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  • Power-efficient two-step pipelined analog-to-digital conversion

    Creator:
    Lee, Ho-Young
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    Hand-held devices are among the most successful consumer electronics in modern society. Behind these successful devices, lies a key analog design technique that involves high-performance analog-to-digital conversion combined with very low power consumption. This dissertation presents two different approaches to achieving high power efficiency from a two-step pipelined architecture, which...
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    and a half years of my Ph.D. period, I’ve been trying to design a certain microscopic electronic

  • Design techniques for clocking high performance signaling systems

    Creator:
    Hanumolu, Pavan Kumar
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    Scaling of CMOS technology has progressed relentlessly for the past several decades. In order for this unprecedented scaling to benefit the performance of large digital systems, the communication bandwidth between integrated circuits (ICs) must scale accordingly. However, interconnect technology does not scale as aggressively, making communication between chips the major...
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    being 3000 miles away and generously shared his vast knowledge on links design. Gu masterfully

  • Wideband discrete-time delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters with shifted loop delays

    Creator:
    Meng, Xin
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    Low-distortion architecture is widely used in wideband discrete-time switched-capacitor delta-sigma ADC design. However, it suffers from the power-hungry active adder and critical timing for quantization and dynamic element matching (DEM). To solve this problem, this dissertation presents a delta-sigma modulator architecture with shifted loop delays. In this project, shifted loop...
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    Corporation (SRC), the Center for Design of Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits (CDIDIC), Texas

  • Design of a 14-bit continuous-time Delta-Sigma A/D modulator with 2.5MHz signal bandwidth

    Creator:
    Li, Zhimin
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    In recent years, there has been growing interest in both industry and academia to use continuous-time (CT) Δ-Σ A/D converters for wideband wireless and wireline communication applications. So far no reported CT Δ-Σ A/D modulator achieves 14-bit or higher dynamic range (DR) with more than 2MHz signal bandwidth (equivalently 4MS/s)....
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    and Computer Engineering presented on January 27, 2006. Title: Design of a 14-bit Continuous-Time

  • Design techniques for delta sigma modulators using VCO based ADCs

    Creator:
    Reddy, Karthikeyan
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    VCO-based ADCs have recently emerged as attractive alternative to conventional DeltaSigma (ΔΣ) modulator architectures. Few salient features of a VCObased ADC are: 1) the quantization noise is 1st order noise shaped, 2) it is an open loop architecture, and, 3) its implementation is mostly digital in nature. Hence, they are...
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    Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on March 10, 2014. Title: Design Techniques

  • Design techniques for VCO based digital sensor readout circuits

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    Prabha, Praveen
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    Sensors find a variety of applications in portable electronics, automotive and biomedical solutions. The demand for low power and high dynamic range makes the design of digital sensor readout circuits quite challenging. Traditionally, these circuits are realized using amplifiers with passive feedback or precision analog comparators which are power hungry...
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    Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on March 7, 2014. Title: Design Techniques For VCO Based

  • Electrical recommendations and formulas for metal fill in radio-frequency integrated circuits

    Creator:
    Gaskill, Steven
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    With increasing transistor operating frequencies, interconnects and passive devices are becoming performance limiters in integrated circuit (IC) designs. To combat this, the interconnect layers above the active silicon are trending toward low-κ dielectrics and Cu metallization. The use of these new materials has popularized chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) to planarize...
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 Simulation-Based Analysis and Design Recommendations 11 2.1 Metal Fill Impact on MIM Capacitor

  • Fabrication and characterization of thin-film transistor materials and devices

    Creator:
    Hong, David
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    A class of inorganic thin-film transistor (TFT) semiconductor materials has emerged involving oxides composed of post-transitional cations with (n-1)d¹⁰ns⁰ (n≥4) electronic configurations. This thesis is devoted to the pursuit of topics involving the development of these materials for TFT applications: Deposition of zinc oxide and zinc tin oxide semiconductor layers...
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on November 5, 2008. Title