The paper focuses on the distortions introduced by low frequency magnetic field meters in the measurement of pulsed or periodic quasi-rectangular waveforms, such as those experienced near welding devices or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines. Starting from the meter frequency response, evaluated by generating reference sinusoidal magnetic fields up to a hundred of hertz, a circuital mode...

A smart meter is resource-constrained device, therefore lightweight cryptographic methods are required. Physical unclonable function(PUF) is promising hardware based lightweight security solution, which makes use of the inherent process variation in semiconductor fabrication process to generate unique ID. This paper presents an PUF based smart meter security with frequency synthesizer(Sx) chain...

Fundamental to the experience of music, beat and meter perception refers to the perception of periodicities while listening to music occurring within the frequency range of musical tempo. Here, we explored the spontaneous building of beat and meter hypothesized to emerge from the selective entrainment of neuronal populations at beat and meter frequencies. The electroencephalogram (EEG) was reco...

To overcome the shortcoming that the traditional frequency measurement method does not meet the requirement of equal precision, a design method of equal precision frequency meter based on FPGA is proposed. The system modules are all realized in Altera’s FPGA chip EP2C35F672C8. Experimental results show that the system can measure frequencies with equal precision in the whole frequency range, an...

An emerging solution to privacy issues in smart grids is battery-based load hiding (BLH) that uses a rechargeable battery to decouple the meter readings from user activities. However, existing BLH algorithms have two significant limitations: (1) Most of them focus on flattening high-frequency variation of usage profile only, thereby still revealing a low-frequency shape; (2) Otherwise, they ass...

Caregivers often engage in musical interactions with their infants. For example, parents across cultures sing lullabies and playsongs to their infants from birth. Behavioral studies indicate that infants not only extract beat information, but also group these beats into metrical hierarchies by as early as 6 months of age. However, it is not known how this is accomplished in the infant brain. An...

A distributed fiber sensor based on a differential chirped-pulse pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis (DCPBOTDA) is proposed for sub-meter spatial resolution sensing. The technique is based on the subtraction of two measurements made with the same pump pulse widths, but differing in the final short section of the pulse by a positive or negative frequency chirp, respectively. Experimental...

National Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg, MD 20899 To provide a phase meter calibration service, a phase angle calibration standard has been developed at NBS. This standard is a signal. generator with two sinusoidal outputs and uses direct digital synthesis to generate the signals. The phase angle between the two sinusoids is determined by the input parameters in the calculation of the sets of...

1. Optical Frequency Standard Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAB07-74-C-0630) David E. Pritchard We are trying to develop a simple and economical "frequency meter" to be used with a tunable laser to preset the laser frequency, measure the laser frequency, or provide frequency marker pulses when the laser frequency is swept. A prototype system capable of 50 MHz accuracy is nearing...