In the past two decades, modal analysis has become a major tool in the quest for determining, improving and optimizing dynamic characteristics of engineering structures. Not only has it been recognized in mechanical and aeronautical engineering, but also modal analysis has discovered profound applications for civil and building structures, biomechanical problems, space structures, acoustical in...

A new way of measuring planar position for micrometric and sub-micrometric applications is presented with a mono sensing electrode and hybrid-frequency excitation. The sensing theory and operation principle are described and summarized, and a printed circuit board (PCB) sensor prototype is built and tested. It is shown by the experimental results that a very simple structure and geometric relat...

Kactus2 is based on IEEE 1685-2014 “IP-XACT” standard (“IEEE Standard for Ip-Xact, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing Ip Within Tool Flows” 2014), which defines an XML format for documents describing the components, designs and configurations. Ideally, this enables vendor independent integration between standard compatible tools. The IP-XACT standard is complex and versa...

As the demand for low-cost electronic systems increases, increasing wiring density/reducing printed circuit board (PCB) layer count becomes inevitable. This reality limits the PCB routing layer options of high-speed input/output (I/O) signals, making it more difficult to meet the next-generation product’s performance targets. For example, using densely wired microstrip routing on a PCB helps re...

This document treats the crosstalk between parallel conductors. The conductors can represent either conductors in a multiconductor cable or traces on a printed circuit board (PCB). An analysis method based on a lumped circuit equivalent for the problem as well as a method to calculate the per unit length parameters are presented. The computed results are validated by comparison with measurement...

This paper gives information about construction of planar rectangular monopole antenna on Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Behaviour of such planar antenna is same as the rectangular patch antenna with finite ground plane which lies in same plane of given PCB. The designed antenna is a broadband antenna as its ratio bandwidth falls under broadband category. In comparison with monopole antenna broad...

Maze routing is widely used in both printed circuit board (PCB) andVLSI design. However, for the ever increasing design requirements, this can no longer he done economically without the help of special purpose hardware accelerators.A new hardware accelerator comprised of several fast processors interconnected in the form of a hexagonal mesh with wraparound connections is proposed. The n...