Digital dual tone multifrequency receiver

Ankara : Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent University, 1994.Thesis (Master's) -- -Bilkent University, 1994.Includes bibliographical references leaves 49-50In this thesis, a suitable algorithm for detection of Dual Tone Multifrequency tones is proposed and implemented as a VLSI chip. The algorithm is based on an approximation of correlation. The input signal is correlated with the hardlimited versions of three sinusoids having 7Ty^3 phase difference. Also, a level detector is added to the algorithm. The algorithm only requires addition and subtraction, but no multiplication; and this reduces the complexity of the circuit. The implementation of the algorithm proposed has been realized as a fully integrated digital DTMF receiver chip using semi-custom layout techniques. The final chip is fabricated in 1-^m CMOS technology, and it has a total area of 24.78 mm^.Ekinci, Ahmet SuatM.S

Circuit theoretical methods for efficient solution of finite element structural mechanics problems

Ankara : The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent Univ., 1999.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Bilkent University, 1999.Includes bibliographical references leaves 78-84.Shrinking device dimensions in integrated circuit technology made integrated circuits with millions of components a reality. As a result of this advance, electrical circuit simulators that can handle very large number of components have emerged. These programs use new circuit simulation techniques which approximate the system with reduced order models, and can find solutions accurately and quickly. This study proposes formulating the structural mechanics problems using FEM, and then employing the recent speedup techniques used in circuit simulation. This is obtained by generating an equivalent resistor-inductor-capacitor circuit containing controlled sources. We analyze the circuits with general-purpose circuit simulation programs, HSPICE, and an in-house developed circuit simulation program, MAWE, which makes use of generalized asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE) technique. AWE is a moment matching technique that has been successfully used in circuit simulation for solutions of large sets of equations. Several examples on the analysis of the displacement distributions in rigid bodies have shown that using circuit simulators instead of conventional FEM solution methods improves simulation speed without a significant loss of accuracy. Pole analysis via congruence transformations (PACT) technique is a recent algorithm used for obtaining lower order models for large circuits. For a further reduction in time, we employed a similar algorithm in structural mechanics problems before obtaining the equivalent circuit. The results are very promising.Ekinci, Ahmet SuatPh.D

An efficient program for analysis of interconnect circuits

A circuit simulation program using generalized asymptotic waveform evaluation techniques is introduced. The program analyses circuits with lumped and distributed components. It computes the moments at a few frequency points, and extracts the coefficients of an approximating rational by matching the moments simultaneously. The accuracy of the results and the execution times are compared with conventional simulators using several examples, indicating that our simulator provides a speed improvement without a significant loss of accuracy

A Nationwide Chronic Disease Management Solution via Clinical Decision Support Services: Software Development and Real-Life Implementation Report

BackgroundThe increasing population of older adults has led to a rise in the demand for health care services, with chronic diseases being a major burden. Person-centered integrated care is required to address these challenges; hence, the Turkish Ministry of Health has initiated strategies to implement an integrated health care model for chronic disease management. We aim to present the design, development, nationwide implementation, and initial performance results of the national Disease Management Platform (DMP). ObjectiveThis paper’s objective is to present the design decisions taken and technical solutions provided to ensure successful nationwide implementation by addressing several challenges, including interoperability with existing IT systems, integration with clinical workflow, enabling transition of care, ease of use by health care professionals, scalability, high performance, and adaptability. MethodsThe DMP is implemented as an integrated care solution that heavily uses clinical decision support services to coordinate effective screening and management of chronic diseases in adherence to evidence-based clinical guidelines and, hence, to increase the quality of health care delivery. The DMP is designed and implemented to be easily integrated with the existing regional and national health IT systems via conformance to international health IT standards, such as Health Level Seven Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. A repeatable cocreation strategy has been used to design and develop new disease modules to ensure extensibility while ensuring ease of use and seamless integration into the regular clinical workflow during patient encounters. The DMP is horizontally scalable in case of high load to ensure high performance. ResultsAs of September 2023, the DMP has been used by 25,568 health professionals to perform 73,715,269 encounters for 16,058,904 unique citizens. It has been used to screen and monitor chronic diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular risk, diabetes, and hypertension, resulting in the diagnosis of 3,545,573 patients with obesity, 534,423 patients with high cardiovascular risk, 490,346 patients with diabetes, and 144,768 patients with hypertension. ConclusionsIt has been demonstrated that the platform can scale horizontally and efficiently provides services to thousands of family medicine practitioners without performance problems. The system seamlessly interoperates with existing health IT solutions and runs as a part of the clinical workflow of physicians at the point of care. By automatically accessing and processing patient data from various sources to provide personalized care plan guidance, it maximizes the effect of evidence-based decision support services by seamless integration with point-of-care electronic health record systems. As the system is built on international code systems and standards, adaptation and deployment to additional regional and national settings become easily possible. The nationwide DMP as an integrated care solution has been operational since January 2020, coordinating effective screening and management of chronic diseases in adherence to evidence-based clinical guidelines