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Accelerating flash memory performance by partial sensing (Technion)
Flash memory is a non-volatile memory component, widely used in modern electronic systems. The growing demand for high performance computing along with high capacity data storage stimulates flash technology development. The increase in capacity, often accompanied by performance reduction (due to ...
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Acoustically enhanced heat exchangers (Technion)
Many systems require heat to be either added or dissipated towards maintaining their operability and efficiency. The change in temperature is provided by a heat exchanger, connecting two streams that have a thermal potential difference. Due to form factor limitations associated with many ...
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Active detection of asymmetry in turbo machinery via asynchronous excitation (Technion)
High-speed rotors are sensitive to cracks and small deformations which can cause billions of dollars in damages and injuries every year. This invention is the first to accurately identify small cracks and similar deformations in rotating bodies while the machine is running and without requiring ...
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Blind reconstruction of multi-band analog signals (Technion)
Reconstruction of multi-band signals is a challenge in the field of signal processing. Some of today’s methods require a high sampling rate, and obtaining such a rate requires expensive systems. Other methods require prior knowledge, which is not always available. Our technology enables ...
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Bundle adjustment with feature orientation and scale (BAFOS) (Technion)
In many navigation and augmented reality platforms, a camera (or robot) operating in unfamiliar environments is required to accurately estimate the layout of the surroundings. Due to estimation errors, the accuracy of the current methods is compromised. This solution aims to ...
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Carrier phase estimation for optically coherent QPSK (Technion)
The proposed technology is a novel carrier phase and frequency recovery system that automatically cancels local oscillator (LO) frequency offsets. The system exhibits significantly improved phase noise tolerance and is extremely robust to rapid intradyne frequency drifts (10GHz/s chirp) which ...
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Coherent optical transmission and two-way data distribution (Technion)
The presented technology is a novel method of doubling the data rate by changing the Rx ONU photonic and electronic and signal processing structure. The method doubles the data rate by adding just 50% to the complexity of just a part of the receiver (or ONU). Applications of the technology ...
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Compact and wideband tapered slot antenna for WPAN applications (Technion)
The communication industry is growing at phenomenal rate. A clear trend is the future development of wireless personal area networks (WPAN) operating in the 60 GHz millimeter-wave band. WPAN devices require low-cost antennas that are not only compact and integrable with RF modules, but also ...
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Distorted signal recovery (Technion)
Reconstruction of a signal from its distorted samples is a common scenario in acquisition devices such as sensors and detectors. Current methods developed for these situations are based on idealized assumptions or are limited in application. Our technology is practical and applicable to numerous ...
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Frequency domain beamforming in ultrasound imaging (Technion)
Most ultrasound imaging systems use multiple transducer elements to transmit and receive acoustic pulses. Beamforming of the signals detected by the individual elements of the array increases the signal-to-noise ratio and is performed in the digital domain, implying that the analog signals ...
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Gate diffusion inputs circuit design (Technion)
Our gate diffusion inputs (GDI) technology is superior when dealing with the rising challenges of digital circuits design. Current methods are based on standard logical gates and are not compatible with the increasing demands for low power designs in the electronics industry. Our technology is ...
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High-speed OFDM-based passive optical access network (Technion)
As the demand for greater data throughputs is increasing exponentially, optical access networks are increasingly providing a key solution, with extended band-width, long-reach and long-term operational cost. The first generation of Passive Optical Networks (PON) is currently deployed around the ...
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Hyper-redundant robot with two active degrees of freedom mechanism (Technion)
An elephant-like robotic trunk having large workspace, which can curl up in free space carrying heavy loads and bypassing obstacles can be used for search and rescue applications and bomb disposal while mounted on a mobile platform. The basic mechanism is composed of two motors independently ...
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Imaging systems and methods for recovering object visibility (Technion)
There is a wide spectrum of uses for images taken in scattering media such as fog, water and even in biological tissue. Unfortunately, these images suffer from poor visibility due to backscattering and signal attenuation. Backscatter is especially strong when using artificial illumination. This ...
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Localization of a moving device using coded light sources (Technion)
Positional localization aims to track the position and orientation of an object, device or person with very high accuracy, according to a global positioning system. This is useful in numerous applications such as user tracking in Virtual/Augmented Reality, navigation for warehouse robots and ...
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Low-complexity, optically coherent and self-coherent signal processing (Technion)
Today, the new generation of optical transmission systems is based on coherent detection using local oscillator lasers in the optical receivers. However, with current receivers, existing methods suffer from excess phase noise and are incapable of sustaining large and/or rapid frequency drifts. ...
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Management and recovery of distributed storage of replicas (Technion)
Contemporary storage systems often maintain at least three replicas of all data, reducing the risk of permanent data loss due to simultaneous disk failures. The cost of the additional copies is a reduction in usable storage space, with increased network traffic and higher power consumption. The ...
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Massively multi-threaded computer processor (Technion)
Energy consumption has become the primary concern of processor designers and the evaluation by which processors are measured. Because of their energy-efficiency, the GPGPU class of processors is gaining popularity and constitutes a multi-billion dollar market. GPGPUs employ a single-instruction ...
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Maximizing restorable throughput in MPLS networks (Technion)
MPLS recovery mechanisms algorithms are used by large network operators to assure high QoS in case of failure by pre-establishing backup network paths. Current networks use simple methods for calculating feasible primary and backup paths. However, these paths may not efficiently use the network ...
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Mitigation of inter-cell coupling effects in NAND flash memory (Technion)
NAND flash memory is a popular data storage facility at various electronic devices. However, it suffers from an inter-cell coupling effect which reduces the memory functionality. An innovative method improves the NAND flash memory operations by diminish the inter-cell coupling ...
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