) in the event of node mobility. Our proposal does not require any modifications to the access networks and can seamlessly co-exist with the existing Mobile IP mechanisms and therefore, can be used to provide seamless mobility across heterogeneous wireline and wireless networks. We report implementation details of a subset of our ideas in a testbed with Windows XP clients and Linux based NATs. Milind M. Buddhikot is a Member of Technical Staff in the Center for Networking Research at Lucent Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ. Milind holds a Doctor of Science (D. Sc.) in computer science (July 1998) from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in communication engineering (December 1988) from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Bombay. His current research interests are in the areas of systems and protocols for integrated public wireless networks, authentication and dynamic key exchange protocols, Voice-over-IP (VOIP) networks, and sensor and ad-hoc networks. He has authored over 26 research papers and 9 patent submissions in the areas of design of multimedia systems and protocols, layer-4 packet classification, MPLS path routing, authentication and dynamic key exchange, and 802.11/3G integration. Milind currently serves as the Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He also served as a co-guest-editor of IEEE Network magazine’s March 2001 Special issue on Fast IP Packet forwarding and Classification for Next Generation Internet Services. He has served in the capacity of a tutorial chair for IEEE LCN 94, 95, as a publicity chair for NOSSDAV97, and as a program committee member for MMCN 2001, 2003, IEEE ICNP2002, 2003 and IEEE LCN 93-2000 conferences. Adiseshu Hari received a Doctorate in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999, and has since been at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, where he’s worked on projects related to network design and optimization. He’s currently looking at design issues in large scale SIP based VoIP networks. Kundan N. Singh received a B.E.(Hons) degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and is continuing his studies towards Ph.D. degree in the same field at Columbia University in New York City. As a research assistant in the Internet Real-Time Lab at Columbia University, he is doing research on Internet telephony, SIP-H.323 signaling gateway, unified messaging systems and multimedia conferencing. Scott Miller is the Director of the High Speed Mobile Data Research department at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Cooper Union in New York City. His current research involves the integration of 802.11 and 3G wireless data service and the related mobile networking issues concerning seamless mobility, authentication, security, roaming, and accounting. Prior to his work on 802.11/3G integration, Scott has led several systems research efforts in wireless applications, implementing novel systems for wireless messaging, speech-driven directory services, wireless instant messaging, carrier-based content billing, and multi-media content adaptation.This revised version was published online in August 2005 with a corrected cover date.     

Temperature behavior and compensation of light-emitting diode

This letter offers a fresh insight into the behavior of light-emitting diode (LED) over temperature. Theoretically and by measurement, it has been shown that equi-intensity curves in the diodes current-voltage plane are nearly a straight line over a very wide range of temperatures. Based on this property, bias voltage and resistance value of a bias circuit have been realized and practical measurement shows the peak-to-peak light intensity variation decreases from 99 % (in case of fixed current bias) to 6 % over the temperature range of -20 C to +80 C for the LED IN6092. This circuit uses no separate temperature sensor or compensating mechanism, but responds directly to the junction temperature of the diodes. This prevents any error caused by temperature gradient, or by self-heating due to power dissipation in the diode.     

Parasitic extraction: current state of the art and future trends

With the increase in circuit performance (higher speeds) and density (smaller feature size) in deep submicrometer (DSM) designs, interconnect parasitic effects are increasingly becoming more important. This paper first surveys the state of the art in parasitic extraction for resistance, capacitance, and inductance. The paper then covers other related issues such as interconnect modeling, model order reduction, delay calculation, and signal integrity issues such as crosstalk. Some future trends on parasitic extraction, model reduction and interconnect modeling are discussed and a fairly complete list of references is given     

Prospects of manufacturing organic semiconductor-based integratedcircuits

The driving force for developing organic thin-film transistor (OTFT)-based electronics is the fact that they are flexible, lightweight and have the prospect of low-cost manufacturing. Major barriers in the practical realization of OTFT-based electronic systems are the need for larger power supplies, lower gain, lower switching speeds and reliability problems. New directions leading to changes in the design of transistors, materials used in the fabrication, and processing techniques are warranted for developing process and equipment that can lead to the manufacturing of OTFT-based electronics. For developing dense OTFT-based electronics, the low thermal conductivity (as compared to silicon) of organic semiconductors is a fundamental problem. The use of nanodimension polymers with homogeneous microstructure, transistors operating in subthreshold region and the use of new materials (high and low dielectric constant dielectric materials as well as Cu as the conductor for interconnections) for fabricating transistors and a novel rapid photothermal processing technique for depositing thin films of organic semiconductors as well as for reducing the defects introduced during processing are some of the proposed directions that may lead to the manufacturing of OTFT based electronics     

Optical orthogonal code design using genetic algorithms

A construction technique for optical orthogonal codes (OOCs) using genetic algorithms (GAs) is proposed. The performance of the GA OOCs is compared to that of four existing OOCs. Results show that the GA OOCs have a lower probability of error