Signal Integrity: Fault Modeling and Testing in High-Speed SoCs

As we approach 100 nm technology the interconnect issues are becoming one of the main concerns in the testing of gigahertz system-on-chips. Voltage distortion (noise) and delay violations (skew) contribute to the signal integrity loss and ultimately functional error, performance degradation and reliability problems. In this paper, we first define a model for integrity faults on the high-speed interconnects. Then, we present a BIST-based test methodology that includes two special cells to detect and measure noise and skew occurring on the interconnects of the gigahertz system-on-chips. Using an inexpensive test architecture the integrity information accumulated by these special cells can be scanned out for final test and reliability analysis.     

Performance of 60 GHz Virtual Cellular Networks Using Multiple Receiving Antennas

During the past years, research covering propagation, channelcharacterization and wireless systems performance have yield asubstantial knowledge of the 60 GHz channel. The unlicensed 60 GHzfrequency band presents many attractive properties for wirelesscommunications. The environments in which the 60 GHzinfrastructure are to be designed are typically propagation- andcoverage-limited. This paper describes the important factors thatmust be taken into account when designing a wireless local areanetwork (WLAN) architecture operating in this frequency band.Therefore, we motivate the reasons of using distributedtransmitting antennas and multiple receiving antennas (MRA) inorder to mitigate the poor Direction of Arrival (DoA) diversityand to exploit the spatial diversity at the receiver. Such asystem can be considered as a multiple input multiple output(MIMO) system. We investigate the advantages of combining aVirtual Cellular Network (VCN) (using single frequency network anddistributed antennas) and MRA for the downlink. Several ways tocombine the signals with different levels of complexity arepresented. In the most complex case using Singular ValueDecomposition (SVD), it is possible to add coherently thecontribution of each antenna in a virtual cell while retaining thepath diversity inherent to the VCN infrastructure. The schemesyield several advantages: symbol diversity is improved, pathdiversity is still present, antenna gain using multiplebeamformers is increased and the multipath can be reduced. Theconcept is applicable to most types of single frequency networksbut it is especially well appropriate for the 60 GHz VCN/WLANusing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).Simulations give a realistic performance for QPSK, 8-PSK, and16-QAM baseband modulations with a 256-subcarrier OFDM using arate 1/2–convolutional code for a 2 ×2 VCN system.Results show a E_b/N₀ improvement of up to 6.2 dB usingthesingular value decomposition method with 16-QAM compared to thesingle input single output (SISO) coded reference.     

瑞利与非瑞利杂波背景下单、双参数杂波图的性能分析

对瑞利和非瑞利杂波中的单、双参数杂波图的控制虚警性能和检测性能进行了比较分析，并得到了双参数杂波图门限调整值的取值范围，得出了几点有益的结论。     

微波信号调制电路设计与实现

在智能微波开关的发射电路中,对高频微波信号采用了低频和中频两级调制的方法。为避免现场多对智能微波开关之间的相互干扰,首先用37～51 Hz分8级可调的低频高占空比方波信号调制21 kHz固定频率的中频信号,再用该信号调制10 GHz的高频微波信号。在信号调制的同时,用低频信号控制MOS管对高频微波模块的DC-DC供电电源反馈回路进行干预,使DC-DC电路工作于最佳状态,输出电压峰值平稳,避免了高频发射模块间歇式工作对电源电路输出的影响,提高了智能微波开关的测量精度和工作的可靠性。设计结果与理论分析结果比较接近,达到了设计要求。     

纳伏级微弱信号放大电路的设计

针对工程测量领域的实际需求,设计了纳伏级微弱信号的放大电路,在信号输入端,通过仿真软件仿真设计,最终选用AD公司的超低噪声差分信号放大芯片AD620,放大倍数为10倍,降低了等效输入噪声。设计了相应的信号调理电路,采用多级放大电路组态方式,运用超低噪声四运放（OP470A）来组建多级带通滤波器,经过多级滤波、多级放大,逐步提高信噪比。通过实验,采用不同频段的噪声,验证SNR的改善情况。利用Multisim仿真软件对系统噪声进行了分析,分析结果显示,在低频段有效地抑制对电路造成影响的各种噪声,信噪比得到了较大的提升。     

Precoder Distribution and Adaptive Codebook in Wideband Precoding

Based on wideband precoding (WBP) in the multiple‐input multiple‐output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, an adaptive nonuniform codebook is presented in this paper. The relationship between the precoder distribution and spatial correlation is analyzed at first. A closed‐form expression based on overlapped isosceles triangles is proposed as an approximation of the precoder distribution. Then, the adaptive codebook design is derived with the approximate distribution to minimize quantization errors. The capacity and bit error rate performance demonstrate that the adaptive codebook with WBP outperforms the conventional fixed uniform codebook.     

Signal Synchronization Using a Flicker Reduction and Denoising Algorithm for Video‐Signal Optical Interconnect

A video signal through a high‐density optical link has been demonstrated to show the reliability of optical link for high‐data‐rate transmission. To reduce optical point‐to‐point links, an electrical link has been utilized for control and clock signaling. The latency and flicker with background noise occurred during the transferring of data across the optical link due to electrical‐to‐optical with optical‐to‐electrical conversions. The proposed synchronization technology combined with a flicker and denoising algorithm has given good results and can be applied in high‐definition serial data interface (HD‐SDI), ultra‐HD‐SDI, and HD multimedia interface transmission system applications.     

一种双极性三元数字信号发生器的设计

双极性三元数字信号发生器应用于某通信系统中,它采用5开关H桥电路结构,通过5个开关的有序导通实现将信号传输中的普通串行数字信号转换成双极性三元数字信号的功能。采用双极性三元数字信号作为调制信号,大大提高了某通信系统的抗干扰能力,确保该通讯系统在特殊情况下的正常使用。减小双极性三元数字信号的上升沿和下降沿时间,有利于提高通信系统的通信质量。文章详细介绍了该电路的设计方法,同时对其主要性能参数——输出码的高、低电平,上升与下降时间的实现方法进行了阐述。并简述了其混合集成产品的技术性能和使用情况。     

Robust cyclic adaptive beamforming using a compensation method

This paper deals with the problem of robust adaptive array beamforming using signal cyclostationarity. The constrained cyclic adaptive beamforming (C-CAB) algorithm presented by Wu and Wong (1996) [6] has been shown to be effective in performing adaptive beamforming without requiring the direction vector or the waveform of the desired signal. However, this algorithm suffers from severe performance degradation even if there is a small mismatch in the cycle frequency of the desired signal. In this paper, we first evaluate the performance degradation of the C-CAB algorithm in the presence of cycle frequency error (CFE). A novel compensation method in conjunction with the subspace projection is then proposed to tackle the problem due to CFE. We reconstruct the required cyclic conjugate correlation matrix by using a compensation matrix to cope with the deterioration of its dominant singular value when CFE exists. Finally, several simulation examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

一种基于LTE的改进型V-BLAST算法研究

信号检测在LTE系统的接收端至关重要,常规V-BLAST算法在进行信号检测时,存在误码传播的情况,造成了性能的下降.本文提出了一种改进型V-BLAST算法,在两方面改善了该算法的性能.首先在最先检测层对要检测的符号进行排序时,采用了一种新的计算概率值的方法,然后根据调制方式保留了K个与判决统计量欧氏距离最近的星座点,其他各层依旧采用常规的V-BLAST算法.仿真结果表明,该算法的性能较常规的V-BLAST算法有了明显改善,该算法已应用于TD-LTE无线综合测试仪表的开发中.