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The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently experienced considerable growth, enabling communication between a wide range of devices. Given the prevalence of mobile IoT devices, optimizing hardware resources becomes crucial, requiring power and complexity reduction strategies. Continuous phase modulation (CPM) offers attractive features for IoT, such as spectral and power efficiency. However, many CP...Show More
The continuously increasing bandwidth demand from new applications has led to the development of the new peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) Gen6, reaching data rates of 64 giga-transfers per second (GT/s) and adopting the pulse amplitude modulation 4-level (PAM4) signaling scheme. While PAM4 solves the bandwidth requirements, it brings new challenges for the physical channel design. ...Show More
This brief presents a new Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) module for multi- $h$ transmission based on modular arithmetic processing. It is well known that CPM systems are sensitive to changes in the modulation index, which is implied when fixed-point format is used in the hardware implementation. In this scenario, modular arithmetic allows a more accurate signal processing regarding SQNR perfor...Show More
The continuously increasing bandwidth demand from new applications has led to the development of the new PCIe Gen6, reaching data rates of 64 GT/s and adopting PAM4 modulation scheme. While PAM4 solves the bandwidth constraint in high-speed interconnects, it brings new challenges for the physical channel analysis. Equalization (EQ) plays an important role even with PAM4 signaling. PCIe specificati...Show More
Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology that has overgrown and whose interest lies in the connection of diverse kinds of devices to collect and exchange data. Since most IoT devices are mobile, the hardware resources are hard limited; thus, complexity reduction becomes a relevant concern in this context. Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication standard has an important position in IoT due to its...Show More
This work aims to predict bounds on bit-error-rate performance of highspeed interconnects. The novelty lies in the characterization of timing jitter to achieve more accurate modeling of such interconnects.Show More
Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK)is a digital modulation scheme with both attractive spectra and high power efficiencies. Modulation schemes with these characteristics often require a maximum likelihood sequence estimator (MLSE)implemented by means of Viterbi Algorithm (VA). The main drawback of VA is complexity implementation due to the filter bank needed to calculate the metrics, the large ...Show More
In different matrix-decomposition techniques for wireless-communication systems, the reciprocal square root (RSR) is a fundamental and recurrent operation, as well in gaming and signal processing systems computation of the RSR is required. Most reported RSR architectures are focused on accelerating high-precision floating-point (FP) units. The IEEE 754-2008 half-precision FP standard offers larger...Show More
Internet of things applications demand reusable modular designs with low-power consumption. Furthermore, many emerging applications, such as image recognition using machine learning, are low-accuracy tolerant. For these applications, the IEEE-754 half-precision arithmetic is becoming a relevant option for low-power, low-computational cost designs. This article presents a half-precision floating-po...Show More
Multiconductor Transmission line (MTL) representations are often used to analyze and simulate high-speed interconnects in PCBs and IC packages. These representations require determining RLCG parameters from interconnect geometries and material properties. This paper proposes a method based on the Partial Sub-Conductors Equivalent Circuit (PSEC) to determine these parameters. As opposed to other PS...Show More
Timing anomalies in a system on a chip are one of the most common causes of functional misbehaviors. They are usually hard to find and poses a potential quality risk to the design and implementation of the system. Such anomalies might appear when high-volume validation is performed in the design, which usually takes place at advanced stages of the validation process and close to the product releas...Show More
In a MIMO wireless communications system, a space-time block code specifies how the data symbols are transmitted over different antennas at different time instants. A hybrid space-time code attempts to obtain some of the available diversity and multiplexing gains, achieving low error probability and high data rate. The LD StBc-VBLAST hybrid code layers one spatial-multiplexing antenna (to increase...Show More
Nowadays, wireless channel emulators are designed for channel models that require the evaluation of logarithmic, trigonometric, exponential, and other transcendental functions. These channel emulators are used for testing wireless communication standards associated to Weibull, Suzuki, Nakagami, Rayleigh and Gaussian distributions. The piecewise polynomial approximation (PPA) technique allows the e...Show More
Hearing loss population has increased in recent years. Hearing aid technology has evolved in the last decade but the percentage of users of such devices remains very low. With the advent of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), along with the exponential growth of smart phone demand, it is expected an increment of the users of hearing aid devices due to the new use c...Show More
Division is an operation extensively used in architectures for digital signal processing algorithms, which in portable devices require an implementation using fixed-point format. In this paper, a novel fixed-point divider is proposed. The divider architecture is based on a division algorithm that uses the reciprocal operation and a post-multiplication. In turn, reciprocal operation is based on the...Show More
One of the main problems of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) high-speed interconnect (HSI) circuits that use single-ended signaling is crosstalk phenomena. Crosstalk is an unintentional coupling of the transmitted signals due to close spacing between transmission lines that distorts the information bearing symbols. A novel model for uniform or nonuniform multiconductor transmission line based...Show More
Gaussian random numbers (GRN) generators are indispensable components in channel emulators for producing multiplicative and additive noises. Efficient designs of these GRN generators are required for testing the newest communications standards, which consider multiple channels working at higher data rates. In this paper, a new reconfigurable architecture for the generation of GRN at each clock cyc...Show More
A novel approach is proposed for correlated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation based on reduced-rank (RR) technique and partial channel state information (CSI). In contrast to previous proposals that used the channel correlation matrix (CCM) and its eigendecomposition, this paper shows that close linear minimum mean-square-error (LMMSE) performance can be achieved with the us...Show More
A frequency domain correlator (FDC) with low-complexity architecture is proposed. This signal processing module is part of FFT-based acquisition stage of a global position system (GPS). The FDC is based on a single reconfigurable core capable of computing both decimation in frequency radix-2 (DIF-2) fast Fourier transform (FFT) and decimation in time radix-2 (DIT-2) inverse fast Fourier transform ...Show More
The topic of channel estimation for single-input single-output frequency-selective time-invariant channels has been recently addressed using superimposed training (ST) techniques. Improvement of these approaches using iterative algorithms has shown to achieve the best performance, although with the drawback of increasing computation complexity. In this work we propose a new iterative ST algorithm ...Show More
Hybrid MIMO Systems are defined as a combination of architectures designed to achieve both multiplexing gain (such as VBLAST), and diversity gain, (such as STBC). In these systems the detection can be performed with an Ordered Successive Interference Cancellation (OSIC) based on SQRD algorithm, in which the layers with diversity are decoded first. In this paper we introduce a new way to represent ...Show More