Browsing by Department "Electrical and Computer Engineering"
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(2015-12-02)Silicon based complementary metallic oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (BiCMOS) radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), including microwave and millimeter-wave (MMW), are ...
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(2010-10-12)As demand for higher bandwidth I/O grows, the front end design of serial link becomes significant to overcome stringent timing requirements on noisy and bandwidthlimited channels. As a clock reconstructing module in a ...
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(2016-04-22)Phase locked loops (PLLs) are widely used as frequency synthesizers in modern communication systems because of the frequency accuracy and programmability of output frequency. Reference spur is an issue of concern in the ...
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(2014-09-11)This research focuses on the design and implementation of a digital active phase modulator path of a polar transmitter in the case of orthogonal frequency division multiplex WLAN application. The phase modulation path of ...
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A 200-MHz fully-differential CMOS front-end with an on-chip inductor for magnetic resonance imaging (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Recently, there is a growing interest in applying electronic circuit design for biomedical applications, especially in the area of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). NMR has been used for many years as a spectroscopy technique ...
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(2020-07-21)This project targets design of a Delta Sigma ADC with a signal bandwidth of 200MHz and an SNR of 74 dB. Reducing the power consumption in the ADC is one of the top priorities during the design phase. To achieve this, in ...
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(2012-02-14)The summing amplifier and the quantizer form two of the most critical blocks in a continuous time delta sigma (CT ΔΣ) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Most of the conventional CT ΔΣ ADC designs incorporate a voltage ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)A three dimensional (3-D) capacitance extraction algorithm based on a kernel independent hierarchical method and geometric moments is described. Several techniques are incorporated, which leads to a better overall performance ...
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(2010-07-14)Recently, there is growing interest in high speed circuits for broadband communication, especially in wired networks. As the data rate increases beyond 1 GB/s conventional materials used as communication channels such as ...
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(2009-05-15)In this dissertation, we focus on two related parts of a 3D face recognition system with wireless transportation. In the first part, the core components of the system, namely, the feature extraction and classification ...
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(2011-08-08)This thesis presents the design of a 20 MHz bandwidth 3rd-order continuous-time low-pass sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter with low-noise and low-power consumption using TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The bandwidth ...
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(2012-10-19)Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is considered as a slow imaging technique. Various approaches to accelerate MRI imaging have been explored by researchers in the past decades. Earlier gradient based methods have reached ...
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(2009-05-15)Emerging technologies in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with massive receiver arrays have paved the way for ultra-fast imaging at increasingly high frame rates. With the increase in the number of receiver channels ...
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(2016-12-06)This thesis focuses on designing a low power Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) for use in a Cognitive radio network. The Pipeline ADC architecture is one of the most suitable ADC architectures for applications ...
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(2019-11-05)Analog-to-Digital converters (ADCs) are the basic and mandatory building block to link analog to digital world. An amplifier too is key building block for all analog circuit designs. Therefore, this dissertation investigates ...
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(2021-07-29)With growing demand for 5G applications, there is huge amount of interest for communication systems operating at 5G frequencies. An integral part of these systems is a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). RF signals need ...
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(2022-04-19)We present a novel current-steering digital to analog converter (DAC) which utilizes flash transistors as programmable, tunable current sources. Our design achieves extremely low latency, area, and power, making it especially ...
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(2021-06-15)In the last decade or so, Wireless Sensor Networks have attracted a lot of attention due to their wide scale deployment in Internet of Things. Depending on the application, these sensor nodes can range from a few tens to ...
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(2022-04-22)The guiding design principle behind humans building machines has been the repeated execution of a particular task in a precise and efficient manner. While we have systems that can solve tasks ranging from the relatively ...
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(2020-04-16)This thesis presents a generalized multilevel power factor correction approach that utilizes low voltage GaN semiconductors, reduces inductor voltage, increases inductor current ripple frequency, and reduces capacitor ...