This paper presents a high performance design for ContextBased Adaptive Variable Length Coding (CAVLC) used in the H.264/ AVC standard. A two-stage encoder is proposed to make the scan and encode stage work simultaneously. The scan engine scans four coefficients at each cycle. Parallel encoder for four “levels” and parallel encoder for four “Run before” are adopted to accelerate the encode engi...

Wood is a natural material that due to its properties has been used for years in many applications such as construction and furniture industries. Being a natural material it is prone to defects which must be detected, preferably during the early stage of product production. Testing of wood pieces, to detect defects or to determine some of its properties, can be made using two types of technique...

i ABSTRACT Nowadays transducers are ubiquitous as interfaces between the increasingly digital world and the real physical world. The same holds for the power amplifiers driving them. This thesis focuses on the design and optimization of high-voltage class-D amplifiers, which are used for driving capacitive piezoelectric actuator loads in active vibration/noise control applications. The main obj...

This work presents a two-stage operational transconductance amplifier suitable for sub-1 V operation. characteristic is achieved thanks to the adoption of bulk-driven non-tailed differential pair. Local positive feedback exploited boost equivalent first stage and quasi-floating gate approach enables class AB operation second stage. Implemented in standard 180 nm CMOS technology supplied at 0.6 ...

Objective: Different categories are available for estimating of radiation dose. Radioisotopes with the same energy and almost the same physical properties have similar effects. Monte Carlo technique is a computerized method based on mathematical simulation of physical processes. The main purpose of this study is to show that beta particles are not able to penetrate deep into the water. also dif...

This work investigates the channel thickness dependency of high-k gate dielectric-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) inverter circuit built using a conventional double-gate metal gate oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (DG-MOSFET). It is espied that the use of high-k dielectric as a gate oxide in n/p DG-MOSFET based CMOS inverter results in a high noise margin as well...

This paper presents a compact two-stage ultrawideband low-noise amplifier (LNA). A common-gate topology is adopted for the input stage to achieve wideband input matching, while a cascode stage is used as the second stage to provide power gain at high frequencies. A low power consumption and a small chip area are obtained by optimizing the performance of the LNA with tight constraint on biasing ...