The cognitive radio wireless sensor network (CR-WSN) is experiencing more and more attention for its capacity to automatically extract broadband instantaneous radio environment information. Obtaining sufficient linearity and spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is a significant premise of guaranteeing sensing performance which, however, usually suffers from the nonlinear distortion coming from th...

This paper introduces a linear programming (LP) technique that performs ratedistortion based optimization for constrained video coding. Given the assumption of piecewise linear and convex rate-distortion functions, LP is used to generate optimal solutions for the minmax problem under VBR buffer constraints. The LP solution for this problem avoids an explicit search for the minimum distortion va...

This research work proposes new concepts of flexibility and self-correction for currentsteering digital-to-analog converters (DACs) which allow the attainment of broad functional and performance specifications, high linearity, and reduced dependence on the fabrication processes. This work analytically investigates the DAC linearity with respect to the accuracy of the DAC unit elements. The main...

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the functionality and performance of a PSF-based geometric distortion correction for high-field functional animal EPI. The EPI method was extended to measure the PSF and a postprocessing chain was implemented in Matlab for offline distortion correction. The correction procedure was applied to phantom and in vivo imaging of mice and rats at 9.4T using d...

Point-like nature of stars leads to significant disturbances of light beams passed through the atmosphere by refractive effects. These effects should be taken into account in retrievals from stellar occultation measurements. We consider the influence of scintillation on stellar occultation measurements and on quality of ozone retrievals from these measurements, based on experience of the GOMOS ...

In this paper the linearity performances of harmonic tuned microwave power amplifiers is discussed and analysed, inferring some useful design guidelines. By a simplified active device model, the effects of the amplifier harmonic loads on the intermodulation distortion are investigated and experimentally validated showing the IMD3 performances of four hybrid amplifiers, designed using different ...

Introduction: Recent research shows a high demand for highly linear operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) with an aim to reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) [1–4]. However, most of these linearisation techniques may present important drawbacks such as reduced effective transconductance and significant power consumption. On the other hand, low power supply and power consumption solut...