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  • Modeling and Design of Interconnects and Passive Components for Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits in Silicon

    Creator:
    Zheng, Lei
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    For mmWave Integrated Circuit (IC) design, co-integration of passives can reduce size and power consumption, increase reliability, and reduce overall cost. However, skin and proximity effects in the metallization are aggravated at mmWave frequencies, resulting in increased attenuation and degradation of overall performance. Furthermore, tight integration of passive components (to...
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    Profs. Karti Mayaram, Arun Natarajan and Gabor Temes for being on my program committee. I enjoyed my

  • Design Techniques for Wide-bandwidth Continuous-time Delta-sigma Modulators with Noise-shaping Quantizers

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    Dey, Siladitya
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    Noise-shaping multibit quantizers in a ΔΣ modulator offer extra orders of noise shaping without increasing the loop-filter order and without compromising the stability of the modulator. This dissertation presents two new architectures for improving the overall performance of continuous-time ΔΣ modulators using noise-shaped quantizers. The first modulator architecture is motivated...
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    papers. I would also like to thank my committee members, Professor Gabor Temes, Professor Arun

  • Ring Amplifier Design Techniques for High-Precision and High-Speed Amplification

    Creator:
    Leuenberger, Spencer
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    Demands of today's integrated society dependent on communication systems have driven the creation of ever more efficient analog-to-digital converters. For the same reasons, digital circuitry has rapidly expanded to serve all the different systems and needs of consumers. The trend of technology development has been to make these digital circuits...
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    Dr. Temes, Dr. Mayaram, and Dr. Natarajan, thank you for providing advice over my five years here in

  • Design Considerations and Circuit Techniques for Robust Ring-Amplifiers

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    Venkatachala, Praveen Kumar
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    Ring amplifiers (ringamps) have shown excellent power efficiency in the latest state-of-the-art analog to digital converters (ADCs). This thesis describes circuit techniques to ensure robust operation of ringamps using standard analog techniques and proportional-integral-derivative(PID) controller analogy. Large-signal and small-signal analysis of a ringamp are performed using simple RC settling and...
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    members Prof. Gabor Temes, Dr. Arun Natarajan, Dr. Raviv Raich and Prof. William Warnes for their

  • Efficient use of time information in analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Hu, Yue
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    Time-domain data conversion has recently drawn increased research attention for its highly digital nature in favor of process technology scaling. Also, as the time information being carried by binary voltage, time-domain operation is much less sensitive to voltage noise compared to conventional voltage domain operation. However, for analog-to-digital converter (ADC)...
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    Mayaram, Prof. Arun Natarajan and Prof. Margaret Niess for serving as my committee members. Thank you

  • Power-Efficient Design Techniques and Architectures for Scalable Submicron Analog Circuits

    Creator:
    Xu, Yang
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    As the CMOS process scales down to submicron, digital circuit performance improves, while reduced supply voltage and lower transistor intrinsic gain make it difficult to implement analog circuits in a power efficient manner. Therefore, it has become advantageous to shift more analog signal processing functions conventionally realized in voltage (analog)...
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    . I would like to thank Prof. Gabor Temes, Prof. Arun Natarajan and Prof. Tejasvi Anand for being

  • Next generation analog-to-digital conversion using time-based encoding and digital synthesis techniques

    Creator:
    Muhlestein, Jason, Russell
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    The internet-of-things is a growing market segment which is based on an arrayof portable communication devices with high power efficiency. Advanced semiconductortechnology can easily improve their digital performance, but the samecannot be said for the analog blocks which are vital to their operation. Highperformance analog circuits continue to use conventional...
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    like to acknowledge all members of my committee, Gabor Temes, Karti Mayram, Arun Natrajan, and Len

  • Ring Amplifier Optimized for High Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converter Applications

    Creator:
    ElShater, Ahmed O.
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    In recent years, SAR ADCs have been shown to acheive faster conversion times and improved power efficiencies due to their simple building blocks that are digital in nature and scale favorably with technology. High resolution ADCs with stringent noise requirement has led to the adoption of hybrid ADC architectures such...
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  • Digital Friendly Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Maghami, Hamidreza
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    Conventional Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) utilize operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) in their loop filter implementation followed by multi-bit voltage domain quantizers. As CMOS integrated circuit technology scales to smaller geometries, the minimum transistor length and the intrinsic gain of the transistors decrease. Moreover, with process scaling the voltage headroom decreases...
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    Arun Natarajan for not only their valuable comments on my research but all the lessons I learned from