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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Electronic Design"”.
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Intelligent electronic design for mechatronic systems
… of technologies from mechanical engineering, electronics and software, often with conflicting requirements. This problem is particularly complex with respect to the electronic parts of a mechatronics system where there are currently no computer-based tools available to support and assist …
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Routing algorithms for electronic design automation
In electronic design automation (EDA), routing is one of the most important tasks for both printed circuit boards (PCB) and integration circuits (IC). After placement, which determines the location of each component on a PCB or element of an IC, the routing step adds wires needed to properly …
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New methods for electronic design automation problems
… marches towards the 14nm node and beyond, EDA (electronic design automation) has rapidly increased in importance with ever more complicated modern integration circuit (IC) designs. This presents many new issues for EDA including design, manufacturing, and packaging. Challenging EDA problems in …
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New strategies for electronic design automation problems
… towards 22 nm technology and beyond, circuit design has become unprecedentedly omplicated. This presents many new challenges for EDA (electronic design automation), such as lack of effective tools for analog circuit or high-volume and high-frequency printed circuit board (PCB) design, the …
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Algorithms for DFM in electronic design automation
… the limit of physics at the expense of design flexibility. On the other hand, IC designs inevitably becomes more complex to meet the increasing demand of computational power. To close this gap, design for manufacturing (DFM) becomes the key to enable an easy and low-cost IC fabrication. …
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Advances in parallel programming for electronic design automation
… not only the chip capacity but also the circuit design complexity. How does one efficiently design a chip with millions or billions transistors? This has become a challenging problem in the integrated circuit (IC) design industry, especially for the developers of electronic design automation …
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ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS AND DESIGN STUDY FOR HETEROGENEOUS MONOLITHIC 3D INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
… Three Dimensional (3D) Integrated Circuit (IC) Design, which is the focus of this work, is another promising alternative for going beyond Moore’s Law. 3D IC provides power, performance, and area (PPA) benefits at full-chip level, orthogonal to the transistor improvements by stacking multiple …
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Three Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Actuator Telescope Mount
<p>This thesis contains the design, implementation, and testing of an original, small-scaled two degree-of-freedom telescope mount and a medium-scaled three degree-of-freedom telescope mount inspired by the six degree-of-freedom Stewart-Gough platform telescope mount. The end product is intended to …
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Application of Multi-Objective Genetic Optimization in PCB Component Placement
Designing a printed circuit board (PCB) is a complex process that involves creating a schematic, placing components, ensuring that every component is routable, and performing simulations to predict the behavior of the PCB before it is manufactured. With the rise of technological innovations, the …
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Adding liveness detection to the hand geometry scanner
… dead-hands).;The objective of this thesis is to design a feature to be added to the Hand Geometry Scanner in order to detect vitality in the hand, reducing spoofing possibilities.;This thesis demonstrates how the Hand Reader was successfully spoofed and shows the implementation of the live …
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Fully Analog Laser Driver With Robust Active Feedback Control
… development cycle, document and justify the design choices, and use background experience in electronic design and control systems to implement the best design possible. The laser driver implemented in this project is designed for the general use of a large variety of diodes in continuous …
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Ultra-low Voltage Digital Circuits and Extreme Temperature Electronics Design
<p>Certain applications require digital electronics to operate under extreme conditions e.g., large swings in ambient temperature, very low supply voltage, high radiation. Such applications include sensor networks, wearable electronics, unmanned aerial vehicles, spacecraft, and energyharvesting …
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Use of machine learning in radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) development
… inaccuracy happens because the existing electronic design automation (EDA) software, and the underlying physics-based IC models, fail to fully capture the nonlinear, frequency-dependent RF parasitic effects. To overcome this problem, in this thesis we propose the use of machine learning …
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Design of an adaptive 3-dimensional display enabled by a swarm of autonomous micro air vehicles
… controller with feed-forward compensation, designed for control of a quad-rotor helicopter in the presence of aerodynamic interference generated by other vehicles in swarm-like operational conditions. System requirements and driving factors are identified, and various types of overall system …
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Event-Driven Distributed Task Orchestration System with Applications to Automated PCB Design
Printed circuit board (PCB) design is the process of taking a board schematic and design constraints and realizing a manufacturable design. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software allows humans to manually design PCB’s by placing components and routing the electrical connections required. …
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Real-time 3-d localization using radar and passive surface acoustic wave transponders
This thesis covers ongoing work into the design, fabrication, implementation, and characterization of novel passive transponders that allow range measurements at short range and at high update rates. Multiple RADAR measurement stations use phase-encoded chirps to selectively track individual …
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Behavioural synthesis of analogue integrated circuits
… task despite huge strides in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) in recent decades. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are biologically inspired search algorithms which have previously shown some promise in this field. Their ability to form the basis of a practically useful synthesis …
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Lab-bc: A Serverless Computing Platform for MIT Educators
… we investigate the deployment of real-world Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in the digital design classroom. Hands-on experience with these tools is essential to prepare students for state-of-the-art research and industry settings. However, modern EDA tools such as Xilinx’s Vivado …
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Advanced Control Design of an Autonomous Line Painting Robot
… emerged. In this thesis, a Painting Robot was designed as a standalone system based on the AGV platform. In this study, the mechanical and electronic design of a Painting Robot was discussed. The overall design was to fulfill the requirements of the line painting. Computer vision techniques …
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