This paper presents a wideband low-noise amplifier (LNA) designed to be used as the first stage of the receiver in the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope. The LNA design procedure and its layout features are discussed. The noise figure optimization procedure determines the signal-source resistance that results in reduced noise figure. When used in the radio telescope, the required signal-so...

This paper introduces the audio part of the 2010 communitybased Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC2010). Seven speech and music datasets were contributed, which include datasets recorded in noisy or dynamic environments, in addition to the SiSEC2008 datasets. The source separation problems were split into five tasks, and the results for each task were evaluated using different objecti...

We present an overview of the biomedical part of the 2010 community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC2010), coordinated by the authors. In addition to the audio tasks which have been evaluated in the previous SiSEC, SiSEC2010 considered several biomedical tasks. Here, three biomedical datasets from molecular biology (gene expression profiles) and neuroscience (EEG) were contrib...

Responses of Gabor wavelets in the mid-frequency space build a local spectral representation scheme with optimal properties regarding the time-frequency uncertainty principle. However, when using Gabor wavelets we observe a skewness in the mid-frequency space caused by the spreading effect of Gabor wavelets. Though in most current applications the skewness does not obstruct the sampling of the ...

Introduction: It has been suggested that heavily diffusion-weighted (DW) functional MRI (fMRI) signal changes originate from water in a slow diffusion phase and reflect neuronal activity via cell-swelling [1]. However, several investigations comparing signal changes during visual stimulation and hypercapnia have not arrived at any conclusive agreement on the signal source [2-4]. The role of the...

We address the problem of locating a transient source, such as an acoustic emission source, in a plate. We apply time-frequency analysis to the signals detected at a receiver. These highly dispersive and complex waveforms are measured for source-receiver separations ranging from 40 to 180 plate thicknesses and at frequencies such that 10 to 20 Rayleigh-Lamb branches are included. Reassigned, sm...

This work investigates the problem of low SNR signal-source localization with an array of sensors. Keeping the receive system simple, we focus on analog-to-digital converters (ADC) with coarse resolution. In order to increase the localization accuracy and minimize the size of the receiver, we discuss the effect of analog filtering and antenna spacing on the Fisher information measure. In partic...

Embedded GPS receivers have become commonplace with the proliferation of GPS navigation systems into all but the least expensive vehicle and cell phone lines. As more manufacturers embed low-cost GPS receivers into their products, the need for low-cost GPS signal simulators has also grown. Controlled virtual testing is vital in ensuring the expected system performance. NAVSYS developed a low co...

We consider correlation-based imaging of a reflector located on one side of a passive array where the medium is homogeneous. On the other side of the array the illumination by remote impulsive sources goes through a strongly scattering medium. It has been shown in [J. Garnier and G. Papanicolaou, Inverse Problems, 28 (2012), 075002] that migrating the cross correlations of the passive array giv...