Power Allocation and Control in Multimedia CDMA Wireless Systems

This paper proposes an analysis of outage performance of a Direct Sequence-Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) wireless system with heterogeneous traffic. Imperfections in closed-loop power control and the activity characteristics of any traffic source in the system are taken into account. For given requirements of signal-to-(noise + interference) ratio and outage probability of every user in the system, the system capacity is derived in terms of the maximum number of users of each class that can be accomodated. The optimization problem is explicitly solved for a system consisting of a single cell and an approach is outlined for solving the optimization problem in a multi-cell system. The analysis is carried out by resorting to various approximations of Multiple Access Interference (MAI), that require different methods for solving the optimization problem and yield different degrees of accuracy. From numerical results it is seen that optimal power allocation is essential to limit the effects of power control imperfections, mainly in the case of non uniform amplitudes of residual power fluctuations. In the second part of the paper, a performance study of fixed step closed-loop power control algorithms is presented. A detailed simulation of the power control loop evidences that fast fading phenomena can not be easily tracked, even at moderate Doppler spread. Statistics of residual power fluctuations are estimated and can be used to support the assumptions in the first part of the paper. Furthermore, second order statistics of the controlled channel are estimated, and second order outage statistics (average rate and duration of outage events) are derived as a quantitative measure of residual channel burstiness.     

Experimental validation of a thermal modelling method dedicated to multichip power modules in operating conditions

In this paper, we present an implementation of a thermal modelling method applied to a multichip module used as a power converter. Analytical functions of thermal impedances, with original formulations for the mutuals are defined. They are derived from 3D thermal simulations and experimental validations with direct chips temperature measurements. Finally, simulations are performed in order to improve the capability of our model to assess, with fast computation, the thermal constraints applied on the multichip module in a real operating condition.     

ZnO压敏防雷芯片工频耐受与通流能力的相关性

为了研究ZnO压敏防雷芯片的工频过电压耐受特性和8/20μs通流能力的相关性,在生产线上抽取同批次产品进行工频过电压耐受试验和8/20μs通流能力试验。研究结果表明:工频过电压老化后会使压敏电阻的通流能力下降,但经过8/20μs雷电流峰值20 kA冲击后,压敏电阻的工频过电压耐受能力会增强,在冲击15次左右时达到最大值,随着冲击次数的增多,工频过电压耐受能力会降低。     

5V单电源供电的低噪声宽带放大器

以单片机MSP430F449为控制核心,设计了一个5 V单电源供电的低噪声宽带放大器。采用单位增益稳定低噪声运放OPA820作为前级放大,高速运放THS3091作为末级放大,其中利用DC-DC变换器TPS61087将5 V电压转化为18 V从而为末级放大电路供电。此外,系统还采用12位高速A/D转换器ADS803实现了测量并数字显示放大器输出电压峰峰值的功能,测量误差小于5%。本系统最高电压增益达到43 dB,上限及下限截止频率达到15 MHz和20 Hz,在50Ω负载上,最大不失真输出电压峰峰值为4.2 V。系统的输出噪声小于200 mV。     

Nonlinear characteristics of on-chip spiral inductors under high RF power

This paper explores silicon CMOS on-chip spiral inductors performance degradation under high RF power. A novel methodology to calibrate and characterize on-chip spiral inductor with large signal inputs (high/medium power) is presented. Experiments showed 12% degradation of quality factor in a particular inductor design when 34 dBm RF power was applied. The degradation of quality factor of inductor can be attributed to a local self heating effect. Thermal imaging of such an inductor under high RF power validates the hypothesis.     

A Power Control MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks

This paper presents a power control MAC protocol that allows nodes to vary transmit power level on a per-packet basis. Several researchers have proposed simple modifications of IEEE 802.11 to incorporate power control. The main idea of these power control schemes is to use different power levels for RTS–CTS and DATA–ACK. Specifically, maximum transmit power is used for RTS–CTS, and the minimum required transmit power is used for DATA–ACK transmissions in order to save energy. However, we show that these schemes can degrade network throughput and can result in higher energy consumption than when using IEEE 802.11 without power control. We propose a power control protocol which does not degrade throughput and yields energy saving.     

低压静止无功发生器的实验研究

静止无功发生器已经成为系统电压调整和无功补偿的重要设备。本文在简单分析SVG基本原理的基础上，介绍了无功补偿原理，提出了具体的硬件设计和软件设计，并进行了相关的实验。取得了部分实验波形。验证了SVG的补偿作用。     

动力环境监控系统现状及在电源维护中的作用

通过分析目前动力环境监控系统的现状,提出利用动力环境监控系统来提升电源维护工作水平的几点建议。     

一种X波段固态功率放大器

介绍一种X波段固态功率放大器的设计方案,并给出研制结果。