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  • Efficient diverse redundant DNNs for autonomous driving 

    Caro Roca, Martí; Fornt Mas, Jordi; Abella Ferrer, Jaume (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    Automotive applications with safety requirements must adhere to specific regulations such as ISO 26262, which imposes the use of diverse redundancy for the highest integrity levels (i.e., ASIL D). While this has been often ...
  • Epitaxially grown crystalline silicon as electron selective contact layer for crystalline germanium TPV cells 

    Gamel, Mansur Mohammed Ali; López Rodríguez, Gema; Jawhari Colin, Tariq; Olivares, A.J.; Cabarrocas, P. Roca; Garin Escriva, Moises; Martín García, Isidro (2023)
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    Crystalline germanium has been proposed as a cost-effective absorber for the fabrication of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells which require, among other technologies, the development of electron-selective contacts. In this ...
  • Active-power voltage-support for a microgrid under short-circuits, modelled in complex valued domain 

    Iñiguez Amigot, José Ignacio; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Chico Villegas, José Pascual (2023)
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    The growing number of electric vehicles (EVs) connected to the grid are a promising potential to support the overall system stability, known as vehicle to grid concept. During grid faults these vehicles can be seen as ...
  • An improved estimation of unsuitable segments of ballistocardiography records using wavelet transforms 

    García Limón, José Alberto; Alvarado Serrano, Carlos; Casanella Alonso, Ramón (Computing in Cardiology, 2023)
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    A major challenge in BCG measurements is their high sensitivity to motion artifacts, which degrade the signal quality. Several techniques have been developed, especially for BCG measurements during sleep, to automatically ...
  • A novel wearable insole BCG as a surrogate of the standard vertical weighing scale BCG 

    García Limón, José Alberto; Alvarado Serrano, Carlos; Casanella Alonso, Ramón (Computing in Cardiology, 2023)
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    This work presents a new wearable system based on a piezoelectric sensor embedded in a shoe insole to obtain the ballistocardiogram (BCG). The vertical BCG can be related to relevant cardiovascular parameters such as aortic ...
  • Analysis of a gate-driving technique for enhancing the GaN power transistors performance 

    Gómez Rivera, Luis Felipe; Paredes Camacho, Alejandro; Mino Aguilar, Gerardo; Castañeda Camacho, Josefina (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    This paper presents an analysis of a gate-driving technique for enhancing the switching performance of gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors. The technique consists of modifying the Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) signal ...
  • Strategies for high fill factor and open-circuit voltage in low-doped c-Ge TPV cells with partially contacted surfaces using 3D simulations 

    Gamel, Mansur Mohammed Ali; Shojaei, David; López Rodríguez, Gema; Garin Escriva, Moises; Martín García, Isidro (2023)
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    Dielectric passivated surfaces provide excellent surface recombination properties while point-like contacts are defined to locally extract the current. In this solution, the distance between contacts, or pitch, is critical ...
  • Analysis of the effect of deviated modulating signal characteristics on the susceptibility of a small medical device 

    Bastian, Geon George; Pinto Nunes, Tiago; Quílez Figuerola, Marcos; Fernández Chimeno, Mireya; Silva Martínez, Fernando (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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    A variety of modulation techniques using various signal characteristics are used by the telecommunication industry in real-life applications. Despite this, the radiated immunity test based on the IEC 61000-4-3 only modulates ...
  • WFAsic: A high-performance ASIC accelerator for DNA sequence alignment on a RISC-V SoC 

    Haghi, Abbas; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Fornt Mas, Jordi; Haro Ruiz, Juan Miguel de; Figueras Bagué, Roger; Doblas Font, Max; Marco Sola, Santiago; Moretó Planas, Miquel (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023)
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    The ever-increasing yields in genome sequence data production pose a computational challenge to current genome sequence analysis tools, jeopardizing the future of personalized medicine. Leveraging hardware accelerators ...
  • Novel circuit design methodology with graphene nanoribbon based devices 

    Rallis, Konstantinos; Dimitrakopoulos, Giorgos; Dimitrakis, Panagiotis; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio; Cotofana, Sorin; Karafyllidis, Ioannis; Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    Graphene has attracted a high amount of interest in recent years in many research fields, including the field of electronics. Due to its spectacular properties, it is investigated as a candidate material for the realization ...
  • Study and design of an RF energy harvesting system for WSN networks 

    Rachid, Adil; López Martínez, Antonio Miguel; Moreno García, Sebastián (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    The objective of RF (radio frequency) energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks (WSN) is to reduce the reliance on batteries and extend the lifespan of sensor nodes. This technique involves capturing and storing energy ...
  • Energy efficient object detection for automotive applications with YOLOv3 and approximate hardware 

    Fornt Mas, Jordi; Fontova Muste, Pau; Caro Roca, Martí; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Moll Echeto, Francisco de Borja; Altet Sanahujes, Josep; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    Deep neural networks are the dominant models for perception tasks in the automotive domain, but their high computational complexity makes it difficult to execute them in real time with an acceptable power consumption on ...

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