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Ieee2017

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A 0.88 mm 2 65-nm analog-to-digital converter (ADC)-based serial link transceiver is designed with a maximum-likelihood sequence detector (MLSD) for robust equalization. The MLSD is optimized in a pipelined look-ahead architecture to reach 10 Gb/s at 5.8 p ...

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A 64-Gb/s 1.4-pJ/b NRZ Optical Receiver Data-Path in 14-nm CMOS FinFET

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A 64-Gb/s high-sensitivity non-return to zero receiver (RX) data-path is demonstrated in the 14-nm-bulk FinFET CMOS technology. To achieve high sensitivity, the RX incorporates a transimpedance amplifier whose gain and bandwidth are co-optimized with a 1-t ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

PolarBear: A 28-nm FD-SOI ASIC for Decoding of Polar Codes

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2017

An overview of a new sensor calibration platform

Jan Skaloud, Stéphane Guerrier, Philipp Clausen

Inertial sensors are increasingly being employed in different types of applications. The reduced cost and the extremely small size makes them the number-one-choice in miniature embedded devices like phones, watches, and small unmanned aerial vehicles. The ...

2017

Beam shaping with tip-tilt varifocal mirror for indoor optical wireless communication

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MEMS mirrors are currently used in many applications to steer beams of light. An area of continued research is developing mirrors with varifocal capability that allows the beam to be shaped and focused. In this work, we study the varifocal capability of a ...

Optical Society of America2017

Exact finite volume particle method with spherical-support kernels

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The Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is a meshless method for simulating fluid flows which includes many of the desirable features of mesh-based finite volume methods. In this paper, we develop a new 3-D FVPM formulation that features spherical kernel ...

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Error Tolerance Analysis of Deep Learning Hardware Using a Restricted Boltzmann Machine Toward Low-Power Memory Implementation

Alexandre Schmid, Takao Marukame, Kodai Ueyoshi

Remarkable hardware robustness of deep learning (DL) is revealed by error injection analyses performed using a custom hardware model implementing parallelized restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs). RBMs in deep belief networks demonstrate robustness against ...

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COST TU1302- SaPPART Handbook: Assessment of positioning performance in ITS applications

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This handbook is the second deliverable of SaPPART COST Action, dedicated to performance issues, when positioning performance is essential to the fulfilment of the requirements of the whole ITS system. It starts by illustrating the non-straightforward natu ...

IFSTTAR2017

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