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  • Graphic User Interface with Autopilot Features for UAVs

    Creator:
    McMonigal, Tomas
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    The purpose of this project was to provide a tool for the Aerial Team of the Robotics Club with an application to control a UAV for automated missions - the Aerial Team's focus is automation of UAVs. This application lays out the foundations to allow future members of the Aerial...
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    Abstract approved: Robin Hess The purpose of this project was to provide a tool for the Aerial Team of

  • Enhanced inverse synthetic aperture radar imagery using 2-D spectral estimation

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    Ohm, David R.
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    This research focused on the use of classical and modern two-dimensional spectral estimation techniques for enhancing inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imagery. 2-D Classical spectral estimation methods and 2-D modern parametric and non-parametric spectral estimation methods are applied to simulated and real data sets in order to achieve both range...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Imagery Using 2-D Spectral Estimation by David R. Ohm A THESIS submitted to

  • Kinematic and cyclostationary parameter estimation for co-channel emitter location applications

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    Ohm, David R.
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    The problem of locating a signal source, or an emitter, has many civilian and military applications, such as communication regulations enforcement, military reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue operations. Many of the most widely used emitter location methods rely on the accurate and robust estimation of the differential time delay, or time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA),...
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    Dissertation
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    CYCLOSTATIONARY PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR CO-CHANNEL EMITTER LOCATION APPLICATIONS by David R. Ohm A

  • The Development of a User-Friendly Website for Management and Analysis of Cookstove Impact Data

    Creator:
    Bennett, Marley R.
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    The clean cookstove sector has long sought the tools and analysis methods needed to accurately quantify social, environmental, and economic impacts of projects in diverse settings. To respond to this need, Climate Solutions Consulting and Oregon State University have developed a novel integrated suite of sensors to collect fuel usage...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    1 The Development of a User-Friendly Website for

  • Fully-integrated mm-Wave Full-duplexing and MIMO Multi-beamforming Receiver Techniques for 5G and Beyond

    Creator:
    Garg, Robin
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    In recent years, the research community's interest in fully integrated mm-Wave wireless communication systems has increased significantly. With the standards for 5G NR now in place, the focus has shifted to actual deployment. Mm-Wave systems provide wider bandwidths, higher capacity, and lower latency than existing systems such as 4G. Higher...
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    Dissertation
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    Receiver Techniques for 5G and Beyond by Robin Garg A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State

  • Design of 28 GHz Low-Power Phased-Array Receiver Frontend in CMOS

    Creator:
    Garg, Robin
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    This work presents the design and implementation of a low power phased-array receiver frontend at 28 GHz in 65 nm CMOS. The frontend incorporates a low- power low-noise amplifier(LNA) and a passive reflection-type phase shifter (RTPS) capable of providing 360° phase shift with 5-bit phase resolution and low loss variation....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Receiver Frontend in CMOS by Robin Garg A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • Accurate and efficient simulation of synchronous digital switching noise in system on a chip

    Creator:
    Habal, Husni
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    A new method is presented to compress switching information in large digital circuits. This is combined with an efficient approach of generating the noise signatures of cells in a digital library that results in an accurate and efficient approach for estimating the noise generated in digital circuits. This method provides...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Efficient Simulation of Synchronous Digital Switching Noise in Systems on a Chip Abstract approved

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

    Creator:
    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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    approved: Terri Fiez Karti Mayaram Analysis of substrate noise coupling has been performed for a 0.18µm

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

    Creator:
    Postman, Jacob
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    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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    to place a request for the switch. This is implemented using V:1 round robin arbiters at each input

  • IC-Antenna Co-Integration for Efficient and Scalable Millimeter-Wave Antenna Interfaces

    Creator:
    Liu,Yao
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    Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) technology promises high speed, high system capacity and low latency interconnects with reduced cost. Applications like high data-rate wireless links, next generation automotive sensors and security body scanners highly depend on mm-wave technology innovations. As operating frequency moves to higher mm-wave bands, shrinking antenna dimensions enable co-integration of...
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    commu- nication and radar link budgets. This dissertation presents a wafer-scale compatible IC-antenna

  • A Wireless Energy Harvester for Powering Event-driven Internet-of-things Applications and Battery Charging

    Creator:
    Sadagopan, Kamala Raghavan
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    The need for sustainably powering unobtrusive internet-of-things applications has led to an interest in energy harvesting. Particularly, the proliferation of wireless communication and devices in the 2.4 GHz Industrial Scientific c Medical (ISM) band creates an opportunity to leverage commonly used devices for RF powering. This dissertation presents a low-quiescent-power...
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    September 14, 2020. Title: A Wireless Energy Harvester for Powering Event-driven Internet-of-things

  • On the design, modeling, and testing of ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Bosma, Bret
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    Ocean wave energy converter technology continues to advance and new developers continue to emerge, leading to the need for a general design, modeling, and testing methodology. This work presents a development of the process of taking a wave energy converter from a concept to the prototype stage. A two body...
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    developers continue to emerge, leading to the need for a general design, modeling, and testing

  • Development of two-variable maximum power point tracking control for ocean wave energy converters utilizing a power analysis and data acquisition system

    Creator:
    Amon, Ean A.
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    Ocean wave energy shows great potential as a developing form of renewable energy. However, challenges arise in maturing this technology to achieve cost-effective energy conversion. Development and testing of wave energy converters can be problematic due to the harsh environment in which they are operated. To promote development of this...
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    as a function of τ_mppt and cStep with 0.1 ohm step size

  • A linear test bed for characterizing the performance of ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Hogan, Peter M.
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    Determining the performance characteristics of various ocean wave energy converters (OWEC) has proven to be difficult due to problems replicating a baseline motion profile in the ocean or wave tank to compare these devices. The linear test bed seeks to mechanically simulate the relative linear motion between the active components...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Title: A Linear Test Bed for Characterizing the Performance of Ocean Wave Energy Converters

  • Implementation of Distributed Localized Communications

    Creator:
    Snyder, Thomas
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    Artificial collectives are useful for accomplishing tasks that require teamwork from multiple simple robots. Multiple robot and collective testbeds have been developed, yet none stay committed to leverage the local interactions, group size, and imperfect information assumptions that strengthen biological collectives. A review of the collective and multiple robot literature,...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    By Thomas Snyder A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University Honors College in partial

  • Optimization of interactive live free viewpoint multiview video streaming bandwidth

    Creator:
    Kramer, Richard A.
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    There are generally two types of multiview video:(1) 3D Multiview Video (“3D MVV” also called “2D plus delta” or “stereo” multi-view video): 3D MVV is widely deployed in cinemas and in the TV industry. 3D MVV typically entails capturing video of an object using two cameras with differing view angles...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard A. Kramer

  • A direct-conversion offset-cancellation mixer in 2.4 GHz CMOS

    Creator:
    Lehne, Mark A.
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    We present a new circuit design for adaptive offset cancellation in a fully differential 2.4 GHz CMOS direct conversion mixer. Our circuit structure is a modification of a Gilbert cell mixer in which offsets are cancelled by injecting cancellation currents into the legs of the mixer by dynamically varying the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mark A. Lehne for the degree of

  • Design of an asynchronous third-order finite impulse response filter

    Creator:
    Oren, Joel A.
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    With the increased demand for complex digital signal processing systems, real-time signal processing requires higher throughput systems. In the past, the throughput has been increased by increasing the clock rates, but synchronization can become increasingly more difficult. Recently there has been renewed interest in designing asynchronous digital systems. In an...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Response Filter AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Joel A. Oren for the degree of Master of Science in

  • Analysis and simulation of a variable speed induction motor

    Creator:
    Haskins, Raymond A.
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    A model of a squirrel cage induction machine, d.c.- link power supply and centrifugal pump is developed and used in the design and evaluation of a perturbation feedback control system for a sewage pumping station. A comparison of the simulation model of the induction machine and a laboratory machine to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Analysis and simulation of a variable speed induction

  • Methods to improve the reliability and resiliency of near/sub-threshold digital circuits

    Creator:
    Crop, Joseph A.
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    Energy consumption is one of the primary bottlenecks to both large and small scale modern compute platforms. Reducing the operating voltage of digital circuits to voltages where the supply voltage is near or below the threshold of the transistors has recently gained attention as a method to reduce the energy...
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    Dissertation
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    Near/Sub-Threshold Digital Circuits AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Joseph A. Crop for the

  • Novel control of a permanent magnet linear generator for ocean wave energy applications

    Creator:
    VanderMeulen, Aaron H.
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    Wave energy conversion devices are a rapidly growing interest worldwide for the potential to harness a sustainable and renewable energy source. Due to the oscillatory nature of ocean waves, the power generated from a permanent magnet linear generator (PMLG) for ocean wave energy conversion is pulsed. Focusing on direct drive...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Novel Control of a Permanent Magnet Linear Generator for Ocean

  • Ultra low capacitance RFIC probe

    Creator:
    Jacob, Michael E.
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    In Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) or high frequency digital ICs, there is a demand to probe the internal nodes for testing. The ultra low capacitance RFIC probe presented in his work is a flexible tool for these applications. The probe utilizes the coupling between a tungsten needle and the...
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    frequency response of 6GHz [3]. Input impedance is 20k Ohm with a loading capacitance of ~500fF. High

  • Power system reliability and power quality assessments with grid-connected wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Boller, Michael D.
    Abstract:
    Generating abundant, renewable energy from Earth’s oceans is an attractive option for meeting increasing energy demand. Marine renewable energy also comes with the variability of renewable sources, which impact the reliability and power quality of the electrical grid. On a transmission-level, this dissertation looks at ensuring reliability of the power...
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    Dissertation
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    power quality of the electrical grid. On a transmission-level, this dissertation looks at ensuring

  • Raising Cain : A Novel

    Creator:
    Sheen, Sarah
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    A Confederate soldier turned cowboy, fresh off the front lines of the Civil War, Cain Bradshaw is a hard man who keeps to himself, content to work the cattle train and bury himself in the oblivion offered by the wilds of the scarcely tamed West. But when dumb chance and...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Raising Cain: A Novel Raising Cain: A Novel

  • Side channel attack resistant elliptic curves cryptosystem on multi-cores for power efficiency

    Creator:
    Yoo, Jaewon
    Abstract:
    The Advent of multi-cores allows programs to be executed much faster than before. Cryptoalgorithms use long-bit words thus parallelizing these operations on multi-cores will achieve significant performance improvement. However, not all long-bit word operations in cryptosystems are suitable for parallel execution on multi-cores. In particular, long-bit words used in Elliptic...
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    Masters Thesis
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    used (which is one of the recommended word size by NIST) on a quad-core with a 32-bit word size

  • Development of Machine Learning Tools for Increased Reliability of the Electrical Grid

    Creator:
    Dieter, Keaton J.
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    The electrical grid serves as one of the major lifelines to our society. We have come to expect electricity to be available when we want it. But the system that delivers power to us is very complex and made up of many individual pieces. Maintaining and operating this system reliably...
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    Masters Thesis
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    reliably is a challenge. Increases in the amount of digital technology on the grid has been both a benefit

  • A CMOS differential line driver

    Creator:
    Jiang, William
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    A short-circuit-protected line-driver circuit is particularly adapted for use in a CMOS differential line-driver system, where one line-driver circuit provides a true output signal, and another line-driver circuit provides a complementary false output signal. A short-circuit is sensed by measuring current through a secondary pull-up transistor, and disabling a primary...
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    Masters Thesis
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    A CMOS differential line driver AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS

  • Hybrid electric vehicle dc-bus converter harmonics

    Creator:
    Mills-Price, Michael A.
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    As more advanced hybrid electric vehicles begin emerging onto the commercial market, design algorithms for their control become increasingly more complicated. One major hurdle for designers is the mitigation and control of the created high frequency harmonics caused from switching the dc voltage into an ac voltage by use of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael A. Mills-Price for

  • A universal CMOS current-mode operational amplifier

    Creator:
    Botelho, Cindy
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    It has become customary in electrical engineering to think of signal processing in terms of voltage variables to the exclusion of current variables. This tendency has resulted in voltage signal processing circuits such as voltage-controlled voltage sources (VCVS) and voltage-mode operational amplifiers. However, the VCVS operational amplifier has several limitations...
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    Masters Thesis
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    A universal CMOS current-mode operational amplifier AN

  • A performance study of multithreading

    Creator:
    Kwak, Hantak
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    As the performance gap between processor and memory grows, memory latency will be a major bottleneck in achieving high processor utilization. Multithreading has emerged as one of the most promising and exciting techniques used to tolerate memory latency by exploiting thread-level parallelism. The question however remains as to how effective...
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    Dissertation
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    A performance study of multithreading AN ABSTRACT OF THE

  • A multi-microprocessor debug executive

    Creator:
    Edmonds, Douglas E.
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    The system in this thesis uses multiple Intel iSBC86/12A cards connected to the Intel Multibus. The system was written using the Intel language PLM86. The final result is a low level debug tool that provides the user with the following capabilities: examine/change memory, examine/change processor registers, load a user written...
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    Masters Thesis
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    again, sort of a round-robin technique. This is done by the queue procedures which are local private

  • Embedded passives in a multilayer medium

    Creator:
    Seo, Yongseok, 1958-
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    Recent advances in high density low cost RF and microwave three dimensional integration technologies using LTCC(Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics), laminate and other multilayer hybrid and integrated circuits have increased interest in the design of embedded passive components such as inductors, capacitors and filters. The purpose of this study is to...
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    Dissertation
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    Embedded Passives in a Multilayer Medium. Abstract approved- °---- Vijai K. Tripathi Recent advances in

  • The analysis and design of a broadband microwave buffer amplifier

    Creator:
    Dunsmore, Joel P.
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    In microwave network analysis, proper matching of the measurement system is necessary to prevent measurement errors and provide a proper terminating impedance for the device-under-test. To obtain this matching, a buffer amplifier is often used in the first stage of the network analyzer. This study describes the design and analysis...
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    Masters Thesis
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    fifty ohm system represents S11. Figure 3 shows a plot of Sll versus frequency for the simple RC

  • A high-swing CMOS operational amplifier topology

    Creator:
    Yang, John Jian
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    A circuit topology for high-swing, high-linearity CMOS operational amplifiers has been developed. The technique uses parallel-connected p- and n-channel input pairs to realize an input common-mode voltage range nearly equal to the total power supply voltage. High linearity is achieved by summing the DC bias and AC small-signal currents so...
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    Masters Thesis
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    A high-swing CMOS operational amplifier topology AN

  • A Generation Prioritization Method for Power System Restoration with Renewable Resources

    Creator:
    Mate, Adam
    Abstract:
    The electrical grid is a key component of the Nation's critical infrastructure. Its continuous and reliable operation is of vital importance; any system-wide disruption would have a debilitating impact on crucial services, public health and safety, the economy, and the national security of the United States. High-impact low-frequency events pose...
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    Dissertation
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    A Generation Prioritization Method for Power System

  • Supervisory control of a doubly-fed machine

    Creator:
    Werahera, Priya N.
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    An EMCON-D distributed process controller is evaluated for control and monitoring of an experimental doubly-fed machine system. A closed-loop control circuit is implemented to operate the doubly-fed machine with constant rotor current. A standard PID algorithm as well as an algorithm tailored to the doubly-fed machine are evaluated.
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    Masters Thesis
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    Supervisory control of a doubly-fed machine AN ABSTRACT

  • Instability and temperature-dependence assessment of IGZO TFTs

    Creator:
    Hoshino, Ken
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    Amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOSs) are of great current interest for thin-film transistor (TFT) channel layer applications. In particular, indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) is under intense development for commercial applications because of its demonstrated high performance at low processing temperatures. The objective of the research presented in this thesis is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ) – VGS transfer curves in which the turn-on voltage, VON, moves to a more positive gate voltage with

  • A study of hardware/software multithreading

    Creator:
    Carlson, Ryan L.
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    As the design of computers advances, two important trends have surfaced: The exploitation of parallelism and the design against memory latency. Into these two new trends has come the Multithreaded Virtual Processor (MVP). Based on a standard superscalar core, the MVP is able to exploit both Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP)...
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    schedule a new thread into the hardware. The round-robin algorithm was chosen as it exhibited the closest

  • Design, fabrication and characterization of a complementary GaAs MODFET structure

    Creator:
    Dang, Yen
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    Design, fabrication and characterization of a

  • A P-well GaAs MESFET technology

    Creator:
    Canfield, Philip C.
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    The semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) has many potential advantages over the more widely used semiconductor silicon (Si). These include higher low field mobility, semi-insulating substrates, a direct band-gap, and greater radiation hardness. All these advantages offer distinct opportunities for implementation of new circuit functions or extension of the operating conditions...
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    in Fig. 2.7. The drain of the MESFET is terminated with a 50 ohm resistor to provide impedance

  • A chopper-stablized CMOS operational amplifier

    Creator:
    Ann, Seung-Han
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    The chopper-stabilized operational amplifier has good low frequency noise properties. Unfortunately a simple technique for simulation of the chopper-stabilized operational amplifier has not been available. This thesis describes the implementation of a differential amplifier using chopper stabilization and its circuit modeling for the SPICE simulation. This circuit has been designed...
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    of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 23.1988. Title: A

  • Model-based solution techniques for the source localization problem in distributed parameter systems

    Creator:
    Alpay, Mehmet Emin
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    In this thesis, three model-based methods are presented for finding the location of a point source with possibly time-varying strength for a class of distributed parameter systems. The first method involves off-line numerical computation of the time-response data at the sensor(s) from all possible source locations and functions of source...
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    finding the location of a point source with possibly time-varying strength for a class of distributed

  • A subranging analog to digital converter using four bit pipepline

    Creator:
    Press, Stephen E.
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    This thesis presents the design of a 10 bit Analog to Digital Converter which consists of a 6 bit flash followed by a 4 bit pipeline architecture. The total system is described and the 4 bit pipeline is implemented on a bipolar process. The objective of this research is to...
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    initially modeled as a voltage source and a series resistance (Figure 2.8.A). The SU2 diodes have a 74 ohm

  • A 1-m W, 14-bit [sigma] [delta] A/D converter with 10-KHz conversion rate

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    Gupta, Shivani
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    of Master of Science in Electrical Si Computer Engineering presented on February 24, 1995. Title: A

  • A distributed local computer network : FISHNET (Facilities Integrated in a Shared Habitat NETwork)

    Creator:
    Kang, Yong Joong
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    FISHNET (Facilities Integrated in a Shared Habitat) is a communication subnet architecture utilizing a hybrid application of point-topoint and broadcast communications to achieve a high degree of network performance. This objective is achieved through utilizing a dual bus structure: a data bus and a control bus. The data bus consists...
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    Dissertation
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on Title: A Distributed Local

  • A study of the photoresponse of semi-insulating gallium arsenide

    Creator:
    Schumm, Gerhard
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    The photoresponse behavior of semi-insulating GaAs is investigated. The photocarrier lifetime is discussed and the influence of surface and contact recombination is taken into account. Photocurrent-voltage characteristics have been measured and a mechanism for the gain in terms of space charge amplification and avalanching is suggested. The influence of deep...
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    cur- rent spikes and destroy the diode. Assuming a 3 Ohm for- ward resistance of the diode, a 47 Ohm

  • CMOS analog design using a digital gate array

    Creator:
    Liu, Tian-chen
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    The core area of a conventional CMOS digital gate array consists of only one size of NMOS device and one size of PMOS device. Both primitives have fixed minimum channel lengths, and this has significantly impeded analog applications. This work has shown that by forming series and parallel interconnections between...
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    load resistance of 150 K Ohm. 6. (a) A typical inverter which consists of a single active device and a

  • A hierarchically organized microprocessor system for motor position control

    Creator:
    Liu, Dongtai
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    Accurate Position Control is an important technique in robotic engineering. The working environment of robotic systems presents special requirements for position control. The scope of this study is to explore the control algorithms of a digital, hierarchical position control system. Detailed analysis and simulation show that the system can be...
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    A hierarchically organized microprocessor system for motor

  • Design of a mini-computer controlled digital integrated circuit tester

    Creator:
    Fasang, Patrick Pad, 1941-
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    The purpose of the thesis is to design, construct, program, and test an automatic integrated circuit test system. The class of integrated circuits tested was restricted to digital integrated circuits. The general concept of testing a digital integrated circuit is based on the truth table of that circuit. A combination...
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    Design of a Mini-Computer Controlled Digital Integrated

  • Design and Implementation of a Capacitive Touch Children’s Guitar

    Creator:
    Sullivan, Erin
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    The Capacitive Touch Children’s Guitar is a fully functional electronic toy demonstrating an application of Cypress Semiconductor’s CapSense touch sensing technology. It was developed as a senior design project by myself and two other engineering students. I was responsible for the guitar’s LED lights, main microcontroller and sound storage and...
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    that the THD be below 1%. 4 The amplified sound is played through an 8-ohm speaker. A special