2014 IEEE 5th Latin American
Symposium on Circuits and
Systems
(LASCAS 2014)
Santiago, Chile
25-28 February 2014
IEEE Catalog Number:
ISBN:
CFP14LAS-POD
978-1-4799-2508-7
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4D FIR DIGITAL FILTER REALIZATIONS ................................................................................................................... 1
Kousoulis, M.T. ; Antoniou, G.E.
A NEW COMPACT NONLINEAR MODEL IMPROVEMENT METHODOLOGY FOR GANHEMT..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Torres-Rios, Emmanuel ; Saavedra, Carlos
NEW CMOS REALIZATION OF CURRENT DIFFERENCING CURRENT CONVEYOR (CDCC)
WITH BIQUAD FILTER APPLICATION......................................................................................................................... 9
Kacar, Firat ; Ismail, Arkan ; Man, Hakan Kunt
DC VOLTAGE ESTIMATION METHODS FOR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER OPERATING
WITH REDUCED NUMBER OF SENSORS ................................................................................................................... 13
Viola, Julio ; Baethge, Erick ; Berzoy, Alberto ; Restrepo, Jose ; Quizhpi, Flavio
A TECHNIQUE TO SOLVE ISSUE OF RICHARDSON-LUCY DECONVOLUTION FOR
ANALYZING RTN EFFECTS ON SRAM MARGIN VARIATION ............................................................................. 17
Yamauchi, Hiroyuki ; Somha, Worawit
DESIGN OF ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS WITH AN INPUT-DC-LEVEL-DEPENDENT
GAIN..................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Wang, Chunyan ; Leduc, Pascal
DUAL-BAND LOWPASS/BANDPASS PERIODIC-TYPE MICROSTRIP FILTER WITH LONGTERM-EVOLUTION (LTE) SERVICE MITIGATION ................................................................................................. 25
Gomez-Garcia, Roberto ; Loeches-Sanchez, Raul ; Munoz-Ferreras, Jose-Maria ; Borrego, Jose P. ; Magalhaes,
Jose.P. ; Carvalho, Nuno B. ; Vieira, Jose M.N. ; Perez-Martinez, F.
DESIGN OF ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOPROCESSORS OVER GF(2163) ON KOBLITZ
CURVES............................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Realpe-Munoz, Paulo ; Trujillo-Olaya, Vladimir ; Velasco-Medina, Jaime
HIGH-SENSITIVITY SPLIT-CONTACT MAGNETORESISTORS ON LIGHTLY DOPED
SILICON SUBSTRATES ................................................................................................................................................... 33
Santillan-Quinonez, Gerard F. ; Galup-Montoro, Carlos
MODIFIED COMB DECIMATOR FOR HIGH POWER-OF-TWO DECIMATION FACTORS............................. 37
Salgado, Gerardo Molina ; Dolecek, Gordana Jovanovic ; de la Rosa, Jose M.
A ROBUST TO PVT VARIATIONS LOW-VOLTAGE LOW-POWER CURRENT MIRROR ................................ 41
Amaya, Andres ; Espinosa, Guillermo ; Villamizar, Rodolfo
SOFTWARE-IMPLEMENTED FAULT INJECTION IN OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL
MUTEX DATA STRUCTURE........................................................................................................................................... 45
Montrucchio, Bartolomeo ; Rebaudengo, Maurizio ; David Velasco, Alejandro
LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR CHANNEL PREDICTION PERFORMANCE FOR A MIMO-OFDM
SYSTEM............................................................................................................................................................................... 51
Morales, Catalina Munoz ; Eslava, G.Sebastian
ADJUSTED EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE FOR
SIGNAL MODELING AND PREDICTION..................................................................................................................... 55
Lahmiri, Salim ; Boukadoum, Mounir
OVERVIEW AND QUALITY ANALYSIS IN 3D-HEVC EMERGENT VIDEO CODING
STANDARD ......................................................................................................................................................................... 59
Balota, Gabriel ; Saldanha, Mario ; Sanchez, Gustavo ; Zatt, Bruno ; Porto, Marcelo ; Agostini, Luciano
A MOSFET DOSIMETER BUILT ON AN OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENT FOR IN VIVO
RADIOTHERAPY APPLICATIONS................................................................................................................................ 63
Siebel, O.F. ; Pereira, J.G. ; Schneider, M.C. ; Galup-Montoro, C.
TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANALOG FILTERING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON CIRCUIT
THEORY.............................................................................................................................................................................. 67
Erfani, Shervin ; Ahmadi, Majid ; Bayan, Nima
DESIGN OF A FULLY INTEGRATED COLPITTS OSCILLATOR OPERATING AT VDD
BELOW 4KT/Q ................................................................................................................................................................... 72
Bender Machado, Marcio ; Schneider, Marcio Cherem ; Galup-Montoro, Carlos
DIGITAL ASSISTANCE FOR ENERGY REDUCTION IN ADCS USING A SIMPLE SIGNAL
PREDICTION ALGORITHM ........................................................................................................................................... 76
Avila, Diego ; Alvarez, Enrique ; Abusleme, Angel
PREDICTIVE DTC ALGORITHM FOR INDUCTION MACHINES USING SLIDING HORIZON
PREDICTION...................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Rengifo, Johnny ; Aller, Jose ; Berzoy, Alberto ; Restrepo, Jose
DETAILING A USEFUL POSITION CALIBRATION FOR MICROPHONE ARRAYS .......................................... 83
Paredes-Calderon, Darwin M. ; Apolinario, Jose A.
A 6-BIT 2GS/S CMOS TIME-INTERLEAVED ADC FOR ANALYSIS OF MIXED-SIGNAL
CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES ....................................................................................................................................... 87
Reyes, Benjamin T. ; Tealdi, Lucas ; Paulina, German ; Labat, Emanuel ; Sanchez, Raul ; Mandolesi, Pablo S. ;
Hueda, Mario R.
A 1.6GB/S CMOS LVDS TRANSMITTER WITH A PROGRAMMABLE PRE-EMPHASIS
SYSTEM............................................................................................................................................................................... 91
Reyes, Benjamin T. ; Paulina, German ; Tealdi, Lucas ; Labat, Emanuel ; Sanchez, Raul ; Mandolesi, Pablo S. ;
Hueda, Mario R.
A FULLY SYMBOLIC HOMOTOPY-BASED MEMRISTOR MODEL FOR APPLICATIONS TO
CIRCUIT SIMULATION................................................................................................................................................... 95
Sarmiento-Reyes, Arturo ; Hernandez-Martinez, Luis ; Mejia, Carlos Hernandez ; Diaz Arango, Gerardo Ulises ;
Vazquez-Leal, Hector
SICARELO: A TOOL FOR SYNTHESIS OF LOCALLY-CLOCKED EXTENDED BURST-MODE
ASYNCHRONOUS CONTROLLERS .............................................................................................................................. 99
Curtinhas, Tiago ; Oliveira, Duarte L. ; Bompean, Diego ; Faria, Lester A. ; Romano, Leonardo
ANALYSIS OF PURE- AND MIXED-MODE CLASS-B OUTPHASING AMPLIFIERS......................................... 103
Calvillo-Cortes, David A. ; de Vreede, Leo C.N.
USING FPGAS TO IMPLEMENT ASYNCHRONOUS PIPELINES.......................................................................... 107
Oliveira, Duarte L. ; Garcia, Kledermon ; d'Amore, Roberto
0.9 V, 5 NW, 9 PPM/OC RESISTORLESS SUB-BANDGAP VOLTAGE REFERENCE IN 0.18µM
CMOS ................................................................................................................................................................................. 111
Mattia, Oscar E. ; Klimach, Hamilton ; Bampi, Sergio
ELECTROSTATIC ENERGY HARVESTING WITHOUT ACTIVE CONTROL CIRCUITS ............................... 115
de Queiroz, Antonio Carlos M.
CHARACTERIZATION OF FAST-RESPONSE AND LOW-NOISE POLY SI UNCOOLED FAR
INFRARED SENSOR ....................................................................................................................................................... 119
Neli, R.R. ; Doi, I. ; Diniz, J.A.
PRACTICAL HAND TRACKING SOLUTION BY ALTERNATING THE USE OF A PRIORI
INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 123
Cisneros, Pedro ; Rodriguez, Paul
DYNAMIC GATE-LEVEL BODY BIASING FOR SUBTHRESHOLD DIGITAL DESIGN ................................... 127
Lanuzza, Marco ; Taco, Ramiro ; Albano, Domenico
A POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR LF PASSIVE RFID TAGS ................................. 131
Cortes, Fernando Paixao ; Brito, Juan Pablo Martinez ; Ghignatti, Everton ; Olmos, Alfredo ; Chavez, Fernando ;
Lubaszewski, Marcelo
THROUGHPUT DRIVEN CHECK POINT SELECTION IN SUSPICIOUS TIMING ERROR
PREDICTION BASED DESIGNS ................................................................................................................................... 135
Igarashi, Hiroaki ; Shi, Youhua ; Yanagisawa, Masao ; Togawa, Nozomu
DESIGN OF CHEBYSHEV COMB FILTER (CCF)-BASED DECIMATORS WITH
COMPENSATED PASSBAND ........................................................................................................................................ 139
Romero, David Ernesto Troncoso ; Jimenez, Miriam Guadalupe Cruz ; Dolecek, Gordana Jovanovic
CMOS IMAGER WITH FOCAL-PLANE IMAGE COMPRESSION BASED ON THE EZW
ALGORITHM ................................................................................................................................................................... 143
Cardoso, Bruno B. ; Gomes, Jose Gabriel R.C.
HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SMITH-WATERMAN ALGORITHM USING A
SYSTOLIC ARCHITECTURE........................................................................................................................................ 147
Marmolejo-Tejada, J.M. ; Trujillo-Olaya, V. ; Renteria-Mejia, C.P. ; Velasco-Medina, J.
SCALABLE HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION FOR QUASI-DYADIC GOPPA ENCODER ............................ 151
Massolino, Pedro Maat C. ; Margi, Cintia Borges ; Barreto, Paulo S.L.M. ; Ruggiero, Wilson Vicente
SPECIFICATIONS FOR A MULTI-STANDARD SBCD/ARGOS-3 INTEGRATED UHF
SATELLITE RECEIVER................................................................................................................................................. 155
Mendes, C.C.A. ; Cunha, G.C.L. ; Vasilevski, M. ; Bourguet, V. ; Catunda, S.Y. ; Lima, R.N. ; Barros, M.
IMPROVING SPEED AND POWER CHARACTERISTICS OF PULSE-TRIGGERED FLIPFLOPS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 159
Lanuzza, Marco ; Taco, Ramiro
A DAC RECONSTRUCTION FILTER FOR NARROWBAND LONG DISTANCE
COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................... 163
Aldunate, Joaquin ; Feres, Carlos ; Vlahoyiannatos, Spyros ; Oberli, Christian ; de Villers-Grandchamps, JeanPaul ; Guarini, Marcelo
DEPTH ESTIMATION FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE USING MOBILE DEVICES .............................. 167
Navarro, Felipe ; Cancino, Sandra ; Estupinan, Enrique
GINGA MIDDLEWARE ON A SOC FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION SET-TOP BOX.............................................. 171
Freitas, Bruno Policarpo Toledo ; Susin, Altamiro Amadeu ; Bonatto, Alexsandro
AUTOMATIC COMPLEX INSTRUCTION IDENTIFICATION FOR EFFICIENT APPLICATION
MAPPING ONTO ASIPS ................................................................................................................................................. 175
Nery, Alexandre S. ; Nedjah, Nadia ; Franca, Felipe M.G. ; Jozwiak, Lech ; Corporaal, Henk
FPGA-BASED REAL-TIME CITRUS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM........................................................................ 179
Nuno-Maganda, Marco Aurelio ; Hernandez-Mier, Yahir ; Torres-Huitzil, Cesar ; Jimenez-Arteaga, Josue
DYNAMIC PARTIAL RECONFIGURATION MANAGER........................................................................................ 183
Tarrillo, Jimmy ; Escobar, Fernando A. ; Kastensmidt, Fernanda Lima ; Valderrama, Carlos
DESIGN OF RF BAW-BASED ΣΔ MODULATORS .................................................................................................... 187
Belfort, Diomadson ; Catunda, Sebastian Y.C. ; Aboushady, Hassan
CHAOTIC INDUCTIVELY COUPLED NON-PLL LOW EMISSION TRANSMITTER FOR
IMPLANTED DEVICES .................................................................................................................................................. 191
Saraswat, Ruchir ; Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther
AN EFFICIENT REFERENCE FRAME COMPRESSION APPROACH FOR VIDEO CODING
SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 195
Povala, Guilherme ; Silveira, Dieison ; Amaral, Livia ; Zatt, Bruno ; Porto, Marcelo ; Agostini, Luciano
BEHAVIORAL MODELLING OF A 4TH ORDER LP ΣΔ MODULATOR-TOWARDS THE
DESIGN OF A HYBRID PROPOSAL ............................................................................................................................ 199
Garcia-Sanchez, J.G. ; Calderon-Preciado, D. ; Sandoval-Ibarra, F. ; de la Rosa, Jose M.
CAVITY FORMATION IN BONDED SILICON WAFERS USING PARTIALLY CURED DRY
ETCH BISBENZOCYCLOBUTENE (BCB) .................................................................................................................. 203
Bakhtazad, Aref ; Manwar, Rayyan ; Chowdhury, Sazzadur
MEMORY ENERGY CONSUMPTION REDUCTION IN VIDEO CODING SYSTEMS ........................................ 207
Amaral, Livia ; Silveira, Dieison ; Povala, Guilheme ; Porto, Marcelo ; Agostini, Luciano ; Zatt, Bruno
DESIGN AND TEST OF A 915MHZ, RFID-BASED PRESSURE SENSOR FOR GLAUCOMA............................ 211
Faul, Andre ; Naber, John
A COMPARISON OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY UHF RFID RECTIFIERS USING INTERNAL
VOLTAGE COMPENSATION AND ZERO-THRESHOLD-VOLTAGE MOSFETS .............................................. 215
Matias, M.L. ; Cunha, J.P.C. ; Dal Fabbro, P.A. ; Mioni, D. ; Prodanov, W. ; Pessatti, M. ; Leite, B. ; Mariano, A.
HEVC FRACTIONAL MOTION ESTIMATION COMPLEXITY REDUCTION FOR REAL-TIME
APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 219
Maich, Henrique ; Afonso, Vladimir ; Zatt, Bruno ; Agostini, Luciano ; Porto, Marcelo
A NOVEL TRI-STATE DEVICE IMPLEMENTED WITH A METAL GATED QCA............................................. 223
Sheikholeslam, S.Arash ; Grecu, Cristian ; Ivanov, Andre
ON GENERATING A FINITE PULSE OR A SYMMETRIC IMPULSE RESPONSE BY A
GENERALIZED APPROXIMATION FUNCTION ...................................................................................................... 226
de Souza, Douglas Baptista ; Filho, Sidnei Noceti
LOW-COST OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE FOR SIGHT IMPAIRED PEOPLE........................................... 230
Pino, Esteban J. ; Campos, Moises ; Aqueveque, Pablo
CONFIGURABLE HARDWARE DESIGN FOR THE HEVC-BASED ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER..................... 233
Conceicao, Ruhan ; Rediess, Fabiane ; Zatt, Bruno ; Porto, Marcelo ; Agostini, Luciano
RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR MUSIC GENERATION USING
CELLULAR AUTOMATA .............................................................................................................................................. 237
Dina Bezerra, Heloisa ; Nedjah, Nadia ; de Macedo Mourelle, Luiza
COMPARING HIGH-PERFORMANCE CELLS IN CMOS BULK AND FINFET
TECHNOLOGIES............................................................................................................................................................. 241
Meinhardt, Cristina ; Reis, Ricardo
MIXED-SIGNAL ENERGY FEATURE EXTRACTOR OF EEG FREQUENCY BANDS....................................... 245
Carrasco-Robles, Manuel ; Delgado-Restituto, Manuel
COMPARISON OF CONVENTIONAL AND NEW CLASS AB MODIFICATIONS OF THE
FLIPPED VOLTAGE FOLLOWER AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN HIGH
PERFORMANCE AMPLIFIERS .................................................................................................................................... 249
Padilla-Cantoya, Ivan ; Silva-Del-Rosario, Francisco ; Silva-Martinez, Miguel ; Molinar-Solis, Jesus E.
EXPLORING MORE EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURES FOR MULTIPLE DYNAMIC SUPPLY
VOLTAGE DESIGNS....................................................................................................................................................... 253
Terres, Marco ; Meinhardt, Cristina ; Bontorin, Guilherme ; Reis, Ricardo
AUTOMATIC LAYOUT SYNTHESIS WITH ASTRAN APPLIED TO ASYNCHRONOUS CELLS .................... 257
Ziesemer, Adriel ; Reis, Ricardo ; Moreira, Matheus T. ; Arendt, Michel E. ; Calazans, Ney L.V.
HARDWARE DESIGN OF FFT POLYNOMIAL MULTIPLIERS............................................................................. 261
Renteria-Mejia, C.P. ; Lopez-Parrado, A. ; Velasco-Medina, J.
EXPLORING PEL DECIMATION TO TRADE OFF BETWEEN ENERGY AND QUALITY IN
VIDEO CODING............................................................................................................................................................... 265
Seidel, Ismael ; Beims Brascher, Andre ; Monteiro, Marcio ; Giintzel, Jose Luis
LAB-ON-PHONE: A PARTICIPATORY SENSING SYSTEM ................................................................................... 269
Rey, Jorge Mario Garzon ; Valencia, Juan Manuel Soto ; Rozo, Antonio Garcia ; Segura-Quijano, Fredy
EMBEDDED SYSTEM FOR AREA MEASUREMENT USING FPGA...................................................................... 274
Torres-Monsalve, A.F. ; Bolanos-Jojoa, J.D. ; Velasco-Medina, J.
PIEZORESISTIVE CANTILEVER PLATFORM FOR LABEL-FREE DETECTION OF
MOLECULES.................................................................................................................................................................... 278
Gholamzadeh, Bahareh ; Ghafar-Zadeh, Ebrahim ; Awwad, Falah ; Sawan, Mohamad
A SERIES-PARALLEL SWITCHED CAPACITOR STEP-UP DC-DC CONVERTER AND ITS
GATE-CONTROL CIRCUITS FOR OVER THE SUPPLY RAIL SWITCHES........................................................ 282
Perez-Nicoli, Pablo ; Castro, Pablo ; Silveira, Fernando
AN ADAPTABLE CMOS DEPRESSING SYNAPSE WITH DETECTION OF CHANGES IN INPUT
SPIKE RATE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 286
Irizarry-Valle, Yilda ; Parker, Alice C. ; Grzywacz, Norberto M.
TSVS IN EARLY LAYOUT DESIGN EXPLORATION FOR 3D ICS........................................................................ 290
Ahmed, Mohammad A. ; Chrzanowska-Jeske, M.
SIMULATION IN 3D INTEGRATION AND TSV ........................................................................................................ 294
Weide-Zaage, K. ; Moujbani, A. ; Kludt, J.
PARALLEL VS. SERIAL INTER-PLANE COMMUNICATION USING TSVS....................................................... 298
Omam, Somayyeh Rahimian ; Leblebici, Yusuf ; De Micheli, Giovanni
NEW APPROACH TO BLOCK-LEVEL 3D IC LAYOUT DESIGN .......................................................................... 302
Grzesiak-Kopec, Katarzyna ; Ogorzalek, Maciej
FORM FACTOR IMPROVEMENT OF SMART-PIXELS FOR VISION SENSORS THROUGH 3-D
VERTICALLY-INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES ..................................................................................................... 306
Rodriguez-Vazquez, Angel ; Carmona-Galan, Ricardo ; Berni, Jorge Fernandez ; Vargas, Sonia ; Lenero, Juan A.
; Suarez, M. ; Brea, Victor ; Perez-Verdu, Belen
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