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  • Noise optimization for low-voltage CMOS audio preamplifier systems

    Creator:
    Brown, Matthew Eugene
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    There is a large and growing market for portable consumer audio products with very small size. As the size of these products is reduced, the area occupied by batteries becomes significant and hence limits the number of batteries to one. In order to build such small products, high levels of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . I am grateful to my friends and colleagues José Silva and Pavan Kumar Hanumolu for their direct

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

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

  • High efficiency delta-sigma modulation data converters

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

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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    Xuesheng Wang, Jose Silva, who helped me take a first stride in the research field of delta sigma

  • Low noise clocking for high speed serial links

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    friendship of my fellow students. In no particular order, I would like to thank Jose Silva, Gil- Cho Ahn

  • 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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    Dissertation
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    Conf., San Jose, CA, 2006, pp. 41–48. [2-5] James A. Cherry and W. Martin Snelgrove, Continuous-Time

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    Meng, Zhengyong Zhang, Xuefeng Chen, Jose Ceballos, Chenwei Zhang, Yoshio Nishida and so on. I extend

  • 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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    Dissertation
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    Andy Dufresne in me. I also like to thank Professors Gabor Temes, Huaping Liu, Kagan Tumer and David

  • 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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    Dissertation

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

    Creator:
    Postman, Jacob
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    David Stone who may not even remember me. On the day I received my acceptance letter to the Ph.D