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Digital filters with variable bandwidth can be used for a variety of applications. Arbitrary change in the bandwidth of a digital Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter can be acquired using sampling rate converters. In this paper, a sampling…
This paper presents the design of CIC filters based on a low-pass filter for reducing the sampling rate, also known as decimation process. The targeted application for the filter is in the analog to digital conversion (ADC).The CIC is…
The oversampling technique has been shown to increase the SNR and is used in many high-performance systems such as in the ADC for audio and DAT systems. This paper presents the design of the decimation and it's VLSI implementation which is…
We present a sub-Nyquist analog-to-digital converter of wideband inputs. Our circuit realizes the recently proposed modulated wideband converter, which is a flexible platform for sampling signals according to their actual bandwidth…
The need for a high-performance transceiver with high Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) has driven the communication system to utilize the latest technique identified as oversampling systems. It was the most economical modulator and decimation in…
Wideband analog signals push contemporary analog-to-digital conversion systems to their performance limits. In many applications, however, sampling at the Nyquist rate is inefficient because the signals of interest contain only a small…
Conventional sub-Nyquist sampling methods for analog signals exploit prior information about the spectral support. In this paper, we consider the challenging problem of blind sub-Nyquist sampling of multiband signals, whose unknown…
The recursive comb filters or Cascaded Integrator Comb filter (CIC) are commonly used as decimators for the sigma-delta modulators. This paper presents the VLSI implementation, analysis and design of high-speed CIC filters which are based…
The Random Demodulator (RD) and the Modulated Wideband Converter (MWC) are two recently proposed compressed sensing (CS) techniques for the acquisition of continuous-time spectrally-sparse signals. They extend the standard CS paradigm from…
Stochastic computing (SC) presents high error tolerance and low hardware cost, and has great potential in applications such as neural networks and image processing. However, the bitstream generator, which converts a binary number to…
Wideband spectrum sensing motivates sub-Nyquist sampling architectures that exploit spectral sparsity, yet in blind scenarios where subband locations are unknown, existing schemes require sampling rates at least twice the theoretical…
Sparse arrays are popular for performance optimization while keeping the hardware and computational costs down. In this paper, we consider sparse arrays design method for wideband source operating in a wideband jamming environment.…
Conventional Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems are limited in their ability to satisfy the increasing requirement for improved spatial resolution and wider coverage. The demand for high resolution requires high sampling rates, while…
This paper presents a quadrature compressive sampling (QuadCS) and associated fast imaging scheme for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Different from other analog-to-information conversions (AIC), QuadCS AICs using independent spreading…
By moving to millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, base stations (BSs) will be densely deployed to provide seamless coverage in sixth generation (6G) mobile communication systems, which, unfortunately, leads to severe cell-edge problem. In…
Too high sampling rate is the bottleneck to wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive radio in mobile communication. Compressed sensing (CS) is introduced to transfer the sampling burden. The standard sparse signal recovery of CS does not…
SQUID arrays are promising candidates for low profile antennas and low noise amplifier applications. We present the integrated circuit designs and results of DC and RF measurements of the wideband serial arrays based on integration of…
Man-made communications signals are typically modelled as continuous-time (CT) wide-sense cyclostationary (WSCS) processes. As modern processing is digital, it operates on sampled versions of the CT signals. When sampling is applied to a CT…
Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that have excellent performance thanks to the degrees of freedom they offer. An SC code is designed by partitioning a base matrix into components, the number…
The paper presents the design and measurement results of a transient waveform recording ASIC based on the Switched Capacitor Array (SCA) architecture. This 0.18 {\mu}m CMOS prototype device contains two channels and each channel employs a…