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Radiation Detection Module and Radioactive Isotope Identification System

Creator:: Ma, Naixuan
Abstract:: Radiation is part of our life. Most people may know a radioactive source is very dangerous. But there are very few situations people are exposed to uncontrolled radionuclides above background. A radioactive source can emit gamma rays which are the highest energy type in electromagnetic radiation.[2] Gamma rays are like...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Information theoretic approach to quantization and classification for signal processing, communications, and machine learning applications

Creator:: Thuan Nguyen D.
Abstract:: There are five main contributions of this dissertation. The first contribution is new closed-form expressions for channel capacity of a new class of channel matrices. The second contribution is the discovery of the structure for optimal binary quantizer and the associated methods for finding an optimal quantizer that maximizes mutual...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

RF and Millimeter-wave Techniques to Improve Scalability and Efficiency of Digital Beamforming Arrays

Creator:: Johnson, Manoj
Abstract:: Spectrum overcrowding, ever increasing demand for high data rate and increased mobility requirements are three major challenges 5G-technology is trying to address. In this thesis I start with a RF front-end technique that deals with blocker interference arising from spectrum overcrowding both across frequency bands and within the same frequency...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Network Traffic-Driven Hybrid Learning for Classifying Seen and Unseen IoT Device Types

Creator:: Bao, Jiaqi
Abstract:: IoT networks can be viewed as collections of Internet-enabled physical devices and objects, embedded with sensor, actuator, computation, storage and communication components, that are capable of connecting and exchanging data to one another. In recent years, organizations have allowed more and more IoT devices to be connected to their networks,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Adaptive Streaming Methods using Dual Protocols and Reinforcement Learning

Creator:: Gatimu, Kevin
Abstract:: The ubiquity of high quality video and proliferation of mobile devices has contributed to an unprecedented rise in video consumption. HTTP, in conjunction with adaptive streaming, has become the de facto mechanism for delivering the vast majority of video as it readily caters to heterogeneous networks and devices. This dissertation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A Microwave Signal Correlator Based on Parametric Pumping of Spin Waves

Creator:: Hansen, Mikkel N.
Abstract:: This work demonstrates correlation of microwave signals encoded with 16-bit codes using the parametric interaction of spin waves. Signal processing correlators are devices that compare two signals, such as a reference code and a received code, where the output indicates the similarity between the signals. Correlators are used in communication...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Power Efficient Architectures for Low Noise Switched-Capacitor Filters and High Accuracy Analog-to-Digital Converters

Creator:: Payandehnia, Pedram
Abstract:: Filters and data converters are key analog-and-mixed-signal (AMS) building blocks in communication systems, such as software-deﬁned radios and internet-of-things. In this dissertation, novel switched-capacitor ﬁlter and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit conﬁgurations have been explored which are power eﬃcient and are digital scaling friendly. First, a novel switched-capacitor low-pass ﬁlter architecture...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Power Efficient Architectures for Medium-high Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters

Creator:: Sadollahi, Mahmoud
Abstract:: Analog-to-digital converters are essential components to the portable devices that we are using today. Wireless sensors, body implanted devices, communication devices and so forth require low power ADCs. Therefore achieving higher resolution and bandwidth with lower power consumption is targeted in ADCs design. In this work power efficient ADCs for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Position estimation in indoor localization with trilateration

Creator:: Su, Zhenqiang
Abstract:: Triangulateration uses geometric distance to estimate the location of user by employing techniques like received signal strength (RSS), time-of-arrival (TOA), time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) and image processing. Radio frequency (RF) signal positioning using TOA or TDOA techniques generally requires timing synchronization of the anchors and/or the anchors and targets. If the desired...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Compressive Sensing for Low Power Sensor Design

Creator:: Behravan, Vahid
Abstract:: Recent sensor System-on-Chips (SoC) have enabled significant advances in energy-efficiency by incorporating various micro-powered building blocks. Unfortunately, most of these sensor systems do not address the high power cost associated with data storage and transmission, which in some cases vastly exceeds the power consumed by the rest of the SoC....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Surface-Normal Modulation of Fano Resonances in Metallic Photonic Crystals for Free-Space Optical Interconnects

Creator:: Ren, Fanghui
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the development of ultra-compact optical devices for free-space modulation. We propose a surface-normal modulator using metallic photonic crystals for free-space optical interconnects. The active control of light intensity is achieved by engineering the Fano resonances in metallic photonic crystals. Both thermo-optic modulation and electro-optic modulation of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Multi-User Massive MIMO Channel Estimation Based on Kalman Filters

Creator:: Yao, Zhaoda
Abstract:: In wireless communication, channel state information (CSI) is essential for data detection. Fast fading coefficients estimation is important in order to acquire accurate CSI. Kalman filters (KF) are widely used for real time parameter estimation and can be used to estimate the fast fading coefficients of a mobile communication channel....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Channel Estimation in TDD Massive MIMO Systems with Subsampled Data at BS

Creator:: Tian, Yichuan
Abstract:: Massive MIMO is a promising technique for future 5G communications due to its high spectrum and energy efficiency. To realize its potential performance gain, accurate channel state information at transmitter side (CSIT) is essential. Frequency division duplex (FDD) is widely employed by the most cellular systems today. However, it requires...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

High-Resolution mm-wave Digitally Controlled Oscillator in CMOS

Creator:: Wang, Yunqi
Abstract:: All-digital PLLs promise flexible and precise frequency modulation continous-wave(FMCW) radar signal signal for 77GHz radar applications. Such PLLs require digitally-controlled oscillators(DCO) with wide frequency tuning range and high resolution to address a range of applications and low phase noise requirements. In this thesis, novel resonator structures with ne capacitance/inductance switching...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A 5 GHz Wi-Fi Receiver Front End with 4x80 MHz Channels for a High Accuracy Indoor Localization System

Creator:: Gray, Kyle L.
Abstract:: The ability to accurately locate people and objects indoors will enable opportunities for control and automation of indoor environments. Current indoor localization solutions require dedicated hardware which must be custom tailored to each application. There are large technological, societal, and economic benefits in developing a more general purpose system that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Architecture of a Reusable Built-In Self-Test for Link Training, IO and Memory Defect Detection and Auto Repair on 14nm Intel SOC

Creator:: Querbach, Bruce
Abstract:: The complexity of designing and testing today's system on chip (SOC) is increasing due to greater integrated circuit (IC) density and higher IO and memory frequencies. SOCs for the mobile phone and tablet market have the unique challenge of short product development windows, at times less than six months, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Dynamic Methods to Improve Streaming of H.264 HD Video Over 802.11 Wireless Networks

Creator:: Sinky, Mohammed H.
Abstract:: Wireless High Definition Video Transmission (WHDVT) over 802.11-based networks enjoys widespread deployment among today's multimedia solutions. Examples include Intel® Wireless Display and Apple Airplay®, to name a few. In these systems, peer-to-peer networks are established over which H.264-encoded video is transported wirelessly to be decoded and played back at the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Linearity enhancement techniques for data converters

Creator:: Cao, Jinzhou
Abstract:: Data converters are essential interface circuits between the analog world that people live in and the digital processors that people live with. Linearity, which often is a tradeoff against other performance criteria, is one of the major performance demands from applications for both analog-to-digital converts (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC)....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Automated verilog-to-layout synthesis of ADCs using custom analog cells

Creator:: Waters, Allen
Abstract:: A procedure for automating the design and layout of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is presented. This procedure makes use of the existing synthesis and place-and-route tools that are common in digital circuit design. A method for adding rudimentary analog cells to the standard library is described, allowing the designer to synthesize...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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