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A Fine-Grain And Scalable Set-Based Cache Partitioning Through Thread Classification, İsa Ahmet Güney, Gürhan Küçük Jan 2019

A Fine-Grain And Scalable Set-Based Cache Partitioning Through Thread Classification, İsa Ahmet Güney, Gürhan Küçük

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

As contemporary processors utilize more and more cores, cache partitioning algorithms tend to preserve cache associativity with a finer-grain of control to achieve higher throughput and fairness goals. In this study, we propose a scalable set-based cache partitioning mechanism, which welds an allocation policy and an enforcement scheme together. We also propose a set-based classifier to better allocate partitions to more deserving threads, a fast set redirection logic to map accesses to dedicated cache sets, and a double access mechanism to overcome the performance penalty due to a repartitioning phase. We compare our work to the best line-grain cache partitioning …


Parallel Algorithms For Computing Sparse Matrix Permanents, Kamer Kaya Jan 2019

Parallel Algorithms For Computing Sparse Matrix Permanents, Kamer Kaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The permanent is an important characteristic of a matrix and it has been used in many applications. Unfortunately, it is a hard to compute and hard to approximate the immanant. For dense/full matrices, the fastest exact algorithm, Ryser, has O($2^{n-1}$n) complexity. In this work, a parallel algorithm, SkipPer, is proposed to exploit the sparsity within the input matrix as much as possible. SkipPer restructures the matrix to reduce the overall work, skips the unnecessary steps, and employs a coarse-grain, shared-memory parallelization with dynamic scheduling. The experiments show that SkipPer increases the performance of exact permanent computation up to 140 compared …


A New Technique For The Measurement And Assessment Of Carotid Artery Wall Vibrations Using Ultrasound Rf Echoes, Samrand Sharifi, Hamid Behnam, Zahra Alizadeh Sani Jan 2019

A New Technique For The Measurement And Assessment Of Carotid Artery Wall Vibrations Using Ultrasound Rf Echoes, Samrand Sharifi, Hamid Behnam, Zahra Alizadeh Sani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Atherosclerosis is known as the leading cause of heart attacks and brain strokes. One of the symptoms of this disease is the reduction of artery wall motion caused by age. This study presents a novel method to extract high frequency components of wall motion, wall vibrations, based on discrete wavelet transform. The fractal dimension, largest Lyapunov exponent, and spectral entropy are then analyzed to indicate the chaotic behavior in wall vibrations. Phase information from demodulated radiofrequency signals is extracted and the entropy of phase-difference is computed as a statistical measure for better characterization of the artery wall tissue. The results …


Possible Effects Of Dielectrophoretic Fields In The Brains Of Mri Operators And Ms Patients: A Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Evaluation, Cahi̇t Canbay Jan 2019

Possible Effects Of Dielectrophoretic Fields In The Brains Of Mri Operators And Ms Patients: A Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Evaluation, Cahi̇t Canbay

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Frequent use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices, which are major contributors in understanding health problems in the human body, is a subject that needs to be taken into consideration both for patients and for operators who are constantly in the vicinity of devices. In this context, electromagnetic impact assessment of an MRI device was performed at the point where the patient entered the device. Dielectrophoretic fields induced by radio frequency (RF) coils of an MRI scanner on male and female operator brain models were computed by using dispersive electrical medium parameters. The main cause of induced secondary dielectrophoretic fields …


Heart Attack Mortality Prediction: An Application Of Machine Learning Methods, Issam Salman Jan 2019

Heart Attack Mortality Prediction: An Application Of Machine Learning Methods, Issam Salman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The heart is an important organ in the human body, and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the leading cause of death in most countries. Researchers are doing a lot of data analysis work to assist doctors in predicting the heart problem. An analysis of the data related to different health problems and its functions can help in predicting the wellness of this organ with a degree of certainty. Our research reported in this paper consists of two main parts. In the first part of the paper, we compare different predictive models of hospital mortality for patients with AMI. All results …


Decoupling Network For Tx/Rx Body Coil For 7t Mri, Ashraf Abuelhaija, Sana Salamh, Osama Nashwan Jan 2019

Decoupling Network For Tx/Rx Body Coil For 7t Mri, Ashraf Abuelhaija, Sana Salamh, Osama Nashwan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The parallel imaging technique is widely used in 7T MRI scanners. It employs multichannel RF coil arrays to apply a concurrent excitation and acquisition method. Concurrent excitation faces significant challenges in terms of electromagnetic coupling between the RF coil elements. In order to prevent interference between the RF coil elements' exciters, several decoupling methods have been developed to compensate for coupling and to permit independent work for the exciters. This paper studies the coupling between meander coils arranged in two different geometrical setups and investigates the isolation performance between the coils by applying two different decoupling networks depending on the …


Compact Metal-Plate Slotted Wlan-Wimax Antenna Design With Usb Wi-Fi Adapter Application, Cem Baytöre, Cem Göçen, Meri̇h Palandöken, Adnan Kaya, Emi̇ne Yeşi̇m Zoral Jan 2019

Compact Metal-Plate Slotted Wlan-Wimax Antenna Design With Usb Wi-Fi Adapter Application, Cem Baytöre, Cem Göçen, Meri̇h Palandöken, Adnan Kaya, Emi̇ne Yeşi̇m Zoral

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, a compact antenna design, which operates in the 2.4, 5.2, and 5.8 GHz (WLAN) and 3.5 and 5.5 GHz (WiMAX) frequency bands, has been implemented to be compatible with the 802.11.ac/n standards. The proposed metal antenna is made of a copper plate of thickness 0.5 mm with a compact overall physical size of 20 mm $\times$ 30 mm. Although it is low-profile, it can work with high efficiency because it has a cheap planar metal structure and it does not contain any expensive dielectric material. The antenna is investigated in terms of S parameters, input impedance, efficiency, …


An Optimized Harmonic Elimination Method Based On Synchronized Microcontroller Architecture, Vivek Gopinath, Meenu Nair, Jayanta Biswas, Mukti Barai Jan 2019

An Optimized Harmonic Elimination Method Based On Synchronized Microcontroller Architecture, Vivek Gopinath, Meenu Nair, Jayanta Biswas, Mukti Barai

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes an optimized synchronous PWM method for harmonic elimination in a quasi square wave inverter. The synchronized PWM method enables online harmonic computation and PWM pulse generation in a multitasking digital controller to eliminate lower order harmonics. The multitasking digital controller reduces the look-up table requirement and helps in realizing efficient implementation to eliminate dominant harmonics. This method offers a simple scalable solution for combined fifth and seventh harmonic elimination using two low-cost eight-bit PIC microcontrollers (PIC18F4550, PIC18F452). Experimental results are demonstrated for a single-phase three-level inverter. The proposed method achieves 90$\% $ reduction of fifth and seventh …


Modified Recycling Folded Cascode Ota With Enhancement In Transconductance And Output Impedance, Sudheer Raja Venishetty, Kumaravel Sundaram Jan 2019

Modified Recycling Folded Cascode Ota With Enhancement In Transconductance And Output Impedance, Sudheer Raja Venishetty, Kumaravel Sundaram

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A modified recycling folded cascode (MRFC) operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) for achieving high DC gain, slew rate, and unity gain bandwidth (UGB) is proposed in this paper. Positive feedback is adopted to enhance DC gain and unity gain bandwidth. The proposed MRFC OTA is compared with conventional folded cascode (FC), recycling folded cascode (RFC), and other OTAs existing in the literature. Three OTAs, FC, RFC, and MRFC, are realized and implemented using the UMC 180 nm CMOS process for the same bias current of 300 $\mu$A. The designs are simulated in the Cadence Spectre Environment. From the simulation results, it …


Nvrh-Lut: A Nonvolatile Radiation-Hardened Hybrid Mtj/Cmos-Based Look-Up Table For Ultralow Power And Highly Reliable Fpga Designs, Vahid Jamshidi Jan 2019

Nvrh-Lut: A Nonvolatile Radiation-Hardened Hybrid Mtj/Cmos-Based Look-Up Table For Ultralow Power And Highly Reliable Fpga Designs, Vahid Jamshidi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) downscaling leads to various challenges, such as high leakage current and increase in radiation sensitivity. To solve such challenges, hybrid MTJ/CMOS technology-based design has been considered as a very promising approach thanks to the high speed, low power, good scalability, and full compatibility of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices with CMOS technology. One important application of MTJs is the efficient utilization in building nonvolatile look-up tables (NV-LUTs) used in reconfigurable logic. However, NV-LUTs face severe reliability issues in nanotechnology due to the increasing process variations, reduced supply voltage, and high energetic particle strike at sensitive …


An Improved Space Charge Distribution Analytical Model To Assess Field-Effect Transistor's Intrinsic Capacitors, Saif Ur Rehman, Umer Farooq Ahmed, Muhammad Mansoor Ahmed, Umair Rafique Jan 2019

An Improved Space Charge Distribution Analytical Model To Assess Field-Effect Transistor's Intrinsic Capacitors, Saif Ur Rehman, Umer Farooq Ahmed, Muhammad Mansoor Ahmed, Umair Rafique

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, an analytical model has been developed for improved assessment of Miller capacitors for high-frequency metal?semiconductor field-effect transistors. Depletion layer underneath the Schottky barrier gate has been divided into four distinct regions, and by evaluating the charges associated with each region, gate-to-source ($C_{GS}$) and gate-to-drain ($C_{GD}$) capacitors, {commonly known as Miller capacitors,} have been defined accordingly. Mathematical expressions have been developed both for the linear as well as for the saturation region. Miller capacitors and their variation as a function of applied bias have been assessed. It has been shown that the proposed technique offers better accuracy in …


Hypothesis-Based Vertex Shift Method For Embedding Secret Logos In The Geometric Features Of 3d Objects, Arthy R, Mala K, Suresh Babu R Jan 2019

Hypothesis-Based Vertex Shift Method For Embedding Secret Logos In The Geometric Features Of 3d Objects, Arthy R, Mala K, Suresh Babu R

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A recent challenge in information technology is to protect secret data and preserve the ownership of a product. There are many duplicate products being released on a daily basis. Owners have a high risk in proving their products. Watermarking is a technique used to preserve ownership by hiding the owner's information in their products. The proposed hypothesis-based vertex shifting algorithm embeds 2D secret logos in 3D cover objects. The 3D objects are represented using vertices and facets. 3D watermarking faces various challenges and one among them is capacity. In this work, capacity is addressed by using a hypothesis-based vertex shift …


A Novel Method Based On Comparison Using Threshold Scale For Cfar Detectors Under Environments With Conditions Of Electromagnetic Interference, Milad Daneshvar, Naser Parhizgar, Pouria Salehi Jan 2019

A Novel Method Based On Comparison Using Threshold Scale For Cfar Detectors Under Environments With Conditions Of Electromagnetic Interference, Milad Daneshvar, Naser Parhizgar, Pouria Salehi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Detection of a noisy signal is a complex process. Many radar systems are working in an environment where the signal processing parts cannot overcome the effects of interference sources due to their high power. These sources of conflict may completely erode the signal or may make a mistake in deciding. It may make the return of the echoes of the goals difficult. To solve this problem, the detector processor can use a new algorithm to estimate noise power and then can set the threshold in different positions of the cell under test. The proposed algorithm, by differentiating between homogeneous and …


Line Independency-Based Network Modelling For Backward/Forward Load Flow Analysis Of Electrical Power Distribution Systems, Reyhaneh Taheri, Alimorad Khajezadeh, Mohammad Hossein Rezaeian Koochi, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari Jan 2019

Line Independency-Based Network Modelling For Backward/Forward Load Flow Analysis Of Electrical Power Distribution Systems, Reyhaneh Taheri, Alimorad Khajezadeh, Mohammad Hossein Rezaeian Koochi, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper a straightforward method for line independency-based modelling of electrical power distribution systems is proposed. The proposed method can determine the backward and forward sweeping routes of distribution systems for calculating line currents and bus voltages. To do that, the method identifies the independent lines in consecutive steps. An independent line is a line in the distribution system whose current does not depend on the current of other lines in the system. The proposed line independency-based network modelling is required to be performed only once and prior to the load flow analysis. The output of the proposed method, …


Optimal Siting, Sizing, And Parameter Tuning Of Statcom And Sssc Using Mpso And Remote Coordination Of The Facts For Oscillation Damping Of Power Systems, James Garba Ambafi, Sunusi Sani Adamu Jan 2019

Optimal Siting, Sizing, And Parameter Tuning Of Statcom And Sssc Using Mpso And Remote Coordination Of The Facts For Oscillation Damping Of Power Systems, James Garba Ambafi, Sunusi Sani Adamu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In electromechanical oscillation damping within power system, power system stabilizers (PSSs) are often deployed. However, a PSS is less effective in damping interarea oscillation and is limited by changes in network configuration due to weak tie-lines and load variations. Consequently, this paper presents a wide-area coordination approach that damps interarea oscillations using FACTS devices and phasor measurement units. We selected a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) and static series synchronous compensator (SSSC) for realistic power system interarea oscillation damping. The performance of the coordinated FACTS installed in a power system depends on their suitable locations, sizes, tuned parameters, and remote input …


The Impact Of Demand Response Programs On Upfc Placement, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari, Mehdi Ehsan, Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad Jan 2019

The Impact Of Demand Response Programs On Upfc Placement, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari, Mehdi Ehsan, Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Demand response (DR) and flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) devices can be effectively used for congestion management in power transmission systems. However, demand response program (DRP) implementation can itself affect the optimum location of FACTS devices, which is one of the main issues in power system planning. This paper investigates the impact of DRPs on unified power flow controller (UPFC) placement. The harmony search algorithm is employed to determine the optimum locations and parameter setting of UPFC in a long-term framework. The optimization problem is solved with different objectives including generation and congestion cost reduction, as well as loss reduction. …


Global Maximum Operating Point Tracking For Pv System Using Fast Convergence Firefly Algorithm, Madhusmita Mohanty, Sankar Selvakumar, Chandrasekaran Koodalsamy, Sishaj Pulikottil Simon Jan 2019

Global Maximum Operating Point Tracking For Pv System Using Fast Convergence Firefly Algorithm, Madhusmita Mohanty, Sankar Selvakumar, Chandrasekaran Koodalsamy, Sishaj Pulikottil Simon

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Global maximum operating point (GMOP) tracking is an important requirement of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems under partial shading conditions (PSCs). Though the perturb and observe algorithm is simple and effective, it fails to recognize the GMOP. This paper explores the application of the firefly algorithm (FA) to the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) problem of PV systems. In order to determine the shortest path to reach the GMOP under various PSCs, a new fast convergence firefly algorithm (FA) is proposed. Additionally, the change in firefly position is limited to a maximum value identified based on the characteristics of the PSC. …


Design And Control Of An Lcl-Type Single-Phase Grid-Connected Inverter With Inverter Current Feedback Using The Phase-Delay Method, Fati̇h Evran Jan 2019

Design And Control Of An Lcl-Type Single-Phase Grid-Connected Inverter With Inverter Current Feedback Using The Phase-Delay Method, Fati̇h Evran

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, a novel single-phase grid-connected microinverter system and its control applications are introduced for solar energy systems. The proposed system consists of two stages to transfer solar power to the grid. In the first stage, an isolated high-gain DC/DC converter is used to increase low solar panel output voltage. In the second stage, an inverter is used to supply a sinusoidal current to the grid. Moreover, a proportional resonant controller is adopted to reduce grid current total harmonic distortions (THDs) and an LCL filter is used to provide better harmonic attenuation. However, the ratio between the sampling frequency …


Comparative Evaluation Of A-B-C And Stationary Frame Of Reference For Permanent Magnet Brushless Dc Motor Drive Applied For Generation Of Switching Pattern, Manish Trivedi, Ritesh Keshri Jan 2019

Comparative Evaluation Of A-B-C And Stationary Frame Of Reference For Permanent Magnet Brushless Dc Motor Drive Applied For Generation Of Switching Pattern, Manish Trivedi, Ritesh Keshri

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper focuses on the evaluation of the operation of permanent magnet brushless DC (PM BLDC) motor through the control implemented in the natural reference frame (a-b-c frame) and the stationary reference frame ($\alpha-\beta$ frame). To a large extent, ripple-free torque and attainment of higher torque-speed characteristic depend on the gating pulses/switching patterns of the inverter employed. PM BLDC motor requires injection of the square wave current for the maximum torque per ampere, so the reference is required to be generated and tracked accordingly. The effectiveness of the strategies of pulse-width-modulation-based current control in the a-b-c plane and, the case …


A Two-Stage Power Converter Architecture With Maximum Power Extraction For Low-Power Energy Sources, Ridvan Umaz Jan 2019

A Two-Stage Power Converter Architecture With Maximum Power Extraction For Low-Power Energy Sources, Ridvan Umaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A two-stage power converter with maximum power extraction for energy harvesting is presented. The power converter consists of two stages; a maximum power extraction stage (i.e. first stage) and a regulation stage (i.e. second stage). The first stage consists of a number of charge pumps connected in parallel to extract power from the energy source while the second stage steps up low input voltage level to a usable level for a load. Proposed converter operates as low as 0.3 V and the output up-converts to 3.3 V. The proposed converter is aimed to extract maximum power from either low-power energy …


Quantification Of Resistive Wall Instability For Particle Accelerator Machines, Fati̇h Yaman Jan 2019

Quantification Of Resistive Wall Instability For Particle Accelerator Machines, Fati̇h Yaman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The aim of this study is to quantify longitudinal resistive wall impedances, corresponding wake functions, and wake potentials for different accelerator machines of interest. Accurate calculations of wake potentials by particle-in-cell codes are extremely difficult for the investigated parameters; therefore, we use an analytical approach and consider large domains with fine discretization for the required numerical integrations. The semianalytical wake potential computations are benchmarked against numerical general purpose 2D/3D Maxwell solver software codes and a different analytical approach for a certain set of parameters. We report examples to illustrate limitations of wake potential estimations from coupling impedances, and computations for …


Survey Of Network Embedding Techniques For Social Networks, Pranav Nerurkar, Madhav Chandane, Sunil Bhirud Jan 2019

Survey Of Network Embedding Techniques For Social Networks, Pranav Nerurkar, Madhav Chandane, Sunil Bhirud

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

High dimensionality of data is a challenging scenario in the current era as the digital transformation of the society is in process. This problem is particularly complex in social networks as in such systems, it is coupled with other challenges such as interdependency of data points and heterogeneity of data sources. To overcome such disadvantages and aid in creation of downstream applications for social network analysis, network embedding techniques have been proposed. These techniques, in themselves, are not important but are the backbone of various network-based applications. Due to the scientific interest in this domain there has been a mushrooming …