Browsing by Subject "CMOS"
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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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(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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(2012-02-14)Future wireless communication devices must support multiple standards and features on a single-chip. The trend towards software-defined radio requires flexible and efficient RF building blocks which justifies the adoption ...
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(2019-04-04)The Internet of Things (IoT) continues its growing trend, while new “smart” objects are con-stantly being developed and commercialized in the market. Under this paradigm, every common object will be soon connected to the ...
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(2020-12-07)With the advance of communication in people’s everyday life and ever-increasing request for more wireless communication throughput, many involved fields are offering new communication architectures or revisit and modify ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The advancement in integrated circuit (IC) technology has resulted in scaling down of device sizes and supply voltages without proportionally scaling down the threshold voltage of the MOS transistor. This, coupled with the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)IEEE 802.15 High Rate Alternative PHY task group (TG3a) is working to define a protocol for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) which makes it possible to attain data rates of greater than 110Mbps. Ultra Wideband (UWB) ...
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Reliable and efficient communication links are vital in harsh environments where ionizing radiation is present. Optical links specifically are necessary to support the growing need for higher data rates and faster signal ...
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(2023-07-05)Ultra wide-band optical channel’s insensitivity to frequency and communication distance makes it suitable to support ever-increasing data-rate, while electrical copper channel is no longer a solution. Optical transceiver ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This thesis investigates the various techniques to achieve large time constants and the ultimate limitations therein. A novel circuit technique for the realization of large time constants for high pass corners in ...
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(2017-08-10)Demand for data traffic on mobile networks is growing exponentially with time and on a global scale. The emerging fifth-generation (5G) wireless standard is being developed with millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) links as a key ...
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(2016-08-03)This dissertation presents various “efficient” design techniques for mm-wave front-end integrated circuits in regards to dc power, bandwidth, and chip size. The ideas, while suitable for different CMOS/BiCMOS processes, ...
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(2012-10-19)This work introduces fundamental knowledge of EMI, and presents three basic features correlated to EMI susceptibility: nonlinear distortion, asymmetric slew rate (SR) and parasitic capacitance. Different existing EMI-resisting ...
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(2019-01-08)The demand for efficient and reliable wireless communication equipment is increasing at a rapid pace. The demand and need vary between different technologies including 5G and IoT. The Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits ...
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(2009-05-15)A fully integrated CMOS 0 – 900 phase shifter in 0.18um TSMC technology is presented. With the increasing use of wireless systems in GHz range, there is high demand for integrated phase shifters in phased arrays and MIMO ...
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(2013-06-03)Impedance spectroscopy (IS) is an important technique for monitoring and detection of biomaterials. In order to enable point-of-care systems, low-cost IS systems capable of rapidly measuring a wide range of biomaterials ...
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(2017-05-09)A Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is a critical building block in the design of current frequency synthesizers for RF system applications. State-of-the-art operation defines that an oscillator should have the best ...
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(2014-04-23)Approximately 75% of the health care yearly budget of public health systems around the world is spent on the treatment of patients with chronic diseases. This, along with advances on the medical and technological fields ...
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(2015-08-03)A fully integrated SiGe BiCMOS concurrent multiband receiver front-end and its building blocks including multiband low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), single-to-differential amplifiers and mixer are presented for various ...
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(2017-05-10)This dissertation presents new circuit architectures and techniques for improving several key performances of BiCMOS RFIC building blocks that are used in wireless communication and sensing systems operating at millimeter-wave ...