DC offset causes performance degradation in signal processing systems especially for high-speed applications. A new offset cancellation method that relaxes the requirement for the offset of the circuit components in the differential analog data path to about 10 times larger is introduced. This method moves the adjusting target from analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to its input buffer and adjusts DC level of ADC input to its center before the final offset cancellation. It eliminates post-production adjustment such as fuse trimming, which increases the cost and TAT in manufacturing and testing. Execution and simulation times are shortened down to 1/9 for less settling time in buffer and with improved logic. An automatic quick offset calibration circuit is implemented in a small silicon space in a high-speed hard disk drive (HDD) channel with 0.25-µm four-layer metal CMOS process. The measured data show this method works effectively in this system.

Adaptive maximum likelihood differential detection implemented by a reduced state-transition Viterbi algorithm (called adaptive 3-state RSTVDD) is presented for adaptive reception of M-ary differential phase shift keying (DPSK) signals transmitted over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and frequency-nonselective Rayleigh fading channels. The adaptive 3-state RSTVDD comprises 1DD, a differential encoder, and reverse modulator, followed by reduced-state (3-state) Viterbi DD (RSVDD) with adaptive phase reference estimation. The adaptive 3-state RSVDD detector estimates the sequence of phase errors of the 1DD output. The phase reference estimator is an adaptive least mean square (LMS) filter with a step-size that adapts to changing channel conditions. The final detected symbol sequence is the modulo-2π sum of the 1DD output phase sequence and the detected phase error sequence. The bit error rate (BER) performance of M-ary DPSK, M=4, 8, and 16, in the AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels is evaluated by computer simulation to show that adaptive 3-state RSTVDD can achieve almost the same BER performance as the previously developed adaptive M-state RSVDD. Since the number of trellis states is reduced to three irrespective of M, the adaptive 3-state RSTVDD has lower computation complexity and it is particularly useful for M-ary DPSK with M8.

A method for expanding the channels of data acquisition unit used in distributed microcomputer data measure & control systems and a technique to call assembly routines by C Language are introduced in the paper. The method may increase the number of data acquisition points ten to hundreds times. So it may raise the price performance ratio of all distributed data measure & control system greatly. And the programming method may optimize program performance.

We have analyzed a very short channel tunneling field effect transistor which uses new heterostructures (CoSi2/Si/CdF2/CaF2) lattice-matched to the Si substrate. In device operation, the drain current from source (CoSi2) to drain (CoSi2) through tunnel barriers (Si) and the channel (CdF2) is controlled by a gate electric field applied to the barrier between the source and the channel through the gate insulator (CaF2). Theoretical analysis shows that this transistor has characteristics similar to those of conventional metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors even with channel lengths as short as 5 nm. In addition, we have estimated the theoretical response time of this transistor and showed the possibility of subpicosecond response.

This paper proposes an intelligent and autonomous radio resource management scheme for a multi-layered cellular system with different assigned bandwidths to achieve flexible and high capacity wireless communication systems under any traffic conditions, especially under nonuniform traffic conditions. In the proposed system, terminals with lower mobility are connected to the wideband microcell systems to achieve higher system capacity, and terminals with higher mobility are connected to the narrowband macrocell systems to reduce intercell hand-off frequency. To flexibly cope with variations of traffic conditions, radio spectrum is adaptively and autonomously shared by both systems, and its control is conducted by each microcell base station. Moreover, at the existence of nonuniform traffic conditions , the proposed system introduces downlink power control for the microcells and graceful degradation thereby achieving high system capacity even under such extraordinary traffic situations . Computer simulation confirms that the proposed scheme can achieve lower blocking probability than the centralized scheme especially under nonuniform traffic conditions.

A new identification algorithm based on output over-sampling scheme is proposed for a IIR model whose input signal can not be available directly. By using only an output signal sampled at higher rate than unknown input, parameters of the IIR model can be identified. It is clarified that the consistency of the obtained parameter estimates is assured under some specified conditions. Further an efficient recursive algorithm for blind parameter estimation is also given for practical applications. Simulation results demonstrate its effectiveness in both system and channel identification.

One of unique features of CDMA slotted ALOHA (CDMA S-ALOHA) is that user must synchronize his transmission to given slot. Thus orthogonal sequence as spreading sequence would achieve ideal throughput if each of packets accomplish perfect synchronization. In the presence of any ambiguity in synchronizations, however, quasi-synchronous (QS) sequences suit well with CDMA S-ALOHA system. In this paper, we introduce new QS-sequences obtained from the orthogonal Gold sequences and discuss their performance when applying to CDMA S-ALOHA systems. As a result, withstanding to access timing error, good performance is ensured with this sequence under the environment of AWGN, MAI (multiple access interference) and frequency non-selective fading, that is, micro or pico cellular systems and indoor wireless LANs.

The binary parallel concatenated codes called turbo codes provide relatively large coding gains with reasonable computation complexity. The application of turbo codes to a coherent DS-CDMA mobile radio link with antenna diversity and coherent RAKE combining is considered. A soft-in/soft-out Viterbi decoder that requires less computation complexity is employed instead of maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) decoder. The effect of turbo codes on the achievable bit error rate (BER) performance in frequency selective multipath fading channels is evaluated by computer simulation. It is demonstrated that turbo codes can achieve better BER performance than convolutional codes having the same code rate for the relatively large interleaver size. How the coding gains are impacted by the interleaver size and constraint length of the turbo codes and by the propagation channel condition (power delay profile, the number of resolvable propagation paths, and the maximum Doppler frequency) is discussed.

A convenient signaling scheme, termed orthogonal on-off BPSK (O3BPSK), along with a simple one-shot linear decorrelating detector (LDD) has been proposed by Zheng and Barton as a technique for near-far resistant detection in the asynchronous DS/CDMA systems. The temporally adjacent bits from different users in the received signals are decoupled by using the on-off signaling, and the data rate is maintained with no increase in transmission rate by adopting an orthogonal structure. The system performance of this signaling scheme in terms of bit error rate (BER) has been analyzed over an AWGN channel by Zheng and Barton. In this paper, we further study the system performance over Nakagami-m fading channel. A closed form for the BER of such a scheme is successfully derived. Numerical results show that the O3BPSK signal scheme along with the LDD receiver still offers a good near-far resistant property over Nakagami-m channel.

Because of non-negligible ISI due to the Gaussian filter and delay spread in the GSM system, an equalizer is required. In this letter, a joint sliding window channel estimation and timing adjustment method is proposed for maximum likelihood sequence equalizer. And also a smoothing algorithm is presented in order to improve the equalizer performance. This smoothing scheme utilizes a variant of LMS algorithm to tune the channel coefficient estimates. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is adequate for channel estimation of the adaptive equalizer.

In this paper we present improved techniques for transmitting M-PSK signals in mobile radio environments. Conventionally an optimal linear combination of the observable fading at the pilot symbols has been used as estimations of all other fading. Recently, an improved technique was proposed by the authors which employs not only the pilot symbols but also the previously estimated fading values on data symbols to extract more information on fading channels. In this paper we present new methods by further improving the above method invented by the authors. The present methods utilize, instead of the estimated fading values on data symbols, the demodulator output normalized by the decided (decoded) data symbols to estimate the fading values in the current frame. We also show by computer simulations for BPSK system that the proposed estimation methods provide better performance than those of the conventional methods.

In this paper, we present a method for evaluating the minimum free Chernov distance of trellis-codes for a discrete memoryless channels (DMC). In order to design an efficient trellis-code for the DMC, we need to evaluate the minimum free Chernov distance of the target code. However, the lack of the additive property of the Chernov distance prevents a conventional branch-and-bound search for evaluating the minimum distance. To overcome the difficulty, we present a lower bound on the Chernov distance with an additive property. The lower bound plays a key role in the minimum distance evaluation algorithm presented here. By using the proposed algorithm, we have derived the minimum free Chernov distance of some binary linear convolutional codes over Z-channel.

The effectiveness of periodic dispersion compensation on single-channel 40 Gbit/s soliton transmission system was experimentally investigated. This technique requires just the dispersion compensation fibers and wideband optical filters in the transmission line, which has no difficulty to be used in the practical system. By using polarization-division-multiplexing together with periodic dispersion compensation, single-channel 40 Gbit/s transmission over 4700 km was demonstrated. Single-polarization 40 Gbit/s transmission experiments, which are more suitable for system implementation and compatible with WDM were also conducted. We investigated the transmission characteristics and pulse dynamics in different dispersion maps and in the optimized dispersion map, single-channel, single-polarization 40 Gbit/s transmission over 6300 km was successfully demonstrated.

An improved pilot symbol-assisted channel estimation filter, called the weighted multi-slot averaging(WMSA)channel estimation filter, is presented for DS-CDMA transmission links using coherent RAKE combining. Known pilot symbols are periodically time-multiplexed with the sequence of transmitted data symbols; they are placed at the beginning of each data slot. The WMSA channel estimation filter extends the observation interval over several slots. The average bit error rate (BER) performance achievable with coherent RAKE combining using the proposed WMSA channel estimation filter is evaluated by computer simulations in a frequency selective multipath Rayleigh fading channel and the results are compared with those achievable with the use of other channel estimation filters such as an interpolation filter. The DS-CDMA reverse link requires fast transmit power control(TPC). In this paper, we also consider fast TPC based on the measurement of signal-to-interference plus background noise ratio(SIR). The average BER performance with the time-multiplexed pilot channel is also compared with that with the parallel pilot channel.

Performance of optical asynchronous code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with double optical hard-limiters is analyzed in the presence of avalanche photodiode (APD) noise and thermal noise. Optical orthogonal codes (OOC's) are employed as signature sequence codes. In the analysis, chips are assumed to be synchronous among users: the chip synchronous case. Thus, the performance results in the upper bound on the performance of the asynchronous system. The results show that the optical asynchronous CDMA systems with double optical hard-limiters have good performance in the presence of the APD noise and the thermal noise even when the number of simultaneous users is large.

This paper compares the BER performance of two types of pilot channel-based coherent Rake combining achievable by the use of weighted multi-slot averaging (WMSA) channel estimation filter in DS-CDMA transmission links. One is for the time-multiplexed pilot channel and the other is for the parallel pilot channel. The WMSA channel estimation filter weights and averages the received pilot over a period of several slots to improve the BER performance. We propose the WMSA channel estimation filters for time-multiplexed pilot and parallel pilot structures. Achievable BER performance under frequency-selective fading environments is computer simulated. The simulation results show that almost same BER performance can be achieved for both pilot channel structures when the same energy is allocated to the pilot.

To enhance the anti-fading technique of direct sequence code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) schemes in land mobile radio communication systems, a two-dimensional RAKE reception (2D-RAKE) scheme in beam space digital beam forming (BS-DBF) antenna configuration is proposed. The proposed scheme is applied to cellular base stations where the received signals in the reverse link are relieved from multipath fading by means of enhanced RAKE combining in spacial and temporal domains. Fundamental performance in the reverse link under multipath fading environments is investigated by computer simulation applying a wideband propagation channel model.

The final closed-form expression of the bit error rate (BER) is presented for a DS-CDMA system using a maximal ratio combining (MRC) diversity in conjunction with simple channel coding over a Rician fading channel. The accuracy of the BER evaluated by this expression is verified through comparison with a semi-analytic simulation result. The effect of diversity order and channel coding on the bit error rate performance is also considered for typical multipath delay profiles with different Rician ratios.

A deterministic simulation method is investigated for rate 3/4 trellis-coded (TC) 16PSK, TC-16QAM and TC partially overlapped (PO) 12QAM schemes. The BER performance of these schemes are evaluated on realistic channels with the same transmisson parameters, and are compared with BER values obtained from a distance spectrum expression. The results of this study show that the BER values obtained by the deterministic simulation coincide well with those from the distance spectrum method, and that TC-16PSK is superior to both TC-16QAM and TC-PO-12QAM in terms of BER performance over linear and nonlinear channels. The BER degradation caused by a nonlinear amplifier and the BER difference between two mapping methods ( Gray code and natural binary code mapping) are also clarified.

The Rician factor is an important parameter in evaluating the outage probability and reuse distance of cellular systems. From the measurement of 1. 8 GHz radio propagation in outdoor urban microcells, it is found that the measured pdf of the Rician factor for low tier systems follows a lognormal distribution and the factor is independent on the propagation distance.