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  • Oscillators and phase locked loops for space radiation environments

    Creator:
    Vandepas, Martin
    Abstract:
    Circuits operating outside the earth’s atmosphere are more vulnerable to cosmic radiation and require special design consideration. The purpose of this work is to explore methods of mitigating the effect of radiation in phase locked loop (PLL) circuits. Several voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) and two complete PLLs are designed and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Techniques, John Wiley and Sons, 1979. [5] P. V. Brennan, Phase-Locked Loops: Principles and Practice

  • A stochastic time-to-digital converter for digital phase-locked loops

    Creator:
    Ok, Kerem
    Abstract:
    Digital phase-locked loops (PLLs) have been receiving increasing attention recently due to their ease of integration, scalability and performance comparable to their analog counterparts. In digital PLLs, increased resolution in time-to-digital conversion is desirable for improved noise performance. This work describes the design and simulation of a stochastic time-to-digital converter...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ) Bang-bang characteristic O ut pu t C od e Input Phase Error (ps) O ut pu t C od e Input

  • Noise optimization for low-voltage CMOS audio preamplifier systems

    Creator:
    Brown, Matthew Eugene
    Abstract:
    There is a large and growing market for portable consumer audio products with very small size. As the size of these products is reduced, the area occupied by batteries becomes significant and hence limits the number of batteries to one. In order to build such small products, high levels of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , Nikita, T-Rex, Miss Kitty, and Pita for their support and for suffering much neglect during these very

  • A multi-bit delta sigma audio digital-to-analog converter

    Creator:
    Wang, Ruopeng
    Abstract:
    Digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with wide dynamic range and high linearity are required for high-end audio applications. A multi-bit delta sigma audio DAC, using a novel gain-correction technique, is described in this thesis. For widely varying on-chip RC time constant, the DAC gain can be accurately controlled by the correction circuitry....
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    Dissertation
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    digital-to-analog interface to generate an inter-stage output y1(t) which is discrete only in time. A

  • Low noise clocking for high speed serial links

    Creator:
    Brownlee, Merrick
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    iABs(n) = 4)(n) — 27rn radians. (2.2) PJABS(t) n (b) Figure 2.5: (a) Jittery clock waveform, (b

  • Low voltage techniques for pipelined analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Carnes, Joshua Kenneth
    Abstract:
    To realize pipelined ADCs in deep-submicron processes, low voltage techniques must be developed to work around problems created by limited supply voltages such as the floating switch dead zone, reduced SNR, and reduced OpAmp performance. This thesis analyzes standard and low voltage design issues for pipelined ADCs and proposes a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    5.1 Fully Differential ORST………………………………………… 40 5.2 Front-End T/R Network with Increased Input Range

  • 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
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    kT )(capacitor voltage noise RMS = , (2) where T is absolute (Kelvin) temperature and k is

  • Continuous time input pipeline ADCs

    Creator:
    Gubbins, David Patrick
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    and Helen for your unfaltering love and encouragement. I am also grateful to John, Donagh and Lorcan

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

    Creator:
    Sharma, Vivek
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis

  • High-speed CMOS dual-modulus presalers for frequency synthesis

    Creator:
    Desikachari, Ranganathan
    Abstract:
    Phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers lie at the heart of most radio transceivers. An important objective of the electronics and communications industry is to design high-speed building blocks which dissipate the lowest possible power, and to ac- complish this with the cheapest technology. The dual-modulus prescaler is one of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    given by Eq. (2.1). v(t) = V0Cos(2πf0t) (2.1) When amplitude and phase fluctuations are included, the