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

    Creator:
    Xu, Yang
    Abstract:
    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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    Yang Xu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on

  • A Wide Modulation Range and PVT-Tolerant Spread-Spectrum Modulation Clock Generator

    Creator:
    Sun, Hyuk
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    This dissertation presents a phase domain in-loop-bandwidth spread-spectrum clock generation technique. In this proposed technique, a charge-based discrete-time loop filter is proposed to enable the phase domain in-loop-bandwidth spread-spectrum modulation without a delta-sigma modulator or time-to-digital converter. The in-loop-bandwidth modulation technique maximizes the loop bandwidth to improve phase noise suppression...
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    group members Allen Waters, Jason Muhlestein, Spencer Leuenberger, Yang Xu, Praveen Kumar Venkatachala

  • Design Considerations and Circuit Techniques for Robust Ring-Amplifiers

    Creator:
    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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    Calvin for always being so reliable. Thanks to Bohui and Hang for giving me a chance to develop my

  • 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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    technical discussions across various phases of my research. Jason, Spencer, Praveen, Calvin, Tim, Yang and

  • Digital Solutions for Analog Shortcomings in Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Mirzaie, Hossein
    Abstract:
    Portable, high power efficiency communication devices is a growing market in the semiconductor industry. Analog-to-digital converters (ADC) are key interface that are used to digitize the sensed information. Recently, digital techniques have been proposed to improve analog building block power efficiency in sub-micron technologies. This research focuses on mixed signal...
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    Venkatachala, Ahmed El-Shater, Calvin Lee, Dr. Arun’s group: San- ket Jain, Abhishek Agrawal, Dr. Pavan

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

    Creator:
    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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    , Calvin Lee, Praveen K Venkatachala, Robin Garg, Sanket Jain, Siddarth Mahendra, Soumya Bose, Narayana

  • 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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    Coker, Yang Xu, Hyuk Sun, Praveen Venkatachala, Ahmed El-Shater and Allen Waters. I am also extremely

  • 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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    Leuenberger, Hyuk Sun, Praveen Venkatachala, Ahmed El-Shater, Calvin Lee, Farshad Farhabakhshian, Jerry Leung

  • 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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    , Tae- whan, Allen, Simon, Jason, Yang, Farshad, Brandi, Jerry, and Tim, thanks for all the support

  • Equivalent circuit modeling of on-chip magnetic devices based on terminal measurements

    Creator:
    Gaskill, Steven G.
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    The addition of thin-film alloy magnetic materials to integrated circuit processing enables a number of novel monolithic circuits. Examples include fully integrated magnetic field sensors, signal and power galvanic isolation circuits, and power supplies on chip (PwrSoC). There are several benefits to integrating these traditionally off-chip devices, including improved manufacturability,...
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