The design of an All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop with low jitter based on ISF analysis

A low jitter All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop （ADPLL） used as a clock generator is designed. The Digital-Controlled Oscillator （DCO） for this ADPLL is a seven-stage ring oscillator with the delay of each stage changeable. Based on the Impulse Sensitivity Function （ISF） analysis, an effective way is proposed to reduce the ADPLL＇s jitter by the careful design of the sizes of the inverters used in the DCO with a simple architecture other than a complex one. The ADPLL is implemented in a 0.18μm CMOS process with 1.SV supply voltage, occupies 0.046mm^2 of on-chip area. According to the measured results, the ADPLL can operate from 108MHz to 304MHz, and the peak-to-peak jitter is 139ps when the DCO＇s output frequency is 188MHz.     

一种新的图像序列失真模型:动态偏移场模型

针对图像序列失真现象,该文提出一种新的图像序列失真模型:动态偏移场模型。该模型是一个充分参数化的模型,它为目前可观测到的多种失真现象提供了一个统一的描述框架。实验结果表明,动态偏移场模型能够简单有效地描述图像序列失真现象,并为失真校正工作提供了一个由简单到复杂渐进处理的研究平台。     

Effects of head extension and tongue protrusion on voice perturbation measures

Head extension with protruded tongue is the position for video-laryngoscopy and simultaneous glottographic recordings including photoglottographic signals. This study investigated the effect of head extension and tongue protrusion on the measures of fundamental frequency, frequency perturbation (jitter), and amplitude perturbation (shimmer). Acoustic signals recorded during sustained vowels were obtained from 49 women and 66 men with no speech or voice disorders in different head-tongue positions. Head extension was associated with increased fundamental frequency and decreased shimmer. In men, head extension did not appear to affect jitter. When the tongue was protruded, head extension tended to lower jitter. For both genders, tongue protrusion was associated with decreased fundamental frequency with head extension. In the men, tongue protrusion tended to increase shimmer when the head was in the neutral position. In the women, tongue protrusion was associated with increased jitter and increased shimmer and was most evident in the head-neutral position. These findings supported a physical linkage hypothesis of the relationship between vocal tract configuration and vocal fold vibration, suggesting that head-tongue position must be taken into account when comparing voice measures.     

空间目标抖动状态红外图像仿真建模研究北大核心CSCD

空间目标容易受到太空垃圾碰撞及干扰从而产生抖动。针对空间抖动目标红外图像的模型构建问题,对天基空间红外成像系统的主要噪声进行分析并考虑杂散光影响,基于Creator与Vega软件平台相结合,提出抖动状态下空间目标表面缺陷的红外图像的建模方法。依据空间目标基本特征分析其红外辐射特性,在Creator中对空间目标缺陷进行三维建模;根据目标以及背景红外辐射特性对三维模型进行温度场分析,将分析所得结果与Vega红外模块相结合获得红外图像模型;确定抖动图像数学模型并对仿真图像施加抖动影响,然后施加杂散光影响获得最终模拟图像。实验结果表明:该方法生成的抖动状态下空间目标红外图像与实验图像相似程度高,能为空间目标探测与态势感知提供一种有效的模拟系统。     

一种基于差分技术的CBR业务时钟自适应恢复方案

信元在ＡＴＭ网内传送时，不可避免地产生了信元延时抖动。信元延时抖动对于基于ＡＴＭ平台的ＣＢＲ业务时钟自适应恢复有很大的负面影响［１～５］，即会造成时钟频率的抖动和漂移。这使得这种时钟恢复方案在某些场合不能应用［１，２］。本文提出了一种基于差分技术的业务时钟恢复方案，该方案可以显著地降低由于信元延时抖动而造成的业务时钟频率的抖动和漂移，同时不增加缓存的容量，即不会增加信元的总的延时。这对于提高基于ＡＴＭ平台的ＣＢＲ业务的质量有着较大的意义。     

Acoustic analysis of induced vocal stressby means of cognitive workload tasks

The purpose of this study was to determine the acoustic effects on voice of three tasks of cognitive workload and their possible relationship to stress. Acoustic analysis was used to measure stress and workload in four experimental tasks and two experiments. In the first experiment, subjects performed cognitive workload tasks under a stressful condition, performing the tasks as rapidly as possible without errors and with the knowledge that any errors committed would reduce their grade in a course. The second condition was to perform the same tasks but without the condition of stress related to the final grade. Four testing conditions were included. One was a baseline measure in which subjects spelled the Spanish alphabet. The second was the reading of a tongue twister, the third was the reading of a tongue twister with delayed auditory feedback, and the fourth was spelling the Spanish alphabet in reverse order. In each condition the subjects prolonged the vowel /a/ for, approximately 5 sec. All subjects performed a test to determine their overall level of anxiety. The results suggest that in conditions of experimentally induced stress there is an increase in the fundamental frequency (F₀) relative to baseline, an increase in jitter and shimmer, an increase in the high-frequency harmonic energy, and a decrease in spectral noise.     

An all-digital semi-blind clock and data recovery system

This paper presents a digitally intensive semi-blind clock and data recovery (SBCDR) system. The paper covers the theory, analysis, and system level simulation of this SBCDR. The proposed CDR is tailored to target the optical network standard OC-192. The SBCDR can provide the required jitter tolerance (JTo), and still provide enough jitter filtering to achieve the jitter transfer (JTr) requirements. Also, the recovered clock achieves a low jitter generation (JG) of 0.01 UI_rms and 0.0064 UI_rms for both the wide-band and high-band jitter filters defined by the standard. The proposed SBCDR provides two advantages over typical SBCDRs and PLL-based CRDs that target OC-192. First, the digitally intensive nature provides a scalable and process tolerant design. Second, the architecture provides a CDR that can pass all three jitter performance metrics, without the aid of an external clean-up phase locked loop (PLL) or a high performance clock multiplication unit (CMU) typically required by OC-192 transceivers. By utilizing a circular representation for the phase calculation in the over-sampling clock and data recovery (OSCDR), extensive pipe-lining in the implementation and higher data rate tolerance can be achieved. The simulation results of the proposed SBCRD agree closely with theoretical results.     

A Simple Scheme for Jitter Reduction in Phase‐Differential Carrier Frequency Recovery Loop

A very simple and efficient scheme for jitter reduction is proposed for a carrier frequency recovery loop using phase differential frequency estimation, which estimates the current frequency offset based on the difference of the average phases of two successive intervals. Analytical and numerical results presented in this paper show that by simply overlapping the observation intervals by half for frequency offset estimations, both the steady‐state and transient performances can be improved. The proposed scheme does not require any additional hardware circuitry, but results in improved performance even with reduced complexity.     

The Performance of the Time-Frequency Analysis Software (TF32) in the Acoustic Analysis of the Synthesized Pathological Voice

The purpose of this study was to examine the algorithm-measuring capabilities used in the Time-Frequency Analysis Software Program for 32-bit Windows (TF32) for measuring fundamental frequency (F0), its dependent measures, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The stability, accuracy, and linearity of its algorithm to systematic changes in aspiration noise and/or spectral slope (to mimic the perceptual characteristics of breathiness, roughness, and hoarseness) were evaluated using its analysis output to five female and five male synthesized voices. TF32 was used to calculate F0, Jitter%, Shimmer%, and SNR for each of the synthesized signals. The findings indicate that although TF32 produced stable results for male synthesized samples, they were not accurate when measuring F0, Jitter%, and Shimmer% with the addition of noise and variations in open quotient independently and in combination. In contrast, TF32 was neither stable nor accurate in making the same measurements for female synthesized samples. However, TF32 was stable and accurate in measuring SNR for male and most of female voices. These results point to an inappropriate F0 extraction algorithm in TF32 and stress the need for further research to remediate the algorithm or to identify a superior one.