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  • Autonomous Sensor Systems For Wind Turbine Blade Collision Detection

    Creator:
    Clocker, Kyle
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    Wind turbines serve an increasing proportion of total energy generation, with expanded onshore and offshore installations proceeding worldwide. Continued construction, expansion, and operation of wind energy installations must be managed in conjunction with effects on local and migratory wildlife, specifically bird and bat species that may be affected by wind...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kyle Clocker for the

  • CMOS-Integrated Single-Element Thermal Flow Sensors

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    Clocker, Kyle
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    Flow rate sensors for in situ gas or liquid monitoring typically comprise multiple transducer elements, including a heater and one or more temperature sensors to measure the rate of heat energy removal by the flowing fluid. The need for multiple transducer elements limits feasibility of shrinking these sensors to microfluidic...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle Clocker for the degree of

  • Resiliency of United States Power Grids to Inclement Weather Conditions

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    Trevis, Kyle R.
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    The United States depends on the electrical grid infrastructure for nearly every facet of its operation. Understanding how inclement weather affects the reliability of the grid and what the U.S. is doing to ensure its resiliency will be a key step moving forward into the 21st century as global climate...
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    Corresponding e-mail address: trevisk@oregonstate.edu ©Copyright by Kyle Trevis May 28

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

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    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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    High Accuracy Indoor Localization System AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle L. Gray for the

  • A test fixture and deembedding procedure for high-frequency substrate characterization

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    Webb, Kyle M.
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    At frequencies exceeding 1-2 GHz, the substrate network models used in substrate coupling simulation must account for the reactive nature of the substrate. Unlike at low frequencies, where the purely resistive substrate models can be validated through DC resistance measurements, these high-frequency models, comprising reactive components, must be validated through...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle M. Webb for the degree of Master

  • Designing for the Future : A Generalized Software Architecture for Virtual Labs

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    Thompson, Kyle B.
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    In recent years, simulated laboratory experiences have become more prevalent in educational curricula. These simulations, called virtual labs, can enable learning in ways that are not limited by physical constraints. The development of virtual labs is often ad hoc, resulting in unnecessary, repetitive work. The purpose of this thesis is...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle B.Thompson

  • Charging Analysis of Ground Support Vehicles in an Electrified Airport

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    Gulan, Kyle S.
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    While electrification is currently one of the largest trends in the automotive world, other related industries are also evaluating electrification opportunities as a means to reduce environmental impact, emissions, and noise pollution. One such sector is the aviation industry. While it is generally accepted that all-electric aircraft are not a...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle Gulan for the degree of

  • Wireless Multi-Sensor Patch for Wind Turbine Impact Detection

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    Wilson, Calder
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    Bird and bat collisions with wind turbines are a problem that needs to be better quantified for its impact to be fully understood. This thesis documents portions of the design of a sensor patch module for use on wind turbines blades to detect impacts caused by birds and bats. This...
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    , Wireless Corresponding e-mail address: wilscald@oregonstate.edu ©Copyright by Calder Wilson December 7

  • Experimentation of Synchronous and Variable Speed Small Scale Hydropower Systems

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    Jackson, Elliott C.
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    Hydropower is the one of the oldest renewable energy technologies and is wrongly thought of today as having little room to grow. The opportunity for new hydropower capacity is immense through both technology advancement and run-of-river new stream reach projects. Despite the age of hydropower, a divide in opinion is...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Fiber Bragg grating-tunable diode laser

    Creator:
    Ericksen, Doug
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    Continuously tunable diode laser sources coupled to single-mode fiber are useful sources for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain sensors. This paper describes the development and fabrication of such a device. An introduction is given describing applications of tunable lasers and some of the different methods of creating a tunable diode...
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    spontaneous emission. This photon stimulates other e-h pairs to recombine emitting more photons of the

  • Low cost, short wavelenght fiber Bragg grating strain sensor systems

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    Vaughan, Lira
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    Fiber Bragg grating sensors have been constantly researched for the last ten years and have finally begun to find use in the commercial market. However, one of the major factors limiting their widespread use is their system cost. Their lightweight, flexibility, electromagnetic immunity, and small size make fiber Bragg grating...
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    glimmer of hope when I felt truly lost. Kyle Altendorf contributed the thin film GUI that I might

  • Cloud-Enabled Health Monitoring on an Android Device

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    Howe, Tyler Daniel
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    Constant and reliable health monitoring can help doctors provide higher quality health care to meet the growing needs of the medical industry. The advent of cloud computing has enabled low-cost sensor devices that can process their data in real-time without powerful onboard hardware. Using an Android smartphone, medical data can...
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    Corresponding e-mail address: tyler.d.howe@gmail.com c©Copyright by Tyler Daniel Howe May 29th, 2012 All

  • Analysis and Design of Low Voltage LC Oscillators and their Application to Wireless Sensor Networks

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    Guha Roy, Ankur
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    This dissertation focuses on the analysis, design, and application of inductor-capacitor (LC) oscillators for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). First an analysis and design optimization approach for enhanced swing, low power CMOS LC oscillators is presented. A phasor based analysis is used for determining the amplitude and phase noise of these...
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    and phase noisefrom this analysis are in agreement with Caden e Spe tre simulations for di�erent bias

  • Paths to Innovation: How Businesses Achieve Competitive Advantage

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    Oster, Dylan
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    To detail common paths followed by companies to produce innovative products, I reviewed existing literature and conducted several semi-structured interviews with a variety of people from different companies and fields. Based on this research, I found that most (but not all) innovative products follow a few general paths. These paths...
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    Processes Corresponding e-mail address: 1dylanoster@gmail.com

  • Power Efficient Hybrid Architecture for High Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hui
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    Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are the key building block for sensor applications, such as wireless communications and digital electronics. These applications require ADCs to have medium to high accuracy (normally from 10-14 bits) and relatively low signal bandwidth (ranging from 100Hz-150kHz). Since these applications are often powered by batteries, high power...
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    to thank Ankur, Siladitya, Hossein, Hamid, Justin, Kyle, Ramin, and Ravi. Being around them made

  • An adiabatic approach to analysis of time inhomogeneous Markov chains : a queueing policy application

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    Zacharias, Leena
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    In this thesis, convergence of time inhomogeneous Markov chains is studied using an adiabatic approach. The adiabatic framework considers slowly changing systems and the adiabatic time quantifies the time required for the change such that the final state of the system is close to some equilibrium state. This approach is...
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    . A good part of this work was done in the weekly meetings with them along with Kyle Bradford. I

  • Integrating Microfluidics and Integrated Circuits toward a CMOS-Based Cell Counter

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    Bishop, Kevin W.
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    Cell counting is a key tool used in biological and clinical laboratories, but at present, commercial cell counters are large and expensive. CMOS technology is a promising platform for creating small, low-cost sensors but currently lacks a robust method of directly interfacing these sensors with the microfluidic networks needed for...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    : cell counting, CMOS sensors, microfluidics Corresponding e-mail address: kevinwarnerbishop

  • A comparison of substrate noise coupling in heavily doped and lightly doped substrates for mixed-signal circuits

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    Ayers, James S.
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    An analysis of substrate noise coupling in mixed-signal circuits has been performed in the TSMC 0.25 [mu]m lightly doped and heavily doped CMOS processes. Methods to minimize noise coupling in both the chip design and board design phases are presented along with techniques for accurate circuit simulation of noise coupling....
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Brian Owens, Ajit Sharma, Bob Shreeve, Kyle Webb, Chenggang Xu, and all the other graduate students in

  • Test fixture characterization for high-frequency silicon substrate parasitic extraction

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    Tabalujan, Andrew R.
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    At frequencies exceeding 1-2 GHz, the reactive nature of a silicon substrate must be accounted in the substrate network models used in substrate coupling simulation. High-frequency substrate models, containing reactive components, must be validated through high-frequency network analyzer measurements. Prior fabricated test fixtures have been modified to enable high-frequency (up...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Srinivasan, Kye Hyung, Kyle Webb, Martin Held, Napong Pan- itantum, Robert Batten, Robert Gregoire, Sunwoo

  • 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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    , Kendra, Hana, Hannah, Arlo, Julie, Remy, Kyle, Chris, Stephanie and many more for their emotional

  • 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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    substrate coupling group: Martin Held, Kyle Webb, Sasi Kumar Arunachalum, Arthi Sundaresan, Kavitha

  • 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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    , Raviteja Gajula, Kyle Gray and Brian Miller. Also, I would like to thank students from other groups

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

    Creator:
    Mirzaie, Hossein
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    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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    Dey, Hui Zhang, Brian Miller, Kyle Gray, and Ravi Teja. I am grateful to have worked with a group of

  • Substrate noise coupling analysis in 0.18um silicon germanium (SiGe) and silicon on insulator (SOI) processes

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    Pham, Hui En
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    Analysis of substrate noise coupling has been performed for a 0.18¹m lightly doped silicon germanium BiCMOS process. Techniques to minimize noise coupling in the chip and board design are presented, as well as methods for accurate modeling for substrate noise coupling simulations. Measurements from a test chip were taken to...
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    , Kyle Webb, and Chenggang Xu for providing me with an intellectually stimulating and positive

  • Efficient Spectrum Sensing and Sharing Techniques for Dynamic Wideband Spectrum Access

    Creator:
    Khalfi, Bassem
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    Besides enabling an enhanced mobile broadband access, fifth-generation (5G) wireless mobile networks are envisioned to support the connectivity of massive, heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Connecting these devices through 5G systems and providing them with their needed data rates require huge amounts of spectrum and power resources, thus calling...
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    approach [27]. . . . . . . . 76 5.1 The ratio between E(ξn) when n is an occupied band and when it is not

  • Energy Harvesting and Power Management Integrated Circuits for Self-Sustaining Wearables

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    Bose, Soumya
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    Harvesting energy from ambient sources can provide power autonomy to energy efficient electronics and sensors. The last decade has seen a multitude of ways to scavenge energy from various sources like solar, thermal, electromagnetic, electrostatic, piezo-electric and many more. Thermal energy from human body heat is ubiquitous and can be...
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    - tentional preference I would like to mention Hyunkyu, Shaan, Boyu, Jinyong, Kyle, Callen, Azmeen, Tim

  • CMOS Transducers and Programmable Interface Circuits for Resource-Efficient Sensing Applications

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    Sengupta, Shaan
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    Modern sensors are complex systems comprising multiple sub-systems such as transducers, analog and mixed-signal interface circuits, digital processing circuits, and packaging. Over the last few decades, innovations in these sub-systems combined with their increased integration in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes have led to the rapid growth in sensors for...
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    -linear isotope spectra with variable energy bin-widths (∆E/bin) are recorded and analyzed to demonstrate

  • New Architectures and Circuits for Pushing the Dynamic Range and Multiplexing Boundaries of CMOS-Integrated Sensors

    Creator:
    Ouh, Hyunkyu
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    Over the last decades, CMOS-integrated sensors have made impressive progress in performance, form-factor, and energy-efficiency for various applications such as imaging, physical/chemical sensing, bio/health monitoring. In the era of the artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet-of-things (IoT), such CMOS-integrated sensors are essential for massive and comprehensive data acquisition, where sensing...
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    colleagues, Shaan, Soumya, Boyu, and Kyle as the first students of our SIM Lab. It was a great pleasure to

  • Development and Implementation of JetNet : A Decentralized Wireless Sensing Protocol

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    Goins, Justin B.
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    Modern sensor network applications are often implemented wirelessly in order to lessen installation costs and reduce deployment times. Unfortunately, these wireless sensor network (WSN) nodes must often rely on batteries or energy harvesting techniques in order to sustain their operation and supply the power needed to maintain communication within the...
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    , Hui Zhang, and Kyle Gray. I would also like to thank the many unnamed people who contributed to the

  • New Techniques for Multi-Channel Biosignal Acquisition and Low-Power, Low-Resistance-Measurement Systems

    Creator:
    Kim, Jinyong
    Abstract:
    Dense electrical recording of biosignals has been developed to provide spatial resolution and precise temporal information for health monitoring, diagnostics, and clinical research. However, more electrodes require more wires, and wiring density quickly becomes a limiting factor. To break this bottleneck, we proposed a frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) based architecture for...
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    , Soumya, Shaan, Kyle, Boyu, Callen, Jacob D., Debbie, Naixuan, Cassandra, Richard, and Jacob C. as the

  • Imepdance Sensing Techniques for Integrated Circuits Sensor Applications

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    Shen, Boyu
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    Impedance measurements are increasingly demanded in modern CMOS sensing systems as impedance is the most common electrical signal obtained from sensors, delivering physical, chemical and biomedical quantity changes. Impedance sensing for wide interested frequency, broad dynamic range, and various sensor interfaces has numerous challenges, especially targeted in CMOS miniaturization with...
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    all the people in my research group SIM lab, Soumya, Hyunkyu, Shaan, Kyle, Jinyong, Jacob, Callen

  • Low voltage techniques for pipelined analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Carnes, Joshua Kenneth
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    To realize pipelined ADCs in deep-submicron processes, low voltage techniques must be developed to work around problems created by limited supply voltages such as the floating switch dead zone, reduced SNR, and reduced OpAmp performance. This thesis analyzes standard and low voltage design issues for pipelined ADCs and proposes a...
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    Michael and Sharon Carnes and sibs Marah and Kyle, who encouraged and supported my dreams and

  • Simulation and modeling of substrate noise generation from synchronous and asynchronous digital logic circuits

    Creator:
    Hanken, Christopher
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    Efficient methods for simulating the substrate noise generated by complex synchronous and asynchronous digital logic circuits are presented. By simulating digital logic at the gate level, and precharacterizing the gates, the substrate noise generation can be predicted and used in a transistor level simulation of the sensitive analog blocks. This...
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    , Kyle Webb, Sasi Kumar Arunachalum, Chenggang Xu, Kavitha Srinivasan, Arthi Sundaresan, Matt McClary

  • Investigation of a noise-shaping accelerometer interface circuit for two-chip implementation

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    Zechmann, Jacob W.
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    The world market for sensors is several hundred million dollars growing at an annual rate of 20 percent with accelerometers comprising 19 percent of the market. With an increasing market, a wide range of applications with varying degrees of resolution are in demand. Therefore, there is sufficient motivation for developing...
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    }. d2 uw1) dxeuw1) F ·e(Jwt) =M· xe +D•---+K·xe(Jwt) EXT dt 2 dt (2.4) FExr = -Malx + Dwxj + Kx

  • 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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    , Kyle Gray, Ravi Teja, Yi Zhang, Tao He, Manjunath Kareppagoudr, Ja- son Muhlestein, Spencer

  • Hybrid-Meshnet, a local area mesh network with distributed control

    Creator:
    Kang, Cheoul Shin
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    Hybrid-Meshnet is a communication subnet architecture for local area networks (LANs) designed to achieve a high degree of network performance and flexibility. These objectives are achieved by utilizing a dual channel structure. A token ring is used for short or prioritized data transmissions. A complimentary mesh network with arbitrary data...
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  • Resource allocation optimization in large scale distributed systems

    Creator:
    Duong-Ba, Thuan Hong
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    We studied the problem of resource allocation in large scale distributed applications such as Online Social Networks (OSN) and Cloud Computing. In such settings, resource allocation schemes need to efficient as well as adaptive to the time-varying environments. The abstract resource allocation problem concerns with how to optimally use resources...
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    some metrics which are often used in social network analysis. First, let G(V,E) be the graph