Delay Optimized Architecture for On-Chip Communication

Networks-on-chip （NoC）, a new system on chip （SoC） paradigm, has become a great focus of research by many groups during the last few years. Among all the NoC architectures that have been proposed until now, 2D-Mesh has proved to be the best architecture for implementation due to its regular and simple interconnection structure. In this paper, we propose a new interconnect architecture called 2D-diagonal mesh （2DDgl-Mesh） for on-chip communication. The 2DDglMesh is almost similar to traditional 2D-Mesh in aspects of cost, area, and implementation, but it can outperform the later in delay. The both architectures are compared by using NS-2 （a network simulator） and CINS1M （a component based interconnection simulator） under the same traffic models and parametric conditions. The results of comparison show that under the proposed architecture, the packets can almost always be routed to their destinations in less time. In addition, our archi- tecture can sometimes perform better than 2D-Mesh in drop ratio for special fixed traffic models.     

Detector Time Delay in Band-Limited Systems

The effect of the integration interval in an integrate and dump detector in a band-limited system is analyzed. It is found for optimum performance that the interval must be delayed by τ seconds, which can be approximated by finding the interval giving maximum area under the system pulse response.     

Optimum FIR Transmitter and Receiver Filters for Data Transmission Over Band-Limited Channels

The paper deals with the design of digital transmitter and receiver filters with finite impulse response (FIR) for data transmission over band-limited channels. The filters are matched and satisfy a zero intersymbol interference constraint when cascaded. For baseband transmission, the filters achieve optimum spectral concentration in the frequency range[-(1+beta)/2T, (1+beta)/2T]. Mathematically, the filter design leads to a generalized eigenvalue problem which is solved numerically by a projected gradient Procedure. For transmission over bandpass channels by combined amplitude and phase modulation, the design technique is modified so that filters with complex-valued impulse response and optimum spectral concentration in the range of positive bandpass frequencies[f_{c} - (1+beta)/2T, f_{c} + (1+beta)/2T]are obtained. In addition, the complex formulation allows the design of impulse responses with enhanced spectral attenuation in the corresponding range of negative frequencies in order to minimize imageband interference. Results are shown in terms of filter coefficients, signal spectra, and spectral concentrations obtained. For example, filters designed for a voiceband data modem operating at a symbol rate of 2400 baud achieve a spectral concentration of 98.5 percent with 24 coefficients andbeta = 0.1, and with only 0.001 percent of the total energy in the imageband region.     

Optimized Delay Diversity for Suboptimum Equalization

The optimization of delay diversity (DD) for linear equalization (LE) and decision-feedback equalization (DFE) is presented. The general case of transmission over a correlated multiple-input–multiple-output frequency-selective fading channel is considered. The proposed optimization requires the knowledge of the statistical properties of the wireless channel at the transmitter, but channel state information is only required at the receiver side. Based on an approximation of the bit error rate for LE and DFE, a stochastic gradient algorithm for optimization of the DD transmit filters is derived. Simulation results for the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)/Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution system show significant performance gains of the proposed optimized DD scheme over the DD schemes reported by Gore (Proc. IEEE Inter. Conf. Commun., 2002) and Hehn (IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 4, p. 2289, 2005) if LE and DFE are used at the receiver.     

一种优化的射频接收前端电路

介绍了一种直接混频的无线局域网802.11b接收机前端电路。在考虑输入寄生的前提下,对射频输入端的阻抗匹配和噪声性能进行了优化;提出了一种适合低电源电压工作的新混频器结构;整个接收前端电路采用直流耦合的方式,增加一个负反馈低通滤波器,以消除直流偏差,减少低频噪声。电路采用SMIC 0.18μm CMOS工艺,仿真结果显示,整个接收机的噪声系数为5.2 dB,输入三阶交调IIP3为-14.5 dBm。1.8 V电源电压下,功耗为100 mW左右。     

基于循环相关的时延估计方法研究

该文研究了低频通信中的时延估计问题。考虑在低频信道大气噪声干扰的条件下,对接收信号进行削波处理后,采用循环相关法进行多径时延估计。经过削波处理,该方法能准确地估计出低频通信的时延,并且其性能优于广义相关法。该文最后的计算机仿真结果验证了文中的结论。     

全数字突发信号接收机实现

突发通信具有环境噪声大,突发帧短等特点,常规的解调器不能满足要求,文中提出了一种全数字突发信号实现方案,以并行进行位同步,载波同步等加快捕获速度.通过在Xilinx的FPGA上实现,并经工程测试表明,该接收机具有高速传输、捕获速度快等特点,适合高速突发通信场合使用.     

Receiver Performance for Heterodyne Optical Communication

A model for the heterodyne optical channel that is consistent with experimental observations is introduced, and a general maximum-likelihood sequence estimation receiver that accounts for laser phase instabilities is proposed using the generalized log-likelihood functional. The performance of various suboptimal "estimator-correlator" receivers, obtained from optimal, nonimplementable receiver equations, is studied by simulation and compared to that of an incoherent receiver for practical parameter values. It is observed that, for hard decisions, the proposed receiver performs significantly better than an incoherent receiver for bit intervals larger than about half the coherence time of the laser oscillators, with larger gains to be expected when soft decisions on long sequences are made. A way of reducing the complexity of the soft-decisions receiver for long sequences is discussed.     

Performance Assessment of Band-Limited Limiting and Blanking Communication Systems

This paper presents a general formulation of piecewise linear (PWL) models of voltage transfer functions to characterize channel nonlinearities in satellite digital communication systems. This formulation provides a tractable approach to evaluate the performance of such systems with band-limited PWL limiters, channel blanking, and hardlimiters. The envelope characteristics of the PWL models are derived in terms of breakpoints and slopes of PWL segments. Intermodulation (IM) products, their statistical properties, and the resultant error probability performance of such BPSK systems, subject to CW interference, are numerically illustrated through these PWL models.     

Design of Multigigabit-per-Second Transceiver for Band-Limited High-Speed Data Communication Using DC-Free Signaling

This paper presents a 5-Gb/s transceiver for ac-coupled interconnects using dc-free signaling based on symbol-rate-carrier offset quadrature phase-shift-keying modulation. A modified Costas loop for the clock and data recovery is also proposed to perform the receiver function. Without the need of an encoding scheme for dc balance, the proposed modulation can be used in high-speed ac-coupled high-speed interconnect systems. The theory and analysis of the proposed dc-free signaling are discussed in this paper. The fully integrated transmitter and the receiver are implemented using a 0.18-$mu$ m CMOS technology.      

卫星通信链路优化设计

对于卫星通信系统来说，其空间段的成本是系统运营过程中的主要开销，如何更加有效地使用卫星转发器，有效地降低地面设备成本．提高系统工作的可靠性，使系统简单易用，是卫星通信系统设计中最重要的工作。保证空间段资源高效利用和尽可能地减小天线口径／高功率放大器的输出功率．是保证系统性价比的两个重要设计原则。     

Adaptive Receiver for Digital Communication Over HF Channels

The fading characteristics of the HF channel make communication over this channel difficult, even at moderate data rates. In this correspondence, a practical communication system is presented which has a near-optimal receiver for data detection and adaptive optimization of the receiver to channel parameters. The channel tracking is performed during the training sequence as well as during the detected data sequence. The receiver is fast converging, therefore suitable for frequency hopping. The correspondence presents the performance obtained on fading HF channels and the computational complexity via comparisons to previously published results. The performance is shown to be superior at comparable computational complexity.     

An Asymptotically Optimal Receiver for Heterodyne Optical Communication

An incoherent receiver is derived for the heterodyne optical channel under the assumption of Phase coherence at the start of each transmitted sequence. The receiver is optimal in the limit of small bit intervals with respect to the coherence time of the laser oscillators, and reduces to that proposed by Jeromin and Chan [1] when no initial phase coherence is present. Computer simulations indicate that the small amount of performance improvement obtained by resolving an initial phase uncertainty may not justify the extra complexity needed, for the data rates currently considered.     

Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum Receiver for Communication on Frequency-Selective Fading Channels

The reception of direct-sequence spread-spectrum signals on frequency-selective fading communication channels is considered. The fading statistics are described using the wide-sense-stationary uncorrelated-scattering (WSSUS) channel model. It is shown that, under certain assumptions about this channel such as time-invariance over the duration of a data symbol, an orthogonal representation for the received distorted signal can be found. The optimum incoherent receiver can then be realized with reasonable complexity. The analysis shows that exploiting the inherent diversity of a frequency-selective channel can reduce the receiver error probability by several orders of magnitude. The optimum selective channel and the jamming susceptibility of the receiver are discussed.     

超宽带无线通信系统的一种新的接收机结构

本文提出了超宽带(UWB)无线通信系统的一种新的接收机结构及其相应的算法。这种接收机可以使用天线阵，然后对脉冲序列相关器的输出进行加权处理，从而增强了通信系统对多用户干扰(MUI)的抑制能力。计算机仿真结果说明，不管是用于脉位调制(PPM)还是脉幅调制(PAM)系统中，这种接收机的性能都优于常规的接收机。     

宽带无线通信系统的零中频接收机设计

零中频(ZIF)接收机具有体积小、成本低、易于集成和扩展等优点,是宽带无线通信接收机的重要研究方向.本文首先论述了零中频接收机的系统架构,并分析了零中频接收架构所引入的本振泄漏、直流偏差、I/Q不平衡等问题及补偿算法,提出了一种可行的LTE零中频接收机设计方案.仿真结果表明,该方案能够很好地解决现有零中频接收机技术存在的问题,显著提高LTE宽带接收机的性能.     

TH-UWB通信系统数字接收机的芯片设计

设计了一种结构简单的UWB通信系统单用户数字接收机芯片。分析了跳时脉位调制(TH-PPM)超宽带信号的产生原理,在传统TH-UWB相关接收模型的基础上,采用一种结构简单且易于数字相关处理的接收机。该结构能有效降低接收机的复杂度。采用Cadence的Spectre仿真工具,对设计的电路和版图进行了仿真。后仿真结果表明,系统可正确地恢复信息码。设计的数字接收机采用SMIC 0.18μm标准CMOS工艺,工作电压为1.8 V。     

Multi-access Interference Cancellation Receiver for Time-Hopping Ultra Wideband Communication

In this paper, a low complexity coherent joint maximum-likelihood detection receiver is developed for canceling multi-access interference in impulse radio (IR) based ultra wideband (UWB) wireless communication systems. Unlike previous joint demodulation receivers, where the complexity is enormous and the other users’ codes are required, the proposed approach does not need to know the time hopping (TH) codes of the other users which makes it a very attractive solution. The performance of joint demodulation receiver depends on the ability to estimate the channel coefficients of desired and interfering users. A novel and practical algorithm for estimating multiple users’ channel responses is developed. The performance of the proposed algorithms are tested through computer simulations and the results are compared with the performance of the conventional single user UWB receiver. It is observed that the proposed joint demodulation receiver provides significant performance gains with respect to conventional single user receiver. This paper is presented in part in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2004, Paris, France.     

DS—CDMA通信中的一种2D-Rake接收机

Rake接收机在3G系统中已被广泛使用,实际应用证明它能够有效对抗移动无线信道中的多径衰落。传统Rake接收机有其时域一维处理的局限性,为获得更好的系统性能,本文在分析空时信道模型的基础上提出一种新的空时2D-Rake接收机算法,它将波束形成技术与Rake相结合。这种波束形成算法能够在干扰方向上完全陷零,其权重仅与阵列天线的导向矢量有关,与接收信号无关。最后简要分析了所提出的2D-Rake接收机的性能。仿真结果表明,这种空时2D-Rake接收机与传统Rake接收机相比,具有较好的性能,而且该算法对噪声具有鲁棒性。     

Compressive Receiver Using a CRLH-Based Dispersive Delay Line for Analog Signal Processing

A compressive receiver (CR) is presented utilizing a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) dispersive delay line (DDL) for analog signal processing applications. The CRLH DDL offers advantages such as arbitrary frequency of operation and wide bandwidth, filling a gap with competing DDL technologies. The presented CR system utilizes an impulse-driven CRLH DDL and mixer inversion for chirp generation required for real-time signal processing. At high frequencies, this eliminates frequency ramp generators. The CR is employed as a frequency discriminator and a tunable delay line with dispersion compensation. The simulation and experimental results fully validate the presented systems as proof-of-concept for high-frequency applications such as real-time Fourier transformers and signal analyzers.