Abstract:
A system and method for testing robustness of a simulation model of a cyber-physical system includes computing a set of symbolic simulation traces for a simulation model for a continuous time system stored in memory, based on a discrete time simulation of given test inputs stored in memory. Simulation errors are accounted for due to at least one of numerical instabilities and numeric computations. The set of symbolic simulation traces are validated with respect to validation properties in the simulation model. Portions of the simulation model description are identified that are sources of the simulation errors.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for verifying the precision of a program that utilizes floating point operations are disclosed. Interval and affine arithmetic can be employed to build a model of the program including floating point operations and variables that are expressed as reals and integers, thereby permitting accurate determination of precision loss using a model checker. Abstract interpretation can be also employed to simplify the model. In addition, counterexample-guided abstraction refinement can be used to refine the values of parametric error constants introduced in the model.
Abstract:
Beamforming methods and systems are described in which differential channel estimation can be computed based on measured power at receiver. Simultaneous activation of antennas in separate pairs can be used to determine relative phases of antennas with respect to a reference antenna based on the power measurements. In turn, the beam forming signals can be weighted in accordance with the relative phases to adapt the signals to a multipath environment. Existing power measurement capabilities of conventional receivers can be employed to achieve approximate channel estimates.
Abstract:
A method includes modulating lightwaves to provide first and second OFDM signal sidebands at a first polarization direction and first and second OFDM signal sidebands at a second polarization direction, and combining sidebands that are oppositely positioned and joined from the first and second OFDM signal sidebands at each polarization direction to provide a polarization multiplexing OFDM signal.
Abstract:
A method includes compressing control patterns describing values required at the control signals of blocking logic gates, by linear feedback shift register LFSR reseeding; bypassing blocking logic gates for some groups of scan chains that do not capture unknown values in output response of scan test patterns for testing circuits; and reducing numbers of specified bits in densely specified ones of the control patterns for further reducing the size of a seed of the LFSR.
Abstract:
A modular wavelength cross connect node for use in a dense wavelength division multiplexing network exhibiting low cost and improved performance by employing a bidirectional wavelength selective switch in a main optical path and using optical circulators to share any common ports.
Abstract:
A method of generating a dark-RZ pulse in an optical communications system with a dual-arm modulator by setting a direct current bias on the modulator to a specific value such that an output optical power from the modulator achieves a maximum value when the RF signals on the first and second arms of the modulator are off and maintaining the direct current bias at the specific value and applying RF signals to the first and second arms of the modulator and delaying one of the RF signals applied to one of the first and second arms relative to the other of the RF signals such that a dark-RZ pulse is generated with a duty cycle based on the delay. Another aspect of the invention provides a method for generating dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) optical mm-waves in an optical transmission system by phase modulated DWDM optical signal and applying the phase modulated DWDM optical signal to an input port of an optical interleaver, the optical interleaver having a specified bandwidth to suppress the optical carriers and convert the DWDM optical signal to DWDM optical mm-waves; and amplifying the DWDM optical mm-waves and transmitting the DWDM optical mm-waves over single mode fiber (SMF).
Abstract:
Multilevel soft-equalizer detectors, such as a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) detector, suitable for use in polarization multiplexed optical communications using multilevel modulations and coherent detection are disclosed. Detection systems and methods may consider two symbols transmitted over two orthogonal polarization states as a two-component symbol, which is effective in eliminating the bit error ratio (BER) floor phenomenon introduced by conventional soft equalizers.
Abstract:
An optical device includes an interferometer for a received optical differential phase shift keying DPSK signal, and an equalizer integrated with the interferometer in a manner for reducing from optical filtering effects an interference by signal bits of the DPSK signal with signal bits of a contiguous DPSK signal. The interferometer is a Michelson delay interferometer type, but can also be a Mach-Zehnder delay interferometer type on fiber, waveguide or other optical structure. The equalizer is a Fabry-Perot type equalizer, but can be a ring resonator type or a fiber based equalizer.
Abstract:
The invention is an efficient system and method for re-partitioning an existing system-level design by boosting the fraction of system functionality that is implemented using embedded software. The invention comprises automated techniques for identifying hardware targets to be softened and techniques for automatically generating a new system-level architecture having a new hardware/software boundary.