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  • Design of high efficiency step-down switched capacitor DC/DC converter

    Creator:
    Ma, Mengzhe
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    Recently, switched capacitor DC/DC converters are extensively used in portable electronic devices because they feature many advantages, such as high efficiency, small package, low quiescent current, minimal external components and low cost. In this thesis, two step-down switched capacitor DC/DC converters are designed. One has the fixed output options 1.5V,...
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    High Efficiency Step-Down Switched Capacitor DC/DC Converter Abstract approved: Gábor C. Temes Un-Ku

  • Loss tangent and dielectric constant of solder mask materials measured with split-post dielectric resonators

    Creator:
    Barnes, Guy E.
    Abstract:
    A constant push from society for more information with richer content simultaneously available at the consumers fingertips have pushed the speeds of electronics to extremes. Bus lines on circuit boards responsible for data communication are being pushed to their limit to meet these demands. As data busses are pushed to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Redacted for privacy AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Guy E

  • Channel estimation and data detection for mobile MIMO OFDM systems

    Creator:
    Gao, Jie
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    Designing spectral efficient, high-speed wireless links that offer high quality- of-service and range capability has been a critical research and engineering challenge. In this thesis, we mainly address the complexity and performance issues of channel estimation and data detection in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over...
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    Dissertation
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    studies. I am very thankful for his patience and always believing in me during the ups and downs of my

  • Low-voltage pipeline A/D converter

    Creator:
    Wu, Lei
    Abstract:
    Continuous process scale-down and emerging markets for low-power/low-voltage mobile systems call for low-voltage analog integrated circuits. Switched-capacitor (SC) circuits are the building blocks for analog signal processing and will encounter severe overdrive problems when operating at low voltage conditions. There exist three techniques to solve the problem, but with their...
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    Masters Thesis
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    oon Continuous process scale-down and emerging markets for low-power/low-voltage mo- bile systems

  • Novel power conditioning circuits for piezoelectric micro power generators

    Creator:
    Han, Jifeng
    Abstract:
    Advanced low power devices promote the development of micro power generators (MPGs) to replace the batteries to power them. Due to the trend in decreasing integrated circuit (IC) supply voltages, power supply designers are facing more and more serious challenges. The objective of this research is to design a power...
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    Dissertation
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    synchronous rectification technique. The dc-dc regulator is a charge pump-based step-down converter

  • An ultra low voltage micropower GPS receiver RF front-end for wildlife tracking

    Creator:
    Heiberg, Adam C.
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    A fully integrated CMOS GPS receiver RF front end optimized for low power operation is presented. The system operates with a supply voltage down to 250 mV. A prototype has been fabricated in a 0.13μm CMOS process and includes a low voltage LNA, quadrature oscillators, and quadrature mixers. It exhibits...
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    Masters Thesis
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    op- eration is presented. The system operates with a supply voltage down to 250 mV. A prototype has

  • Design methodology for low-jitter phase-locked loops

    Creator:
    Bhagavatheeswaran, Shanthi, S.
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    This thesis presents a systematic top-down methodology for simulating a phase-locked loop using a macro model in Verilog-A. The macromodel has been used to evaluate the jitter due to supply noise, thermal noise, and ground bounce. The noise simulation with the behavioral model is roughly 310 times faster (best case)...
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    Phase-Locked Loops Abstract approved: Tern S. Fiez This thesis presents a systematic top-down

  • A continuous time frequency translating delta Sigma Modulator

    Creator:
    Pulincherry, Anurag
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    This thesis presents a continuous time bandpass delta sigma modulator with frequency translation inside the delta sigma loop. The input IF signal is down converted to baseband after amplification by a low Q, wideband bandpass resonator. The down converted IF signal is digitized by a continuous time, second order lowpass...
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    delta sigma ioop. The input IF signal is down converted to baseband after amplification by a low Q

  • Enhancing Resolution and Scalability of Power Grid Reliability Algorithms

    Creator:
    Lassetter, Austin R.
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    This Thesis aims to determine whether we can improve the accuracy, resolution, and speed of calculations for common power system problems using simple computational models that scale well to machine learning and high performance computing solutions. The second chapter of this Thesis implements more precise aging and degradation models for...
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    Down, a statistical method that can be used as a feature engineering technique, the process of

  • CMOS-Integrated Single-Element Thermal Flow Sensors

    Creator:
    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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    be scaled down to an integrated CMOS thermal flow sensor. c©Copyright by Kyle Clocker May 24