Uniform Approximation of Discrete-Time Periodically Varying Systems

It is shown that the elements of a large class of discrete-time periodically varying nonlinear input-output maps can be uniformly approximated arbitrarily well, over infinite time intervals, using a certain structure that can be implemented in many ways using, for example, radial basis functions, polynomial functions, piecewise linear functions, sigmoids, or combinations of these functions. For the special case in which these functions are taken to be certain polynomial functions, the input-output map of our structure is a generalized finite discrete-time Volterra series. Results are given for the case in which inputs and outputs are defined on the integers. The case in which inputs and outputs are defined on the nonnegative integers is also addressed.     

Stabilization of space charge polarization in ion-dispersed gate dielectric layer of organic transistors by ultraviolet illumination for write-once read-many memory

In this work, a new type organic field effect transistor (OFET) based write-once read-many memory (WORM) device was developed. The device uses an ultraviolet (UV) cross-linkable matrix polymer mixed with ionic compounds to form an ion-dispersed gate dielectric layer. Under an applied gate voltage bias, migration of cations and anions in opposite directions forms space charge polarization in the gate dielectric layer, resulting in change of the electrical characteristics. It is shown that, with UV illumination to cross-link the matrix polymer, the formed space charge polarization can be stabilized. Therefore, the OFET can be operated as a WORM with the applied voltage bias to define the polarization and in turn the stored data, and the UV illumination to stabilize the stored data.     

Effect of interfacial fluorination on the electrical properties of the inter-poly high-k dielectrics

In this paper, the reliabilities and insulating characteristics of the fluorinated aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃) and hafnium oxide (HfO₂) inter-poly dielectric (IPD) are studied. Interface fluorine passivation has been demonstrated in terminating dangling bonds and oxygen vacancies, reducing interfacial re-oxidation and smoothing interface roughness, and diminishing trap densities. Compared with the IPDs without fluorine incorporation, the results clearly indicate that fluorine incorporation process is effective to improve the insulating characteristics of both the Al₂O₃ and HfO₂ IPDs. Moreover, fluorine incorporation will also improve the dielectric quality of the interfacial layer. Although HfO₂ possesses higher dielectric constant to increase the gate coupling ratio, the results also demonstrate that fluorination of the Al₂O₃ dielectric is more effective to promote the IPD characteristics than fluorination of the HfO₂ dielectric. For future stack-gate flash memory application, the fluorinated Al₂O₃ IPD undoubtedly possesses higher potential to replace current ONO IPD than the fluorinated HfO₂ IPD due to superior insulating properties.     

一种新颖的模糊形态联想记忆网络

模糊形态联想记忆网络FMAM具有较强的抗膨胀或腐蚀噪声能力，且可以模糊性解释。但抗混合噪声的能力很弱。而在实际中，随机噪声往往是混合型的，既有膨胀又有腐蚀噪声。为此提出了一种基于尺度空间的模糊形态联想记忆网络，并分析了其抗膨胀／腐蚀噪声和抗随机噪声的能力，它提高了自联想FMAM的抗随机噪声能力。通过仿真实验验证了该方法具有良好的性能。     

Impact of Fiber Non-linearity in High Capacity WDM Systems and in Cross-Connected Backbone Networks

The rapidly increasing data traffic volumes will demand for very high transmission capacity and network nodes throughput. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology will be asked to support many channels on the same fiber, both in point-to-point links and in WDM optical networks. The transmission of a high number of wavelength channels in all these systems is a key issue. This paper analyzes this topic, in both high capacity links and optical networks, highlighting the impact of fiber non-linearity, and addressing the main source of impairments. This is done through the use of a semi-analytical model recently upgraded to account for all the contributions deriving from Kerr effects, particularly four-wave mixing and cross-phase modulation. The analysis reveals that more than one hundred of channels at 2.5 Gbit/s can be transmitted in point-to-point links whose length can span until the order of 1000 km, and 32 channels per fiber, at the previous bit rate, can be handled in WDM networks, without dispersion compensation. For a higher number of channels (e.g., 64) dispersion compensation is needed.     

Power and Speed-Efficient Code Transformation of Video Compression Algorithms for RISC Processors

Upcoming multi-media compression applications will require high memory bandwidth. In this paper, we estimate that a software reference implementation of an MPEG-4 video decoder typically requires 200 Mtransfers/s to memory to decode 1 CIF (352×288) Video Object Plane (VOP) at 30 frames/s. This imposes a high penalty in terms of power but also performance.However, we also show that we can heavily improve on the memory transfers, without sacrificing speed (even gaining about 10% on cache misses and cycles for a DEC Alpha), by aggressive code transformations. For this purpose, we have manually applied an extended version of our data transfer and storage exploration (DTSE) methodology, which was originally developed for custom hardware implementations.     

Minimizing Average Schedule Length under Memory Constraints by Optimal Partitioning and Prefetching

Over the last 20 years, the performance gap between CPU and memory has been steadily increasing. As a result, a variety of techniques has been devised to hide that performance gap, from intermediate fast memories (caches) to various prefetching and memory management techniques for manipulating the data present in these caches. In this paper we propose a new memory management technique that takes advantage of access pattern information that is available at compile time by prefetching certain data elements before explicitly being requested by the CPU, as well as maintaining certain data in the local memory over a number of iterations. In order to better take advantage of the locality of reference present in loop structures, our technique also uses a new approach to memory by partitioning it and reducing execution to each partition, so that information is reused at much smaller time intervals than if execution followed the usual pattern. These combined approaches—using a new set of memory instructions as well as partitioning the memory—lead to improvements in total execution time of approximately 25% over existing methods.     

单片机系统中数据存储的可靠性研究

详细介绍了影响单片机系统数据存储可靠性的原因,从硬件和软件两个方面阐述了提高单片机系统数据存储可能性的具体方法。     

SDDR存储器: 新型存储架构设计

迄今为止, SDRAM存储器的扩容完全依赖于半导体工艺水平的升级, 而提速取决于对时钟的利用方式。DDR3 SDRAM已达8倍速率, 再提速已很困难。提出一种新型串行访问的SDDR存储器结构和片内串行只写总线, 将DDR存储器封装成消息连接的构件, 将访问存储器的命令、地址和数据等信息打成消息报包, 经片内串行只写总线与构件化的DDR存储器交换信息。SDDR存储器减少了引脚, 连接简单并且抗干扰能力强、可靠性高, 易于扩容和进一步提升时钟速率, 具有明显的实用前景。     

MSM原理及其在直线驱动器上的应用

磁控形状记忆合金（MSM）是一种新型功能材料，具有形变量大和机电能量转换效率高的特点。该文首先介绍了MSM在磁场作用下的形变机理，并测得在0．4T的磁场下其自由形变率可达3．6％。然后分析利用仿生学蠕动原理将MSM小步距的位移累加形成直线驱动器所需要的大行程的工作原理，设计出了MSM直线驱动器及其控制系统，最后给出了样机的实验结果。