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Design and Simulation of a 12 Gb/s Transceiver With 8-Tap FFE, Offset-Compensated Samplers and Fully Adaptive 1-Tap Speculative/3-Tap DFE and Sampling Phase for MIPI A-PHY Applications
Design of a 8-taps, 10Gbps transmitter for automotive micro-controllers
This work describes the design of a transmitter for a
10 Gbps serial interface to be used in automotive Electronic Control
Units. The data rate is chosen in order to assess the design
challenges in automotive environment at this frequency. The focus
will be mainly on challenges related to transistor level design
using a standard 28 nm technology, nevertheless a system level
overview will be also given. The proposed transmitter features
feed-forward equalization with 8 taps (1 pre-cursor and 6 postcursors,
plus the main tap), whose strength is programmable with
16 discretization steps, optimizing the transmitter adaptability
with reduced area. The proposed architecture is also able to
tune its output impedance independently from the choice of the
weights of the equalization tap. It features a 300 mV peak-topeak
eye diagram with 16 equalization levels and achieves a
remarkably low 2.25 pJ/bit total power consumption (0.633 pJ/bit
for the predriver+driver)
A Simple Simulation Approach for the Estimation of Convergence and Performance of Fully Adaptive Equalization in High-Speed Serial Interfaces
Design of a half-rate receiver for a 10Gbps automotive serial interface with 1-tap-unrolled 4-taps DFE and custom CDR algorithm
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
Automotive-Range Characterization of a 11 Gb/s Transceiver for Automotive Microcontroller Applications with 8-Tap FFE, 1-Tap Unrolled/3-Tap DFE and Offset-Compensated Samplers
This paper presents the experimental characterization of a High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) for automotive microcontroller applications designed in 28 nm planar CMOS technology, verified over automotive corners and operating up to 11 Gb/s. The impedance of the full-rate voltage-mode transmitter can be tuned by activating several driver replicas. It also features an 8-tap Feed-Forward Equalizer (FFE) with taps programmable in steps of 1/16. The analog front-end of the receiver cascades a Variable-Gain Amplifier (VGA) and a Continuous-Time Linear Equalizer (CTLE), which can be individually tuned. The receiver is based on a half-rate architecture and features a 3-tap Decision-Feedback Equalizer (DFE), one tap being speculative to relax timing constraints; another VGA is embedded in the DFE summing node. The subsequent data and edge samplers are offset-compensated. The circuit is experimentally characterized over automotive corners at 6.25 Gb/s and 11 Gb/s on highly-reflecting PCB channels with up to 14.5 dB loss, demonstrating operations at bit-error ratio (BER) below 10 −12 up to 11 Gb/s. The HSSI occupies an area of 0.08 mm 2 and consumes 8.4 mW/Gb/s at 11 Gb/s and 6.2mW/Gb/s at 6.25 Gb/s
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We 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
We 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
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