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Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter

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An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing

Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Marion Kramer

Censuses are structured documents of great value for social and demographic history, which became widespread from the nineteenth century on. However, the plurality of formats and the natural variability of historical data make their extraction arduous and ...

2023

A Network Calculus Analysis of Asynchronous Mechanisms in Time-Sensitive Networks

Ehsan Mohammadpour

Time-sensitive networks provide worst-case guarantees for applications in domains such as the automobile, automation, avionics, and the space industries. A violation of these guarantees can cause considerable financial loss and serious damage to human live ...

EPFL2023

MALTA3: Concepts for a new radiation tolerant sensor in the TowerJazz 180 nm technology

Francesco Piro

The upgrade of the MALTA DMAPS designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS Imaging process will implement the numerous modifications, as well as front-end changes in order to boost the charge collection efficiency after the targeted fluence of 1x10(15) 1 MeVn(eq)/cm(2). ...

ELSEVIER2022

Energy-Efficient Design Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Firat Çelik

The exponential growth in computing power and multimedia services has caused a tremendous increase in data traffic in recent years. This increase in data traffic brings a strong demand for data bandwidth of electrical input/output (I/O) links and pushes th ...

EPFL2021

Six shades lighter: a bit-serial implementation of the AES family

Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli

Recently, cryptographic literature has seen new block cipher designs such as PRESENT, GIFT or SKINNY that aim to be more lightweight than the current standard, i.e., AES. Even though AES family of block ciphers were designed two decades ago, they still rem ...

2021

Destination buffer analysis for packets rejection obliteration in multi-channel networks

Georgia Fragkouli

In this paper we study a multi-channel network, each station of which is equipped with a network interface that has a receiver buffer of multiple packets. In this way, each station is able to receive multiple packets per time instant. We adopt a synchronou ...

2019

A programmable low-power ADC interface for an ISFET sweat sensor used in a wearable multi-sensing system

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Evgenia Voulgari

An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) named ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) was designed in AMS 0.35 mu m technology to interface with four Ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) sensors and perform real-time monitoring of some bi ...

IEEE2019

System Support for Efficient Replication in Distributed Systems

Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi

Current online applications, such as search engines, social networks, or file sharing services, execute across a distributed network of machines. They provide non-stop services to their users despite failures in the underlying network. To achieve such a hi ...

EPFL2019

Characterization of a 9-Decade Femtoampere ASIC Front-End for Radiation Monitoring

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Evgenia Voulgari

An ultra-low current sensing digitizer circuit was designed for radiation monitoring for personnel and environmental safety at CERN. The Ultralow Picoammeter 2 (Utopia 2) ASIC includes some key functionalities like on-chip active leakage current compensati ...

2018

A Sensor Network Architecture for Digital SiPM-Based PET Systems

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Francesco Gramuglia

Digital silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) have emerged in the recent past as a viable low cost alternative to photomultiplier tubes in positron emission tomography systems, providing multiple timestamps, energy and scintillation coordinates at high spatial ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

An Approximate Zero IF FM-UWB Receiver for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A low-power frequency modulated-ultra-wideband (FM-UWB) receiver for short-range communications, capable of simultaneously demodulating multiple FM-UWB signals located at the same frequency, is presented in this paper. The proposed receiver utilizes an "ap ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Computation in Multicast Networks: Function Alignment and Converse Theorems

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Naveen Goela

The classical problem in a network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers that decode the same set of messages. In this paper, computation over multicast networks ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Incremental Syllable-Context Phonetic Vocoding

Petr Motlicek, Philip Neil Garner

Current very low bit rate speech coders are, due to complexity limitations, designed to work off-line. This paper investigates incremental speech coding that operates real-time and incrementally (i.e., encoded speech depends only on already-uttered speech ...

2015

A 2.4-GHz low power polar transmitter for wireless body area network applications

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A 2.4 GHz low power polar transmitter is proposed in this paper. A dynamic biasing circuit, controlled by a digital envelope signal, is used as a direct digital-to-RF envelope converter. It effectively linearizes the input-output characteristic of the over ...

Springer Verlag2014

Asynchronous detection of error potentials

Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil

Recent developments in brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have proposed the use of errorrelated potentials as cognitive signal that can provide feedback to control devices or to teach them how to solve a task. Due to the nature of these signals, all the propo ...

2014

Single Active Nanoelectromechanical Tuning Fork Front-End Radio-Frequency Receiver

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Alexandru Rusu, Sebastian Thimotee Bartsch

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) offer the potential to revolutionize fundamental methods employed for signal processing in today's telecommunication systems,1-4 owing to their spectral purity and the prospect of integration with existing technology. I ...

Institute of Physics2012

Asynchronous Broadcast on the Intel SCC using Interrupts

André Schiper, Thomas Ropars, Omid Shahmirzadi, Darko Petrovic

This paper focuses on the design of an asynchronous broadcast primitive on the Intel SCC. Our solution is based on OC-Bcast, a state-of-the-art k-ary tree synchronous broadcast algorithm that leverages the parallelism provided by on-chip Remote Memory Acce ...

2012

Design of a 2.4 Ghz BAW-Based CMOS Transmitter

In recent years, bulk acoustic wave resonators (BAW) in combination with RF circuits have shown a big potential in achieving the low-power consumption and miniaturization level required to address wireless sensor nodes (WSN) applications. A lot of work has ...

EPFL2011

A New FFT-Based Algorithm for Secondary Code Acquisition for Galileo Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Jérôme Leclère, Youssef Tawk

The innovative spreading codes used to modulate the new Galileo signals creates new challenges for receiver designers. It is well known in GNSS systems that longer integration times are needed to obtain a better sensitivity. However, the existence of the n ...

IEEE2011

Architecture of a Real-Time Platform Independant GPS L1 Software Receiver

Personal digital assistants or mobile phones applications are not anymore restricted to multimedia or wireless communications, but have been extended to handle Global Positioning System (GPS) functionalities. Consequently, the growing market of GPS capable ...

EPFL2010