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  • Design techniques for low-voltage and low-power analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Ahn, Gil Cho
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    With the ever-increasing demand for portable devices used in applications such as wireless communication, mobile computing, consumer electronics, etc., the scaling of the CMOS process to deep submicron dimensions becomes more important to achieve low-cost, low-power and high-performance digital systems. However, this downscaling also requires similar shrinking of the supply...
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    1 AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Gil Cho Ahn for the degree of

  • Design techniques for low-power multi-GS/s analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Jiang, Tao
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    Ultra-high-speed (>10GS/s), medium-resolution (5~6bit), low-power (<50mW) analog-to-digital converter can find it application in the areas of digital oscilloscopes and next-generation serial link receivers. There are several challenges to enable a successful design, however. First, the time-interleaved architecture is required in order to achieve over 10GS/s sampling rate, with the trade-off...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Patrick Y. Chiang Ultra-high-speed (>10GS/s), medium-resolution (5~6bit), low-power

  • Growth and characterization of zinc ferrite thin films for high frequency applications

    Creator:
    Hu, Jiqing
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    Ferrites have been used for various high frequency applications as bulk materials. These applications, however, are limited to large dimension devices. In this thesis, thin film ferrites were deposited from a low temperature solution-based deposition process that is suitable for micro-scale high frequency applications. The low temperature nature of this...
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    (Alex) Chang Shih-Lien L. Lu Raghu K. Settaluri Ferrites have

  • 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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    -Young Chang and Gil-Cho Ahn helped me to settle smoothly. Useful discussions with and help from Jose

  • Evaluation of partial discharge in inverter driven medium voltage propulsion coils

    Creator:
    Ramme, André
    Abstract:
    Advancements in power electronics to higher power levels and faster switching times allow new machine and systems designs, but also create higher stresses on electric machinery insulation. High performance, pulse-width modulated (PWM) inverters are now available for medium voltage drive systems, and are being considered by the U.S. Navy as...
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    : Evaluation of Partial Discharge in Inverter Driven Medium Voltage Propulsion Coils. Abstract approved: K

  • 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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    -domain when zk = 1 1 z−zk ro s−sk × 1 z1−αk −z1−βk ro s r0 = sk r0 = 1β−α 1 (z−zk)2 r1s+r0 (s−sk)2

  • Novel power conditioning circuits for piezoelectric micro power generators

    Creator:
    Han, Jifeng
    Abstract:
    Advanced low power devices promote the development of micro power generators (MPGs) to replace the batteries to power them. Due to the trend in decreasing integrated circuit (IC) supply voltages, power supply designers are facing more and more serious challenges. The objective of this research is to design a power...
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    , Dr. Karti Mayaram, Dr. Huaping Liu, and Dr. Alan K. Wallace for being my committee members and

  • Efficient VLSI architectures for MIMO and cryptography systems

    Creator:
    Li, Qingwei
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    Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems have recently been considered as one of the most significant technology breakthroughs for modern wireless communications, due to the higher spectral efficiency and improved link reliability. The sphere decoding algorithm (SDA) has been widely used for maximum likelihood (ML) detection in MIMO systems. It is...
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    optimization and architecture development. Specifically, we propose the layered reordered K-Best sphere

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

    Creator:
    Thuan Nguyen D.
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    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...
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    the conditional densities p(y|xi) = φi(y), i = 1, 2, . . . ,K. To recover X, a quantizer Q is used to

  • Immune radio architecture for platform interference

    Creator:
    Alban, Eduardo
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    The decrease of switching times accompanied by the corresponding increase of clock speeds and data rates, contributes to improve the overall system computational performance. At the same time, they also affect wireless communications due to an increment in the emissions of electromagnetic radiation on the radio bands. In this dissertation...
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    the 2.4 GHz band have shown that this type of noise is Non-Gaussian, namely, it is K-distributed