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  • Active Noise Shaping Analog-to-Digital Data Converters

    Creator:
    Shi, Lukang
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    Successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters are popular for medium accuracy, medium speed and low power applications, such as in biomedical applications. They have low latency and simple architecture compared with ΔΣ ADCs. This is because of SAR ADCs’ binary searching scheme. Furthermore, SAR ADCs can apply oversampling and noise shaping schemes...
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on December 3

  • 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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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Hang Hu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and

  • Low power design techniques for analog-to-digital converters in submicron CMOS

    Creator:
    Musah, Tawfiq
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    Advances in process technologies have led to the development of low-power high speed digital signal processing blocks that occupy small areas. These advances are critical in the development of portable electronic devices with small feature size and long battery life. However, the design of analog and mixed-signal building blocks, especially...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on September 15, 2010. Title

  • Low-power design techniques for low-voltage analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Kim, Min Gyu
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    The demand for portable electronic systems and the continued down-scaling of device dimensions resulted in rapid improvement in the performance of integrated systems. Several low-voltage design techniques have been proposed to operate analog circuits with sub-1V supply. However, these techniques require higher power consumption to achieve large dynamic range while...
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    of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 4, 2006. Title: Low-Power

  • Correlated level shifting as a power-saving method to reduce the effects of finite DC gain and signal swing in opamps

    Creator:
    Gregoire, B. Robert
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    This thesis presents methods to reduce the effects of finite opamp DC gain, output voltage swing limitations in opamps, and component mismatches. The primary contribution of this thesis is a new switched-capacitor method named correlated level shifting (CLS). CLS enables true rail-to-rail operation by storing an estimate of the desired...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF B. Robert Gregoire for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Low noise clocking for high speed serial links

    Creator:
    Brownlee, Merrick
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    As the functionality of digital chips continues to increase dramatically, chip- to-chip communication bandwidths must scale accordingly to avoid constraining the overall system performance. Therefore, high speed transceiver design has be- come an important research topic. In particular, the performance of the circuits that are responsible for timing accuracy are...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on November 10, 2006. Title: Low

  • Next generation analog-to-digital conversion using time-based encoding and digital synthesis techniques

    Creator:
    Muhlestein, Jason, Russell
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    The internet-of-things is a growing market segment which is based on an arrayof portable communication devices with high power efficiency. Advanced semiconductortechnology can easily improve their digital performance, but the samecannot be said for the analog blocks which are vital to their operation. Highperformance analog circuits continue to use conventional...
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    for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on June 14

  • Energy and area efficient techniques for data converters

    Creator:
    Venkatram, Hariprasath
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    Data converters are ubiquitous building blocks of a signal chain. The rapid increase in communication and connectivity devices presents new avenues for pushing the state of the art analog to digital converters. Techniques for improving resolution, bandwidth, linearity and bit-error rate, while reducing the power, energy and area is the...
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    Venkatram for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science presented

  • Low voltage switched capacitor circuits for lowpass and bandpass [delta sigma] converters

    Creator:
    Keskin, Mustafa
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    The most accurate method for performing analog signal processing in MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) integrated circuits is through the use of switched-capacitor circuits. A switched-capacitor circuit operates as a discrete-time signal processor. These circuits have been used in a variety of applications, such as filters, gain stages, voltage-controlled oscillators, and modulators. A...
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    of Philosophy in Electrical & Computer Engineering presented on December 7, 2001. Title: Low

  • Ring Amplifier Design Techniques for High-Precision and High-Speed Amplification

    Creator:
    Leuenberger, Spencer
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    Demands of today's integrated society dependent on communication systems have driven the creation of ever more efficient analog-to-digital converters. For the same reasons, digital circuitry has rapidly expanded to serve all the different systems and needs of consumers. The trend of technology development has been to make these digital circuits...
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on December 7

  • Power-efficient two-step pipelined analog-to-digital conversion

    Creator:
    Lee, Ho-Young
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    Hand-held devices are among the most successful consumer electronics in modern society. Behind these successful devices, lies a key analog design technique that involves high-performance analog-to-digital conversion combined with very low power consumption. This dissertation presents two different approaches to achieving high power efficiency from a two-step pipelined architecture, which...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ho-Young Lee for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Ring amplification for switched capacitor circuits

    Creator:
    Hershberg, Benjamin Poris
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    A comprehensive and scalable solution for high-performance switched capacitor amplification is presented. Central to this discussion is the concept of ring amplification. A ring amplifier is a small modular amplifier derived from a ring oscillator that naturally embodies all the essential elements of scalability. It can amplify with accurate rail-to-rail...
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    Hershberg for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on June 4

  • Ring Amplifier Optimized for High Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converter Applications

    Creator:
    ElShater, Ahmed O.
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    In recent years, SAR ADCs have been shown to acheive faster conversion times and improved power efficiencies due to their simple building blocks that are digital in nature and scale favorably with technology. High resolution ADCs with stringent noise requirement has led to the adoption of hybrid ADC architectures such...
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 3, 2019. Title

  • A fully digital technique for the estimation and correction of the DAC error in multi-bit delta sigma ADCs

    Creator:
    Wang, Xuesheng
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    This thesis proposes a novel fully digital technique for the estimation and correction of the DAC error in multi-bit delta sigma ADCs. The structure of the DAC error is indicated through a simple model for unit-element based DACs. The impact of the DAC error on the performance of ADC is...
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on December 1. 2003. Title

  • Continuous time input pipeline ADCs

    Creator:
    Gubbins, David Patrick
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    Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) convert analog continuous time signals into discrete time, digital format. One precondition that must be met for conventional nyquist rate ADCs is that the input signal must be suitably band-limited to an input bandwidth less than the nyquist frequency. This mandates expensive anti-alias filters which contribute to...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on December 9, 2008. Title

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

    Creator:
    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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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on June 2, 2008. Title: Automated

  • Design techniques for low-voltage analog-to-digital converter

    Creator:
    Chang, Dong-Young
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    Continuous process scale-down and emerging markets for low-power/low-voltage mobile systems call for low-voltage analog integrated circuits. Switched-capacitor circuits are the building blocks for analog signal processing and will encounter severe overdrive problems when operating at low-voltage conditions. There are several well-known techniques to bypass the problem. These approaches include: (1)...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on November 15, 2002. Title

  • Single-Ended Techniques for Delta-Sigma Modulators

    Creator:
    Lee, Calvin Y.
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    This work presents a high-resolution Delta-Sigma ADC which combines the use of the pseudo-pseudo-differential noise filtering technique with single-ended ring amplifier based integrators. The pseudo-pseudo-differential noise filtering technique utilizes single-ended circuits while maintaining the even-order rejection found in fully-differential structures which alleviates, in the active analog blocks, the need for...
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 26, 2021. Title

  • A multi-bit hybrid DSM over full-scale range without feedback DEM

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    Kwon, Sunwoo, 1974-
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    Evolution of the mobile communication standards and proliferation of hand-held devices mandate stringent Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) specifications. Among various ADCs, a ∆Σ ADC is best known as a power-efficient ADC when more than 12b is required. However, a conventional discrete-time (DT) ∆Σ Modulator (∆ΣM) is inadequate for low-power wideband applications...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on March 27, 2009. Title: A Multi

  • Accuracy enhancement techniques in low-voltage high-speed pipelined ADC design

    Creator:
    Li, Jipeng
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    Pipelined analog to digital converters (ADCs) are very important building blocks in many electronic systems such as high quality video systems, high performance digital communication systems and high speed data acquisition systems. The rapid development of these applications is driving the design of pipeline ADCs towards higher speed, higher dynamic...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on October 3. 2003. Title