ISSCS 2005
Program

Symposium at a Glance

13
July
Time
Room A
Room B
Room C
Room D
Room E
Room F
1200 - 2100
Registration
1600 - 1900
Tutorial on "Motion Analysis and Video Understanding" (Room A)
Alexandra Branzan Albu
2000
Welcome Cocktail (Library Room)
14
July
0800 - 0900
Registration
0900 - 0920
Opening ceremony
0920 - 1000
Plenary talk: Scaling Theory and “Punctuated Equilibrium” in CMOS Technology (Room A)
Daniel Foty and Gennady Gildenblat
1005 - 1045
Plenary talk: Challenges and Opportunities of Silicon Technology in Communications (Room A)
Magdy Bayoumi
1045 - 1100
Company Presentation (Room A)
1100 - 1130
Coffee break
1130 - 1310
1310 - 1430
Lunch
1430 - 1630
1630 - 1700
Coffee break
1700 - 1900
1930
Banquet
(Hotel Astoria Restaurant)
15
July
0900 - 0940
Plenary talk: Analog and Mixed-Mode Design Using Sub-Micron Technologies (Room A)
Ken Martin
0940 - 1020
Plenary talk: Oscillators: Stability, Tuning, Noise (Room A)
Valentin N. Kuleshov
1020 - 1050
Coffee break
1050 - 1130
Plenary talk: Vision-Based Hand Gesture Tracking and Recognition (Room A)
Thomas Huang
1140 - 1340
1340 - 1510
Lunch
1510 - 1710
1710 - 1740
Coffee break
1740 - 1940
1940
Cocktail (Library Room)
16
July
0800
TRIP (upon request)

ISSCS 2005 FINAL PROGRAM

Thursday
Room A
0900 - 0920
Opening Ceremony
0920 - 1000
Plenary talk: Scaling Theory and “Punctuated Equilibrium” in CMOS Technology
Daniel Foty and Gennady Gildenblat
1005 - 1045
Plenary talk: Challenges and Opportunities of Silicon Technology in Communications
Magdy Bayoumi
1045 - 1100
Company Presentation
 
Thursday
Room A
A1. Special Session: Power-Aware Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Chair: Alberto GARCIA-ORTIZ, IBM/TU-Darmstadt, Germany
1130 - 1150
Technological and Architectural Power Optimizations for Advance Microprocessors
Cedric Lichtenau, Alberto Garcia-Ortiz, Thomas Pflüeger
1150 - 1210
Real-Time Threshold-Voltage Control Scheme for Low-Power VLSI Under Fluctuation of a Supply Voltage
Ahmad Shaheer, Michitaka Kameyama
1210 - 1230
Energy-Efficient Encoding for HDCP Protected Digital LCD Interfaces
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino
1230 - 1250
Power-Efficient Superior-Order Curvature-Corrected Voltage Reference Using CMOS Computational Circuits
Popa Cosmin
1250 - 1310
Limits for Switching Power Consumption in Encoded Interconnects
Tudor Murgan, Manfred Glesner
 
Thursday
Room B
B1. Special Session: Telemedicine and Medical Image Processing
Chair: Constantin VERTAN, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1130 - 1150
Segmentation of Thoracic Computed Tomography Images
Sébastien Vauclin, Peng Zhang, Isabelle Gardin, Olivier Gallocher, Patrick Vannoorenberghe
1150 - 1210
Mean Field Annealing for Motion Estimation in Medical Image Sequences
Cristian Grava, Vasile Buzuloiu, Alexandru Gacsádi, Adriana-Marcela Grava
1210 - 1230
Automatic Segmentation of the Heart Muscle from Echocardiographic Images
Laura Sirbu, Johan Thijssen, Corneliu Florea, Vasile Buzuloiu, Chris deKorte
1230 - 1250
On the Influence of Image Enhancement on Fractal-based Automatic Osteoporosis Detection from Calcaneum X-rays
Lavinia Darlea, Constantin Vertan, Mihai Ciuc, Ion Stefan
1250 - 1310
Comparison of Histogram-Based Feature Sets for Medical Image Modality Categorization
Filip Florea, Constantin Vertan, Alexandrina Rogozan, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Stefan Darmoni
 
Thursday
Room C
C1. Special Session: Modern On-chip Communication Platforms
Chair: Tiberiu Seceleanu, Univ. of Turku, Finland
1130 - 1150
Trading off Power versus Latency Using GPLS clocking in 2D-Mesh NoCs
Erland Nilsson, Johnny Öberg
1150 - 1210
Asynchronous Network Node Design for Network-on-Chip
Xin Wang, David Sigüenza-Tortosa, Tapani Ahonen, Jari Nurmi
1210 - 1230
Evaluating the Relative Effect of Process Variations and Switching Patterns on Bus Performance towards Nano-Scale Interconnects
Tero Nurmi, Sampo Tuuna, Jouni Isoaho
1230 - 1250
Distributed Arbitration for the Segmented-Bus Platform
Tiberiu Seceleanu, Stefan Stancescu, Vasile Lazarescu
1250 - 1310
Starvation-Free Arbitration Policies for the Segmented-Bus Platform
Tiberiu Seceleanu, Timo Knuutila, Olli Nevalainen
 
Thursday
Room D
D1. Special Session: Geometrical and Statistical Models in Image/Video Processing I
Chair: Vasile Buzuloiu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1130 - 1150
Buffer Constraints for Rate-Distortion Optimization in Mobile Video Communications
Fabio Tonci, Chowdary B. Adsumilli, Marco Carli, Alessandro Neri, Sanjit K. Mitra
1150 - 1210
Randomness Analysis of Images of Aggregates
Yann Boutant, Daniela Coltuc, Thierry Fournel, Jean-Marie Becker
1210 - 1230
Skin Detection and Tracking by Monocular Vision
Thierry Chateau, Antoine Vacavant, Jean-Marc Lavest
1230 - 1250
On the Regularization of Segmented Satellite Images
Serban Oprisescu, Monica Dumitrescu
1250 - 1310
A Comparison of Multispectral Satellite Sequence Compression Approaches
Lionel Gueguen, Maria Trocan, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Alain Giros, Mihai Datcu
   
Thursday
Room E
E1. Digital Circuits for Signal Processing
Chair: Florin Constantinescu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1130 - 1150
On a Hardware Architecture for the Evolution of Cellular Automata Functionality
Peter Zipf, Oliver Soffke, Andre Schumacher, Radu Dogaru, Manfred Glesner
1150 - 1210
Parallel 4x4 Transform Architecture Based on Bit Extended Arithmetic for H.264/AVC
Eon-Pyo Hong, Eun-Gu Jung, Hamza Fraz, Dong-Soo Har
1210 - 1230
Row-Column Decomposition Based 2D Transform Optimization on Subword Parallel Processors
Tero Sihvo, Jarkko Niittylahti
1230 - 1250
Automated Design of FFT/IFFT Processors for Advanced Telecom Applications
Sergio Saponara, Luca Serafini, Luca Fanucci, Pierangelo Terreni
1250 - 1310
A Novel Pipelined Multiplier for High-Speed DSP Applications
Amir Khatibzadeh, Kaamran Raahemifar
 
Thursday
Room F
F1. Broad Band Communications Techniques
Chair: Lal C. Godara, The University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy,
Canberra, Australia.

1130 - 1150
An Efficient Null Steering Broadband Beamformer
Lal C. Godara, M. R. Sayyah Jahromi
1150 - 1210
Towards the Development of a Hardware Simulator for MIMO Radio Channels
Sylvie Picol, Gheorghe Zaharia, Ghaďs El Zein
1210 - 1230
GSM Channel Estimator Using a Fixed-Point Matrix Inversion Algorithm
Aki Happonen, Olli Piirainen, Adrian Burian
1230 - 1250
Nonlinearity Analysis of Power Detectors in Direct Conversion Receivers Utilizing Six-Port Technology
Marko Mailand, Raik Richter, Hans-Joachim Jentschel
1250 - 1310
Handover Initiation and Decision Criteria for the Fourth Generation Radio-Mobile Networks
Roxana Zoican, Dan Galatchi
   
Thursday
Room A
A2. Analog Integrated Circuits Principles
Chair: Ana Rusu, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
1430 - 1450
Design and Simulation of RF MEMS Cantilever and Bridge Switches for High Switching Speed and Low Voltage Operation and Their Comparison
Shimul Chandra Saha, Tajeshwar Singh, Trond Sćther
1450 - 1510
On The Study of a Digitally Calibrated R-2R Ladder Architecture
Dimitris Karadimas, Kostas Efstathiou
1510 - 1530
Signal Conditioning for Capacitive Sensors with Field Programmable Analog Arrays
Giuseppe Merendino, Sergio Callegari, Alessandro Golfarelli, Michele Zagnoni, Marco Tartagni
1530 - 1550
A Simple Circuit for Sigma-Delta /Delta Modulation
Panwit Tuwanut, Thongchai Maneechukate, Jeerasuda Koseeyaporn, Paramote Wardkein
1550 - 1610
Theorems of Parameter Variations Applied for the Extraction of Compact Models of On-Chip Passive Structures
Daniel Ioan, Gabriela Ciuprina, Marius Radulescu
1610 - 1630
The Design of a Low-Distortion Sigma-Delta ADC for WLAN Standards
Ana Rusu, Delia Rodriguez de Llera Gonzalez, Mohammed Ismail, Hannu Tenhunen
 
Thursday
Room B
B2. Signal Theory
Chair: Michael Ansorge, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
1430 - 1450
Sampling Set Conditions for Shift-invariant Signal Spaces
Jun Xian
1450 - 1510
Reconstruction in Lattice-Invariant Signal Spaces
Degao Li
1510 - 1530
Spectral Matching Accuracy in Processing Hyperspectral Data
Stefan Robila, Andrew Gershman
1530 - 1550
An Efficient Systolic Array Algorithm for the VLSI Implementation of a Prime-Length DHT
D. F. Chiper, M.N.S. Swamy, M. O. Ahmad
1550 - 1610
Testing the Statistical Independence of Continuous Random Variables. A New Robust Algorithm
Bogdan Badea, Adriana Vlad
1610 - 1630
Efficient LSP Computation and Quantization
Cornel Balint
   
Thursday
Room C
C2. Circuits and Systems I
Chair: Octavian Pastravanu, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1430 - 1450
Matrix Framework for Analysis of Invariant Sets
Octavian Pastravanu, Mihaela Matcovschi
1450 - 1510
N-Dimensional K-Order Systems: Computing the Transfer Function
George Antoniou, Marinos Michael
1510 - 1530
Circuit Diakoptic Analysis Based on Order Reduction of State Equations
Mihai Iordache, Lucia Dumitriu
1530 - 1550
Numerical Simulation of Discrete Time Circuits Taking into Account Weakly Nonlinear Effects
M.V.Telenkov, A.S. Korotkov
1550 - 1610
Automatization of Compression Point 1db (CP1dB) and Input 3rd Order Intercept Point (IIP3) Measurements Using Labview Platform
Evgeniy Balashov, D.Pasquet, A.S.Korotkov, E.Bourdel, F.Giannini
1610 - 1630
Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Reaction Wheels of Satellite’s Attitude Control System Using a Bank of Kalman Filters
Nicolae Tudoroiu, Khashayar Khorasani
 
Thursday
Room D
D2. Special Session: Geometrical and Statistical Models in Image/Video Processing II
Chair: Vasile Buzuloiu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
Co-Chair: Jean Marie Becker, Universite Jean Monnet St Etienne, France
1430 - 1450
Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Human Color Perception for Digital Quality Assessment
Christine Fernandez-Maloigne, Mohamed-Chaker Larabi, Benjamin Bringier, Noël Richard
1450 - 1510
Integration of Human Perception for Color Texture Management
Noel Richard, Benjamin Bringier, Emeric Rollo
1510 - 1530
Gray Level Image Enhancement Using Piecewise Linear Functions
Vasile Patrascu
1530 - 1550
Color Image Enhancement Method Using Three Parameters Affine Transform
Vasile Patrascu
1550 - 1610
Driver Monitoring with a Single High-speed Camera and IR Illumination
Ciprian Cudalbu, Bogdan Anastasiu, Razvan Radu, Richard Cruceanu, Eberhard Schmidt, Erhardt Barth
1610 - 1630
Color-based Semantic Characterisation of Cartoons
Bogdan Ionescu, Patrick Lambert, Didier Coquin, Georgiana Lavinia Darlea
   
Thursday
Room E
E2. Information Theory I
Chair: Adriana Vlad, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1430 - 1450
Generating Identically and Independently Distributed Samples Starting from Chaotic Signals
Adrian Luca, Adriana Vlad
1450 - 1510
Information Analysis Of The NRZ-M Line Codes And Their Generalization
Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu
1510 - 1530
A New Design Technique for Optimum Logic Filter Using Matrix Type-B Error Correcting Coding
Dimitris Voukalis, Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru
1530 - 1550
Performance Analysis of DFE Magnetic Recording Channels with RLL Encoding Constraints
Paul Mihai Putinica, Stefan Stancescu
1550 - 1610
A New Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Inversable Functions Defined on Galois Fields
Luminita Scripcariu, Mircea Daniel Frunza
1610 - 1630
High-Rate DC-Free Ternary Run-Length-Limited Codes
Luminita Scripcariu, Petrut Duma, Daniel Bojneagu
 
Thursday
Room F
F2. Wireless Networks
Chair: Tudor Palade, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1430 - 1450
Volterra Kernel Interpolation for System Modeling and Predistortion Purposes
Peter Singerl, Heinz Koeppl
1450 - 1510
UWB Transceiver Circuits Design for WPAN Applications
Meigen Shen, Tero Koivisto, Teemu Peltonen, Li-Rong Zheng, Esa Tjukanoff, Hannu Tenhunen
1510 - 1530
Single-chip Heterodyne Receiver for 5-6 GHz WLAN with High Image Rejection
Domenico Zito, Francesco D'Ascoli, Bruno Neri, Sergio Ciucci
1530 - 1550
A Simulation Comparison of Distributed Power Control Algorithms for Wireless Communications
Madhusudhan R Musku, Anthony T. Chronopoulos, Dimitrie C. Popescu
1550 - 1610
Wireless LAN Medium Access Techniques: QoS Perspective
Emanuel Puschita, Tudor Palade, Pitic Razvan
1610 - 1630
Simulation Model for WLAN and GSM Interoperating
Ciprian-Romeo Comsa, Ion Bogdan
   
Thursday
Room A
A3. Analog Integrated Circuits & Applications I
Chair: Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada
1700 - 1720
A 3.3-V Wideband High-Precision Fully Differential CMOS Track and Hold Amplifier
Denis Sandarovski, O. Bernal, M. Cousineau, M. Lescure
1720 - 1740
A 0.6V Multi-VT Current Mirror Differential OTA
Agnese Bargagli-Stoffi, Jens Sauerbrey, Jin Wang, Rupam Shrivastava, Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel
1740 - 1800
Switching-based Topologies for High-efficiency Audio Amplifiers
Sergio Saponara, Pierangelo Terreni
1800 - 1820
Self-Calibrating Floating-Point Analog-to-Digital Converter
Voicu Groza, Michal Debski
1820 - 1840
Fully Differential CMOS Current Memory Cell for Analog-to-Digital Converters
Olivier Bernal, Marc Cousineau, Denis Standarovski, Marc Lescure
1840 - 1900
Simplified "Sinh" Current Mode Lossy ELIN Integrator
Radu Gabriel Bozomitu, Liviu Goras
 
Thursday
Room B
B3. Speech Processing
Chair: Pedro Gómez Vilda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
1700 - 1720
Spectral Perturbation Parameters for Voice Pathology Detection
Pedro Gomez-Vilda, Francisco Diaz Perez, Carlos Lazaro-Carrascosa, Katharine M. Murphy, Rafael Martinez-Olalla, Victoria Rodellar-Biarge, A. Alvarez
1720 - 1740
A Reusable HMM Soft-Core for Isolated Word Recognition
Victoria Rodellar, C. Gonzalez-Concejero, P. Carretero, A. Alvarez-Marquina, P. Gómez-Vilda
1740 - 1800
Inter-Dependence of Spectral Measures for the Singing Voice
Annamaria Mesaros, Jaakko Astola
1800 - 1820
Multi-band Bark Scale Spectral Over-Subtraction for Colored Noise Reduction
Radu Mihnea Udrea, Silviu Ciochina, Dragos Nicolae Vizireanu
1820 - 1840
On Speech Signals Reconstruction from Local Extreme Values
Marius Budaes, Liviu Goras
   
Thursday
Room C
C3. Circuits and Systems II
Chair: Georgi A. Nenov, Higher School of Transport “T. Kableshkov”, Sofia
1700 - 1720
Nullor Network Jacobian and Hessian Matrices: Symbolic Determination by Using Chan-Mai Signal-Flow Graphs
Georgi A. Nenov, Pavel R. Baltiyski, Marina G. Nenova
1720 - 1740
When is Fast Computation of the Periodic Steady State Appropriate
Florin Constantinescu, Miruna Nitescu, Anca Ionescu
1740 - 1800
Behavioral Model Generation for Symbolic Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits
Carlos Sánchez-López, Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle
1800 - 1820
Novel Design Method of Analog All-pass Filters
Premysl Žiška, Miloš Laipert
1820 - 1840
Design of Active Filters Simulating Mesh Current Equation of LC Ladder Filters
Andrei Campeanu, Janos Gal
 
Thursday
Room D
D3. Special Session: Geometrical and Statistical Models in Image/Video Processing III
Chair: Vasile Buzuloiu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
Co-Chair: Marco Carli, University of Roma

1700 - 1740
A New Approach to Discrete Conical Curves
Jean-Marie Becker, Catherine Mennessier, Oscar Figueiredo, David Odin
1740 - 1800
Human-Computer Interaction: A Bayesian Network Approach
Nicu Sebe, Ira Cohen, Thomas Huang, Theo Gevers
1800 - 1820
Color Image Segmentation Using Steerable Filters
Constantin Burlacu, Gabriela Burlacu
1820 - 1840
Approximation of a Linear Shift-Variant System by a Set of Linear Shift-Invariant Systems
Vasile Buzuloiu, Marius Malciu, Sanjit K. Mitra
   
Thursday
Room E
E3. Information Theory II
Chair: Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1700 - 1720
A Parity Checker for a Large Residue Numbers Based on Montgomery Reduction Method
Jung-Hee Suk, Jin-Seon Youn, Hui-Gon Kim, Taek-Won Kwon, Jun-Rim Choi
1720 - 1740
Optimizations in Max-Log-map LLRe VLSI Architecture
Jesús Pérez, Víctor Fernández
1740 - 1800
The Performances of Interleavers Used in Turbo Codes
Maria Kovaci, Horia G. Balta, Miranda M. Nafornita
1800 - 1820
A Study on Turbo Coding Systems with p/4 Shifted DQPSK Modulation
Horia G. Balta, Maria Kovaci, Miranda M. Nafornita
1820 - 1840
Decreasing of the Turbo MAP Decoding Time Using an Iterations Stopping Criterion
Lucian G. Trifina, Horia G. Balta, Anca Rusinaru
 
Thursday
Room F
F3. Circuits for Communications
Chair: Ion Bogdan, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1700 - 1720
A 90 nm CMOS 10 GHz Beam Forming Tramsmitter
Johan Wernehag, Henrik Sjöland
1720 - 1740
A Novel Fully Integrated Antenna Switch for 5-6 GHz Wireless LAN Systems
Domenico Zito, Francesco D'ascoli, Bruno Neri
1740 - 1800
A 5-GHz Low-Voltage and Low-Power CMOS LC VCO for 802.11a Wireless LAN Applications
Lyes Bouzerara, Mohand Tahar Belaroussi
1800 - 1820
Low-Voltage, Low-Power and Highly-Tunable 1.8GHz CMOS LC Voltage Controlled Oscillator
Lyes Bouzerara, Mohand Tahar Belaroussi
1820 - 1840
Memory Management in Output-Buffering Packet-Switch Design
Jun Xu, Reza Sotudeh
 
Friday
Room A
0900 - 0940
Plenary talk: Analog and Mixed-Mode Design Using Sub-Micron Technologies
Ken Martin
0940 - 1020
Plenary talk: Oscillators: Stability, Tuning, Noise
Valentin N. Kuleshov
1050 - 1130
Plenary talk: Vision-Based Hand Gesture Tracking and Recognition
Thomas Huang
 
Friday
Room A
A4. Analog Integrated Circuits & Applications II
Chair: Mihai Iordache, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
1140 - 1200
Nonlinear and Noise Macromodel of CMOS Current Conveyor
Alexander A. Tutyshkin, Alexander S. Korotkov
1200 - 1220
A Novel 18 GHz 1.3 mW CMOS Frequency Divider with High Input Sensitivity
Ali Fard, Denny Ĺberg
1220 - 1240
CMOS Logarithmic Curvature-Corrected Voltage Reference Using a Multiple Differential Structure
Cosmin Popa
1240 - 1300
Analysis and Performance of a Versatile CMOS Neural Circuit based on Multi-Nested Approach
Cristian Chitu, Radu Dogaru, Manfred Glesner
1300 - 1320
Current-mode Sinusoidal Wave Multipliers
Doru E. Tiliute
1320 - 1340
A Class of Hysteretic Circuits Using Operational Amplifiers
Radu P. Matei
 
Friday
Room B
B4. Wavelet Transform & Applications
Chair: Silviu Ciochina, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
1140 - 1200
A Real-Time System for Denoising of Signals in Continuous Streams Through the Wavelet Transform
Hilton De Oliveira Mota, Flávio Henrique Vasconcelos, Rogério Martins Da Silva
1200 - 1220
Quaternionic vs. Conventional Factorizations for Fixed-Point 4-Channel General Paraunitary Filter Bank
Marek Parfieniuk, Alexander Petrovsky
1220 - 1240
New Method of Design Filters for Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform
Iulian Voicu, Monica Borda
1240 - 1300
New Results Using the Audio Watermarking Based on Wavelet Transform
Rodica Vieru, Radwan Tahboub, C. Constantinescu, V. Lazarescu
1300 - 1320
CDF(2,2) Wavelet Lossy Image Compression on Primitive FPGA (XC9572)
Abbas Ali Lotfi Neyestanak, M. M. Hazrati, M. Sharei, A. Saeb
   
Friday
Room C
C4. Power Electronics I
Chair: Adriana Sirbu, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1140 - 1200
Analyzes of a Bidirectional DC-DC Half-Bridge Converter with Zero Voltage Switching
F. A. Himmelstoss, M. E. Ecker
1200 - 1220
Symmetrical Wide-Range Voltage Control of Modular Converters
Valentin Oleschuk, Alexandar Sizov, Alexandar Stankovic, Evgeni Yaroshenko
1220 - 1240
PSPICE - Based Simulation Setup for Genetic Algorithm - Aided Design of Power Converters
Adriana Sirbu, Dimitrie Alexa, Dan Marius Dobrea, Ioan Cleju
1240 - 1300
A Control Scheme for Three Level Inverter
Adrian Schiop, Viorel Popescu, Daniel Trip
1300 - 1320
Considerations on the Speed Controllers for Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives
Adrian Schiop, Viorel Popescu, Daniel Trip
 
Friday
Room D
D4. Image Processing I
Chair: Alexandru Isar, "Politehnica" University, Timisoara, Romania
1140 - 1200
A New Method for Denoising SONAR Images
Alexandru Isar, Sorin Moga, Dorina Isar
1200 - 1220
Improved Detection for Robust Image Watermarking
Corina Nafornita
1220 - 1240
Low-pass Frequency-Domain Filtering of Oligonucleotide Microarray Data Images
Francisco Díaz Pérez, Emil Raul Malutan, Pedro Gómez Vilda, Victoria Rodellar Biagre, Rafael Martinez Olalla, Monica Borda
1240 - 1300
Automatic Feature Selection for Textile Defects Discrimination
Tiberiu-Dinu Teodorescu, Radu Chirita
1300 - 1320
A Fast Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm for Image Vector Quantization
Spiridon Florin Beldianu
   
Friday
Room E
E4. Digital Systems I
Chair: Juha Plosila, University of Turku, Finland
1140 - 1200
A Matrix Product Coprocessor for FPGA Embedded Soft Processors
Pasquale Corsonello, Stefania Perri, Paolo Zicari
1200 - 1220
Scalable FIR Filtering on Transport Triggered Architecture Processor
Perttu Salmela, Tuomas Järvinen, Teemu Sipilä, Jarmo Takala
1220 - 1240
Several Approaches to Fixed-Point Implementation of Matrix Inversion
Perttu Salmela, Aki Happonen, Adrian Burian, Jarmo Takala
1240 - 1300
Architecture for an Advanced Java Co-Processor
Tero Säntti, Juha Plosila
1300 - 1320
A Low-Complexity B-spline Based Digital Sample Rate Conversion Circuit Architecture
Ching-Chieh Lin, Hsiang-Feng Chi
1320 - 1340
On the DS Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers
Farhad Zarkeshvari, Peter Noel, Tad A. Kwasniewski
 
Friday
Room F
F4. Communications Networks
Chair: Victor Croitoru, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
1140 - 1200
Design of an Internet Core Router Using the SoCBUS Network on Chip
Daniel Wiklund, Andreas Ehliar, Dake Liu
1200 - 1220
Data Acquisition System Based on Mobile Sources
Victor Croitoru, Iulian Tihon, Ovidiu Leonte, Valentin Ciocoiu, Ion Vonica, Tiberiu Voica, M. Arangel
1220 - 1240
NAT/Firewall Traversal for SIP: Issues and Solutions
Mihai Aurel Constantinescu, Doina Oana Cernaianu, Victor Croitoru
1240 - 1300
IntServ Operation over DiffServ Networks
Dan Galatchi, Roxana Zoican
1300 - 1320
Implementation Techniques for Communications Protocols
Elena Uleia, Simona Halunga
1320 - 1340
Analysis of np-CSMA Systems with Hidden Terminals and Capture Effect
Gabriel Sirbu, Ion Bogdan
   
Friday
Room A
A5. Integrated Circuits Design and Technologies
Chair: Nuno Horta, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
1510 - 1530
Effect of Body Contacts on High Speed Circuits in 90nm CMOS SOI Technology
Jonas Weiss, Christian Menolfi, Thomas Morf, Martin Schmatz, Heinz Jaeckel
1530 - 1550
Impact of Oxide Thickness on Performances of Logic Circuits: A Predictive Simulation Study
Fabio Frustaci, Pasquale Corsonello
1550 - 1610
An Evolutionary Optimization Kernel with Adaptive Parameters applied to Analog Circuit Design
Manuel Barros, Gonçalo Neves, Jorge Guilherme, Nuno Horta
1610 - 1630
Design Automation Methodology for Analog IC Design Matching Designers Approach
Gonçalo Neves, Manuel Barros, Jorge Guilherme, Nuno Horta
1630 - 1650
Architecture Level Design Space Exploration and Mapping of Hardwares
Sujan Pandey, Manfred Glesner, Max Mühlhäuser
1650 - 1710
PM and AM Noise in Emitter Current Source Biased BJT Amplifiers
Tatiana Boldyreva, Valentin Kuleshov
 
Friday
Room B
B5. Digital Filters
Chair: John Hĺkon Husřy, University of Stavanger, Norway
1510 - 1530
A Novel Interpretation and Performance Analysis of Subband Adaptive Filter Algorithms
John Hĺkon Husřy
1530 - 1550
New Affine Projection Algorithms Based on Gauss-Seidel Method
Felix Albu, Constantine Kotropoulos, Zuzana Cernekova, Ioannis Pitas
1550 - 1610
Adaptive Interference Cancellation: A Unitary Approach
Andrei Alexandru Enescu, Silviu Ciochina, Constantin Paleologu
1610 - 1630
Digital Parametric Equalizers for High Quality Audio Signals
Lucian Stanciu, Leonard Banu
1630 - 1650
Aspects of Reverberation Algorithms
Norbert Toma, Marina Topa, Erwin Szopos
1650 - 1710
A Fast Recursive Implementation of Gabor Filters
Emilian David, Paul Ungureanu, Michael Ansorge
   
Friday
Room C
C5. Power Electronics II
Chair: Serban Birca-Galateanu, IUFM Nantes, France
1510 - 1530
Application of Methodology of Invariant Approximations to Magnetic Circuit Analysis
Mariya Kotsyuba-Howykowycz
1530 - 1550
On the Thermal Inertia of the Semiconductor Components
Serban Birca-Galateanu
1550 - 1610
New Bi-Directional DC-AC Converters with High Frequency Isolation
Robson Luiz Cardoso, Ivo Barbi
1610 - 1630
Single Phase AC Choppers with Inductive Load and Improved Efficiency
Mihai Lucanu, Ovidiu Ursaru, Cristian Aghion
1630 - 1650
Measuring Method Used for DC-DC Converters
Mihaela Cirlugea, Victor Popescu, Fazakas Albert, Sorin Hintea
 
Friday
Room D
D5. Image Processing II
Chair: Branimir Reljin, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
1510 - 1530
Combining Morphological Mapping and Principal Curves for Ship Classification
Helena L. Fernández, José M. de Seixas, Sergio R. Neves, Joăo B. O. Souza Filho
1530 - 1550
Local Contrast Enhancement in Digital Mammography by Using Mathematical Morphology
Tomislav Stojic, Irini Reljin, Branimir Reljin
1550 - 1610
Transform Domain Equalizer for 2 Dimensional Read Channel
Richard Conway
1610 - 1630
Clustering by Principal Curve with Tree Structure
Ioan Cleju, Pasi Fränti, Xiaolin Wu
1630 - 1650
A Comparison Between Parts-Based and Holistic Approaches to Face Recognition
Iulian Ciocoiu
   
Friday
Room E
E5. Digital Systems II
Chair: Byung-Kwon Jung, Digital Home Research Division, ETRI, Daejeon, Korea
1510 - 1530
Back-Annotation of Timing Information into a Formal Hardware Model: A Case Study
Tomi Westerlund, Jani Paakkulainen, Juha Plosila
1530 - 1550
Consistency Control in Data-Driven Design Automation Environments
Leandro Indrusiak, Tudor Murgan, Manfred Glesner, Ricardo Reis
1550 - 1610
Real-Time Implementation of Noise-Immune Gradient-Based Edge Detection
Pei-Yung Hsiao, Hwa Wen, Ying-Pei Chen, Sao-Jie Chen
1610 - 1630
Performance Analysis of High Speed Multimedia Streaming Card for Streaming Server
Byung-Kwon Jung, Sung-Woo Seok, Seoung-Woon Kim, Myung-Joon Kim, Sung-Ho Hahm
1630 - 1650
Evaluating Regularity Extraction in Logic Synthesis
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Davide Pandini, Alberto Macii, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino
1650 - 1710
FPGA Implementation Evaluation of a Vectorial Quantifier for Speech Classification
Mircea Pop, Victoria Rodellar Biarge, Coral González Concejero, Monica Borda
 
Friday
Room F
F5. CDMA/OFDM Systems
Chair: Simona Halunga,“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
1510 - 1530
LDPC Code Design for OFDM Channel: Graph Connectivity and Information Bits Positioning
Alexandre De Baynast, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Behnaam Aazhang
1530 - 1550
Analysis of Channel Estimation Error of OFDM Systems in Rayleigh Fading
Bin Jiao, Jitian Xiao, Jinlin Wang
1550 - 1610
On the UWB Perfect Rake Receiver Performances for Different Sets of Spreading Codes
Florin Craciun, Octavian Fratu, Simona Halunga
1610 - 1630
Second Order Moment Estimation for Multilevel Quantized Tailed Shifts Sequences. Optimising BER for Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems
Calin Vladeanu, Radu Lucaciu
1630 - 1650
On the Stackelberg Equilibrium of Total Weighted Squared Correlation in Synchronous DS-CDMA Systems: Theoretical Framework
Paul Cotae, Ciprian Comsa, Ion Bogdan
1650 - 1710
On the Stackelberg Equilibrium of Total Weighted Squared Correlation in Synchronous DS-CDMA Systems: Algorithm and Numerical Results
Paul Cotae, Ciprian Comsa, Ion Bogdan
 
Friday
Room A
A6. CMOS Integrated Circuits
Chair: Roger Yubtzuan Chen, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
1740 - 1800
A Wide-Range Power-Efficient CMOS Phase-Locked Loop with a Differential Range-Programmable VCO
Roger Yubtzuan Chen, Ming-Yu Hsieh, Peng-Min Peng
1800 - 1820
A Linear CMOS Voltage-to-Current Converter
Roger Yubtzuan Chen, Tsung-Shuen Hung
1820 - 1840
Relaxation Oscillator Output Voltage Linearity
Andrei Danchiv, Alexandru Simion, Mircea Bodea, Claudius Dan
1840 - 1900
Low Noise CMOS Mixers
Ciprian Pavaluta, Cristian M. Neacsu, Bogdan Dimitriu, Cristian Ionascu
1900 - 1920
Lossless Inductor Using Current Feedback Amplifier
T.K.Bandyopadhyay, R.K.Nagaria, S.K.Sanyal, R.Nandi
1920 - 1940
An Improved High Performance CMOS Second Generation Current Conveyor
Samir BenSalem, Mourad Fakhfakh, Mourad Loulou, Nouri Masmoudi
 
Friday
Room B
B6. Signal Processing
Chair: Vasile Lazarescu, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
1740 - 1800
Subspace Method Optimized for Tracking Real-Valued Sinusoids in Noise
Stefan Slavnicu, Silviu Ciochina
1800 - 1820
Knock Detection Based on Power Spectrum Analysis
Dan Lazarescu, Vasile Lazarescu, Mihaela Ungureanu
1820 - 1840
Detection and Estimation of Linear FM signals
Cornelia Gordan, Morgos Lucian, Reiz Romulus
1840 - 1900
Evolutionary Autonomous Agent-Based Target Tracking System
Yaser Khalifa, Ehi Okoene
1900 - 1920
A Distributed Agent-Based Surveillance System
Yaser Khalifa, Ehi Okoene
   
Friday
Room C
C6. Distributed Systems
Chair: Anton Manolescu, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
1740 - 1800
Analytical Delay Computation for Arbitrary Distributed RLC Trees
L.M. Coulibaly, H.J. Kadim
1800 - 1820
On the Synthesis of Distributed Resistive Structures
Anton Manolescu, Anca Manuela Manolescu
1820 - 1840
Compact Cross-Coupled Filters for UMTS Applications
Marian Gabriel Banciu, George Lojewski, Andrei Ioachim, Nicolae Militaru
1840 - 1900
Study of Biasing Effects on Coupled Microstrip Lines Characteristics
Taha E. Taha, Mohamed Elkordy
1900 - 1920
Improved Techniques for Long-Distance Signal Propagation within the Rapid Single-Flux Quantum Digital Circuits
Boyko Dimov, Valery Todorov, Valeri Mladenov, F. Hermann Uhlmann
1920 - 1940
A Study of Effective Permittivity for Thermotropic Liquid Crystals in 7.8 – 12.4 GHz Frequency Range
Daniela Ionescu, Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru
 
Friday
Room D
D6. Chaos Theory
Chair: Carlos Belaustegui Goitia, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
1740 - 1800
Advantages of the Linz-Sprott Weak Nonlinearity on The FPGA Implementation of Chaotic Systems: A Comparative Analysis
Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Élvio Carlos Dutra E Silva Júnior, Manfred Glesner
1800 - 1820
A Model for Computational Collapse of Chaotic 1-D Maps
Carlos Belaustegui Goitia, Cesar Orda
1820 - 1840
Dynamic Behavior And Route to Chaos in Experimental Boost Converter
Donato Cafagna, Giuseppe Grassi
1840 - 1900
Chaos-Based Computation via Chua's Circuit: Parallel Computing with Application to the SR Flip-Flop
Donato Cafagna, Giuseppe Grassi
1900 - 1920
Chaos Analysis in a Computer Simulation of the Piriform Cortex
Dragos Calitoiu
1920 - 1940
Bursting Dynamics in Coupled Chua's Oscillator
Syamal Kumar Dana, Prodyot Kumar Roy
   
Friday
Room E
E6. Digital Systems III
Chair: Dan Galea, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1740 - 1800
Improved Instruction Fetching with a New Block-Based Cache Scheme
Azam Beg, Yul Chu
1800 - 1820
An Evaluation of Memory Effect to Performance on a Real Reconfigurable Computing System
Kosei Shimoo, Kouji Kawano, Akira Yamawaki, Masahiko Iwane
1820 - 1840
Implementation of Asynchronous Reorder Buffer for Asynchronous On-Chip Bus
Eun-Gu Jung, Jeong-Gun Lee, Hamza Fraz, Kyoung-Son Jhang, Jeong-A Lee, Dong-Soo Har
1840 - 1900
Automated and Energy-Efficient Co-Synthesis for Distributed Embedded Systems
Amjad Mohsen, Richard Hofmann
1900 - 1920
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Floorplan Optimization Problem
Lin-Yu Tseng, Tuan-Yung Han
1920 - 1940
Global Optimization in Complex Circuits Design
Codrin Pruteanu, Dan Galea, Cristian-Gyözö Haba
 
Friday
Room F
F6. Neural Networks
Chair: Iulian Ciocoiu, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1740 - 1800
Multiwavelet Neural Network Construction Study
Liu Zhigang
1800 - 1820
Novel Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis Architecture Based on Artificial Neural Networks
Khosro Rajabpour Moghaddam, Amir M. Sodagar, M. Teshnelab
1820 - 1840
Complex Rival Penalized Learning for RBF Neural Network Used in Communication Channel Equalization
Nicolae Miclau
1840 - 1900
Motion Planning for Two Mobile Robots in an Environment with Obstacles by Using Cellular Neural Networks
Ioan Gavrilut, Alexandru Gacsádi, Laviniu Tepelea, Virgil Tiponut
1900 - 1920
Discrimination Between Cognitive Tasks - a Comparative Study
Monica-Claudia Serban, Dan-Marius Dobrea