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IEEE Canada CCECE 2003 - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Toward a Caring and Humane Technology May 4th to 7th 2003, Montreal, Canada CCGEI2003 - Conference canadienne en genie electrique et informatique Pour une technologie equitable Du 4 au 7 mai 2003, Montreal, Canada EDITORS / EDITEURS Guy Olivier Samuel Pierre Vijay K. Sood PROCEEDINGS - ACTES UB/TIB Hannover 124 952208 89 CCECE 2003 - CCGEI 2003 PROCEEDINGS, VOLUME 1 A Message from the IEEE Canada President i Un message du president de I'lEEE Canada ii Foreword Hi Avant-propos iv Organizing Committee v Reviewing Committee vi Comite d'organisation vii Comite de lecture viii Sponsors - Commenditaires ix Keynote Speakers - Conferenciers invites DEREGULATION OF ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY, Dr. L.L.Lai, City University, London, UK xiii QUANTUM MECHANICS AND CRYPTOGRAPHY, Dr. Gilles Brassard, DIRO, Universite de Montreal xiv WHAT'S NEW AT NSERC? / NOUVELLES DU CRSNG, Isabel Blain, Vice-President, Research Grants & Scholarships, NSERC / Vice-presidente, Subventions de recherche et Bourses, CRSNG xv 2003: THE YEAR OF RECOVERY, Dr. Peter W. Staecker, Director of R&D, M/A-COM xvi ABSTRACTS - RESUMES Page Circuits, Systems and VLSI ADVANCED CONTROL E-LABORATORY (ACEL) BASED ON VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION, Shahri A. M. 1 COMPARISON OF PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN SINGLE AND COUPLED MIS INTERCONNECT TOPOLOGIES IN VLSI CIRCUITS, Jin Zhongfang, Laurin J.-J., Savaria Y. RE3tDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN FPGA ROUTING, Esmaili E., Saheb Zamani M. 5 9 A DESIGN ON FRONT-END COMPATIBLE WITH PAL & DVB-C, Jichang G., Yanqing L, Zhensheng Y. 13 LOW VOLTAGE GM-C FILTERS AND OTAS FOR HDSL2, Majumdar D., Maundy B. J. 17 FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF BLOCK TRUNCATION CODING ALGORITHM FOR GRAY SCALE AND COLOR IMAGES, Abbas H. M., Nassar S., Saif S. M., Soliman A. T. 23 CMOS LNA DESIGN FOR LEO SPACE S-BAND APPLICATIONS, Askar M., Telli A. 27 BASE STATION POSITIONING IN THIRD GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKS, Pierre S., Wu Yufei CONVERSION OF RAINRATE STATISTICS WITH VARIOUS INTEGRATION TIMES TO EQUIVALENT ONEMINUTE DISTRIBUTIONS, Mello L. S., Migliora C. G., Pontes M. S. ANOMALOUS RESISTANCE EFFECT OF SI CONTAINING DEEP IMPURITIES AND ITS APPLICATION TO MICRO-SENSOR, Li M., Li Xing, Liang J.-C. 31 ANALYSIS OF AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR REAL -TIME GENERATION OF ES/N0 ESTIMATES FOR M-PSK SIGNALS, Linn Y. 35 39 43 STUDY ON A NOVEL VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR, Jichang G., Jing W., Kejun X., Shurong L, Weilian G. 49 IMPLEMENTATION OF AES AS A CMOS CORE, Liu L, Luke D. 53 A MODIFIED PCA ALGORITHM FOR FACE RECOGNITION, Luo L, Plotkin E. I., Swamy M. N. S. 57 Page PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PLATFORM FOR XDSL DEPLOYMENT IN A COMPLEX MULTI-SEGMENT ENVIRONMENT, Aldea V. S., Caouras N., Champagne B., Freda M., Le- Ngoc T., Monfet F., Naeem O. 61 A 13-BIT BAND-PASS DOUBLE-SAMPLING DELTA-SIGMA A/D CONVERTER FOR 5 MHZ IF SIGNALS, Hedayati H., Kashmiri S. M. 55 BRIDGE DWELL-TIME AND PACKET DESTINATION BASED SCHEDULING ALGORITHM FOR BLUETOOTH SCATTERNET, Agbakwuru J. M., Fapojuwo A. O. 69 AN OFFSET-COMPENSATED WIDE-BANDWITH CMOS CURRENT-FEEDBACK OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER, Assi A., Djebbi M., Sawan M. 7 A SUB-OPTIMAL RECEIVING SCHEME FOR SCCC WITH CODED MSK OVER ISI CHANNELS, Feng L, Soleymani M. R. 77 SYNTHESIS OF A 12-BIT COMPLEX MIXER FOR FPGA IMPLEMENTATION, Al-Khalili D., Inkol R., Langlois J. M. P., LiuQ., SzwarcV. 81 3 A COMPARISON OF BIPOLAR AND CMOS MIXER STRUCTURES FOR DIRECT CONVERSION MODULATION AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES, Johnston R. H., Maundy B. J., Salmeh R. 85 BEHAVIORAL MODELING TO CIRCUIT DESIGN STEPS OF A 3-V DIGITAL AUDIO SIGMA-DELTA MODULATOR IN 0.35uM-CMOS, Hedayati H., Kashmiri S. M. 89 IMPROVING THE INTERLEAVED SIGNATURE INSTRUCTION STREAM TECHNIQUE, Campelo J. C , Rodriguez F., Serrano J. J. 93 CREATING A REUSABLE TESTBENCH USING CADENCE'S TESTBUILDER AND AMBA TVM, Pollitt-Smith H., Xu S. 97 A NEW PARTITIONING METHOD FOR LOOK-UP TABLE BASED FPGAS, Ko S.-B. 103 DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A SILICON BASED MICRO HEAT EXCHANGER, Kahrizi M., SadriLonbani S., Stiharo I. STRESS AND DISTORTION BEHAVIOR FOR VLSI STEADY STATE THERMAL ANALYSIS, Bougataya M., 107 Lakhsasi A., Massicotte D., Savaria Y. 111 WIDE RANGE PERIODIC WAVEGUIDE TEMPERATURE SENSOR, Kahrizi M., Zhang B. 117 ON THE USE OF 4:2 COMPRESSORS FOR PARTIAL PRODUCT REDUCTION, Ahmadi M., Howard G. M., Jullien G., Mokrian P. 121 A RECONFIGURABLE DIGITAL MULTIPLIER ARCHITECTURE, Ahmadi M., Jullien G., Miller W. C , Mokrian P. 125 ROUTABILITY ESTIMATION OF FPGA-BASED FAULT INGECTION, Sedaghat R. 129 DESIGN & FABRICATION OF OUT-OF-PLANE ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS FOR OPTICAL APPLICATION, Kahrizi M., Landsberger L., MuX. STEP-BASED FACET INTERACTIONS IN WET ANISOTROPIC ETCHING, Elalamy Z., Kahrizi M., Landsberger L. M., Stateikina I. EMBEDDED MEMORY IN SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DESIGN: ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATION, Jin H., Manjikian N. 133 137 141 INTEGRATED PROGRAMMABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR TO RECUPERATE THE BLADDER FUNCTIONS, Ba A., Sawan M. 147 A VERY LOW VOLTAGE 9TH ORDER LINEAR PHASE BASEBAND SWITCHED CAPACITOR FILTER, Goravanchi P., Hashemipour O., Sedaghat R. 151 COMBATTING MULTI-USER INTERFERENCE IN ADSL SYSTEMS USING TIME-SPREADING, Linde L. P., vanWykJ. H. 155 ADAPTIVE DIGITAL PREDISTORTION OF LASER DIODE NONLINEARITY FOR WIRELESS APPLICATIONS, Fernando X. N., Nadarajah S., Sedaghat R. ' 159 A 14-TRANSISTOR LOW-POWER HIGH-SPEED FULL ADDER CELL, Ali Khatibzadeh A., Raahemifar K. 163 BIDIRECTIONAL HIGH DATA RATE TRANSMISSION INTERFACE FOR INDUCTIVELY POWERED DEVICES, Coulombe J., Gervais J. F., Mounaim F., Sawan M. ' A LOW-POWER 900 MV RAIL-TO-RAIL CLASS AB OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER, Hu Y., Sawan M. 167 171 MODELLING A 1.25 GB/S OPTICAL TRANSMITTER IN IEEE 1076.1 STANDARD VHDL-AMS, Elmarsy M , YoussefA. ' .J75 COMPARISON OF CAPACITIES OF THE TRANSMIT ANTENNA DIVERSITY WITH THE RECEIVE ANTENNA DIVERSITY IN THE MIMO SCHEME, Gong J., Hayes J. F., Soleymani M. R. 179 Page COMPARISON BETWEEN DIGITAL AND ANALOG PREDISTORTION TECHNIQUES FOR SATELLITE CHANNELS, Alasady H., Boutros R., Ibnkahla M. 183 IMPLEMENTING A HIGH PERFORMANCE SCHEDULING DISCIPLINE WF2Q+ IN FPGA, Li H., Song J., Song Meina 187 ROBUSTNESS OF TRANSMIT DIVERSITY SCHEMES WITH MULTIPLE RECEIVE ANTENNAS AT IMPERFECT CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION, Baykas T , Yongacoglu A. 191 IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGH-SPEED MULTI-LEVEL QAM MODEMS BASED ON XILINX VIRTEX- II FPGA, Shayan Y. R., Wu Yongbin 195 A VERSATILE SIGNED ARRAY MULTIPLIER SUITABLE FOR VLSI IMPLEMENTATION, Shayan Y. R., WangQi 199 A STUDY ON THE VLSI IMPLEMENTATION OF ECC FOR EMBEDDED DRAM, Gao W., Simmons S. 203 BIST-DIAGNOSIS OF INTERCONNECT FAULT LOCATIONS IN FPGA'S, Liu J., Simmons S. 207 TRANSFORMATION-BASED SYNTHESIS OF NETWORKS OFTOFFOLI/FREDKIN GATES, Dueck G. W., MaslovD., Miller D. M. A NEW INDUCTOR SERIES-PEAKING TECHNIQUE FOR BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT OF CMOS 211 CURRENT-MODE CIRCUITS, Sun B., Yuan F. 215 SAMPLED-DATA SIMULATION OF PERIODICALLY SWITCHED NONLINEAR CIRCUITS, Li Q., Yuan F. 219 ARCHITECTURES AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF CMOS CHARGE PUMPS FOR PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS, EI-HageM., Yuan F. COMPLEX MATCHED FIR FILTERS FOR DETECTION OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SYNCHRONIZATION CODES IN W-CDMA, Desormeaux L, Ho H., Krishna T., Szwarc V. 223 227 LOW TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE OF OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS, Gunaseelan S. T , Hiemstra D., Selvakumar C. R. 231 SYNTAX CODE ANALYSIS AND GENERATION FOR VERILOG, Tahar S., Zaki M. 235 MODELING AND VERIFICATION OF AN ATM PORT CONTROLLER IN VIS, Lu J., Tahar S. 241 A NEW SPACE-FREQUENCY-TIME BLOCK CODED OFDM SHEME FOR BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, Soleymani M. R., Torabi M. 247 COMBINATIONAL CIRCUIT DESIGN USING EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS, Abbas H. M., Soliman A. T. 251 REED-SOLOMON ENCODER & DECODER DESIGN, SIMULATION AND SYNTHESIS, Ardalan S., Geurkov V., Raahemifar K., Yuan F. 255 Electrical Machines and Drives A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF STRAY LOAD LOSSES OF AN INDUCTION MOTOR USING GENETIC ALGORITHM, Rao G. S., Thilagar S. H. 259 EFFECTS OF ADAPTIVE PI CONTROLLER GAINS ON SPEED ESTIMATION CONVERGENCE AND NOISES AT SENSORLESS INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES, Chang L, Doraiswami R., Kojabadi M. 263 REPRESENTATION OF HIGH SATURATED FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS IN THE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF POWER TRANSFORMERS, Schmidt E. 267 OPTIMIZATION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS METHOD, MerkhoufA. 271 A MINIMUM-LOSS ROBUST SCHEME FOR TORQUE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTORS, Anand Ganesh R. J., Quaicoe J. E, Venkatesan R. 275 Electromagnetics, Optics and Photonics FAST CALCULATION OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD IN THE SYSTEM WITH RADIAL CURRENT-CARRYING USING THIN SHEET INDUCTORS, Akyel C, Babic S., Boridy E., Kincic S. 279 NONTHERMAL EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES, Kumar A. 285 A METHOD FOR ANALYZING HIGHER-ORDER DISPERSION IN OPTICAL FIBER, Emadi M., Hemati S. 289 A DYNAMIC SIMULATION MODEL FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODES, Albanese S., Eagle S., Fernando X. N., Jastrebski J., Rusnov R., SchaerT. DISPERSION EFFECTS OF FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS ON TRUE TIME DELAY BEAMFORMING NETWORKS, Hou W., Yao J., Zeng F. 293 299 Page RADIATION EFFECTS AND ANNEALING BEHAVIOUR OF OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS, Gunaseelan S. T., Hiemstra D., Selvakumar C. R. 303 RADAR SIMULATION USING THE SHOOTING AND BOUNCING RAY TECHNIQUE, Dwolatzky B., Savides T. 307 Microelectronics and Optoelectronics COMPLEMENTARY FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS FOR VLSI DESIGN ON GAN AND RELATED ALLOYS, Alexandrov D. 311 AN OPTICAL MEMS SENSOR SYSTEM, Fan Yu, Kahrizi M. 315 DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CMOS-COMPATIBLE OPTICAL MICROSWITCHES, Kahrizi M., Landsberger L. M., Li Jun A NEW CMOS ARCHITECTURE FOR WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE SENSING, Audet Y., Sawan M., Trepanier J.-L. AUTOMATIC REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEM USING COMPUTER ANALYZE, Anotaiadikoon J., Gulpanich S., Krongratana V., Numsomran A., Tipsuwanporn V., Witheephanich K. 319 323 327 Power Electronics and Systems POWER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT USING A UNIFIED SWITCHED CAPACITOR COMPENSATOR, Kreidi P., Sharaf A. M. 331 STUDY ON THE OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC OF SAMPLED VALUE DIFFERENTIAL PROTECTION, Deshu C , Jingchao Y., Xianggen Y., Ze Z. 335 USE OF PROBABILITY METHODS FOR PLANNING CUSTOMER DELIVERY SYSTEMS, Abu-EI-Magd M. A., Findlay R. D., Hamoud G. A. 339 USING SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT IN CASE-BASED REASONING TO SOLVE POWER SYSTEM SUBSTATION PROBLEMS, Borges da Silva L. E., Gonzaga Martins H., Lambert-Torres G., Roosi R. 343 SPEEDING-UP DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF ACTIVE POWER CONDITIONERS, Bonaldi E. L, Borges da Silva L. E., da Silva F., de Lacerda de Oliveira L. E., Lambert-Torres G., Rossi R. 347 A NEW ZVT DC-TO-DC FULL BRIDGE CONVERTER, Rahman M. M. A. 351 SHIFTING OF LOAD HARMONIC IN THE SINGLE PHASE AC-TO-AC PHASE CONTROL CONVERTERS, Heydt G. T., Nigim K. A. DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF AN ENHANCED STATCOM CURRENT CONTROL SCHEME FOR REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION, El-Saadany E. F., Marei M. I., Salama M. M. A. COMPENSATION FOR LOAD AND SPEED VARIATION OF SELF-EXCITED INDUCTION GENERATOR (SEIG), Chikhani A. Y., El-Fouly T. H., El-Saadany E. F., Salama M. M. A. 355 359 363 CONSIDERING RENEWABLE ENERGY IN SMALL ISOLATED POWER SYSTEM EXPANSION, Billinton R., Karki R. 367 A NEW METHOD TO BALANCE CURRENTS OF THE GENERATOR, Ding H., Duan X. 371 A SOFT-SWITCHED AC-DC BOOST CONVERTER WITH POWER FACTOR CORRECTION AND REDUCED SWITCH VOLTAGE STRESS, Li S, Moschopoulos G. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR AC-DC CONVERTERS WITH INTEGRATED POWER FACTOR CORRECTION, Moschopoulos G., Shah J. 379 LEVITATION FORCES CONTROL BY CURRENT VECTOR ORIENTATION FOR A BEARINGLESS MOTOR WITH HYBRID ROTOR STRUCTURE, Wang B., Wang Fengxiang, Wang Zheng 383 ANALYSE D'UN SYSTEME PVAVEC UN GENERATEUR A BASE DE CELLULES AUX SILICIUM MONOCRISTALLIN, Guessoum A., Harrouni S., Tafticht T. 387 INVESTIGATION OF LIGHTNING OVER-VOLTAGES IN BURIED CABLES BASED ON THE PREDICTED CHARACTERISTICS OF BREAKDOWN PATHS IN SOILS, He J., Raghuveer M. R., Song Zeqing 391 A NEW ZVS PHASE-SHIFTED PWM DC/DC CONVERTER WITH PUSH-PULL TYPE SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER, Sen P. C , Zhang Yingqi 395 AN IMPROVED FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC ROGOWSKI CURRENT TRANSDUCER, Jingsheng L , Miaoyuan Y., Mingjun Z., Xiaohua G. 399 OBJECT LOCATION USING EDGE-BOUNDED PLANAR SURFACES FROM SPARSE RANGE DATA, Aitken V. C , Blais F.t MacKinnon D. K. 403 A SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT CONTROL STRATEGY FOR THREE-PHASE BOOST RECTIFIERS, Bakhshai A. R., Jain P., Yazdani D. 409 375 Page A NOVEL SENSORLESS 60 O -CLAMPING VECTOR CLASSIFICATION PWM TECHNIQUE FOR SWITCHING LOSSES REDUCTION IN THREE-PHASE PFC CONVERTERS, Bakhshai A. R., Jain P., Joos G., Yazdani D. 413 A NEW REGULATION ALGORITHM APPLIED TO A HYBRID POWER FILTER, Al-Haddad K., Casoria S., Dessaint L.-A., Mendalek N. 417 VOLTAGE SAG CORRECTION BY DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORER BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL, Carpio J., Jurado F. 421 FOUR-POINT IN FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD AND AL-QASEEM SAUDI TOWER TRANSMISSION LINE FOR EVALUATING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD, Al Dhalaan S. M., Elhirbawy M. A. 425 A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION LINE AND RAILWAY, Al Dhalaan S. M., Elhirbawy M. A. 431 MULTILEVEL INVERTER FOR POWER SYSTEM APPLICATIONS : HIGHLIGHTING ASYMMETRIC DESIGN EFFECTS FROM A SUPPLY NETWORK POINT OF VIEW, Rufer A., Song-Manguelle J. 435 PROBABILISTIC EVALUATION OF TRANSIENT STABILITY OF A POWER SYSTEM INCORPORATING A UNIFIED POWER FLOW CONTROLLER, Aboreshaid S. 441 A NOVEL MITIGITING STRATEGY FOR VOLTAGE FLICKER PRODUCED FROM THE ARC FURNACE, Elnady A. 447 MECHANICAL FAULT DETECTION IN INDUCTION MOTORS, Bertani S., Knight A. M. 451 ANALYSE DES FILTRES ACTIFS PAR LA METHODE DE LA COMPENSATION PAR IMPEDANCES HARMONIQUES, Ba A. O., Barry A. O., BERGERON R. STUDIES OF ROGOWSKI COIL CURRENT TRANSDUCER FOR LOW AMPLITUDE CURRENT (100A) 457 MEASUREMENT, Cheng L, Jingsheng L, Mingjun Z., Xiaohua G., Zefu Y. 463 A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE VARIABLE SPEED GENERATOR, Chen H., Qiushuang S. 467 NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO THE NONLINEAR DEPENDENCY OF THE AIRGAP MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY OF SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS WITH FRACTIONAL SLOT WINDINGS IN CASE OF VARIOUS OPERATIONAL STATES, Grabner C, Schmidt E. ON THE USE OF THE MAGNETIC VECTOR POTENTIAL FOR THE NONLINEAR NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF SPACE DEPENDENT REACTANCES OF A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE, Grabner C , Schmidt E. 471 475 VOLTAGE NOTCH DETECTION USING FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM, Andami H., Jalilian A. 479 A DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, Meng J. 483 HARMONIC MODELING OF A CLUSTER OF AC/DC CONVERTERS WITH AN APPROACH TO COMPUTE OVERLAP ANGLES IN PRESENCE OF SIMULTANEOUS COMMUTATIONS, de Montigny M., Ngandui E., Sicard P. 487 COMPARISON OF CONVERTER TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELS FOR ESTIMATE HARMONIC CURRENTS GENERATED BY AC/DC CONVERTERS UNDER UNBALANCED CONDITIONS, de Montigny M., Ngandui E., Sicard P. 491 EMPLOYING THE LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY SPACE VECTOR MODULATORS IN MULTI-MODULAR THREE-LEVEL CONVERTERS, Bakhshai A. R., Rashidinejad M., Saeedifard M. 497 AN ACTIVE POWER FILTER IMPLEMENTED WITH A THREE-LEVEL NPC CONVERTER IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE, Bakhshai A. R., Jain P., Saeedifard M. 503 THE ROLE OF ASYMMETRIC OPERATION IN ENHANCING THE FLEXIBILITY OF POWER SYSTEM OPERATION, Marceau R., McGillis D., Sana A. 509 POWER INVERTER CONTROL FOR INDUCTION HEATING BY PULSE DENSITY MODULATION WITH IMPROVED POWER FACTOR, Cheriti A., Essadaoui J., Ngandui E., Sicard P. 515 DEVELOPMENT OF CYCLOCONVERTERS, Maamoun A. 521 LA DIFFUSMTE THERMIQUE ET L'HOMOGENEISATION DE LA TEMPERATURE DANS LES PROBLEMES DE TRANSFERT DE CHALEUR EN REGIME TRANSITOIRE, Benthami S., Skorek A. CAPACITOR COMMUTATED CONVERTER USING AN ADAPTIVE ACTIVE CAPACITOR FOR HVDC SYSTEM, El-Saadany E. F., Kazerani M., Salama M. M. A., Zeineldin H. H. 525 529 DESIGN OF A PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL DOWN-CONVERTER STRUCTURE, Li Zifeng, Ma Q., Qi R. 535 THERMAL MODEL AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF A 30 MVA DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER APPLIED IN LOW FREQUENCY DRYING PROCESS, Farhangi S., Ghaemi R., Naimi M. 539 Page UTILISATION DES RESEAUX DE PETRI POUR LA MODELISATION DU CONVERTISSEUR MPPT D'UN SYSTEME PHOTOVOLTA'IQUE, Agbossou K., Atif K., Tafticht T. 543 IMPACT OF DISTRIBUTED COMPENSATORS ON POWER SYSTEM VOLTAGES, Chandra A., Kincic S. 547 A METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION OF SEPARATING CUSTOMER AND SUPPLY SIDE HARMONIC CONTRIBUTIONS USING AN ACTIVE FILTER, Chandra A., Mbang B., Rastgoufard P., Singh B. N., Srinivasan K. ETUDE DE L'INSERTION D'UNE RESISTANCE DE FREINAGE EN VUE DE L'AMELIORATION DE LA STABILITE DYNAMIQUE D'UN RESEAU TEST (BENCHMARK) REALISTE, Kamwa I., Labarthe G., Roy G. 553 CONCEPTION D'UN AMPLIFICATEUR DE PUISSANCE QUASI-OPTIQUE UTILISANT UN NOUVEAU CONVERTISSEUR DE MODE TE10 A TE20, Belaid M., Laurin J.-J., Martinez R., Ouardirhi Z., Wu K. 559 565 Power Systems and Renewable Energy A ROBUST POWER SYSTEM STABILIZER CONFIGURATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS BASED ON LINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL, Jain P. K., Mohamed E. A., Youssef M. Z. 569 A STUDY ON INTEGRATED ADAPTIVE RELAYING SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE MIXED POWER NETWORK, Xianzhong D., Yinhong L. 575 DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PLANNING USING DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, El-Khattam W., Salama M. M. A. 579 STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEMS, Hegazy Y. G. 583 THE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY IS CHANGING WORLWIDE: WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF EXPERIENCE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?, Abul-Magd M. A., Findlay R. D., Shalaby A. A MIXED-SIGNAL VLSI NEURAL NETWORK WITH ON-CHIP LEARNING, Ahmadi M., Miller W. C , Mirhassani M. 587 591 REGULATING WIND TURBINE OUTPUT POWER UTILIZING MEMS BASED ACTUATORS AND SENSORS, Chikhani A. Y., El-Fouly T. H., El-Saadany E. F. 595 CONSIDERATIONS INTO THE CHANGE OF THE DISTRIBUTION POWER SYSTEM GROUNDING, GrangierM., ReyA.,ToddeC. 599 A NEW POWERFUL PRODUCTION GRADE LOAD FLOW PROGRAM FOR POWER SYSTEM DESIGN AND STUDIES, Buchanan P., Louie K. W., Wang A., Wilson P. 603 IMPACT OF EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY ON COMPOSITE SYSTEM RELIABILITY, Billinton R., Mo R. 607 NEW AGGREGATE LOAD MODELS FOR DIFFERENT LOAD DATA FORMATS, Louie K. W., Marti J. R. 613 INTEGRATION OF HVDC CONTROL DYNAMICS INTO TRANSIENT ENERGY FUNCTIONS, Alden R. T. H., Fernandopulle N. PROBABILISTIC POWER LOSS ANALYSIS OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEMS, 617 Hashem G. M., Hegazy Y. G. 623 BASIS CAD POWER ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, Shaydurov A. 627 CALCULATION OF POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS ALONG SEMICONDUCTING GLAZED INSULATOR FOR IMPULSE VOLTAGES UNDER ICING CONDITIONS, Farzaneh M., Jaiswal V., Lowther D. A. SAFE PROBE FOR HIGH ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS, Barthod C , Bouillot J., Farzaneh M., Galez C , Passard M., Teisseyre Y., Volat C. 631 635 CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE DE L'APPARITION ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT DES DECHARGES COURONNES A LA SURFACE DE GLACE, Farzaneh M., Fofana I., Ndiaye I., Srivastava K. D. 639 MODELLING OF AC ARC PROCESS ON AN ICE SURFACE, Farzaneh M., Fofana I., Tavakoli C. 643 METHODE DE DIMENSIONNEMENT DES JUPES DES ISOLATEURS DE POSTE EN VUE D'AMELIORER LEUR PERFORMANCE ELECTRIQUE SOUS DES CONDITIONS ATMOSPHERIQUES FROIDES, Farzaneh M., Volat C. EFFECTS OF AIR PRESSURE ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AC AND DC ARCS ON AN ICE SURFACE, 647 Farzaneh M., Li Y., Zhang J. 651 EHV LINE SLEET MELTING, Corbett F. M. 655 CHAOTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRICITY PRICE AND ITS FORECASTING MODEL, Duan X., Yang H. 659 ANALYSE DES FILTRES ACTIFS AVEC LA METHODE DE LA COMPENSATION PAR IMPEDANCES HARMONIQUES, Ba A. O., Barry A. O. CANADIAN RURAL POWER QUALITY STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS, Koval D. O., Wang H., Xu W. 663 669 Page ISSUES OF INTERCONNECTING DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATORS WITH THE ELECTRIC GRIDS, Chang L, Diduch C. 675 A JOB-SCHEDULING PLATFORM FOR PARALLELISING CALCULATIONS IN ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS, Dwolatzky B., Neumann Y. 679