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  • Improved design techniques for low-voltage low-power switched-capacitor delta-sigma modulators

    Creator:
    Grilo, Jorge
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    This dissertation investigates the constraints which arise when switched-capacitor (SC) delta-sigma modulators are designed for low-voltage operation, targeting also low power dissipation, and proposes methods of improving the performance and optimizing for low power dissipation. This is accomplished by identifying critical elements whose performance can lead to increased power dissipation,...
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    . Thanks also to my friend Rita Wells ("Red") for her support and jokes. Thanks also to Prof. David

  • Noise optimization for low-voltage CMOS audio preamplifier systems

    Creator:
    Brown, Matthew Eugene
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . I am grateful to my friends and colleagues José Silva and Pavan Kumar Hanumolu for their direct

  • A study of basic building blocks of analog-to-digital delta-sigma modulators

    Creator:
    Guo, Yuhua
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    In this thesis, a novel Direct-Charge-Transfer (DCT) integrator structure is proposed, which can settle much faster than regular switch-capacitor integrators. A new Spread-Spectrum Dynamic Element Matching (SS-DEM) algorithm is also introduced, which can effectively spread or shape the nonlinearity error of multi-bit DAC in the feedback path, thus improve the...
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    to acknowledge Professor David Harold Gobeli and Professor Huaping Liu for taking the time to serve

  • High efficiency delta-sigma modulation data converters

    Creator:
    Lee, Kyehyung
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    Enabled by continued device scaling in CMOS technology, more and more functions that were previously realized in separate chips are getting integrated on a single chip nowadays. Integration on silicon has opened the door to new portable wireless applications, and initiated a widespread use of these devices in our common...
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    , Professor Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, Professor Albrecht Jander, and Professor David McIntyre for their

  • Low power high resolution data converter in digital CMOS technology

    Creator:
    Zheng, Zhiliang
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    The advance of digital IC technology has been very fast, as shown by rapid development of DSP, digital communication and digital VLSI. Within electronic signal processing, analog-to-digital conversion is a key function, which converts the analog signal into digital form for further processing. Recently, low-voltage and low-power have become also...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Prof. Gabor C. Temes. I would like to thank Prof. David J. Allstot for many inspiring discussions and

  • A 10 bit algorithmic A/D converter for a biosensor

    Creator:
    Rengachari, Thirumalai
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    This thesis presents a novel algorithmic A/D converter to be used in a biosensor. The converter is capable of a conversion rate of 1.5 bits/phase and hence the required conversion time is reduced. The proposed architecture is analyzed for non-ideal effects and compared with existing algorithmic A/D architectures. The converter...
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    completion of my thesis. I would like to thank PhD students Jose, Pavan, and Jipeng Li, and the students in

  • Low-power high-resolution delta-sigma ADC design techniques

    Creator:
    Wang, Tao
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    This dissertation presents a low-power high-resolution delta-sigma ADC. Two new architectural design techniques are proposed to reduce the power dissipation of the ADC. Compared to the conventional active adder, the direct charge transfer (DCT) adder greatly saves power by keeping the feedback factor of the active adder unity. However, the...
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    Conf., San Jose, CA, 2006, pp. 41–48. [2-5] James A. Cherry and W. Martin Snelgrove, Continuous-Time

  • Low-voltage pipeline A/D converter

    Creator:
    Wu, Lei
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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 (SC) circuits are the building blocks for analog signal processing and will encounter severe overdrive problems when operating at low voltage conditions. There exist three techniques to solve the problem, but with their...
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    Masters Thesis
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    my group members for their help and cooperation. Jose Silva and Tetsuya Kajita gave me a lot of

  • Error canceling low voltage SAR-ADC

    Creator:
    Wen, Jianping
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    The design of a switched capacitor successive approximation A/D converter is discussed in this thesis. This design adopts a novel capacitance mismatch error cancellation algorithm proposed in references [25, 27]. Detailed charge domain analysis is given in this thesis, which results in an improvement of the proposed algorithm by tracing...
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    committee. Many thanks, also, to Mr. José Silva for his kind help with his wonderful skills in various CAD

  • The design of delta-sigma modulators for multi-standard RF receivers

    Creator:
    Liu, Mingliang
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    The transition from second-generation (2G) to third-generation (3G) wireless cellular and cordless telephone systems requires multi-standard adaptability in a single RF receiver equipment. An important answer to this request is the use of Delta-Sigma modulators for IF-to-baseband conversion, which will satisfy the dynamic range requirements for digital signal processing, and...
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    Mixed-Signal (AMS) group, especially those sit in Owen Hall 245. I owe many thanks to José Silva for