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  • Recognizing human group activities in video through mining optimal features

    Creator:
    Amer, Mohamed R.
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    Given a video, we would like to recognize group activities, localize video parts where these activities occur, and detect actors involved in them. To this and, we propose a novel, mid-level feature, called control point, for representing group activities. The control points are aimed at summarizing visual cues, lifting from...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mohamed R. Amer for the degree

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF David R. Ohm for the

  • Low-power dynamic CMOS circuits in high-performance memory arrays

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    Patwary, Md. Ataur R.
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    Dynamic CMOS circuits are commonly used in high-performance memory arrays to implement wide-NOR logic functions for their read and search operations. This is because dynamic circuits have significantly higher speed and lower area compared to static circuits for performing similar operations. Register File (RF) arrays are located at the top...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Md. Ataur R. Patwary for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Understanding the ultra-wideband channel within a computer chassis

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    Redfield, Stephen J.
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    Recent developments in computing technology have generated a demand for more streamlined and effective test systems. By replacing traditional in-chassis wired interconnects with a broadcast wireless system, fault detection and error susceptibility will drastically improve, input/output capabilities will expand, and routing complexity will decrease. Ultra-wideband impulse radio's (UWB-IR) characteristic multipath-immunity...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephen J. Redfield for the

  • A novel linear generator for wave energy applications

    Creator:
    Ernst, Steven George
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    With the increasing effort to identify alternative methods of energy generation, extraction of ocean energy has gathered a large interest. Research and industry have begun considering wave energy as the next new alternative energy. The unique challenges of ocean energy requires a wave energy converter to be both robust and...
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    Magnet Thickness, h (in mm) R e a l P o w e r (W a tt s ) c=1mm c=2mm c=3mm c=4mm c

  • Layout dependent and bias independent scalable substrate model for RF MOSFETs

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    Suravarapu, Ravikanth
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    The dependence of the substrate resistance, R[subscript sub], for MOS transistor RF modeling on transistor biasing and layout is studied from device simulations and measurements. Though R[subscript sub] is found to be bias dependent, the error incurred by assuming a constant value equal to the DC resistance is not significant....
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    from the source and drain regions, d ................ 44 5.4 R vs. d, the distance of the substrate

  • Side channel attack resistant elliptic curves cryptosystem on multi-cores for power efficiency

    Creator:
    Yoo, Jaewon
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    The Advent of multi-cores allows programs to be executed much faster than before. Cryptoalgorithms use long-bit words thus parallelizing these operations on multi-cores will achieve significant performance improvement. However, not all long-bit word operations in cryptosystems are suitable for parallel execution on multi-cores. In particular, long-bit words used in Elliptic...
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    word multiplication operations are needed for encryption and decryption. J. Fan et al. proposed

  • Some contributions to asymmetric error control codes

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    Elmougy, Samir
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    In some practical systems, most of the errors are of 1 → 0 type and 0 → 1 errors occur very rarely. In this thesis, first, the capacity of the asymmetric channel is derived. The capacity of the binary symmetric channel (BSC) and the Z-channel can be derived from this...
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    errors using r = 2 check bits and up to m2 + r 2 errors using r > 2 check bits. Some upper bound on the

  • Analysis and modeling of coplanar on-chip interconnects on silicon substrates

    Creator:
    Luoh, Yi
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    The electrical behavior of on-chip interconnects has become a dominant factor in silicon-based high speed, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuits. In particular, the frequency-dependent loss mechanisms in heavily-doped silicon substrates can have a large influence on the transmission characteristics of on-chip interconnects. To optimize the performance of the integrated circuit,...
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    R(w) + jwL(w) (2.3)zo-41 V G(w) + jwC(w) -y = c + j/3 = /[R(w) + jwL(w)][G(w) + jwC(w)] (2.4

  • A comparative study of lowpass continuous-time delta-sigma modulators with pulse-shaped DACs

    Creator:
    Fang, Jie
    Abstract:
    Recently, continuous-time ΔΣ modulators are appearing increasingly often in both the literature and the marketplace due to their features of inherent antialiasing and relaxed requirements for opamp and so on. However, several nonideal factors such as clock jitter, excess loop delay, inter-symbol interference and so on, degrade the SNR performance...
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    feedback DAC from an optimal discrete-time noise transfer function, which can be obtained from R

  • 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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    Measurement and Information Systems, 2005. [1-5] J. Robert, G. C. Temes, V. Valencic, R. Dessoulavy and P

  • A channelized digital receiver design for UWB sytems in a multipath indoor environment

    Creator:
    Chang, Yuhao
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    This thesis presents a channelized digital receiver design for UWB sytems in a multipath indoor environment. The UWB technology has been used for commercial and military purposes due to a number of advantages such as low-power consumption, noise-like and carrier free. The energy of UWB signal is spread over a...
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    3.1.1 On-Off Keying 22 The OOK modulation is described as follow [12]: ∑ ∞ −∞= −= j

  • Low power design techniques for analog-to-digital converters in submicron CMOS

    Creator:
    Musah, Tawfiq
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    Advances in process technologies have led to the development of low-power high speed digital signal processing blocks that occupy small areas. These advances are critical in the development of portable electronic devices with small feature size and long battery life. However, the design of analog and mixed-signal building blocks, especially...
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    . AMPLIFIERS IN SWITCHED-CAPACITOR ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS 2.1 Effect of Finite Amplifier Gain G m R

  • 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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    n M o v i n g O b j e c t De tec t i on I Q X X A D C A D C D S P U s e r I n t e r

  • Variable sampling compensation of networked control systems with delays using neural networks

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    Lopez-Echevarria, Daniel
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    In networked control systems (NCS) information or packets usually flow from a sensor or a set of sensors to a remotely located controller. Then the controller processes the received information and sends a series of control commands to the actuators through a communication network which could be either wireless or...
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    (n) = r∑ j=1 w1,j(n)hj(n), (4.6) where r is the number of inputs applied to the output neuron 1

  • High-performance delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    da Silva, Jose Barreiro
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    Multi-stage delta-sigma (ΔΣ) architectures, commonly known as MASH, are the preferred choice for analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used in broadband communication applications, where high-resolution (above 14 bits) and high-bandwidth (several MHz) performances are required. Current state-of-the-art designs are capable of as much as 5-MS/s output data rates with 90-dB SNR. However,...
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    - - - - J U -VLSB/2 Figure 2.6: Quantizer DC transfer curve and quantization error The analog input u is

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

    Creator:
    Ren, Fanghui
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    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...
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    . Alduino, T. Thomas, H. Braunisch, D. Lu, J. Heck, A. Liu, I. Young, B. Barnett, G. Vandentop and R

  • Coordinating secondary-user behaviors for inelastic traffic reward maximization in large-scale DSA networks

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    NoroozOliaee, MohammadJavad
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    We develop efficient coordination techniques that support inelastic traffic in large-scale distributed dynamic spectrum access DSA networks. By means of any learning algorithm, the proposed techniques enable DSA users to locate and exploit spectrum opportunities effectively, thereby increasing their achieved throughput (or "rewards" to be more general). Basically, learning algorithms...
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    and Sj/Q = 4 for all j = 1, 2, . . . ,m. . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Per-agent average a hieved reward r̄(t

  • 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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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 3.7.5 Proof of r∗ > 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 4

  • Resource allocation methods for quality-of-service provisioning in heterogeneous wireless networks

    Creator:
    Chakchouk, Nessrine
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    The increased use of mobile wireless devices that we have recently been witnessing, such as smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and WiFi enabled devices in general, is driving an unprecedented increase in the amount of data traffic. This fast market adoption of the wireless technology along with the tremendous success of multimedia...
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    . That is, for all (u, v) ∈ V 2, (u, v) ∈ E when duv ≤ r, where duv is the distance between nodes u and

  • Modeling and analysis of spur structure of digital-to-time conversion based frequency synthesizers

    Creator:
    Talwalkar, Sumit A.
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    Frequency synthesizers are critical components of all communication systems. This thesis considers the issue of undesirable frequency spurs of a relatively recent type of frequency synthesis architecture called digital-to-time conversion (DTC). The DTC-based frequency synthesis architecture has important performance benefits over older frequency synthesizers, such as fast frequency switching, large...
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    outputs going through multiplexers to R-S flip flop to cause rising and falling edges

  • Low-voltage data converters

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation

  • 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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    . Jansen, B. Hoekstra, and P.F. Bongers, J. Cryst. Growth, 41, (1977) 29. [4] M.F. Gillies, R. Coehoorn

  • Analysis and design on low-power multi-Gb/s serial links

    Creator:
    Hu, Kangmin
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    High speed serial links are critical components for addressing the growing demand for I/O bandwidth in next-generation computing applications, such as many-core systems, backplane and optical data communications. Due to continued process scaling and circuit innovations, today's CMOS serial link transceivers can achieve tens of Gb/s per pin. However, most...
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     (2.9) Then the auto-covariance C’TX of J’TX is      / 1/ / /2 2 /TTX TX T XX TXC R E J E JS

  • 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
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    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...
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    . O’Mahony, M. Mansuri, K. Canagasaby, J. Kennedy, E. Yeung, and R. Mooney, “A 20Gb/s Forwarded Clock

  • Data acquisition techniques for next generation wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Ehsan, Samina
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    The meteoric rise and prevalent usage of wireless networking technologies for mobile communication applications have captured the attention of media and imagination of public in the recent decade. One such proliferation is experienced in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), where multimedia enabled elements are fused with integrated sensors to empower tightly...
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    of length r surround- ing it, and is of distancen away from its closest two neighbors in the line

  • Passive health monitoring with wirelessly powered medical devices

    Creator:
    House, Samuel
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    The proliferation of body worn autometric devices has been enabled by advances in low-power electronics and fueled by the quantified-self movement. These devices range in complexity from pedometers to clinical vital sign measurement. They all share the same drawback, typically the most expensive and heaviest component, the battery. The future...
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    = ( 4πR λ )2 (2.1) Where Pt is the transmitted power, Pr is the received power, 4πR 2 is the surface

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

    Creator:
    Tian, Yichuan
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    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...
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    Base on the subspace pursuit algorithm, [13] proposed a joint orthogonal matching pursuit (J-OMP

  • Throughput optimization for single-hop wireless networks using network coding

    Creator:
    Tran, Tuan Tho
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    Recent advances in wireless technologies have helped the proliferation of wireless devices, ranging from hand-held devices such as cellular phones to more powerful mobile computing platforms as such laptops [1]. Along with that, the end users’ applications running on these devices, ranging from text message to multimedia applications such as...
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    ) (1.7) Z(r, k) = 7∑ j=5 ϵej ,kY (ej) (k = 1, 2, 3) (1.8) where all parameters αei,j, βej ,el , βej

  • Real-time radioxenon measurement using a Compton-suppressed well-type phoswich detector for nuclear explosion monitoring

    Creator:
    Alemayehu, Bemnet
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    Radioxenon detection is a technique used to monitor nuclear explosion and verify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Because of an ultra-low concentration of radioxenon at radioxenon monitoring stations, radioxenon detection systems must have high sensitivity. This sensitivity is measured in terms of detector's minimum detectable concentration (MDC). It is required...
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    radioxenon detection (J. H. Ely, Aalseth, & McIntyre, 2005; Wolfgang Hennig, Tan, Warburton, & McIntyre

  • A survey on continuous-time modulators : theory, designs and implementations

    Creator:
    Gao, Xiaoran
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    Recently, delta-sigma modulation has become a widely applied technique for high-performance analog-to-digital conversion of narrow-band signals. Most of the early designs used discrete-time structure for good accuracy and good linearity. The transfer functions are independent of the clock frequency. However, high unity-gain bandwidths of the opamps are required to satisfy...
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    (t). References include [L. J. Breems2004}, [L. J. Breems2007}, [R. Rutten2006], [M. Keller2004], [P

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

    Creator:
    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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    Energy = Wire Energy (a) R N R R R N 3-cycle 3-cycle 3-cycle 3-cycle Baseline NoC Delay >= 17

  • A multi-bit hybrid DSM over full-scale range without feedback DEM

    Creator:
    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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    (a) (b) 10 -2 10 0 10 2 10 4 20 40 60 80 100 120 Bandwidth [MHz] S N D R [ d B

  • 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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    (CONTINUED) 21 pp ρ 2-D block vector variance of the errors………………………. 22 21 pp R 2-D block

  • Iterative reconstruction methods of CT images using a statistical framework

    Creator:
    Delgado, Diana
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    Medical imaging technologies play a vital role in early diagnosis of disease by providing internal images of the human body to medical professionals. Computed Tomography (CT) is currently the most commonly used medical imaging technology because it is easy to use, detectors and scanners are constantly improving, and more importantly,...
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    . ................... 33 Table 5.2: Optimal Values for �� for the R-ML for both the Shepp Logan and CT Heart Image

  • Modeling and simulation methods for RF MEMS VCOs

    Creator:
    Sankaranarayanan, Janakiram Ganesh
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    This work focusses on the modeling and the development of efficient coupled simulation techniques for MEMS based RF oscillators. High-level models for MEMS based varactors have been discussed and their accuracy issues are identified, based on comparisons with numerical simulations. A faster simulation approach based on the time-domain shooting method...
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    follows m d2x dt2 + r dx dt + kx = Fe (2.4) where, m is the mass of the suspended plate, r is the

  • Time and statistical information utilization in high efficiency sub-micron CMOS successive approximation analog to digital converters

    Creator:
    Guerber, Jon
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    In an industrial and consumer electronic marketplace that is increasingly demanding greater real-world interactivity in portable and distributed devices, analog to digital converter efficiency and performance is being carefully examined. The successive approximation (SAR) analog to digital converter (ADC) architecture has become popular for its high efficiency at mid-speed and...
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  • 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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    , where its corresponding Fourier transform is given by S1(f) = ATe −jπfT sin(πfT ) πfT . (2.4) Since

  • 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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    model effective source resistance/antenna resistance(R′a) is given by R′a = Rsw +Ra. (2.1) Where Ra

  • Single-level dynamic register caching architecture for high-performance superscalar processors

    Creator:
    Liebert, John A.
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    The amount of instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited depends greatly on the size of the instruction window and the number of in-flight instructions the processor can support. However, this requires a register file with a large set of physical registers for renaming and multiple ports to provide...
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    usea ‘ready’ (R) bits in the Rename Stage (R-array) and Issue Window to indicate when valid data are

  • A fully digital technique for the estimation and correction of the DAC error in multi-bit delta sigma ADCs

    Creator:
    Wang, Xuesheng
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    This thesis proposes a novel fully digital technique for the estimation and correction of the DAC error in multi-bit delta sigma ADCs. The structure of the DAC error is indicated through a simple model for unit-element based DACs. The impact of the DAC error on the performance of ADC is...
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    2.1 FS = v(k) 11 I u(k) 'U') Li9LLsJ!J q(k) t VLSB/2RNNNI -VLsB/2 Figure 2-2 Quantization noise

  • 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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    (CDR/Fwd Clk) S e r i a l i z e r D e s e r i a l i z e r TX FIR Equalization

  • Opportunistic bandwidth sharing through reinforcement learning

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    Venkatraman, Pavithra
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    The enormous success of wireless technology has recently led to an explosive demand for, and hence a shortage of, bandwidth resources. This expected shortage problem is reported to be primarily due to the inefficient, static nature of current spectrum allocation methods. As an initial step towards solving this shortage problem,...
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    function (r). The transition function specifies the dynamics of the system, and gives the probability Pkij

  • Multi-User Massive MIMO Channel Estimation Based on Kalman Filters

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    Yao, Zhaoda
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    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....
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    attenuation factors and time delays. Eq. 2.2 represents a signal observed at the receiver side. r(t

  • End-to-end network throughput enhancement through physical-layer network coding

    Creator:
    Maeouf, Sofean Ahmed
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    Physical-Layer Network Coding (PNC) is a promising technique that has great potentials for improving the achievable data rates of end-to-end flows through higher packet transmission rates, thereby increasing the overall network throughput. In this thesis, we study the performance of the PNC transmission techniques for unidirectional end-to-end flows in multi-hop...
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    Algorithms and Architectures, June 2003. [15] T. Ho, M. Medard, R. Koetter, D. R. Karger, M. Effros, J. Shi

  • Via-only microwave/millimeter wave bandpass filters for LTCC applications

    Creator:
    Bhargava, Gaurav
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    With an increasing number of wireless applications at microwave frequencies, the frequency spectrum is becoming quite crowded. Due to this congestion, the current state of technology is leading towards upper microwave and millimeter wave spectra as they also offer other distinct advantages such as larger bandwidth and smaller component footprint....
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    (2.7) 0.2 L j gO 2,r where, 2g0 : guide wavelength of the waveguide wavelength at center frequency

  • An ultra low power frequency reference for timekeeping applications

    Creator:
    Oporta, Hector Ivan
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    An ultra low power crystal oscillator that provides a frequency reference for battery powered timekeeping applications is presented. An amplitude control circuit is employed to ensure that minimum current is consumed. A subthreshold voltage regulator provides a supply voltage for the oscillator with minimum current consumption. The oscillator and regulator...
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    loading taken into account is given in [2] and is expressed as: Zm = R + j ωmC ( ω ωm − ωm ω ) (2.3

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

    Creator:
    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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    digits satisfy all j parity-check equations on digit v. Assume the digits be statistically independent

  • Ultra low capacitance RFIC probe

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    Jacob, Michael E.
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    In Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) or high frequency digital ICs, there is a demand to probe the internal nodes for testing. The ultra low capacitance RFIC probe presented in his work is a flexible tool for these applications. The probe utilizes the coupling between a tungsten needle and the...
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    (2) Using the Tektronix probe in Fig. 4, where R is equal to 10Meg Ohms and C is equal to 11pF

  • Ultra-low power receivers for wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Ayers, James S.
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    In wireless sensor network applications, low-power operation of the wireless receiver is critical. To address this need an ultra-low power Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) receiver using the super-regenerative architecture is developed. A prototype receiver is built and tested for operation in the 900 MHz ISM band. Lab measurements show...
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    -Buffer, F=Filter, I=IF-Amp, FLL=Freq. Locked Loop, R=RSSI.5

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

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    Sinky, Mohammed H.
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    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...
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    among today’s multimedia solutions. Examples include Intel R© Wireless Display and Apple Airplay R©, to

  • 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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  • Design of a low jitter digital PLL with low input frequency

    Creator:
    Jung, Seokmin
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    Complex digital circuits such as microprocessors typically require support circuitry that has traditionally been realized using analog or mixed-signal macros. PLL circuits are used in many integrated applications such as frequency synthesizers and inter-chip communication interfaces. As process technologies advance and grow in complexity, the challenge of maintaining required analog...
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    25 30 35 40 45 50 55 FLSB [kHz] D J [p s] 13 There are considerations to get a

  • Digital pulse shape discrimination methods for triple-layer phoswich detectors using wavelets and fuzzy logic

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    Yousefi, Siavash
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    A two-channel data acquisition system for simultaneous detection and discrimination of beta particles and gamma rays has been developed. Each channel measures and analyzes the input pulses resulting from the absorption of radiation in the layers of the detector. The detector is a triple-layer phoswich (phosphor sandwich) scintillation detector followed...
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  • High-Resolution mm-wave Digitally Controlled Oscillator in CMOS

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    Wang, Yunqi
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    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...
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    transceiver for fmcw radar applications. Symp. VLSI Circuits Dig., pages 346–357, Jun 2009. [20] J. R. Long

  • Noise and Blocker Cancellation Techniques for Power and Area Efficient Wireless Receivers

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    Pourbagheri, Saeed
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    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...
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    10 -2 10 -1 Eb/N0 [dB] B E R Conventional detection Un-correlated noise detection >2dB

  • High efficiency delta-sigma modulation data converters

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    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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    . ..................................................................... 20 2.13 R-DAC with first-order FIR filter, second-order Rauch filter, and headphone driver (di

  • An ultra low voltage micropower GPS receiver RF front-end for wildlife tracking

    Creator:
    Heiberg, Adam C.
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    A fully integrated CMOS GPS receiver RF front end optimized for low power operation is presented. The system operates with a supply voltage down to 250 mV. A prototype has been fabricated in a 0.13μm CMOS process and includes a low voltage LNA, quadrature oscillators, and quadrature mixers. It exhibits...
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    by: Zout = R + jω L22 1 + 2jωC2(R + jω L22 ) (3.24) where R represents the parasitic series

  • Spatial motion vector recovery in wireless high definition video transmission using H.264 over WLANs

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    Gatimu, Kevin
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    Mobile devices are becoming more prevalent and complex. As a result, the wireless communication aspect of these devices is becoming increasingly significant. At the same time, video demands in terms of availability and quality are also on the uprise. High definition (HD) video is the standard of choice for meeting...
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    luma block to be predicted M A B C D E F G H I J K L a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Mode 0

  • Position estimation in indoor localization with trilateration

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    Su, Zhenqiang
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    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...
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    method with NLOS links discarded. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 3.12 Procedure for the proposed method. r

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

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    Ramme, André
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    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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    . Wallace Annette R. von Jouanne Advancements in power electronics to higher power levels and faster

  • Non-data aided parametric based carrier frequency estimators for bursty GMSK communication systems

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    Kandukuri, Ajay
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    Estimating the carrier frequency from a modulated waveform is one of the most important functions of a coherent signal receiver. Good performance and low bit error rates are obtained by coherent demodulation. Therefore, exact knowledge of the received signal carrier frequency is critical for communication systems. Also due to the...
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    of an eigen decomposition as a=j(!fLiJu (3.4.5) where 2 2 are the eigenvalues of R and u are their

  • Design and analysis techniques for nano-joule ADCs and sampling linearity

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    Brown, Thomas (Thomas William)
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    Two aspects of ADC system performance are addressed in this work. First, the combination of the ADC and its associated reference are co-designed for an energy constrained remote sensing system. Second, sampling linearity is mathematically analyzed as a function of frequency to provide enhanced understanding into an ADC's requisite sampling...
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    . 6 20 40 60 80 100 10-6 10-4 10-2 100 Distance (m) En er gy A bs or be d (J ou le s

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

    Creator:
    Desikachari, Ranganathan
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    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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    . The reference divider ÷R can be used to scale highly accurate crystal based input frequencies down to

  • Low noise clocking for high speed serial links

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    Brownlee, Merrick
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    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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    wn = V 27rNC and (, the damping factor, is found to be R IpKvc0C = 2 27rN The natural bandwidth

  • One-to-many node disjoint paths routing in generalized hypercube, dense Gaussian, and hexagonal mesh networks

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    Alsaleh, Omar I.
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    Routing from a single source node to multiple destination nodes using node disjoint paths (NDP) has many important applications in parallel systems. For example, if a source node wants to send distinct messages to distinct destination nodes, then the one-to-many NDP routing is useful. Unlike parallel systems with shared-memory, each...
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    Algorithm 1 Continued 37: procedure FindingPathOfLength 3 38: j = 0; isFound = false; 39: while j ≤ k0 − 1

  • Architecture design of multiplexed incremental analog-to-digital converters

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    Zhang, Zhiqing
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    Analog-to-Digital Data Converters (ADCs) used in instrumentation and measurements often require high absolute accuracy, including excellent linearity and negligible dc offset. Incremental data converters (IDCs) provide a solution for such measurement applications. Since IDCs are essentially delta-sigma converters with reset operation before each conversion, they retain most of the advantages...
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    -80 Input Frequency (Hz) O v e ra ll E rr o r( d B ) (a) (b) -1

  • Modified VLSI designs for error correction codes

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    Chen, Lupin
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    Nowadays, error correction codes have become an integral part in almost all the modern digital communication and storage systems. With the continuously increasing demands for higher speed and lower power communication systems, efficient VLSI implementations of those error correction codes have great importance for practical applications. In this thesis, several...
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    convolutional decoder takes the received vector r and tries to extract the transmitted information sequence

  • Urban military operation mobility model

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    Kang, Ho Sung
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    A Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) is collection of wireless mobile nodes without a network infrastructure or centralized administration. Although MANETs can be used in many applications, such as mobile Internet, military communication, and disaster relief networks, a number of challenges remain. These include routing, medium access control, security, scalability, energy...
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    RR EQ RRE Q RREQ R R E Q R R EQ RR EQ X RREQ source destination R R E Q XRREP RRE P RR

  • Methods for evaluating the impact of renewable resource variability on grid operation and planning

    Creator:
    Halamay, Douglas A.
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    With the recent interest in increasing the penetration of renewable energy sources onto the power grid, there has been an unprecedented rapid deployment of wind generation, especially in the US Pacific Northwest. While wind farm developers have continued to expand their operations, power system operators are left to deal with...
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  • An enhanced swing differential Colpitts CMOS VCO for low-voltage operation

    Creator:
    Farahbakhshian, Farhad
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    An enhanced swing differential Colpitts VCO (ESDC-VCO) dramatically improves the swing of a Colpitts VCO by allowing the signal to swing below ground and above the supply voltage. Fabricated in a 1P8M 0.13 um CMOS process, the ESDC-VCO operates at 4.9GHz with a 0.475-V supply and consumes 2.7mW. The measured...
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    , J. Ayers, and N. Panitantum of Oregon State University and R. Fetche, J. Marsh, A. Shatalov, and G

  • Fast queuing policies via convex relaxation

    Creator:
    Nguyen-Huu, Duong
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    Traditionally, networking protocol designs have placed much emphasis on point-to-point reliability and efficiency. With the recent rise of mobile and multimedia applications, other considerations such as power consumption and/or Quality of Service (QoS) are becoming increasingly important factors in designing network protocols. As such, we present a new flexible framework...
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    denotes the probability that the queue will have j packets in the next time step, given that it currently

  • Efficient VLSI architectures for MIMO and cryptography systems

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    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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    comparison of ML, 8-Best, 8-Best reordered, 8-Best reordered SD (J=6), and 8-Best reordered SD (J=4) (N=M=4

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

    Creator:
    Bao, Jiaqi
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    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,...
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    , j. The connection is established when the client acknowledges with ACK bit and acknowledgment

  • Novel power conditioning circuits for piezoelectric micro power generators

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    Han, Jifeng
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    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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  • Energy-efficient, short-range ultra-wideband radio transceivers

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    Hu, Changhui
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    Short-range wireless communications continually attract interest from both industry and academia, and it is changing our life in every aspect in the last decade. The design of wireless transceivers is the bottleneck for variety applications, due to RF modeling inaccuracy, stringent FCC regulations over the transmitted power spectrum, interference, multi-path...
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    . INTRODUCTION 10Km1Km100m10m1m 1K 10M 1M 100M 1G 10G D a ta R a te (G b p s ) Wireless

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

    Creator:
    Sadollahi, Mahmoud
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    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...
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  • Power Efficient Architectures for Low Noise Switched-Capacitor Filters and High Accuracy Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Payandehnia, Pedram
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    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...
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  • Model development via delay extraction for the time-domain simulation of lossy transmission lines.

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    Blevins, Chris
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    This thesis presents two new approaches for the broadband, time-domain modeling of lossy transmission lines. Each approach is based on an alternative derivation of delay extraction in order to separate the line's linear phase from its attenuation and dispersion. Augmentation networks represent the derived attenuation networks as rational function approximations....
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    . ................................................................................................................... 69 FIGURE 5.7 SINGLE LINE CIRCUIT DIAGRAM WITH OPEN CIRCUIT TERMINATION (R=1E12Ω

  • Flexible dual TCP/UDP streaming for H.264 HD video over WLANs

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    Zhao, Jing
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    High Definition video streaming over WLANs faces many challenges because video data requires not only data integrity but also frames have strict playout deadline. Traditional streaming methods that rely solely on either UDP or TCP have difficulties meeting both requirements because UDP incurs packet loss while TCP incurs delay. This...
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    devices increases. Some notable HD wire­ © ©less streaming technologies include Apple AirPlay R [2

  • Adaptive Streaming Methods using Dual Protocols and Reinforcement Learning

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    Gatimu, Kevin
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    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...
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  • Low-power design techniques for low-voltage analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Kim, Min Gyu
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    The demand for portable electronic systems and the continued down-scaling of device dimensions resulted in rapid improvement in the performance of integrated systems. Several low-voltage design techniques have been proposed to operate analog circuits with sub-1V supply. However, these techniques require higher power consumption to achieve large dynamic range while...
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    a resistor R1. During phase φ1, C1 samples the input voltage using a passive element R rather than

  • Compressive Sensing for Low Power Sensor Design

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    Behravan, Vahid
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    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....
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    ", International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2012. [4] J. Cheng, N. Qi, P. Y. Chiang, A. Natarajan, "A

  • 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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    1 − −=≠ M ))k('n),k('n(Corr iij,j (2-15) Substituting Eq.2-15 into Eq.2-12, we get: i M

  • 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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    + CS VOUT φφφφ2MS VSS VA VA CLS VSS VDD φφφφ1 φφφφ2 φφφφ1 (a) + R CS/2 MSP MSN VIN φφφφ1P

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

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    Sharma, Vivek
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    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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    bubble errors prior to conversion to the desired binary code. S & H R R R R Digital Encoder

  • Advanced propulsion systems for linear motion with high performance requirements

    Creator:
    Zhou, Xiaolin
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    Traditionally linear actuator applications are addressed by the use of hydraulic systems. The high maintenance cost and poor reliability will always be the most critical problem in the real applications. Benefited from both the high mechanical advantage of the roll screw and the simple structure of the switched reluctance motor,...
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    (Figure1.6 b) • Brushed DC motors (Figure1.6 j) • Permanent magnet DC motors (Figure1.6 a

  • Measurement and characterization of ultra-wideband wireless interconnects within active computing systems

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    Woracheewan, Sirikarn
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    Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio has become an attractive alternative for wireless communications due to the robustness to multipath fading, low power transmission, mostly-digital implementation, and low cost. Furthermore, short-range, high data-rates applications are possible with UWB radios due to the wide spectral allocations at 3.1 - 10.6 GHz. This thesis presents...
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    TX RX R e c o v e re d c lo c k R e c e iv e d s ig n a l Computer chassis channel Figure

  • Comparison and impact of substrate noise due to clocked and clockless circuitry

    Creator:
    Le, Jim K.
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    Delay insensitive asynchronous circuitry provides significant advantages with respect to substrate noise due to localized switching. The differences between the substrate noise from NULL Convention Logic (NCL) and traditional Clocked Boolean Logic (CBL) are described and analyzed based on measured results. A test chip fabricated in the TSMC 0.25 um...
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  • Development of a CZT-Silicon Detection System in Support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

    Creator:
    Alhawsawi, Abdulsalam M.
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    The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosion tests for military or civilian purposes. The International Monitoring System (IMS) was established to verify compliance with the treaty. It consists of several monitoring stations that detect: seismic activities, hydrocoustic activities, infrasound waves, and radionuclide particles and noble gases. Radioxenon detection...
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  • Linearity enhancement techniques for data converters

    Creator:
    Cao, Jinzhou
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    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)....
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  • Eager data transfer mechanism for user-level network protocol

    Creator:
    Won, Chulho
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    This dissertation investigates the use of a hardware mechanism called Eager Data Transfer (EDT) for achieving the reduction of communication latency for user-level network protocol. To reach the goal, the dissertation addresses the following research issues. First, the development of a communication system performance evaluation tool called Linux/SimOS is presented....
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    System Consoi TIm.?r bi'< U NI brsver Linux/SImOS Interface IConok Timer Ii N1t P.00tlooder 1MMU SimOS

  • 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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    digitally canceled. Analog Digital1-1(z) j A/D I Latch I T I Outputl Final Digital digital Signal

  • Prototyping a triple-layer phoswich detection system

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    Duncan, Christopher L.
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    Multi-layer optically coupled scintillation based radiation detectors, known as phoswich detectors, have rapidly evolved in recent years. During the same time, digital signal processing has improved radiation discrimination accuracy and enhanced reliability, while reducing complexity and size of traditional analog signal processing methods. A new generation of high-speed radiation detectors...
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    corresponding differential path length and is solved for by, 8 c r dE dE dES dx dx dx

  • Noise optimization for low-voltage CMOS audio preamplifier systems

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    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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    test chip. 8 Vref Off Chip On Chip − + − + B C R1b R2b R R Mic Bias Vout+ Vout− AAF

  • Scaled modeling and simulation of ocean wave linear generator buoy systems

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    Gore, Ganesh P.
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    Accurate scaled modeling and simulation are critical to advancing ocean wave linear generator buoys. A 100th scaled model of ocean wave generator buoy systems is analyzed by solving the Navier-Stokes equations. These equations are numerically solved using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) by implementing the front capturing method. In this thesis,...
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    Annette R. von Jouanne Accurate scaled modeling and simulation are critical to advancing ocean wave

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

    Creator:
    Waters, Allen
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    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...
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    this approach with a generalized number R of redundant comparators at each trip-point. 7 (a) (b

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

    Creator:
    Gray, Kyle L.
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    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...
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    when one channel is chosen to be the reference. Using channel j as the reference (j i)= and applying

  • A Microwave Signal Correlator Based on Parametric Pumping of Spin Waves

    Creator:
    Hansen, Mikkel N.
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    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...
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  • Adaptive load balancing metric for WLANs

    Creator:
    Ryou, Jong bum
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    As the number of mobile devices accessing large-scale WLANs such as campus and metropolitan area networks increases, the need for load balancing among the cells becomes crucial. In addition, the network must also support some minimum handoff tolerance defined by an application. A number of load balancing techniques have been...
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