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  • Prediction of phase noise and jitter in ring oscillators

    Creator:
    Barton, Nathen
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents distinctly different methods of accurately predicting phase noise and absolute jitter in ring oscillators. The phase noise prediction methods are the commercially available SpectreRF and isf_tool, a simulator developed in this work from the Hajimiri and Lee theory of phase noise. Absolute jitter due to deterministic supply...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    simulator developed in this work from the Hajimiri and Lee theory of phase noise. Absolute jitter due to

  • Noise and Blocker Cancellation Techniques for Power and Area Efficient Wireless Receivers

    Creator:
    Pourbagheri, Saeed
    Abstract:
    The design of mobile wireless devices has always focused on reducing power, area, and cost. This dissertation proposes two techniques that are leveraged to save power and area and therefore cost. The first techniques reduces the noise in the receiver and results in a relaxed power requirement. The second technique...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Ultra-low energy digital controller for battery-free wireless sensor network nodes

    Creator:
    Nasroullahi, Mohsen
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents a low-energy application specific digital controller for a battery-free 2.4 GHz wireless sensor network (WSN) node. The digital controller has been designed and fabricated in a standard 0.13 μm CMOS and implements a simple protocol for WSNs. Techniques such as supply voltage reduction and power gating have...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Frequency domain steady-state simulation of oscillators

    Creator:
    Duan, Xiaochun
    Abstract:
    The focus of this work is on developing algorithms for frequency domain steady-state analysis of oscillators. Convergence problems associated with the frequency domain harmonic balance simulation of oscillators have been examined. Globally convergent homotopy methods have been combined with the harmonic balance method for robust high-Q oscillator simulation. Various homotopy...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    benefit my whole career. I would like to thank Dr. Yun-Shik Lee, Dr. Terri Fiez, Dr. Huaping Liu

  • A DC-DC converter architecture for low-power, high-resistance thermoelectric generators for use in body-powered designs

    Creator:
    Miller, Brian A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents a low power DC-DC converter suitable for harvesting energy from high impedance thermoelectric generators (TEGs) for the use in body powered electronics. The chip has been fabricated in a 130nm CMOS technology. To meet the power demands of body powered networks, a novel dual-path architecture capable of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Ultra-low power receivers for wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Ayers, James S.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Analysis and design of CMOS RF LNAs with ESD protection

    Creator:
    Chandrasekhar, Vinay
    Abstract:
    An analysis that accounts for the effect of standard electrostatic discharge (ESD) structures on critical LNA specifications of noise figure, input matching and gain is presented. It is shown that the ESD structures degrade LNA performance particularly for higher frequency applications. Two LNAs, one with ESD protection and one without,...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Ultra-low-energy transmitters for battery-free wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Panitantum, Napong
    Abstract:
    As the number of autonomous data collection applications keep increasing, the demand for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has seen explosive growth. In this dissertation, an ultra-low-energy WSN transmitter is developed to reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes in WSNs. With an ultra-low-energy transceiver, it is possible to eliminate the...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Digital phase-locked loops for multi-GHz clock generation

    Creator:
    Kratyuk, Volodymyr
    Abstract:
    A digital implementation of a PLL has several advantages compared to its analog counterpart. These include easy scalability with process shrink, elimination of the noise susceptible analog control for a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and the inherent noise immunity of digital circuits. Several recent digital PLL (DPLL) implementations have achieved...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Substrate noise coupling in ring oscillator-based phase locked loops

    Creator:
    Shreeve, Robert
    Abstract:
    In this thesis, the performance degradation of a phase-locked loop due to substrate noise is examined. A new analytical equivalent circuit model for substrate noise coupling is derived for a heavily doped silicon substrate. The model has been validated with measured data from a 0.35 μm CMOS process. Since the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Jim Lee enabled the measurement of PLL parameters for this work. Significant thanks is also extended