A major application of the FFT is fast convolution or fast ltering where the DFT of the signal is multiplied term-by-term by the DFT of the impulse (helps to be doing nite impulse response (FIR) ltering) and the time-domain output is obtained by taking the inverse DFT of that product. What is less well-known is the DFT can be calculated by convolution. There are several di erent approaches to t...

Since implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) were first introduced, defibrillator threshold (DFT) testing was considered an integral part of the implant procedure. Perform‐ ing DFT testing verifies the ability of the ICD in detecting and aborting the lethal arrhythmia it was designed to treat. The process has evolved with the development of the ICD’s and the expanding indications for th...

BACKGROUND The defibrillation threshold (DFT) may be affected by biphasic shock duration (BSD), electrode configuration, and capacitance. The upper limit of vulnerability (ULV) may be used to estimate the DFT. For different lead configurations and phase 2 capacitances, we investigated in 18 pigs whether the use of ULV may predict waveforms with lowest DFT. METHODS AND RESULTS -DFT and ULV wer...

This paper describes the integration of Design-ForTestibility (DFT) processes, tools, and methodologies into the RASSP System, which consists of the Design Environment and Enterprise System. The blueprint for the DFT developments is the DFT Methodology, which is highly automated, hierarchical, and spans the entire life cycle, contributing significantly to the RASSP goals of 4x improvement in cy...

The basic receive space diversity combining methods, i.e. Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC), Equal Gain Combining (EGC) and Selection Combining (SC), are studied in this work for Preand PostDFT combining wideband multi-carrier receivers. A common system model for both these schemes are devised. The outage and mean capacity and Frame Error Rate (FER) simulations show that Pre-DFT combining technique...

A general approach to the problem of simultaneous computation of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of two sequences of length N , which may be real, imaginary, conjugated symmetric or conjugated anti-symmetric, using a single N -point DFT of a complex sequence is presented. The framework developed is applied to the simultaneous computation of two DFTs, one DFT and one inverse DFT (IDFT) or t...

Since the invention of the mobile phone, a new generation of mobile communication standard has emerged every 10 years. Upgrading the technology of mobile networks in all areas takes few years. Hence, mobile phones should support the previous communication standards as well as the latest standards. Realizing a multi-standard mobile phone by multiple transceivers in parallel is neither a size-eff...

BACKGROUND Defibrillation threshold (DFT) testing at the time of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation is widely used in clinical practice, but reliable data supporting its routine use are lacking. We undertook a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of DFT testing compared to no DFT testing at the time of ICD implantation. METHODS We searched the MEDLINE and EMBASE datab...

The past decades have seen density functional theory (DFT) evolve from a rising star in computational quantum chemistry to one of its major players. This Theme Issue, which comes half a century after the publication of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorems that laid the foundations of modern DFT, reviews progress and challenges in present-day DFT research. Rather than trying to be comprehensive, this The...

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a formally exact framework for quantum embedding. The appearance of nonadditive kinetic energy contributions in this context poses significant challenges, but using optimized effective potential (OEP) methods, various groups have devised DFT-in-DFT methods that are equivalent to Kohn-Sham (KS) theory on the whole system. This being the case, we note that...