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Ziel dieser Dissertation war es, die Eignung von Ultra-Breitband-Pulsfunk (IR-UWB) für die drahtlose Kommunikation in der Sensor/Aktor-Ebene der Fertigungsautomatisierung zu untersuchen. Dazu wurde ein drahtloses Kommunikationssystem auf Basis standardisierter Protokolle entworfen und untersucht. Diese Anwendung erfordert die Erfüllung harter Echtzeitfähigkeit im Bereich weniger Millisekunden in industriellen Umgebungen. Ein solches Umfeld stellt aufgrund eines hohen Rauschpegels und vieler metallischer Oberflächen, die Multipfad-Effekte verursachen, sehr hohe Ansprüche an das Latenzverhalten und die Robustheit. Deshalb waren die Hauptziele die Reduzierung von Latenz und gleichzeitige Erhöhung der Robustheit für den existierenden, auf IR-UWB basierenden Standard IEEE 802.15.4a. Dieser Standard ist unter anderem deshalb vielversprechend, da er sich mit sehr preisgünstigen, nicht-kohärenten Empfängern von geringer Komplexität umsetzen lässt, die trotzdem relativ robust gegenüber Multipfad-Effekten sind. Es wurde gezeigt, dass sich auch mit diesen günstigen Geräten durch Optimierung des Standards eine hohe übertragungssicherheit bei geringer Latenz realisieren lässt. Es wurden Modifikationen zur Optimierung der Robustheit und Latenz des bisher üblichen Designs von nicht-kohärenten IR-UWB-Empfängern vorgestellt. Durch Ergänzungen zu der im Standard beschriebenen Modulation und Kodierung konnte die Verlässlichkeit zusätzlich gesteigert werden. Um diese optimierte PHY-Schicht effizient einsetzen zu können, wurde eine spezialisierte MAC-Schicht für die Automatisierung, die in einem Entwurf für den kommenden Standard IEEE 802.15.4e beschrieben wird, eingesetzt. Da bei dieser MAC-Schicht die Kommunikationsmuster im Voraus bekannt sind, war weitere schichtübergreifende, applikations-spezifische Optimierung möglich, die eine weitere Reduzierung der Latenz sowie eine Erhöhung der Robustheit erbrachte. Im Zuge der Arbeit wurde ein flexibel konfigurierbarer Simulator für IR-UWB auf Basis von industriell akzeptierten Kanalmodellen erstellt. Dieser Simulator wurde auch zur Evaluation und Verifikation der Forschungsergebnisse benutzt. Das entworfene Gesamtsystem ist über mehrere Parameter konfigurierbar und dadurch an weitere Anwendungen in der Automatisierung anpassbar. Eine dieser Konfigurationen wurde durch Simulation evaluiert. Sie zeigt mindestens die gleiche und zum Teil bessere Performance als bisherige drahtlose oder drahtgebundene Lösungen für die Sensor/Aktor-Ebene der Fertigungsautomatisierung, wie z.B. AS-Interface, Bluetooth I/O oder WISA. Für den repräsentativen Fall von 32 Teilnehmern mit jeweils einem Byte Prozessdaten erreicht sie eine Zykluszeit von 1,88 ms. Damit kann eine eine mittlere Reaktionszeit von 985 µs erreicht werden und eine harte Echtzeitschranke von 15 ms mit einer Fehlerwahrscheinlichkeit unter 10^-9 eingehalten werden. Das Kommunikationssystem wurde auch in Hardware auf FPGA-Basis implementiert. Da das benutzte analoge Front-End, ein früher Prototyp eines IEEE 802.15.4a-kompatiblen Front-Ends, noch keine repräsentativen Messungen zuließ, wurde die Funktion durch eine Basisbandverbindung über Kabel verifiziert.
In this thesis a novel Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) technique applicable to wireless communication systems and generally to datapath architectures is presented. The proposed concept is intended for point-to-point communication with very intensive but bursty data transfer. This concept is based on a request-driven operation of locally synchronous modules. The key idea is that a module can use the input request signal as its clock while receiving a burst of data. The developed GALS technique is applied to the design of an IEEE 802.11a compliant baseband processor with the aim to alleviate the problems of system integration, power consumption and electro-magnetic interference. The GALS design was compared with a synchronous version of the baseband processor. In our experimental setup we have measured a 1% reduction in dynamic power consumption, 30% reduction in instantaneous supply voltage variations, and 5 dB reduction in spectral noise.
During the last years, the asynchronous design style has been rediscovered as a potential solution to upcoming design issues in deep-submicron technologies. However, besides the lack of commercial tools supporting this design style, one major challenge is the test of asynchronous designs. Especially their event-driven behavior leads to problems during test. Basically, the timing of asynchronous circuits is determined by gate and wire delays that are sensitive to variations of environmental parameters (process, voltage and temperature). This leads to uncertainties in the timing of the responses. Consequently, standard commercial test systems cannot be used, because such systems read the responses at specific cycles and, therefore, could reject fault-free devices. Furthermore, available hardware testers are, in principle, not designed to react to signal events from the design-under-test as it is necessary to establish asynchronous communication via handshake signalling. As a result, even simple functional tests that only apply stimuli and read the responses of the design-under-test cannot be realized without preparatory measures. This work addresses these issues and proposes a concept to enable functional tests of asynchronous designs. The concept is based on a special test processor that provides generic interfaces used to establish asynchronous handshake communication with a device-under-test. By this, elastic functional tests can be realized that overcome the static timing of conventional tests and emulate the real operating environment of the design. Apart from the generic test processor architecture, an essential part of the concept deals with the establishment of the processor as a stand alone or embedded test equipment. A workflow is provided that describes how the device-under-test can be embedded into the test processor environment for performing the tests. Besides the interconnection between the asynchronous design and the test processor, this especially includes the generation of programs that realize the functional tests of the design. A methodology is introduced that generates the desired programs for the processor from a standard functional simulation of the design-under-test. Based on the generic concept, a framework including both a test processor implementation and the realization of the program generation is delivered. In order to evaluate the entire concept, this framework has been applied to functionally test an asynchronous arithmetic-logic-unit. In combination with additional experiments, conducted to determine the required resources, it has been shown that the introduced concept is a suitable approach to test asynchronous designs.
This thesis describes the complete design of a low cost 60 GHz front end in SiGe BiCMOS technology. It covers the topics of a system plan, designs of building blocks, designs of application boards and real environment tests. Different LNA and mixer topologies have been investigated and fabricated. Good agreements between measurements and simulations have been achieved by using the self-developed component models. A transceiver front end system is built based on these blocks. A heterodyne architecture with a 5 GHz IF is adopted because it is compatible with the standard IEEE 802.11a, which allows the reuse of some existing building blocks of the 5 GHz transceiver. The transceiver chips are assembled onto application boards and connected by bond-wires. Bond-wire inductances have been minimized by using a cavity and compensated by an on board structure. The front end has been tested by both QPSK and OFDM signals in an indoor environment. Clear constellations have been measured. This was the first silicon based 60 GHz demonstrator in Europe and the second in the world.
Mixed signal integrated circuits (MSICs) contain both analog and digital circuitry, integrated together on the same die. While this integration brings many benefits, it also gives rise to the issue of substrate noise coupling between the noisy digital circuitry and noise-sensitive analog circuitry. In order to counteract this issue, various substrate noise reduction methodologies had been developed so far. This thesis explores a new approach in substrate noise reduction – using a GALS (globally-synchronous, locally-asynchronous) design strategy for the digital part of a MSIC, in order to reduce the noise generation at its source. GALS architectures consist of several locally synchronous modules (LSMs) which communicate asynchronously to each other. By converting an initially synchronous architecture of digital circuitry into a GALS architecture, simultaneous switching noise generated by this circuitry can be reduced. While GALS had already been used for reducing other types of simultaneous switching noise, this is, to the best of the author’s knowledge, the first attempt to develop a GALS-based methodology for substrate noise reduction. In order to be able to theoretically analyze GALS-based methodologies for substrate noise suppression, corresponding models at high abstraction level for substrate noise generation and substrate noise propagation in lightly doped substrates (which is a type of substrate mostly used for MSICs) have been developed. These models have further been used for developing two new GALS-based substrate noise reduction methodologies: harmonic-balanced plesiochronous GALS partitioning (HB) and harmonic-and-area-based plesiochronous GALS partitioning with power domain separation (HAB). A theoretical analysis has shown that HB can reach substrate noise attenuation of up to 20log(M), where M is the number of LSMs of the resulting GALS system. On the other hand, the attenuation achievable by HAB depends on the distribution of switching current harmonics and area among the partitions, as well as from the substrate itself. For each of the two methodologies, a suitable partitioning procedure for a practical application has been developed; these partitionig procedures have been numerically evaluated in MATLAB. HB has further been embedded within the EMIAS CAD tool, where it has been evaluated on a real design example – a wireless sensor node. A special case of HAB for low frequencies has been applied for developing a test chip called SGE (power domain Separation and Galsification Experiment). The measurements on silicon have proved the applicability of the methodology.
The license-free 60 GHz band enables a new breed of wireless networks offering data rates in the range of one to a few Gigabit per second over short distances. This thesis investigates the performance of a 60 GHz system using coded OFDM modulation and directive antennas for the transmitter and receiver. The study includes the impact of the 60 GHz propagation channel, impairments of a frontend in Si-Ge technology and considerations with respect to an efficient implementation. A major part of the work consists in the specification of a physical layer, which is optimized for the given wireless link and enables an implementation with programmable logic devices at moderate clock speed. For the selection of a channel code, the performance of two coding schemes is compared for the 60 GHz channel. The first scheme consists of a standard convolutional code and an outer Reed-Solomon code, whereas the second scheme is made up of an LDPC code with similar complexity. The interleaving scheme for the convolutional code is optimized to yield best performance. Furthermore, algorithms are developed and simulated for all essential system components of the OFDM receiver. The implementation of these components is also considered. A new synchronization scheme is introduced, which offers a high degree of robustness at low complexity. In this scheme, the fine timing synchronization shares the same hardware resources as the channel estimator. This approach results in a significant reduction of chip area. A new tracking algorithm is developed, which adequately compensates for the fluctuations of carrier phase, timing and channel impulse response. Finally, the implementation of the FFT and Viterbi decoder is discussed. The system architecture of the receiver requires a high degree of parallel processing and uses a deep processing pipeline to keep the clock frequency low. It is shown how to combine the system components into an efficient system under these conditions. The performance of the complete system is investigated for the static and time-variant channel. It is shown that despite the low complexity and high latency, the system achieves good performance. The baseband processor has been realized as a narrowband version with 400 MHz channels and broadband version with 2 GHz channels and improved algorithms. This has been done on an FPGA platform.
It is predicted that, in the next years, wireless sensor networks could be massively deployed in a wide variety of application areas, such as agriculture, logistics, automation, or infrastructure monitoring. An extremely low power consumption, high dependability, and low cost are common requirements for sensor nodes in all these applications. This can be achieved only by tiny, power-efficient microcontrollers and communication systems integrated on a single chip. Formal description techniques, such as SDL (Specification and Description Language), are suitable to formally prove properties of models designed in these languages. Code generators facilitate the automatic transformation of SDL models into software implementations, while preserving the properties of the model and, thus, achieving high system dependability. The implementations consist of the translated state machine behavior and, additionally, require a run-time environment for model execution. The objective of this work was to investigate an integrated design flow for embedded systems, which should allow the development of efficient and dependable system implementations from abstract SDL specifications. In this thesis, concepts for minimal SDL run-time environment have been devised and realized by an example implementation. Not only pure software implementations should be considered, but starting from these also the hardware/software (HW/SW) partitioning of the system should be supported. For this purpose, a cosimulation framework that allows the coupling of an instruction set simulator (ISS) with a functional SDL simulation has been investigated and prototypically implemented within the scope of this thesis. By shifting functionality to dedicated hardware components it is possible to take computational load from the microcontroller and to decrease the overall energy consumption by reducing the clock frequency and lowering the supply voltage. Due to the use of SDL, the design flow lends itself particularly to the implementation of communication protocols, and is limited to applications with soft real-time requirements. For an SDL-based design flow targeted to resource-constrained embedded systems, concepts and real implementations of minimal SDL run-time environments were lacking. Available software tools, indeed, enable the transformation of SDL models into C code, however for an efficient implementation, an integration into existing real-time operating systems (RTOS) for small microcontrollers is essential. A prototypical implementation of a run-time library for the Reflex RTOS has been created to validate our general concepts. It is about 30 % faster and consumes less than half of the program memory compared to the operating system independent run-time environment of the tool vendor Telelogic. For simple SDL models, the application requires in total less than 8 kbytes program memory and 1 kbyte RAM. For the evaluation of design alternatives that realize different hardware/software partitionings, instruction set simulators are particularly suitable. They facilitate the identification of performance bottlenecks of the HW/SW system. Test stimuli are required in order to measure the performance and response time of systems under design. The development of an environment that generates such test signals can be a laborious task. Thus, it is reasonable, especially in the design of protocols, to use an SDL simulation of a communication network to generate these test stimuli. Such an SDL model already exists and is the basis for the implementation. The protocol implementation simulated by the ISS then becomes part of the network simulation. An efficient coupling of SDL simulations with instruction set simulators had to be investigated, and a solution is presented in this thesis. Based on the general concepts, a cosimulation framework for the ISS TSIM for the LEON2 processor was realized by the author. The joint SDL and instruction set simulation is very fast, which could be demonstrated by connecting a software implementation of the complex IEEE 802.15.3 medium access control (MAC) protocol with an SDL simulation of a network consisting of four devices. The real execution time for 10 seconds of simulation time amounted to just 50 seconds. The overall design flow was validated by means of a HW/SW implementation of the IEEE 802.15.3 wireless MAC protocol. The author designed a complete SDL model of the protocol and integrated it into Reflex. By using our cosimulation environment for the TSIM simulator, the model was partitioned into hardware and software. For the hardware part, a dedicated protocol accelerator was designed by the author. This hardware component was integrated on a single chip with the LEON2 processor and, finally, manufactured. It could be shown that the presented methodology enables the design and implementation of efficient HW/SW systems. Consequently, it can be applied to the development of dependable and energy-efficient wireless sensor nodes and other embedded systems.
Wireless communication has become an indispensable part of our life and the demand for achieving higher throughput with lower energy consumption is ever growing. The ambitious throughput of 100 Gb/s and beyond is now becoming a modest goal thanks to comprehensive advances in transmission technologies and protocols. One important aspect of these advances is with regard to channel coding methods and the ability to detect and correct errors at the receiver. Computations needed by such methods become generally more complicated as they become more powerful in their performance. This imposes a great challenge for researchers attempting to devise practical methods for encoding and decoding Forward-error Correction (FEC) techniques tailored for high-throughput scenarios.
In this work we focus on high-throughput Quasi-Cyclic LDPC (QC-LDPC) codes, as they have been selected as one of the main FEC techniques for the two major next generation wireless technologies, namely Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) and 5G. Our target is to develop complete encoding and decoding design for these codes in order to reach the throughput of 100 Gb/s with affordable power consumption. Toward this goal, we investigate first the appropriate encoder design for these codes which can be used at such high data-rate with reasonably low power consumption. Then we propose several novel ideas for improving the decoding performance and complexity of QC-LDPC codes. The proposed novel ideas collectively facilitate a decoder able to run at 50 Gb/s with less than 12 pJ/b energy consumption for a Latin squares QC-LDPC code. All the proposed methods are practical and implementable and their effectiveness are showcased by either Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) synthesis.
Der Einsatz funkbasierter Steuerungs- und Überwachungssysteme wird sich in den nächsten Jahren in der Automatisierungsindustrie wesentlich erhöhen. Funkbasierte Systeme sind flexibel, das heißt skalierbar, leicht rekonfigurierbar und mobil. Außerdem sind Funksysteme kostengünstig, insbesondere bei der Wartung.
Dennoch müssen diese Systeme hohen Anforderungen genügen, wie Sicherheit, Zuverlässigkeit, Energieverbrauch, Geschwindigkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit. Besonders wichtig für den Einsatz drahtloser Funktechnologien in Automatisierungssystemen ist die harte Echtzeitfähigkeit bei Zykluszeiten im Bereich von unter 1 ms bei Netzwerkgrößen von bis zu 127 Knoten bei einer bidirektionalen Kommunikation mit einer Nutzdatenmenge von bis zu 48 Byte je Sensorknoten. Eine weitere Herausforderung ist die Integration dieser Systeme in bestehende Infrastrukturen, wo Koexistenz mit bereits vorhandenen drahtlosen Systemen ein kritischer Faktor ist.
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die IR-UWB Funktechnik basierend auf dem Standard IEEE 802.15.4a so zu verbessern, dass sie die hohen Anforderungen der Automatisierungsindustrie erfüllt. Dabei soll gewährleistet werden, dass die Abweichungen im Vergleich zum Standard möglichst gering ausfallen und dass die Vorgaben der Regulierungsbehörden nicht verletzt werden. Diese Anforderungen begrenzen die Möglichkeiten der Optimierungen stark, was die Aufgabe noch schwieriger macht, aber zugleich wird damit sichergestellt, dass die Lösungen auch in realen Systemen eingesetzt werden können.
In dieser Arbeit wurden sowohl komplexe theoretische Ansätze als auch Optimierungen der Implementierung ausgearbeitet, in Matlab simuliert und in einem FPGA implementiert. Anschließend wurde ein ASIC gefertigt.
Um die hohen zeitlichen Anforderungen zu erfüllen, wurden die einzelnen Teile des UWB-Frames optimiert. Um dies zu erreichen mussten neue Synchronisations- und Datenübertragungs-Verfahren entwickelt werden. Dieses Verfahren ermöglicht eine parallele bidirektionale Kommunikation mit einer variablen Anzahl an Sensorknoten (bis zu 127). Eine Kombination verschiedener Fehlerkorrekturverfahren (Reed-Solomon-Code und Hamming-Code) wurde untersucht, um die Zuverlässigkeit zu erhöhen. Zusätzlich wurde ein Fehlerkorrekturverfahren für ternäre Impulssequenzen mit geringem Overhead ausgearbeitet. Dieses Verfahren erlaubt eine ausreichend gute Fehlerkorrektur und erlaubt im Gegensatz zu der Fehlerkorrektur mit dem Reed-Solomon-Code das Einhalten der zeitlichen Anforderungen.
Das Hauptergebnis dieser Arbeit ist ein für IR-UWB optimiertes Übertragungskonzept, welches eine zuverlässige und energieeffiziente Datenübertragung von unter 1 ms für einen Master und 127 Slaves ermöglicht. Teile dieses Verfahrens wurden in Hardware gefertigt und experimentell evaluiert.
Wenn alle vorgeschlagenen Optimierungen verwendet werden, kann die Zykluszeit im Vergleich zum IEEE 802.15.4a Standard, um 95% reduziert werden. Der Energieverbrauch des gesamten Netzwerkes sinkt dabei um 65%.
Einige der vorgeschlagenen Verbesserungen wurden implementiert und für die übrigen wurde gezeigt, wie sie implementiert werden können. Der Einfluss weiterer Faktoren, wie die Umschaltzeit zwischen Sender und Empfänger, und deren Auswirkungen auf den Energieverbrauch wurden untersucht.
Im Rahmen dieser Doktorarbeit entstand eine standardkonforme IR-UWB Einzelchiplösung, die um Eigenschaften erweitert wurde, die vom Standard, abweichen, aber notwendig sind um die Anforderungen der Automatisierungsindustrie zu erfüllen.
Die gefertigte Variante der Einzelchiplösung enthält nicht alle in dieser Arbeit vorgeschlagenen Optimierungen, ist aber dennoch in der Lage die Zykluszeit um 57% zu verkürzen. Obwohl dieser Chip viele zusätzliche Features bietet, wurde die Komplexität und somit auch die benötigte Chipfläche um 43% reduziert.
The requirement for wireless communication with a speed beyond 100 Gbps is growing. There are mainly two possible approaches to achieve 100 Gbps system. One approach is to target lower transmission bandwidth and very high spectral efficiency. This method requires advanced digital signal processing operations, which are power-hungry. Another possible path is to go for a high-transmission bandwidth and a moderate spectral efficiency. We decided for this direction to implement a 100 Gbps system. We have chosen parallel sequence spread spectrum (PSSS) as an analog-friendly mixed-signal modulation where most of the baseband processing is in the analog domain, and only a small part is in the digital domain. For the channel equalization, we consider an “effective channel” that takes into account the wireless channel and the effects of the transmitter and receiver hardware impairments. The influence of the nonlinear channel response was analyzed for a PSSS modulated signal by employing the RAPP model for the power amplifier. For the first time, we performed a Hardware-In-The-loop experiment using PSSS modulation in the terahertz band. A PSSS modulated signal at a chip rate of 20 Gcps with spectral efficiency of 4 bit/s/Hz is transmitted using a 230 GHz RF-frontend operating in the linear range to achieve a data rate of 80 Gbps. One more important property is that the channel estimation and equalization are performed in the analog domain. A high-speed channel equalization algorithm was developed and implemented on FPGA/ASIC, which operates at(1/10)th of PSSS symbol rate. A parallel PSSS encoder transmitter architecture was designed to work at a high chip rate, and it was implemented on FPGA /ASIC and had an energy efficiency of 0.21 pJ bit−1 on 28nm ASIC.
In this Thesis, we put forward a case for the analog-friendly modulation scheme called PSSS. This scheme does not only modulates the signal but rather builds up an eco-system (such as channel estimation, equalization, and synchronization), which is responsible for the baseband operation.
In the last 30 years, communication became one of the most important pillars of our civilization. Every day terabytes of information are moved wired and wireless between computers. In order to transport this amount of data, researchers and industry increase the data rates of the underlying communication networks with impressive speed. However, such ultra-high data rates are unavailable at the communication endpoints.
One reason why ultra-high data rates are still not available for the communication endpoints is their inability to handle the protocol processing at this data rate. In order to enable communication endpoints to process high-volume data streams, the protocol processing has to be parallelized and optimized on all processing levels. However, parallelization and optimization are cumbersome tasks, which are further complicated as the protocol processing is traditionally carried out by the operating system.
This thesis aims at circumventing these problems by moving the protocol processing into external processing hardware and interpreting communication protocols as stream processing problems. In order to achieve ultra-high data rates at the communication endpoints, a protocol stream processing design approach was developed and evaluated. The design process is separated into implementation, soft real-time analysis, parallelization, and mapping steps, which allow a scalable protocol implementation without paradigm changes. Furthermore, a data link protocol for 100 Gbit/s wireless was developed and implemented with the new stream processing design concept, in order to show its feasibility. The data link protocol is configurable for different communication conditions and easy to parallelize by providing different granularities of packets. The proposed design-process has shown to be suitable for uncovering bottlenecks and helping with debugging the individual stages of the protocol.
Hardwareimplementierte latenzarme drahtlose Medienzugriffsprotokolle für höchsten Datendurchsatz
(2014)
Der Fortschritt der Technik ermöglicht immer leistungsfähigere drahtlose Dienste mit hohen Anforderungen an Latenz, Jitter und Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit. Aktuelle digitale Protokolle für drahtgebundene hochauflösende Multimediaübertragungen (HDMI, DisplayPort) oder Peripherieschnittstellen (USB, PCIe, SATA) in der Computertechnik erreichen Datenraten im Multi-Gigabit Bereich. Die Übertragung der Inhalte z.B. Filme, Musikstreaming oder Dateiübertragungen mit Hilfe breitbandiger drahtloser Übertragungsverfahren vereinfacht die kabellose „Installation“ und die daraus folgende Benutzerfreundlichkeit (Mobilität) im Heimbereich (Indoor). Weiterhin werden Systeme mit hohen Datenraten und kleinen Latenzen unter 5 ms im Mobilfunkbereich benötigt, um Basisstationen (3G, LTE) mit dem Kernnetzwerk zu verbinden. Diese Backhaul-Verbindungen können auch im innerstädtischen Bereich zum Aufbau von Small-Cell-Installationen genutzt werden, da nicht immer eine Kabelverlegung möglich ist. Eine Verkettung der Verbindungen vergrößert den Abstand zum Zugangspunkt des Kernnetzes und stellt zusätzliche Anschlußpunkte für Basisstationen bereit. Allerdings vergrößert sich auch die Latenz für die weiter entfernten Stationen.
In dieser Arbeit wird ein MAC-Protokoll für hochratige und latenzarme drahtlose Verbindungen vorgestellt. Dazu werden sowohl Punkt-zu-Punkt- als auch Punkt-zu-Mehrpunkt-Verbindungen auf ihre speziellen Anforderungen bei der Implementierung der MAC-Komponenten in einer programmierbaren Hardware (FPGA) analysiert. Eine Integration des MAC-Protokolls zusammen mit einem OFDM-Basisbandprozessor mit Brutto-Datenraten größer 5 GBit/s erlaubt die Überprüfung der Funktionalität sowie die Messung wichtiger Protokollparameter unter realen Einsatzbedingungen. Das vorgeschlagene Medienzugriffsprotokoll unterstützt den Einsatz von Beamsteering-Verfahren zur Suche von benachbarten Kommunikationsteilnehmern und den gleichzeitigen räumlich getrennten Kanalzugriff mehrerer Kommunikationsteilnehmer. Eine Anwendungsschnittstelle für nutzerspezifische Implementierungen mit exklusivem Zugriff auf das Übertragungsmedium erleichtert die Integration zusätzlicher Funktionalität wie z.B. eine hochauflösende Entfernungsmessung. Weiterhin wird ein Verfahren zur latenzarmen Detektierung und Umschaltung blockierter Pfade vorgestellt. Umfangreiche Simulationen bestätigen die Funktionalität des MAC-Protokolls in unterschiedlichen Szenarien mit und ohne Übertragungsfehler.
Key management is a fundamental security service to enable secure wireless ad hoc networks (WAHN). To date existing key management solutions based on either public key infrastructures (PKI) or key pre‑distribution scheme (KPS) exhibit limitations for WAHNs. We firstly develop the Hybrid Key Management Infrastructure (HKMI) for WAHNs composed of moderate‑resource devices. The HKMI complements PKI with trust and cooperation protocols to construct an performance efficient security solution. We secondly develop the Deterministic Pairwise Key Pre-Distribution Scheme (DPKPS) for large‑scale dynamic WAHNs composed of low‑resource devices. The DPKPS applies a combinatorial design for the pre-distribution of multiple bivariate polynomial shares to WAHN nodes. Future work comprises further improving the resiliency of the DPKPS, completing a key management infrastructure on the basis of the DPKPS, the design of DPKPS‑based access control mechanisms, and the integration of the HKMI with the DPKPS in a unified key management architecture.
This Dissertation is a contribution to the design of the Synchronization and Channel Estimation algorithms in Wireless OFDM systems, paying special attention to their implementation. After investigation of the main impairments affecting OFDM in a wireless transmission, the Dissertation obtains solutions for all the blocks forming the so-called Inner Receiver. The IEEE 802.11a standard is taken in this work as a reference, since this is the first standard proposal in which OFDM is applied for wireless LAN with transmission rates of up to 54 Mbps. The low-power feature of our proposals has been demonstrated by designing an Integrated Circuit fully compatible with the IEEE 802.11a specifications. Results show that the power figures expected for our design are very competitive in comparison with the results reported by other research groups and companies working in this field.
Factory automation applications require a communication system that concurrently supports them with determinism, reliability, short communication cycles, and precise synchronization as well as mobility and extensibility. However, neither currently employed wired nor available wireless communication networks support all of these requirements at once. On the one hand, wired networks lack mobility and extensibility. On the other hand, wireless networks do not support reliability or determinism due to the stochastic nature of wireless channels. Moreover, none of the available wireless networks enable transmission latencies of 1 ms and below. Therefore, they cannot support the required short communication cycles. However, various research initiatives and the currently developed 5G standard promise to overcome these limitations at least partially.
Nevertheless, even a corresponding wireless network will not directly replace all wired connections, but will initially be used for subsections of the data transmission, where e.g. mobility is of utmost importance. Accordingly, cascaded communication networks consisting of hierarchically ordered, wired and wireless subnetworks will emerge. In this thesis, we investigate effects and dependencies of such a cascading for the real-time communication of factory automation applications. Therefore, we have to find methods to interconnect arbitrary wired and wireless communication networks such that we can maintain the reliable real-time performance of wired subnetworks and the mobility of wireless subnetworks without, or at most with minimal performance degradation. Ideally, with a cascaded network, no hardware or software adjustments will be necessary compared to the individual networks deployed today.
Based on a delimiting review of different application areas and a dedicated use case analysis of typical factory automation applications, we derive the most challenging requirements that have to be fulfilled by cascaded communication networks. According to this review, we present several methods to reduce the overall transmission latency in cascaded networks. Starting with analyzing different interface concepts and continuing with frame conversion methods, we achieve a decision-making basis to select dedicated subnetworks for a cascaded network that can be used for closed-loop control applications. Additionally, we develop methods to optimize the parametrization of individual subnetworks with respect to the overall communication, such that the end-to-end transmission latency can be drastically reduced. For verification, we design a generic model for analyzing the timing behavior of arbitrary communication networks and verify it based on an analysis of a machine tool application scenario. Additional measurements based on a real demonstrator implementation corroborate that, in industrial application, cascaded communication networks can provide competitive performance compared to the currently used wired networks.
This dissertation proposes a cross-layer framework able to synergistically optimize resilience and power consumption of processor-based systems. It is composed of three building blocks: SWIELD multimodal flip-flop (FF), System Operation Management Unit (SOMU) and Framework Function Library (FFL). Implementation of the building blocks is performed at circuit, architecture and software layer of the system stack respectively. The SWIELD FF can be configured to operate as a regular flip-flop or as an enhanced flip-flop for protection against timing/radiation-induced faults. It is necessary to perform replacement of selected timing-critical flip-flops in a system with SWIELD FFs during design time. When the system is active, the SWIELD FFs operation mode is dynamically managed by the SOMU controller according to the current requirements. Finally, the FFL contains a set of software procedures that greatly simplify framework utilization. By relying on the framework, a system can intelligently interchange techniques such as Adaptive Voltage/Frequency Scaling, selective Triple Modular Redundancy and clock gating during operation. Additionally, a simple and convenient strategy for integration of the framework in processor-based systems is also presented. A key feature of the proposed strategy is to determine the number of SWIELD FFs to be inserted in a system. Using this strategy, the framework was successfully embedded in instances of both single- and multicore systems. Various experiments were conducted to evaluate the framework influence on the target systems with respect to resilience and power consumption. At expense of about 1% area overhead, the framework is able to preserve performance and to reduce power consumption up to 15%, depending on the number of SWIELD FFs in the system. Furthermore, it was also shown that under certain conditions, the framework can provide failure-free system operation.
In dieser Arbeit wird ein neues Konzept für den Entwurf fehlertoleranter digitaler Schaltungen vorgestellt. Die als spezifische Fehlertoleranz bezeichnete Entwurfsmethode erweitert den Stand der Technik um die Möglichkeit, Fehlertoleranz gezielt für gewünschte Ein- und Ausgabezuweisungen einer Schaltung bereitzustellen. Die generell sehr aufwändigen Maßnahmen zur Realisierung von Fehlertoleranz lassen sich so an die tatsächlich vorhandenen Zuverlässigkeitsanforderungen einer gegebenen Anwendung anpassen, was im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Verfahren zu erheblichen Kosteneinsparungen im Hinblick auf Hardware und Stromverbrauch führt. Die Eingaben einer Schaltung werden dazu mit ihren zugehörigen Ausgaben in kritische und unkritische Signale unterteilt. Für kritische Signale wird das gleiche Maß an Fehlertoleranz bereitgestellt, wie es auch durch das Verfahren der dreifach modularen Redundanz garantiert wird. Unkritische Signale werden nicht fehlertolerant ausgelegt, da das für solche Signale nicht gefordert werden muss. Im Bezug auf kombinatorische Schaltungen wird dieses Grundprinzip auf eine beliebig wählbare Teilmenge aller möglichen Eingaben mit ihren zugehörigen Ausgaben angewendet. Die nicht zu schützenden, unkritischen Signale werden zu Optimierungszwecken genutzt. Genau diese Freiheit im Entwurfsprozess ermöglicht beim Entwurf fehlertoleranter Schaltungen signifikante Kosteneinsparungen, die bislang durch andere Verfahren nicht berücksichtigt wurden. Bei sequentiellen Schaltungen wird das Konzept auf Eingabefolgen und ihre entsprechend zugehörigen Ausgabefolgen abgebildet. Ab einem bestimmten Zustand werden in Schaltungen, die nach diesem Prinzip entworfen wurden, alle als kritisch eingestuften Eingabefolgen fehlertolerant verarbeitet, woraufhin die sequentielle Schaltung entsprechend fehlertolerante Ausgabefolgen liefert. Die Länge der kritischen Eingabefolgen und die Anzahl der Zustände, von denen aus eine fehlertolerante Verarbeitung der Eingaben gefordert wird, ist beliebig wählbar. Neben der Beschreibung des Grundkonzeptes der spezifischen Fehlertoleranz für kombinatorische und sequentielle Schaltungen beinhaltet die Arbeit Erweiterungen, mit denen sich die durch das Verfahren bereitgestellte Fehlertoleranz erhöhen lässt. Es wird zudem erläutert, wie die spezifische Fehlertoleranz ohne besonderen Aufwand mit Hilfe gängiger Werkzeuge im Schaltungsentwurf umgesetzt werden kann. Vom Entwerfer werden dazu keine speziellen Kenntnisse über das eigentliche Verfahren vorausgesetzt. Anhand experimenteller Ergebnisse wird auch gezeigt, welche Einsparungen sich durch die spezifische Fehlertoleranz im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Verfahren aus diesem Bereich ergeben. Dazu wurden verschiedene Benchmark-Schaltungen mit der spezifischen Fehlertoleranz implementiert und ihre Gesamtflächen den Flächen entsprechender Schaltungen, die nach dem Prinzip der dreifach modularen Redundanz entworfen wurden, gegenübergestellt.
Despite the numerous benefits that Integrated Circuit (IC) technology downscaling brings, it also introduces many challenges. First of all, IC dependability is lowering: both lifetime reliability and resilience to single event effects is decreasing. Another major problem is the increased power consumption. On the other hand, the vast available space enables integrating hundreds of processor cores in a single chip! Multiprocessing is for over a decade the main architectural trend because of two reasons. Firstly, the performance of single processors gained by architectural innovations reached the upper limit i.e., the point of diminishing returns. Secondly, the operating frequency could not be increased due to the excessive power consumption, as pointed out. This work proposes a multiprocessor architectural framework that addresses many challenges related to dependability, power consumption and performance. The key idea is dynamical adaptation to the application requirements of fault tolerance and performance, which is possibly done at the lowest rates of aging and power dissipation. The application may select one of the three basic operating modes: de-stress, fault-tolerant and high-performance. De-stress mode prolongs multiprocessor lifetime and reduces power consumption by using core gating patterns that systematically power- or clock-off entire cores in the multiprocessor. These patterns use the information supplied by novel IC aging monitors. Fault-tolerant mode, on the other hand, increases error resilience by forming core-level NMR (N-modular redundant) systems using the multiprocessor cores. That is, entire cores are tightly synchronized to execute the same task simultaneously. Voting is done on each clock cycle using special, programmable NMR voters. Core-level NMR enables masking faults without invoking recovery procedures which is appreciated by timing-critical, or, real-time applications. Finally, high-performance mode is used for boosting multiprocessor performance. The framework is evaluated using a novel environment for automated fault injection, as well as a novel multiprocessor verification platform. A vast number of experiments were made which led to closed-form expressions that determine the number of cores N required to survive the projected mission time, given the fault rate. Moreover, a newly-developed method for lifetime evaluation based on the Weibul distribution shows the benefits of using core gating patterns. E.g., the new Youngest-First Round-Robin (YFRR) pattern enables up to 31% increase in system's lifetime compared to a simple Round-Robin.
The sensitivity of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to single event effects (SEE) can lead to failures of subsystems which are exposed to increased radiation levels in space and on the ground. The work described in this thesis presents a design methodology for a fully fault-tolerant ASIC that is immune to single event upset effects (SEU) in sequential logic, single event transient effects (SET) in combinatorial logic, and single event latchup effects (SEL). Redundant circuits combined with SEL power switches (SPS) are the basis for a design methodology which achieves this goal. Within the standard ASIC design flow enhancements were made in order to incorporate redundancy and SPS cells and, consequently, enable protection against SEU, SET, and SEL. In order to validate the resulting fault-tolerant circuits a fault-injection environment with carefully designed fault models was developed. The moments of fault occurrence and their durations are modeled according to the real effects in actual hardware. The proposed design methodology was applied to an innovative space craft area network (SCAN) central processor unit, known as middleware switch processor. The measurement results presented in this thesis prove the correct functionality of DMR and SPS circuits, as well as the high fault-tolerance of the implemented ASICs along with moderate overhead with respect to power consumption and occupied silicon area. Irradiation measurements demonstrated the correct design and successful implementation of the SPS cell.
The goal of this thesis is the analysis of the challenges and finding solutions for the design of mm-wave transceivers. The work presented here is focused on design of transmitter (TX) components, which are critical for the performance of the whole analog front-end. Phase-locked loop (PLL) phase noise is optimized, an image-rejection filter and a high 1 dB compression point (P1dB) power amplifier (PA) are designed. The PLL phase noise optimization is presented and different PLL topologies are compared. A new optimized recipe for calculating PLL parameters of a forth order PLL is presented. Using this approach the spurious sidebands can be reduced by up to 10 dB. The image-rejection filter chapter analyzes the challenges related to the design of the integrated image–rejection filter. The analysis presented here is the first on integrated filters for the 60 GHz band, because the previously published work dealt with on-board filters. The main problems related to the design of integrated filters arise from the low quality factor of the integrated resonators. The effects are high insertion loss and low selectivity. Two measures to reduce the insertion loss of the image–rejection filters were suggested. One is to design the filter as broadband. This measure deteriorates selectivity, so the minimum required image–rejection will limit the width of the passband. The second measure is to design the filter as broadband with non-equidistant transmission zeros (i.e. asynchronously tuned filter). This measure will improve both the insertion loss and the image–rejection. The challenges related to the design of mm-wave PAs with high P1dB are analyzed and the procedure of the PA design is presented. The difficulties related to the PA design and layout are discussed and optimum solutions presented. Limits of different power combining techniques for integrated PAs are discussed. Effects of poor on-chip ground connection are analyzed. Different causes for P1dB degradation are analyzed. The produced PA features a differential cascode topology. The layout is symmetrical and presents a virtual ground on the symmetry line for the differential signal. The optimized schematic and a symmetrically drawn layout resulted in a 17 dBm measured P1dB. It was the highest reported P1dB in 60 GHz SiGe PAs when it was published. The fully integrated TX was used for data transmission with data rate of 3.6 Gbit/s (with coding 4.8 Gbit/s) over 15 meters. This is the best result in the class of 60 GHz AFEs without beamforming.