Symposium at a Glance

ISSCS 2009 Final Program

Nucleotide genomic signal comparative analysis of homo sapiens and other hominidae mtDNA (Invited paper)

Paul Dan Cristea, Rodica Tuduce

An Improved Version of the Inverse Hyperanalytic Wavelet Transform

Ioana Firoiu, Alexandru Isar, Jean-Marc Boucher

Spectral Analysis Of Alpha Satellite DNA

Petre G. POP

ECG Signal Compression Using Wavelet Foveation

Iulian B. Ciocoiu

Basis Pursuit for ECG Compression

Monica Fira, L. Goras

A Proposal to Exploit Contour Cues for Biological Motion Processing

Christoph Rasche

Head Tracking With Combined Face And Nose Detection

Martin Bohme, Martin Haker, Thomas Martinetz, Erhardt Barth

Highlighting Action Content in Animated Movies

Bogdan Ionescu, Alexandra Pacureanu, Patrick Lambert, Constantin Vertan

Histogram and motion based intrusion detection and tracking algorithms for ToF cameras

Serban Oprisescu, Mihai Ciuc, Vasile Buzuloiu

Statistical Algorithm for Detection and Screening Sleep Apnea

D. Falie, L. David, M. Ichim

On the Sensitivity of Translinear Circuits

Georgi A. Nenov, Vasia G. Stoyantcheva

2–D Roger–Ramanujan Continued Fraction and Inversion

George E. Antoniou, P. A. Katsalis

Model Order Reduction by a Projection Technique Implemented on State Equations

Lucia Dumitriu, Mihai Iordache, Lucian Mandache

Digital Audio Equalizers with Flat Frequency Response

Lucian Stanciu, Cristian Stanciu

The Non-Symmetrical Case of Invariant-Set Analysis with Respect to Linear Dynamics

Octavian Pastravanu, Mihaela-Hanako Matcovschi

A Simple Mixer for Generating the 3rd-Order Intermodulation Products Used for HPA Predistortion

M. X. Xiao, S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk

4G CMOS Nanometer Receivers for Mobile Systems: Challenges and Solutions (Invited paper)

Saul Rodriguez, Ana Rusu,  Mohammed Ismail

A 3.6mW 90 nm CMOS 2.4 GHz Receiver Front-End Design for IEEE 802.15.4 WSNs

Andrea Morici, Saul Rodriguez, Ana Rusu, Mohammed Ismail, Claudio Turchetti

Performance enhancement of Pulsed Solid State Power Amplifier using Drain Modulation over Gate Modulation

J. Dhar, R. K. Arora, S. K. Garg, M. K. Patel, B. V. Bakori

A 2.4 GHz high-gain Low Noise Amplifier

Jelena Radic, Alena Djugova, Mirjana Videnovic-Misic

Circuit and Process Parameters Issue for 1.57542GHz Low Noise Amplifier in 0.35μm BiCMOS Technology

Alena Djugova, Jelena Radic, Mirjana Videnovic-Misic

A 5Gb/s CDR with Automatic Frequency Calibration

Caglar Yilmazer, Ali Toker

Spectral Estimation of Damped Sinusoids in the Case of Irregularly Sampled Data

Erik Gudmundson, Jun Ling, Petre Stoica, Jian Li, Andreas Jakobsson

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Performance Limitation by Finite GBW in Continuous-Time Quadrature Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulators

Song-Bok Kim, Markus Robens, Ralf Wunderlich, Stefan Heinen

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A Digitally Calibrated CT Quadrature Bandpass Sigma-Delta ADC for Wimax/LTE

Angeliki Leonida, Orhan Hazar Mutgan, Ana Rusu

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An Overview of Soft-Output Sphere Decoders with Constant Throughput

Andrei Ştefan Nedelcu, Daniel Ghiţă, Andrei Alexandru Enescu, Cristian Anghel

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Analysis of an Algorithm for Real Tone Frequency Estimation

Aldo De Sabata, Liviu Toma

On the polynomial approximation

Marius Salagean

Stereo Embedding by Reversible Watermarking: Further Results

Dinu Coltuc, Ion Caciula

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Non-negative Matrix Factorization Methods for Face Recognition under Extreme Lighting Variations

Ioan Buciu, Ioan Nafornita

Design of an Iris-Based Medical Diagnosis System

Adrian Lodin, Sorina Demea

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A Texture Descriptor for Textile Image Retrieval

Ana-Elena Carbunaru, Daniela Coltuc, Michel Jourlin, Laurentiu Frangu

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Pattern Segmentation in Textile Images

Andreea Smoaca, Daniela Coltuc, Vasile Lazarescu

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Texture Image Retrieval Using Contourlet Transform

Ali Mosleh, Farzad Zargari, Reza Azizi

Multi Network Interface Architectures for Fault Tolerant Network-on-Chip

Ville Rantala, Teijo Lehtonen, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila

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Fault Tolerant Distributed Routing Algorithms for Mesh Networks-on-Chip

Teijo Lehtonen, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila

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Sample/Hold, V2I and Output Latching Techniques for an Asynchronous Low Area ADC

N. Petrellis, M. Birbas, J. Kikidis, A. Birbas

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A High Speed Low Power 4:2 Compressor Cell Design

Peng Chang Majid Ahmadi

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An Area-optimized Implementation for AES with Hybrid Countermeasures against Power Analysis

Abdel Alim Kamal, Amr M. Youssef

A VLSI Implementation of Pipelined JPEG Encoder for Grayscale Images

Zhang Qihui, Chen Jianghua, Zhang Shaohui, Meng Nan

Evaluation of NoC Dedicated to Multispectral Image Data Communication

Linlin Zhang, Virginie Fresse, Mohammed A. S. Khalid, Dominique Houzet, Majid Ahmadi

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On the Time-Frequency Localization of the Wavelet Signals, with Application to Orthogonal Modulations

Marius Oltean, Alexandru Isar

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Forecasting WiMAX BS Traffic by Statistical Processing in the Wavelet Domain

Cristina Stolojescu, Alina Cusnir, Sorin Moga, Alexandru Isar

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Coset Partitioning for the 4-PSK Space-Time Trellis Codes

Pierre Viland, Gheorghe Zaharia, Jean-Francois Helard

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Location Systems With Sensors - Overview and New Approach.

Lucian Ioan Iozan, Marius Sîrbu, Corneliu Rusu

GeMoIS: A Geometric Model for MIMO Communication Systems

Mihai-Ionut Andries, Adriana Sirbu, Ion Bogdan

2–D FIR Discrete Bidiagonal Filters: Minimal Circuit and State Space Realization

George E. Antoniou

Performance and Power Consumption Trade-offs for a VLIW DSP

Mostafa E. A. Ibrahim, Markus Rupp, S. E.-D. Habib

Compact Low-Power Time-Based Conversion with Noise Immunity Similar to Digital Conversion

Khaldoon M. Mhaidat, Marwan A. Jabri, Daniel W. Hammerstrom

On the Influence of the Forgetting Factor of the RLS Adaptive Filter in System Identification

Silviu Ciochină, Constantin Paleologu, Jacob Benesty,  Andrei Alexandru Enescu

Algorithm for Adaptive Distance Estimators for Echolocation in Air

Horia-Nicolai L. Teodorescu

Fuzzy Interpolation of the Average Signal Steps

Nicu Bizon, Iana Gabriel, Mihai Oproescu

Real-time Component Labelling and Feature Extraction on FPGA

Benny Thörnberg, Najeem Lawal

Computer vision principles. A contrario method

Andrei-George Oprina, Emil Simion, Gheorghe Simion

Non-Linear Color Image Processing by Color to Plane Polygon Association

Constantin Vertan, Marta Zamfir, Bogdan Ionescu

Detection of Mammographic Microcalcifications Using a Refined Region-Growing Approach

Alina Sultana, Mihai Ciuc, Laura Florea, Corneliu Florea

On the Choice of the Mother Wavelet for Perceptual Data Hiding

Corina Nafornita, Alexandru Isar

Information Fusion for Obstacle Recognition in Visible and Infrared Images

Anca Apatean,  Alexandrina Rogozan, Abdelaziz Bensrhair

An FPGA-based Digital Camera System Controlled from an LCD Touch Panel

M. Petouris, A. Kalantzopoulos, E. Zigouris

Graph Drawing Alogorithms based Module Placement

Meththa Samaranayake, Helen Ji, John Ainscough

Self-Termination Scheme for High-Speed Chip-to-Chip Data Communication

Vijaya Sankara Rao P, Pradip Mandal

A New Hw/Sw Co-Design Method For Multiprocessor System On Chip Applications

Nita Iulian, Lazarescu Vasile, Constantinescu Rodica

A Parallel VLSI Algorithm for a High Throughput Systolic Array VLSI Implementation of Type IV DCT

Doru Florin Chiper

Designing an Asynchronous FPGA Processor for Low-Power Sensor Networks

Yijun Liu, Guobo Xie, Pinghua Chen, Jingyu Chen, Zhenkun Li

Optimum PAM-TCM Schemes Using Left-Circulate Function over GF(2^N)

Călin Vlădeanu, Safwan El Assad, Jean-Claude Carlach, Raymond Quéré, Ion Marghescu

BS Split Architecture with MIMO Capabilities Support Based on OBSAI RP3-01 Interface

Anghel Cristian, Cacoveanu Remus

Improved Nyquist Filter with Piece-wise Linear Transfer Characteristic

Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru, Felix Diaconu

The effect of ICI in OFDM Systems Using Improved Phase Modified Sinc Pulse

Alexandra Ligia Onofrei, Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru

Implementation of Synchronization Algorithms, Carrier Phase Recovery and Symbol Timing Recovery, on a Digital Signal Processor

M. Benssalah, M. Djeddou

The Effect of Gaussian Pulse-Shaping Filter Roll-off Factor on the Performance of QPSK Modulated System

S. Chattopadhyay, S.K. Sanyal

Star-Derived Transforms in Lossless Text Compression

Radu Rădescu

Bimodal Approach in Emotion Recognition using Speech and Facial Expressions

Simina Emerich, Eugen Lupu, Anca Apatean

Vehicle Sound Classification. Application and Low Pass Filtering Influence

Marius Vasile Ghiurcau , Corneliu Rusu

Phase Approximation by Divide-and-Conquer Piecewise Linear Fitting of Gain

Lăcrimioara Grama, Corneliu Rusu

Intonation Description Language for the Prosodic Control in a TtS System for Romanian

Doina Jitca, Vasile Apopei, Magdalena Jitca

A Text-dependent Voice Recognition Approach Using the Spectral Distance

Tudor Barbu, Mihaela Costin

Energy Consumption Reduction by Automatic Selection of Compiler Options

Tomasz Patyk, Harri Hannula, Pertti Kellomaki, Jarmo Takala

Non-linear Parametric Derivation of Contour Detectors for Cellular Images

Corneliu Florea, Constantin Vertan, Laura Florea, Alina Sultana

Detection of Image Artifacts produced by Airborne Flash Reflections

Emilian David, Alexandru Drîmbărean, Adrian Zamfir

Correction of Image Artifacts produced by Airborne Flash Reflections

Emilian David, Marta Zamfir

Decision Optimization Techniques for Efficient Delivery of Multimedia Streams

Mugurel Ionut Andreica, Nicolae Tapus

Image Processing Using Elliptically-Shaped Filters

Radu Matei, Paul Ungureanu

Design Requirements of 20-Gb/s Serial Links Using Multi-Tone Signaling

Sameh Ibrahim, Behzad Razavi

On Symmetry Properties of Lumped Resistive Networks

Anton Manolescu, Anca Manuela Manolescu

Multistage Architectures for High Resolution Digital Potentiometers

Radu H. Iacob, Otilia Neagoe, Anca Manolescu

A Short Channel MOSFET Modelling for Analogue Circuit Design with Emphasis on Carrier Mobility

Andrei Sevcenco, Gheorghe Brezeanu, Marian Badila

Frequency Enhancement Method Applied to a CMOS RF Simulated Inductor BP Filter

Cristian Andriesei, Liviu Goras, Farid Temcamani, Bruno Delacressoniere

A Center- Frequency Measurement Method for Fine-tuning in an Analog CMOS Gm/C Filter

Lida Ramezani

Millimeter-Wave System for High Data Rate Indoor Communications

Lahatra Rakotondrainibe, Yvan Kokar, Gheorghe Zaharia, Ghaïs El Zein

FPGA Implementation of an Acoustic Echo Canceller Using a VSS-NLMS Algorithm

Cristian Anghel, Constantin Paleologu, Jacob Benesty,  Silviu Ciochină

Secure and Flexible Method for SBC/Firewall Management

Mihai Constantinescu, Daniel Gheorghica, Victor Croitoru

ATMEGA256-Based Data Network Management Software Architecture

Gulimanescu Valentin, Croitoru Victor, Bivolaru Pompiliu

Evaluating the Hearing Aid Compatibility of a Cellular Phone Working at WiMAX Carrier Frequencies

Alina Buleandra, Teodor Petrescu, Octavian Fratu

Dynamic Channel Allocation Scheme Simulation Using Agents Technology

Gabriel Sirbu, Ion Bogdan

Hybrid Cellular Automata as Pseudo-Random Number Generators with Binary Synchronization Property

Radu Dogaru

Binary Synchronization in Cellular Automata for Building Compact CDMA Systems

Radu Dogaru, Hyongsuk Kim, Ioana Dogaru

PDE-Based Medical Images Denoising Using Cellular Neural Networks

A. Gacsádi, C. Grava, O. Straciuc, I. Gavriluţ

FPGA Implementation of Feed-Forward Neural Networks for Smart Devices Development

Stefan Oniga, Alin Tisan, Daniel Mic, Claudiu Lung, Ioan Orha, Attila Buchman, Andrei Vida-Ratiu

A VHDL-AMS Based Spiking Neuron Model

Liviu Tigaeru

Spatial Filtering Using Linear Analog Parallel Architectures

Liviu Goraş,  Iolanda Alecsandrescu, Ion Vornicu

A Tunable-Frequency System for Touch-less Heartbeat Detection and HRV Extraction

Dany Obeid, Sawsan Sadek, Gheorghe Zaharia, Ghais El Zein

Reconfigurable Zero/Low-IF Receiver

Botond Sandor Kirei, Marina Dana Topa, Marius Neag

Microwave Bandpass Filters with Multiple Couplings, Designed Using Electromagnetic Simulations and Linear Circuit Optimization

Power Loss and Efficiency of Transcutaneous Energy Transmission System with Class-E Power Amplifier at Any Duty Ratio

Tianliang Yang, Chunyu Zhao, Jinying Zhang, Dayue Chen

A Balanced Differential-Pair CMOS CCCII with Negative Intrinsic Resistance

Boonruk Chipipop, Roungsan Chaisricharoen, Boonchareon Sirinaovakul

Digitally Programmable CMOS Current-Conveyer Circuit For Filter Design

Fathi A. Farag

CMOS Current-Mode Geometric-Mean Circuit with N Inputs

Kuo-Jen Lin, Chih-Jen Cheng

A High Speed and High Resolution VLSI Winner-Take-All Circuit for Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Mustafijur Rahman, K. L. Baishnab, F. A. Talukdar

A New Linearization Technique Using a CCII Doublet Transconductor in CMOS Technology

R. G. Bozomitu, Vl. Cehan

A Novel High CMRR Low Voltage Current Output Stage

Mohammad Hekmat Kashtiban, Seyed Javad Azhari

Two Methods To Increase The Minimum Distance For Turbo Codes With QPP Interleavers

Lucian Trifina, Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tǎrniceriu

Modified Ω' Metric For QPP Interleavers Depending On SNR

Lucian Trifina, Lucian Ghercă, Bogdan Lupu, Ana-Mirela Rotopănescu

On Using Turbo Codes Over Rice Flat Fading Channels

Maria Kovaci, Horia Balta, Miranda Nafornita

Variable-Length Run-Length Limited Codes

Luminita Scripcariu, Mircea-Daniel Frunza

Random Network Coding for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

Rodica Stoian, Lucian Andrei Perişoară, Radu Stoica

Design of Coupling for Mixed Synchronization in Chaotic Oscillators

Syamal K. Dana, E.Padmanaban, Ranjib Banerjee, Prodyot K.Roy, Ioan Grosu

Real-time FPGA Implementation of Lü’s Chaotic Generator for Cipher Embedded System

S. Sadoudi, C. Tanougast, M. S. Azzaz,  A. Dandache, A. Bouridane

A Study on Statistical Independence in the Tent Map

Adrian Luca, Adriana Vlad,  Bogdan Badea, Madalin Frunzete

Applications of Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis in Unstable Periodic Orbits Identification – Chaos Control in Buck Converter

Cosmin Ivan, Alexandru Şerbănescu

Chaos Modulation Communication Channel: a Case Study

Victor Grigoras, Vasilică Tataru, Carmen Grigoras

Comparison of a New Combined Four-Diode Forward-Flyback Converter with the Classical Forward Converter

Felix A. Himmelstoss, Helmut L. Votzi

Models of Single Phase Multilevel Inverters

Adrian Şchiop

Analysis of the two-quadrant converter having rectifier with near sinusoidal input currents and capacitors connected on the AC side

Alexa D., Goras T.C., Pletea I.V., Buzatu R., Moisa (Pletea) M., Chiper R.

DPWM-S3 Software Control for Three-phase Inverters

Cristian Aghion, Mihai Lucanu, Ovidiu Ursaru

A ZVS circuit used in a three-phase SVPPWM inverter

Bogdan Ştefan Mereuţă, Mihai Lucanu, Cristian Vasile Pavel

LLA: A Low-Latency Asynchronous Control with Applications

Morteza Gholipour, Mehrdad Nourani, Doug Edwards, Ali Afzali-Kusha

A Phase Locked Loop with Jitter Auto-Attenuating Loop Dynamics

X. (Kevin) Xu

6-b 1.6-GS/s Flash ADC with Distributed Track-and-Hold Pre-Comparators in a 0.18μm CMOS

Chun-Chieh Chen, Yu-Lun Chung, Chen-I Chiu

Low Power Voltage Reference Architectures

Srikanth R. Tiyyagura, Siddharth Katare

A Bandgap Reference Circuit Design for Power-on Reset Related Circuits

Alexandru Lazar,Mihail Florea,Danut Burdia, Luminita-Camelia Lazar, Georgian-Alexandru Lazar, Dan Butnicu

On-Chip Power-on Reset Strategy and I/O Power Supply Detection for VLSI Circuits

Danut Burdia, Georgian-Alexandru Lazar, Luminita-Camelia Lazar, Nicoleta-Roxana Buzatu

Tight Bounds on the Codeword Lengths and Average Codeword Length for D-ary Huffman Codes – part 1

Gheorghe Zaharia, Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu

Tight Bounds on the Codeword Lengths and Average Codeword Length for D-ary Huffman Codes – part 2

Gheorghe Zaharia, Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu

Analysis of Lossless Compression for a Large Class of Sources of Information

Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu, Gheorghe Zaharia

Information Quantities Attached to M-ary Antiuniform Huffman Codes

Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu, Gheorghe Zaharia

Information Analysis for a Large Class of Discrete Sources

Daniela Tarniceriu, Valeriu Munteanu, Gheorghe Zaharia

A Minimal Protocol with Public Key Cryptography for Identification and Privacy in RFID Tags

Lawrence Leinweber, Francis G. Wolff, Christos Papachristou,  Francis L. Merat

The Development of a Simulink Library with FPGA Compatible Parametric Components for Electric Machines Control

Daniel Mic, Alin Tisan, Ştefan Oniga, Claudiu Lung, Sebastian Sabău

Supercapacitor Modelling Using Experimental Measurements

Alin Grama, Lăcrimioara Grama , Dorin Petreuş, Corneliu Rusu

Optimal Control of a Servo Drive System with a PMSM

C. Botan, M. Ratoi, F. Ostafi, V. Horga

Multi-Objective Design Automation of The Folded-Cascode OP-AMP Using NSGA-II Strategy

Mohammad Takhti, Ali Beirami, Hossein Shamsi

Extracting Trade-Off Boundaries of CMOS Two-Stage Op-Amp Using Particle Swarm Optimization