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Reducing Acoustical Noise in Personal Workstations by Increasing Cooling Efficiency

whitepaper Hewlett-Packard places great emphasis on employing the latest technology in personal workstations, and noise reduction is no exception. HP employs innovative technology to reduce noise levels in its high-end xw9400 workstations, ensuring high...

Tags: workstations

[11 May 2008]

Solving Noise Problems

whitepaper The following checklist is taken from Henry Ott's Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems, second edition (New This white paper describes common causes of noise and suggests ways to reduce or eliminate noise problems.

Tags: line protection devices, noise, york, paper describes

[03 Feb 2008]

Interconnect and Noise Immunity Design for the Pentium 4 Processor

whitepaper For high-performance chip design in deep submicron technology, interconnect delay and circuit noise immunity have become design metrics of comparable importance to speed, area, and power. It contains aggressive domino pipelines, pulsed circuits...

Tags: processors, circuit, processor, noise

[15 Sep 2007]

Extracting Noise-Robust Features From Audio Data

whitepaper This paper explores an automatic dimensionality reduction algorithm called Distortion Discriminant Analysis (DDA). A key problem faced by audio identification, classification, and retrieval systems is the mapping of high-dimensional audio input...

Tags: streaming media, input, audio, dimensional

[19 Jul 2007]

Microphone Array for Headset With Spatial Noise Suppressor

whitepaper The processing chain consists of fixed end-fire beamforming, adaptive spatial noise reduction and stationary noise suppression. The spatial noise reduction generalizes the suppression rule for optimal MMSE power noise reduction to multiple dimensions.

Tags: sound components, array, noise, microphone

[31 May 2007]

A High-Speed Mobile OFDM Receiver LSI With an Iterative Noise-Reduction Filter to Enhance Channel Estimation

whitepaper This paper presents an OFDM receiver LSI with an iterative noise-reduction filter. This paper reports an OFDM receiver LSI with an iterative noise-reduction filter for the channel estimation. Experimental results show that the LSI drastically...

Tags: wireless lan, ofdm, receiver, noise

[11 Apr 2007]

Comparison of Low Complexity Clipping Algorithms for OFDM

whitepaper Their performance is examined through mathematical analysis and simulation to find the effect of clipping on the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). This paper explores low complexity clipping of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM...

Tags: wireless lan, algorithms, division, signal

[11 Apr 2007]

Simulation of Power Evolution and Control Dynamics in Optical Transport Systems

whitepaper The simulator computes detailed time traces of signal and noise power propagation along a line system consisting of multiple controlled transmission elements and monitoring devices in response to a particular discrete event.

Tags: optical networking, optical, models, transmission

[06 Dec 2006]

Capacity Gains of Single Antenna Interference Cancellation in GSM

whitepaper In most advantageous interference conditions, SAIC can improve the signal-to-noise ratio over 10 dB. This interference reduction technique takes advantage of the latest developments in signal processing and receiver algorithms in a cost-efficient way.

Tags: algorithms, signal, interference, saic

[28 Nov 2005]

A Wideband 2.4-GHz Delta-Sigma Fractional-N PLL With 1-Mb/s In-Loop Modulation

whitepaper For each frequency, measured results indicate that the peak spot phase noise reduction achieved by the phase noise cancellation technique is 16 dB or better, and the minimum suppression of fractional spurious tones achieved by the charge pump...

Tags: phase, achieved, technique, charge

[21 Nov 2005]

RF Electronics for GSM / GPRS Smart Antennas

whitepaper A smart antenna can dramatically improve the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). Due to the enhanced immunity to multipath fading, reduction of co-channel interference (CCI), smart antennas give the possibility to con?

Tags: base, gprs, interference, gsm

[17 Nov 2005]

Dynamic Spectrum Management for Digital Subscriber Lines - Edition 2

whitepaper The gains in rate/reach performance are most significant for deployment scenarios where crosstalk is the dominant noise source and where a substantial reduction in crosstalk can be achieved. Crosstalk is one of the main limitations of DSL...

Tags: lines, spectrum, dsl, crosstalk

[11 Oct 2005]

Analysis of Impulse Noise Mitigation Techniques for Digital Television Systems

whitepaper It is shown that when the noise at the input is highly impulsive, significant reduction in the signal to noise ratio can be achieved. Although multicarrier modulation techniques are inherently more resistant to impulse noise than single carrier...

Tags: wireless lan, input, signal, noise

[26 Jul 2005]

Optimal Shielding/Spacing Metrics for Low Power Design

whitepaper This paper explores the issue of coupling noise reduction, and proposes performance metrics that can be used by the designer to determine which of the alternative methods is best suited for a specific interconnect configuration.

Tags: software engineering, methods, noise, coupling

[29 Mar 2005]

Architecture and Design of a Simultaneously Bidirectional Single-Ended High Speed Chip-to-Chip Interface

whitepaper The interface addresses the noise reduction challenges by utilizing a pseudo-differential reference with noise immunity approaching that of a fully differential reference. Furthermore, noise generation is reduced by on-chip termination, and low...

Tags: interfaces / buses / i/os, interface, chip, techniques

[28 Aug 2004]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: The promise and pitfalls of VoIP

Quocirca's Straight Talking: The promise and pitfalls of VoIP

Comment In a voice over IP environment, only conversation or other noise is transmitted across the network. Instead the data network can handle both voice and data with a significant reduction in the required network capacity and therefore cost.

Tags: data management, call centers, internet telephony, voice over ip

[21 May 2004]

Adaptive Noise Reduction of Speech Signals

whitepaper For noisy speech at a low 10 dB input SNR, for example, the proposed algorithm can achieve on average about 13 dB noise-to-mask ratio (NMR) reduction, or about 6 dB SNR improvement. We propose a new adaptive speech noise removal algorithm based on...

Tags: voice recognition, speech, algorithm, noise

[24 Feb 2004]

Echo Control and Noise Reduction — Taking an Integrated Approach

whitepaper NLP operation, the Noise Reduction (NR) algorithm sees the change in spectrum and then adapts over a few tens of milliseconds. In a non-integrated approach, involving high background noise levels, the canceller’s non-linear processor (NLP) will...

Tags: transmission interference, background, levels, noise

[24 Feb 2004]

ENRGY on the MV50 MPEG-2 Encoder

whitepaper This white paper introduces the EN NR RGY integrated noise reduction feature on the Harmonic standard definition DiviCom ® MV50 encoder. ENRGY supersedes and builds on the integrated noise reduction capabilities of the MV45 ClearMotion encoder.

Tags: bandwidth issues, definition, noise, encoder

[24 Feb 2004]

Local Oscillator Selection for Digital Satellite Communications

whitepaper The LO phase noise is the most important LO specification. Phase noise in a coherent digital communication system causes phase jitter in the recovered carrier. Based on the system budget for performance degradation due to carrier phase noise, a...

Tags: satellite communications, carrier, phase, noise

[24 Feb 2004]

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