Analog-to-digital conversion comprises of two fundamental discretization steps: sampling and quantization. Recent results in compressive sensing (CS) have overhauled the conventional wisdom related to the sampling step, by demonstrating that sparse or compressible signals can be sampled at rates much closer to their sparsity rate, rather than their bandwidth. This work further overhauls the con...

PURPOSE Low serum concentrations of drugs used to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have occasionally been associated with treatment failure. We determined the frequencies of low serum concentrations of anti-MDR-TB drugs, and assessed the effects of these concentrations on 2-month sputum conversion. MATERIALS AND METHODS The serum levels of moxifloxacin (MF), prothionamide (PTH...

The conventional approach to sampling signals or images follows the celebrated Shannon sampling theorem: the sampling rate must be at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal (the so-called Nyquist rate). In fact, this principle underlies nearly all signal acquisition protocols used in consumer audio and visual electronics, medical imaging devices, radio receivers, and so on. In ...

A 3-bit ADC for X-band applications that can work at a sampling rate of 11 GS/s is presented in this paper. Current comparators are used to achieve the high sampling rate of 11 GHz at X-band. A 3-bit current-steering DAC is also designed for testing the high-speed ADC. The ADC-DAC RFIC is implemented in a 0.12 μm SiGe technology and occupies a core area of 1.0 x 0.8 mm. The ADC can operate with...

ADC-based CDRs take digital samples of the received signal to recover the clock and data. Digital representation of the signal allows for extensive channel equalization in the digital domain. Recently-reported ADC-based CDRs sample the signal at 1× or 2× the baud rate. The 1× CDR aligns the sampling clock with the signal using a phase-tracking feedback loop [1-2], which requires a voltage-contr...

in this paper the author considers a general method, based on time domain samples for spectral manipulation of time limited signals. first, the original signal is divided into some frames in the time domain. then, by presenting a suitable theoretical and computational algorithm, and using a method for improving the speed of convergence, we find the local bandwidth of each frame; thereby, each f...