DCIS 2001
XVI Conference on
Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems
November 20-23, 2001

Hotel Ipanema Porto

Porto, Portugal

 


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Previous editions:
  1996 - Barcelona
  1997 - Sevilla
  1998 - Madrid
  1999 - Palma de Mallorca
  2000 - Montpellier


Local organizing committee:
 
Marques dos Santos
Pedro Guedes de Oliveira
José Martins Ferreira
José Machado Silva
José Carlos Alves
Gustavo Alves
 
Technical programme (download PDF)

Conference sessions

 


Wednesday, November 21

8:45 – 9:00                  Opening  session

9:00 – 10:00                Plenary Session 1

Wireless Systems-on-a-Chip Design

Prof. Robert Brodersen        

Univ. California, Berkeley, USA

 

10:00 – 11:00              Session 1a. Analogue Cells (I)

 

Chairs:  Carlos Leme, Chipidea (Portugal)

     Diego Vazquez, Inst. de Microelectronica de Sevilla (Spain)

A Fully Differential CMOS Switched-Opamp for Low Voltage SC circuits

J. Arias1, L. Enríquez1, L. Quintanilla1, J. Vicente1, J. Barbolla1, D. Vázquez2 and A. Rueda2

1E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Univ. de Valladolid, Spain

2Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ Sevilla, Spain

A BiCMOS Fully Differential Integrator for Fast Pulse Discrimination

Sebastià Bota1, Angel Diéguez1 and David Gascón2

1Dept. d’Electrònica, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain

2Dept. d’Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain

Current Driver for Myocardial Impedance Measure

Alberto Yúfera and Adoración Rueda

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ Sevilla, Spain

10:00 – 11:00              Session 1b. FPGA Tools

 

Chairs:  Horácio Neto, IST/INESC-ID (Portugal)

     José Luis Martín, Univ. Pais Vasco (Spain)

Applying PADGP to the Problem of Placement and Routing on FPGAs

F. Fernández1, J. M. Sánchez2 and M. Tomassini3

1Centro Universitário de Mérida, Univ. de Extremadura, Spain

2Escuela Politécnica, Univ. de Extremadura, Spain

3Institute d’Informatique, Univ. de Lausane, Switzerland

Debugging and Tracing in JTAG-Compatible FPGA-Based Designs

M. García, A. de Castro, E. de la Torre, T. Riesgo and J. Uceda

Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, E.T.S.I. Industriales. División de Ingeniería Electrónica, Spain

HADES-1:  A Rapid Prototyping Environment Based on Advanced FPGA's

M. A. Aguirre, J. N. Tombs, A. Torralba and L. G. Franquelo

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Sevilla, Spain

10:00 – 11:00              Session 1c. System Level Modelling

 

Chairs:   Manuel Bellido, Inst. de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (Spain)

    José Augusto Lima, Univ. Minho, (Braga Portugal)

A System Specification Experiment with Esterel

Lluís Ribas, Joaquín Saiz and Jordi Carrabina

Dept. d’Informàtica, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

VHDL model of a 16/32-bit ALU based on asynchronous logic

José L. Martín, Jaime Jiménez and Gerardo Aranguren

Dept. de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Univ. del País Vasco, Spain

An Energy Model and Estimator for a 32 Bit Microprocessor

G. Caldentey, J. Cid, J. Rius, S. Manich and R. Rodriguez

Dept. d’Enginyeria, Univ. Politècnica de Calanunya, Spain

 

11:00 – 11:30            Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30              Session 2a. Integrated Filters

 

Chairs:   Manuel Medeiros Silva, IST/INESC-ID (Portugal)

    Francisco Duque, Univ. Extremadura (Spain)

Programmable SC Biquad Using One Single Capacitor Bank

A. Torralba, A. P. Vegaleal and L. G. Franquelo

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

A Switched-Capacitor Bandpass Filter with Quasi-Continuous Q-Factor Tunability

J. L. Ausín, J. F. Duque-Carrillo, R. Pérez-Aloe and J. V. Sánchez

Dept. Ingeniería Electrónica y Electrotécnica, Univ. de Extremadura, Spain

A 10.7MHz FGMOS Low Power Sixth Order Bandpass Filter

Esther O. Rodríguez-Villegas, Adoración Rueda and Alberto Yúfera

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

11:30 – 12:30              Session 2b. Digital Numerical ICs

 

Chairs:   Luis Entrena, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

    João Canas Ferreira, Univ. Porto (Portugal)

A Methodology and Tool to Design Optimized Standard Cell Based M x N Signed Multipliers

H. Souffi-Kebbati, J. Ph. Blonde and F. Braun

Laboratoire d’Electronique et de Physique des Systèmes Instrumentaux, Strasbourg, France

A Comparison of Switching Noise Generation in CMOS Binary Parallel Adders

P. Parra, A. Acosta, C. Jiménez and M. Valencia

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

Analysis of the Number of Multipliers in Radix-2 FFT Modules with Different Latency and Area Constraints.

J. A. López, J. M. Díez and C. Carreras

Dept. Ingeniería Electrónica, E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

11:30 – 12:30              Session 2c. HW/SW Codesign

 

Chairs:  Juan Carlos López, Univ. Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

    Yago Torroja, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

A New Co-Design Methodology for Embedded Signal Processing Systems

Mário P. Véstias and Horácio Neto

INESC–ID / IST, Lisboa, Portugal

Hardware-Software Co-design of a Cryptographic Application

Diego Matilla1, Marisa Lopez-Vallejo1 and Ander Royo2

1Dept. Ingeniería Electrónica, E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

2Agere Systems, Pol. Industrial Tres Cantos, Spain

DEMETER: A Novel Framework for Hardware and Software System Specification, Simulation and Verification in C++

Héctor Navarro, Juan. A. Montiel-Nelson, Javier Sosa and R. Sarmiento

Research Institute for Applied Microelectronics, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

 

12:30 – 14:30            Lunch

14:30 – 15:50              Session 3a. Access in Communication Systems

 

Chairs:  Rafael Burriel, IBIT (Spain)

    Juan A. Montiel Nelson, Univ. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

A Narrow Band Power Line Communications System in a Single Device

J. I. García-Nicolás, I. Urriza, A. Sanz, J. I. Artigas and A. Valdovinos

Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Univ. Zaragoza, Spain

Virtual Components Design for Wireless Communications Using PCMCIA Interfaces

Antoni Portero, Antonio Nuñez and Jordi Carrabina

Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Integration of Advance Encryption Standard in Smart Cards

Raul Sanchez-Reillo

Dept. Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y Automática, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

OFDM Synchronization Scheme for Power Line Telecommunications (PLT)

V. Baena, J. Granado, M. A. Aguirre, A. Torralba and L. G. Franquelo

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

14:30 – 15:50              Session 3b. Logic and High-Level Synthesis

 

Chairs:  Jose Manuel Mendias, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

    Lluís Ribas, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

Experiments in Rapid Prototyping of Reactive Systems with POLIS

Moisès Serra1, Jordi Tirado2, Joaquín Saiz3, Lluís Ribas3 and Jordi Carrabina3

1Dept. d’Electrònica i Telecomunicacions, Univ. de Vic, Spain

2Calmell, S. A., Spain

3Dept. Informàtica, ETSE, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Multiple-Precision Circuits Allocation Independent of Data-Objects Length

M. C. Molina, J. M. Mendías and R. Hermida

Dept. Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Some of the Capabilities of Redundancy Addition and Removal Applied to Sequential Logic Circuits

Enrique San Millán, Luis Entrena and José Alberto Espejo

Dept. Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y Automática, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

A Flexible State Assignment Algorithm for Low Power Implementations

Manuel Martínez1, María J. Avedillo1,2, José M. Quintana1,2 and José L. Huertas1,2

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Spain

Dept. de Electrónica y Electromagnetismo, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

14:30 – 15:50              Session 3c. Analogue Circuit Testing

 

Chairs:  Carlos Beltran Almeida, INESC-ID (Portugal)

    José Luis Huertas, Inst. de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (Spain)

Filter Based-BIST for SINAD Measurement of A/D Converter

Ch. Rebai, D. Dallet and Ph. Marchegay

IXL Laboratory – ENSEIRB, Univ. of Bordeaux I, France

Oscillation-Test Technique for CMOS OpAmps by Monitoring Supply Current

J. Font, J. Ginard, E. Isern, M. Roca and E. García

Dept. de Física, Univ. Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

A New BIST Scheme for Sigma-Delta Modulators

J. Machado da Silva, J. S. Duarte and J. S. Matos

INESC Porto, Univ. do Porto, Portugal

On-Chip Evaluation of Oscillation Based Test Output Signals for Switched-Capacitor Circuits

Diego Vázquez, Gloria Huertas, Gildas Leger, Eduardo Peralías, Adoración Rueda, José Luis Huertas

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

 

15:50 – 16:10            Coffee break

16:10 – 17:30              Session 4a. Modelling and CAD (I)

 

Chairs:  Nadine Azemard, LIRMM (France)

    Eugeni Isern, Univ. Islas Baleares (Spain)

Large-Signal Nonlinear Model for MESFET Triode and Saturation Zones

Nuno Borges de Carvalho and José Carlos Pedro

Inst. de Telecomunicações, Univ. de Aveiro, Portugal

SiDSen: A Program to Simulate Delays Based on Sensitivity Analysis Model

J. García, J. Pulido, A. Hernández, J. del Pino, B. González, J. R. Sendra and A. Nunez

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica y Automática, Instituto Univ. de Microelectrónica Aplicada, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Method of Frequency Adjusting for Transient Noise Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits

M. M. Gourary1, S. G. Rusakov1, S. L. Ulyanov1, M. M. Zharov1 and B. J. Mulvaney2

1IPPM, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

2Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

Layout-Constrained Retargeting of Analog Blocks

R. Castro-López, F. V. Fernández, M. Delgado-Restituto, F. Medeiro and A. Rodríguez-Vázquez

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Spain

16:10 – 17:30              Session 4b. Integrated Sensors

 

Chairs:  Jaume Segura, Univ. Islas Baleares (Spain)

    António Cruz Serra, IST, Lisboa (Portugal)

CMOS Only Magnetic Sensor with an Enhanced Sensitivity Interface Circuit

E. Montané, D. Celma, G. Hornero, S. A. Bota and J. Samitier

Instrumentation and Communication Systems, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain

ACE16K: a Programmable Analog Array for Focal-Plane Vision Applications

G. Liñán, R. Domínguez-Castro, S. Espejo and A. Rodríguez-Vázquez

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Spain

CMOS Optical Receivers for Fiber Communications

G. Chapinal, G. Hornero, E. Montane, M. Moreno, A. Herms and J. Samitier

Laboratori de Sistemes d’Instrumentació i Comunicacions, Dept. d’Electrònica, Univ de Barcelona, Spain

A CMOS Linear Photosensor Array for Telemetric Applications

G. Hornero, E. Montane, G. Chapinal, R. Meri, M. Moreno and A. Herms

Instrumentation and Communication Systems, Univ. de Barcelona , Spain

16:10 – 17:30              Session 4c. FPGA Applications (I)

 

Chairs:   Juan J. Rodriguez Andina, Univ. Vigo (Spain)

    António Ferrari, Univ. Aveiro (Portugal)

Minimum Latency NURBS to Bézier Conversor

P. N. Mallón, M. Bóo and J. D. Bruguera

Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

RNS Based PID Controllers with Adaptative Support over FPL Devices

Luis Parrilla1, Javier Ramírez1, Antonio García1, Pedro G. Fernández2 and Antonio Lloris1

1Dept. Electrónica yTecnología de Computadores, Univ. de Granada, Spain

2Dept. Ingeniería Eléctrica, Univ. de Jaén, Spain

FPGA Implementation of a MIPS Processor

Betariz Ruiz and Pablo Sanchez

Microelectronics Engineering Group, Univ. of Cantabria

Could FPGAs Be Used to Classify Cork Stoppers? An Experimental Study

Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Juan M. Sánchez-Pérez and Juan A. Gómez-Pulido

Dept. de Informática, Escuela Politécnica, Univ. de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

16:10 – 17:30              Session 4d. High-Level Testing

 

Chairs:  Emilio Olias, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

    José Vieira dos Santos, ISEP, Porto (Portugal)

Automatic Insertion of Fault-Tolerant Structures at the Register Transfer Level

Celia López, Luis Entrena and Emilio Olías

Electronic Technology Area, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Exploring Test Solutions by Means of System-Level Design Tools

M. Lajolo1, M. Sonza Reorda2 and M. Violante2

1NEC C&C Research Labs, Princeton, NJ, USA

2Dipt. di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Synthesizable VHDL Model of a Boundary-Scan Tester

Ángel Quirós Olozábal, Diego Gómez Vela, Francisco Lucas Fernández and Carmen García López

Grupo de Diseño de Circuitos Microelectrónicos, Univ. de Cádiz, Spain

An Interpretation Framework for Evaluating High-Level Fault Models and ATPG Capabilities

Fulvio Corno, Matteo Sonza Reorda and Giovanni Squillero

Dipt. di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

European Research: Present and Future Strategies

Moderator: Javier Uceda, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

 

 


Thursday, November 22

9:00 – 10:00                Plenary Session 2

 

Mixed-Signal Testing and Design-For-Test in the Deep Submicron Age

Prof. Linda Milor

Georgia Tech, USA

 

10:00 – 11:00              Session 5a. Analogue Cells (II)

 

Chairs:  Francisco Fernandez, Inst. de Microelectronica de Sevilla (Spain)

    Santiago Celma, Univ. Zaragoza (Spain)

An Independent Inversion Transistor Level Constant-gm Technique for Low-Voltage Rail-to-Rail Amplifiers

Juan M. Carrillo, José L. Ausín, and J. F. Duque-Carrillo

Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

Low-Voltage Differentiator for VHF Filtering

C. Aldea, S. Celma and A. Otín

Grupo de Diseño Electrónico, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de Zaragoza, Spain

Dynamic Performance of Parallel -Type ADCs with Different Encoders

Paula Pereira1,3 and Jorge R. Fernandes2,3

1Dept. Eng. Electr., Escola Superior de Tecnologia, IPCB, Castelo Branco, Portugal

2Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

3INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal

10:00 – 11:00              Session 5b. Digital Design

 

Chairs:   Eugenio Villar, Univ. Cantabria (Spain)

    Celia López, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

Design of a Trigonometric Coprocessor with VHDL Based on Delay-Insensitive Logic

José L. Martín, Gerardo Aranguren and Jaime Jiménez

Dept. de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Univ. del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain

Verification of a Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite System

Victor Fernández1, Luis Berrojo2, Josep Prat2 and Yves Leroy2

1Dept. of Electronics Technology, System and Automation Engineering, Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

2Alcatel Espacio, Madrid, Spain

A Comparative Evaluation of an Asynchronous Implementation on FPGAs

Rubén Alarcón and Jordi Carrabina

Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, ETSE, Spain

10:00 – 11:00              Session 5c. FPGA Applications (II)

 

Chairs:   Valeri Skliarov, Univ. Aveiro (Portugal)

    Eduardo de la Torre, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

Taking Advantage of FPGAs to Implement Fieldbus Interfaces

M. D. Valdés, M. A. Domínguez, M. J. Moure and G. Lías

Institute of Applied Electronics, Dept. of Electronic Technology, Univ. of Vigo, Spain

FPGA Based Development Vision System

Pedro Cobos Arribas1 and F. Monasterio-Huelin Maciá2

1Dept. de Sistemas Electrónicos y de Control, EUIT Telecomunicación, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

2Dept. de Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Telecomunicación, ETSI Telecomunicaciós, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Scalable RSA Processor in Reconfigurable Hardware - a SoC Building Block

Viktor Fischer1 and Milos Drutarovský2

1Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et Instrumentation, Univ. Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France

2Dept. of Electronics and Multimedia Communications, Tech. Univ. of Kosice, Slovak Republic

 

11:00 – 11:30            Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30              Session 6a. Circuit Analysis Techniques

 

Chairs:   Adoracion Rueda, Inst. de Microelectronica de Sevilla (Spain)

    Fernand Michel Roche, LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier II (France)

A Tool for Teaching/Learning the Behavior of Analog Integrated Circuits

José Fariña, JuanJ. Rodríguez-Andina and Luis G. Samartín

Dept. of Electronic Technology, Univ. of Vigo

A New High Voltage Operational Amplifier Designed to Drive Piezoelectric Actuators for Microrobotic Applications

E. Montané, P. Miribel, S. A. Bota, M. Puig-Vidal and J. Samitier

Instrumentation and Communication Systems, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain

Analysis of High-Performance Flip-Flops for Mixed-Signal Applications

R. Jiménez1, P. Parra2, P. Sanmartin2, and A. J. Acosta2

1Dept. IESIA, Univ. de Huelva, Spain

2Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

11:30 – 12:30              Session 6b. Neural and Fuzzy Systems

 

Chairs:   Antonio Torralba, Univ. Sevilla (Spain)

    Armando Roy, Univ. Zaragoza (Spain)

Design and Implementation of a Membership Function Circuit in CMOS Technology

Leonardo Mesquita1, Galdenoro Botura Jr.1 and Osamu Saotome2

1Dept. Engenharia Elétrica, Univ. Estadual Paulista, SP, Brasil

2Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, Brasil

VLSI Design of Universal Approximator Neuro-Fuzzy Systems

I. Baturone, S. Sánchez Solano, A. Barriga, C. J. Jiménez, R. Senhadji-Navarro and D. R. López

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Spain

A Fast, Configurable Digital Neural Network ASIC for High-Speed Applications

José Luis Ayala, Antonio G. Lomeña, Marisa López-Vallejo and Ángel Fernández

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

11:30 – 12:30              Session 6c. Analogue Circuit Modelling

 

Chairs:   Christian Duzafa, LIRMM (France)

    Raul Navas, Siemens (Germany)

EG and XTI Parameters Extraction Method Using Direct Measurement of Process Temperature

W. Rahajandraibe1, C. Dufaza1, D. Auvergne1, B. Cialdella2, B. Majoux2 and V. Chowdhury2

1LIRMM, Univ. de Montpellier II, France

2ST-Microelectronics, Grenoble, France

Modelling and Automatic Generation Tool for Integrated Inductors in CMOS Technology

J. del Pino1, J. R. Sendra1, A. Hernández1, S. L. Khemchandani2, J. Aguilera, B. González1, J. García1 and A. Nunez1

1Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica y Automática, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

2INCIDE Canary S.A., Las Palmas, Spain

Study of Non-Linear S/H Operation in Switched-Current Circuits using Volterra Series - Application to Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulators

J. M. de la Rosa, B. Pérez-Verdú, F. Medeiro, R. del Río and A. Rodríguez-Vázquez

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Spain

 

12:30 – 14:30            Lunch

14:30 – 15:50              Session 7a. Modelling and CAD (II)

 

Chairs:   Christian Jay, Infineon (France)

    Fulvio Corno, Politecnico de Torino (Italy)

Applying Data Mining Techniques to Tune System Scheduling

Antonio G. Lomeña, Marisa López Vallejo and Antonio García Quintas

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Study of Different Kind of Tools to Analyse the Quality of HDL Designs. Comparison of Their Coverage of the RMM Guideline.

Fernando Casado1, Felipe Machado1, Natividad Martínez2, Yago Torroja1, Peter Neumann3 and Ralf Seepold2

1ETSI Industriales, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

2Forschungszentrum Informatik, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany

3SCI-WORX, Hanover, Germany

A Datapath Generator for Bit Slice Architectures

J. Sosa, Juan A. Montiel-Nelson, Hector Navarro-Botello, V. de Armas and R. Sarmiento

Research Institute for Applied Microelectronics, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

ISS: Interactive Simulation System

P. Ruiz-de-Clavijo, M. J. Bellido Diaz, J. Juan-Chico and C. Baena Oliva

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ. of Sevilla, Spain

14:30 – 15:50              Session 7b. Industrial DSP Implementations

 

Chairs:   Antonio Núñez, Univ. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

    J. Ignacio Martinez Torre, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

M3Recorder: A MP3 Encoding Based Recorder

J. M. Flores, M. Montón, A. Núñez and A. J. Velasco

Dept. Informàtica, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

The DSP Implementation of the AES Encryption Algorithm

Slobodan Bojanic and O. Nieto-Taladriz Garcia

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica, ETSI Telecomunicación, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Rapid Prototyping of MC-CDMA Transmission Technique on HW/SW Architecture

Sébastian Le Nours, Fabienne Nouvel and Jean-François Hélard

Lab. For Components and Systems of Telecommunications, INSA, Rennes, France

Image Acquisition and Digitalizing System for an Electronic Voting System

J. L. Martín, J. Lázaro, U. Bidarte, A. Zuloaga, K. Espinosa and I. Goirizelaia

Dept. de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Univ. del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain

14:30 – 15:50              Session 7c. BIST and Boundary Scan

 

Chairs:   Salvador Bracho, Univ. Cantabria (Spain)

    João Paulo Teixeira, IST/INESC-ID (Portugal)

Experimenting the 1149.1 and 1149.4 Test Infrastructures in a Web-Accessible Remote Lab (Without Plug-ins!)

André Vaz Fidalgo1,2, Ricardo J. Costa2, Gustavo R. Alves1,2 and José M. Ferreira2

1Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

2Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Using Tabu Method for Optimizing the Cost of Hybrid BIST

Raimund Ubar1, Helena Kruus1, Zebo Peng2 and Gert Jervan2

1Technical Univ. of Tallinn, Estonia

2Univ. of Linköping, Sweden

Low Energy Built-In Self-Test Preparation at RT-Level

M. B. Santos1, J. Braga1, P. Coimbrão1, J. P. Teixeira1, S. Manich2, L. Balado2 and J. Figueras2

1IST / INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal

2Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Enhancing the IEEE 1149. 1 Std Infrastructure to Detect Temporary Faults

J. M. Vieira dos Santos, ISEP, Porto, Portugal

 

15:50 – 16:10            Coffee break

16:10 – 17:30              Session 8a. RF Circuits

 

Chairs:   Dinis Santos, Univ. Aveiro (Portugal)

    Joan Ramon Morante, Univ. de Barcelona (Spain)

Isolation Improvement of Silicon Double Balanced RF Mixer using Micromachining Techniques

J. Cabanillas, J. M. Lopez-Villegas, J. Sieiro, J. A. Osorio and J. Samitier

Laboratori de Sistemes d’Instrumentació i Comunicació, Dept. d’Electrònica, Univ de Barcelona, Spain

A 2.5V, 10 GHz Fully Integrated LC-VCO with 30% Tuning Range

Wouter De Cock and Michiel Steyaert

Dept. ESAT-MICAS, Katolieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium

A 2 GHz Low Power CMOS Active Load Body Effect Mixer

Tierry Taris, Yann Deval, Jean-Baptiste Bégueret and Pascal Fouillat

IXL Laboratory – ENSEIRB, Univ. of Bordeaux I, France

A 1.575 GHz SiGe Low Noise Amplifiers for GPS Applications

J. del Pino1, S. L. Khemchandani2, A. Hernández1, J. R. Sendra1, J. García1, B. González1 and A. Núñez1

1Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica y Automática, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

2INCIDE Canary S.A., Las Palmas, Spain

16:10 – 17:30              Session 8b. Reconfigurable Systems

 

Chairs:   Henrique Santos, Univ. Do Minho (Portugal)

    Viktor Fischer, Univ. Saint-Etiénne (France)

Hierarchical Specification and Implementation of Combinatorial Algorithms Based on RHS Model

Valery Sklyarov, Iouliia Skliarova and António B. Ferrari

Dept. of Electronics and Telecomunications, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal

RED: A Reconfigurable Datapath

Fernando Rincón, José M. Moya and Juan Carlos López

Dept. de Informática, Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

A Simulation Tool for a Pipelined SAT Solver

R. C. Ripado and J. T. de Sousa

INESC-Lisboa / IST, Lisboa, Portugal

A HW/SW Co-design Case Study: Implementing a Cryptographic Algorithm in a Reconfigurable Platform

Ivan González, Francisco J. Gómez and Javier Martínez

Lab. de Microelectrónica, ETSI, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

16:10 – 17:30              Session 8c. DSP Methodologies

 

Chairs:  Jordi Carrabina, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)

    Francisco Restivo, Univ. Porto (Portugal)

Web-Based Configurable DSP Cores Delivery System Accelerated with Formal Verification

Alexa Vignollet and Pierre Bricaud

Mentor Graphics, France

Hardware Implementation of the Discrete Forward Wavelet Transform with Handel-C

José I. Martínez Torre and Jean-Pierre Deschamps

ESCET, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain

A New Methodology to Determine Minimum Arithmetical Formats (MAF's) for Fixed Point DSP Algorithms Computation

Mrcedes Pérez-Castellanos and Consuelo Gonzalo-Martín

DATSI, Fac. de Informática, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Morphological Processor for Real Time Image Processing

F. González, O. Tubío, F. Tobajas, V. De Armas, R. Esper-Chaín and R. Sarmiento

Instituto Universitario de Microelectrónica Aplicada, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

16:10 – 17:30              Session 8d. Regular Structures Test

 

Chairs:   Joan Figueras, Univ. Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain)

    Ana Leão, Infineon (Portugal)

Detecting Delay Coupling Faults within Memories

Mohamed Azimane1, and Antonio Lloris Ruiz2

1Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2Dept. of Electronics and Computer Technology, Univ. of Granada, Spain

Monitoring and Analysis of Electrical Failures in Memory components Caused During Packaging

Ana Leão, Rui Pedro Silva and João Morais

Infineon Technologies F.S., Vila do Conde, Portugal

VHDL Fault Injection of SEUs in FPGA Based Fuzzy Logic Controller

O. Calvo1 and R. Velazco2

1LEICI - UNLP, Univ. de las Islas Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble, France

DRAFT: An On-line Concurrent Test for Partial and Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGAs

Manuel G. Gericota1, Gustavo R. Alves1, Miguel L. Silva2 and José M. Ferreira2

1Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

2Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

17:45 – 19:00              Panel session 2

University and Industry Cooperation: Education and Research

Moderator: Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, INESC Porto, Portugal

 


Friday, November 23

9:00 – 10:00                Plenary Session 3

 

CMOS Multi-Standard Transceivers for Wireless Communications

Prof. Mohammed Ismail  

Ohio-State University, USA

 

10:00 – 11:20              Session 9a. Analogue Techniques

 

Chairs:   Chairs:   Angel Rodriguez-Vázquez, Inst. de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (Spain)

    João Vital. Chipidea (Portugal)

Stability of Feedback Laser Driver with the Average Power Control

P. Zivojinovic, M. Lescure and H. Tap-Béteille

ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France

Bandwidth Aspects in Second Generation Current Conveyours

Luís Nero Alves1,2, Rui L. Aguiar1 and Dinis M. Santos1

1Inst. de Telecomunicações, Univ. de Aveiro, Portugal

2ESTG, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

A Current Reference Circuit for Smart Power Technologies

E. Montané, S. A. Bota, P. Miribel-Català, M. Puig-Vidal and J. Samitier

Instrumentation and Communication Systems, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain

Fast Transient Statistical Evaluation of Analog Circuits

Rafael López-Ahumada and Rafael Rodríguez-Macías

Dept. IESIA, Univ. de Huelva, Spain

10:00 – 11:20              Session 9b. ICs for Control in Power Electronics

 

Chairs:   Josep Samitier, Univ. de Barcelona (Spain)

    José Manuel Quero, Univ. Sevilla (Spain)

FPGA-Based Control of a Flyback Converter with Power Factor Correction

A. de Castro, P. Zumel, O. García, T. Riesgo and J. Uceda

Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, E.T.S.I. Industriales. División de Ingeniería Electrónica, Spain

Conception of a Microrobot Unit Driven by Smart Power Integrated Circuits

E. Montané1, P. Miribel-Català1, S. A. Bota1, J. López-Sánchez1, M. Puig-Vidal1, J. Samitier1, U. Simu2 and S. Johnsson2

1Instrumentation and Communication Systems, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain

2Dept. of Material Science, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden

Design of a Processor Dedicated to AC Motor Control in a Multiprocessor Structure

H. de la Vallée Poussin, J.-D. Legat, D. Grenier and F. Labrique

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Evaluation of an Electronic Ballast Circuit for HID Lamps with Passive Power Factor Correction

Christian Brañas, Francisco J. Azcondo and Salvador Bracho

Dept. of Electronics Technology, System and Automation Engineering, Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

10:00 – 11:20              Session 9c. Power Modelling

 

Chairs:   Pablo Sanchez, Univ. Cantabria (Spain)

    Daniel Auvergne, LIRMM (France)

Simulation-Driven Switching Activity Evaluation of CMOS Digital Circuits

C. Baena, J. Juan-Chico, M. J Bellido, P. Ruiz-de-Clavijo, C. J. Jiménez and M. Valencia

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ. of Sevilla, Spain

Modeling the Input-Output Coupling Capacitor Effects on the CMOS Buffer Power Consumption

J. L. Rossello and Jaume Segura

Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Balearic Islands Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Switching Current Modelling in CMOS Inverter for Speed and Power Estimation

P. Maurine, R. Poirier, N. Azémard and D. Auvergne

LIRMM, Univ. de Montpellier II, France

Characterization and Optimised Use of Digital CMOS Library Cells for Low Switching Noise Generation

A. Acosta, P. Parra and M. Valencia

Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Univ. of Sevilla, Spain

10:00 – 11:20              Session 9d. Current Testing

 

Chairs:   Eugenio Garcia Moreno, Univ. Islas Baleares (Spain)

    Antonio Rubio, Univ. Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain)

Built-In Sensor Based on the Time-Variation of the Transient Current Supply in Analogue Circuits

R. Mozuelos, M. Martínez and S. Bracho

Dept. of Electronics Technology, System and Automation Engineering, Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Testing SOI CMOS ICs with Parametric Methods: a Fundamental Analysis

Benjamín Iñíguez1, Jean-Pierre Raskin3, Pascal Simon3, Denis Flandre2 and Jaume Segura4

1DEEEA, ETSE, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

2Microelectronics and 3Microwave Labs, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

4Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Balearic Islands Palma de Mallorca, Spain

An Off-Chip Sensor Architecture for Transient Current Testing

B. Alorda and J. Segura

Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Balearic Islands Palma de Mallorca, Spain

On the Design of Checkers for Single-Word Code Spaces

Juan J. Rodríguez-Andina1 and Santiago Fernández-Goméz2

1Dept. of Electronic Technology, Univ. of Vigo, Spain

2ATI Research Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, CA, USA

 

11:20 – 11:50            Coffee break

11:50 – 13:10              Session 10a. Special Architectures

 

Chairs:   Mar Martinez, Univ. Cantabria (Spain)

    Javier Uceda, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

Hardware Implementation of Node Linking Segmentation Algorithm

F. J. Coslado, P. Camacho, M. González and F. Sandoval

Dept. Tecnologia Electrónica, ETSI de Telecomunicación,  Univ. de Málaga, Spain

Flexicamera: Intelligent and Flexible Camera

O. Ferraz, J. M. Flores, R. Juvanteny, M. Monton, A. Nuñez, J. Tirado, D. Castells, A. Portero, L. Ribas, A. Romero, J. Saiz, J. Velasco and J. Carrabina

U. Microelectrónica, Dept. Informàtica, ETSE, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

High-Speed Double-Precision Computation of Reciprocation and Division

J. A. Piñeiro and J. D. Bruguera

Dept. de Electrónica y Computación, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Robustness of CMOS Circuits Designed for Space and Terrestrial Environment

J. M. Dutertre and F. M. Roche

LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier II, France

11:50 – 13:10              Session 10b. ATM Applications

 

Chairs:   Roberto Sarmiento, Univ. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

    José Ruela, Univ. Porto (Portugal)

A Parallel Architecture Implementation of an ATM Traffic Classifier

Susana Holgado1, Sergio López-Buedo1 and Alan J. Pearmain2

1ETSI, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

2Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Univ. of London, UK

An FPGA Solution for ATM Switching Architecture

Alexandru Stoica1, Alain Greiner1 and Jean Pierre Gauthier2

1Lab. d’Informatique, Univ. Paris 6, France

2CS Telecom, Fontenay aux Roses, France

Implementation of an ATM Transceiver over SDH with Add/Drop Function at 2.5 Gbps

O. Tubío, R. Esper-Chaín, F. González, F. Tobajas, V. de Armas, J. A. Montiel and R. Sarmiento

Instituto Universitario de Microelectrónica Aplicada, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

System-Level Specification in SystemC of a Residential Gateway

Victor Fernández, Eugenio Villar and Fernando Herrera

1Dept. of Electronics Technology, System and Automation Engineering, Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

11:50 – 13:10              Session 10c. Interconnect Modelling

 

Chairs:  Miquel Roca, Univ. Islas Baleares (Spain)

    João Teixeira de Sousa, IST, Lisboa (Portugal)

Power Supply Lines Design Considering Self-Heating Phenomena

M. Casu and M. Graziano

VLSI Lab, Dept. of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Signal Reflections in Coupled On-Chip Interconnections

Miquel Roca1, Francesc Moll2 and Eugeni Isern1

1Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Balearic Islands Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2Dept of Electronic Engineering, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Parametric Impacts on Simultaneous Switching Noise in ASICs

Alaa F. Alani

LSI Logic Europe, Berks, UK

High-Speed Logic Families Impact on Power Supply Noise Generation

M. Graziano, G. Masera, G. Piccinini and M. Zamboni

VLSI Lab, Dept. of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

11:50 – 13:10              Session 10d. Industrial Applications

 

Chairs:  Francisco Azcondo, Univ. Cantabria (Spain)

    Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo, Univ. Sevilla (Spain)

12-Lead ECG Modulator and Demodulator Equipment for Telephony Transmission

S. L. Toral, B. Lara Aznar, J. M. Quero and L. G. Franquelo

Dept. de Ingeniería Electrónica, Univ. Sevilla, Spain

A System to Detect Electrode Breakages in Arc Furnaces

José Fariña1, Juan J. Rodríguez-Andina1, Javier Bullón2 and Ángel Lorenzo2

1Institute of Applied Electronics, Dept. of Electronic Technology, Univ. of Vigo, Spain

2Ferroatlántica I+D, A Coruña, Spain

Microsystem for Automotive Door Module

J. L. Merino1, S. A. Bota1, J. Samitier1, B. Niessen2, E. Cabruja3, X. Jordà3, J. Bausells3, A. Ferré4 and J. Bigorra4

1Instrumentation and Communication Systems, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain

2Austria Mikro Systeme International, Milano, Italy

3Centro Nacional de Microelectrònica, Bellaterra, Spain

4Lear Automotive EEDS, Valls, Spain

A Comparison of  0.35-micron CMOS Dual-Modulus Prescaler Architectures for ISM 868 MHz

Alfonso Carrera and Frank Oehler

Fraunhofer Institute für Integrierte Schautungen, Erlangen, Germany

13:10 –             Lunch


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