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  • Architectural Solutions for Analog Imperfections in ΔΣ Analog-to-Digital Based Systems

    Creator:
    Zali Asl, Samira
    Abstract:
    For today’s ubiquitous portable devices, innovative integrated circuits with high performance yet very low power are necessary. As these devices are used to communicate and sense real world signals in the environment, analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and systems are the key interface circuits needed to digitize the sensed information and they...
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    integrated circuit process technology because they cause degradations in the ADC performance. In this

  • A comparison of substrate noise coupling in heavily doped and lightly doped substrates for mixed-signal circuits

    Creator:
    Ayers, James S.
    Abstract:
    An analysis of substrate noise coupling in mixed-signal circuits has been performed in the TSMC 0.25 [mu]m lightly doped and heavily doped CMOS processes. Methods to minimize noise coupling in both the chip design and board design phases are presented along with techniques for accurate circuit simulation of noise coupling....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on June 16, 2004. Title: A

  • Power Efficient Hybrid Architecture for High Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hui
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    Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are the key building block for sensor applications, such as wireless communications and digital electronics. These applications require ADCs to have medium to high accuracy (normally from 10-14 bits) and relatively low signal bandwidth (ranging from 100Hz-150kHz). Since these applications are often powered by batteries, high power...
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    Masters Thesis
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    degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on December 7, 2017

  • Ultra-low power receivers for wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Ayers, James S.
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    In wireless sensor network applications, low-power operation of the wireless receiver is critical. To address this need an ultra-low power Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) receiver using the super-regenerative architecture is developed. A prototype receiver is built and tested for operation in the 900 MHz ISM band. Lab measurements show...
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    Science Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent

  • Digital Friendly Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Maghami, Hamidreza
    Abstract:
    Conventional Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) utilize operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) in their loop filter implementation followed by multi-bit voltage domain quantizers. As CMOS integrated circuit technology scales to smaller geometries, the minimum transistor length and the intrinsic gain of the transistors decrease. Moreover, with process scaling the voltage headroom decreases...
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    voltage domain quantizers. As CMOS integrated circuit technology scales to smaller geometries, the

  • Design of current-mode track and hold circuits

    Creator:
    Chennam, Madhusudhan
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    A differential current-mode track-and-hold (T/H) amplifier is used to sample an analog input signal. A new closed-loop current-mode architecture has been developed that overcomes the stability problems associated with closed-loop architectures. The T/H circuit has been fabricated in a 0.35-μm quad-metal, double-poly CMOS process. The measured total harmonic distortion (THD)...
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    of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on June 7, 2002. Title

  • Low power receivers for wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Ni, Ronghua
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    Wireless sensor networks are becoming important in several monitoring and sensing applications. Ultra low power consumption in the sensor nodes is important for extending the battery life of the nodes. In this dissertation, two low power BFSK receiver architectures are proposed and verified with prototype implementations in silicion. A 2.4...
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    of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my

  • Design of a variable gain, high linearity, low power baseband filter for WLAN transmitters

    Creator:
    Ranganathan, Sachin
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    A variable gain, high linearity, low power baseband filter for WLAN applications is implemented in a 1.5 V 3 V 0.15 μm CMOS process. This fourth-order low-pass filter, which is introduced in the transmit channel as a reconstruction filter between the D/A converter and the mixer, has a measured cut-off...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on April 15, 2003. Title: of

  • A methodology for efficient substrate noise estimation from large scale digital circuits in mixed signal SoC's

    Creator:
    Held, Martin A.
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    A methodology for rapid estimation of substrate noise generated by digital circuitry in mixed-signal circuits is presented. This methodology is incorporated into the Silencer! framework, and also provides for future improvements including pre-layout noise estimation. Measurements of a test chip fabricated in the TSMC o.25[mu]m heavily doped logic process validate...
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    THE THESIS OF Martin A. Held for the degree of M.9'ster of Science in Electrical and Computer

  • Extending the TekBots [superscript TM] Platform for Learning [superscript TM] to upper division ECE courses

    Creator:
    Smit, Adriaan
    Abstract:
    In April of 1997 it was pointed out at an NSF Engineering Education Innovators conference that “… education appears to ignore the need for connections and for integration – which should be at the core of an engineering education.” In order to solve this problem a group named ‘TekBotsTM’ was...
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    OF Adriaan Smit for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering