Conference Programme

PL-1: Plenary Session 1
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	09:20, 18th June 2008
	Adaptivity and Reliability in Future Chips. Multi-Core and Reconfigurable Architectures in the Nano Era Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Becker, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Institute for Information Processing - ITIV, (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT)
OS-1A: Cryptography
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	10:00, 18th June 2008
OS-1A.1	Side Channel Analysis of an Automotive Microprocessor Mark Hamilton, Michael Tunstall, Emanuel Popovici, William Marnane (University College Cork)
OS-1A.2	Fault Insertion Platform for Block Ciphers Brian Baldwin, Emanuel Popovici (University College Cork), Michael Tunstall (University of Bristol), Liam Marnane (University College Cork)
OS-1B: Signals and Systems 1
	Venue:	Larmor Theatre	Time:	10:00, 18th June 2008
OS-1B.1	Structural Division Procedure for Efficient IC Analysis Michael Brutscheck (Dublin Institute of Technology), Steffen Berger, Marco Franke (Merseburg University of Applied Sciences), Andreas Thomas Schwarzbacher (Dublin Institute of Technology), Steffen Becker (Merseburg University of Applied Sciences)
OS-1B.2	State Estimation for the VASIMR Plasma Engine Shane Lynn, John Ringwood (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Juan Ignacio Del Valle Gamboa (Ad Astra Rocket Company Costa Rica)
PS-1: Poster Session 1
	Venue:	Concourse	Time:	10:40, 18th June 2008
PS-1.1	An Investigation of Sub-band FM Feature Extraction in Speaker Recognition Tharmarajah Thiruvaran, Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah (University of New South Wales), Edward Jones (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-1.2	Objective Assessment of Audio Quality Ronan Skehill, David Palomar, Ian Rice, Dorel Picovici (University of Limerick)
PS-1.3	Pitch tracking and voiced/unvoiced detection in noisy environment using optimal sequence estimation Moshe Wasserblat, Mikel Gainza, David Dorran (Dublin Institute of Technology), Yuval Domb (Israel)
PS-1.4	The Relevance of Conditional Loss Probability to QOV estimation of a VoIP system. Daniel Riordan, Patrick Doody (Institute of Technology, Tralee)
PS-1.5	Identifying Skin Electrical Properties Using a Standard NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulation Voltage Pulse Sinziana Birlea (National University of Ireland, Galway), Nicolae Birlea (Technical University, Cluj-Napoca), Paul Breen, Gearóid O Laighin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-1.6	Classification of Suspicious Regions Within Ultrawideband Radar Images of the Breast Raquel Conceicao, Dallan Byrne, Martin O'Halloran, Martin Glavin, Edward Jones (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-1.7	Nonlinear Analysis of the 2nd Order Digital Phase Locked loop Brian Daniels, Ronan Farrell (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
PS-1.8	Project based learning in control engineering Tom O'Mahony (Cork Institute of Technology)
PS-1.9	Control of a Highly Non Linear Multi-Variable Thermal Processing Furnace Anthony Holohan, Kieran O'Donoghue (Dublin City University)
PS-1.10	Slewing Control of Flexible Space Structures: A Wave Based Approach Alessandro Fumagalli (Politecnico di Milano), William O'Connor (University College Dublin)
PS-1.11	Application of the Discrete-Time Structured Singular Value for DC-DC Converters Mark Halton, Martin Scharrer, Tony Scanlan (University of Limerick)
OS-2A: Biomedical Signal Processing
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	11:40, 18th June 2008
OS-2A.1	Gait Pattern Classification Using Spectral Features Ronny Ibrahim, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Branko Celler, Nigel Lovell (University of New South Wales), Liam Kilmartin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
OS-2A.2	Motion Compensated Complementary Coding for Medical Ultrasound Cormac Cannon, John Hannah, Steve McLaughlin (University of Edinburgh)
OS-2A.3	Accelerometer and footswitch evaluation of movement in three elderly patient groups Alan Barrett, Gearóid O Laighin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
OS-2B: DSP and SoC Architectures 1
	Venue:	Larmor Theatre	Time:	11:40, 18th June 2008
OS-2B.1	Dual MAC Processor for Adaptive Control of Multiple High Switching Frequency DC-DC Converters James Mooney, Abdulhussain Mahdi (University of Limerick), Anthony Kelly, Karl Rinne (Powervation Ltd.)
OS-2B.2	Towards Automatic Management of Reconfigurable Accelerators Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz, Fearghal Morgan, Krzysztof Kepa (National University of Ireland, Galway), Noel Murphy (Intel)
OS-2B.3	Architecture of Efficient RNS-Based Digital Signal Processor With Very Low-Level Pipelining Stanislaw Piestrak (University of Metz, France), Krzysztof S. Berezowski (Wroclaw University of Technology)
OS-3: Invited Industry Session
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	13:40, 18th June 2008
OS-3.1	Curvature Correction Method for a Bandgap Voltage Reference Stefan Marinca, Tom O'Dwyer (Analog Devices)
OS-3.2	An FPGA-based Cognitive Radio Framework Jorg Lotze, Suhaib A Fahmy (Trinity College Dublin), Juanjo Noguera (Xilinx), Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin), Robert Esser (Xilinx)
OS-3.3	Algorithm for Adjustment of DDR Write Interface Patrick Fleming, Pawel Ostropolski (Intel)
OS-3.4	Ultra-Fast Locking, Low Jitter, Auto-Ranging Phase Locked Loop Eugene O'Sullivan, Ian Kennedy, Dermot McSweeney, Brendan O'Regan, Pradeep Kumar Chandrasekar, Zheyao Zhang (Cypress)
PS-2: Poster Session 2
	Venue:	Concourse	Time:	15:00, 18th June 2008
PS-2.1	A Combined Approach to Feature Extraction for Mouth Characterization and Tracking Ioana Bacivarov, Mircea Ionita, Peter Corcoran (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-2.2	Review of Geometric Distortion Compensation in Fish-Eye Cameras Ciaran Hughes, Martin Glavin, Edward Jones (National University of Ireland, Galway), Patrick Denny (Valeo Vision Systems)
PS-2.3	A Review of Automotive Infrared Pedestrian Detection Techniques Ronan O'Malley, Martin Glavin, Edward Jones (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-2.4	Optical Safety Assessment of a Near-Infrared Brain-Computer Interface Christopher Soraghan, Tomas Ward, Fiachra Matthews, Charles Markham (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
PS-2.5	Optimisation of Optical Signal Delay in Slow-Light Systems Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Ronny Henker (Dublin Institute of Technology), Thomas Schneider, Andrzej Wiatrek (Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig), Kai-uwe Lauterbach, Markus Junker, Max J. Ammann, Andreas T. Schwarzbacher (Dublin Institute of Technology)
PS-2.6	Automatic ASCII Art Conversion of Binary Images Using Non-negative Constraints Paul O'Grady, Scott Rickard (University College Dublin)
PS-2.7	FPGA based Adaptive Optics Control System Shane Lynch, Fearghal Morgan, Derek Coburn, Chris Dainty (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-2.8	IEEE 1500 Wrapper Control using an IEEE 1149.1 Test Access Port. Michael Higgins (University of Limerick)
PS-2.9	An Optimal IEEE 1500 Core Wrapper Design for Improved Test Access and Reduced Test Time Brendan Mullane, Michael Higgins, Ciaran MacNamee (University of Limerick)
PS-2.10	A Proactive Maintenance Scheme for Hardware Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Systems Barbara Walsh, Ronan Farrell (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
PS-2.11	Performance Optimization Algorithm for DDR Pawel Ostropolski, Patrick Fleming (Intel)
PL-2: Plenary Session 2
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	16:00, 18th June 2008
	Wave-based Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems Dr William J O'Connor (UCD School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering)
OS-4A: DSP and Communications 1
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	16:40, 18th June 2008
OS-4A.1	Wearable Ultra-Wideband Channel Sounder for MIMO Antenna Systems Philip Catherwood, William Scanlon (Queens University Belfast)
OS-4A.2	A preliminary analysis of HIV infection dynamics Rick Middleton, Jorge Dos Santos Ferreira (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
OS-4B: Control Systems
	Venue:	Larmor Theatre	Time:	16:40, 18th June 2008
OS-4B.1	Experimental Characterisation and Analysis of Wireless Network Control Systems Jian Chen, Adrian McKernan, George Irwin, William Scanlon (Queens University Belfast)
OS-4B.2	Biogas plant optimization using Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization Christian Wolf, Sean McLoone (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Michael Bongards (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)
PL-3: Plenary Session 3
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	09:00, 19th June 2008
	Introduction to Nanoelectronics: Top down vs Bottom up Dr. Aidan Quinn, Nanotechnology Group, Tyndall National Institute
OS-5A: Wireless Communication Systems
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	09:40, 19th June 2008
OS-5A.1	Experimental Evaluation of a Single Access Point Bluetooth Damian Kelly, Sean McLoone (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Terry Dishongh (Intel)
OS-5A.2	Distributed power control technique for 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks, based quantitative feedback theory Mahdi Alavi, Michael Walsh, Hayes Martin (University of Limerick)
OS-5A.3	A modified bumpless transfer technique for seamless handoff in adhoc 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks Michael Walsh, Mahdi Alavi, Hayes Martin (University of Limerick)
OS-5B: Audio Signal Processing
	Venue:	Larmor Theatre	Time:	09:40, 19th June 2008
OS-5B.1	Automatic detection of optimal azimuth widths for sound source separation using Adress. Derry Fitzgerald (Cork Institute of Technology), Dan Barry (Dublin Institute of Technology), Matt Cranitch (Cork Institute of Technology), Eugene Coyle (Dublin Institute of Technology)
OS-5B.2	Violin Sound Quality Detection Jane Charles (Dublin Institute of Technology), Derry Fitzgerald (Cork Institute of Technology), Eugene Coyle (Dublin Institute of Technology)
OS-5B.3	Single Channel Sound Source Separation combining Delay Estimation and the ADRess algorithm Mark Leddy, Dan Barry, David Dorran, Eugene Coyle (Dublin Institute of Technology)
PS-3: Poster Session 3
	Venue:	Concourse	Time:	10:20, 19th June 2008
PS-3.1	A True Random Binary Sequence Generator Based On Chaotic Circuit Marta Blaszczyk, Richard A. Guinee (Cork Institute of Technology)
PS-3.2	Evaluating Mobility in a RF Isolation Testbed Ronan Skehill, Padraig Scully, Sean McGrath (University of Limerick)
PS-3.3	Design and Test of a Long-Term Fall Detection System Incorporated into a Custom Vest for the Elderly Alan Bourke, Pepijn Van De Ven (University of Limerick), Gearóid O Laighin (National University of Ireland, Galway), John Nelson (University of Limerick)
PS-3.4	A preliminary investigation of monitoring ADLs using wireless kinematic sensors Anthony Dalton, Gearóid O Laighin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-3.5	A Wireless Platform for Fall and Mobility Monitoring Pepijn Van De Ven, Alan Bourke, John Nelson (University of Limerick), Gearóid O Laighin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
PS-3.6	The Development of Advanced Verification Environments using System Verilog Kevin Keane, Martin Keaveney, Michael Anthony McMahon (Chipright), Niall O'Keeffe (Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)), James O'Reilly (Chipright)
PS-3.7	Lifting Scheme Discrete Wavelet Transform using Vertical and Crosswise Multipliers Anthony O'Brien, Richard Conway (University of Limerick)
PS-3.8	A Hardware Implementation of a Run Length Encoding Compression Algorithm with Parallel Inputs Johannes Trein, Andreas Schwarzbacher (Dublin Institute of Technology), Bernhard Hoppe (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences), Klaus-henning Noffz (Silicon Software GmbH)
PS-3.9	Intelligent assessment tool Radu Adrian Ciora (Digital Enterprise Research Institute), Peter Corcoran (National University of Ireland, Galway), Bill McDaniel, Mark Leyden (Digital Enterprise Research Institute)
OS-6A: DSP and Communications 2
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	11:20, 19th June 2008
OS-6A.1	A Novel Transmission Line Test and Fault Location Methodology using Pseudorandom Binary Sequences Richard A. Guinee (Cork Institute of Technology)
OS-6A.2	32 GHz Carrier Generation and 200 Mbit/s Error Free Data Transmission in a Radio Over Fibre System Markus Junker (Dublin Institute of Technology), Thomas Schneider (Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig), Max J. Ammann, Andreas T. Schwarzbacher, Kai-uwe Lauterbach, Ronny Henker (Dublin Institute of Technology), Steffen Neidhardt (Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig)
OS-6A.3	Non-Line of Sight Mitigation using a Measurement and Positioning Filtering Algorithm Juan Ramon Gonzalez Hernandez, Chris Bleakley (University College Dublin)
OS-6B: DSP and SoC Architectures 2
	Venue:	Larmor Theatre	Time:	11:20, 19th June 2008
OS-6B.1	Proposed architecture of configurable, adaptable SoC Jiri Kadlec, Martin Danek, Lukas Kohout (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague)
OS-6B.2	Programmable Architectures for Large-scale Implementations of Spiking Neural Networks Jim Harkin, Liam McDaid (University of Ulster, Magee), Steve Hall, Thomas Dowrick (University of Liverpool), Fearghal Morgan (National University of Ireland, Galway)
OS-6B.3	Design of Residue Multipliers-Accumulators Using Periodicity Stanislaw Piestrak (University of Metz, France), Krzysztof S. Berezowski (Wroclaw University of Technology)
OS-7: Signals and Systems 2
	Venue:	D'Arcy Thompson Theatre	Time:	13:20, 19th June 2008
OS-7.1	The enumeration of Costas arrays of order 27 Konstantinos Drakakis, Scott Rickard, Rodrigo Caballero (University College Dublin), Francesco Iorio (Trinity College Dublin), Gareth O'Brien (University College Dublin), John Walsh (Trinity College Dublin)
OS-7.2	Logarithmic Tools for In-camera Image Processing Corneliu Florea, Felix Albu, Constantin Vertan (FotoNation Romania), Alexandru Drimbarean (FotoNation Ireland)

The IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2008

Conference Programme

PL-1: Plenary Session 1

Adaptivity and Reliability in Future Chips. Multi-Core and Reconfigurable Architectures in the Nano Era

OS-1A: Cryptography

Side Channel Analysis of an Automotive Microprocessor

Fault Insertion Platform for Block Ciphers

OS-1B: Signals and Systems 1

Structural Division Procedure for Efficient IC Analysis

State Estimation for the VASIMR Plasma Engine

PS-1: Poster Session 1

An Investigation of Sub-band FM Feature Extraction in Speaker Recognition

Objective Assessment of Audio Quality

Pitch tracking and voiced/unvoiced detection in noisy environment using optimal sequence estimation

The Relevance of Conditional Loss Probability to QOV estimation of a VoIP system.

Identifying Skin Electrical Properties Using a Standard NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulation Voltage Pulse

Classification of Suspicious Regions Within Ultrawideband Radar Images of the Breast

Nonlinear Analysis of the 2nd Order Digital Phase Locked loop

Project based learning in control engineering

Control of a Highly Non Linear Multi-Variable Thermal Processing Furnace

Slewing Control of Flexible Space Structures: A Wave Based Approach

Application of the Discrete-Time Structured Singular Value for DC-DC Converters

OS-2A: Biomedical Signal Processing

Gait Pattern Classification Using Spectral Features

Motion Compensated Complementary Coding for Medical Ultrasound

Accelerometer and footswitch evaluation of movement in three elderly patient groups

OS-2B: DSP and SoC Architectures 1

Dual MAC Processor for Adaptive Control of Multiple High Switching Frequency DC-DC Converters

Towards Automatic Management of Reconfigurable Accelerators

Architecture of Efficient RNS-Based Digital Signal Processor With Very Low-Level Pipelining

OS-3: Invited Industry Session

Curvature Correction Method for a Bandgap Voltage Reference

An FPGA-based Cognitive Radio Framework

Algorithm for Adjustment of DDR Write Interface

Ultra-Fast Locking, Low Jitter, Auto-Ranging Phase Locked Loop

PS-2: Poster Session 2

A Combined Approach to Feature Extraction for Mouth Characterization and Tracking

Review of Geometric Distortion Compensation in Fish-Eye Cameras

A Review of Automotive Infrared Pedestrian Detection Techniques

Optical Safety Assessment of a Near-Infrared Brain-Computer Interface

Optimisation of Optical Signal Delay in Slow-Light Systems Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

Automatic ASCII Art Conversion of Binary Images Using Non-negative Constraints

FPGA based Adaptive Optics Control System

IEEE 1500 Wrapper Control using an IEEE 1149.1 Test Access Port.

An Optimal IEEE 1500 Core Wrapper Design for Improved Test Access and Reduced Test Time

A Proactive Maintenance Scheme for Hardware Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Systems

Performance Optimization Algorithm for DDR

PL-2: Plenary Session 2

Wave-based Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems

OS-4A: DSP and Communications 1

Wearable Ultra-Wideband Channel Sounder for MIMO Antenna Systems

A preliminary analysis of HIV infection dynamics

OS-4B: Control Systems

Experimental Characterisation and Analysis of Wireless Network Control Systems

Biogas plant optimization using Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization

PL-3: Plenary Session 3

Introduction to Nanoelectronics: Top down vs Bottom up

OS-5A: Wireless Communication Systems

Experimental Evaluation of a Single Access Point Bluetooth

Distributed power control technique for 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks, based quantitative feedback theory

A modified bumpless transfer technique for seamless handoff in adhoc 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks

OS-5B: Audio Signal Processing

Automatic detection of optimal azimuth widths for sound source separation using Adress.

Violin Sound Quality Detection

Single Channel Sound Source Separation combining Delay Estimation and the ADRess algorithm

PS-3: Poster Session 3

A True Random Binary Sequence Generator Based On Chaotic Circuit

Evaluating Mobility in a RF Isolation Testbed

Design and Test of a Long-Term Fall Detection System Incorporated into a Custom Vest for the Elderly

A preliminary investigation of monitoring ADLs using wireless kinematic sensors

A Wireless Platform for Fall and Mobility Monitoring

The Development of Advanced Verification Environments using System Verilog

Lifting Scheme Discrete Wavelet Transform using Vertical and Crosswise Multipliers

A Hardware Implementation of a Run Length Encoding Compression Algorithm with Parallel Inputs

Intelligent assessment tool

OS-6A: DSP and Communications 2

A Novel Transmission Line Test and Fault Location Methodology using Pseudorandom Binary Sequences

32 GHz Carrier Generation and 200 Mbit/s Error Free Data Transmission in a Radio Over Fibre System

Non-Line of Sight Mitigation using a Measurement and Positioning Filtering Algorithm

OS-6B: DSP and SoC Architectures 2

Proposed architecture of configurable, adaptable SoC