Browsing by Department "Electrical Engineering"

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    • Application of motor capacitors to improve facility power usage in the industrial setting 
      Hillhouse, William Jeffrey (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
      As deregulation of the electric power system in the United States unfolds, many customers are experiencing changes in their billing rate structure. Some face the addition of power factor penalty tariffs, and seek ways to ...
    • Application Of Neural Networks To Computer-Aided Design Of Electronic Circuits: Solution Of Linear Equations 
      Minick, Jill R. (1990)
      The objective of this research is to investigate the application of Artificial Neural Network techniques to the area of computer-aided design of electronic circuits. A major problem in this area is the analysis (especially ...
    • Applications of an electronic transformer in a power distribution system 
      Ratanapanachote, Somnida (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)
      In electrical power distribution and power electronic applications, a transformer is an indispensable component which performs many functions. At its operating frequency (60/50 Hz), it is one of the most bulky and expensive ...
    • An approach for improving performance of aggregate voice-over-IP traffic 
      Al-Najjar, Camelia (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
      The emerging popularity and interest in Voice-over-IP (VoIP) has been accompanied by customer concerns about voice quality over these networks. The lack of an appropriate real-time capable infrastructure in packet networks ...
    • Approaches to test set generation using binary decision diagrams 
      Wingfield, James (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      This research pursues the use of powerful BDD-based functional circuit analysis to evaluate some approaches to test set generation. Functional representations of the circuit allow the measurement of information about ...
    • Artificial Neural Network Modeling Of Czochralski Single Crystal Growth 
      Smeal, Roy (1996)
      The adaptive nature of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) makes them a powerful tool for modeling complex processes. ANNs are inherently nonlinear and process signals in a parallel manner. These qualities make them suitable ...
    • Automatic Testing Of Integrated Circuits 
      Bassett, Paul D. (1982)
      Two projects are discussed. First, automatic control of an SPI-C Wafer Prober via an HP 9845 computer for the purpose of testing selected die locations on an integrated circuit wafer is discussed. Included are discusions ...
    • Automatic tuning for linearly tunable filter 
      Huang, Sung-Ling (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      A new tuning scheme for linearly tunable high-Q filters is proposed. The tuning method is based on using the phase information for both frequency and Q factor tuning. There is no need to find out the relationship between ...
    • Automatic tuning of continuous-time filters 
      Sumesaglam, Taner (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
      Integrated high-Q continuous-time filters require adaptive tuning circuits that will correct the filter parameters such as center frequency and quality factor (Q). Three different automatic tuning techniques are introduced. ...
    • Bluetooth/WLAN receiver design methodology and IC implementations 
      Emira, Ahmed Ahmed Eladawy (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      Emerging technologies such as Bluetooth and 802.11b (Wi-Fi) have fuelled the growth of the short-range communication industry. Bluetooth, the leading WPAN (wireless personal area network) technology, was designed primarily ...
    • Buried fiber optic intrusion sensor 
      Maier, Eric William (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      A distributed fiber optic intrusion sensor capable of detecting intruders from the pressure of their weight on the earth's surface was investigated in the laboratory and in field tests. The presence of an intruder above ...
    • Capacity and scale-free dynamics of evolving wireless networks 
      Iyer, Bharat Vishwanathan (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)
      Many large-scale random graphs (e.g., the Internet) exhibit complex topology, nonhomogeneous spatial node distribution, and preferential attachment of new nodes. Current topology models for ad-hoc networks mostly consider ...
    • Capacity estimation and code design principles for continuous phase modulation (CPM) 
      Ganesan, Aravind (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      Continuous Phase Modulation is a popular digital modulation scheme for systems which have tight spectral efficiency and Peak-to-Average ratio (PAR) constraints. In this thesis we propose a method of estimating the capacity ...
    • A class of non-binary LDPC codes 
      Gilra, Deepak (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      In this thesis we study Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) and LDPC like codes over non-binary fields. We extend the concepts used for non-binary LDPC codes to generalize Product Accumulate (PA) codes to non-binary fields. ...
    • Clock tree synthesis for prescribed skew specifications 
      Chaturvedi, Rishi (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)
      In ultra-deep submicron VLSI designs, clock network layout plays an increasingly important role in determining circuit performance including timing, power consumption, cost, power supply noise and tolerance to process ...
    • A CMOS 500MHz continuous-time fourth order 0.05degree equiripple linear phase filter with automatic tuning 
      Pandey, Pankaj (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      The growing demand of portable electronic equipment and system-on-a-chip has been pushing the industry to design circuits with very low power supply voltage and low power consumption. The Hard Disk drive industry is looking ...
    • CMOS front-end amplifier for broadband DTV tuner 
      Zhang, Guang (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)
      In this work, the design of a CMOS broadband low noise amplifier with inherent high performance single-to-differential conversion is presented. These characteristics are driven by the double quadrature single conversion ...
    • CMOS temperature sensor utilizing interface-trap charge pumping 
      Berber, Feyza (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
      The objective of this thesis is to introduce an alternative temperature sensor in CMOS technology with small area, low power consumption, and high resolution that can be easily interfaced. A novel temperature sensor utilizing ...
    • Code design based on metric-spectrum and applications 
      Papadimitriou, Panayiotis D. (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)
      We introduced nested search methods to design (n, k) block codes for arbitrary channels by optimizing an appropriate metric spectrum in each iteration. For a given k, the methods start with a good high rate code, say k/(k ...
    • Code optimization and analysis for multiple-input and multiple-output communication systems 
      Yue, Guosen (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)
      Design and analysis of random-like codes for various multiple-input and multiple-output communication systems are addressed in this work. Random-like codes have drawn significant interest because they offer ...