A rectangular microstrip antenna (RMSA) with two slots placed close and parallel to nonradiating edges for tunable and dual band operation with single feed has been demonstrated. A tunable operation can be achieved by the adding electrically small slots along the patch edges. For two frequencies TM10 and TM30 are the first two modes of simple RMSA are perturbed and two frequencies with same polarization, broadside radiation, and impedance characteristics. Dual frequency operations easily obtained if two slots placed together and are of same dimensions, which equals to greater than half of length. The proposed design is suitable for dual band operation for Bluetooth 2450 MHz–WiMAX 3500 MHz. Slot dimensions was taken identical for the symmetry. The performance parameters of the proposed RMSA with and without slots were compared. Furthermore, a parametric analysis carried out by taking variations in the length (Ls), width (d) and spacing (S) between the two slots, the frequency ratio is tuned in the range 1.41 to 1.45. The dimensions of the proposed antenna 50 × 54 × 1.6mm3 with the size reduction compared with conventional microstrip antenna (MSA).The proposed antenna is simulated using HFSS based on finite element method and simulated return loss, radiation pattern and impedance were presented. Finally fabrication and measurement of VSWR of the proposed antenna has been taken. The HFSS results and measured results are in good agreement. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:1986–1991, 2015

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Electrochemical micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) seismic sensor is limited by its nonideality of frequency dependent characteristics hence interface circuits for compensation is necessary. The conventional compensation circuits are limited by high power consumption, bulky external hardware. These digital circuits are limited by inherent analog to digital conversions which consumes significant power, acquires more size and limits processing speed. This system presents field programmable analog array (FPAA) (Anadigm AN231E04) based hardware implementation of artificial neural network (ANN) model with minimized error in frequency drift in the range of 3.68% to about 0.64% as compared to ANN simulated results in the range of 23.07% to 0.99%. Single neuron consumes power of 206.62 mW with minimum block wise resource utilization. The proposed hardware uses all analog blocks removing the requirement of analog to digital converter and digital to analog converter, reducing significant power and size of interface circuit and enhancing processing speed. It gives the reliable, SMART MEMS seismic sensor with ANN-based intelligent interface circuit implemented in FPAA hardware.

The dual frequency rectangular microstrip antenna (RMSA) using slot has been brought in this article. By embedding narrow open rectangular ring slot close to the boundary of rectangular patch of single layer and single feed, dual frequency operation can be easily obtained. The slot provides reactive loading around the resonance frequency of rectangular patch at a consequence dual frequency operation has been obtained. The proposed design exhibits two contiguous resonant modes with similar polarization and radiation characteristics. This performance of the antenna makes size reduction compared with simple RMSA without slot. These two resonant modes are excited at frequencies near the fundamental resonant mode of RMSA without slot. By controlling the width and gap spacing of narrow open rectangular ring slot antenna, the frequency ratio is tuned in the range 1.28–1.42. The input impedance, return loss, and radiation characteristics of the antenna are analyzed using HFSS. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:2448–2452, 2015