Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society (eBook)

Preface 6
Contents 8
A Wireless Sensor Node for Acoustic Emission Non-destructive Testing 10
1 Introduction 10
2 Acoustic Emission: Wireless Consideration 12
3 Wireless Sensor Node Architecture 13
4 Conclusions 15
References 15
FPGA Implementation of a Low-Power QRS Extractor 17
1 Introduction 18
2 Pan and Tompkins Algorithm 19
3 Fixed Point Analysis 20
4 Experimental Results 21
5 Conclusion 22
References 22
Digital Architecture of Next Generation Spacecraft Tracker Based on Wideband ?DOR 24
1 Introduction 24
2 Wideband ?DOR Signal Generator Architecture 26
3 Experimental Results 28
4 Conclusions 30
References 30
FPGA Implementation of a Channelizer with 2048 Channels Utilizing USRP-SDR Platform for Satellite Communications 32
1 Introduction 32
2 Channelizer Based on Filter Banks 33
2.1 Parallel Implementation 33
2.2 Serial Implementation 34
3 Implementation, Test and Results 35
4 Conclusions 36
References 37
FPGA Based Digital Lock-in Amplifier for fNIRS Systems 39
1 Introduction 39
2 System Architecture 40
3 Experimental Results 43
4 Conclusion 44
References 44
A Low-Cost Smart Microwave Radar for Short Range Measurements 46
1 Introduction 46
2 Radar Technology 47
2.1 Radar Architecture 48
3 Experimental Results 50
4 Conclusions and Future Works 51
References 51
Multi-sensors Exhaust Gas Emission Monitoring System for Industrial Applications 53
1 Introduction 54
2 System Architecture 54
2.1 Gas-Sensor Front End Electronics 55
3 Measurement Post-processing 56
3.1 Chemoresistive Sensor Data Processing Algorithm 57
4 Experimental Results 58
5 Conclusions 59
References 59
Challenging CPS Trade-off Adaptivity with Coarse-Grained Reconfiguration 61
1 Introduction 61
2 Hardware Adaptivity Support in CPS Designs 62
2.1 Contribution 62
2.2 Dynamic Trade-off Management 63
3 Experimental Results 64
3.1 Manually Implemented CGR AES on FPGA 64
3.2 Automatically Derived HEVC Interpolator on FPGA 65
3.3 Automatically Derived and Optimized FFT on ASIC 66
4 Conclusions 67
References 67
A Novel Wearable Sensor System for Multi-lead ECG Measurement 68
1 Introduction 68
2 System Architecture 69
3 Performance 71
3.1 Noise Measurements 71
3.2 Results with Disposable Gel Electrodes and Carbon-Based Smart Textiles 72
4 Comparison with State-of-the-Art Systems 73
5 Conclusion 73
References 75
Real-Time in-Line Industrial Fluids Characterization Using Multiple Pulse Repetition Frequency 76
1 Introduction 76
2 Multi-PRF Method 77
3 The System 78
3.1 Hardware Architecture 80
3.2 FPGA Firmware 80
4 Experiments and Results 81
5 Conclusion 82
References 82
Model-Order Reduction Procedure for Fast Dynamic Electrothermal Simulation of Power Converters 83
1 Introduction 83
2 TFB Extraction with MOR Technique 84
3 Case Study—eT Analysis of a DC/DC Boost Converter 85
3.1 Thermal Model 85
3.2 Active Devices Electrical Model Calibration 86
3.3 Boost Converter eT Analysis 86
4 Conclusions 88
References 88
The Microarchitecture of a Multi-threaded RISC-V Compliant Processing Core Family for IoT End-Nodes 90
1 Introduction 90
2 Architecture Design Specification 91
2.1 Overview 91
2.2 Supported Instruction Set 93
3 Microarchitecture Building Blocks 93
3.1 FSM_IF 93
3.2 FSM_ID 94
3.3 FSM_IE 94
3.4 Data Register File 95
3.5 Program Counter Management Units 95
3.6 Control and Status Registers Units 96
3.7 Debug Unit 96
4 Performance 97
5 Conclusions 97
References 98
Analysis and Simulations of mmW Transceiver for System-in-Package Communications 99
1 Introduction 99
2 Model of the Communication System 100
2.1 Antenna Modelling 102
2.2 Intersymbol Interference 103
3 Communication Link Performance 104
4 Conclusions and Future Works 104
References 106
Integrated Microwave Photonics: Overview and Promising Space Applications 107
1 Introduction 107
2 Overview of Integrated Microwave Photonics 108
2.1 Selected Recent Advances 108
3 Promising Applications in Space 109
3.1 Ka-Band Pass-Band Filter for Flexible Telecom Payloads 109
3.2 Graphene-Based Delay Lines for RF Beamforming 111
4 Conclusions 111
References 112
A New Recognition Procedure for Palmprint Features Extraction from Ultrasound Images 113
1 Introduction 113
2 Experimental Setup 114
3 Recognition Procedure 115
4 Recognition Results 117
5 Conclusions 118
References 118
Real-Time DNN-Based Face Identification for the Blind 119
1 Introduction 119
2 Face Verification Approaches 120
3 System Details 121
4 Results 123
5 Conclusions 125
References 125
Exploring Particle Swarm Optimization to Build a Dynamic Charging Electric Vehicle Routing Algorithm 126
1 Introduction 126
2 EV Routing State of the Art 128
3 Applying PSO to Routing of Dynamic Charging EV 128
4 Simulation 130
5 Conclusion and Future Work 131
References 132
A Thermoelectric Powered System for Skiing Performance Monitoring 134
1 Introduction 134
2 Implementation 135
2.1 Thermoelectric Generators and Energy Harvesting 136
2.2 CC2650 Application 138
2.3 Android Application 139
3 Discussion and Results 139
4 Conclusion 141
References 142
Author Index 144