Publications related to Digital synthesizer

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices ...

De Gruyter2022

Une approche computationnelle du cadastre napoléonien de Venise

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Raphaël Barman, Federica Pardini

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Napoleonic administration introduced a new standardised description system to give an objective account of the form and functions of the city of Venice. The cadastre, deployed on a European scale, was offering for ...

2021

OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers

Dimitrios Kyritsis

This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed "Digital Engineer" skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as "Digital Innovato ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021

High-Speed ADC Design and Optimization for Wireline Links

Ayça Akkaya

The ever-growing global internet traffic has increased demand for higher speed data transmission. As the bandwidth requirements of wireline links increase, extensive digital equalization techniques are required to compensate for the high-frequency channel ...

EPFL2021

Geospatial digital monitoring of COVID-19 cases at high spatiotemporal resolution

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, David Nicolas De Ridder

SARS-CoV-2 spreads via close contact during daily activities, forming clusters of cases mainly in households and workplaces. A crucial challenge to contain the spread lies in the early detection of these outbreak clusters, and the localisation and isolatio ...

2020

Tokamak plasma edge studies by microwave short-pulse reflectometry and backscattering

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Moving towards an increased understanding of the dynamic processes in the edge of tokamak plasmas requires continuous innovation in diagnostic capabilities, pushing the envelope in both spatial and temporal dimenstions. Plasma density and rotation, and the ...

EPFL2019

V-band nanosecond-scale pulse reflectometer diagnostic in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This article describes the realization of a novel approach to short pulse (∼1 ns) reflectometry (SPR) recently implemented in the tokamak configuration variable tokamak. Taking advantage of a fast arbitrary waveform generator and vector-network-analyzer ex ...

2019

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Myung Jae Lee, Preethi Padmanabhan, Augusto Ronchini Ximenes

This article introduces a modular, direct time-of-flight (TOF) depth sensor. Each module is digitally synthesized and features a 2

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8) single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel array, an edge-sensitive decision tree, a shared time-to ...

2019

Multi-Tone Signaling and ADC-Based Digital Receiver for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Gain Kim

The exponential growth of Internet traffic and related demands for higher communication speed pushes processor-to-processor and processor-to-memory interconnects to provide further higher data-rate. Often time, processor-to-memory interconnectsâ speed is ...

EPFL2018

Neural encoding of auditory features during music perception and imagery

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Stéphanie Martin

Despite many behavioral and neuroimaging investigations, it remains unclear how the human cortex represents spectrotemporal sound features during auditory imagery, and how this representation compares to auditory perception. To assess this, we recorded ele ...

2018

Graph Signal Processing: Overview, Challenges and Applications

Pascal Frossard, Pierre Vandergheynst

Research in graph signal processing (GSP) aims to develop tools for processing data defined on irregular graph domains. In this paper, we first provide an overview of core ideas in GSP and their connection to conventional digital signal processing, along w ...

2018

Fluorophores for Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer by an Yttrium Triflate Catalyzed Reaction of Isocyanides with Thiocarboxylic Acids

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Shuo Tong, Shun Zhao, Qing He

Discovery of new chemical reactivity of a given functional group can often result in innovative synthesis of important chemical entities that possess unprecedented properties. We designed and developed a one-step synthesis of 5-amino-4-carboxamidothiazoles ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Ultra Low-Power Frequency Synthesizers for Duty Cycled IoT radios

Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan

Internet of Things (IoT), which is one of the main talking points in the electronics industry today, consists of a number of highly miniaturized sensors and actuators which sense the physical environment around us and communicate that information to a cent ...

EPFL2016

20-300 MHz Frequency Generator with-70 dBc Reference Spur for Low Jitter Serial Applications

Catherine Dehollain, Gürkan Yilmaz

This paper presents a frequency synthesizer based on a phase locked loop (PLL) targeting low jitter applications. The frequency generator covers a range wider than a decade, more explicitly from 20 to 300 MHz. Thanks to a 4-stage ring oscillator, it can pr ...

Ieee2016

A 2.4-GHz low power polar transmitter for wireless body area network applications

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta, Franz Xaver Pengg

A 2.4 GHz low power polar transmitter is proposed in this paper. A dynamic biasing circuit, controlled by a digital envelope signal, is used as a direct digital-to-RF envelope converter. It effectively linearizes the input-output characteristic of the over ...

Springer Verlag2014

3D near-infrared imaging based on a single-photon avalanche diode array sensor

Edoardo Charbon, Juan Mata Pavia, Martin Wolf

Near-infrared light can be used to determine the optical properties (absorption and scattering) of human tissue. Optical tomography uses this principle to image the internal structure of parts of the body by measuring the light that is scattered in the tis ...

2012

Design and Exploration of Low-Power Analog to Information Conversion Based on Compressed Sensing

David Atienza Alonso, Pierre Vandergheynst, Nadia Khaled, Hossein Mamaghanian

The long-standing analog-to-digital conversion paradigm based on Shannon/Nyquist sampling has been challenged lately, mostly in situations such as radar and communication signal processing where signal bandwidth is so large that sampling architectures cons ...

2012

Time/frequency coding for Brillouin distributed sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

In this paper, we propose a novel coding for long range Brillouin Optical Time Analysis (BOTDA) distributed sensors based on a combination of time and frequency pulses, resulting in an additional coding gain of √2 with respect to traditional intensit ...

2012

Universal and efficient compressed sensing by spread spectrum and application to realistic Fourier imaging techniques

Pierre Vandergheynst, Yves Wiaux, Rémi Gribonval, Gilles Puy

We advocate a compressed sensing strategy that consists of multiplying the signal of interest by a wide bandwidth modulation before projection onto randomly selected vectors of an orthonormal basis. Firstly, in a digital setting with random modulation, con ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

3D Near-Infrared Imaging Based on a Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Array Sensor

Edoardo Charbon, Juan Mata Pavia, Matthias Wolf

An imager for optical tomography was designed based on a detector with 128x128 single-photon pixels that included a bank of 32 time-to-digital converters. Due to the high spatial resolution and the possibility of performing time resolved measurements, a ne ...

2011