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3D Interconnects For Die And Wafer Stacks
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)3D integration results from the ever demanding trend towards smaller and lower-profile, lighter and lower cost packaged devices requires further package miniaturization. With the present System-on-chip (SOC) technology ... -
A CMOS SWITCHED CAPACITOR FILTER BASED POTENTIOMETRIC READOUT CIRCUIT FOR CHEMFET SENSOR
(2018-12-06)There are wide ranges of potentiometric sensors available for chemical sensing. The latest implementation of these sensors is CHEM resistors. In real time environment for an in-vivo application area, noise and power are ... -
A High Frequency Memristor Emulator Circuit
(2015-12-01)In this thesis, a low power, high frequency memristor emulator has been designed. The purpose of emulator circuit is to mimic the behavior of a memristor. The circuit consists of a summing amplifier, an integrator and a ... -
A STUDY OF CONSENSUS AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN A PLATOON OF VEHICLES USING ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
(2017-05-09)Vehicle platooning has been the subject of much research. Transfer function analysis of intervehicle distance errors is traditionally utilized to analyze the string stability of platoons. Consensus theory has been the ... -
A supervised approach for training Gaussian Mixture Model classifiers
(2017-08-22)A new method for training Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) classifiers is presented. First, an objective function is defined in terms of the number of clusters, K, per class, the mean vectors, the inverse covariance matrices ... -
A SWITCHED CAPACITOR BASED TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER FOR DETECTION OF HAB THROUGH OPTICAL SENSING
(2016-05-10)In the recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the manifestation of harmful algal blooms. A certain species called cyanobacteria that is commonly present in freshwater bodies are found to release a class of ... -
ACCELERATED AGING OF A SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY PROTOTYPE
(2018-12-13)The LVPS (Low Voltage Power Supply) is a switching power supply custom designed for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland. Over one thousand of these LVPS, also called ’bricks’, will ... -
Accelerated Simulation Of Supercapacitors Using Order Reduction Techniques And Waveform Relaxation Methods
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-07-25)Supercapacitors are promising energy storage devices due to their capability to deliver high peak current and to capture a huge amount of energy in a short time with very low internal power loss. They are candidate component ... -
ACTIVE FLYBACK BASED BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH PROPORTIONAL BALANCING FOR USE IN AN ELECTRIC RACE CAR
(2016-08-08)Battery management systems are responsible for many tasks, most important of which is maintaining balance amongst the cells in a series string to prevent excess aging and unsafe operating conditions \cite{WhyBMS1}\cite{WhyBMS2}. ... -
Adaptive Multiple Optimal Learning Factors For Neural Network Training
There is always an ambiguity in deciding the number of learning factors that is really required for training a Multi-Layer Perceptron. This thesis solves this problem by introducing a new method of adaptively changing the ... -
Adaptive Sampling With Mobile WSN
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The spatiotemporally varying network topology of mobile sensor networks makes it very suitable for applications such as reconstruction of environmental fields through sampling at locations that maximally reduce the largest ... -
Adaptive Torque Control of a Robotic Manipulator
(2016-09-02)In this thesis, I present the theory and application of enabling intuitive control and physical interaction between a human operator and a mobile manipulator. To do so, the model of the manipulator was estimated for its ... -
Alternative Matching Schemes For Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)Biometrics is a recognition technology that uses the unique behavioral and physiological traits of the human body as identifiers. The fingerprint is one of the oldest and most widely used forms of biometric identifiers. ... -
Analysis And Characterization Of Thermal Effects In Analog Circuits
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Dielectrically Isolated Bipolar Junction Transistors (DIBJTs) are used in industry for high speed and high power applications. These devices suffer from thermal heating and are subjected to change in their characteristics. ... -
Analysis And Improvement Of Multiple Optimal Learning Factors For Feed-forward Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)The effects of transforming the net function vector in the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) are analyzed. The use of optimal diagonal transformation matrices on the net function vector is proved to be equivalent to training the ... -
Analysis And Modeling Of A Micro Variable Capacitance Electromechanical Energy Converter
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Research and development in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have made remarkable progress since 1988. Micro-machines are an integral part of MEMS. However, these machines are not often discussed in most electric ... -
Analysis And Modeling Of Self Heating In Silicon Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Silicon Germanium (SiGe) hetero junction bipolar transistors (HBTs) have established itself as strong technology contender for a host of circuit applications including analog, mixed signal and Radio Frequency (RF). Due to ... -
Analysis Of Electromagnetic Field In A Switched Reluctance Machine From An Energy Conversion Perspective
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)With the recent advancement in power electronics and digital signal processors, switched reluctance machine (SRM) attracts more attention in high speed and harsh environment applications due to its rugged and robust ... -
Analysis Of The Spatial Correlation Measurements For The Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Channel Using Anechoic Chamber Measurement Methodologies To Evaluate Over-The-Air (OTA) Testing Techniques
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)There are numerous constraints in defining an Over-The-Air (OTA) test due to the practical hardware restrictions present in an anechoic chamber. It is necessary to evaluate the test signals used in OTA testing to verify ... -
Analytical Evaluation Of Frequency Reuse For OFDMA Cellular Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-10)In this thesis, the goal is to arrive at tractable general expressions for probability of coverage and achievable rate for a typical mobile user. For this purpose, the grid network model is replaced with the Poisson Point ...