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VLSI design of an high speed Turbo Decoder for 3rd generation satellite communication
No full textIn the present period in which 3rd generation systems including their satellite component are specified and realized, one important issue is to design a powerful channel coding scheme in order to ensure the good propagation of different types of information streams (voice, data) through the mobile satellite channel. In this field and in many other applications a new class of concatenated codes, called Turbo codes, have been introduced. Turbo coding scheme is able to achieve performance close to the Shannon's bound, but at the cost of a large transmission delay and decoder complexity. In this paper we propose the VLSI design of a Turbo decoder for high performance in terms of throughput and low latency time compliant with Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specification. A 100 Mbit/s throughput has been demonstrated for an overall complexity of about 112 Kgates plus 35 Kbits dual port RAM and an operating clock frequency of 100 MHz
Generic Sensor Interface for on-Board Satellite Applications
No full textSatellite demands in terms of computational power, dimensions, mass, reliability and power consumption related to the electronic circuitry for on-board-processing (both payload and house keeping operations) are typically addressed with integrated solutions: System-on-Chip (SoC) has become a familiar term which identifies a complex heterogeneous system composed by one or more processing units, an application specific block-set and a variable number of general purpose [programmable] peripherals (communication, networking, memories). New design methodologies are required for the design and verification of such a complex SoC in a reasonable time. In this paper we applied the so called platform based approach for the development of a generic digital sensor interface: the interface gathers the data coming from a space qualified sensor and after a proper signal conditioning (offset calibration, linearization, thermal compensation) provides the processed information through a SpaceWire link
Platform-Based Design for Space Applications
No full textThis paper presents a platform-based approach adopted to develop a sensor interface for a generic spacequalified sensor. The design environment is composed by hardware blocks and software tools suitable for the design space exploration, while a proper verification methodology intents to guarantee the correct system behavior and to increase its reliability. An application case with a rate gyro sensor is being considered in order to tune the design flow. The approach aims to reduce the costs of the final chip in terms of either the development time, by exploiting the platform concept, or the involved circuitry, for the massive usage of the digital electronic in spite of the analog one
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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