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A new silicon detector has been developed to provide the PHENIX experiment with precise charged particle tracking at forward and backward rapidity. The Forward Silicon Vertex Tracker (FVTX) was installed in PHENIX prior to the 2012 run…
Small cells have been proposed as a vehicle for wireless networks to keep up with surging demand. Small cells come with a significant challenge of providing backhaul to transport data to(from) a gateway node in the core network. Fiber based…
Cellular networks of massive MIMO base-stations employing TDD/OFDM and relying on uplink training for both downlink and uplink transmission are viewed as an attractive candidate for 5G deployments, as they promise high area spectral and…
To date, various optimization algorithms have been employed to design and improve the performance of nanophotonic structures. Here, we propose to utilize a machine-learning algorithm viz. binary-Additive Reinforcement Learning Algorithm…
This work describes the architecture and vision of designing and implementing a new test infrastructure for 6G physical layer research at KU Leuven. The Testbed is designed for physical layer research and experimentation following several…
SIM tracing -- the ability to inspect, modify, and relay communication between a SIM card and modem -- has become a significant technique in cellular network research. It enables essential security- and development-related applications such…
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The performance of pixel modules built from 75 micrometer thin silicon sensors and ATLAS read-out chips employing the Solid Liquid InterDiffusion (SLID) interconnection technology is presented. This technology, developed by the Fraunhofer…
A key challenge for ultra-low-power (ULP) devices is handling peripheral linking, where the main central processing unit (CPU) periodically mediates the interaction among multiple peripherals following wake-up events. Current solutions…
The increasing complexity of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications and near-sensor processing algorithms is pushing the computational power of low-power, battery-operated end-node systems. This trend also reveals growing demands for…
We propose the CLEX supercomputer topology and routing scheme. We prove that CLEX can utilize a constant fraction of the total bandwidth for point-to-point communication, at delays proportional to the sum of the number of intermediate hops…
In the upgrade of ATLAS experiment, the front-end electronics components are subjected to a large radiation background. Meanwhile high speed optical links are required for the data transmission between the on-detector and off-detector…
To enable user diversity and multiplexing gains, a fully digital precoding multiple input multiple output (MIMO) architecture is typically applied. However, a large number of radio frequency (RF) chains make the system unrealistic to…
Growing energy demands of modern digital devices necessitate alternative, low-power computing mechanisms. When incident loads take the form of acoustic or vibrational waves, the ability to mechanically process information eliminates the…
Modular design is the foundation of on orbit construction technology of large space facilities in the future.Standard interface is the key technology of modular design of the future space robotic systems and space facilities.This paper…
The Allen-Bradley ControlLogix line of pro-grammable logic controllers (PLCs) offers several in-terfaces: Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet, RS-232 and others. The ControlLogix Ethernet interface module 1756-ENET uses EtherNet/IP, the…
The steeply growing performance demands for highly power- and energy-constrained processing systems such as end-nodes of the internet-of-things (IoT) have led to parallel near-threshold computing (NTC), joining the energy-efficiency…
Nowadays, the majority of wearable thermal feedback systems designed for use in virtual reality applications are not compatible or not integrated to standard controllers and are based on temperature control. The objectives of the present…
We consider the problem of performing Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) on small devices typical of IoT applications. Our contributions are twofold. First, we outline the design of an embedded, private-by-design SLU system and show that…
Examples of embedded intelligence include a wide variety of tiny neural networks used on-board wireless sensors and actuators, which are expected to continuously perform inference on time-series of the data they sense. In order to fit…