This paper describes the integration of Design-ForTestibility (DFT) processes, tools, and methodologies into the RASSP System, which consists of the Design Environment and Enterprise System. The blueprint for the DFT developments is the DFT Methodology, which is highly automated, hierarchical, and spans the entire life cycle, contributing significantly to the RASSP goals of 4x improvement in cy...

The basic receive space diversity combining methods, i.e. Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC), Equal Gain Combining (EGC) and Selection Combining (SC), are studied in this work for Preand PostDFT combining wideband multi-carrier receivers. A common system model for both these schemes are devised. The outage and mean capacity and Frame Error Rate (FER) simulations show that Pre-DFT combining technique...

A general approach to the problem of simultaneous computation of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of two sequences of length N , which may be real, imaginary, conjugated symmetric or conjugated anti-symmetric, using a single N -point DFT of a complex sequence is presented. The framework developed is applied to the simultaneous computation of two DFTs, one DFT and one inverse DFT (IDFT) or t...

Since the invention of the mobile phone, a new generation of mobile communication standard has emerged every 10 years. Upgrading the technology of mobile networks in all areas takes few years. Hence, mobile phones should support the previous communication standards as well as the latest standards. Realizing a multi-standard mobile phone by multiple transceivers in parallel is neither a size-eff...

BACKGROUND Defibrillation threshold (DFT) testing at the time of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation is widely used in clinical practice, but reliable data supporting its routine use are lacking. We undertook a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of DFT testing compared to no DFT testing at the time of ICD implantation. METHODS We searched the MEDLINE and EMBASE datab...