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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Spice Simulation"”.
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SPICE simulation and modeling of DC-DC flyback converter
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Data Driven Surrogate Models for Faster SPICE Simulation of Power Supply Circuits
… with large power distribution networks makes simulation through the industry standard Simulation Program with IC Emphasis (SPICE) often non-convergent or prohibitively expensive. The existing solution of piecewise linear (PWL) simulation addresses these issues with reasonable accuracy, but …
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Variation Tolerant Energy Efficient Design For Ultra Low Voltage Digital Circuits
… of an inverter are investigated. Analytical simulation results are compared with T-Spice simulation as well to verify the accuracy of the analytical models. Monte Carlo method is used on a set of 1000 samples for T-Spice simulation. Results obtained by implementing our analytical models in …
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TouchSPICE vs. ReActive-SPICE: A Human-Computer Interaction Perspective
<p>Traditional SPICE simulation tools and applications of circuit theory lack real-time interaction and feedback. The goal of this thesis was to create an interactive physical environment to allow the manipulation and simulation of discrete electrical components in near-real-time while optimizing …
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Design of a step-down DC-DC controller integrated circuit with adaptive dead-time control
… MOSFET switch body diode is minimized. In spice simulation, this scheme increases the overall efficiency in low-voltage applications by up to 3%.
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Design of optoelectronic activation, local memory and weighting circuits for Compact Integrated Optoelectronic Neural (COIN) Co-processor
… version-I optoelectronic neuron architecture. A spice simulation was performed for the last two versions for integrated circuit (IC) implementation. The work developed in this thesis provides some guidance on the design of optoelectronic neural activation function for the realization of the …
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TouchSPICE: Physical-Virtual Circuit Emulator
… of embedded touchscreen devices called touchSPICE to aid in the learning of basic circuits. Traditionally, circuit theory is taught to students in two different methods, lectures and laboratory exercises. Lectures focus on auditory and visual learning and are largely passive learning. Lab …
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Investigation of system-level ESD-induced failures
… due to supply bounce. An analytic model and SPICE simulation verify the phenomenon, and with the help of simulation, methods of increasing robustness are discussed.
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Computer simulations for constant-frequency resonant power processors
Simulations of two types of constant-frequency resonant power converters using SPICE-2/I-G SPICE are performed. The first one is a parallel resonant converter (PRC) using a controlled output rectifier. The PRC is operated at a constant frequency and its output voltage is regulated by controlling …
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Contaminated Sweeping Langmuir Probes on Sounding Rocket Platforms
… for the sounding rocket platform.</p> <p>SPICE, Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, is used to simulate a contaminated Sweeping Langmuir Probe onboard a sounding rocket. The results are used to characterize regimes of contamination effects and assess the reliability of …
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Memristive devices and circuits for computing, memory, and neuromorphic applications.
… with initial measurement results are presented. SPICE modelling for two memristive devices, (i) the memristor and (ii) the complementary resistive switch are also provided. Part II—nanocrossbar array and memristive-based memory and computing provides an analytical approach for crossbar arrays …
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High power wide bandgap cascode switching circuits
… for switch-mode cascode circuits. A SPICE simulation and simplified mathematical model are developed as design tools to give a detailed insight into cascode hard-switching behaviour and to aid cascode optimisation and device selection. The effects of the cascode configuration on …
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High Speed Circuit Design Based on a Hybrid of Conventional and Wave Pipelining
… a proof of concept and performed a post-layout SPICE simulation. The multiplier achieves a throughput of 4.17 billion multiplications per second or a clock period of 2.52 four-load inverter delays, which is almost twice the speed of any existing multiplier in the open literature. When the supply …
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Supercapacitor-based linear converter for voltage regulator modules
… for body-diode behaviour were cross-checked via SPICE simulation; the results agreed with bench measurements. RS-SCALDO regulators cycle at very low frequencies, usually in the range of millihertz to hertz. Therefore, electromagnetic interference emitted by high-frequency switched-mode VRMs is …
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Power Reduction of Digital Signal Processing Systems using Subthreshold Operation
… and timing analysis can be very slow due long SPICE simulation times. A simulation framework is presented that can characterize subthreshold circuits accurately using only fast gate level design automation tools.
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High Gain Low Power Operational Amplifier Design and Compensation Techniques
… mathematical analysis, and mixed level simulation is explored for the new compensation scheme. The mixed level approach, associating system level simulation for most circuits along with device level simulation for some critical analog circuit paths, is presented to verify the behavior of …
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Nanoscale Nonvolatile Memory Circuit Design using Emerging Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory
… of the proposed STT-MRAM is verified through SPICE simulation. The circuit implementations and simulations are performed for 45nm technology node. As the transistor scales down it is prone to subthreshold leakage, gate-dielectric leakage, Short channel effect and drain induced barrier …
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Efficient IC statistical modeling and extraction using a Bayesian inference framework
… MVS model is validated using Monte Carlo simulations, and the statistical distributions of several gures of merit for logic and memory cells are compared with those of a 40-nm CMOS industrial design kit. A critical problem in design for manufacturability (DFM) is to build statistically …
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Magnetoelectric Device and the Measurement Unit
… constructed, and their noise level simulated by Pspice. Experimental results showed that prototypes ME unit can reach their detection limit. In addition, a new magneto-electric coupling mechanism was also found, which had a giant ME effect.
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MNA stamping for transient circuit simulation using SPICE
Simulation is an essential step in the circuit design procedure, helping to verify the behavior of a designed circuit and dramatically reducing the time and effort required for debugging a given design. However, to analyze this behavior, we require an interface between the circuit design and the …