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  • Low-voltage data converters

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    Meng, Qingdong
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    With the growing demand for portable/consumer electronics, such as digital audio/video (AV), the downscaling of device dimensions, which enables the integration of an increasing number of transistors in a single chip, is mandatory. This trend also continuously pushes the power supply voltage down to reduce the power consumption and improve...
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on January 5, 2007

  • Kinematic and cyclostationary parameter estimation for co-channel emitter location applications

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    Ohm, David R.
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    The problem of locating a signal source, or an emitter, has many civilian and military applications, such as communication regulations enforcement, military reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue operations. Many of the most widely used emitter location methods rely on the accurate and robust estimation of the differential time delay, or time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA),...
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on December 4, 2007

  • Low-complexity high-speed VLSI design of low-density parity-check decoders

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    Cui, Zhiqiang
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    Low-Density Parity-check (LDPC) codes have attracted considerable attention due to their capacity approaching performance over AWGN channel and highly parallelizable decoding schemes. They have been considered in a variety of industry standards for the next generation communication systems. In general, LDPC codes achieve outstanding performance with large codeword lengths (e.g.,...
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    Engineering presented on September 4, 2007. Title: Low-Complexity High-Speed VLSI Design of Low

  • Energy efficient communication across on-chip wires in digital CMOS

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    Postman, Jacob
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    For the past half century, CMOS process scaling has followed Moore's law, approximately doubling transistor density every 18 months. While locally routed wires have generally scaled with transistor size, longer wires have scaled at a slower rate and in some cases have grown larger as chip size and complexity have...
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    that improve the suitability of low-voltage swing signaling for short wire lengths and reduced supply

  • A dual-path 2-0 MASH ADC with dual digital error correction

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    Zhang, Zhenyong
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    This dissertation presents a dual-path 2-0 MASH (Multi-stAge-noise -SHaping) ADC with two verified digital corrections of DAC mismatch error and quantization noise leakage. By using these two techniques, the requirements for the analog circuits are greatly relaxed. The dual-path structure generates two outputs, one only composed of conversion errors, the...
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    Doctor of Philosophy Presented November 27, 2006 Commencement June 2007 Doctor of

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

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    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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    Binary Quantizer Designing For Maximizing Mutual Information 39 3.1 Introduction

  • Adaptive, wideband analog-to-digital conversion for convergent communication systems

    Creator:
    Batten, Robert D., 1973-
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    The exponential rate of advances in modern communication devices in the last several years have brought us higher levels of functionality and performance as well as reductions in physical size and power consumption. To continue this rate of advancement, next generation systems require wider bandwidth and higher resolution ADCs. Additionally,...
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    Temperature of the track-and-hold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 39 2.17 Comparison to previously

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

    Creator:
    Johnson, Manoj
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    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...
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    . Chapter 3 presents a single wire IF interface design for phased array receivers which enables simple IF

  • Multi-dimensional parametric estimation: two-dimensional sharpening by predictive bandwidth extrapolation and fast algorithms for three dimensional autoregressive estimation

    Creator:
    Liew, Ji Seok
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    Achieving sharpened (enhanced detail) features of a multi-dimensional data source using the linear prediction (LP) bandwidth extrapolation (BWE) technique in the transform domain is the main objective of this research. The evolution of sensor technology has provided acquisition scenarios in which the data format is inherently multi-dimensional, including hyperspectral imaging...
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    capabilities using a novel 2-D BWE approach and its associated fast computational algorithms. Furthermore

  • A Two-element CZT-based Radioxenon Detection System for Nuclear Weapon Test Monitoring

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    Ranjbar, Lily
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    Detection of xenon radioisotopes (radioxenons) has proven to be an important method for detecting nuclear explosions and is particularly well suited for detecting undeclared underground testing. The radioxenon isotopes ¹³¹mXe (t₁/₂ = 11.934 d), ¹³³mXe (t₁/₂ = 2.19 d), ¹³³Xe (t₁/₂ = 5.243 d) and ¹³⁵Xe (t₁/₂ = 9.14 h)...
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    isotopes 131mXe (t1/2 = 11.934 d), 133mXe (t1/2 = 2.19 d), 133Xe (t1/2 = 5.243 d) and 135Xe (t1/2