In this study a synthesis tool using a novel multirate folding technique which handles each FIR filter in a multirate DSP system as a single node is developed. A new architecture is presented for the multiplierless realization of a fold of multirate FIR filters. This synthesizer fully exploits the redundancies (i.e. `idle' and `missing' cycles) and common terms in multirate systems without sacrificing from overall system quality to produce multiplierless multirate systems. It also enables the usage ...

Minimum shift keying (MSK) modulation has features such as constant envelope compact spectrum and good error performance which are all desirable in many digital applications including mobile radio. Numerous receiver structures to demodulate MSK have been suggested such as correlation receivers differential detectors and frequency discriminators MSK is a form of biphase keying and can be detected by a zero-crossing based phase demodulator which gives near optimum performance. In this paper the bit ...

In this work detection of abrupt changes in continuous-time linear stochastic systems and selection of the sampling interval to improve the detection performance are considered. Cost functions are proposed to optimize both uniform and nonuniform sampling intervals for the well-known cumulative sum algorithm. Some iterative techniques are presented to make online optimization computationally feasible. It is shown that considerable improvement in the detection performance can be obtained by using ...

The effects of auxiliary input signals on detecting changes in ARMAX processes via statistical tests are discussed. Two extensions to the Cumulative Sum Test are considered. The first is applicable when the direction of the change in the parameter space is known but its magnitude is unknown. The second is applicable when neither is known. The performance criteria for the design of stationary stochastic inputs are based on the asymptotic properties of the tests. It is shown that power-constrained ...

This paper proposes a computationally efficient pilot-aided minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation algorithm for OFDM systems. The proposed approach employs a convenient representation of the discrete multipath fading channel based on the Karhunen-Loeve (KL) orthogonal expansion and estimates uncorrelated series expansion coefficients. Moreover optimal rank reduction is achieved in the proposed approach by exploiting the optimal truncation property of the KL expansion resulting in a ...

This paper proposes a computationally efficient linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation algorithm based on KL series expansion for OFDM systems. Based on such expansion no matrix inversion is required in the proposed MMSE estimator. Moreover truncation in the linear expansion of channel is achieved by exploiting the optimal truncation property of the KL expansion resulting in a smaller computational load on the estimation algorithm. The performance of the proposed approach is ...

Modeling the frequency selective fading channels as random processes we employ a linear expansion based on the Karhumen-Loeve (KL) series representation involving a complete set of orthogonal deterministic vectors with a corresponding uncorrelated random coefficients. Focusing on OFDM transmissions through frequency selective fading this paper pursues a computationally efficient pilot-aided linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) uncorrelated KL series expansion coefficients estimation algorithm. ...

Optical and structural properties of mixed CeO2-TiO2 thin films have been investigated by varying the pH of the coating sol. The films were prepared by sol-gel process using spin-coating technique with a spin speed of 2500 rpm. The optical and structural properties of films were examined by a spectrophotometer AFM and XRD. Optical constants and thickness of the CeO2-TiO2 thin films have been determined with respect to the pH of the coating bath before deposition. The refractive index at 550 nm ...

In this study the sol-gel spin-coating method has been used to make Ta2O5-CeO2 thin films. These films have been prepared in various composition ratios to observe changes in their optical and structural properties. Reflectance and transmittance spectra were collected in the spectral range of 300-1000 nm and were accurately fit using the Tauc-Lorentz model. Film thicknesses refractive indices absorption coefficients and optical band gaps were extracted from the theoretical fit. The highest refractive ...

In this paper we propose a new texture-based method for extraction of text areas in a complex document image. Gabor filter motivated by the multi-channel filtering approach of Human Visual System (HVS) has been employed to create energy map of the document. In this energy map we assumed that text areas were rich in high frequency components. Connected components (probable text characters) were extracted by binarization of the energy map with Otsu's adaptive threshold method. First non-text components ...