Low-power all-analog circuit for rectangular-type analog joint source channel coding

A low-complexity and low-power all-analog circuit is proposed to perform efficiently Analog Joint Source Channel Coding (AJSCC). The proposed idea is to adopt Voltage Controlled Voltage Source (VCVS) to realize the rectangular-type mapping in AJSCC. The proposal is verified by Spice simulations as well as via breadboard and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) implementations. Field testing results indicate that the design is feasible for low-complexity and low-power systems such as wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring.

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