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  • Power Efficient Architectures for Medium-high Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Sadollahi, Mahmoud
    Abstract:
    Analog-to-digital converters are essential components to the portable devices that we are using today. Wireless sensors, body implanted devices, communication devices and so forth require low power ADCs. Therefore achieving higher resolution and bandwidth with lower power consumption is targeted in ADCs design. In this work power efficient ADCs for...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Gabor C. Temes Analog-to-digital converters are essential components to the

  • Low-voltage data converters

    Creator:
    Meng, Qingdong
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    With the growing demand for portable/consumer electronics, such as digital audio/video (AV), the downscaling of device dimensions, which enables the integration of an increasing number of transistors in a single chip, is mandatory. This trend also continuously pushes the power supply voltage down to reduce the power consumption and improve...
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    : Gabor C. Temes With the growing demand for portable/consumer electronics, such as digital audio

  • Generalized radix design techniques for low-power, low voltage pipelined and cyclic analog-digital converters

    Creator:
    Sharma, Vivek
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    This thesis proposes a novel technique for the design of pipelined and cyclic ADCs utilizing generalized radix gain stages. Several models have been proposed for the optimization of high performance pipelined ADCs by various researchers. This work builds upon them, using a simple but accurate model to estimate the optimal...
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    Cyclic Analog-Digital Converters. Abstract approved: Gabor C. Temes and Un-Ku Moon This thesis

  • Exploratory Study to Uncover Student Mental Models of Singly Linked Lists in the C Programming Language

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    Almadhoun, Eman
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    In computer science, learning abstract fundamental programming concepts requiring students to understand memory management can be very difficult and lead to misunderstandings that carry on into advanced topics. This is especially true in data structures with abstract data types. Understanding how novice students think and reason about data structures is...
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    : Exploratory Study to Uncover Student Mental Models of Singly Linked Lists in the C Programming Language

  • Energy Harvesting and Power Management Integrated Circuits for Self-Sustaining Wearables

    Creator:
    Bose, Soumya
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    Harvesting energy from ambient sources can provide power autonomy to energy efficient electronics and sensors. The last decade has seen a multitude of ways to scavenge energy from various sources like solar, thermal, electromagnetic, electrostatic, piezo-electric and many more. Thermal energy from human body heat is ubiquitous and can be...
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    valuable inputs. I would also like to extend my thanks to Prof. William Warnes for serving as the Graduate

  • Design of Compact Passive Components and Circuits for RF and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuit in Silicon

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    Dong, Xuanyi
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    Emerging fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G communication networks are stimulating the design of radio-frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) integrated circuits for wireless transceivers systems. While co-integration of active circuits and diverse passive components becomes feasible at these high operating frequencies, circuit design is faced with significant challenges due to...
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    proposed compact layout design approach in RF and mmWave applications. c©Copyright by Xuanyi Dong May

  • High-performance Ring Amplifier based Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Hu, Hang
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    Ring Amplifier serves as a great candidate both for precision amplification and fast integration in the discrete time system. It can be utilized in high-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). In high-speed ADC utilizing pipelined architectures with residue amplification, Successive-Approximation Register (SAR) ADCs as the sub-ADC and power efficient Ring Amplifier based...
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    committees Prof. Gabor Temes, Prof. Matthew Johnston, Prof. Tejasvi Anand and Prof. William H. Warnes for

  • Automated analysis, design, and optimization of low noise oscillators

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    Vytyaz, Igor
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    Low noise oscillators are universally needed in digital systems for clock generation and synchronization, and in radio-frequency communication front-ends for frequency up- and down-conversion. Noise in oscillators results in timing jitter, and limits the clock frequency of digital systems. In radio-frequency communication systems, phase noise in oscillators lowers the signal-to-noise...
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    types. c©Copyright by Igor Vytyaz June 2, 2008 All Rights Reserved Automated Analysis, Design

  • High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

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    Curran, William
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    State-of-the-art personal robots need to perform complex manipulation tasks to be viable in complex scenarios. However, many of these robots, like the PR2, use manipulators with high degrees of freedom. High degrees of freedom are desirable from a functionality standpoint, but make the learning task more difficult by adding a...
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    interface that uses this timeline interface paradigm. c©Copyright by William Curran June 5, 2017 All

  • A peer-to-peer communication system based on Walsh-Hadamard codes for fading environments

    Creator:
    Moranvil, William
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    High data rate transmission has become an important challenge in today digital communication systems. One of the most difficult problems faced by engineers is to transmit data at sufficiently high rates through fading channels. This is the main motivation for the research presented herein. In this thesis, we investigate a...
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    THE THESIS OF William Moranvil for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer